tonight. a bulletin from the fbi and department of homeland security warns of a surge in threats and calls for violence against federal law enforcement officers and government personnel. according to nbc s kelly o donnell, the bulletin includes the following passages. these threats are occurring across multiple platforms online, including social media sites, web forums the fbi warned that it has seen personal identifying information for possible targets of violence, like home addresses and identification of family members as additional targets. horrific stuff. earlier today, a man died by suicide after driving a car into a barrier outside of the u.s. capitol building. the individual got out of the car, and as officers approached fired shots into the air before ultimately shooting himself. this all comes on the heels of the cincinnati fbi field office attack on thursday, carried out by a former january 6th insurrectionists, who seems to be incited by the maga cult response t
the country is on fire, what can i do to reduce the heat? that picks up on everything we see from the donald, that s classic trump. the former president is not somebody that will reduce the heat simply because he can or should, as a leader, an elder statesman. instead, trump back channels a nefarious message that sounds like a threat and a transaction. he was saying, in effect, according to this report, i m going to make him an offer he can t refuse. only it seems that merrick garland did refuse trump s offer, and since thursday, he has done nothing to reduce the heat with predictable consequences. on thursday, unarmed trump supporter who attacked the fbi field office, in cincinnati ohio was killed after a six hour standoff. and just this morning, a man that crashed his car into a barricade outside of the u.s. capitol before firing shots into the air from his burning car, and then turning the gun on himself. he turned the gun on himself. and breaking tonight, a new joint inte
police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex
stepping up efforts to crack down on some of the most dangerous mexican drug cartels, by tracing cryptocurrency payments. the digital currency is widely used among fentanyl traffickers, as well as chinese chemical compans. cnn s cybersecurity reporter sean lin gast explains. the drug war has gone virtual. mexican cartels are increasingly using cryptocurrency to pay for fentanyl ingredients and smuggle them into the u.s. as part of the deadly drug trade. how is the biden administration responding. there s an ongoing surge involving multiple agencies where they re furiously trying to trace the source of this funding and intercept the funds where they can. the dea has told cnn they have identified senior money launders within the cartels that specialize in cryptocurrency. the irs has some of its best agents trying to infiltrate dark web forums, where the drugs are bought. it s very much an ongoing process and progress couldn t come soon enough, as tens of thousands of americans die from
cryptocurrency to pay for fentanyl ingredients and smuggle them into the u.s. as part of the deadly drug trade. how is the biden administration responding? there s an ongoing surge involving multiple agencies where they re furiously trying to trace the source of this funding and intercept the funds where they can. the dea told cnn it has identified senior money launderers who specialize in cryptocurrency. the irs for its part has some of its best acts trying to infiltrate dark web forums where the drugs are bought. it s very much an ongoing process, and progress couldn t come soon enough as tens of thousands of americans die from drug overdoses every year, much of it from fentanyl. a 6-year-old boy in florida was hospitalized with traumatic injuries after an apparent fall from a roller coaster. it happened thursday at the fun spot america theme park south of orlando. police say they found the boy under the galaxy spin roller