then mccright carly cooperman are -- democrat carly cooperman and brian nienabar and then later michael gordon joins us to talk about the biden administration response to chinese military capabilities and threats posed to the u.s. join the conversation with your calls, text messages, facebook comments, and tweets. washington journal starts now. ♪ host: good morning. it is sunday, february 12 and we start this morning

then mccright carly cooperman are -- democrat carly cooperman and brian nienabar and then later michael gordon joins us to talk about the biden administration response to chinese military capabilities and threats posed to the u.s. join the conversation with your calls, text messages, facebook comments, and tweets. washington journal starts now. ♪ host: good morning. it is sunday, february 12 and we start this morning hearing from colors 65 years old and older. we want to know what is your top issue for watching this. that's been a great deal of conversations on the seniors and budget spending and programs like medicare and social security. what is your top issue? give us a call. you can start calling in right now. eastern/central timezones, 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific timezones, 202-748-8001. you can text us at 202-748-8003. if you do that, please include your name and where you live. you can leave us a comment. you can also find us on twitter at @cspanwj and on instagram @cspanwj. here's an article from the washington post. it starts off by recounting last week's state of the union

host: democratic pollster carly cooperman and republican pollster brian need neighbor now joins us toss the political stories of the week. welcome brian and carly. >> thank you for having us. host: let's start with president biden's state of the union. how would you rate it? what do you think where the strengths and weaknesses he displayed during that speech? carly: he came off as in charge, he reminded people of his achievements over the last 2 years and he laid out the most popular points of his agenda going forward. he reminded people he would stand firm on negotiations over the debt ceiling. he was able to paint the republican leaders, the people of the house as chaotic and extreme in the way that they responded when he spoke about social security. he came off as an adult in the room, showing that he was eager to govern over the next 2 years in a bipartisan fashion. host: brian, what did you think of the speech, particularly the whole exchange with republicans? do you agree that biden came out looking good? >> both of us have national paulding that shows -- polling that shows disa

sunday morning democratic pollster carly cooperman and republican poster discussed politics. national security correspondent go gordon talks about the biden administration's response to chinese military capability and threats posed to the u.s.. watch washington journal at 7:00 eastern sunday morning on c-span or c-span now offering mobile video app. join with phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. 9 in 1848, husband and wife william and ellen kraft embarked on a journey of self emancipation. disguised as a wealthy disabled white man with his servant, they fled georgia, running from slave traders, law enforcement, and friends were trying to conceal their identity. the author of a master slave husband wife retails their harrowing journey north and the impact of the fugitive slave laws passed two years later sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span q&a. this into c-span q&a and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. next week on c-span, the housis out and the senate is in. working on president biden's judicial nominations for the u.s. circuit cour

coming up, carly cooperman and brian new neighbor discuss politics and public views toward government. then national security correspondent michael gordon talks about the biden administration's response to chinese military capabilities and threats posed to the u.s.. watch "washington journal" live on c-span or on c-span now, our free mobile video app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> in 1848, husband and wife william and ellen kraft embarked on a journey of self emancipation disguised as a wealthy disabled white man with a servant. the crafts left georgia while trying to conceal their identities. ill jan wu recounts their harrowing journey north and the fugitive slave law passed two years later. sunday night on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q all of our podcasts on our free c-span app. >> next week on the c-span networks, the house is out. the senate is in will be working on president biden's dicial nominations for u.s. cicourt of appeals and district courts. tuesday morning, the senate commerce committee considers the nomina

carly cooperman and a republican discuss public views for government. wall street journal security course on it talks about the biden administration's response to chinese military capabilities and threats posed to the u.s.. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. join the discussion with your phone call, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> president biden delivered his statef the union address last tuesday. we will show you his remarks again at sunday 1 p.m. eastern. follow by huckabee sanders republican response. watch that sunday on c-span or anytime at c-span.org or with our free video app, c-span now. >> next week othe c-span network, the house is out, the senate iin, and will be working on president biden's judicial nominations for u.s. circuit court of appeals and district courts. tuesday morning, the senate commerce committee csiders the nomination of -- federal communications commission. the senate finance committee iders an nomination a

coming up sunday morning, carly cooperman, and -- discuss politics and public views for government.en wall street journal national security correspondent talks about the biden administration's response to chinese capability -- chinese military capabilities. watch washington journal on c-span, or on c-span now. our free mobile video app. to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> president bid divered his yearly state of the union address last tuesday we will show you the remarks again this sunday at 1:00 eastern. followed by sarah huckabee nders response. watch it on c-span or on any time on c-span.org or on our free mile video app c-span now. in 1848 husband and wife, embarked on a journey of self emancipation, they left georgia, evading law enforcement, all while trying to conceal their identity. the author of master, slave, husband, wife, recounts their journey north and the fugitive slave law passed later. watch on c-span's q&a. you can listen to c-span's q&a and all of our podcasts on c-span's free app. >> c-span is your unfilt

from our audience again for your questions or comments on the news of the week, questions for carly cooperman, democratic pollster or brian nienaber, republican pollster. call us on the republican or democrat line. (202)748-8000 for democrat and if you're an independent call us at (202)748-8002 and we'll get to some of your calls in just a moment. let's talk a bit more about that portion of the state of the union. president biden and republicans shouting out lie, liar, when he talked about provisions that would sunset federal law, proposal frank siller senator rick scott particularly. this is an article that said how the house gop blew up at biden's state of the union and starts out by saying speaker kevin mccarthy said republicans would not play "childish games" during biden's state of the union address on tuesday and started by a cord yule event by the end, the speech had some of the rowdiest roweddutch >> i think when you e kevin mctar think and he doesn't want to put things on the table like cutting social security and medicare and call earlier from them with senator with the public setti