Update: Dan Bongino tells more about missing notes and “network of people”

The FBI team did a wonderful job. State and local partners could not be more cooperative. And I, you know, I know that when the tragedies are like this, it is not the time of patting back. Ah, who cares? We lost Charlie.

I mean this, but, ah, I want you to pay for the FBI as taxpayers and citizens, you pay for your Utah DPS and other institutions, that there is no one of such internal battles that can be in the past.

I mean, our ERT, our evidence response team -megon, it was a large crime site, a large -scale crime site. Hundreds of people, the articles of, were there… no, not – uh, listen, I cannot be emotional about it. You only have to process information.

But I was in the crime site and we spent a few days there, both the director and I and when you go to the room where they put the school bags and – you know, one of the things – one of the things. But one of the things that actually hit me, a room where all individual articles that were left behind in the scene, which were important, were being stored in the premises.

And, you know, when you are processing all this, it makes you feel strange. You think about the most strange things, and I just could not believe how much water bottles. Everyone had one of those water bottles – I don’t know what they are called. The children have these fancy water bottles, and they were in the room everywhere.

And there were baby vehicles and such things. And our evidence response by the team responded and immediately prepared the crime site to go. We had an agent in 16 minutes from the time of shooting Charlie, and thanks to the incredible work of the state and local partners, they were able to process the crime site and deposit an incredible amount of forensic evidence.

When you walk at the crime site, it is very rare that they did not think. You know, when I was there on the roof-

Donation, do we have any idea? Do we have any idea why the roof was not covered by security?

Um, uh, me not, Megan, and as someone in the security place, it is quite easy for me on Monday morning for quarterbacks. I have an event with Charlie, quite quite a matter of fact, and I have always found their security team very professional.

I know, you had a turning point event, where I once joked that they had better magnetometer than watching in secret service. Why was the roof exposed in this case? I can’t say

I think there is going to be a significant change in the security posture in the future, no matter what he is speaking.

Mimi-Hamm.

Return to the subject of defendant and her lover, lover twigs, is he still cooperating?

Um, as this point, family and friends – we have a good number of people, including romantic companions – who are cooperating and continue. He can change.

Of course, we hope that it is not. It is very beneficial for these people to cooperate. Note that according to the press conference, where we put the picture of the suspect out at the time and in the video, and due to which we kept the video out, I am bus-

Um, I will answer your question, but it is important, and here is a tie-in. We have decided, and many other are going on, and this is important-Listen, it is a taxpayer-funded operation, FBI. It is not a private company.

You have every right to question everything. You pay for this. But we have an explanation for everything. We did nothing from the accident. You know that when we organized that press conference that night, we had a governor and everyone said that this is the video that we wanted to anchor the new photos we released and a national primetime was going to come out in front of the audience.

We wanted to anchor it in the video so that you could understand why we were looking for this special suspect.

Now, to return to your question about cooperation – for this, it was only after some time, thankfully, due to the work of all the partners involved, there were suspected circles members who recognized and agreed to him. And he left and he took himself inside.

Yes, Cash said that this morning his father recognized him.

Yes, yes, and it was due to the work of these people. And then, this dopy, silly, no time for victory. None of that goods matter.

You know, this is a serious crime that had results and they will have a leading results that are going to be very dramatic for political dialogue in the country. But yes, this decision was not easy. You don’t want to put a picture and want to say, “Okay, that picture was revealed first.”

Yes, but it did not potentially come to a primetime audience of 5 to 10 million people. I was sitting in the command post, Megan with my entire team, which was important. From state and local authorities to our FBI team, there were a large number of people who were going to manage the media – because the media could be your friend and we were friends in this investigation.

I told him when they came in, “You know, someone is sitting next to this man in a restaurant.” And when they went back and we had an identity, I mean, to speak in the jargon – we had an identity on it – I don’t want to say what they said, but when they went back to CP, and I saw the cash and just a sense of relief …

We, um, you know, it was only 33 hours later-

Was you there, Dan, when he was brought inside?

No, he was brought in – it was forgiving me, if I am not perfect, but it was about 3 hours from where we were in Orem, in the entire Provo area.

It was a separate place with St. George. So he was brought there, so we had to take him back. We just wanted to make sure, of course, Magin – you know – we didn’t care that as long as it was a law enforcement facility and we could appropriately take a suspect into custody.

We were not particularly worried, we just wanted to raise it.

And now, I want to ask you this, and you know why – but is it being seen so that there is no suicide?

Yes. This is why we have been told to local authorities who have custody right now, that he is really, on the clock. This is clearly a matter of concern.

There is – does he legally buy this gun?

Uh, I don’t want to say how he achieved the gun. But I would say, some important concerns expressed by the suspect in the case about the gun and to recover the gun.

I am the reason to bring it up, again, I can share with you in every possible effort that we can share properly, so that information is not vacuum.

There were some conversations that I had heard on a news channel, I forget about which one I was listening to, about recovering the weapon. And there was some illusion, where, I believe, one of the hosts thought that it is a FFL, a recovery from an firearm dealer.

It did not happen. Digital Com’s traffic that we have, and was expressing concerns of the suspected person in this case, recovering the firearms from the crime site, not with the firearm dealer.

It was from the crime site.

Well, that – so – but it is another thing that people are confused, because Cash said that he found that what we believe was his screwdriver – on top of the building, and he found his DNA on it, causing many of them to believe that when he jumped from the roof, he had closed the gun.

But then, it appears when you guys were found in the forest, it was assembled. So can you provide any clarity on it?

Yes, and I was a little hesitant in a media appearance this morning, especially to go to the video and nuances on where there was a gun. And there is a reason. Then, we only want to be transparent here.

Yes, just tell us what you can do.

Suspicious is not cooperating – the video is clearly granulated, and as people know in video space, our laboratory actually has many excellent equipment. They are doing amazing things, and they have been handling it since days.

But the video is very granular, and I want to be very clear. I have already seen some online shows-

Yes, I can see it on screen now. You will see that this is a granular video. Now, I have gone to that roof in that corner, and when you see the camera from a distance, it is not clearly the best video.

Now, let me go back to what I said earlier, and I will go into a gun. Don’t forget me part of the gun. Ok.

I just want to see it for a second. You will see here – yes, there is something different, what we say – everything is fine, you go there. So we see that some work is the principle.

He is getting down – for our hearing audience, he is coming down from the roof. He hangs for a couple of seconds, he leaves for grass – yes – and then he runs.

Go ahead, Dan. Sorry, I sometimes forget on an audio. I should be better. It is a former media person. I forget that there is an audio component. But look at it. You got me

The camera is far away. It is not the best camera to see what happened to the gun. However, we have some working principles, and one of them is that he collects the gun entirely on the ground and then recurs it.

Now, firearm – we are processing in combination with our ATF friends – but the gun was wrapped in a towel. And as the director said on a cable news appearance, towel this morning, we found a very strong forensic DNA hit.

So this is the only reason. Then, I don’t want anyone to speculate, “Oh, they are not sure where the gun is.” Oh no. We just have to be careful what we put, and the video is not the best quality.

And in addition to any other reason – the video was – the camera, where it is, there is no crime visual camera. It is a camera designed for general monitoring only on campus. And when you are there, you will see that it is at some distance.

But I missed myself – I want to wrap this point because it is really important. You can be largely enough, because citizens are rebuilt, say, “Okay, you know, during the presser, why release granular videos?” Because it is a crime site.

From here we have evidence of a suspect who shoots from that place. We have a suspect that appears on camera running away from the place there. And we wanted to anchor – this is really important – for the pictures we were releasing.

What we did not want, we release a picture and people say, “Okay, why? Why that special photo?” We thought the video -quality is fine, but not great, the pixels are not great – we wanted to ensure that we could anchor it, “Here is the special suspect that is still interested for us.”