reacts, they re both terrorists. reporter: california congressman paul ruiz called for the firebombing to be investigated as a hate crime. and according to the council on american islam relations, this has been a record-year for anti-muslim acts. according to their latest reports, there have been more than 60 accounts of harassment and vandalism reported. victor blackwell, cnn, atlanta. next, a new potential threat from isis. the terror group may now have the ability to make fake passports. the disturbing development, coming up. ok, we re here.
archaeological scavagers and thieves isis-issued permits to dig. we can see from the satellite photographs, for example, that it is industrial-scale looting. reporter: matthew levitt studies isis financing for thener east policy. the fact that stolen antiquities shows success in containing other sources of isis cash, but the terror group, he says, is resilient. as oil revenues drop or get hampered, the hunt for antiquities and smuggling and permit issuing increases. think of it as squeezing a balloon not hard enough to pop it, but hard enough to squeeze it. if you squeeze it here, it will expand somewhere else. we have seen in the past and we can expect to see now, they will expand into other directions. reporter: and what s not being contained or squeezed or even slowed is the ideology of isis that continues to spread. levitt believes the money will continue to flow to isis, even if that means digging holes in
reporter: michael dante consults for the state department on what he sees as isis s systemic looting of the middle east s ancient past. they actively promote looting among their fighters as a way to generate income for the organization. they don t make this is a secret. it s done brazenly, very overtly. reporter: if february, isis destroyed statues a at the mow sewell. in october, it was the 1,800-year-old arch blown up. images that caused worldwide condemnation. but there s something isis isn t showing you, and that s what it s keeping and selling. this hercules is a museum piece. this piece of pottery from a repository in raqqah, still bearing its number. it is the smallest items that pose the biggest problems. dante shows is us ancient gold coins and glass, even figurines, most likely robbed from graves
terror and national security will be the main topic at tuesday night s republican debate in las vegas and as you can see, it is still a pretty large field of gop candidates right there. joining me right now, larry sabado, director of the university of politics for virginia. so larry, trump leading with voters on the issue of terrorism, according to polling. what did the others on stage, really, what do all of the candidates need to say, how do they need to establish themselves as it pertains to national security with isis and other terrorist threats being global throats? well, fred, the obvious thing is they have to make a case for their own experience and ability to deal with terrorism and national security. but we re at the point now, where it s time to put away the playing of paddy cake. we re down to the end here. it s six weeks until iowa. and it s pretty clear that except in iowa, where ted cru
isis remains the best-funded terrorist group in history with an estimated income of $1 million to $2 million a day. a cnn money investigation finds the bulk of that money comes from stealing, taxing, or forcing bribes from location populations along with oil smuggling. but the terror group is increasingly turning to an age-old source of cash in the middle east. the stealing and smuggling of ancient antiquities. drew griffin has more. reporter: the evidence is already popping up, unsolicited, on computer screens and cell phones across the world. pictures like these, offering ancient antiquities in a fire sale from a land on fire. roman coins, golden earrings, museum pieces, ripped off the wall in mosul. the seller, isis. the buyer, the highest bidder. they loot everything that s not nailed down.