On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold certain weapons from Israel if it goes into Rafah’s population centers “doesn’t help” and “took pressure
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that President Joe Biden’s statement to CNN on weapons to Israel “is not really the administration’s position” according to people in the
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that the White House “needs to clean…up” President Joe Biden’s comments on Israel to CNN “and reiterate our support for Israel,” because
On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that he believes the Biden administration will advise Israel that “they should look to de-escalate across the board where possible.” Smith also argued that the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that Israel needs to have weapons to deter Iran and Hezbollah and help keep the conflict in the Middle East from spreading,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the media haven’t done enough to point out that Hamas is the biggest block to a ceasefire and Hamas needs to
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the unintentional deaths of World Central Kitchen employees by an Israeli airstrike shows that it’s crucial to get a ceasefire, but Hamas won’t
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that while he doesn’t know all the particulars of the strike on an Iranian embassy compound in Syria, “if Iran wants to stop this
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that President Joe Biden “does not have the normal strength to go out there and campaign, to do rally after rally and
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that “Iran is allowing these attacks” on U.S. soldiers “to happen with no consequences to themselves. And as long as that continues,
House Democrats promised to bail out Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) if he were to do the “right thing” and help pass an immigration bill that would do little to combat the border crisis unfolding under President Joe Biden.
On Thursday, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that President Joe Biden has shifted on immigration policy and the immigration situation “has gotten worse in the last three years” and that while lots of that doesn’t have anything to do with
On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that our asylum system is too soft and asylum laws need to be strengthened because the current system of asylum laws makes it “too easy for people to come
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the border is “a threat” because terrorists can cross it and the composition of border crossers has changed and “It’s also a
The plot highlights the extent to which the establishment fears Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that President Joe Biden “needs to evaluate his relationship” with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin based on Austin’s answer on why Austin didn’t
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that while there’s no good excuse for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin not informing the White House about his health issues, “Republicans,
On Friday’s “CNN Newsnight,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) discussed the vandalism of his home and stated that “We’ve seen these types of protests all over the country and all over the world. And essentially, they call themselves peace activists, but
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. argued that Israel should allow fuel into Gaza even though there is a risk “that some of that will wind up in the
During an interview with CBS’s “The Takeout” podcast recorded on Wednesday and released on Friday, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that the Russia-North Korea meeting is “potentially very destabilizing,” and “all part of an alliance” between China, Iran, North Korea,
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) reacted to concerns among Democrats about a second term for President Joe Biden by stating that “objectively, President Biden is doing a really good job. The economy is strong.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that he doesn’t believe Democrats will engage in any compromise on including border security provisions in a continuing resolution. Co-host Sara Sidner asked, “I want to talk to
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that it is “technically true” that China is preparing for war with the U.S. and that China is throwing its weight around
On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that he would be shocked if China hadn’t done something similar to its behavior with the spy balloon, but that “flying something directly over U.S.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that while “it’s a problem that former Afghan fighters are fighting for Russia” in Ukraine, “President Biden finally had the courage to understand” we couldn’t work with
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that there should be a debate over the fact that we are “borrowing a large amount of money.” But there are “economists who will argue that that’s
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) disparaged those calling for increased oversight over billions of U.S. taxpayer funds going to Ukraine as Russian propagandists during an event on Saturday.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said Republicans are opposing the reconciliation package because “they are so invested in proving that democracy can’t work, especially under President Biden, that they’re rejecting proposal after proposal that’s
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should go ahead with her planned trip to Taiwan — a trip that President Joe Biden
During an interview on MSNBC on Monday, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that President Joe Biden’s statement on refusing to send rocket systems to Ukraine that can reach into Russia “was an off-hand remark” and
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) called for “maximum pressure on China” to ensure they do not bail out Russia from the consequences of sanctions. Smith stated, [relevant
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that he would be surprised if oil companies weren’t engaging in profiteering on gas prices and Congress needs to “keep an eye on that and try to make
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said he supports banning imports of oil from Russia and that “we’ve got to be ready for the fact that will drive up oil
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated that his biggest takeaway from allegations by Special Counsel John Durham is that “we’ve got real problems” on things like inflation and the impact of
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that President Joe Biden didn’t lift sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, he just chose not to impose the
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) dismissed “this idea that we have to hold people accountable, we have to fix this” in the wake of the August 29 drone strike
Several establishment Republicans helped Democrats block a measure that would penalize companies for enabling the Chinese Communist Party’s hosting of next year’s winter Olympics in Beijing during a House Armed Services Committee markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) said that completing the evacuation of Afghanistan will clearly extend beyond the August 31 deadline and “We’re going to have to go outside of the
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) said that President Joe Biden initially argued that the withdrawal from Afghanistan “would not be chaotic. And now he is saying it was inevitable
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) said “the Biden administration didn’t listen to the intelligence more carefully and didn’t plan better” for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, “and we’re now seeing