separate issue. but they plan to dig deeper on specific subjects after this overall scene setting hearing, and then issue a series of reports in the months and weeks ahead about what actions the u.s. can take, what congress can take to try to confront the threat although home. there was also a hearing on oversight of american dollars going to ukraine. we heard top ranking democrat on the committee adam smith say sending f-16 fighter jets to ukraine is not a wise use of resources, even though ukraine wants that. repawn can matt gaetz tried to enter propaganda. tell me about. gates seemed to be surprised. it seemed to be an accident on his part, citing the propaganda outlet. he was asking a policy official at the defense department about a report from this organization and the report cited u.s. giving weapons to the far right
this toxic material. just to clear the train line. but also, we should have been supporting those communities from the very start. just dragging fit on something until video start to go viral online does not make for great policy. and i think it might be a cause for concerns for biden and this administration is particularly proud of his record when it comes to infrastructure issues. let me ask you, caitlin, about the aerial objects we ve been shooting down from our skies in canada. you had the secretary of state anthony blinken who just met with china s top four policy official. over the tensions between the two countries and the downs spy balloon. both president joe biden and vice president kamala harris have said they want to sharpen the rules to address unidentified objects, perhaps maybe different rules of engagement going forward. how do you foresee the biden administration approaching these issues in the future? i just hope we have some
and safety said they had concerns because of similarities with a 2016 russian hack that targeted the dnc. it comes as conservatives are continuing to push in some instances conspiracy theories about the president s son even to the former twitter executives who testified today. nbc news technology correspondent jake ward has been watching this. jake, bring us up to speed. it has been a wide ranging day of conspiracy theories and political opinions. this was an opportunity to in theory hear from three big time former executives. the head of trust and safety, along with the chief legal officer and one of her deputies, these would have been people that could have told us quite a bit about what life was like before elon musk took over the company and what life might be like afterwards, but, you know, it was also a democratic opportunity to talk in calling a former twitter policy official forward to talk about the dangers that led up to january 6th and how they may have been overlooked at
meanwhile, we are going to remain engaged with the prc as this ongoing issue is resolved. the first step is getting the surveillance asset out of our air space. and that s what we re focused on. and i thought it was very important for the senior policy official in beijing to hear this directly from me. it would be premature for me to weigh in on any other specifics as this surveillance balloon remains in our air space. as i said, job one is getting it out of our air space. we continue to believe that having open lines of communication is important. indeed, this incident only underscores the importance. that s why we will maintain them. that s also why, when conditions permit, i plan to go to china. but the most important thing right now in the moment is to
policy official at twitter coming forward speaking exclusively with the washington post saying in her words, i wouldn t be doing this if i didn t believe that truth matters. twitter on the other hand has argued her testimony leaves out in their words unprecedented steps the company took to respond to threats during the 2020 election. technology reporter drew harwell over at the post got that exclusive interview for the paper. thanks for being here this afternoon. thanks for having me. i m quoting her here, i realize that being who i am and doing what i m doing, i m opening my several and my family to extreme risk. tell us more about that, why she s coming forward now. she thought there was a lot that was being left out of the story. she felt like what she had seen being inside twitter for so long was really alarming and she was frustrated that she had been ignored at the time when, you know, donald trump was online, stirring people up and sort of leading to what we saw on jan