Jim Himes

Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have gotten all of that information...

These individuals know the calamitous risks of transmitting classified information across unclassified systems, and they also know that if a lower ranking official under their command did what is described here, they would likely lose…

It is by the grace of God that one of those enemies didn't alert the Houthis in advance.

I am horrified by reports that our most senior national security officials... shared sensitive and almost certainly classified information via a commercial messaging application.

Let's assume that the people on the Signal chat were probably the top targets for some of our global enemies.

What people worry about is that this administration acts with an unbelievable kind of cocktail of incompetence and illegality.

If the president of the United States decides to ignore the orders of a court... you have a full-blown constitutional crisis.

But what is critical there, of course, is due process. Right. You know, get them out. But let's at least make sure that were deporting people who we know fall into that category.

No question. I mean, otherwise, why would they be making these films, these videos, including the one that you've been running in your show today?

Now is the time for the courts to push back and say, you better pay attention or we will start, you know, holding people in contempt and garnishing wages and that sort of thing.

If these courts don't stand up very quickly and say, we are going to hold individuals in contempt and start doing some of the things that courts can do when they hold individuals in contempt, you can bet that next week the encroachment…

You see him exploring the threshold of ignoring a court order, knowing because he said so before and because his people know this, that that is very serious business, that that is a constitutional crisis.

For a great long last, Anderson, I do. You know, we've been, as you pointed out, throwing that term around pretty sloppily in the last two months or so. But the definition of a constitutional crisis, of course, is when you have no way to…

I have no love for Donald Trump, but I do have reverence for the Office of the President.

I don’t mind being one of 10 Democrats who said, no, there’s a deeper principle at stake here, which is reverence for this institution.

At the end of the day, I think we need to stand up for the things that we believe regardless of which party benefits or loses

There are just very few Republicans who are raising the alarm about this because they know the target that that will put on their backs with respect to Donald Trump.

I don't remember FDR saying to Winston Churchill, we're going to help you out, but we want that North Sea Oil. We want your coal.

The Europeans understand both the values at stake here, which is do we care about democracies or do we just do whatever totalitarian murderous regimes want us to do?

Many more Ukrainians will die because the Ukrainians will not have as much warning as they did previously of Russian attacks, and many fewer Russian military assets and people will be at risk.

The pause on providing materiel to Ukraine against Putin’s aggression is unconscionable on its own, but the idea that we will now withhold life-saving intelligence from Ukrainians who are fighting and dying is unforgivable.

Any pause in intelligence sharing must end immediately.

It's so unnecessary. It is so easy to convey these things through classified channels.

We put a lot of people needlessly at risk here, including young people at the start of their careers.

An absolutely unnecessary counterintelligence risk was assumed today.