The following is a transcript of an interview with Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat, on 'Face the Nation' that aired on June 30, 2024.
The following is a transcript of an interview with Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat, on 'Face the Nation' that aired on June 30, 2024.MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes. He's the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Good morning to you.REP. JIM HIMES : Good morning, Margaret.
Well, Margaret, we can never say there is no active threat. You know, there is always a baseline threat of a terrorist act in the United States, there is absolutely nothing we can do to change that fact. So you can never say that there is zero risk. What you can do is, you can look at the period of time since 9/11, the tragic attack on 9/11, and say, how many Americans have actually died in a terrorist attack engineered by foreigners? And the answer to that question is- is vanishingly small.
Well, I the- the Tajik case is, as far as I know, the only case that we have been briefed on on the Intelligence Committee of our intelligence community, our law enforcement community, following people that we think could be involved in a plot. I'm certainly not aware of other situations like that. Now, it is almost certainly true, in a country of 350 million people, that there are some people out there who are thinking about undertaking acts of violence.
Of course, a border in which people are entering and we don't know who they are is a risk, no question about it. And I wish that we had seized the opportunity of the bipartisan bill negotiated by Jim Lankford and Chris Murphy, a conservative Republican and a progressive Democrat to actually do something about that. But Donald Trump said, No, he said don't do it. I want to run on this issue. So I would have loved to have seen that get done.
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