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The president just arrived in geneva, switzerland, ahead of his big face-to-face with russian president vladimir putin. this hour he's set to meet with the swiss president. his focus will quickly shift to tomorrow's high-stakes summit. and this morning we're learning key new details about just how he is preparing. plus, some surprising names helping get him ready. we're going to dive into all of that ahead. we do want to start this hour with breaking news in america's response to domestic terror. any moment, as you see right there, attorney general merrick garland, is set to lay out the biden ...

Formed the foundation for a detailed set of rules that continued to govern the fbi's conduct of investigations today. in doing that he made clear that, quote, government monitoring of individuals or groups because they hold unpopular or controversial political views is intolerable in our country. as a national strategy makes clear, safeguarding our country's civil rights and liberties is itself a vital national security imperative. we do not prosecute people for their beliefs. across the world extremists or terrorist labels have at times been affixed to those perceived as political threats to ...

More so. better trying to coordinate with social media companies to keep tabs on the sort of trends that are out there in social media. this is one of the things that many people have faulted the government for not paying more attention to social media, to all the threats against washington leading up to the capitol riots in january. so the government wants to try to do a better job of that. more lawyers to prosecute, more intelligence analysts to look for trends, more outreach to communities to try to counter the violent extremist message. but that's, as i say, more of the same. in one way it...

Authority. the national strategy explains that it is, quote, critical that we condemn and confront domestic terrorism regardless of the particular ideology that motivates individuals to violence, closed quote. although we often describe motivations by reference to different violent ideologies, the purpose of those characterizations is to help us categorize and understand motivations. that is why even as we're here today to discuss domestic terrorism related violence, we are addressing violent crime more broadly. including through a directive to reduce violent crime that the deputy attorney gen...

Most lethal elements of the domestic violence extremist threat are racially or ethically violent extremists and militia violent extremists. in the fbi's view, the top domestic violent threat comes from racially or ethnically, particularly those who advocated for the superiority of the white race. the march assessment concluded that the militia violent extremist threat, which is described as those who, quote, take overt steps to violently resist or facilitate the overthrow of the united states government in support of their belief that the united states government is purportedly exceeding its c...