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outside fbi headquarters in washington this morning federal investigators put an official name to the record $6,000,000,000 binance crypto heist we tracked yesterday north korea in a formal notice published within the last twenty four hours the bureau attributed the october 29 attack directly to trader trader its designation for pyongyang's state sponsored cyber units that settles who took the funds the practical question now facing crypto markets is liquidity binance says roughly 90% of the affected impact is covered but tracing and recovering $6,000,000,000 in virtual assets across international borders is another matter entirely here is what else is moving across the country this hour on capitol hill senate democrats are setting their post election targets ahead of tuesday's

midterms senator ron wyden the top democrat on the senate finance committee announced that repealing president donald trump's tariffs on canadian imports will be a day one priority if democrats take congress that shift would alter the trade debate though congressional leaders acknowledge it will not trigger an automatic rollback across international energy desks opec plus delegates meeting today confirmed the cartel is holding december crude production targets steady output quotas remain locked as members manage ongoing maritime export disruptions tied to the eight month united states conflict with iran now to what is happening on the water iranian state media reported saturday that american forces struck two fishing boats near keshem island in the strait of hormuz leaving two

fishermen missing and one wounded that is claimed not confirmed the pentagon has offered no statement on the incident and there is no independent verification from the gulf this hour i will tell you the moment there is what is verified is the economic strain behind it fuel disruptions and domestic inflation are already tightening margins across american retail and transport hubs there were calls across the wire for a broader list of 10 national breakthroughs today i am standing on the assignment desk and here is what i can actually see outside of speculative campaign forecasts and corporate earnings previews verified national developments are concentrated right here we do not invent milestones to fill a 10 slate the core story across washington and the markets remains that $6,000,000,000 breach it is no longer treated as an isolated financial crime federal law enforcement is treating it as sovereign warfare conducted on commercial digital infrastructure state sponsored hackers took $6,000,000,000 off an american accessible exchange congress is bracing for a trade fight over canadian tariffs and crude supplies remain pinned by

conflict in the gulf that is the picture from here back to you in the studio