Journalist Says FBI Arrest Aimed to Intimidate Him (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: What I will say is that I'm not a protester. I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle, and document, and record what was happening. I was following that one group around, and so that's what I did. I reported on them. But I do think that there is a difference between a protester and a journalist. How are you, Will? I don't know. You don't know. That's a really, that's an honest answer. I don't know. I mean, I'm OK. But I'm not going to let them steal my joy. But this is very serious. I mean, these are federal criminal charges. The attorney reached out to them and said, basically, I understand that you have an interest because your folks have been talking about it. And so if you are serious about this, then let's do it the right way. He's perfectly willing to self-report, which means turn yourself in. And so we don't have to go through this whole rigmarole. And never heard back from them. Walking up to the room, and I press the elevator button, and all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled. And people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs, and they didn't have a warrant. So they had to wait for someone from outside, an FBI guy, to come in to show me a warrant on a cell phone. And they took me outside. FBI guys were out there. I mean, it had to be maybe a dozen people, which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources. They want to embarrass you. They want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear.