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joining me now top democrat on the house intelligence committee congressman jim himes.o much for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so contradictory statements can erode public trusts and that could be what's happening in the government. here is a congresswoman. >> i don't believe that the united states of america, with its military capabilities, does not know what these objects are. and what i'm asking and what we are all asking is for you to be straight with us and just tell us what is going on. >> the white house is saying there's no evidence of a national security or public safety threat, no sign of criminal activity or malicious intent or foreign involvement but also they don't know what these systems are and they don't know who is operating them or why or what they are capable of and those messages are inherently incompatible. do you believe the relevant federal agencies are really unable to answer these questions or are they just unwilling to answer them and do you think the government actually knows what they are dealing with here? >> there's a lot of us th

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you know, jim himes from connecticut, as he was doing the fisa. thorization, never spoke with the president. that was one of the most the biggest legislative pieces of this of this past year. or jim or excuse me, adam smith, just before the afghanistan withdrawal, desperately wanted to talk to the president but was unable to. and i think with any one individual you can say, well, okay, maybe the president doesn't like adam smith, or maybe he doesn't like jim himes. but when you're looking at such a broad, so many broad categories of people, a pattern emerges. >> well, and i think it might be worth noting or explaining for people who aren't as familiar. i mean, under different or more normal circumstances, these committee chairs would have the opportunity to talk to a president. >> yes, absolutely. i mean, democratic committee chairs, um, as you're going in, you know, making a major policy shift in afghanistan, i would think normally and they would have expect to talk to the president, particularly the chairman of the armed services committee, who h

brothers, the friends of sadat's relatives whose lives really will never be the connecticut congressman jim himes says the progress made against gun violence is because of these advocates, survivors and families of victims would not have found the strength having lost a child. >> to turn that into something good to turn it into advocacy turned that into the demands that someone else's child might not suffer the same set of same fate that you connecticut senator chris murphy helped pass a bipartisan gun bill 2 years ago. >> and promises to do more. not a single one of us is going to rest until there is not a single shooting in a city anywhere across this country that our kids are safe wherever they go from a church to a shopping mall to a school reporting in washington. i'm basil, john. >> police are questioning the prominent family of the man charged with gunning down the united healthcare ceo in new york city. authorities want to understand what luigi mangione is. relatives knew as the massive manhunt was underway at the time of his arrest on monday, a notebook was found with the 26 year-old pol

-china relations under the incoming trump administration with kinetic congressman jim himes and others. it's cohosted by the brookings institution and the center for strategic and international studies. live coverage at 11:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2, c-span now our free mobile app or online at c-span.org. >> since 1979 in partnership with the cable industry, c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress, from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, party briefings and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front row seat to other issues are debated and decided with no commentary, no interruption, and completely unfiltered. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> we are joined by professor emeritus at university of maryland pocky but the incoming administration and economic policy. good morning to. >> good morning. >> how would you say the core beliefs of the incoming message when comes to economic policy? what would you say those are? >> they are certainly populist. in some a summer to the biden administration. have this the stalls about manufactu

joining me to talk about that is congressman jim himes is the ranking member the house intelligence committee great to see you and thank you for joining me. i want to ask you, last week elon musk through the house into a tailspin, as we watched and as you watched being there. he has been called, he clearly has power over the republican caucus and he has the ear of the president elect and he has a lot of government contracts. how concerned are you about how he could use this proximity to power and his influence to benefit himself financially? >> yeah, i mean very concerned. a guy of his wealth is going to have not just a certain amount of obeisance and admiration in the white house, chiefly by the president elect, and by the republican conference. they are conscious of the fact the president loves this guy and he spent 220 million or whatever, to help elect trump in their conscious he has the president's dear andy owns x so he could work light up a member of a group of members. a new carnival of crazy and what is already a pretty crazy conference. to your point of conflicts of interest, a guy

congressman jim himes will be stopping by to talk about all of it. that's coming up tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern. for now, stay right where you are because there's much more news coming up on msnbc. >>> on this new hour of ayman, republicans will soon control government yet the party is fighting into how much it's allowed to hate trump, if not forever. >> matt gaetz wants a job after his report of misdeeds are set to be damming. and reported to be dropping any moment. >>> my conversation with an officer who is on the ground inside gaza. i'm ayman, let's do it. >>> he's been hell bent on revenge. brett stevens recently published a piece about those republicans titled done with never trump. never trumpers are republicans who vow to oppose trump at every turn to protect democracy and the true conservative values of their republican party. one of the most prominent voices congresswoman liz cheney who endorsed kamala harris. stevens argues that it's time for her to give up the resistance and give trump a chance. as a never trumper, he admitted trump is d

the top democrat jim himes disagrees saying there is no reason to believe that.ublican not totally supportive of gabbard. >> i differ a great deal in a number of areas with her judgment and her background and experience. but what i do trust is the senate's process and i think the senators are going to put her through a process. >> trump's pick to head the f.b.i. is on the hill today kash patel. pete hegseth is, too. he is set to have a second meeting with senator joni ernst. back live, bill, on sunday trump told nbc that he still has confidence in hegseth. also dismissing those reports of him having a drinking problem saying he has been told it's not true. >> pete hegseth will be the guest of sean hannity tonight in prime time. >> dana: kayleigh mcenany, co-host of outnumbered. one of the senators who had questions of pete hegseth is joni ernst. >> i think for a number of our senators want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared and that's why we have to have a very thorough vetting process. all i will say at this time is that we did have a very thoro

to a filtrate american telecom companies instill data from phone calls house intel ranking member jim himes most pervasive reach we've seen oregon centered around why didn't introduced a new bill with the fcc to set cybersecurity standard for telecom companies writing it was inevitable that foreign hackers would burrow deep into the communication system the moment the fcc decided to but from copies write their own cybersecurity rules, what did you make of the briefing yesterday, can the fcc stop the hacks and i want to point out china is not just an telecom system, they are also throughout business you look at alarm companies they are chinese cameras that are being used at major alarm companies. >> absolutely there's a reason we are trying to get china to sell the ownership of tiktok to a private entity. we know that china is using it to collect data from americans, china is looking in the phone records listening to the conversations, acquiring the metadata of americans and many in washington including the harris and trump campaign. we need the telecom company here in america to actually be

and representative jim himes, who you just a heard from, also told fox news that he's confident theseone sightings are not linked to a foreign adversary like china or iran. but during yesterday's briefing with senior officials, we also learned that the confirmed drone sightings in some cases over military installations here in new jersey, in those cases the government doesn't know who is operating the drones. mike, back to you. mike: c.b. cotton live in elizabeth, new jersey, this banks. >> -- many thanks. mike: let's start with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, and i'll get you to react. >> there's 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. >> reporter: mr. mayor, are you getting the information you need from the department of homeland security? >> we are not. i mean, it's been four days since ab -- an unprecedented meeting with every single mayor of new jersey to be

this jim himes last thing on this. he just came out of this briefing. in new jersey, connecticut, anywhere they are being sighted are federal government operations, they are saying that and we assure reasonable doubt they are not federal government operations to radiation, gas recovery, anything else. they remain committed to their message zero evidence of laws being broken and these drones, they are cut and dry, josh. >> potential national security or secrecy that the government always kind of protects versus the need to know and the fact that there is not a whole lot of transparency. stories john kirby watching he didn't give a whole lot of information, the lawmakers on both sides that have gotten more concerned when they get these briefings, so i will say though watching donald trump's press conference. that might have been the most reassuring moment of the week where he seemed to suggest this is nothing to worry about and it could be our own lawful aircraft. >> bret: let's shift to the trump transition as he talks about that first term everybody was

. >> joining me now is jim himes of connecticut. the house intelligence committee. congressman, to be frank, i noticed olivia's posting because it was reposted by senator murphy from connecticut. so, you know, there is a notice among those who have to vote on his confirmation, that kash patel is going after people who criticize him. what's your reaction? >> not at all surprised, right? so, you know, i worked with kash patel when he was a member of the republican staff working for devin nunez and he was distinguished mainly by his willingness to say and do anything to support donald trump. even if it was fan tas cal stuff. that's why he's been given this position. absolutely no law enforcement experience. and you know, you played the clip, right, a commitment to deeply, deeply unconstitutional ideas. so i don't know if this particular nomination is worse than the matt gaetz nomination or better, but it is something that should cause senators, if they have any self-respect, to say advice and consent means nothing if kash patel is conf

. >> that's the ranking member of the house intel committee, jim himes after the panel was briefed yesterdayalking to reporters, president biden noted that was nothing for citizens to be concerned about, while adding that the government is, of course, looking into the matter. we shall keep you posted. >>> time now for business, and for that let's bring in cnbc's silvia amaro who joins us live from london. good morning, silvia. so the dow made history yesterday and not a kind it's happy about. it logged its longest losing streak in nearly 50 years. tell us about that and how the market's shaping up in these early morning hours. >> right, good morning, john. well, at this stage futures suggest it could be a slightly positive start to the trade day on wall street, but all in all futures do suggest that we are seeing a cautious approach within the investment community as we await to hear from the federal reserve later today. this, however, comes indeed after a very interesting session on wall street on tuesday. as you noted there, the dow posted its longest daily losing streak since 1978. howeve

congressman jim himes of connecticut to one of the states where drones have been spotted, doubling down that these drones are not foreign adversaries or even aliens. people will fill a vacuum with, you know, their fears and anxieties and conspiracy theories. i know with with confidence it is not the iranians. it is not the chinese. they aren't martians. i know that's very unsatisfying for people who want a hollywood movie out of this. >> but a growing number of lawmakers are calling for people to shoot the drones down, including the inooming president trump posting on truth. social quote, mystery drone sightings all over the country. can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? i don't think so. let the public know and now otherwise shoot them down and his incoming national security adviser, republican congressman mike waltz saying drone issue points out are kind of gaps in our agencies gaps in our authorities. >> between the department of homeland security, local law enforcement, the defense department. and we need to take a hard look at our homeland defenses. presi

congressman jim himes will be stopping by to talk about all of it.blicans will soon control government yet the party is fighting into how much it's allowed to hate trump, if not forever. >> matt gaetz wants a job after his report of

brothers, the friends of >> has relatives whose lives really will never be the connecticut congressman jim himesagainst gun violence is because of these advocates, survivors and families of victims would not have found the strength having lost a child. >> to turn that into something good. turning into advocacy, turned that into the demands that someone else's child might not suffer the same set of same fate that you connecticut senator chris murphy helped pass a bipartisan gun bill 2 years ago. >> and promises to do more. not a single one of us is going to rest until there is not a single shooting in a city anywhere across this country that our kids are safe wherever they go from a church to a shopping mall to a school reporting in washington. i'm basil, john. >> senators are trying to get the house to pass a bill that would boost privacy and safety for kids online. but house republican leaders are resisting those efforts. the kids online safety act intends to give children and parents e% better tools to protect them online. it also plans to hold big tech accountable for threats in dangerous con

committee received a classified briefing on the drone sightings and directly afterward ranking member jim himesr is there evidence the drone operators are for an act is. at the same time, himes also said the culprit is not the fed goes. >> we spend a lot of time in this hearing asking the question in every way imaginable, as to whether or not any of these sightings in new jersey and connecticut, anywhere they are being cited, our federal government operations, and they are not. we are sure and we asked this question over and over again, they are not federal government operations to sniff radiation, gas recovery, anything else. >> joining me now is congressman mikey cheryl, who is a democrat of new jersey. she's also recently announced she's running for governor of that state. congresswoman, it's great to have you here. i am eager to get your thoughts on this. everyone saying nothing to see here but there is maybe everything to see here. do you think the public is going to get any access to the declassified information that has made some congresspeople feel so confident that this is not an alien

>> so first i think jim himes who i know you had up previously said it well, he is the ranking membergence committee and what he says we can take to the bank that this is not iran or china trying to attack the united states, but the public does deserve more information and faster. i'm a member of the transportation committee, alex, as you said and last congress as we were reauthorizing the federal aviation administration i was working with the nfl and in particular gillette stadium and the patriots in my district to delegate more authority and more intelligence about unmyofascial bands aerial systems to the level of stadium operators and state police so they can respond more quickly to drone incursions because we are in this phase transition in the skies where it used to be that drones were relatively rare if i had and expensive piece of equipment that only governments would have or corporations would have. now ponce of people have them. our mentality has to change. it can't just be the faa, we have to delegate to state and local actors so there is more information and more authority

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mark preston jim himes, i think was one of the interesting ones to me because he's the, you know, ranking member on the intelligence community. let's listen to a little bit more of what he said about who this is or isn't. take a look it is not the iranians. >> it is not the chinese. they aren't martians. i know that's very unsatisfying for people who want a hollywood movie out of this. i can say that because i spent all my time as the ranking member of the intelligence committee, watching what the iranians and the chinese do. and, you know, what they don't do is put a bunch of drones that we could easily recover over the continental united states. >> so there you have that. now, that said, he still says this isn't enough. we don't know enough. they're not saying enough. >> i mean, i don't know what to say. i mean, i thought it was the chinese, the russians, and i certainly thought it was martians as well. no, no, i will say this. he, um, the way that he he addressed it is in like, very clear terms right up to this point. even earlier, like an hour ago, you had a great interview with the f

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