Welcome to Meet the Press now.

I'm Kristen Welker, and we do begin with breaking news and new details about the alleged gunmen in yesterday's deadly shooting at a Dallas ice facility.

Federal officials just gave an update on the investigation into the shooting at a Dallas ice facility. Federal officials just gave

an update on the investigation into the shooting, which left one ice detainee dead and two others

critically injured. They say the suspected gunman, Joshua Yan, appears to have planned the attack

for months. The FBI calling the incident targeted violence and the acting U.S. attorney for the Dallas area

providing this detailed description of Jan's apparent motivations based on writings they found at his residence.

I want to point out that one of these notes or papers, the sniper explicitly states, yes, it was just me. That statement appears to be

correct at this point in the investigation. Notably, these loose notes included a game plan of the

attack and target areas at the facility. He called the ICE employees people showing up to

collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel

and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped his actions would terrorize ICE employees and interfere with their work, which he called human trafficking.

And this, what he did, is the very definition of terrorism.

His words were definitively anti-ice.

That said, we did not find evidence of membership in any specific group or entity,

nor did he mention any specific government agency other than ICE.

Among his papers, though, was a handwritten note in which,

in crude words, he expressed his hatred for the federal government. Now, ICE officials, meanwhile,

warning that agents are facing a dramatic increase in threats to their own lives.

Violent rhetoric has led to over 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE officers, and it has to stop.

In contrast to those who would demonize our men and women, yesterday our brave officers ran back into danger, along with

ATF, our partners, to save the detainees while shots were still being fired. Those ICE

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