so yes, we do need a cisa.e probably need a cisa that's envisioned differently than the last two presidential administrations have aligned it. >> sir, i, you know, cisa is essential both because it has unique sets of authorities and resources to tackle this problem. only it has the, the authorities necessary to move the federal government in terms of protection of the .gov, in terms of providing both capabilities to agencies and helping departments and agencies across the government move to a more common baseline. i think we have seen with congressional support in terms of authorities and resources. that since the solar winds attack in 2020, there has been a remarkable change in the degree of, of, of protection and security we have of our federal networks. i think as you look to the private sector again, cisa's unique authorities in terms of engaging with industry to be able to have protected conversations serve as a focal point, working with other sector risk management agencies. those are unique authorities,

and officials from both the fbi and cisa are now working to measure the impact of the treasury incident. a chinese embassy spokesperson called the disclosure a smear attack. nicole sganga, cbs news, washington. >> all right, thanks, nicole. >>> well, when the new congress convenes on friday, republicans will be in control of both the house and the senate. but that's no guarantee of harmony on capitol hill. there is still a potential battle over who will be speaker of the house, something president-elect donald trump is hoping to avoid. cbs' erica brown reports from washington. >> reporter: mar-a-lago will be packed with a who's who from capitol hill for president-elect donald trump's annual new year's bash. >> happy new year. >> reporter: it's unclear whether house speaker mike johnson will be in attendance. but trump delivered a late christmas gift to johnson monday when he endorsed him to be the speaker of the house in the new congress. >> i'm really humbled and honored to have president trump's endorsement for speaker again. >> reporter: but even with trump's endorsement, johnson may

cisa needs to be much more effective, smaller, more nimble to really fulfill their mission, which is to hunt and to help harden our nation's critical infrastructure. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, senator scott. >> governor noem, congratulations on your nomination. thank you. i think you're going to do a great job. um, i think it's great that you're a governor and you bring, you know, bring that expertise to the table. so i just went through the campaign to get reelected, and it was after the butler shooting. i asked people, i said all my events. they say, raise your hand if you think the acting director of the secret service is going to tell us what happened. not one person. i said, what about secretary mayorkas? you know, he's running hhs. what do you think our homeland security. what do you think? i said? how about christopher wray, you know, head of the fbi? not one person. can you just talk about in the importance of transparency and accountability in government and how you're going to bring that to the table? >> yeah. senator scott, thank you for that question, because tha

ina has some interactions but not enough and we also need to have cisa with the f.b.i., c.i.a. to stop these types of threats and identify when they're growing among our citizens. sen. blumenthal: my time has expired. this area of questioning is supremely important. i know there's a lot of focus on the border. we all want more border security. we want to stop migrant crime. but let's not take our eye off the ball. the governor of louisiana for the super bowl ought to be really riveted on the potential for homegrown terrorism as a threat. and i hope that you will help him and other governors to do their duty to protect the people of the united states from that homegrown terrorist threat. thank you. gov. noem: i look forward to it. >> governor noem, thank you for being here today and i want to thank you for your continuing service. the service that you had as a at you have displayed as arvice governor of the great state of south dakota, our neighbor to the northwest. and for being willing to step up and take on this immense responsibility. we talk about fixing our immigration sys

cisa needs to be much more effective. smaller, more nimble to fulfill their mission, to hunt and help harden our nation's critical infrastructure. >> thank you. >> senator scott. >> congratulations on your nomination. i think you will do a great job. i think it's great you are a governor and you bring that expertise to the table. so i just went through a campaign to get reelected. after the butler shooting i asked people. i said raise your hand if you think the acting director of the secret service will tell us what happened? not one person. i said what about secretary mayorkas? he is running hhs, what do you think? homeland security? what do you think? i said how about christopher wray? the head of the f.b.i., not one person. can you just talk about the importance of transparency and accountability in government and how you will bring that to the table? >> yeah. senator scott, thank you for that question. that's what i found across the country as well and i know it's true in my home state of south dakota. people don't tr

not politicize disaster funding under fema, which is also under her management, and insisted that cisaission, misdirecting its resources. that's a controversial shift. it's her position on the border and immigration that many americans were waiting to hear. but she's really not going to be in charge of that. >> and that's exactly what andy, kim, andrea, who is the most junior democrat on that panel, was pushing her on because, of course, we all know that tom homan is going to be the border czar. >> so in that case, what is kristi noem's role here? and i think it's important to point out that there were some questions about her qualifications for this role. she has never worked in law enforcement. she is obviously not from a border state. she's never handled immigration and border policies. >> and so when you have someone like tom homan, who has the experience to lead on that, that calls that very issue into question. >> i will say, though, i think in terms of the hearing, she does have support on the republican side of the aisle. she made it extremely clear that, of course, she's going

>> senator the mission of cisa, a cybersecurity and infrastructure agency, the mission is to hunt andarden and find the bad actor asks work with local and state infrastructure, critical infrastructure entities to help them be prepared for such cyber attacks and that nay can make sure they're hardening their systems to protect them in the future recognizing the vulnerables they have. cissa has gotten far off mission and being pro paired for the cyber attacks and it was a campaign of espionage by the prc in china against the telecoms where large amount of datas was stolen and taken and>> thank you. >> thank you. >> senator, you'll do a great job and you bring that expertise to the table. and so i just went to the campaign to get reelected and talk about in the importance of transparency and accountability in government and how you're going to bring that to the table? the threats and agencies and departments and going for failures and addressing them and fixing it and secret service is one of the perfect examples and they need leadership that there's two license plates that the secret se

cisa needs to be much more effective, smaller, more nimble to really fulfill their mission, which isl infrastructure. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, senator scott. >> governor noem, congratulations on your nomination. thank you. i think you're going to do a great job. thank you. i think it's great that you're a governor and you bring, you know, bring that expertise to the table. so i just went through the campaign to get reelected. and it was after the butler shooting. i asked people, i said had all my events. i'd say, raise your hand if you think the acting director of the secret service is going to tell us what happened, not one person, i said, what about secretary mayorkas? you know, he's running hhs. what do you think? our homeland security. what do you think? >> i said? how about christopher wray, you know, head of the fbi? >> not one person. can you just talk about in the importance of transparency and accountability in government and how you're going to bring that to the table? >> yeah. senator scott, thank you for that question, because that's what i have found across th

. >> from cisa.and infrastructure agency that trump has criticized because he thinks that they put their finger too hard. >> on. >> the wait when it came to judging what was misinformation. >> around the 2020 election. he's also looking at pulling from the coast guard. that's often a place where money gets dragged. >> from during. >> tough budget times at dhs. so some. >> of this is just to show. how big this operation. >> is, but how. >> little funding they actually have to pull it off. and especially as you. >> look at these plans. >> to come. >> we understand they want. >> to do. >> three all hands on deck cities every week where they pull in lots of law enforcement agencies from across d.o.j. like the marshals and atf. but then when they. don't have the manpower. >> they're going to. >> be doing things in smaller cities. so you will still. >> hear of raids in. >> places like los angeles. >> and the d.c. area. >> but what happens is these are the places they really want to make that show. like wha