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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Laura Coates, and for five years, he was a shadowy mystery, outstriing the FBI, |
| 0:16.7 | instilling fear, and fueling one of the most bizarre conspiracy theories in American history. |
| 0:21.6 | But tonight, the FBI says they've got their man. |
| 0:25.6 | It was January 5th, 2021. |
| 0:28.6 | When surveillance cameras captured all we knew of the so-called DC pipe bomber, |
| 0:33.6 | the grainy images showing him the night he placed pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters. |
| 0:39.3 | This is all the night before January 6th. |
| 0:42.3 | In that case, as cold as the day he committed the alleged crime, that is until this morning. |
| 0:48.3 | The FBI names him as 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. |
| 0:52.3 | He's currently under arrest, suspected of being the D.C. |
| 0:56.8 | pipe bomber. So just who was this man who allegedly evaded America's top law enforcement agency |
| 1:03.2 | for nearly five years? We know he lived in this home in a well-to-do suburb in Virginia. |
| 1:09.4 | Police were there today searching the house and vehicles |
| 1:12.3 | for additional clues and evidence. CNN's Brian Todd was also there to hear firsthand from his |
| 1:18.8 | neighbors. They said they often saw him out in the neighborhood walking his chihuahua, |
| 1:24.7 | but he was a very reclusive figure, never really interacted with people, |
| 1:29.0 | almost was antisocial, in the words of one neighbor. Even in the deadest of winter, in the coldest |
| 1:34.7 | days, he'd be out in his shorts with red crocs walking his dog. |
| 1:39.0 | Now, you might be wondering, how does an antisocial recluse evade the FBI for so long? Well, that's a good |
| 1:46.1 | question. And at their news conference today, the top Trump official said they got no new tips, |
| 1:52.4 | but they did hint at a single breakthrough. And they didn't say what that was. But the charging |
| 1:58.1 | documents, they offer some clues. They say agents trace the suspect's bank account |
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