'Where Is Antifa?': Rep.Thompson CLASHES With FBI Official In Fiery Kristi Noem Capitol Hill Hearing

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Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, clashed with Homeland Security officials during a tense Capitol Hill hearing. Thompson pressed Secretary Kristi Noem on the recent Washington, D.C., ambush shooting that targeted two National Guard members. He also questioned FBI National Security Branch operations director Michael Glasheen over the Bureau’s intelligence on Antifa-related activity. The exchanges highlighted growing friction over domestic security threats, political narratives, and transparency within federal agencies.    #BennieThompson #KristiNoem #DCHearing #FBIHearing #AntifaQuestions #HomelandSecurityHearing #CapitolHill #NationalGuardShooting #DCIncident #CongressHearing #PoliticalNews #USPolitics #BreakingPolitics #FBIOfficials #HomelandSecurityCommittee #GlasheenTestimony #DomesticSecurity  ~HT.318~

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00:00So where is Antifa headquartered?

00:06What we're doing right now with the organization...

00:09Where in the United States does Antifa exist?

00:15If it's a terrorist organization and you've identified it as number one.

00:20We are building out the infrastructure right now.

00:23So what does that mean?

00:26You said, I'm just...

00:27We're trying to get the information.

00:29You said Antifa is a terrorist organization.

00:33Tell us as a committee, how did you come to that?

00:37Where do we exist?

00:38How many members do they have in the United States as of right now?

00:43Mr. Glastine, will you tell me...

00:49The organizations that pose on the domestic side...

00:56Two of the organizations, number one, number two, threat to the homeland at this point?

01:03Can you please clarify, organizations...

01:07Any domestic terrorist organization that poses a threat to the homeland as we speak?

01:14I'd say the first one, you know, President Trump had just announced executive order of the domestic terrorist organization, Antifa.

01:22That's our primary concern right now.

01:24All right, that's what President Trump did.

01:28What does the FBI say?

01:31We share the same view.

01:32When you look at the data right now, you look at the domestic terrorist threat that we're facing.

01:37Right now, what I see from my position is that's the most immediate violent threat that we're facing on the domestic side.

01:44So, where is Antifa headquartered?

01:51What we're doing right now with the organization...

01:54Where in the United States does Antifa exist?

02:00If it's a terrorist organization and you've identified it as number one.

02:05We are building out the infrastructure right now.

02:08So, what does that mean?

02:10You say, I'm just...

02:12We're trying to get the information.

02:14You say Antifa is a terrorist organization.

02:19Tell us, as a committee, how did you come to that?

02:23Where do they exist?

02:24How many members do they have in the United States as of right now?

02:29Well, that's very fluid.

02:30It's ongoing for us to understand that.

02:33The same, no different than al-Qaeda and ISIS.

02:34No, no, I don't want you...

02:36I'll ask one question, sir.

02:38I just want you to tell us.

02:40If you said Antifa is the number one domestic terrorist organization operating in the United States,

02:47I just need to know where they are, how many people.

02:51I don't want a name.

02:52I don't want anything like that.

02:54Just how many people have you identified with the FBI that Antifa is made of?

03:03Well, the investigations are active.

03:05Sir, you wouldn't come to this committee and say something you can't prove, I know.

03:12I know you wouldn't do that.

03:16But you did.

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