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go out for months. and the reason for that is ken cuccinelli and chad wolf and others consistently wanted several areas changed. one was on the white supremacy part and the other was on the russian disinformation. >> did they explain why they thought that made president trump look bad? >> so cuccinelli told me that, you know, because of the president's statements in charlottesville and then more as the spring and summer of 2020 went along as it related to the murder of george floyd and other things, in that time era, that it would make the president look bad. those were his exact words. >> so there you have it. a homeland security official says that he was asked by p political appointees to modify a report meant to help keep the country safe all for the former president's ego. up next, the week from hell. that's what one democratic lawmaker is calling it. the clock is ticking on biden's agenda and looming government shutdown. stay with us.
north. now, some speculate that because of the deportation pause of haitian flights that that could have contributed to people coming over. as you snow, smugglers take advantage of every moment, and so right now they have to deal with what to do with these haitians, a homeland security official does tell me flights to haiti have continued. >> by the way, smugglers lie. they lie because they charge a lot of money, thousands of dollars, right, to help try to get these people across. priscilla alvarez, thanks very much. we are hearing for the first time from the family of a man who has refused to talk to police about the disappearance of his fiancee. just ahead we'll speak to the police department investigating gabby petito's case. that's next. walter, twelve o' clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it's the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace.
one or two years of my career, hopefully. but really it's going to be for all these little kids coming up now. >> that's exactly what we're fighting for. we're fighting for that change. and literally people have stopped me in my tracks to say thank you, and that's because of this fight. >> "lfg" premiers monday night at 9:00. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. breaking news about a new concern from law enforcement. a white supremacist and violent anti-government extremist are now openly and this is pretty stunning identifying with the taliban and even citing them as a model for how to launch a new civil war here in the united states. we know this from a conference call cnn has just obtained involving a top federal intelligence and homeland security official. cnn's evan perez joins us now with what was on that call and what to make of this remarkable
sabotaging the process. what does she say? she called it devastating the system. at homeland security and the state department on purpose. so that those visas for our afghan allies would get stuck in the system for ever. so those afghan allies wouldn't be able to get out. as they were planning to take out all u.s. troops, were up and they knew the afghan government would collapse. they deliberately sabotaged the process to make sure those afghan visas would not be processed in any timely manner. elizabeth newman was a senior homeland security official under trump. she today publicly confirmed olivia troye's account of how this happened inside the trump administration. at the highest levels the trump administration deliberately sabotaged visa process for these allies, which is why so many of them have been stuck all this time. some of this has been hiding in plain sight. in 2019, a federal judge ruled that the trump administration
they wanted to be a variety of, not demands, but requests that they just be allowed to leave the area. transit the area without any accountability. and at the end of the day, we couldn't accommodate that. >> so, the men, eventually, surrendered to police, without incident. and authorities seized an undisclosed number of guns. their motive and their intentions are, still, unclear. joining me, now, is former homeland security official under president obama and current cnn national security analyst, juliette kayyem. so, help us make sense of this. i mean, as we piece together what happened, how significant is this? >> it's significant, in the sense that this organization, the moors or the moors sovereign citizens have actually been getting a little bit more aggressive lately. if you look at the last year, they went from what we call paper terrorism. which is, they -- they do lawsuits and liens against people's homes and just sort of
that's been set up to identify and reunify families separated at the u.s./mexico border under trump. this is in addition to four families reunited last month including brian chavez separated from his mother at the border in 2017. this is welcome news for families and the attorneys working alongside them. but it also underscores what a difficult task this has been that years later we're still trying to locate some of these families and reunite them. a senior homeland security official told reporters just last night that they are still scouring documents. they're finding wrong dates, repeated names, mismatched parents and children and they anticipate that thousands could still remain separated. >> really interesting how hard it is to fix something after you make a decision like that. thanks for your reporting. legendary actress jane fonda is among the climate activists with a message for the biden administration in a bid to halt construction of a $4 billion pipeline project. some of the protesters who marched onto the site on this
this evening, the secretary of homeland security with a new warning for passengers breaking the law, and abc's gio benitez covers aviation. >> reporter: tonight, with more and more americans taking to the skies, the faa says there's been an alarming increase in alleged unruly passenger incidents. >> if we don't stand up, it's only going to get worse. >> reporter: from refusing to wear masks, to attacking flight attendants. just this sunday, a troubling case on a southwest flight. a passenger allegedly assaulting a flight attendant, knocking out two of their teeth on a flight from sacramento to san diego. >> when this happens to one of our own, that is when we really kick into gear and say, enough is enough, we need to do more. >> reporter: the faa receiving about 2,500 reports of unruly passengers since the start of the year. the overwhelming majority, some 1,900, refusing to wear masks. now tonight, a stern warning from the nation's top homeland security official. >> it is a federal mandate that one must wear a mask in an
about 2,500 reports of unruly passengers since the start of the year. the overwhelming majority, some 1,900, refusing to wear masks. now tonight, a stern warning from the nation's top homeland security official. >> it is a federal mandate that one must wear a mask in an a airpo airport, on the aircraft itself and we will not tolerate behavior that violates the law. >> reporter: and david, it's not just on planes. about 60 tsa employees have also been attacked. and now the faa has already issued more than $250,000 in proposed fines. david? >> yeah, the number of cases just out of control at this point. gio, thank you. when we come back here, we're tracking severe weather at this hour. alerts right now for damaging winds, large hail and possible tornadoes. and then the threat tomorrow in the northeast. ginger will time it all out. for communities across america.
Take aim at 'lifeblood' of operators. US government and industry officials confronting an epidemic of ransomware, where hackers freeze the computers of a target and demand a payoff, are zeroing in on cryptocurrency regulation as the key to combating the scourge, sources familiar with the work of a public-private task force said. In a report on Thursday, the panel of experts is expected to call for far more aggressive tracking of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While those have won greater acceptance among investors over the past year, they remain the lifeblood of ransomware operators and other criminals who face little risk of prosecution in much of the world.