The FBI's number of terrorism investigations is almost equally split between domestic cases and those involving jihadi operatives, the agency's new director told a Senate panel Wednesday. But some Democrats have been pushing the Trump administration to shift the nation’s security focus away from radical Islam and toward combating domestic white supremacists, the Washington Times reported. During Wednesday's hearing, hosted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, several Senate Democrats argued that white supremacists and other domestic extremists posed a bigger threat to the nation than jihadi terrorists. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Kamala Harris, D-Caif., each made a case for why more emphasis should be placed on domestic terrorism. “I don’t think Americans understand the level of threat we have in this country from white supremacists,” said McCaskill, the ranking Democrat on the committee.

Source: Fox News September 28, 2017 10:18 UTC