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Infrastructure. including the water supply. transportation, food production, and chemical and industrial plants. u.s. has the technology and knowledge to secure the system has not prioritized the resources to do so. last february, the justice department announced guilty pleas for three men who conspired to attack power grids across the country. called it a domestic terrorism plot related to white supremacist ideology. bret, no suspects in custody as of right now, but i m told when they are caught, they could face charges of domestic terrorism. bret, back to you. bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thank you. up next, who would lead a contentious republican party into the 2024 campaign after a disappointing midterm season? we ll take a look at the possibilities. and, later, not everyone is on board with boston s new approach to get drug users to stop shooting up. ....
We need to inject a sense of urgency into our effort. the other thing i would say is that the predecessor to this, the china task force led by chairman mike mccaul tried to get democrats to participate in it. kevin mccarthy opened that up to democrats. they refused for partisan purposes. we want this to be a bipartisan effort. we want the democrats to nominate serious, sober people to participate because defending america from chinese communist party aggression should not be a partisan thing. bret: you mentioned that speaker elect mccarthy is obviously not there with the votes yet. you re confident he is going to get there. i am confident. kevin is doing the remarkable job in terms of reaching out to members who aren t committed to vote for him yet and asking, okay, what are your concerns? where can we meet in the middle in terms of rules changes? and so i think we will get there. we re going to have a couple weeks here to make sure we continue to advance down that road. i think th ....
Government, marie thank you. bret: all right, let her talk, ben. when someone s calls me naive on tv i m allowed to respond. those who worked on getting hostages home like we did in the obama administration there are no good options here. no empirical evidence anywhere that doing hostage exchanges actually encourages countries to take them. that s why countries like israel, for example, negotiate swaps all the time with other countries. look, the options were get brittney griner out of a penal colony and home or not. if i m sitting in the oval office making that decision, that s the choice in front of me. it s not a good choice but vladimir putin doesn t give us good choices today. and that s why joe biden is going after him in ukraine and in a whole host of other ways and he made this tough decision to get her home just like a number of other presidents have done. and i think we can all be proud of that today. bret: okay. we re going to leave there. thanks, bret. bret: ben a ....
Behind. is he going to prioritize that is he going to prioritize fiscal responsibility. that s long overdue and one much many reasons why he deserves to be speaker. bret: you know, there have been select committees on china before. the last public report was back in 1999. u.s. national security military commercial concerns with china and it goes on to say that the appetite of china for information and technology appears to be insatiable. the energy devoted to this task is enormous. threats to national security can come from prc scientists, students, business people or bureaucrats in addition to professional civilian military intelligence operations. that s 1999. we are now 23 years later. what has changed? we really have not affected the situation on the ground on which the u.s. and china are competing. what s changed is the chinese communist party is much more powerful. and xi jinping himself the general secretary of xi jinping much more powerful than predecessors. look what is ha ....
Providing beds for employees. where are you your priorities, london breed. as musk continues to release company files to censor the hunter biden laptop story, elon musk is getting advice from the old twitter boss, jack dorsey who was urging musk to put it all out there, quote: if the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves? musk replied to dorsey saying that some data has been hidden and deleted. but everything they do find will be released. bret? bret: hillary vaughn on capitol hill. thank you. repairs have been made and power restored in central north carolina after shootings damaged electric substation equipment over the weekend. authorities are looking for the culprits there and for the people responsible for vandalism at sites in the specific northwest. experts are warning of more problems in the future. here is correspondent david spunt. federal law enforcement ....