hallowed ground for the cia and trump bragged about his inauguration size, never mentioning once the sacrifices of the agency. trump was distrustful of intelligence assessments and installed political loyalists as top intelligence officials. president biden on tuesday was introduced by his director of national intelligence who said biden wants his intelligence leaders to push back and offered different points of view. in biden s speech, he also took shots at russia saying that they are ramping up their disinformation efforts for the 2022 midterm elections calling it a violation of u.s. sovereignty. biden also warned that cyber breach could lead to a real war between the u.s. and a major foreign power. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is in india and will meet with narendra modi in just a few hour, 4e ar they are
took a similar action where they took down dozens of sites, some of them were on facebook and other social media sites that they said that the u.s. says were linked to disinformation efforts by the iranians. in this case it appears that press tv as well as some sites in yemen and other countries, again, all of them linked to the iranian government have been taken over by the u.s. government as part of this effort. this is really interesting, evan. basically you re saying these are fake news sites. this is misinformation and the department of justice trying to crack down on the proliferation of it. has there been any response from iran? the only thing we know from the iranians we re getting some of their official agencies are tweeting about this. they re confirming this has happened and they say that this is an assault on press freedom, which is obviously somewhat ironic to come from the iranians.
talked to that this appears to be an effort on the u.s. side to deal with what they say were disinformation efforts that are being that are coming from some of these websites. these are news websites run by the iranians, the most prominent of them is press tv which is their english language news website and it s the one that now when you go onto that site at least from here in the united states, you will likely see something that looks like this, it says this website has been seized and you ll see the logos of the justice department and the fbi. now, we don t know the exact number of sites at this point but we expect that later this afternoon we re going to learn a little bit more from the treasury department and justice department about exactly what this is about but right now what we re told is that this is the latest of a number of these types of actions at the justice department and u.s. government has made in the last few months back in october of 2020, they
a wake-up call to anyone who likes to call themselves a patriot. the disinformation efforts will not stop, but that s why it s important to acknowledge when our government gets things right. whether it s vaccination rates or the vaccination donations that remind the world that there is no moral equivalence between democracy and autocracy. and that s your reality check. john avlon, thank you very much. new day continues right now. i m john berman alongside brianna keilar on this new day, president biden meeting with nato leaders right now. what he s saying to set the tone as a tense summit happens on wednesday with vladimir putin. plus, the family of a u.s. marine veteran held in a russian president pleading for their son s safe return. they re standing by to speak to us right now. and new revelations about the trump justice department s secret subpoenas. trump s own white house counsel had his phone records subpoenaed too.
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