. >> the honorable jin -- jim himes representative from connecticut and mrs. mary hines. >> the honorable anthony bernal and mrs. burnell cox. >> dr. kevin c o'connor and mrs. christine f o'connor. >> dr. justin wolfer's and dr. betsy stevenson. >> mr. jeremy lieu and ms. emily lieu. >> mr. james keogh and ms. celine us. >> the honorable john berry and mr. curtis e. --yee. >> tried to say hello to all the australian mates. >> how are you doing? >> the honorable jeff holland, secretary of the interior and ms. aleta suazo. >> the honorable caroline kennedy ambassador of the united states to australia and dr. edwin schlossberg. >> mr. don gray and mrs. mindy gray. >> the honorable brad cooper and mr. matthew brett. >> the honorable anthony j blinken secretary of state and the honorable ms. evan m ryan. >> ms. valerie biden owens, ms. missy evans and mr. cuff owens. >> the honorable bonnie jenkins in the honorable matthew d stein helfer. >> the honorable katherine clark, united states representative from massachusetts and mr. nathaniel towels. --dowels. >> the hon

joining us now is jim himes of democrat, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee.ood morning. thank you for being here. >> good morning, poppy. >> what do you think president biden needs to achieve on this trip, not only to israel but in the region, to make the risk worth it? weren't i think what president biden is doing same thing that two aircraft carrier strike groups, air wings and secretary of state is doing, which is telling iran and iran's client hezbollah to stay out. nothing says stay out quite as much as the president's presence on the ground. as long as with supporting the israelis and trying to identify the location of the hostages, that's probably their top priority right now. this is a bad situation to begin with. were hezbollah to start launching missiles in force that would be a massive escalation. >> specifically let's say egypt does not play ball and the rafa crossing, nothing changes there. and we just heard mark regev, senior adviser to bb netanyahu saying we may have to when erin asked about a ground invasion. israel said the president coming i

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. >> the honorable jim himes, united states representative from connecticut, and mrs.s. >> the honorable anthony bernal and ms. bernal-cox. >> dr. kevin c. o'connor and mrs. christine o'connor. >> dr. justin wolpers and dr. stevenson. >> mr. jeremy liu, and ms. ellie liu. >> mr. james kio. >> the honorable john berry and curtis yee. >> the honorable holland, secretary of the interior. >> the honorable caroline kennedy, ambassador of the united states to australia, and dr. edwin schlock burn. . >> mr. john gray and mrs. mindy gray. >> the honorable antony j blinken, secretary of state. >> ms. valerie biden owen. >> the honorable bonnie jenkins. >> the honorable katherine clark , united states representative from massachusetts. >> the honorable michael mccaul, united states representative from texas, and mrs. linda mccall. >> i think we will pass our appropriations bill and the israeli -- iran bill, and then the security package. that will be russia's threat to ukraine and europe, china's threat to the pacific, the threat to the middle east, and securing the border. the

on a guy who is primarily a partisan warrior rather than a statesman. >> all right, congressman jim himes, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, jim. >>> and just ahead, more breaking news. we'll take you live to the white house. our coverage continues in just a moment. stay with us. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. wegoes out and to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep

congressman jim himes, thank you for your time tonight. appreciated.ng. and now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o'donnell good evening, lawrence. >> our coverage continues. thank you very much. >> the united states of america has never had a jewish president. or a jewish vice president. no president or vice president has ever been married to a jew. until now. and so today, for the first time, in the 75-year partnership of the united states and israel, the

joining us live here in studio is congressman jim himes, congressman from connecticut. days like this, it is crazy important. nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> do you think that president biden address personal plans to visit israel the day after tomorrow are indicative that there has been some sort of major breakthrough that he wants to be there to take credit for it? or is it something that will hopefully shake loose the diplomatic advance that's we haven't yet seen in. >> i don't think there's anything to celebrate over the contacts i've had over the last week or so at the white house and state department and elsewhere. i think what this is about is indicating his personal and the united states' commitment to keeping this war from getting regional, from getting bigger. two carrier strike groups in the region. the movement of a couple of air wings and the president of the united states visiting not just israel -- if you saw his statement, visiting israel to support israel as we do burks also saying there is a huge difference between palestinians, especially inno

congressman jim himes, thank you for your time tonight.ppreciate it. >> thank you, alex. >> that is our show for this evening. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> this attack was a campaign of pure cruelty. not just hate, pure cruelty against the jewish peop.

joining us now live here in studio as congressman jim himes, democrat of connecticut.the house intelligence committee, which is always important on days like this, and it's crazy important especially. congressman, nice to see you. >> good to see, raiche. >> do you think that president biden's personal plans to visit israel the day after tomorrow are indicative of, there has been some sort of breakthrough that he wants to be there to take credit for? or is he going there for something that will hopefully shake loose those diplomatic investments that we haven't yet seen. >> i don't think there's anything to celebrate just yet, based on the contacts i've had over the last week or so, at the white house, the state department, and elsewhere, i think what this is largely about is just indicating his personal and the u.s.'s commitment to keeping this or from getting regional, from getting bigger. you know, to carrier strike groups in the region, and the movement of a couple of air wings, and the president of the united states visiting not just israel. by the way, if you saw t

. >>> joining us is democratic congressman and ranking member jim himes, i want to ask you about thetional reaction to what we're seeing happening in washington, d.c. but first i want to get your thoughts on whether there is a leader of the republican party that the democrats will be able to work with going forward. >> well, katy, i certainly hope so. you know, nothing works under republican majorities until the democrats step in. this was true on the debt ceiling rescue, the country was going to go into default. it was true less than a week ago, when the entire democratic caucus, save one, voted for the continuing resolution that kept the government open. whoever it is, if they choose to govern exclusively try to corral their very very slim majority, they're not going to be successful in doing that. >> you know, i was asking this yesterday, do you ever see there being a scenario where there is a unity leader, somebody that can cross both aisles and can really work with the center of both parties to get things done. right now, there's so much partisanship, i'm with you or against you

>> i met with him and members of the national security council with the counterpart jim himes at the end of last week and they're talking in terms of a national security package, that is certainly the border, additional funds there for border control, the border barrier, the wall that administration has now said needs to go forward in areas, ukraine. obviously, now that we're dealing with this crisis with israel, bolstering our support for them. also looking in the southeast as to what we might do to support taiwan. as they're putting those together so we don't piecemeal this and look at this as an overall security package it will give us an understanding to have a debate what's needed for this. >> you support bundling all those things together. do you think your fellow republicans will support that? >> at this point we're having a hard time keeping the house floor open. i don't want to have to keep trying to bring people in and convince them to vote for minor pieces of overall security bills that we know are going to have to come to the house floor over the next this year and next.

i want to now go to democratic congressman jim himes. he's standing by on capitol hill. i'm sorry to keep you waiting, sir. i know you were able to listen to the secretary of state. you are the ranking member on the house permanent select committee on intelligence. first, let me get you on something that the secretary of state didn't say there, but he's been asked about before. which is the hostages that are still unaccounted for. as somebody who is the beneficiary of the so-called gang of eight briefings, you get top secret briefings on intelligence, is there any information that you are getting that gives you hope about these hostages? >> it's still too early to tell. we don't know the identities. there are people who are missing. at some point, you assume they have probably been taken hostage. so we don't know enough. what we do know is this is going to be a brutal situation. hamas is not stupid. they will not have consecrated hostages. they will spread them out. they will probably be underground. the bright spot here is the united states has mobilized all of our capa

>> well, my counterpart ranking member jim himes from connecticut, we received a briefing that included conclusions by the administration and the process undertaken to determine that this was not the fault of israel. and both of us concluded, in fact, we released a statement that we ken occur with the administration's conclusion that was not a result of israeli action. >> there is a democratic member of congress who is out there still blaming it on israel and i've heard some members say that she should be briefed and i'm wondering, is there an intelligence briefing being offered to members of congress so that everyone could be informed as to what the latest information is? >> sure. well the administration has done a very good job of pulling together both the leadership in the house, we've been to the meeting with jake sullivan in the national security council and getting their information and getting a briefing from him and plus all of the house of representatives were called in to a briefing where we both had the office of director of national intelligence and the department of defense

and democratic ranking miami jim himes of connecticut. thank you. we appreciate the bipartisan interview. chairman turner, i have to take care of some business first, because obviously it is actually an issue of national security as to whether or not congress has a functioning body. and i want to check in with you on this speaker vote. are you happy with the prospects of a speaker scalise. >> well there is a lot of work that needs to be done. we came out of our conference with 110 votes to take to the house floor. he needs 217. at this point he's working to try to communicate how he could bring the conference together. and there are some of those that are undecided and i'm one of them and there are those that are opposed and he needs to make the case to pull them together. >> why are you undecided if i may ask? >> we needs 217. he's going to have to give us a message or understanding of how he's going to bridge that gap. and make certain that he brings congress together and not divide the republican conference more. that is going to be an important

congressman jim himes, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> israel now pounding gaza with another wave of airstrikes. we will speak to an american doctor in gaza city on medical mission to treat children when hamas launched its attack. now she is talk in gaza city and trying to get out. stay with us. >>> we have a veryh toll to report. the israelis embassy telling the united states that more than 1,000 people have been killed in israel since hamas attacked on saturday and happening right now air raid sirens sounding all around israel. moments ago jeremy diamond had to take cover as the iron dome intercepted rockets just above him. watch this. >> we are hearing the sirens going off indicating that rocket fire is coming in from gaza. we have yet to hear those iron dome interceptions yet. they should be coming momentarily. that is particularly the cadence you here into these types of situations. we are going to pause for -- here it is. that was the iron dome intercepting. you can see some of the smoke there, left. left from those iron dome intercepts up in the air. >> th

congressman jim himes, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you, alex. >> that is our show for this evening. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> this attack was a campaign of pure cruelty. not just hate, pure cruelty against the jewish people. and i would argue it's the deadliest day for jews since the holocaust, the deadliest day since the holocaust. one of the worst chapters in human history that remind us all from that expression i learned from my dad early on, silence is complicity. >> that's president biden with more emotional remarks on the deadly attacks in israel, delivering that speech yesterday while hosting jewish leaders at the white house. we'll have the latest on the war and the biden administration's efforts to find missing americans in just a moment. plus, we'll go through new reporting on the massacre by hamas as it appears that iran, the terror group's main backer may have been left in the dark. >>> and also ahead, an update from capitol hill on the ongoing speaker's race. repub

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congressman jim himes, thank you for your time tonight. appreciated. that is our show for this evening. and now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o'donnell good evening, lawrence. the>> our coverage continues. thank you very much. >> the united states of america has never had a jewish president. or a jewish vice president. no president or vice president has ever been married to a jew. until now. and so today, for the first time, in the 75-year partnership of the united states and israel, the president of the united states, at a time of grave danger to israel, was introduced to an audience of american jewish leaders by the jewish spouse of the vice president of the united states. . >> the vice president and i are outraged with this horrific terrorist attack perpetrated by hamas. with broken hearts we are sending our love, our strength, and our unwavering support to the people of israel. i am honored to be with all of you today as an american, as a patriot who loves this country, but also as a jew. the story of the jewish people has always been

i'm joined by congressman jim himes, democrat from connecticut. thanks for being with me. we've talked many times. i never thought it would be a circumstance exactly like the one we're in now. we br ten minutes away from what we are told is this meeting of the entire gop conference. are you hearing anything from any of your gop colleagues, people that you talk to, about what the heck they expect to go on in that meeting? >> i'm not, erin. i'll tell you, in the moment on the floor when it was all over, i mean, it was as though a bomb had gone off in the room. nobody knew what was next. i've seen a couple of my friends on the other side of the aisle since then in the gym and elsewhere. they are just bewildered. i think there's a realization dawning on my republican colleagues that they may have an unmanageable conference. if the management does what speaker mccarthy -- ex-speaker mccarthy tried to implement, which is sort of give everything that is asked for to the maga extreme, it becomes untenable. so i think they've got some fundamental structural issues to work out, beca

joining us, the chair and vice chair of the house intelligence committee, mike turner and jim himes.st of all, it's wonderful to see a bipartisan interview. it doesn't always happen. your committee is unusual. we are grateful for that. mr. chairman, can you tell us what you have learned that you can disclose about the situation in the north where there's now an alert from the idf and concerns that the hezbollah could open a second front from lebanon? >> sure. you are correct on the aspect of bipartisanship. not only do we work together, jim and i on a bipartisan basis, there's overwhelming bipartisan support for israel in congress. that was evident today as we had the briefing. members voicing their support for israel. the concern everyone has is to what extent was iran directly involved? the thing that we should never lose perspective of is hamas is a franchise of iran. they fund them. they provide them rockets. they provide them munitions. they train them. the question really is perfunctory as to whether they directly were participating. we know that they are an arm of iran. this d

joining us now republican congressman mike turner of ohio and congressman jim himes of connecticut.ou. do we see an end in sight in terms of the ability to get a speaker in place so the house can play a prominent role in these important international events? >> sure we have to get a speaker and get our job done. there's nothing that evidences more the need for the house to be functioning again other than this spending bill. they're looking at a quad bill. obviously we have our own border security that needs additional funding. they're looking at asia itself and what we could do there to assist in taiwan and other security issues and then also israel and ukraine. putting it all together makes it a national security focused bill. we hope it gains momentum. >> congressman himes, same question. what keeps you up at night in terms of what the house could or couldn't be doing without a speaker? >> the chairman and i have worked in tandem together in a bipartisan fashion. it's hard to see the house brought to a standstill. i hope we can get our act together. it's not just the national secu

that resolution has gotten pushed back, including from other democrats like congressman jim himes.spoke about that on cnn. >> i understand the instinct, but calling for a cease fire is like calling for the united states to stand down and do a cease fire on september 12th, 2001. >> the organization says it's also focusing on the safety of its community and calls on local leaders to do the same. we are continuing to keep you updated on what's happening in israel, gaza and here at home. you can find the latest updates at abc7 news.com. and by downloading the abc7 bay area app to get breaking news alerts and live streams. >> coming up, local drag queens uniting today after a mural is defaced in san francisco. >> then a car somehow, someway way ends up in a trash compactor . >> and we've got weather coming up. should i walk over here and show you what's happening? we are going to have a much cooler day today than we had yesterday. temperatures are going to be about 20 degrees cooler. i'll give you a yeah, there's a lot of risk out there. huh ♪ hey, is this thing hard to learn? nah, it's

the resolution has gotten pushback, including from other democrats, as seen here by congressman jim himes, who spoke about the resolution on cnn. i understand the instinct, but calling for a cease fire is like calling for the united states to stand down and do a cease fire on september 12th, 2001. kerr says it finds any pushback to the resolution shocking. but along with concerns over the war in support for the resolution, the organization says it's also focusing on the safety of its community and calls on local leaders to do the same. >> it says we observe dangerous rhetoric that continues to dehumanize palestinians and muslims and which leads to a rise in anti-muslim incidents targeting students, employees and everyday muslims in their homes and on the street. everyone deserves to be safe. >> zach fuentes, abc, abc7 news. >> we've been through a lot, but the city by the bay always perseveres. >> there's a new campaign looking to build a better bay area by seeking to change the perception of san francisco. so you'll see who's behind it. >> today was supposed to be the great california sh

the resolution has gotten pushback, including from other democrats like congressman jim himes. he spoke about that on cnn. >> i understand the instinct, but calling for a cease fire is like calling for the united states to stand down and do a cease fire on september 12th, 2001, the organization says it's also focusing on the safety of its community and calls on local leaders to do the same. >> we're continuing reporting in israel, gaza and here at home. you can find the latest updates anytime at abc7 news .com download the abc7 bay area app and you'll get breaking news alerts and live stream updates. >> get ready for a warm and wet winter in northern california. that is the forecast from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. >> we are favoring above normal precipitation, but it's hard to necessarily say how much actual precip will drawing over the winter. so we do think it will be wetter than normal in your area. >> and that means temperatures might also be warmer than average thanks to an el nino pattern that is settling in across the country. >> bring on the el

democrats congressman jim himes from connecticut is the ranking member on the house intelligence committeed a classified briefing on the matter. >> we did see cyber activity on the part of not just hamas actors, but but other sympathizers of hamas. it is painful even to say it, but there the objective here was to inflict the maximum number of casualties on innocent civilian. >> some of the groups that are targeting israel have a history targeting the us, california and even parts of the bay area, including two russian based groups called anonymous sudan and killnet. that managed to hack into the systems at the oakland airport just six months ago. according to the company. these groups are trying to take down emergency websites and applications like israel's red alert app that warns civilians about incoming missiles being launched in their neighborhood and in other instances, messing says hackers are working with hamas to terrorize digital billboard. >> as we have seen, one day, a very known billboard company here in israel with billboards in tel aviv in the center of israel, they managed t