. >> ainsley: lucas tomlinson is here with the latest. >> lucas: good morning.te a dozen of sightings of drones in the skies over new jersey and staten island, pentagon northern command peterson air force pace in colorado, home of norad, they say they have not been tasked to identify these things. governor murphy wants answers from the white house behind me. >> there was wild ascertation by congressman van drew about iran with a big boat -- >> mothership. whatever that means. >> come on, man, zero evidence to that effect. fbi said zero evidence, not sure what he has been watching, might want to uch wa it is news. will be on with the white house tomorrow. folks, you are frustrated, so are we, this is our top priority. >> lucas: new jersey congressman jeff van drew made theseim clas talking about claiming these drones are coming from offshore. >> these drones should be shot down. whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine or whether it is iran and i think it very possible could be. they should be shot down. we're not getting the full deal and militar

lucas tomlinson is live in washington with more. hi, lucas. >> lucas: good morning.lawmakers they have no idea what is flying in the sky over new jersey. >> we don't know what the hell the drones are in new jersey are, is that correct? >> that's right. >> that is crazy. that is crazy. that is madness that we don't know what the drones are. >> lucas: new video from chester, new jersey, the nation lacks capability dating back to cold war. a dozen mysterious drone sightings across new jersey and staten island and bedminster. it began in mid-november, most recent a few days ago. here is more from the hearing on capitol hill yesterday. >> i have a limited capability that is embedded within our emerging threats unit for surveillance issues. that allocation of resources, that research, that operational deployment of our capability is what we have today. >> lucas: some lawmakers want to make sure china is not involved in the drone sightings. >> we must consider all appropriate action to ensure chinese communist party are not using drones to relay sensitive information back t

leanne lucas was injured in the attack and though the trauma feels fresh, she's found the strength toa million pieces. the yoga teacher was at a recent vigil to remember women and girls who've lost their lives to male violence. raise your voice and share your stories. often, we don't realise how powerful we are. 13 people were stabbed, including three little girls, bebe, elsie and alice, who were killed. i don't know why our three beautiful girls were taken that day, but what i do know is we have the power to ensure their sparkles live on forevermore. in recent years, there have been several high—profile cases here on merseyside involving violent crime against women and girls, from the shootings of olivia pratt—korbel, ashley dale and ellie edwards, to the stabbings in southport. those who campaign to support women in the area say it's empowering to hear from those who've been directly affected. tomorrow's women is a charity which offers support to those facing a variety of issues, like sandy, who sang at the vigil and heard leanne lucas speak. it's so brave and courageous. i admire p

rich. >> okay, lucas tomlinson live for us, covering the president in saint croix. lucas. thank you. molly. >> jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states, has passed away at the age of 100. the hundreds of dignitaries, world leaders and officials now sending their condolences, sharing their memories of the former president. our coverage continues after a short break. we will be right back. >> i would hope that the nations of the world might say that we had built a lasting, peace based not on weapons of war, but on international policies which reflect our own most precious values. these are not just my goals, and they will not be my accomplishments, but the affirmation of our nation's continuing moral strength and our belief in an undiminished, ever expanding american dream. >> who knows what tomorrow will bring? but as for me, i'll wait and see. my love to me. >> who knows, who knows? >> i had the worst dream last night. you were in a car crash and the kids and i were on our own. that's awful. on. my brother was saying he got life insurance from ethos, and he go

sandy, who's been coming here for years, sang at the vigil, and heard leanne lucas speak.at. for it to be recent, to happen to her, and then to stand up in front of those people, and to let people know that there is help out there, as well. merseyside has seen some of the highest rates of violence against women and girls in england — 74 have been killed since 2009. another charity which supported the vigil believes that keeping the issue in the public eye is vital. the names i've read of all the women that have lost their lives, and each year, those names are growing. it's really important that we do come together regularly to remember those women — those women should never be forgotten. violence against women and girls has been described as a national emergency. 0n merseyside, the police say they're putting women's voices at the heart of the fight against it. and next month, for the first time, liverpool willjoin other cities taking part in a series of women's marches. judith moritz, bbc news, liverpool. many people will be looking forward to seeing family and friends thi

luca. to live with and also kind of an uncle or i don't know how to, you know, call him, but that cares about her and loves her. it's kind of a new, uh, role. am i holding luca's hand? yes. nice. we're all holding hands. 0h. that's lovely. what's your future plans then together? is it going to continue in the long term? yeah. it briefly talked about next steps which would be put the little ones in their own room. yeah. upgrade. not change. yeah. nice. and sometimes when my daughter asked me if, if can we can we live together forever. uh, soifeel like, oh, no. i have two yellows and you have two yellows as well. after going over to simone and lenart�*s today, i came away with such a warm feeling. they've created such a lovely space for their children and the way that they were talking about their kids and their relationship together as well. it was really special. i win, you win. idid it. it reminded me of how my mum—une wasjust as lovely and how dealing with my parents' divorce was balanced

our team is fitting marine biologist lucas miller. with a hidden camera. ready, ready? the market halls are guarded fine array of fences, surveillance cameras, port police, and security officials. all designed to keep an authorized people out ruler is going to try to sneak in. it's the only way he can document the quantities of shark that are being sold here. on in, in part 2000, the queen and portugal had the world's biggest shock fishing fleet song operating in the atlantic and other oceans the state. because this is one of the world's biggest chart trade. how do i know that goes on? sucks that so that we make contact with the local industry insider who wants to remain anonymous. he's scoping out the area to let lou customer not know what to watch out for. meanwhile, beulah and reporter, po, niga track which boats have entered the port that sometimes shift. these are 3 fishing boats that arrived yesterday and when by dean, by those 2 are what we call long liners on each side. they catch tuna sort of tension on sharpener of ships. there's boons of hi site. so that mean

lucas tomlinson is like in washington with the latest on the mysterious drone sightings. >> lucas: that is right, across the u.s. government, getting the sailor salute, nobody knows what is flying over new jersey and staten island. the pentagon says it is not ours or hostile powers. >> these are not u.s. military drones, this is being victoried by local law enforcement. initial assessment, these are not drones or activities from foreign entity org advergsary. >> lucas: new jersey congressman jeff van drew made this claim. >> i've gotten to know people and from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources, i'm going to tell you the real deal. iran launched a mother ship probably about a month ago that contains these drones. they have launched drones is everything we can see or hear and these are from high sources, i don't say lightly. >> lucas: swift rebuttal from new jersey governor phil murphy. >> there was wild assertation by congressman van drew about a mother ship. >> whatever that means. >> dod says zero evidence and fbi said zero evidence, not sure what he h

lucas. reporter: mike, white house says president biden will be addressing the nation from the roosevelt room here at the white house at 10:00 to talk about the developing situation in syria. now, last night at the reagan national defense forum in california, biden's national security adviser, jake sullivan, spoke about syria hours before the down fall of the assad re-sheik. regime. >> assad backers, iran, russia and hezbollah, have all been weakened and distracted and so he has not had the support from those three actors that he expected to be able to count on and those going on the line. it's been very weak and acting on them and we acts like they're strong and language about deescalation and president trump understands he used to say to me, everywhere i look with the problems, there's arab and he's worried about that. reporter: french president emmanuel macron reacting to the down fall and creating syria according to worl world war i ai pay tribute to the syrian people and kurds and patri

lucas tomlinson at the white house. >> lucas: this story issic taking on national attention after thatnt complex taken over by venezuelan gang and now according to epiradios, up to 19 suspects have been taken into custody after allegedly torturing a couple, kidnapped them and took them to another apartment where they were pistol beaten. the woman's fingernails were ripped off and the man was stabbed. americans say they want strong borders and a new border bill is picking up support in the senate, they want it passed from democrats in arizona and michigan joining in. as this graphic shows, two million migrants have arrived in the southern border this year and every year president biden has been in office, this immigration surge is largest in american history, guys. president trump wants to launch largest deportation in history to fix it. tom homan talked about the cost he said is worth it. >> 86 billion, what price do you put on young women that have been murdered and raped in this country, or on the lives of little girls, numerous cases, what price do you put on national security? reco

again, that's a luca trend to associate professor of international relations. many. thanks you, sir. thank you. serious airports have reopened for domestic flights. for the 1st time since the fall of the government of bush, all of a sudden the 1st flight was operated by national carry a syrian air. it took off from damascus and landed in the left of its own clear when international flights will resume officials or calling for sanctions to be lifted to allow the aviation sector to function properly. the dramatic fall of the assad regime in syria is still sending shock waves throughout the region. multiple countries have back different factions inside the country. here's a look at the international winners and losers. as the dust settles rebels from the higher perio i've shot, or h t. s group taking over serious capital, damascus spring celebration in some parts of the world and silence and others. one big winters, so far as turkey and it's president richard type air to one long, a major supporter of h t s and others. so the most of them opposition groups. turkey is al

that targets plans from san lucas. the calabria in village also paid a central road in the feeder operation. the 14 men were arrested in germany alone. this time, it was about international cocaine trafficking from south america through european ports. 4 tons of cocaine were confiscated. and once again, the trail led back to efforts the fight against the and drank it to became a joint endeavor. a joint investigation team for it was set top which allowed information to flow faster and more directly. they will start to use involved good sit together at one table. fully no marks of tanning points in european police work in germany. this of course, was in the state of north rhine westphalia. there might have been since he could. we now understand how our italian colleagues work, and in particular we become closer collaborators. it started with the do sport motors and then continued through various operations such as pulling on it's very important to understand the legal system of our italian colleagues. and to incorporate

now russell lucas is a professor for international relations at michigan state university in the united states. he spoke to us earlier about why he thinks that he arrived yet wants to host the woke up. i, i think the goal is prestige that saudi arabia is trying to reinforce its place on the world stage through the big sporting events such as i'm now hosting the world cup, you know, looking at aside from cuts are all the recent quotes of the world cup in russia, brazil, south africa have been, you know, major regional powers and, you know, the next world comes to being hosted in the united states and canada and mexico. so as saudi arabia is trying to improve the stature in the world, and also along the way i developed some economic diversification away from patrol russell lucas, speaking to me on the wrong that before we got to the absence of humans can often be very good for other spaces, like price seals, for example, a thriving on the english coastline as they can see, a form, a cold will weapons testing facility has been sealed off to allow the company to grow. so i just got home to

later lucas miller wants to lower a shark in person in any of these causal committee. and i tried to catch the animals and photographed that. ok to document their size and their sex does. and if we're lucky, we can also put a satellite transmitter on the subject, is that enough, etc. and the team repeatedly poor fish stock into the sea. they also lower the predators with bait. when a shock appears, they have to act quickly. the researchers bring the chart close to the boat and hold it while they take its measurements. make sure that they attach a gps transmitter to the doors off in a place where it won't cost the animal pain. then they allow the chart to swim back down into the sea, where it will give them valuable data about things like migration routes and life span. every time that we go out, we need to take all the 8th other we think it's going to be useful for our study. we take the place 10, but to if we find childs, we try to estimate the size. if we are able to see the 6 on, if they have a stock or not, if we have from them before a month, it's been time to tak

but marine biologist lucas miller, is alarmed by the number of dead fish here around 4 tons worth. he takes notes pretending to be a busy traitor, then to avoid attracting attention. he leaves the market as a fair film, some juveniles, and saw that there were quite a lot of babies, sharks and strips on. so as i could tell, the numbers are quite high or to it's an unsettling site. and so i was about to then back at the hotel, the biologist and reporter watched the footage in a shop. candice, it's shocking to see if it's little sharks that are basically just been born out. is less than a year old. asked me of. and here they are, the fish market. most of them would have been college in the nursery habitats, getting us to fund the international union for conservation of nature classifies blue sharks as near threatened. for that reason, the numbers that can be caught and sold are subject to ever greater restrictions about the point, whether the quote as will stabilize populations is to be to buy in on this 1st, before people even started studying these animals, we'd already designated a

lucas wrote a. lucas wrote a book called decide adding what's true which was the first book to look at the practice of political fact checking. i. the politifact innovation was to be clear what statement is being checked. so it's not good for, you know, a mass of --. what. and the reason that i envision and it was if you narrow it down to a sentence or as closely to one sentence as you can, then you can do journalistic research on that sentence, assess its accuracy, and then tell people thing is true. half false, whatever. if you have this kind of massive thing i thought of that phenomenon when i was listening to j.d. vance at, the in the vice presidential debate. so you may an answer something like this. i'm not sure i'm recounting it accurately, but it something to the effect of the question was about school shootings and his answer was. oh, as a parent i'm so troubled by these. it's awful what's happened with. all of these school shootings. you know, i worry about what's happened and we've got al

. >> lawrence: lucas tomlinson joins us from the white house. hey, lucas. >> good morning, guys.ew jersey officials are huddling for these meetings to figure out what is flying over new jersey. here on capitol hill, in a very candid admission, an fbi agent says he has no idea. >> you are telling me we don't know what the hell these drones are in new jersey are? is that correct? >> that'>> that's crazy. i mean, that's crazy. that's madness that we don't hem chester, new jersey. senators say the nation lacks adequate drone protection capability. the early morning radars date back to the cold war. they are unable to detect small aircraft inside the u.s. radars can only track commercial aircraft. there have been nearly a dozen' e.en of these mysterious drones sightings new jersey and staten island. and president-elect donald trump's golf club in bedminster, the incident in new jersey began in mid november. new jersey senator cory booker says, quote: the unexplained drone activity in and around new jersey continues, however with reports on december 9th of drone sightings over naval we

lucas tomlinson is live from st. lucas, another great background for you.urprises we can expect from the president? what do you think? >> that's a good question, anita, perhaps some more pardons. the epa has announced their swing to be $1.6 billion spent on "environmental justice" programs, carrying that out to dozens of different entities, and one of the things president biden said back in washington earlier this month is he is daring president-elect donald trump to undo some of his green energy policies, particularly in states that are controlled by republicans. >> next present stop a new electric battery factory in liberty north carolina that treats thousands of jobs, shut down a new solar factory being built in carterville, georgia? think he will do that? >> now president-elect donald trump has vowed to boost fossil fuel production wants to renew lng exports on his first day back, he says we called the biden administration a play hold on new licenses at the beginning of the year. biden's epa could also take several more steps, anita come and could in gr

griff. >> it's notable, lucas, you have a picture-perfect island paradise backed off. thank you. >> no big waves for you though, griff. >> julie? >> leo terrel is a fox news contributor and civil rights attorney. he joins me now. first of all, i don't know if this is a delusional standpoint, but considering president biden's approval rating which is at an all-time low -- 33% -- even members of his own democratic party question his ability to do the job given his cognitive decline. if he had hypothetically run, do you think he would have any chance of beating drum, and how do you think biden would have fared against trump compared to kamala harris? >> could he have defeated president trump? given the data we had since afghanistan, absolutely not. i think he would've lost greater numbers -- i think it would have been a blowout if he were able in lieu of kamala harris. what's happening is simple periods insiders, the people around him are lying to him. he's in denial. he was a very unpopular president ever since the afghanistan disaster. it's basically a vote of no confid

what's the latest, lucas?> reporter: well, david, that russian ballistic missile strike on kyiv on christmas day took place on the same day that azerbaijani airliner was blasted out of the sky. as you mentioned, the biden administration is set to announce another billion dollars in arms shipment to ukraine, that's about a quarter of the stockpiled weapons that remain in the pentagon that it's willing to depart with. as russia's war in ukraine nears if 3-year mark, they launched that ballistic missile strike in ukraine's capital on christmas day, another arms shipment to be announced early next week. many officials call the war a stalemate right now with the front lines not changing significantly over the past two years, david. over 50,000 ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war, roughly the same number the u.s. military lost in vietnam. the white house wants ukraine to lower the draft age to 18, and now north korea sent thousands of soldiers to help russia retake the kursk region aft

lucas: i believe the biggest opening of the year. for movie theaters, the good news for hollywood is you had two other moves out in "wicked" and a sequel to "gladiator" that people were excited about. 70% of showtimes this past weekend were for those three movies. all across demographics, you have action, singing, a little bit of everything for everyone. caroline: the money being made. gladiator and wicked were not cheap to make. they have to make money. lucas: gladiator very expensive. i think $250 million to produce, some say more. that will be the hardest to make money on because it may topped out worldwide. wicked will make enough to make money. moana will make a fortune for disney. caroline: all the merch as well. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." do not forget to check out our podcast on the terminal, apple, spotify, and iheart. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ ♪ with so much great entertainment out there... wouldn't it be easier if you could find what you want, all in one place? my favorites. get xfinity streamsav

lucas tomlinson is live in the north lawn at the white house with the latest. hey lucas.orter: it's about been a week since president biden pardoned his son hunter a few weeks before christmas and yesterday there was a highly anticipated white house press briefing the first since the pardon took place and at that briefing, karim jean-pierre asked about reports of pre-emptive pardon something kjp did not rule out. >> look i'm not going to get ahead of the president. but what i can say is that the president is reviewing the pardoning and commutations. >> some of the names floated dr. fauci former retired mark milley and adam schiff and former congresswoman liz cheney for months president biden and press secretary says hunter wouldn't be pardoned and after spending thanks giving in nantucket before jetting off to africa. >> he did wrestle with this. he wrestled with this, and again, he said in his statement and his own voice that he made that decision this past weekend. and the fact is when you think about how the president got to this decision circumstances have changed. he

keep up the good, hard work, lucas.y appreciate it. >> little busier yesterday. >> jason: enjoy your time. happy new year. for more on all this let's welcome main street columnist for the "wall street journal" bill mcgurn. joe biden, he still thinks he would have won if he had run. what do you think of that? >> well that's the reason he was dilutional, but i think in his mind, in a way the outcome pleased him, because he can still say he's the only democrat that beat donald trump and they took him out. what he ignores in that is that at the time he left the race, people were seeing and his candidacy through the filter of that disastrous debate, where he was incoherent, looking confused like he didn't know where he was and he would never have caught up with him and i think democrats are mad, not because he lost, lost in the election. i think what they're really mad is that the debate exposed him. many of the same people, including nancy pelosi, that now say biden should have left earlier and that he cost us the white hou

. >> i have an ornament here, it has my name on it, lucas. buy here to test it if it's good or not. >> reporter: lucas and his family have made it a tradition picking out their tree at santa and sons in sherman oaks. >> it's just like a countdown. once thanksgiving happens, it's always like the question when are we going to get our tree. that's when the season hits. he's counting down. waiting for the elf. it's just like a -- a page turner. like you know, we're finally here. >> reporter: twice a week, trees are shipped down from mark rohlf's farm in oregon to the retail lot. he's been in the business since the early '80s and knows a thing or two about what becomes the centerpiece during the holidays. >> this tree is very similar to that tree that people remember from way back when. you know, with the natural-style trees that used to come out of the mountains. >> reporter: nationwide some tree farms have had a tough year. from labor shortages to inflation and even effects from severe weather, like hurricane helene. rohlf says he knows the impa

maria: lucas, thank you. let's get into this. the more we don't have answers from the pentagon from alejandro mayorkas who is supposed to be the steward of homeland security, the more people are going to speculate, tiana. >> yeah, i'm sorry, just saying representative van drew is wrong is not enough. maria: that's right. >> also saying the defense department says, the fbi says, these are institutions that have no credibility. they need to give us an affirmative answer for what it is, process of elimination isn't enough and recall this is the same intelligence community that didn't realize we let in 300 migrants on the terror watch list through the southern border. the administration has no credibility. we need an affirmative answer to what this is. maria: what do you say, cheryl? there's a report in the new york post this morning. one of the reporters witnessed the drone. this is out of new jersey. they said it was the size of a honda, which we've talked about. it goes past the gas station but the reporter said it went towards a

we go now to lucas tomlinson st.gin islands where president biden is on vacation hello lucas. >> hello shannon peer president bynum and his family have been enjoying a leisurely occasion here in st. croix. yesterday he was spotted leaving church alongside his recently pardoned son hunter. resident biden spoke briefly with the press. >> should couldn't take responsibility for the plane crash? >> 's the white house taking steps to so-called trump proof biden's agenda including setting new ambitious climate goals something he dared successor to scrap. >> it'll be politically costly and economically unsound the nest -- >> reporter: other parts of the agenda have taken a hit. a texas judge ruled friday the biden administration cannot sell unused border wall material peer the incoming president called the decision a major crucial win for america peer president-elect trump's borders are criticized the white house for selling components needed for finishing the walls. >> they wait for a u.s. before we take controlled to sell

hey, lucas. >> good morning, guys. that's right. small group of bipartisan senators wanted to do something about the border and planning to introduce some legislation early next year to fix the border. of course, that's one of the reasons president-elect trump won the election last month was because of the border. and the economy. now, there is some new statistics show the border has not improved significantly under president biden. as you see here over 2.1 encounters this year. of course, throughout president biden's time in office, there have been over 2 million encounters each year he has been president. that's the largest mass migration in american history. and president-elect trump says he wants to launch the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in history. trump's incoming border czar tom homan spoke about what that will cost. >> 6 billion? what price do you put on the young women that have been murdered and raped in this country? what price do you put on, you know, the lives of all these little girls, there is numer

we know you will keep us posted, lucas tomlinson. thank you so much. griff?nita, on capitol hill house speaker mike johnson could be nation an uphill battle for another term as speaker as some gop members are expressing doubts over sporting -- supporting his bid. madeline rivera are is live with the latest. maddie, seems there's a battle for the gavel. >> reporter: yeah. trouble is brewing for mike johnson. at least one republican congressman, thomas massie, says he won't be supporting johnson for speaker, but there are several other members who say they are keeping their options open including andy harris, scott perry and tim burchett. that's a problem for johnson because he needs 218 votes to keep the gavel. the breakdown is 219 house republicans and 215 house democrats. that means johnson can only afford the lose one republican vote if democrats vote against him. house minority leader hakeem jeffries has indicated they won't be helping johnson this time around after they joined republicans to block an ouster bid by congresswoman marjorie taylor greene earl

hey, lucas. >> well, good morning, carley and todd. president elect donald trump has promised a mass deportation of illegal immigrants after he takes the oath of office on january 20th. under president biden, more than 2 million migrants have entered the united states every year since he became president, the largest surge in american history, according to the congressional budget office. a total net migration under the biden administration is likely to exceed 8 million people. for the illegal migrants. the incoming trump administration is eyeing an expansion of ankle monitors for illegal immigrants not in custody. and in colorado, more than a dozen gang members from iowa are now in custody for allegedly kidnaping and torturing a couple from this now infamous aurora apartment complex that witnesses say was taken over by the venezuelan gang. as you can see here, gang members, both male and female, kidnaped the couple from their home and took them to another apartment where police say they were bound, pistol whipped and beaten. a council

lucas tomlinson reporting from saint croix. lucas, thank you very much. joining us now, missouri senator eric schmidt. welcome to the show, senator. >> good to be with you. >> okay, so let's start here with this fight over the h-1b visas, which has gotten really ugly on social media. elon musk obviously supports them, says the tech companies need them. he was an h-1b visa holder himself at one point in the middle of this fight. he's referred to people within the gop who are hateful, unrepentant racists. in another post on x, he said this take a big step back and blank yourself in the face. i will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend. on the other side of this. we've got longtime trump ally steve bannon who says the whole thing is a scam that's hurting american workers. and he adds this we are going to win this. they are going to surrender. they are not going to continue to destroy american citizens and american engineering by this scam. and this is a total let me repeat, if you didn't get it, it's a total and complete

lucas tomlinson. >> lucas: 36 trillion in debt and many believe cuts need to be made and reign in cutsto help lawmakers show them where to do it. the two men lead doge, wouldn't be a government committee without an acronym. yesterday vivek ramaswamy told axios doge not planning cuts to social security and medicare and said following about those payments. >> that is a policy decision that belongs to voters through people they elect to congress whether or not they will pas laws that would or would not cut medicaid, medicare and social security. there are hundreds of billions ending in hands of people who should not be receiving those payments. >> lucas: elon musk seen alongside president-elect trump, musk has been meeting with world leaders and incoming trump nominees. here is challenge to cutting debt. 13% is paying down debt, interest payments are larger than the defense budget. ent entitlement spending, social security and medicare account for 35% of annual government spending. challenge for lawmakers and elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to cut from a 40% portion. >> todd: it will not be

lucas tomlinson is live from st. croix with the best assignment of any of our reporters.ource with knowledge confirms your reporting now in a recent speech in washington president biden dared his republican successor to climate-proof his agenda saying in a recent speech that he wants to see these green energy and climate projects go forward including in republican-led states. some climate activists say president biden should be doing more to add insulation, if you will, to his climate agenda saying there is a lot that biden can still do in his remaining six weeks in office to stop the expansion of fossil fuels and send a powerful signal to distance himself from the incoming trump administration and its fossil fuel cronies. donald trump has vowed to boost fossil fuel projections and renew lng exports on his first day in office. the biden administration put a hold on new licenses at the beginning of the year. president biden and first lady arrived in st. croix yesterday and staying at the home of bill and connie nerve el who own a software company. that's the home he stayed

lucas tomlinson is live on capitol hill. good morning, lucas. >> good morning, mike.ed briefing here on capitol hill led by pentagon officials is underway at the classified conference room behind me. many republicans want to know why the need for secrecy to discuss this topic especially with many people concerned in the public. we spoke to some of those congressmen earlier. >> why is secrecy if it's no big deal and there is nothing there? why hide it from the american people? because i'm not a mathematician. that doesn't add up. >> you will see a lot more transparency. the pentagon is going to be very -- they will be very nervous about trump and they should be. because they haven't passed an audit. >> this classified briefing is taking on more urgency after the f.b.i. is investigating drone flights across central new jersey and asking the public for help. they've taken place near a research military manufacturing city and the golf club of donald trump is bedminster. want the public's help. phil murphy says there is no known threat to the public at this time. a respons