Good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox i
It is the washington journal the seven tonight President Biden delivers the state of the union. You can watch on cspan or cspan now. He pushes republicans to work on him with lowering cost, higher taxations on corporations and other measures but many measures are expected to nights. We want to hear about the top issues in the United States. For democrats 202 7488000 for republicans 202 7488001 for independents 202 7488002 if you want to text us 202 7488003 and post on social media at facebook. Com cspan or on x at cspanwj. Our coverage starts at 8 00 with your phone calls and analysis leading up to the speech. All of that is available to you as part of coverage of state of the you in. If you go to our website we posted a poll about those you in light of the state of the you and here is what you are responding. 34 said the top issue is immigration, reproductive rights 13 , bipartisanship a 10 Foreign Policy at nine, health carerime 3 . If you want to participate you can do that if you u
Primetime. Tonight, there is a difference between meeting someone and having a meeting with someone. More Biden Transcripts released. Hunter and jimmy cant get their stories straight. Muslims versus cops. New york city is on edge. Inclusion is a National Security imperative. It is absolutely critical to drive our future success on the battlefield. The pentagon celebrates trans day of visibility. Plus, we are meant to be good at shaking our body. Fox news alert. We just got our hands on joe bidens Brothers Deposition and its more preposterous than hunter eric thats a high bar. As we reported last night not only did hunter admit his dad is the big guy, but he says joe was stopping by his Business Meetings that he called Birthday Parties to eat bowls of spaghetti with his clients. Now hunter doesnt call them clients. He told congressional investigators they are his friends. Hunters is friends with the fing spy chief of china. His words, not mine. What kind of business are you and when you
■ this week on 2024 campaign trail, cspan takes you to South Carolina. And to virginia, where nikki ■ haley continued her push in super tuesday states. And to the u. S. Mexico border in texas where President Biden and donald trump both made visits. First a look at some of the house races currently held by republicans in california. Erin kobe is a house analyst for the cook political report. You have done somenalysis on the importance of these california house seats. With their primary around the corner, why taking attention to some of these california house seats . Control of the houserepublicr seat majority in the house and the redtrcouple of states has thrown some curveballs into that. It looks like at the end of the day, democrats will only need to flip a few seats. We dont think either party has a huge advantage for control of the house. At the day, a lot of these competitive seats are either in new york or california. New york has gotten a disproportionate amount of attention
For the House Majority in 2024. Lets start with californias third district, kevin kiley. This is probably among the seats that are competitive and republican held. One of the less competitive ones. He is a freshman congressman. This is a seat that trump won by a couple of points in 2020. Depending w the president ial race plays out, it could be competitive. Democrats have a strong candidate in jessica e. We have this as likely reblican moving on to californias 13th district, you have rated this as a tossup. Explain. Have four california districts. They are all held by republicans. A lot of folks that i have talked to think the 13th district could be the most vulnerable republican in california. He represents a seat that is in the Central Valley, contains parts of bakersfield. The democratic candidate last cycle came away from winning. Democrats do have an inherent advantage republicans as the incumbent, he is going resources he did not have last cycle. In terms of the primary is not a