back with us is homeland security correspondent julia ainsley.orld of the future. >> it is. and something that really jumped out to me here is that the fbi was actually able to prevent the payment of $130 million in ransomware. that stands out as a victory here. in the past, so many people have said, look, we know that we have groups that come in and do the after action. they see what the damage was and trace it and try to hold those responsible. but when you have a group like hive that for years can extort victims like schools, food companies like hospitals, it's important to have someone you can go to in realtime. so the fact that the fbi is able to have expart perts who can give people a way out of paying ran somes and get their software back online, that's a victory. heen though that's $130 million out of so much more they did extort. and you heard the big action last night. the fbi was able to take down those servers in los angeles. it's interesting they were able to operate that right here in the u.s. while we know this is an international

julia ainsley is reporting on the story. what else came out of the report? >> it was interesting.t the numbers. they looked at all attacks between 2016 and 2020 and they counted 13 that injured three or more people. in 2023 we're looking at more attacks than days so far. important to put into context just what we're looking at in terms of gun violence just this year. it also looked at mote i have. that's something that always comes up immediately after tragedies. we're trying to make sense of it. they said a quarter of all the attackers were motivated by either conspiracy theory or some kind of hateful ideology. whether that be antigovernment, anti-semitism or racism. remember this would have included the shooting against latinos in the el paso community and the jewish community the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. they are looking at all of these. that was a motivator. but actually the number one motivator is personal grievances. i asked dr. lenah, who heads the national threat assessment center at secret service, what can we do to look out for people with personal grievance

let me bring in julia ainsley. what do we know, julia?rning, chris, from two senior law enforcement officials that, yes, in fact the fbi did go in and search president biden's center, his offices at the penn biden center in mid-november. but as we understand, the biden team was very cooperative, his lawyers let them in, no search warrants were needed or used in this search. it is not the same as what we might have seen, say, in august when the fbi conducted that raid, that surprise raid on mar-a-lago when they say his team was less than cooperative. what we don't know is whether or not they found anything of consequence, whether they found any classified materials when they went in and conducted this search. remember, we first -- the fbi was first alerted when someone was going through that office, and found some documents that may have been classified and reached out to the justice department is what we have learned from the biden team. and so this seems that it was something on top of that first initial message to go in and make sure th

julia ainsley for us. thank you. >>> atlanta is cleaning up after violent protests rocked the city over the weekend. the demonstrations were sparked by the police killing of an activist and then the development of a new training center. a police car set on fire, several buildings also damaged. six people have been arrested. nbc news is following this. guad, what else do we know about the people who were arrested and the damage that happened over the weekend? >> reporter: we know that five of the six are not residents of the state of georgia. the mayor said explosives were found with the individuals that were arrested, and these would have been used to set that police car on fire that we can see in these images. now that area in downtown atlanta was quickly cleaned up by authorities. three buildings were damaged, suffered damages to their window. that's also been repaired. now there's a connection between this and of course what happened earlier on wednesday. we know that at the incident on wednesday author

joinings now is one of the reporters behind this exclues julia ainsley.at investigators done ent have any indications that company would have trafficked these people? >> it's an ongoing investigation. they are at the phase where they are interviewing children. a lot of these children are afraid to talk to investigators, especially those from dhs. many of them have been brought into the country illegally. but this phase we have no indications that they have found evidence that the company could have trafficked them. that doesn't rule out the possibility that other people often can traffic children, can traffic anyone for labor and find ways to force them to work and to profit off of their labor. so homeland security investigations is look spoog this now. the company, who employed them, said they have not been contacted by detectives dhs and they follow the law. but right now, still a lot of unanswered questions about how 50 children between the ages of 13 and 17 ended up working the graveyard shift to clean the kill floor in a slaughter house in nebraska.

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nbc news correspondent julia ainsley joins us now.lot and how did they stop it? >> reporter: we heard of this today from the attorney general and the fbi director. they say that three men one from iran, one from the czech republic, and one american were all part of what they allege was a murder for hire plot being paid by a group connected to the iranian government to try to take out an iranian journalist living in brooklyn who had been critical of the iranian regime. she has come forward and said ther life has actually been threatened more than once but she says she is not afraid and thanked the u.s. government for protecting her. >> as you said she identified herself. what else do we know about her? where does she work? what does she write? how is she responding? >> reporter: she has written for a number of publications, appeared on our air, also has written for the "new york times." she is living in brooklyn where she has been for sometime. she posted a video response on twitter today. take a look. >> let me make it clear. i'm not

nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley is joining us now.here? who exactly are the feds looking into and what started all of this? >> so, dhs has been interviewing the children. it is an ongoing investigation and in coordination with department of labor. after they found that 50 children, at least 50 minors between the ages of 13 and 17 were working the graveyard shift to clean the kill floors in slaughterhouses. this new information is that now the feds are asking questions about whether or not these children may have been trafficked. there are no indications that the company itself would have been involved in a trafficking scheme. but they're trying to understand how 50 children could have appeared in a small town all with the same fraudulent documents to try to show that they could legally work in this place. >> julia ainsley in washington, thank you. >>> coming up a new warning por people cooking at home. where you might find germs i yourn er. >>> in today's consumer confidential, we're going inside of your home to uncover areas where ge

joining me now, nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley. juliet, get us up to speed.d we learn today? and how does this fit into the weeks timeline? >> alicia, you captured it perfectly. they are now six total documents that have been gathered from the presidents residence in wilmington, delaware. this would bring us up to six total uncovered this week. we have to point out that this is coming from the white house lawyers, who are disclosing this information to the justice department and publicly. this is their way of kind of trying to stay ahead of the curve on this. we should point out, however, that it is because they, in the past, we're not completely forthcoming, was, we understand now on december 20th, they knew more records existed. -- the justice department. but they were not necessarily forthcoming with the press on that previously. now the snow information came out, this past week, we are starting to find out about the recovery of documents in realtime. and so that is the latest. that would bring us up to six in his residence as well as documents in the heng

. >> joining us now mike memoli and julia ainsley. the white house press secretary faced a lot of questions from reporters at her briefing today about these documents. how did she respond this time? >> well, aaron, it's been a frustrating and familiar script from the podium there at the white house. just a day after we learned from the white house counsel's office that five additional pages with classified markings were found at the president's home. karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, sticking very closely to carefully prepare talking points about why the white house can't answer more questions about these. take a listen. >> i'm just going to continue to be prudent here. i'm going to let this ongoing review that is happening, this legal process that is happening and let that process continue under the special counsel. we're not -- i'm not going to comment from here. >> reporter: the white house's rationale which we heard in a call today as well is that by providing partial responses to different questions from reporters, they mi

joining me now is nbc's julia ainsley on that. so what did this report find?well, katy, number one, they found that the primary motivator was personal grievances. this is something like someone who just lost a job, someone who might have a beef with a former romantic partner, that was a main driver, this is between 2016 and 2020, but they also found that in a quarter of the cases, they were motivated by conspiracy theories or a hateful ideology. that would be things like misogyny, anti-government sentiment, anti-semitism, remember this was a period of time that would have included the walmart shooting in el paso that targeted the latino community as well as the shooting at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh, targeting the jewish community there, and it also found that in a third of the cases, and almost a third of the cases, the attacker did leave some evidence behind that may have shown that they were going to go through with this attack. i got to ask the secret service, the person who runs this threat assessment report, some of these questions about wh

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. >> nbc's julia ainsley, thank you. and ceo of the lutheran immigration and refugee service. she served as former policy director for michelle obama. there are criticisms about this new biden immigration plan. do you agree with those criticisms? or do you see this as a good first step? >> i think it is a mixed bag for us. my organization certainly supports a system that allows for people to apply to get work authorization to support themselves when they arrive. part of why we see so many come into the southern border is because they feel it is the only pathway open to them. when you think about why the 20,000 ukrainian refugees came across the southern border, it was because it was the only pathway -- so, creating other legal pathways is critical. we appreciate that in the administration's announcement. but creating a narrow pathway for a privileged minority does not excuse eviscerate-ing a legal right for a vulnerable majority and this plan seems like opening a window as we are slamming a door. it shouldn't have been t

. >> julia ainsley, nbc news, toronto. >>> we're following a burst of deadly violence in ukraine on new that ukrainian forces killed 63 russian service members at a provisional base in russian-occupied eastern ukraine. using u.s. supplied artillery. ukraine has not taken responsibility for the attack and nbc news has not been able to verify claims from either side. we want to bring in nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley who is in kyiv for us. what have you been able to learn about the attack, and how significant of a blow is it to the russians? >> well, this was the himars, multiple launch rocket system, so this is a u.s.-provided rocket system. so they've been used to devastating effect against the russians and this is one of the reasons why russia is so enraged by the way the west has been providing so many high-tech weapons. and one of the reasons why ukraine keeps asking for more. we saw that from president zelenskyy, when he visited washington just a couple of weeks ago. another really interesting thing about this, important element, is that these soldiers who were killed,

julia ainsley is joining us now to explain what's happening.th. it's now official. talk to us about what the new policy is. >> reporter: well, a lot of critics of this policy, including democrats say it's slamming a door and cracking a window. the biden administration is making it harder to claim asylum at the southern border even after the title 42 restrictions still in place by the supreme court eventually lift. they have now through a deal with mexico made it possible to remove 30,000 migrants from each of those three countries you named, cuba nicaragua and haiti per month while allowing people from those countries to apply from their home country if they have a sponsor. >> president biden announcing he's going to visit the southern border on sunday. republicans have been criticizing him for not going to the border even as we get the new rules now. what's the president saying about the trip coming up? >> that's right. he's under a lot of pressure because of the numbers at the border and because of people saying that this will be a curb to th

. >> joining me now, julia ainsley, peter alexander, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker and andrew weissmann, former senior prosecutor for the mueller investigation. we have a better time line of events and discoveries. although, it came out in dribs and drabs. >> that's right. we got a better picture of that yesterday from the announcement by attorney general garland. the biden attorneys found fewer than a dozen documents at penn university. they informed the national archives. on november 14th, that's when garland launches his investigation headed by the northern illinois u.s. attorney. then you go to december 20th when more documents were found at the biden residence. then we understand that just yesterday, biden attorneys informed the justice department they found a third batch, still within the same home, along the same premises of biden's residence in delaware. that marks three separate occasions they found more documents. some of them more sensitive than others. that should have been handed over to the national archives. now we have the announcement of

ryan noble, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and julia ainsley is joins us as well. let me start with you, president biden in baltimore, set to take other trips this week, clearly meant to be a run up to the state of the union. he has a lot he wants to sell. he's also got some that's sort of a shadow hanging over him at this point. we mentioned the classified documents investigation. >> yes, this is the president, at least today, in a very comfortable familiar space, talking with amtrak behind him. and he has for so much of his career spent a lot of time riding back and forth between his delaware home and washington. and today talking about infrastructure and using over the next days, his emphasis on infrastructure as part of what he will talk about with the state of the union, and using the i-95 corridor, and trying to talk about the ways that policies that he has been able to enact with the help of democrats and republicans in congress to affect the lives of ordinary americans through jobs, through infrastructure, through making communities stronger and that's some

i want to bring this julia ainsley to talk us through what else stands out and what leaders in various from 2016 to 2020. of course, it's incredibly relevant coming this week. this is a group designed in the '90s so the secret service knew the threat environment of any place they were going to. now though, this material is so important. they are trying to share it as widely as possible across the country. they examined 173 incidents where three or more people were hurt during the five-year period. most of these cases, over 120 of those, it was a gun that was used. in 75% of all of those were guns, and at least 80% of those that used a gun resulted in at least one death. they found that a third of those used long guns, a rifle, a semiautomatic weapon or an automatic weapon. in attacks where they did not use a gun, they used a knife, they had less than a 50% chance of leading to a fatality. they say this isn't a policy position that they're taking here. they want everyone, policymakers down to a teacher or a parent to spot red flag. they saw evidence people had been planning. we spoke to

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. >> julia ainsley, thank so much for your time. joining us now, elie mystal, justice correspondent for the nation. >> elie mystal, you are an outspoken critic -- if i understand, you have been a critic of garland appointing a special mystal council in the trump documents case. i don't know if it's an over gross oversimplification to summer as part of your theory here as, how many special counsels you have before it is no longer special? talk to me about your thinking here. >> the special counsel law says that the a. g. can appoint a special counsel in extraordinary circumstances. could merrick garland please tell me what circumstance is not extraordinary according to his scared of his own shadow way of prosecuting cases? because what we have seen is that he is hiding behind the special counsel statute instead of simply doing his job. it is not difficult. it is not extraordinary to conduct an investigation about whether or not the president has classified documents, especially when the president is cooperating with the investigation

julia ainsley is part of the team who broke this story.t of this trafficking probe. they have been investigated and sued by the labor department over child labor concerns. how does this case tie into this new one? >> as we understand, this is a joint ongoing investigation. in november, the department of labor won in federal court in nebraska an injunction that basically meant that the company needed to stop hiring child laborers and they brought in an outside monitor to ensure that they would comply. now we're learning new details as homeland security investigations is speaking to children to understand how in the world 50 children came to these plants in nebraska in the first place. grand island nebraska where they found children working in the middle of the night cleaning the kill room floors of slaughterhouses with dangerous chemicals, dangerous equipment. the first time they did that, they started interviewing those children. now they're trying to understand how did they get there. did anyone force them there and profit from it? they'r

joining us now, nbc news homeland security correspondent, julia ainsley. ings or really any attacks with any weapon that injured three or more people in a public space, between 2016 and 2020. and they counted 173 attacks. that is far fewer than one per day over those five years. and now kate's reporting is showing that we have had more of these kind of events than days so far in 2023. so, first, just wanted to put that in perspective. but their findings, looking at these five years showed that hateful ideologies or conspiracy theories, whether that be anti-semitism, anti-government, misogyny or racism drove perpetrators of mass attacks for at least one quarter of the attacks over that time period. and we know that since 2020, a lot of those hateful ideologies and the hate speech online has just grown, as well as those conspiracy theories. the other thing they found, though is that the primary driver, the primary motivators for attackers were personal grievances. maybe they lost their job or a roeptic relationship. and i spoke with the expert who runs our na

joining us now, nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley. it's good to have you on.her it's the video we're looking at and whether or not those laws were broken and the demand by the texas governor to the president. >> that's right, mika, i spoke with the man. it's a volunteer who shot this video and wanted to share it with the world. he said he was really struck by the fact that it wasn't cdp walking up, speak to go a few migrants but really coming in in the middle of the night to show that they had a presence. this is just in the days leading up to president biden's visit to the border. i showed this same video to legal experts, to immigration advocates to see what they thought of it. they were struck as well, especially to the proximity of sacred heart church. it's a shelter where a lot of families unfortunately are sleeping on the street at night, but according to dhs's own guidelines, all houses of worship are safe spaces for migrants. and secretary mayorkas went a step further this year telling the men and women of dhs that even getting near a space like a chur

julia coleman joins us now. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. >> ainsley: why do you say it's the most extreme in thethrough all nine months of pregnancy what it does to strip away parental rights is abhorrent. it not only allows this for minors but also allows for minor sterilization without parental consent or notification. >> ainsley: minor sterilization when would that happen? >> as soon as this bill is assigned into law. >> ainsley: so a child could walk in and say they want to be sterilized? >> they could. the worst part is republicans we reached our hands across the aisle. we tried to work with democrats on this. and each time we pulled back a mangled hand. we tried over 50 times to make this bill more moderate. more reasonable. more bipartisan started when i introduced an amendment 21 weeks as the cutoff. minnesota pioneered the way here and had 21 weaker survive. we went month by month after that. all of the way through woman active labor they destroyed or voted down every single amendment. we tried having amendments to say parents get consent over abortions or sterilization of minors. when