Of South Carolina led the hearing. [taps gavel] all right. Hearing is setting members up for success. I now recognize myself or five minutes to give an opening statement. As is usually the case im not going to take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you who have attended past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i
All right. Better late than never, the meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you whd past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will a
Hudson. My name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. Today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. I want to take the welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. The report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and Arms Control Association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat, the too
Biden speaking at a convention in chicago. And for the next few hours, we will take your calls in reaction to the Second Democratic president ial debate last night in miami. Washington journal is next. Vice it was former President Joe Biden who had a bullseye on his back last night as 10 more Democratic Candidates squared off at the second nbc news debate. This morning we will spend todays washington journal getting your reaction to the back and forth between the candidates and compare it to the first night. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can go to twitter at cspanwj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. First, john mcardle with us on more details of the debate. Host 2 before we get to the substance, here is some of the raw numbers and social media trends including this chart tracking the total number of words spoken by each candidate last night. Former vice President Joe Biden leading in
Neil one of the more fascinating develop into this day, main street focused, saying President Biden isnt being prosecuted over his documents because he is old and feeble. Wall street doesnt care. It is ignoring it. We are not even covering it because we are covering something else. A big rally at the corner of wall and broad. Not necessarily political infighting that is anything but. I am neil cavuto. Thats the number that got wall street going. Month over month a lot of this was weve got an uptick here. Looking at core inflation which drop from the prior month, it looks a little good and a little bit bad. The trend, they still argue, would be the markets. This might delay a rate cut or two but doesnt stop that. It was a mixed bag. What do you think . Stocks are running away with this. Reporter i dont think the market is thinking much about this at all. Theres not much to talk about. Inflation is pretty much where it had been expected. A slight tick up, doesnt matter that much. Heres w