Day about what happens there than another mob coming. Ransomware attacks are the key concern. Hackers hold companies, critical infrastructure hostage, demand ransom. They target everything from our hospitals to transportation to the gas in your car. The food you feed your family. These people pay. We don t even know. The u. S. Government says it won t negotiate with terrorists but they re okay with all the critical infrastructure paying hackers ransom, hundreds of millions of dollars? guess what they pay it in? cryptocurrency. Why? because you can t track it. Why is that allowed? why hadn t the government moved on crypto as a cheat from tracking? one thing is for sure. They cannot claim ignorance. The doj, department of justice, declared 2020 the worst year ever for extortion related cyber attacks. Guess what? we re in the first half of this year, right? we ve already seen a 102% increase. 102%. In ransomware strikes just compared obviously year over year. The head of the fbi equates t
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Of a theory of covid origin was that originally discounted by those whose job it was to figure it all out. Together they formed a group called drastic to investigate covid19. One founder was a data scientist who works for a bank in new zealand whose asperger syndrome gives him a professional advantage in finding patterns in data. But while he was building a plausible case for a all about leak, more than two dozen scientists released a statement in a respected medical journal saying this, quote. Now to be sure there were crackpots and political hacks hoping to pin the origin on a wuhan lab in the hope of gaining a on china and a boost to president trump. After all trump said early on he had seen classified information indicating that the virus had come from the wuhan institute of virology. When asked he said i can t tell you that. I m not allowed to tell you that. The question now fearful of being drawn in a national political debate or cast as nativists did not pursue a theory that was
There is no rational basis for the federal government trying to take over all of american elections. So what can democrats do even if manchin is the magical 50th vote? sheila jackson lee and her thoughts on the juneteenth holiday bill she just led into law. Also ahead, the congressman republicans picked to replace liz cheney is facing a new controversy of her own involving her role in trump s lie front and center. The scenes were watched across this country, looters taking advantage of new york city protests in the wake of the killing of george floyd. We have an exclusive update on what happened to the people who were, in fact, arrested. That is coming up. We want to begin with the fight over voting rights and the republicanled effort to expand their power over the election process, the impact of new gop laws are already being seen in states like georgia where local election officials being removed by county officials. Members of at least ten county election boards have been removed, h
Contempt for black enfranchisement, calling it voter integrity. And they ve demonized those protesting for black freedom from police violence and lionized those that inflicted actual violence on those capitol police officers that gop lawmakers have now snubbed for daring to call it what it was, an insurrection. But of course, those are the congressional republicans that voted for the juneteenth holiday. 14 others responsibility predictively, calling it racist for acknowledging that different groups of americans have experienced history differently, but at least their stripes show because even though the bill passed unanimously through the senate, as we approach this week s senate vote on the for the people act, the republican minority leader has already spurned even a compromise to combat the historical threats to voter participation. We re watching that in every state that black people live in. We start tonight s show with attorney and law professor sherrilyn ifill, president and dire