Nancy Guthrie investigation takes dramatic new focus after missed ransom deadline: Brown bags of 'evidence' and uncomfortable questions close to home

UPDATE: Nancy Guthrie's son-in-law disappears from public view as quirk in the law could mean his home is being searched without consent | Daily Mail Online  "Nancy Guthrie's son-in-law hasn't been seen in a week, but police and the FBI are able to search his home without his consent, even without a warrant.

"Tommaso Cioni was the last person to see the missing mother of NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie before she disappeared in the early hours of February 1. 

"He and his wife, the Today host's sister, Annie Guthrie, live in a sprawling $675,000 ranch-style house about four miles from Nancy's home in Tucson, Arizona.

"Annie has been a constant presence, appearing with her siblings, including brother Camron, in videos pleading with Nancy's kidnappers to bring her back unharmed. " . . .

Terrifying masked figure in latex gloves with gun seen on Nancy Guthrie's doorstep on morning of her kidnap | Daily Mail Online   

 "The nightmarish images were released by the FBI on Tuesday as the hunt for the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie enters its tenth day. 

"Clad in a ski mask, the figure was filmed tampering with Nancy's Nest doorbell camera. It is unclear if the figure is male or female, but some images appear to show facial hair above their top lip.

"Nancy did not have a subscription to Nest which would have uploaded the images and saved them to a cloud storage platform. This meant investigators took longer to extract the images from her camera.  

"A spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said: 'As of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door on the morning of her disappearance.' 

"FBI Director Kash Patel added that the images showed an 'armed individual' tampering with the cameras. 

"What looks like a gun inside a holster appears to be clipped to them, one image shows them with what looks like a penlight in their mouth." . . . More...

UPDATE: Signs Nancy Guthrie suspect is amateur, according to FBI agent  

“He balls his fist up, and then you see him walk back out of the vestibule there. It appears he’s looking for something to conceal the camera. He reaches down and picks up some vegetation in an attempt to cover the camera,” he added.

“A sophisticated person would have brought something from the very beginning. Either a hammer or something to remove the camera, or spray paint,” Harrigan said." 

People Have a Little Fun With Some Epic Trolling of the Anti-ICE Crew

RedState  

"But to be fair, the anti-ICE crew already mock themselves with the silliness of their actions, like their "dildo action" over the weekend at the Whipple building.  They had a ton of dildos they were throwing at agents, sticking to the fences, and even mistakenly attacking the car of one of their own." 

"The whole anti-ICE thing is so unhinged. 

"Perhaps one of the most twisted things about it is that they think they are on the right side of the equation. They are somehow "fighting fascism" or whatever language they're using this week, because they're attacking ICE. But it's ICE that is enforcing the law enacted by the representatives of the people. 

"We wrote about how Blue Lives Matter was trolling them a bit on their accounts, about whether they were calling in false ICE reports. 

"There are other people also stepping up to do their part and have a little fun with them. 

"Dustin Grage asked the question about the funding the anti-ICE guys were getting because of the supplies they were stocking up on at the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis." . . .

Leftists outside the Minnesota governor’s mansion have turned on Tim Walz for not being radical enough:
“We are demanding legalization for all. We hope this is the moment you finally grow a pair!"
Tim has tried so hard to please them lmao pic.twitter.com/MTpJz7WN9t

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 7, 2026  

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Gwen Walz said she kept windows open during George Floyd riots to smell 'burning tires'  She found fulfillment in the fires. 

The Story Of The HMS Dreadnought, The British Vessel That Revolutionized Battleship Design

 HMS Dreadnought, The Revolutionary British Battleship  

"The ship that [British Admiral Sir John]Fisher set out to build would become known as the HMS Dreadnought, a name that came from the saying “dread nought but God.' ”

"Feb. 10, 1906, King Edward VII smashed a bottle of champagne against the bow of the British Navy’s newest warship as a crowd of 60,000 watched. But the bottle didn’t break. It took the king multiple tries to finally shatter the glass, which, perhaps, shouldn’t have been surprising. The newly built HMS Dreadnought was unlike any ship that had ever existed.

"The Dreadnought was not only equipped with a stunning array of high-powered guns. It could not only outrun any other ship on the planet. It had also been built by the British Navy in roughly 12 months.

"World powers across the globe took notice, and the United States, Russia, and France swiftly started building “dreadnoughts” of their own. But the new British warship especially caught the attention of Germany.

"The Germans had long desired to become a world power, and they knew that a strong navy was key. Though the Germans had already started to expand their navy at the turn of the 20th century, the introduction of the HMS Dreadnought put this effort into overdrive. Before long, Germany and Great Britain were engaged in a naval arms race.

"On the eve of World War I, the two countries began to battle for supremacy at sea.

"The Brewing Naval Arms Race Between Great Britain And Germany

"At the turn of the 20th century, both Great Britain and Germany wanted to modernize their navies — although for different reasons.

"For Germany, it was a matter of being taken seriously as an empire. As a relatively new country — Germany had unified in 1871 — the Germans believed that a strong navy was the key to becoming a global power.

"Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz set out to make this dream a reality by building up the German Navy. The Navy Bills of 1898 and 1900 aimed to expand Germany’s network of ships, with the goal of creating a fleet that could stand up to the British. Tirpitz reasoned that if the Imperial German Navy was competitive with the Royal Navy, Great Britain would be more accommodating toward Germany’s ambition to become a world power." . . .

A senior staff writer for All That's Interesting since 2021 and co-host of the History Uncovered Podcast, Kaleena Fraga graduated with a dual degree in American History and French Language and Literature from Oberlin College. She previously ran the presidential history blog History First, and has had work published in The Washington Post, Gastro Obscura, and elsewhere. She has published more than 1,200 pieces on topics including history and archaeology. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Authorities Spotted Searching Septic Tank Behind Savannah Guthrie's Mom's House in Latest Update

 OK! News: Authorities Searching Septic Tank Behind Savannah Guthrie's Mom's House

• "Savannah Guthrie's Brother-in-Law Tommaso Cioni Was Last to See Nancy Guthrie Alive, Police Confirm
• Savannah Guthrie's Mom Nancy Is 'Alive,' Sheriff Believes: 'We Want to Save Her'
• Savannah Guthrie's Mom Is in 'Danger' After 'Something Unusual' Took Place at Her House Before Disappearance, Arizona Sheriff Says"

. . . "She also asked for proof of life to ensure her mother is still breathing, adding she's "ready to talk."

"Annie's Tucson home was also searched late on February 7, according to Daily Mail.

"Former cop Paul Mauro shared his expert insight recently on Nancy's vanishing, saying the kidnapper's "elusive" communication with the Guthries is a tactic "because you know you’re going to be asked for proof of life that you can’t provide,” he told Fox News.

" 'I feel like they’ve been playing games with the details in the house and all of that," he went on, adding the situation could "all be a hoax.”. . . 

Much more at this link with photos...

Here's the REAL reason Bill and Hillary changed their minds about Epstein testimony...

 Revolver News    

"The truth is, in many ways, we’re watching an elite reckoning play out, and while this country is still deeply divided, one thing many Americans agree on is that anyone connected to that creep needs to answer for it. In other words, this isn’t a hill Bill and Hillary can win on, but they can surely die on it if they don’t play their cards right."

If Democrats go ahead in the midterms, they'll be free as a bird.

"Just a few weeks ago, Bill and Hillary Clinton were digging in their little heels and refusing to testify about their close ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The message from Team Clinton was clear: they weren’t interested in cooperating, and they were prepared to fight any effort to drag them into sworn testimony.

"Then, almost overnight, everything changed.

"Suddenly, the same power couple that had brushed off congressional demands reversed course and agreed to sit for filmed, transcribed depositions. So, what happened? Well, officially, their change of heart came after the threat of contempt of Congress charges. But that explanation doesn’t quite hold all the water. There’s more to it. After all, the Clintons knew contempt was always on the table when they skipped their original testimony date. That risk wasn’t new.

"So what really happened?

"According to House Oversight Chairman James Comer, the Clintons weren’t rattled by Republican pressure. Why would they be? Republicans are a joke, and the Clintons know it.

"But they were scared…

"They were rattled by something far more dangerous to their brand and political survival: Democrats.

"The left was preparing to join Republicans and throw Bill and Hill under the bus.

"And that was a political nightmare the Clintons couldn’t afford to dabble in.

"Comer says the turning point came when bipartisan momentum began building behind contempt proceedings, catching the Clintons completely off guard and forcing a rapid strategic retreat." . . .  More...

Dems Decide ICE Body Cams Are Bad; ICE body cameras are a means of capturing evidence of their crimes.

  Daniel Greenfield; Frontpage Mag

"If we didn’t have video footage of Good ramming law enforcement and Pretti assaulting law enforcement, all we’d have are the lies that the media tells."

"Dems have been calling for ICE body cameras, but as I noted a few days ago...

Body cameras have far more consistently proven that law enforcement acted correctly than otherwise. There’s a reason that Secretary Noem is happy to go along with the idea and why most police departments realized that body cams were a good thing once the impact became clear. In both the Renee Good and Alex Pretti cases, it was cameras and body cameras that provided the damning evidence that dismantled the ‘bloody shirt’ that the media was waving hysterically after the two radicals attacked law enforcement.

"Now, the Dems are already pivoting to warning about the dangers of ICE body cameras…

A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters. Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.

“Privacy advocates”.

“Mass surveillance”.

What they really mean is that having footage of their riots on cameras would be bad for their rioters who are also their activist base. Having actual footage of ICE raids hurts their purpose, dismantling immigration law enforcement, more than it helps it." . . .  More...

Wokester athletes dump on America as the Olympics open

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker  "The press and the USOC may be to blame, but who wants to watch this?

"It's just a shame we see so much of this, Trump derangement syndrome metastasizing into loathing for America. To heck with this, I'll flip the channel." 

"If the aim of the U.S. Olympic team was to make its millions-strong television audience flip the channel, they couldn’t have done a better job than with today’s big slew of athletes coming out with wokester statements, á la Colin Kaepernick.

"It’s so against common sense and so ‘old’ as an act it makes one wonder if they themselves believed they were all washed up, as Kaepernick had been, when he started his take-a-knee shenanigans that did a lot of damage to professional football.

"The first wokester statement came from someone named Chris Lillis, a freestyle skiier who didn't hesitate to dump on his own country on the international stage:

"According to CBS News

"...I feel heartbroken about what's happened in the United States," Team USA freestyle skier Chris Lillis told journalists on Friday in response to questions referencing ICE's actions in Minneapolis and the protests against them.

"I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect," Lillis said. "And I hope that when people look at athletes competing in the Olympics, they realise that that's the America that we're trying to represent."

"The next wokester was Hunter Hess, another freestyle skier.

"According to the Washington Post:

“It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think,” Hess said. “It’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t.”

... and ... 

Newsom Confesses His Disturbing Role in the Euthanization of His Mother |

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics 

"Gavin Newsom committed grave evil by sitting approvingly by for his mother’s killing. When he hits the campaign trail, Americans should ask themselves if they really want a man like this in the White House."

 "In an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted that he sat approvingly by his mother’s bedside as she was euthanized in an act that, at the time, legally amounted to homicide. Assisted suicide was legalized in California in 2015; prior to that time, any deliberate killing of a person — even with that individual’s consent — would be considered a homicide.

"Newsom has previously admitted involvement in his mother’s death by euthanasia, and it is something that I covered in my book on Newsom’s life,

"But his new interview gives additional details that reveal the extent of his complicity in the killing of his mother.

"As we previously knew, Newsom’s 55-year-old mother, Tessa, informed him in a voicemail that she planned to die by euthanasia and asked him to be present for her death. Newsom agreed. The governor the New Yorker that he then spent time with his mother in the days leading up to her planned death, including when he made her dinner the night before her killing. This means Newsom knew that Tessa was going to be illegally killed and he did not stop or dissuade her.

"Newsom told the Washington Post that he, alongside his sister, prepared his mother for her killing by giving Tessa a dose of painkillers 45 minutes before the doctor was to arrive for his deadly deed so as to, in the Post’s words, “keep her comfortable.”

"Let’s pause there for a moment. Newsom gave his mother painkillers, which have the effect of relaxing a person, leaving her softened and ready to be injected with a lethal dose of drugs. This has the definite appearance of a person who is aiding the commission of illegal euthanasia. It also raises the question of whether Newsom’s mother was cognitively capable of agreeing to her killing when it happened (putting aside the fact that her consent has no impact on the legality of her killing). Those painkillers that Newsom gave Tessa before the doctor arrived could very well have played a part in her death.

"Newsom claimed to the Washington Post that Tessa was able to lucidly answer the doctor’s questions when he arrived to kill her. Of course, however, we will never know if she was really cognitively unaffected by the painkillers." . . .

Nicki Minaj blasts Gavin Newsom for 'missing the plot' while obsessing over Trump

 Nicki Minaj Accuses Gavin Newsom Of 'Being Obsessed' With Donald Trump

"Nicki Minaj, who has recently been a vocal critic of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accused him in a new interview of trying to be like President Donald Trump, referring to recent social media posts of the governor’s that emulate the president's frank style"  Head Topics

"Nicki Minaj, who has recently been a vocal critic of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accused him in a new interview of trying to be like President Donald Trump, referring to recent social media posts of the governor’s that emulate the president's frank style.

" 'With Newscum, it's the fact that with everything you said, but then having the audacity to be playing on Twitter, obsessed with Trump, trying to be Trump, trying to be funny when it's not, and then wanting to roll around in the mud with female rappers or whomever and completely missing the plot," Minaj told Katie Miller on her podcast this week.

"Many of Minaj’s online attacks have been over the governor’s support of transgender children.

" 'Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids," Minaj wrote on social media late last year. "Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav. The Gav Nots. GavOUT. Send in the next guy, I’m bored." . . .

Nicki Minaj Trolls Gavin Newsom For Wanting To Run For President

. , , "Newsom recently appeared on The Ezra Klein Show where he noted: “I want to see trans kids… There’s no governor that’s done more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBT community.”

"Minaj swiftly shared her thoughts about him on social media, laughing at his candidate potential.

" 'Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav. The Gav Nots. GavOUT. Send in the next guy, I’m bored," the "Super Bass" hitmaker tweeted alongside a GIF of the Child's Play character Chucky holding a bat.

Do Democrats Think They Can Skate On ICE To The Midterms?wwr

 Issues & Insights 

"I must be getting old. For the life of me I don’t understand why there is such sympathy (and, I believe, unduly gracious treatment) for people who insist on acting like rabid animals." . . . Comment to the post by Bryan Taplits

"With nothing else to run on, Democrats appear to think that demonizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be enough to win them control of Congress come November.

“ 'In their campaigns, Democrats across the country are responding to the anger felt by many communities over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations,” reports CBS News. If they can sustain today’s anger, the argument goes, voters will turn out in droves to clip the Trump administration’s wings in his last two years in office.  

"But there are a multitude of reasons why this strategy isn’t likely to work.

"First, November is a long way off. And anything can happen between now and then that will shift the public’s attention.

"Second, deportations aren’t necessarily a winning issue for Democrats. Polls on this are decidedly mixed.

"A new survey by RealClear Opinion Research finds that, while 48% of respondents say immigration policy is worse than a year ago, the public is still far more supportive of Trump’s approach than Biden’s open-border chaos (by a margin of 43% to 28%)  

"A poll by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s America One Policies PAC finds that a whopping 78% agree that the government should deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and have criminal records, 56% support deporting illegals who came within the last four years.

“ 'The basic takeaway here is that, according to the PAC’s polling, Americans are comfortable with deportation, but ICE needs to change its tactics,” as Punchline puts it." . . . More..

Tempers flare between Dem Rep. Maxine Waters and Scott Bessent over inflation: 'Can you shut up?

 NY Post 

Comment to this post: "It is such a shame that Scott Bessent is required, because of his position in government, to have to waste his time attempting to explain basic economic principles and facts to people like Maxine Waters and Gregory Meeks who are obviously totally incapable of understanding anything he is trying to tell them."

"Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) lashed out Wednesday at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — telling him at one point to “shut up” after a tense exchange over inflation.

"Waters suggested that President Trump’s tariffs were inflationary and that immigration enforcement was tanking housing affordability during a House Financial Services Committee hearing about the state of the US economy.

“ 'Will you be the voice of reason in the administration and urge Trump to stop waging a war on American consumers?” the Los Angeles Democrat pleaded. “Yes or no?”

“You seem confused as to the definition of inflation,” Bessent began before Waters interrupted him to re-ask the question.

The two then began talking over each other, with Bessent noting that the Biden administration “let in between 10 and 20 million immigrants” who “took up the housing stock of working Americans.” . . .  More...

Peaceful Protesters, or Fifth Column Insurrectionists?

 Richard Blakley - American Thinker  

"Newsweek reports that Newsom is supporting initiatives that are part of a broader attempt by the CCP to build networks of influence in California."

"With former intelligence officials warning of 1,000 Chinese spies for every ten from the West, reports of 1,200 Chinese spies embedded in Australia, and Chinese spies being “everywhere” in the U.K., China is very busy trying to push its will and policies on the world—which brings me to Minnesota.

"If the agitators in Minnesota are merely protesting removal of U.S. criminal illegal aliens, doesn’t it seem odd that BreakThrough News, a “nonprofit” propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, would circulate a video showing the struggle between federal agents and an armed Alex Pretti, alongside a call to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Maduro, and the communist revolution in Cuba?  How does supporting the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba have anything to do with illegal immigration in Minnesota?  Answer: It doesn’t.  The agitators are fifth column insurrectionists, duping citizens into believing lying propaganda to incite them to riot and fight amongst themselves—and they’ve been highly successful.

"If foreign enemies were attempting to start an insurrection in the U.S., agitating the public into anarchy, they would probably start where the most unhinged of the American population lives. Well, what do you know, we’re having riots/protests in New York, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.

"What evidence is there that these “peaceful protests” are coordinated efforts?

"On Fox News’s program Outnumbered, host Harris Faulkner stated,

New Fox digital reporting pulling back the curtain on a highly organized network working to track and disrupt federal immigration operations across the state of Minnesota…signal chats with mobilization orders to the site of the shooting…Fox digital is reporting within minutes of the alerts, far left activists flooded the area, like right on time with supplies staged on the sidewalk immediately.  Within hours, protesters spread from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles.  No one ever wants to hear me say, command and control.  How is this getting done simultaneously?  Vice President Vance alluded to the coordination over the weekend calling out quote, ‘engineered chaos’ that he says is unique to Minneapolis.

"The “engineered chaos” does not seem unique to Minneapolis, if the group chats are spreading it from Los Angeles to New York.

"Is there evidence of foreign ties in these anarchic hotspots?" . . . More...