declan walsh reports, as sudan burns and its people starve, a gold rush is under way.proud capital into piles of rubble. fighting has also set off one of the world's boston famines in decades with 26 million people facing acute unger or starvation, but the gold trade is humming. the production and trade of gold, which lies in rich deposits across the vast nation, has actually surpassed prewar levels, and that's just the official figure in a country rife with smuggling. in his article, declan walsh follows the money, in this case gold, that is fueling the civil war between what's left of sudan's military forces and a paramilitary group which supports itself with money from gold. gold that is smuggled out of sudan and which is of great interest to the war's for sponsors, including russian dictator vladimir putin. joining us now from kenya is declan walsh, chief africa correspondent for "the new york times." declan, thank you for joining us once again on this subject. i know this is not easy for you to do. but i have to say, i every once in a while try to explain what's g

walsh. i now recognize our next witness. >> good morning, chair duckworth, chair cantwell, ranking member cruz. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you on this important subject. my dame -- my name is dean yacopelli. i have over 30 years of experience working with aircraft in and around the new york city area. we take pride in our role as a safety organization that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with congress, the executive branch and industry stake holders to ensure our air system remains the safest and most efficient in the world. the 20,000 air traffic controllers and other professionals represented by us through the the f.a.a., department of defense and federal contract tower program are vile to to the u.s. economy, ensuring the safe and efficient movement of millions of passengers and tons of cargo every day. our mission is to ensure the flying public arrives home to their vacation, their business destination, without delay and while maintaining the highest margins of safety. i

walsh. , thank you for being here. national a thank you for being here. national air traffic controller association staff, dean iacopelli. hopefully i said that correctly. airline pilots association president, captain jason ambrosi. welcome. professional aviation safety specialist president dave spero. and senior transportation policy analyst marc scribner. thank you for being here. before i proceed to my opening statement, i want to make a comment that i am saddened to learn of faa administrator whitaker's plan to resign next month. his leadership has been invaluable during this critical time in aviation safety. his oversight of billing -- of blowing -- of boeing production has been essential. hope the efforts that he spearheaded on that front continue. our aviation system is a safer and we are grateful to him for it. i recognize myself of the opening statement. in the years immediately following the pandemic, we witnessed an alarming series of close calls in commercial aviation. last year,

walsh voted against the gm deal. currently, ac transit has an interim gm as the agency searches for someone permanent. candice nguyen, nbc bay area. we investigate. candice. thank you. a beloved south bay civil rights leader has died. the family of reverend jethro jeff moore confirmed the news on social media, saying they would have a formal comment on his passing in the coming days. he was 66. moore led the san jose, silicon valley chapter of the naacp for decades. he stepped down last month, announcing plans to relocate to georgia after saying he was priced out of the silicon valley. no word yet on the cause of death. the sacramento kings have fired their head coach. mike brown is out as of today. espn broke this news one day after the basketball team lost a brutally close game to t detroit pistons at golden one center. the kings have now lost five consecutive games and sit at 13 and 18 entering tomorrow's game against the lakers. the unexpected move to dismiss brown comes just five months after he signed multi-yea

later in the show, we are going to be joined by declan walsh who at the new york times has the largest geographic jurisdiction of any reported they are. he is the chief africa chorus on the. if i could get the new york times to devote 100% of my subscription fees to declan walsh, that would please me greatly. let's beer market. >> if anyone can get that earmarked it is you. >>> donald trump's appointment of elon musk to a government department that does not exist which they are both calling the department of government efficiency got does not require confirmation. aditi would be asked questions about his publicly proclaimed drug use which is one of the reasons the new york times breaking news tonight is that elon musk has violated the security reporting rules for his and his companies top-secret security clearance. if elon musk had to submit to a senate confirmation hearing he would be asked about an email reported by the times written by cody miller, an army veteran who worked on clearances that elon musk company spacex. just over one month ago, cody miller wrote an internal email say

welcome, congressman walsh.t do you make of all of this, what is likely to be the response on capitol hill to this breaking news? >> good to be with you. you see, i told you so. they are all like that, so the next time any of us complain about anything trump does, this pardon is just deflating. for those of us who have been out there for a few years now, yelling about what a unique threat donald trump is, for joe biden to do something like this -- nobody is above the law, we have been screaming, well, joe biden just made clear, his son hunter is above the law. donald trump lives every time he opens his mouth, we have been screaming for joe biden repeatedly lied about this. the politicization of the justice system, donald trump and his people have been screaming. that is exactly what biden said here. >> joe, is this the politics of purity? i mean, we had donald trump pardon sheriff joe r pao during his term, and there wasn't a lot of human cry about that. and this is a father who saw his first wife killed, his da

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you are on with ken walsh ken walsh -- ken walsh.aller: you are nice man and everyone likes to think they are in the middle-of-the-road but just your saying that for every one of these shows there are five of those, everyone knows the media is 90% liberal. joe biden, when he used npr to come up with the scandal and he was lying and trying to embarrass politicians way before trump. his negativity is tenfold. when trump goes against the 90% attack, he kind of has to do that and we want him going to bat for us against these people with crazy ideas that a boy is a girl and all of this wild and wacky stuff. not to mention, that is where we are at and i appreciate your niceness and that you think you are in the middle, but you are a liberal. guest: well, i have never expose my political leanings and don't attend to -- intend to. i don't think i could have covered seven president and won awards if i was biased and i don't believe i am. i have tried to call them as i see them. i come from a working-class family. my father was a longshoreman

walsh your expertise is in procurement and modernization of legacy systems.ow would you summarize the current state of air traffic control? >> easy summary is this is what happens if it is not broke don't fix it or perhaps if it is still somewhat working don't fix it just sustain it. over many, many years. so we are seeing the ramifications of that. we need to invest more money, more funds to get us back on track. >> how do you fix it? i expect the answer is notgo gog to just be more money. that answer has often failed to solve the problem. >> you are correct. the probable fix that you need adequate oversight right people the right place training we need to have more of the good people that are keeping things running with patches. as a sediment opening statement this is not a quick fix there is no silver bullet this is would e billions of dollars and thousands of people. >> are right mr. scribner in your testimony you mention former faa employees responded to your analysis of the gao reports. one stakeholder wrote the ongoing reliability surveillance technolo

you are on with ken walsh ken walsh -- ken walsh.ler: you are nice man and everyone likes to think they are in the middle-of-the-road but just your saying that for every one of these shows there are five of those, everyone knows the media is 90% liberal. joe biden, when he used npr to come up with the scandal and he was lying and trying to embarrass politicians way before trump. his negativity is tenfold. when trump goes against the 90% attack, he kind of has to do that and we want him going to bat for us against these people with crazy ideas that a boy is a girl and all of this wild and wacky stuff. not to mention, that is where we are at and i appreciate your niceness and that you think you are in the middle, but you are a liberal. guest: well, i have never expose my political leanings and don't attend to -- intend to. i don't think i could have covered seven president and won awards if i was biased and i don't believe i am. i have tried to call them as i see them. i come from a working-class family. my father was a longshoreman in

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robin walsh remembers them vividly. i did not trump the misfortune of being evacuated as the session of to say i didn't have experience with black because one afternoon my wife was having afternoon tea in this hotel. there was a bomb alert. she armed her girlfriend or a scholarship. i looked up the hotel, passed the bomb, which was in a should cash reception. i'm like the good wife of a journalist. she went to a telephone kiosk across the road from the hotel and rang my direct number at work . just say there is a bomb in the a rope, a hotel, and i'm just being a vacuum interest. would you believe that ball went off and i heard it by level and i remember screaming, are you all right? are you all right? and she was, she wasn't actually in church show a little, i wasn't affected directly. i had a worst experience because it was in my life the in the 3 years since it had opened. 25 bomb said so far exploded in and around the rope. but yet there was optimism for both the people of northern ireland. dio rocha when the i'll re

walsh if you can help us answer today from when mrs. this year, 2024, which is when sf safe was dissolved, which department personnel received gifts and or attended sf safe parties or events including but not limited to the holiday party, which was not a ■■fupd razor costing $56 thousand with. the candy explosion party. community police advisory iúkbo symposium with gift boxes ■p3 retirement events and the question which i think i know the answer to, which is, have these events and items been properly reported on these personnel statements of economic interest. as far as i could tell only one member so. >> thank you supervisor peskin and supervisors. to-i'll go through these to start off with the holiday party that you requested. in that particular case the annual holiday party put on my scott was co-opted into that event. with that event, a clear outline is my understanding to mrs. worty was gichief personally paid between $2500-3 thousand to cover the expenditure. that holiday party is similar to events that we have every christmas. t

walsh did not vote for the gm deal. ac transit has hired an interim gm as it searches for someone permanent. candice nguyen, nbc bay area. we investigate. if you have a story for our investigave unit, call 888996 tips or visit our website nbcbayarea.com. slash investigations. a search is underway tonight for thieves who crashed a car into a san leandro game stop. it happened around 6:00 this morning on east 14th street. despite a security gate. police say the burglars rammed a white nissan into the front of the building. they reportedly tried to use a cutting tool to steal other items from a secured room. no word yet on the cost of damage, but repairs and cleanup could take several days or even weeks. san jose is on a new list, ranking cities with the fastest growing home prices in 2024. anaheim saw the most growth, with home prices up 12.5%, according to redfin. newark and new brunswick and new jersey rounded out the top three. san jose came in ninth, with home prices growing 8.5% so far this year. even with high mortg

is now host of white flag with joe walsh. also with us msnbc political analyst basil smikle, professor at practice at columbia university. joe, i'll give you a chance to respond, a long time never trumper. proud and as you told our team before tonight's show. why is that? what do you make of brett stevens, a fellow conservative colleague of yours as an op ed. >> this is really easy. you either believe donald trump is an existential threat to our democracy or you don't. clearly brett stevens doesn't. clearly, by the way, john fetterman doesn't. chill out? chill out? with everything trump is doing right now, you know, ayman it just fricking me off and i like a lot about what fetterman has said about a lot of other issues, but a never trumper, somebody who tells me to believe the threat to democracy to chill out when as you said at the top of this hour that donald trump led a violent attempt to overthrow an american election, i will never chill out as long as that's the case. we normalize this guy, ayman, trump, and our own dang

cnn chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is with us now.nick we've been talking so much about the geopolitical implications and what this means for the region. but if we can focus right now on syria and what this means for the people there we've been seeing the celebrations out on the streets we've heard from residents who say that they no longer will have to live in fear, but it seems that there's also, amidst the joyous moment, there is a bit of consternation or trepidation about what may happen next. what are your thoughts and what is your assessment of hdds and which way things will go? >> yeah, i mean, certainly there should be anxiety and i'm sure mixed in with the jubilation, the arrears. look, in short this is the removal of one of the most horrific brutal, dictatorial regimes in modern times by an unknown. we do think we know quite a lot about bts. the group who led the rebel forces here. and this is a huge smÖrgasbord different types of rebel groups here, some on the extreme fringes, others much more western minded in terms of the

you saw that report from nick paton walsh in kursk. those troops are suffering. they are struggling and they are outmanned and outgunned by a superior military. >> okay, salma, thank you so much. donald trump is planning his first overseas trip since winning reelection. find out where he's heading this weekend just ahead plus, why elon musk's multi-billion dollar tesla pay package was blocked by a judge for the second time. >> and who should be the cnn hero of the year? weigh in now. cast up to ten votes a day, every day. visit cnn heroes dot. >> when i hear cancer, i hear death sentence. >> every 15 seconds, someone will hear the words you have cancer. at the american cancer society, this is why we're here to help people through their entire journey. >> i was ready to battle to be there for my family. >> and this giving tuesday. we're asking for your support. go online or scan the qr code now. your gift helps fund research that saves lives and provides support like free ride to treatment and lodging. in our hope lodge communities, where patients stay for free. >

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thank you to former congresswoman donna edwards and joe walsh. >>> next on "politics nation" we'll speaks pardoned by president trump this week. he's already giving back to his community and he'll be here to tell us all about it. >>> welcome back to "politics nation." >>> on thursday president biden carried out the largest single- day act of clemency by pardoning 39 people and commuting roughly 1,500 sentences. among those pardoned by biden is 58-year-old johnny earl williams of denver who was convicted of a nonviolent offense. the white house has noted that williams has worked as a criminal justice specialist and addiction counselor since his conviction and that he also gives back to his community by volunteering and serving in his church and johnny earl joins me now. welcome to the show, johnny. mr. williams, congratulations first on your pardon. do you mind starting by sharing briefly what you were convicted for and when did it happen? >> yes. thank you, rev. i'm glad to be here. i in 1999 was convicted of a failure to report income on an income tax return and that was many years ago

john walsh is on tonight to speculate on motivation also. i don't know. this guy could have a personal life that could have been chaotic. you just don't know about these things. there's an anti trust action at the department of justice. anything is possible. this guy was obviously targeted. this doesn't happen in america. you don't have a fortune 500 ceo get whacked at 6:30 a.m. that's what's carry. i don't know what else to add. the judge covered it beautifully. you have a mentally ill ex-con threatening people's live in a lock box underground, a former marine tries to protect people, these things happen. it's tragic. these things happen. it's sad. there's no racial animosity here. it's just sad. if you have a guilty verdict here, what that does, men are bred to protect people. it's in our instinct. it's all cultures, all races. if you have a guilty verdict come down, it's an attack on the male instinct to protect vulnerable people. you've been on subways. there's fight as lot in this town where men come in that don't even know the couple, break it up, t

walsh for i recognize mr.i from national air traffic controller association. >> good "morning joe" duckworth, chair cantwell, and ranking member cruz. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you on this important subject. my name is dean iacopelli and achieve a step in national air traffic controllers association, and i'm retired air-traffic control with over 30 years of expense having been assigned to a facility responsible for separating aircraft in and around the new york city area. we take pride in her role as an aviation safety organization that stand shoulder to shoulder with congress, the executive branch and industry stakeholders to ensure that the financial airspace system maintains a safe is a most efficient in the world. the 20,000 air-traffic the 20c controllers and other aviation safety professionals represented by natca, department defense and the federal contract tower program are vital to use the economy, entry safe and efficient movement of billions of passengers and tons of cargo ever

. >> we have ari walsh. >> good morning chair gee and director, ari walsh facility director and pleasure to be here this morning. let's get started with program highlights and shout out to coms team for the new slide deck. love it and love how they worked in the pattern into it. so, i just want to show out the mass quest folks because they do a phenomenal job making math fun and as you see in the next slide they had all most as many people as the silent disco on halloween which is pretty impressive so kudos for them being fun. also want to call attention to our first ever harvest festival. this year we really tried to focus on having seasonal activation and programs where we gave free pumpkins and had cute photo ops for families and people to come out and visit. i also want to highlight a regular program that we had in the park which is beautiful performances and drag shows and great things like that. and then as i mentioned our halloween silent disco, which is becoming a pretty fun reoccurring events and had over 150 folks come out enjoy the evening. so, while director van de water ment

. >> that's eileen walsh. no actor has known murphy longer.co pigs", 28 years ago. >> is his work ethic rooted in fear or joy? >> oh, that's a good question. i think it can only be joy. but it sometimes takes a lot of pain to get to that joy. the deeper we go with acting, the cost is greater for us. and physically, i know "oppenheimer," you know, has cost him for the weight loss he insisted and, you know, it was his choice to do, but it was the right choice to create that amazing silhouette. but from the very beginning our warmups for "disco pigs" involved us punching each other quite hard and, like, going for it, and then bursting out into it. this huge ball of velocity coming into it was the beginning of an "oppenheimer," was the whole kind of atom of us. ♪ work, cillian murphy is cast in the most familiar irish legend of all with a 24-karat gold-plated statue at the end of his long spectrum of talent. >> you have screwed this up, though, you know. >> in what way? >> you used to be an actor. >> yeah. >> and now you're a movie star. >> oh, ok

joining me now is joe walsh, and april ryan, white house correspondent and washington bureau chief foro. i missed where you were talking to my colleagues on "the weekend, and they were saying what happens if johnson doesn't win it, and you were suggesting kevin mccarthy might actually resurface as the speaker of the house. i don't know if you're still thinking that way or what you think could happen or whether you think this trump endorsement was what mike johnson needed. what's your take on it? >> ali, good to be with you. trump did meet with mccarthy this week, and here's the one constant about donald trump. all he cares about is donald trump. the house can't conduct any business until they pick a speaker. there's business they need to conduct on january 6, monday, and that's certify the election result. my god, donald trump doesn't want that to go disturbed. and you and i and april, we all know trump has a very aggressive and cruel agenda he wants to begin to commence on january 20th when he's sworn in. the last thing he wants is any chaotic sort of speaker fight. so i think probabl

for me illinois congressman and 2020 presidential candidate, joe walsh, and my buddy, joins us at the table. mcmechen morning, nothing says saturday morning like an advanced clip of "meet the press. " let's watch this clip from our colleague and donald trump. >> it looks like pete is doing well now. people were a little bit concerned. he is a young guy with a tremendous track record, actually. with to princeton and went to harvard. he loves the military and i think people are starting to see it. will be working hard on his nomination along with a lot of others. >> since you bring him up, do you still have confidence in pete hegseth? >> i do. a very smart guy. i've known him through fox, but i've known him a long time. he's basically a military guy. every time i talk to you all he wants to talk about is the military. he's a military guy. >> have you got assurances that he will be confirmed? >> no, a lot of people call me up and said he did he is fantastic. >> you don't drink yourself, you talked about how devastating drinking can be. how concerned are you that the person you picked for

john walsh said other things maybe move him away from thinking it's a pro.umber one a real pro-would have been wearing sunglasses. because you can see his face the whole time. >> brian: see his nose. >> lawrence: biometrics. >> brian: real pro-would have been about wearing sunglasses so he wouldn't be seen. had a half hour. probably learned how to build this whole gun he believes. reason why he jammed three times he maybe made it himself. maybe learned how to build that online or youtube. a lot of people build guns themselves untrackable. >> ainsley: isn't it hard to get a silencer? >> lawrence: can you fill out the paperwork and get it legally. they are thinking this may not have been one of those traditional purchases he may have constructed it himself. >> brian: do they think it's his phone they found? >> lawrence: they don't know. >> brian: they probably know. >> lawrence: that would go against the narrative of being a pro. you don't leave your phone. you don't dump the phone. >> brian: you don't go starbucks. >> ainsley: question for you all. i had some

let's speak tojoe walsh, who is a former congressman and republican presidential candidate in 2020 andgain. your reaction to this part in? it is deflating, it is demoralising. it helps donald trump. look, donald trump, it is no surprise what i'm going to say, he is the most corrupt, lawless, dishonest person to ever serve in the white house. whatjoe biden did yesterday helps trump, because it normalises trump. we have been screaming for months and a few years now that no one 1528 00:18:12,800

and of course nick paton walsh. and you can read nick's excellent analysis online entitled two wars change syria's fortune. what comes next is impossible to know. that is cnn.com. and on your cnn app. good to have you both. there is a lot more to come. we're going to talk to an expert about some possible geopolitical ramifications of the still unfolding situation in syria. so much to discuss monumental times and era defining stuff in syria today and more after this hi susan honey. >> yeah, i respect that, but that cough looks pretty bad. try this. robitussin honey. >> the real honey. >> you love. >> plus the powerful cough relief you need. >> mind if i root through your trash robitussin with real honey and elderberry. >> it's the most wonderful time with verizon. >> trade in any phone. any condition for a limited time. get iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence get four on us only on verizon oh, what a good time we will have you can make it happen get voltaren for long lasting arthritis pain relief i've been worn by

cnn's chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh, has more on assad's fall from power. reporter for decades of savage horrific rule over in a matter of days thousands of syrians celebrated in the streets of damascus after rebel forces advanced on the capital early sunday morning declaring it free of president bashar al-assad we announced to you from the syrian news channel the victory of the great syrian revolution. >> after 13 years of patience and sacrifice, we won the bet and toppled the criminal assad regime. >> facing crumbling resistance from regime forces, rebels launched a stunning lightning offensive. russia undermining its long term ally by announcing he had fled the country and was granted asylum in moscow. hours of jubilation followed as civilians and rebels entered the presidential palace, looting furniture with children running about. a sign of how every day the suffering he inflicted had been. some even touring the presidential kitchen in a land where starvation was once a weapon. what would you like? one woman says while filming. ah, people are hungry.

let's get you to london and some more perspective from cnn's nick paton walsh.ook at some of these pictures, you know what is unfolding. we've been reporting on this now for well, the past hours. what is unfolding here is historic, and some will say, well, you know, there have been pivotal moments in this region over the years and there will be syrians who say that this is a moment they hope will provide the beginning of the beginning of the end or as it were, an opportunity to return home for so many of those the 7 million who are either displaced internally or externally, there will be those syrians who are in damascus today and anxious about their future. if they are more allied to the regime. nick what do you make of what we are seeing and hearing over these past hours yeah, i mean, look, it's really important amongst all the caution people are sounding about tass the group at the peak of this rebel movement to acknowledge the fact that, you know, whatever comes after bashar al-assad, the years of the assad regime have been just utterly horrific for nearly a

cnn's chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh has more on assaults. assad's fall from power. reporter after decades of savage horrific rule over in a matter of days thousands of syrians celebrated in the streets of damascus after rebel forces advanced on the capital early sunday morning declaring it free of president bashar al-assad we announced to you from the syrian news channel the victory of the great syrian revolution, after 13 years of patience and sacrifice, we won the bet and toppled the criminal assad regime. >> facing crumbling resistance from regime forces, rebels launched a stunning lightning offensive. russia undermining its long term ally by announcing he had fled the country and was granted asylum in moscow. hours of jubilation followed as civilians and rebels entered the presidential palace, looting furniture with children running about. a sign of how every day the suffering he inflicted had been. some even touring the presidential kitchen in a land where starvation was once a weapon what would you like? one woman says while filming. a

if you can believe this, he could be talked about interviewing with the job with bill walsh. >> and heut i have someone in mind. and if that works, that works. so i go back to byu. two weeks later, he phones. he says that i would like to hire you, would you like the job? i remember putting that on and saying coach, just a second. i remember putting my hand over the phone and the wife sitting over there and saying no. i would try to act cool about it. i said yeah, perfect, thank you. >> and that is a good story. but brian, they could pull off the triple if they will get into canton. and he's in the bay area sports hall of fame. san jose sports hall of fame, now probably the pro football hall of fame. but we will find out soon. >> all right. good for that man. thank you, vern. >>> and coming up, food is not just an issue during the holidays. but up next at 5:00, we'll meet a bay area family who has a renewed sense of hope thanks to the generosity of their community. [ spe aking in a global language ] >>> welcome back. organizations like second harvest of silicon valley are stepping in to

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cnn's nick paton walsh has much more from kursk. and a warning before we run this piece. this report contains some disturbing images reporter they have a three second window rushing out with the u.s. >> supplied stinger and an aging anti-aircraft gun. >> watch back to shoot down russian attack drones. in the fleeting moment they fly overhead in range three kilometers from them. they could hit that and prepare to but the radar is wrong and they pause to hear it we were fortunate to so reposition the entire truck, but suddenly the drone has vanished it sounded like a decoy but that usually means others are coming and the sky is filling up with drones in the next region a month ago, the targets here seemed endless november was a record month for drones across ukraine that usually crash into towns. not this empty field their sound slices through the dark it was pretty low and close, and while they think this is ukrainian drones headed for russia, the russians also used this moment to take the same routes to try and sneak their drones in right now, a ukrainian drone attack on

nick paton walsh, thank you so much.oining us now, the man who presided over president trump's withdrawal of u.s. forces from northern syria in 2019, former secretary of defense mark esper. mr. secretary, what's your initial reaction to the news coming out of syria? and how worried are you about the stability of the region at large, including iran and lebanon and israel well, good morning, jake. >> this is historic to say the least. this is a regime the assad regime that's ruled that country brutally for 50 plus years. and now they're coming to an end. from a historical perspective, stepping back a little bit it's not unlike what's happened over the past 20 years across the arab world as you look at strongmen from moammar gadhafi in libya, who was toppled all the way to saddam hussein, who was toppled, and in both cases, those regimes fell apart and the brutality ended. so this is significant. i think importantly for us right now at a strategic perspective, what you see is russia no longer, we hope has a foothold in the

jennifer walsh representatives from the office of general counsel washington headquarters services security office, and the deity transition task force met with 11 or 11 members present electronically agency review team for arts coming here in the pentagon. and in accordance with standard practice the art member cited nondisclosure agreements to discuss security procedures including information security and next steps for transition efforts pretty the deity officials also show the art member's dedicated office space here in the pentagon that have been reserved for their use. specific questions about the art team i would refer you to the president-elect transition team and will continue to provide updates on the transition efforts within the department as they become available and remain focused on ensuring a smooth and orderly and professional transition penalty questions go to apd. >> and so, back to the drones. can unequivocally say that none of the drones are being spotted are dod assets or something that was in the defense department pretty civilian or otherwise just not department and

and nick paton walsh reporting for us, nick, thank you very much.re getting new information right now about a series of u.s. airstrikes inside syria against isis targets. as the assad government was falling. our breaking news coverage will continue right after this welcome to times square that's night of my life. >> we're here we're so embarrassing. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. >> live coverage starts at eight on cnn. >> streaming live on max. >> i've been warned by celebrities, athletes and world leaders, but i've always felt most comfortable up here with the folks that made me who i am. i'm right at home out here on the land and i'm in my lane on the shoulder of the interstate because this is where i come from. i've been showing up here for nearly 200 years, and i can't wait to see what's next. >> hats off to the future. >> nothing runs like a deer. >> this is the sound of the season's favorite gift for a limited time. omaha steaks is offering the favorite gift package that includes our famous bacon wrapped filet mignon. our deli

nick paton walsh, great to have you. this morning.ch. >> and we'll expand the conversation on the implications. of course, this means for the people of syria, but also for russia, iran, israel, the u.s., the broader global community. stay with us. our breaking news coverage of the fall of the assad regime continues in a moment welcome to times square that's not in my mind it was so embarrassing. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn. streaming live at harbor freight. >> we design and test our own tools and sell them directly to you no middlemen, just quality tools you can trust at prices you'll love whenever you do, do it for less. at harbor freight imagine making premium cocktails at the touch of a button. >> introducing bartesian. simply insert the capsule, select your strength and enjoy. >> get our best holiday deal now only at bartesian. com slash drinks you've got a pepto predicament you overdid it on the loaded fries. >> undo it with pepto faced melts when you have nausea, heartburn

somebody like walsh would be for the governing these are for the base, by the way. if they don't get through, i've got pam bondi right behind him five minutes later and i think it's the same thing with kash patel. i don't think the expectation is that he's going to get through because just look at the obvious stuff. you just have to watch two interviews, don't watch the snippets, watch two interviews of kash patel with steve bannon, watch the whole thing and if you're a united states senator and you're a respectable republican senator, watch the whole thing and then ask yourself if you really love your country, do you want kash patel to be the fbi director? and i think the president will have somebody in the q five minutes after he steps out of that position of nomination shermichael i mean, the president campaigned on disrupting the fbi this is a guy who says he would shut down the headquarters on day one, promoted qanon is he qualified i mean, look, i think based on what john said, he has some legitimate experience now, whether or not he is the optimal person. >>