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world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won't say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she's signaling an openness to finding legi...

As you just implied. let me try to read between the lines here because i used to write these when i was secretary of homeland security. so dhs is giving us the general threat picture, the threat environment, it is then saying this is what we, dhs and the fbi are doing about it, and this is what you the public can do. this statement talks about the more traditional foreign-inspired acts of potential terrorism, it talks about upcoming events and it talks about mass shootings, personal grievances. that encompasses uvalde, it encompasses buffalo so there is a lot to digest. the common thread throu...

Is white supremacy is a hoax? >> it's not a hoax. neither is white supremacist violence. we've had a string of years, over a a decade where we saw violent act after violent act that have even spurred copy cat acts. we're not living in a post racial society. we're in a nation full of racism and white supremacy. >> you say that as someone who lived it. you were part of this movement. you say actually the worst is yet to come. what do you mean? >> i was involved for eight years in my youth. the things i hear out of the president's mouth are identical to things i would have been very happy about w...

Began yesterday. so if we can bring in eric here. is there a fear of copy cat acts at this point? you know, knowing that australia has been part of the u.s. led coalition. should they be watching out for something like this to happen again? >> certainly this has been a concern for the nations contributing to the fight against isis in iraq and syria. there's been some 70 australians believed to have travel to the region to fight there. all the countries are expressing concerns you might have individuals who acted out at the urging of isis. isis in a website proclamation in september urged the f...