turks ranking member cherfus mccormick. first, we have assistant secretary for information and technology kirk dell beny thank you for coming in. we have officer charles worthington. again, thank you for coming in. from the veterans benefits administration we have mr. ray tellez. good to see you again executive director of the office of business integration. and joining him is mr. paul shoot, the assist at that particular time deputy and secretary for theffice of benefits delivery. thank you again. i asked the witnesses to please stand and raise your rite hands. do you solemnly swear under penaltof perjury that the testony you're about to provide is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. let the record reflect that all witnesses have answered in the affirmative. mr. dell benny you are recognized for five minutes to deliver your openg statement on behalf of the panel. >> good afternoon, chairman, rankinmember cherflus mccormick and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for this testimony. i'm ac

i yield back. >> thank you, ranking member mccormick. i now recognize ranking member -- excuse me -- representative self from texas. rep. self: thank you, mr. chairman do you think that watch tower is quality control? >> jers i would say that we are designing it so we have more confidence in the specific help of any given feature at any other time. we have so many products with so many aspects that that would give us a way more proactively if there's an issue impacting one of those features. >> now, i disagree with you because what you said is you're monitoring the health of your functions. that's what i disagree with because everything we hear again is process here. i hear very little about the veterans. i'm talking about the quality of control that should be exercised in the determination. and we've had other briefings about the board -- appeals board and all of that. this is -- this is my problem. i don't -- i disagree that watch tower is q.c. on the issue that is we're addressing today. why can -- we're talk about access v.a. here wh

each year around $250.00 chicks, a board in hatcheries, helen mccormick has helped raise many of them. so i have had to load the store and take it for granted that it is still very, very spatial. especially when that's hatched. and a very young like that it is a very special thing to be able to handle off to several weeks. the chicks are taken to one of several credit defense centuries and released to rome and breed in safety and they are released on to that now to sign um, but then there's ongoing work because we want to then take the checks from the side and move them back out into the wall. can we use a unique animal? so there is one part of that size, a key ready to make sure that we have them for future generations and that people will fail to see them in the wall. but of course, the smallest just about the key we that are like an indicator spaces for the health of the forest as well. so if we're able to use the q we surviving well out from the forest, then awesome lots of other spaces, a surviving lot. and that's why i want to say a nice, healthy, 1st, healthy, healthy forest. u

mccormick, you are familiar with the constitution.this illegal counsel has reiterated that you cannot indict a sitting president. the only means of removal that our founding fathers were fortunate enough to see that we might have corrupt officials. now, you cannot be impeached, sanders cannot be impeached. ok, but now we have an impeachment court. impeachment is reserved for crimes committed while holding that office -- donald trump for all the stuff he did before he took office. so is it not true that impeachment is very sacred and reserved for crimes committed during the presidency? show me one piece of evidence, show me one piece of evidence. if you have all this evidence, since january 21 president -- took the office of president that joe biden has taken any bribes, received any money from his son. host: let's take that point. guest: first of all, we voted on and inquiry. that is finding the truth. i think anybody who doesn't want to find the truth is not having honest conversations to begin with. democrat or republican, if we hav

host: at air table this morning, republican rich mccormick from georgia. for being here. the sixth district a member of the foreign affairs committee. how did you vote on moving forward officially with this impeachment inquiry. i think there's always surprises in the republican party. i think there's enough evidence right now of very suspicious behavior beyond coincidental that needs to be exposed. we have the same i would be looking for so why not. >> they've been investigating for a year. i don't think that's accurate at all. when an account comes from different accounts and is transferred over, that is unexplained. do you know how much scrutiny with everything that goes into my bank account, every single dollar and investment that goes into my account is looked at with a fine tune code every single year. why wouldn't the president that has a son that is working for a foreign agency that had no qualifications for that and receive millions of dollars and five other family members who received millions of dollars in 20 different bank accounts that seem to every time they

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joining us is any brand liz mccormick. -- eddie van der walt and liz mccormick. if you think about investor expectations versus economist expectations there is a gap. did they start to converge? liz: it is the question. the economists, may be the market is listening to the economists less. when he were saying recession this year. there is always a diversions. i think it is going to take a lot for traders to winnow out the pace of yeezy they have. over 150 basis points of next year. i think inflation, even if it kind of slowed, how quick that goes, i think the market is going to price in that they are going to see surgical cuts. if the economy were in this soft landing -- like you said, durable goods is amazingly strong -- but if the economy as we come into the new year, the first full week we have a new job stated number, if jobs start to slow more you're going to see the market get end up further. -- ginned up further. the market is pricing in a 90% chance the first cut comes in march. i don't know if that will pan out. you are seeing economists bring forward ho

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jim, is mccormick still spicy enough to own?ink that what has happened is that mccormick has become an expensive stock versus the rest of the group, and that is pulling the stock down. i will tell you, spices have not had any problem with glp-1 they weren't worried about that, but you are worried about the fact that the stock is too expensive. i think it is wrong to say that smucker fully turned the page on these glp-1 worries. that hostess acquisition could still hurt them. it will still be a mid to long- term concern, so i want to package food play here that is safer , including my exclusive two-part interview with amazon. retail, holiday shopping, the nfl and mormon andy jassy. and that's not all. there is so much to cover with this company . they seem to do anything and everything. we will also look at amazon's latest investments in ai and explain the role that aws is playing in the overall strategy. and the seattle edition of the lightning round, so stay with cramer . the first time you made a sale online with godaddy was a

we bring in liz mccormick. the 30 year bond auction was fairly well received in contrast to the sale in november. tell us what that tells you about investor willingness to take on duration for the fomc decision and new economic projections. >> like you said, it was a good auction, mostly relative to the terrible five basis points we had last month and the three and 10 year were not good. the fact that the government could sell 30 year paper in the bid to cover was better than the recent averages. there is a different buyer base for 30 years. i think many of them are thinking that these rates are probably the best we will see in a while. it's the peak rate theory. it's good treasury got that off. there is a lot of event risk tomorrow with the fed even though they will probably not do anything, we want to hear what jay powell says and what the dot plot says so there is a lot of filter roof but it was a relief of these three auctions. rates have been all over today but the short end is about flat and long-term rat

of the white house, lyndon johnson, the vice president in the middle, speaking to house speaker mccormick future speaker carl albert at the far edge of the frame, hale boggs from louisiana who was the house majority whip at the time, the other side of the frame, george smathers from florida who was the conference chairman on the democratic side and hubert humphrey, who was the majority whip and mansfield has his back to the camera. is leaving. john kennedy was so taken with this photo of mansfield that he had a copy made and inscribed it to mansfield, he said to mike, who knows when to stay and when to go. mansfield and kennedy had a particularly close personal and political relationship. i would venture to say no majority leader in the history of the senate has had a closer relationship with the president than mansfield had with john kennedy. they came to the senate and the same election, 1952, they sat next to each other in the back row of the senate during their freshman term. irish catholics, kennedy a little different upbringing as a young man than mansfield but nonetheless they beca

david mccormick miranda 2022 was a former, worked in the bush treasury department, venture capitalistshedge fund executive very wealthy. he finished about 900 votes behind dr. oz in a primary and republicans and democrats agreed what a been a stronger nominee against john fetterman could've looked very different. he is running again this time with the promise of millions of his own money and the race, and it really is in a primary, sort of the anointed candidate with the d.c. establishment behind. this is going to be a high spending a fair, top race and we know as a presidential battleground as well. republicans are optimistic mccormick might have the ability to run ahead of where tom's margins by might be wer particularly and the philadelphia suburbs. >> how is a looking and ohio four incumbent sherrod brown? >> i think brown might be the most little in common. again a paper should be jon tester but ohio you have that state used to be the perpetual battleground state but now he of trump that is one it by eight points in both 2016 and 2020. brown is a political survivor. he has this po

speaking to house speaker mccormick. a future speaker. carl at the far edge of the frame.and hale boggs, louisiana, who was the house majority whip at the time. on the other side of the frame, george smathers from florida, who was the conference chairman on the democrat side, and hubert humphrey was the majority whip. and mansfield's got his back to. the camera, he's leaving. john kennedy was so taken with this photo of mansfield that he had a copy made and inscribed it to mansfield. he said to mike, who when to stay and when to. at that mansfield and kennedy had a particularly personal and political relationship. i would venture to say no majority leader inhe history of the senate has had a closer relationship with the president than mansfield had with john kennedy. they came to the senate in the same election in 1952. they sat next to each other in the back row of the senate during their freshman time, freshman term. irish catholics, admittedly, kennedy, a little different from upbringing. a young man, the mansfield, but nonetheless they became very close almost like a a

and perhaps the supreme court she acquiesced that speaker mccormick spoke at the memorial as did chiefstice. the only speech that is remembered is mike mansfield speech. i want to read just a touch of it. the eulogy was somewhat controversial in some circles at the time because i don't think people understood what mansfield was trying to do. it's almost a poem as to a speech. i had seen a newspaper article over that weekend between kennedy's murder on friday and the memorial service a couple of days later that made reference to mrs. kennedy, jackie taking her wedding ring from her hand and placing it in the president's hand and placing it in the casket before the burial. imreport the memorial service. use that imagery of the first lady taking the ring from her finger and putting it in her hand to tie together his eulogy. there is a sign of laughter and in a moment was no more. and so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hand. an old man's wisdom and a child's wisdom. and then it was no more. she took a ring from her finger and place it in his hand. i shall never forget

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>> reporter: well, this is congresswoman sheila cherfilus-mccormick, recently elected in the 2022 election cycle. she won a special election before being elected to a full term in the 2022 general election. and we don't know specifically what the house checks committee is looking into. they're normally private about these probes. what we do know is the committee has unanimously voted to norman investigaive subcommittee to look into the allegations of campaign finance allegations. they list a number of specific things that they're going to look into including improper use of campaign finance funds, also the possibility that there was someone volunteering for her campaign that didn't specifically work for the campaign or work for official office. and while we don't know specifically what they are investigating, we to know that there have been questions raised about how congresswoman mccormick used campaign funds, i'm sorry, not campaign funds, but taxpayer funds to actually pay for ads that ran in her congressional district leading up to her election. now it's not legal for a member of congr

mccormick, you are familiar with the constitution.this illegal counsel has reiterated that you cannot indict a sitting president. the only means of removal that our founding fathers were fortunate enough to see that we might have corrupt officials. now, you cannot be impeached, sanders cannot be impeached. ok, but now we have an impeachment court. impeachment is reserved for crimes committed while holding that office -- donald trump for all the stuff he did before he took office. so is it not true that impeachment is very sacred and reserved for crimes committed during the presidency? show me one piece of evidence, show me one piece of evidence. if you have all this evidence, since january 21 president -- took the office of president that joe biden has taken any bribes, received any money from his son. host: let's take that point. guest: first of all, we voted on and inquiry. that is finding the truth. i think anybody who doesn't want to find the truth is not having honest conversations to begin with. democrat or republican, if we hav

and on behalf of the the university to the college, welcome to the mccormick civil war institute's annual spring civil war conference. we're delighted to have you here. whether you are a returner, one of the things i've learned over years is that there are many people who have come back. do you offer a prize who's been here the most you should do that right? yeah. next year right. so whether you're a returner or if it's your time, welcome to our campus i think you'll enjoy today the day professor moir puts together a fantastic every year and i just to say on behalf of the university how appreciative and how important we see the institute as being. it has several missions. i mean, of course the history department and civil war institute work to, engage in discussion and conversation with students and the community. the history of the civil war. it works to preserve the history and memory of the cool spring battlefield site. it brings together distinguished scholars on a regular basis to talk about both the history, the civil war, and also its memory and legacy. and so we very much value th

head scarf to go to the hospital, might seem trivial to many people there bullshit. body margie mccormick, republican envelops us like the shell of a big a kaufman multiples load, and it tells me you haven was there to get your motor. you people are knocking against a shell from the inside, hoping that cracks will appear in one day that i will bring the job. i'm going, i'm the how does your tests that is not kids mohammed. the is 51 years old. she spent a total of almost 9 years in prison and still has 8 more to go. despite this, her will to fight has become even stronger miniature, but she's decided to fight against the use of solitary confinement. no, not today, no gas is much braver and more determined and watch the dogs, the default to or more you or the ending condition. so that what's impresses me most is search humanity that she puts others before herself. a good, a teacher, she something and then sometimes that's not good thing, but in situations like these, it's a strength because she never gives up. victory is not easy. so it won't come today or tomorrow, but that is something t

sean mccormick. aaron mcmillan. norma rogozin. dave rosales. gretchen rude and chris spain. and hundreds more with so many people who helped make apexart successful impossible, it is hard to truly recognize everyone . and this is just a representative list of the entire team that worked so hard to make this possible. thank you guys. thank you. thank you. thank you on behalf of the board, i want to just thank mr. guzzo for your service and congratulations on your remarkable impacts. also, thank the full team working on apec. i also wanted to do a very brief shout out to enrique aguilar, who put together that great video that captured so many of the different types of staff contributions. if anybody hasn't seen it, i encourage you to take a look. i think that told the story really nicely of the full team effort that apec involved. so thank you all again and thank you, julie and jeff for the making. these moments, for recognition of staff. all right. thank you so much. before we move on to the next director's report, items, i do want to comment on both of these teams because we

than that then from us come on as we'll meet the idea of everywhere in a very strong way before mccormick, over the weekend of the city of han units was hit twice by the idea of the bombings that destroyed buildings to the hospitals, in the end, the numbers of those killed continues to mount as piracy, i thought he said the grand total has now passed $15000.00 units of space. but since i was a spy, that shows this problem as well, that the south would be safe. the reality is now comparable towards the north. hasn't gone through the church just on sunrise. now. i know i to of actually relentless, bombardments, but i, i cannot stop thinking about the 1800000 people here in the south. i don't think there was more than a 5 or 10 minute period throughout the course of the night and, and i really didn't sleep where, where something was and flying out of the head or the sky being laid off. and the component 1000000 people in, in the south. i spend my days in tonya. and as it is mattress next to mattress person, next to person 10000 people in that shelter. 20000 in that cell to 500 sleeping outsi

than that then from us come on as we'll meet the idea of everywhere in a very strong way before mccormick. however, the we can have a city of hon. a unit twice. 5, the idea from the bombing to the distorted buildings to the hospitals, and the end of the numbers of those killed continues to mount a policy. and i thought he's a say the grim, tall, has now passed. 15000. the unit assess search person says despite the shows as problem is, well the south would be say, the reality is now comparable to the knolls hasn't gone through a suggestion . sunrise now i know i know of actually relentless, bombardments. so i, i cannot stop thinking about the 1800000 people here in the south. i don't think there was more than a 5 or 10 minute period throughout the course than not. and, and i really didn't cite where, where something was and flying out of the head or the sky being laid off and the component 1000000 people in, in the south. i spent my days in tanya and as it is mattress next to mattress person, next person 10000 people in that shelter. 20000 in that show the 500 sleeping outside and i don't

and not going to come off come on as we'll meet the idea of everywhere in a very strong way before mccormick over the weekend. the city upon the unit was hit twice spot and the idea of from of the bombing to the distorted building was to the hospitals. in the end, the numbers of those killed continues to mount its passing. authorities say the grim foe has now passed 15000 units f. suppose. but as of the size, this slide it shows is for me as well that the south would be safe. the reality is now comparable to what the knolls has gone through a suggestion sunrise. now, i know i to of actually relentless, bombardments, but i, i cannot stop thinking about the 1800000 people here in the south. i don't think there was more than a 5 or 10 minute period throughout the course of the night. and, and i really didn't cite where, where something was and flying out of the head or the sky being laid off and that component 1000000 people in, in the south. i spent my days in tanya and as it is mattress next to mattress person, next to person 10000 people in that shelter. 20000 in that cell to 500 sleeping ou