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>> people have more questions than answers. >> where are all these drones coming from that people are seeing, and why aren't we doing a better job of tracking them and understanding that olaf scholz was forced to call a vote of confidence in himself? >> many people are generally very unhappy with the government, so they kind of want to make a point and vote for an extreme party to show how unhappy they are. let's go home. >> i thought this could be the end of my life. it was that strong. >> i heard someone scream, there's a tornado. there were things flying around, people screaming, cars making a bunch of noise live from london. >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. >> hello, warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i'm max foster. it is monday, december the 16th, 9 a.m. here in london. and we begin this hour with those mysterious drones spotted over

six u.s. states and the growing pressure on the biden administration to release more information about what's going on. federal agencies have drawn bipartisan criticism for downplaying the concerns from state and local governments, even as they've acknowledged the unusual nature of the reported sightings. now, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speaking out. >> there's a lot of us who are pretty frustrated right now. you know the answer we don't know is not a good enough answer. when people are anxious, when they're nervous. and this has been true, you know, since we've been a species on this planet, people will fill a vacuum with, you know, their fears and anxieties and conspiracy theories and oh, my god, there's an iranian mothership hovering off the coast of asbury park. or it's the russians, or it's the chinese. >> the administration has repeatedly assured people that they are safe. however, one, we need a briefing for the members of the senate to figure out what's going on here. two we need more transparency here in

new jersey. >> resident. have you seen any drones? >> yeah, two mornings ago over my house at 615 in the morning. i saw them myself. so did my wife. and so yeah, they're there and i've been traveling around new jersey as i normally do all week, and i can't tell you the number of people have come up to me concerned about it well, massachusetts is one of the states reporting a growing number of drone sightings, and one such incident happened over the weekend near boston's international airport. >> cnn's gloria pazmino has more on these sightings, which are keeping so many people on edge well, to start with boston, because the police department there tells us they arrested two people who were found to be flying drones dangerously close to the airspace over logan international airport. >> now we are still waiting to hear more about what was behind these arrests. but what we do know so far is that an officer spotted the drones and then was able to deploy drone detection

technology to identify the drone history. the owners and the locations from where they were being operated from that led the police department to boston harbor island. this is a largely uninhabited part of boston, and once police arrived there, they were able to arrest two people. they initially tried to flee on foot, but they were eventually captured. one of them had a drone in their backpack, and another is believed to have fled using a small vessel. a third person, who the police are still looking for. now we don't know how much we are going to learn as a result of these arrests just yet, and whether or not it will explain some of the sightings that have been reported in boston, but the fact that the police department was able to use technology is certainly something that a lot of law enforcement officials and representatives across many of these different communities are talking about. many of them

are asking the federal government for more resources, for more information, so that they can take a more active role in detecting and intercepting some of these drones that are being reported. now, we have also heard from the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, speaking this weekend about the drone sightings and acknowledging that what people are reporting are definitely drones. take a listen. >> there is no question that people are seeing drones, and i want to assure the american public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the new jersey state police in addressing the drone sightings. >> so the secretary says that he is sending resources to new jersey, where many of the sightings have been reported. but here in new york, governor kathy hochul also telling us that the state is receiving some additional resources from

the federal government after some drone sightings resulted in an airfield having to be shut down over this past weekend because of drone sightings over airspace at a local airport. now, governor kathy hochul issued a statement on sunday saying in part, in response to my calls for additional resources, our federal partners are deploying a state of the art drone detection system to new york state. this system will support state and federal law enforcement in their investigation. now, something we're not clear on just yet is exactly what kind of technology new york is going to be receiving. if it's going to be anything like what boston deployed and helped them, uh, it helped them to find the drones and conduct those arrests. i have been asking about this technology, but i've been told that because this is now an issue of national security, the state is not going to share more information

about what the technology is or where it will be deployed. however, i am told by sources familiar with the conversations that the governor and the secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, held a few phone calls over the weekend to discuss the need for for more resources. in the meantime. still, a lot of frustration and a lot of questions being asked by local officials across the northeast who want to do more and to make sure that their local governments have more resources to respond to these sightings. gloria pazmino, cnn, new york. >> last hour, i spoke with drone expert gregory mcneal and asked if americans should be anxious about the drones. >> both elected officials and citizens feel like they are not getting good information from their government. it's not necessarily the fact that it's inaccurate. they're just not believing the details that they are being provided by the

government. part of that might be like, if you go all the way back to the chinese spy balloon that was flying over the united states, there was a long period of time there where not much information was being put out. then the american public didn't see much action. then after the fact, the information that they got ended up being incorrect from the department of defense. so you have a lot of people who are mistrusting the government using that one example as one of many reasons why they don't trust the information that they're getting at. >> the spy balloon was a spy balloon. that was all confirmed in the end. it became quite transparent, didn't it? we're not getting the same transparency on this. i mean, how easy would it be for a foreign player to put these up? and why would they do it in such a visible way? >> yeah, i think they wouldn't do it in such a visible way. right. if you're trying to surveil a military installation, you're probably not going to have red and green blinking lights and a strobe light on your drone. although there is a circumstance here where maybe an individual or a group of individuals will

purposely test it in an obvious way to make their drones seen so they could see what the response mechanisms are, to see what the government does and how it responds to a known visible threat, which would then give them some insight into what they could do if they didn't have those lights on, or they weren't broadcasting remote identification. so that is a possibility. i think that the intelligence community is talking about. but for the most part, if someone wants to do something harmful, they won't do it with lights on their drones. they'll fly them surreptitiously and at a high rate of speed into sensitive areas turning to us politics, donald trump's key cabinet picks are looking to build support ahead of senate confirmation battles. >> a source tells cnn that the president elect's choice to lead the country's top health agency and his pick for defense secretary are expected back on capitol hill this week. cnn's steve contorno has more.

>> monday kicks off another critical week on capitol hill for donald trump's cabinet picks. it's the last expected week the senators will be in dc before they head home for the holidays. and on sunday, we heard from senator thom tillis of north carolina, who urged donald trump's allies to knock off the pressure campaign, trying to get republican senators on the hill to support his picks blindly. >> pete hegseth had a good week this week on capitol hill. i'm working with kash patel, the members are not really swayed by these. if anything, they could create a structural problem for future nominees if they overreach. but i don't believe that it's coming directly out of mar-a-lago. i think it's coming out of groups. sometimes they're there, they have good behavior. other times they're out there to make some change and and get their name out there. >> trump's pick for defense secretary pete hegseth, will continue meeting with senators this week. it comes after a weekend where he had a public display of support from president elect trump. when the

two appeared side by side at the army-navy football game. and on sunday, south carolina senator lindsey graham revealed that in his conversations with hegseth, hegseth told him that he would release from a nondisclosure agreement a woman who accused him of sexual assault. >> he told me he would release her from that agreement. yeah, i mean, just think about what we're talking about. i'd want to know if anybody nominated for a high level job in washington legitimately assaulted somebody i've known pete for years. i met him in afghanistan. i've heard nothing but good things about his service over there. >> hegseth has denied the accusations, saying it was a consensual encounter. steve contorno cnn, west palm beach, florida republican senator mitt romney says he's standing by his criticism of donald trump's character, but he's acknowledging the president elect's grip on the party. >> romney says mrs. trump and the maga movement now define the gop.

>> maga is the republican party and donald trump is the republican party today. and if you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, i think it will be jd vance. the republican party has become the party of the working class, middle class voter. >> well, another republican, senator, lindsey graham, is pushing back against trump's isolationist stance towards syria. he fears mr. trump's approach could allow terror groups isis to resurface. and that's amid the assad regime's fall. of course, there are 50,000 isis fighters under the control of kurdish allies of the united states in northeastern syria. >> it is in our national security interest. they do not break out of jail and reestablish the caliphate. >> meanwhile, trump's incoming national security adviser suggests that trump intends to keep some military presence in syria to to crush a potential resurgence. the british government has announced a $63 million humanitarian aid

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the civil defense unit stationed in the nusrat refugee camp was targeted while teams were there. >> these teams work around the clock to rescue people. everyone knows that the civil defense organization is a humanitarian body that provides service during both peace and war to civilians, and has no political involvement. the team was directly targeted an al jazeera photojournalist who was covering rescue efforts after an earlier bombing, was amongst those killed. >> al jazeera is condemning the attack. the idf says claims the site was being used as a command center by hamas and islamic jihad terrorists. israeli authorities say an unprecedented number of israelis have been spying for iran. dozens have been arrested over the past year, accused of carrying out missions like photographing military bases and even plotting government assassinations. our jeremy diamond reports on the fallout following the arrest of one alleged cell leader in this low

income building in the city of haifa. >> apartment five looks just as ordinary as every other until you notice the spot where police broke in. israeli authorities say the man who lived here, azis nisanov, was the leader of a group of iranian spies. >> i wasn't surprised, i was shocked. it was like thunder amid clear skies. >> his next door neighbor, leonid gorbachovsky, was home when police pried the door open with a metal bar. he says they turned the place inside out and found piles of cash. israeli police say nisanov led a seven person cell of israelis who gathered intelligence for iran for more than two years and are now awaiting trial, and the haifa seven are allegedly just one cell. israeli authorities say they have uncovered multiple spy rings in recent months. >> if you go check the last years and the last decades, we

can count on two hands. how many people got arrested for this last six months? we have over 30 israeli citizens that got arrested. >> so that's unprecedented. >> yeah, of course. >> superintendent maor goren, who oversaw the investigations, says the arrests foiled multiple assassination plots as well as ongoing intelligence gathering efforts. while some of these alleged iranian spies were accused of plotting to kill senior israeli officials, others had a different task photographing israeli military bases like the nevatim airbase right behind me. and israeli officials say those photographs, that information actually helped the iranians carry out those ballistic missile attacks in april, as well as in october missiles struck nevatim airbase in both of those attacks. and while the base's location is known to iran, police believe zoomed in photos and videos provided additional targeting intelligence.

>> some of them got recruited by the iranians by using the social media. >> many of those telegram messages provided by israel's shin bet security service are wildly unsophisticated. spam style messages offering interesting and exciting jobs that pay a very high salary. in one series of messages provided by the israeli police, an alleged iranian handler writes we just need brave men. are you brave for a lot of money before tasking their mark with buying gasoline and setting off forest fires? >> it worked, and based on the theory of the big numbers, oded ailam, a former top mossad official, says iran is more interested in casting a wide net than in recruiting skilled operatives. >> and they said to. themselves, okay, if we fail here, we'll go to the next one. and they don't really care of the outcome. >> unlike previous iranian intelligence efforts in israel,

which have largely involved palestinian recruits, the majority of those arrested in the last year have been jewish israelis, many of them new immigrants. according to the police. they were also often poor or had criminal histories. people like slava guschin, who lived in this apartment and was allegedly part of the haifa cell for neighbors like riki and moshe, who saw him struggling and had given him food and clothes shock, shock. >> no, no, no one could believe it. >> people here that know him, that also brought him food and everything. they want to kill him. >> a sense of betrayal for the accused spy next door. and iran did not return a request for comment about the spying allegations. as for azis nisanov, the alleged leader of the haifa seven, i spoke to his attorney who did not deny that nisanov photographed these military bases, but said he did not know that he was working for iran. he said that his motives were purely financial and that he did not believe he was harming israel's security.

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