Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sept. 27, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: And we're back now with Connecticut Democratic Congressman Jim Himes. Congressman, you sit on the House Intelligence Committee.
We are 37 days out from the midterm races. I know you received a classified briefing on foreign threats, and you released a statement saying that the US intelligence community assessed no adversary had interfered or attempted to interfere with infrastructure or vote counting. Why did you think it was important to make that statement if nothing changed?
Well, Margaret, we know, that the president, as he careens on and I overheard you talking about the Strait of Hormuz and gasoline prices and everything as the president careens towards, a very substantial loss in the election. We know that he's going to deny its legitimacy. And I say we know it because he always does that when an election goes against him.
By the way, he does it when an election doesn't go against him in 2016, of course, he famously claimed to have won the popular vote. And the only question is how prepared are we for it? And, you know, we could spend two hours on the various scenarios that Donald Trump is going to do to claim that the election is corrupted.
You know, that he's going to say that there's illegal aliens voting in Michigan, in Florida. My little piece of this is and we saw a preview of this in his July speech to the nation. He is, quite possibly going to claim that the Iranians have taken control of the voting machinery in Florida or in North Carolina, or that the Russians or the Chinese.
And as the guy who has access to that information, I'm making sure to the extent that I can, that people understand what the history is, and that in real time, I'll have some insight as to whether what the president says in that moment is true. MARGARET BRENNAN: You have that assurance from U.S. officials that they will provide you that real time intelligence. JIM HIMES: Well, the answer, of course, is yes.
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