The FBI announced today an arrest in its nearly five-year investigation into who placed

pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Party headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

on the eve of the January 6th Capitol attack back in 2021. A 30-year-old man, Brian Cole Jr.,

was arrested in charge today. FBI deputy director Dan Bongino spoke at a press conference this afternoon.

Folks, this is what it's like when you work for a president

who tells you to go get the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things,

not related to law enforcement.

You're not going to walk into our capital city,

put down two explosive of HUD devices, and walk off in the sunset.

Not going to happen. We were going to track this person to the end of the earth.

Joining us with more details is the reporter who broke the story, Carol Lennox. She is senior

investigative reporter for MS Now and co-author of Injustice,

How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department. Carol,

thanks for making time for us.

Glad to be here, Jeff.

So based on your reporting, why has this case been so hard to crack until now?

You know, Jeff, this case has been one of the highest profile and the most data intense and enormous

of all the FBI investigations that I've been covering and, honestly, of several generations

in FBI history.

It's really been an intense case. And the breakthrough here was not based on

new evidence or a new tip, but was based on a re-review, essentially, of evidence that was already

in FBI storehouses as a result of subpoenas that were issued far and wide in 2021 and 22.

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