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Good morning, everyone. I'm Haley Karenia, host of Nightly scroll, right here on Silverlock Media. But I am filling in for Vince today. So thank you for having me. To Vince, but also thank you to all the fans out here for giving me a shot. I love it. You can see right here, right here on the wall, Vince with Haley. I like this new logo. I absolutely love it. So thank you for having me. You've got me in the chair today. You've got Sean Farish tomorrow. Vince prerecorded an interview for Wednesday's show and then you will see him right back in this chair or in his chair next week. But what do we have on deck for Vince's show today? No foreign plot to kill President Trump was involved in Thomas Crook's assassination attempt. This is according to the FBI. FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino sat down in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. And they also said that there was no motive. So we're going to get into that and everything that they had to say. 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Like, he's, he's on the ground right now. So I know that I'm not alone. When my stomach dropped when I got that call and when I turned on the TV and I saw you, you know, President Trump on the ground, I saw him get up with the blood on his face, obviously the fight, fight, fight that essentially delivered him the presidency in 2024. I think that was the moment that solidified President Trump being president again. But, you know, we're very lucky that President Trump is here. Just because he survived doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of unanswered questions, or at least until now. So the FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, they dispelled some rumors about this incident and they also delivered some more information about Thomas Crooks and maybe why he did this. So they sat down. It wasn't just FBI Director Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bondino. There was also a senior FBI official there with them. Who did this. Sit down with Brooke Singman for Fox News Digital. And this senior official has direct involvement in this Butler, Pennsylvania investigation. And this is a massive investigation. And I think I always say this on my show, but, you know, real life is not a Criminal Minds episode. Real, real life is not an NCIS episode where it's just so great. You know, you, you turn on Law and Order and they, they solve it in 20 minutes, 20 minutes plus commercial breaks. You know, we, we get all the answers and there's a nice little bow tied up on it. You know, real life is not like that. And especially a case of this caliber where the President of the United States was shot in the head. This takes time. And certainly based on what we've gotten from this interview, we can see how hard that they've dug into this. So FBI Director Patel said that President Trump has been fully briefed on this. He is the victim in this case, and they have provided him with all of the details of the investigation, and the President was satisfied with the results and where we left it. I think this question stemmed from Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, getting a question recently about whether or not President Trump was satisfied with the investigation or satisfied with the information that he's gotten. And Caroline Levitt said, you know, I can't speak for him. I don't know. I think so, but I can't speak for him. You're going to have to answer that or have him answer that yourselves. So I think that's what prompted this question from Brooke Singman to the heads of the FBI. And they answered that question, you know, if President Trump has all of the information that the FBI has, then he's probably satisfied, right? So then Deputy Director Bongino said that they have reviewed this case and looked into everything. They spoke to the families involved, they spoke to the President and said that there is no cover up here, no FBI cover up, no government cover up. And there was no motive, no reason behind Thomas Crooks's shooting. Clearly, he disliked the President of the United States. Clearly, I think he had a distaste for the government in general. And we're going to get into some of what we learned from his social media posts. But clearly you, if you're going to take someone out or you want to take someone out, you don't like them. But no motive, no official motive. And FBI Director Patel said that Christopher Wray, you know, he had went to Congress and testified that he didn't know if it was a bullet that hit President Trump in the head and he took a shot at. Well, that's bad language. I'm not going to say that. He took a shot at Christopher Wray, but he slammed Christopher Wray, I will say, for that. Because when the FBI director goes in front of Congress and says, well, I don't know what hit President Trump in the head, when clearly, by the time he spoke to Congress, he did know that sows a lot of chaos. It sows a lot of distrust among the American people for these three letter agencies. What do you mean? You didn't know that it was a bullet? You know, so things like that Cash Patel said that they were up against, because the American people have no trust in what the government is saying. And that's bad. We're in a bad place. So now if they have. If the American people have this disbelief in this institution that he and Dan are now running, well, they've got a lot of work to do. They started off in the negatives and now they've got to do a damn good job, which it seems like they are doing. So then, as I said, there was another unnamed FBI agent included in this interview. And he was unnamed partly because of the work that he does. He wants to remain private and safe, which makes sense. But he said this. The case currently sits in a pending inactive status. The official also called the investigation one of the largest mobilizations of FBI resources in history that frankly continue to this day. If we get a credible lead, we will continue to investigate. The Director has been very clear about leaving no stone left unturned, and that's what we are committed to do. And the FBI took over the investigation hours after the shooting, and they did begin investigating it as an assassination attempt right away. But here are just some of the numbers that this unnamed FBI agent gave in this interview, which just goes to show how expansive this investigation is. 485 FBI employees are involved in this investigation. They conducted more than a thousand interviews. They reviewed more than 2,000 tips that were submitted. More than 10 search warrants were executed. More than 100 subpoenas were served. They analyzed 13 electronic devices that were associated with Crooks and his family members. They went through his home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. They did a full sweep of his home. The FBI examined 35 accounts linked to Thomas Crooks. That includes social media accounts, bank accounts and other online accounts. And FBI Director Patel was dispelling more rumors that the FBI hadn't been able to access some of these accounts. He wanted to put those rumors to bed and say the FBI had access to every single one of those accounts. And they have. They have gone through every single one. So they also found out that Thomas Crooks had foreign based email accounts from Germany and Belgium, which is interesting. Foreign based email accounts from Germany and Belgium. Why would a kid from Pennsylvania have email accounts based in other countries? But the unnamed FBI agent in this interview said that there was no foreign connection in this case. No individual outside the United States borders or inside the United States borders had any role in directing him, inspiring him, or assisting him in any way, including foreign governments. No information. He wanted to stress this. No information, no evidence anywhere in this investigation that shows there was a foreign individual or foreign government or foreign organization tied to Thomas Crooks. And FBI Deputy Director Bongino said that, you know, why would they have cracked the biggest investigation in human history and withhold information from the American public? We are following the facts. And the facts are there was no foreign involvement, which is good to know because as we know, there were Iranian plots to kill President Trump. That is separate from this. That is separate from Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th. But he did leave behind some digital footprint which called for terrorism online. And this was when he was 16 years old, just 16 years old. This guy was online five years before the assassination attempt. Obsessed with political violence and obsessed with fighting the government with terrorism. He made searches about how far Oswald was from Kennedy during that assassination. He also searched for what the weather would be like in Butler, Pennsylvania on the day of the attack, where the podium would be. And he looked up directions from his home to where the, the rally was taking place in Butler, the Butler Farm showgrounds, and then directions from the grounds to the closest hospital. Interesting. Maybe he wanted to know if he shot President Trump and he didn't die, would he be able to get help soon? Thankfully, he was. That's an interesting tidbit. He also went on a website called deviant.com so we've been seeing a lot of this where these, you know, these trans school shooters, they, they have these, like, they're obsessed with pornography. It makes them violent. And I think we're seeing a little bit of this here as well. But he was on this Deviant website and, uh, he was looking at animated pornography and also material related to the furry community. So with that said, he was also interested in like, very buff females, muscle building, erotica. But interestingly enough, no motive was left. Like no manifesto, didn't leave a letter, didn't leave anything. And nothing in his online search history or, or comments on YouTube or anything like that. They couldn't find anything that said, you know, this is why I'm going to attack President Trump. This is why I want him Dead, none of that. So no official motive, which is interesting as well. But it is the FBI's conclusion that Thomas Crooks acted alone. And the FBI can only, they can only investigate based on a lawful predicate to open. So what Cash Patel was explaining also in this interview was could they have, you know, seen these posts online? Have they, could they have looked at his online activity and opened an investigation into him? Not really. Cash Patel argued that, you know, the American public probably doesn't want the FBI scouring social media, but posts and content without a lawful predicate to do so because that would trample First Amendment rights. But the FBI has maintained that if someone had called in a lead, they would have investigated that lead. But that didn't happen. But it is interesting to, to think about, you know, if, if he was on YouTube and he said things like kill Democrats and members of the squad, like aoc, Rashida Talib, Alan Omar, he wrote that squad members should suffer a quick and painful death. So, you know, he had some like, I don't know, anti Democrat posts, but also anti Republican posts. He said that the only way to fight government with terrorism, and you could fight government with terrorism style attacks. He wanted to sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you. He wanted to track down important people, politicians, military leaders, and try to assassinate them. So this is something that he was saying online, which I think begs the question, you know, if the FBI was looking into something like this, could this have stopped? Could they have stopped this kind of attack? I don't know. And it poses an interesting question about red flags, like people calling in on their neighbors or their family members or their enemies. Right. And constitutional rights. Like, what does that mean? Could someone have called the FBI and said, hey, my son is looking up things like this, Maybe. You know, I remember during the Obama administration, well, when there were a bunch of ISIS attacks, I don't, this was just a few years ago, but I mean, I remember I was in high school and college during the Obama administration and it was, I feel like there was an ISIS terror attack all the time. And I remember every time there was a terror attack, these three letter agencies would come out and say, we were looking at this guy, he was on a terror watch list. And every time I would think to myself, well, you're not watching them closely enough. Clearly, you know, so clearly having the FBI or one of these three leader agencies keeping an eye on these people doesn't prevent attacks from happening. So, you know, whether or not we want the FBI snooping at all of our business, which we don't. You know, that doesn't prevent someone with the will to kill the president from attempting to do that. And you can't just throw people in jail because of speech. You know, this is someone who's on YouTube saying he wants to assassinate politicians and military members and Jews and socialists and Democrats. I mean, just across the board, like a very violent individual. So you can just say that online. Also, you know, conservatives were banned from YouTube for talking about COVID So it seems like there is a double standard here. But clearly American speech is being monitored and suppressed and censored if big tech giants don't like it. And we know that the Biden administration bullied Meta into suppressing narratives it didn't like specifically with COVID 19. Mark Zuckerberg has since come out and said that, you know, the Biden administration and their officials in the communications department, they would. They would bully them over the phone, they would yell at them, basically bullying them into submission and basically pushing narratives that they liked and suppressing narratives that it didn't. But I think, you know, all threats obviously should be forwarded to law enforcement. And I do have faith that if a threat is forwarded to this FBI, they are going to run it down. Certainly they have carried out an extensive investigation here, but, you know, authorities. I want to move on now to this manhunt. There is a manhunt for the Slender man stabber. If you remember this, this was back in 2014. I remember this. This was a crazy story about Morgan Geyser. This was a Wisconsin woman who was convicted in what we call the Slender man stabbing. And Morgan and her friend Anissa, they were 12 years old, just 12 years old when they brought their friend Peyton into a wooded area during a sleepover and stabbed her 19 times. And now this woman is on the loose. Yep. To us. Oh, well, Morgan Geyser was captured this morning. However, the Madison Police Department put out this statement yesterday. Officers are searching for a woman who cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left a group home Saturday night. Morgan Geyser was last seen in an area of cronky drive around 8pm with an adult acquaintance, but her whereabouts were unknown as of yesterday morning. But as he just informed me, she has been captured and found. But the interesting thing about this woman is that she was sent to a psychiatric hospital. She was not, you know, she was basically, and this is very rare to be on a. To be found, like, criminally insane. That is very difficult. And she was found criminally insane, like she, she went to a mental health facility, a, a psychiatric facility. And she's been in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for the last seven years. But she was granted release to live with her father and, and wear a GPS monitor, which is what she had cut off so that she could escape. She's been found. But a psychologist, Dr. Brooke Lundbaum, said earlier this year that Morgan Geiser is now identifying as a male. Yep. So this is a crazy person. Obviously you have to be so evil. There has to be something so demonic in your heart to stab someone 19 times, especially at 12 years old. This is certainly someone who is troubled beyond my imagination. I, I don't know what could have happened to this little girl that she would stab another little girl 19 times. There, there's just no words to describe that kind of evil. And obviously you, there is something wrong with your brain. So it doesn't shock me that this girl, now a woman, a grown woman, is now identifying as a male. Also, when I read this, I thought, isn't it interesting how this stabber, this Slender man stabber, this cold blooded killer, has been in a mental institution for years and she now identifies as a man. Isn't that interesting how that can happen while you've been in a psychiatric center for years? It just goes to show how disturbing the mental health industry has gotten. Where you can go to a mental health facility for help and have your worst delusions affirmed rather than treated. Just doesn't give you a lot of hope. Shameless. Plug on Nightly Scroll. I have an interview coming up this Wednesday with a mental health professional who is debunking the trans ideology. She says it is a social contagion. And clearly, as we just see with this, this woman, mentally ill, vulnerable, certainly troubled, troubled child, probably a troubled childhood. Turns out that you can go for help at a psychiatric center and be trans, because that's what they do now. It is a social contagion and it is, it's, it's a fascinating interview. So anyway, Nightly scroll on Wednesday night, we can dive into this transgender ideology and, and all of that. But quickly, I want to tell you about Birch Gold. It is the one time of the year that Birch Gold Group gives away free gold with every qualifying purchase. That's right for Black Friday. When you convert an exist IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in gold, birch Gold will send free gold to your home for every $20,000 purchased. Look, gold started this year around $2,600 an ounce. 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A 15 year old boy had a graze wound to his left thigh. Thigh. He was taken to another hospital. A 17 year old boy had a Gray's wound to his left thigh. He was taken to a Hospital. A 14 year old girl was shot in the right hip. She was taken to another hospital. A 16 year old boy was shot in the leg. He was taken to another hospital. A 14 year old boy was shot in the leg. He's been listening in good condition. All of these teenagers have been listed in good condition. A 13 year old was shot in the leg. She was taken to Lurie Children's Hospital. She's in fair condition. What now apparently there were 300 juveniles who were rioting in the Loop at the time of the shooting. Not only that, Chicago pd Those officers were attacked and injured with mace and stun guns. Why are 300 juveniles running around with mace and stun guns at a Christmas tree lighting? Then not even an hour later, officers responded to another shooting. Two other people had been shot. A 14 year old boy was shot and taken to Northwestern Hospital where he died. A second victim, an 18 year old man was shot in the left thigh and was taken to Northwestern in serious condition. No one is in custody in the in connection with the second shooting. Now this is in Chicago where Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, they don't want Trump's help of course to clean up this crime. They think that there's no issue here, nothing to see here. We don't need your help. Here is what Mayor Brandon Johnson said. Watch.