i'm a former federal prosecutor, jim, so when we look at this statute, what congressman quigley and iked at is how we can enhance the statute. if there's not intentional or knowing, you know -- if that's not met here, what else can we do to add to the criminal penalties? we have looked at fines, we have looked at stripping security clearances, we have looked at future banning of members of congress or people in the administration from viewing classified documents. really looking at negligence, sloppiness. if this was an accident in some way. so that we can help deter this. because i think we're all disturbed and concerned about that and that's what we are looking at in the legislation. >> what's been remarkable, congressman quigley -- >> clearly this is -- >> -- events of recent weeks it comes up to sitting presidents, former vice presidents. would your legislation impose such penalties on officials at that level? >> well, look, i don't think anyone is above the law. the problem here is -- first of all, this is a bipartisan problem so it requires a bipartisan solution. so i think that

i support the massachusetts state legislature acting as quigley as -- quickly as possible on her proposal and i encourage other states to look for ways to ease the clip for and a half recipients. in the upcoming farm bill congress must thoroughly exam benefit. the $2 a meal is not nuvment we can and must do more to end hunger now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm grateful the service chairman of the u.s. helsinki commission, also known as the organization for security and cooperation in europe. last week in vienna, all democracies of the 57-member parliamentary assembly unanimously supported ukraine in combination of war criminal putin. the world understands there is competition between democracies rule of whether opposed by thorns with rule of gun. putin is sacrificing young rus

. >>> joining me is congressman mike quigley from illinois, the co-chair of the ukraine caucus. you went this summer and met with president zelenskyy. did the white house reach out to you and others who had been there to help plan the trip, or were you as surprised as everyone else? >> i was as surprised as anyone, and that's the way it should be. >> you said you're not against sending these u.s. f-16 fighters to kyiv. we were just talking about that. you said, quote, you can't half-ass a war. does this need to happen quickly? one of the complaints from zelenskyy is you say no to everything, but eventually you come around, so why not just say yes when you ask? >> i didn't mean to putting those together, not sending the jets was half-assing it. it was you need to give them everything to help them win the war. as president zelenskyy said, help us win quickly. it's hard to keep the coalitions together. your previous guest is right, everything we're sending was once viewed ases escalatory. the abrams tanks were a no, no, no and now it's probably what -- they probably won't get our t

joining me now, someone who was in the room for that briefing, congressman mike quigley, democrat, thankou for taking the time this morning. >> thank you. >> i understand this was classified so i'm not asking to verge into classified territories. but in general term does the u.s. believe the surveillance balloon was more advanced and more of a threat than initially thought? >> i can't talk about what was discussed. here's what i think i would take from that. i think the united states did exactly the right thing under these circumstances. and would probably understand a little bit more. i think in the final analysis we can and will learn from this. and the final situation i think our country will be safer as a result. >> do you believe or are you concerned at all that by waiting to shoot it down until after it left u.s. -- its position over the u.s. continent that that increased the danger at all. or are you confident the u.s. was able to mitigate the threat while it remained over u.s. territory. >> the pentagon told us they were able to mitigate in real time as this was taking place. i t

joining me now to discuss the war, where it stands, democratic congressman mike quigley from illinois-chair of the congressional ukraine caucus and has been to ukraine himself. thank you for taking the time this morning, congressman. >> thank you. good morning. >> so we're a year in today, remarkable to imagine. do you see any way out of this war? there have been hopes that putin might be exhausted by this, see the writing on the wall, but he's doubling down. should we prepare ourself for a much longer war there? >> umm, in a couple of hours, i'm going to go to the st. nicholas school here in chicago and do a little prayer service for those students. 70 so of those students are ukrainian refugees. it's hard for me to go there and not be committed to giving their home country the weaponry it needs to win. and not be in a long stalemate. i fear we're giving them just enough to be a static war. as you said in this opening, i think putin is not going to get war weary. i'm concerned that the west might. so indeed, what i've been saying since the first day of the war, we need to give them w

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once again everything depends on the position of the alliance , on the other hand, the democrat mike quigley noted that the ukrainians showed a miracle of quick learning. when their state is under threat, i said that in general, the question of any help for ukraine is only a matter of time our cooperation is conducted through nato, there are other countries that have offered help, and i think that the united states should be part of the coalition and work diligently to provide the necessary training within the framework of legal order so these are complex issues and several countries are involved, we have no doubt that the ukrainians are excellent pilots and we will have even more pilots who will undergo training to help ukraine win this war, but we must work in a coalition and this is not an issue that the united states can decide for yourself what i understood twice traveling to the border of ukraine and then to kyiv last july so this is what ukrainians are talking about when they say you will be surprised how quickly you learn when your homeland is at stake so regarding all those discussi

jeffries took quigley off of the intelligence committee, been there 8 years, always prepared for workm wondering why the country is at risk when a republican takes a democrat off of the intelligence committee but not at risk when a democrat takes democrat off of the intelligence committee. truth be told, country is not suffering from any one or two or 10 people off of any committee. but we suffer when hypocrisy, abounds. speaking of which, some time ago we brought you a story about a reporter who saw something awful happening at capital and reported on it in real-time, she a a member of congress, god forbid, giving a capital tour to family of a soldier killed in afghanistan. and not everyone was wearing a mask. a family lost a child in service this this nation. and she is worried about a mask. there is the normal incentivety reporters then a heightened level of piety that making us to reconsider first amendment, criticizing a family for not wearing a mask while touring a seat of a democracy there are child died defending. you wonder why so many say t-- greatest threat to our country.

mike quigley tweeting out that his colleagues in the ukraine caucus assembled these blue and yellow ribbons for members of congress and senators to where in support of ukraine. other lawmakers in the chamber were wearing kranz issued by senator patty murray. she says now that i have your attention, i want to talk about how childcare is a serious and urgent economic crisis. some of her colleagues wearing the crayon to tonight's state of the union address. and then finally, there was a boycott of tonight's address. that was by congresswoman mary miller who decided to skip the state of the union address, a republican boycotting it because she says of president biden's foreign policy and national security strategies. >> let's go back to your phone calls. elaine in north carolina, democrat. what did you think of the president state of the union speech? >> hi. thank you for having me. i enjoyed his speech. he touched on points that i thought were current concerns of all the people. i am also concerned about tax reform and immigration. i'm a survivor of cancer and i know that there's a cure for ca

joining me to talk about it is congressman mike quigley.served eight years on the house intelligence committee. your thoughts on how it all went down, and i guess the move taken by china to send a spy balloon over the united states. it's a pretty brazen move. >> you know, it is, and let me just add, how much has been said about this, to a large extent, it just doesn't make sense at this time. clearly both nations are attempting to normalize relations with the president's needing, and secretary blinken meeting with his counterpart. it is conceivable that somehow the chinese president wasn't aware of at least the timing of this. it doesn't minimize the severity and the brazen attempts to surveil our country, putting in perspective there are low earth chinese satellites surveilling all these areas almost on an hourly basis, and so all that is extraordinarily series. it has to be mitigated against. it's why the healthy intelligence community is so important. but so much doesn't make sense for it to happen at this particular team. >> how importa

earlier today i spoke with mike quigley who served eight years on the house intelligence committee.arge extent, it doesn't make sense at this time. clearly both nations are attempting to normalize relations with presidents meeting. now secretary blinken meeting with his counter part. it is conceivable that somehow the chinese president wasn't aware. but the timing of this, it doesn't minimize the severity and the brazen attempts to surveil our country, putting in perspective the fact that there are low-earth chinese satellites surveilling all these areas, almost on an hourly basis. so all of that is extraordinarily serious. it has to be mitigated against. it is why the healthy intelligence community is so important. but just so much of this doesn't make sense to happen at this particular time. >> how important do you think it is to get this equipment out of the water and analyze it? we're told when they do recover this balloon, and whatever surviving equipment remains, that it will be taken to quantico and examined? >> i agree with my colleague, the ranking member, it is better to r

. >> all right, congressman mike quigley, thanks so much as always. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> tense moments when a chinese fighter jet confronts a u.s. navy patrol plane over the south china sea. a cnn camera captures it all. >>> plus republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene wants the nation to get a divorce separating the red states from the blue states. >>> next, blizzard warnings as a slow-moving storm causes chaosm california right now. look at all that snow. we'll take you there in just a moment. you're live in the cnn newsroom. a . i call doing the door code! ...the host doesn't stay with h you. it looks exactly like the picture. because without privacy in y your vacation home... it's a full log cabin guys. ...it isn't really a vacation... we can snuggle up by the fire. ...is it? wow, oh my- [birds chirping] (vo) verizon has the epic new phone your business needs on the 5g network it deserves. boost your team's productivity with samsung's fastest processor yet. switch now that's epic.1000 on the new gala s23 ultra. on the networ

. >> another friend of daniels, connor quigley agreed.just always had my back. i always could count on him. he'd be that person that would come over and just -- tap me on the back and say hey, i'm with you. whatever you're going through. >> where do you think this comes from? >> i think definitely his parents. his parents were just such loving people, that they added to everyone around them. and that really shows we're danny gets in from. >> loving clearance who's felt incredibly blessed to have daniel. after multiple miscarriages, the doctor says they weren't sure they would ever have children. >> i lost three children before daniel and a loss one after daniel. so, daniel was literally our miracle baby. >> she couldn't think of anyone who would want to harm her son. neither could the fbi. after talking to daniel's friends and stroke chief searching his social media, they had all but ruled him out as the target. by nightfall, there were no closer to finding the shooter. with the pressure mounting, they focused on mark and the judge, and a

. >>> joining me now, illinois democratic congressman mike quigley. thanks, congressman. you can see that a lot of us are focused on the u.s. warning china against supplying russia with lethal aid. that's what i was focused on among other things in munich this weekend. will they heed the message? if they don't on what the white house might respond to, because president biden was very explicit with president xi last march saying, after his embrace of putin, you better not rearm them. of course, they violated sanctions. arming them would take this to a different level. right? >> absolutely. your previous guest was talking about the mystery of what china is doing. i think it's contradictory. this isn't the first time putin and the russians have evoked the nuclear threat. earlier nuclear weapons being used in this conflict. at that time, china pulled away and discouraged this publically. at the same time, recently, the u.s. and chinese president met. secretary blinken finally met with his counterpart. the balloon takes place. then this remark. which china are we dealing with?

. >>> last hour, i spoke with darren quigley and darren lahood and the lawmakers are looking at tougheror those who have mishandled classified documents. this is what they say. >> nobody is above the law, and the problem is that first of all it is a bipartisan problem, and so it is going to require a bipartisan solution, the criminal threshold is apparently too high, and so this has to be, and this is serious, and there has to be some accountability. if it is civil in nature, sobeit, but at least it is going to be working to disincentivize those who are sloppy with the critical documents, and there is no excuse for this behavior. >> they are talking about the big penalties like million dollar fines and losing security clearances, and we are joined by molly ball of "washington times" and francesca, i am wanting to start with you, and they are trying to address the issue we are living with everyday if deliberately or not so much, and leaving the capitol with classified material, and does this have legs? >> well, lawmakers have told me on both sides of the aisle that there needs to be refo

quigley: raising america's debt ceiling assures we do not default on our financial obligations to those we borrowed from. and prevents economic catastrophe in the process. but don't take my word for it, listen to american businesses, economists, and financial institutions o who know the drastic consequences a debt default would have for the u.s. economy and working americans. the business round table which represents the c.e.o.s of some of the nation's largest companies has said about raising the debt limit, failure to lift the debt -- federal debt limit to meet u.s. obligations would produce an otherwise avoidable crisis and pose an unacceptable risk to the nation's economic growth, job creation, and financial markets. if you don't want to take their word for t. i recommend heeding these words. the full consequences of the default or even the serious prospect of a default by the u.s. are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. mr. speaker, those are the words of president ronald reagan. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek

we had to use what we have, what the member states have, and they have to provide quigley apart or them when asian waiting to really feel bashed, talk with the command that are already being boss in the shorter we need. and we have a, b and b's facility that can engage their resources in order to put away quickly. and when you change to ukraine and in the medium turner will have to increase the capacity of allow defense industry much more. but these are not going to happen overnight and we have to go and we also have the tools to do that, that have to, to be in defense agency, which is something especially in this kind of matters. you know that to get more and one issue and for all of us, but mainly and with a strong priority for the you printing. don't confuse the short term objective with the medium therapy purposes. shortens ready, shorter terms, more munitions. do you believe this is a matter of diminishing the finish? is the minute to know the finish, the current minister of defense, she'll have to take these kind of decisions. and there's going to be an extraordinary meeting on th

. >> your colleague, congressman mike quigley, told cnn earlier today that it just did not make senseed states especially right now. what do you think? >> well, we're going to find out very soon the nature of this spy balloon. we'll know the who, what, when, where, and how hopefully related to that balloon once we salvage the technology. but at the end of the day i think that probably there were actors within the chinese communist party who continued with their aggressive surveillance, and it's not even clear whether the left and the right hands knew what they were doing in terms of the chinese foreign ministry and others knowing about this. of course if they did it would really question the sincerity of their diplomatic overtures, wolf. you know, i think that chairman xi would -- you know, we just have to really question how eager he is to solve our diplomatic issues and to do so in a responsible way. >> and the chinese must have known that as soon as a huge balloon like this crosses into u.s. airspace the united states would know that right away. it was not going to be any secret cr

my name is sarah quigley. i'm 48 years old. i have three children of my own and two stepchildren. life when she became seriously unwell with a virus. because of their quick response and diagnosis and finding out what to do and what was going on, yeah, it could have been fatal and she could have had lasting damage. it was a very, very scary time, yeah. don't get me crying! despite her love for the job, sarah is going on strike and we are following her. this is the fourth one we've done, so, yeah, feeling all right. fourth one? fourth one, yeah. are you not getting fatigue? fatigue? it's the reason that we're doing it, so i keep going. sarah's never been on strike until these recent walk—outs. she's doing it because she says the service is being run into the ground due to a lack of investment. we've had instances of people pulling up into the ambulance area in their own cars with very, very poorly people. and that's devastating. that doesn't make you proud. what are the comments that you're getting that are negative from people? get back to work. there were expletives in there. get

so last week congressman hank johnson and i joined by senator blumenthal and congressman nadler, quigley, and cicilline any, reintroduced our supreme court transparency act. our bill would finally require the supreme court to have not just a code of conduct but a real process to enforce that code and other federal ethics laws. our bill would also update judicial ethics laws ending the ability of judges to ignore conflicts of interest and their reclusal obligations, requiring justices of the supreme court to disclose gifts and travel as other federal officials do, and exposing the real interests of peering at the court behind amici curiae who lobby the court under fake names. apparently there has been a half-hearted effort at the court to begin to deal with this. "the washington post" reported last week that the justices discussed for years a binding code of ethics to no result. and the effort seems to have fallen apart. so that leaves congress in the position that if they won't fix it, we will. there are many problems plaguing our supreme court. far-right dark money interests spent years