mr. jones. you're now recognized. >> thank you, chairman. good afternoon, chairman pfluger, chair gimenez, and distinguished subcommittee. it's an honor to be here to discuss the authorities and capabilities dedicated to threats countered and imposed by malicious use of unmanned air systems, commonly caw l caughted uas or drones. with my 30 years, i've witnessed national malicious actors to circumvent law enforcement. recent years, i've devoted significant time to understanding the threat to border security and coordinating cvp's response. air and marine is cvp. we work alongside field counter parts to detect, track and mitigate the threat along our borders. we also cooperate with doj and fbi partners in investigation. along with technology director. department of defense. to identify technologies that can improve. i'd like to emphasize three important aspects of this subject today. first, the current state of uas threats to border security. second, how critical enables us to respond. and final

mr. jones lived an honorable life serving in the u.s. army's d company. he also served in vietnam back in 1968. mr. jones' career in law enforcement began in 1971 with the brunswick police department and he later joined the city of darian police department. after joining the city of darian, mr. jones was promoted to the chief of police. after his time at the darian police department, mr. jones joined the georgia state parole where he graduated as a state trooper. he also returned to his hometown and accepted the captain position with the city of darian. he then won his first sheriff's election to serve the community from 1993 to 1998. mr. jones was also a commercial shrimp fisherman and captain of his shrimp vote, lady vanessa, which was named after his daughter. he married his high school sweetheart, the late brenda marie jones, with whom he shared three children. christopher, vanessa and if a elisha. today we p -- felicia. today we honor his life and hold his family in our thoughts and prayer

i was not part of the working group, but mr. jones was part of the working group and dpa's position was that there should be an interview prior to any viewing of the body worn camera, that a cognitive interview is the most appropriate position to take. i'll say on the flip side, as in my other role as a da, that was our position from the da's office under prior administrations as well. i do agree with miss tran that the that the a witness is compromised when they are able to view body worn camera. both themselves or other people's body worn camera prior to being interviewed. it really does affect how they view and what they see. so our position from dpa in the working group was that they should have an administrative interview prior to being able to see body worn camera. thank you. and you have decades of da experience, right? well, yes. thank you for aging me. president elias. but i'm just saying that you were the number two in several da in san francisco under several administrations, right? just under mr. da gascon, but also in los

debt st. israel kills at least 50 full palestinians across the street since to the from terry jones to mrs. out, is there a lot from the house that coming up in syria, damascus airports are set to resume international flights. a significant step towards reopening to the world. the new most minute treat government releases thousands of prisoners of 77 years independence from plus i had to go about with tens of thousands of refugees now are just due to live. the not having the polls from the near to fighting between coming with air force and i'm pursuing erupt the these rarely minute trays continue. it's kind of pain of destruction that killings and involvements in gaza since don't at least 54 palestinians have been killed across the street. the late to strike targeted the residential blocking central kansas city. at least 5 palestinians have been killed in the attack area on saturday, 7 children were among 11th family members killed in an as many as try on a home nearby. victoria, getting the reports of the palestinian man is inconsolable. is these fools to say good bye describing to me in

mr. buttino over the years you've had several hosts including james earl jones run-dmc richard gere.avy lift to get them to participate >> it's interesting the first name i came up with this james earlit jones. it's interesting how he came about. he did the book and he actually called and asked for more time toan do the program because he wanted to get it right. i just appreciate it that kindd of celebrity that would do something like that and the program obviously turned out well. and i believe the others felt that way too. just yesterday they wanted to do something i think for children the same way we did in producing the program. >> 155 episodes 26 years, why did it and? >> well, money. usually the bottom line is money. we were fortunate to get underwriters as we want along. remember levar at the academy awards he talked about having actually mentioned the idea we did well and that was basically it. the program isam still available on amazon. so they are still going to be around. we had over 600 books that were on those programs and the kids book reviews and feature books so it's

mr. bertino, over the years you had several guest hosts, including james earl jones, randy emcee, pete seegerard geer. was it a heavy lift to get them to participate? you know, it's interesting that first name i'd come up with is james earl jones. it was interesting how he came about. he did that program, kept playing the book about competing, playing, and he actually called and asked for more time to do the program because he wanted to get it right. and i just appreciated that kind of celebrity that that would do something like that. and the program obviously turned out well. he was so dramatic on the rain to compete playing book as being the the narrative narrator of that book and i believe the others felt that way too they were just yes. they just wanted to do something, i think, for for children the same way we did introducing the program. that's my thinking on it. 155 episodes, 26 years. why did it end? yeah, well, money usually. the bottom line is the money that we ran out of, i mean, we were so fortunate to get underwriters as we went along. i remember all of our at the academy awards

mr. buttino, over these years yu had several, guest hosts including james earl jones, pete seeger, richard -- richard gere. was it a heavy lift to get them to participate in. >> it's interesting, the first name i come up with is james earl jones. it was interesting how he came about. he did the program, the book about plane. and he actually called and asked for more time to do the program because he wanted to get it right. and i just appreciated that kind of celebrity that would do something like that. and the program, obviously, turned out well. he was so dramatic on the book as being the narrater of of book. and i believe the others felt that way too. they were just, yes, they just wanted to do something, i think, for children the same way we did in producing the program. that's my thinking on it. >> host: 155 episodes, 26 years. why did it end? >> guest: well, money. [laughter] that's usually the bottom line, the money that we ran out of. i mean, we were is fortunate to get underwriters as we went along. i remember lavar at the academy awards when he picked up the oscar and talked about

jones, bbc news. funeral services honouring former us presidentjimmy carter will begin in the next few hours following his death on sunday, aged 100. mrs president from 1977 to 1981, and is being remembered with a national day of mourning and state funeral onjanuary 9th. a number of tributes will take place before then, starting today with a funeral procession from his home town of plains, georgia to the state's capital, atla nta. thomas higgins, who was deputy cabinet secretary in the carter white house told me more about what it was like to work for the late president carter. it was the privilege of my life, of course, to work for him, to serve him in the white house. it was a tense time. i suspect it usually is in the white house, but for us, at least, there was a lot going on. i always found president carter to be remarkably calm and disciplined, no matter what the crisis was that we were dealing with. he had kind of the soul of an engineer. he was very analytic, very disciplined. but he also had the heart of a true populist, an authentic populist, who really was in touch with the average person, owing largely to how he had been r

jones cnn pacific palisades. >> with senate confirmation hearings for donald trump's cabinet picks will begin tuesday. first up is mrtrump's controversial choice for defense secretary pete hegseth. his nominees for secretary of state, attorney general and treasury secretary will face their own grillings later in the week. all have expressed unwavering loyalty to the president elect's agenda and are expected to do the same during the hearings. meanwhile, this will be outgoing president joe biden's last full week in the white house. mr. biden is expected to deliver his farewell address from the oval office on wednesday. the last time he addressed the nation from the oval office, he was dropping out of the presidential race. ron brownstein is a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor with the atlantic. he joins me now from los angeles. good to have you with us. >> hi, rosemary. >> so president joe biden is entering his final full week in office. what's the week ahead looking like right now? and how will his time in office bear the test of time? do you think? >> well, you know, joe biden came in to office with a