and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. new reporting as we come on the wear from washington, a key court appearance, a new white house statement, and more questions for the administration. let s start with what is happening right now this hour. the new mexico suspect solomon pena getting ready to go before a judge, just about 30 minutes from now. arrested on conspiracy charges. among others. for the shooting attacks, the ring leader, police say allegedly targeting democratic officials, in albuquerque. our team is live on the ground with new reporting and what to expect. also this hour, president biden s first reaction to the deadly helicopter crash in ukraine. the interior minister and more than a dozen others killed. we have a live report from kyiv and the pentagon with more on just what happened. plus, any minute, the white house getting ready for you name it, inevitably nor questions on how president biden handled classified documents,
scheme. $700 million, a plot that apparently enabled criminals to traffic drugs and steal people s money and their identities on the crypto platform. watch. today s law enforcement actions put all of those who seek to exploit the cryptocurrency ecosystem on notice, that the department of justice would use every tool, working along with our partners, every tool that we have, to attack the criminal use of the dark net, and cryptocurrency. this new move from the d.o.j. comes as we re seeing a lot of attention from crypto, and not just from investigators but also from lawmakers because there is some controversy around the industry. as you probably know, i want to bring in nbc news justice and in tenl correspondent ken dilanian with us now, talk about this arrest here and stepping back, big picture, what it all says about crackdowns against crypto