nicholas wu? a lot there.i think josephine's comments about women's issues being decisive in this primary is very interesting. as someone who covers congress, i am seeing it played out a lot whether it is congressional candidates making abortion an issue or the broader range of social and economic issues that can be folded into that. the question for a lot of republicans will be how the rhetoric of candidates like trump will affect them. we have seen weakness with trump over the past few years among independent women, particularly in the suburbs. the test for republicans will be whether they can win that demographic back. guest 1: i want to add in the debate that we saw it was interesting to see nikki haley talk about abortion. her views were significantly different than a lot of the other candidates talking about how being able to pass a nationwide abortion, and a kind of legislation, they will need to get lawmakers here on capitol hill on board. that was a starkly different view we saw versus some of the oth

we are joined by nicholas wu and samantha-jo roth. before we talk about congress, let's talk about campaigns. what do you think was the most important moment in campaign 2024 last week? was it the on stage debate or the mugshot? guest 1: that is a hard question. some people would say that mugshot was historic. a president has never had a mugshot before. a lot of people were really focusing on that. also the debate was a huge moment as well to see what some of these candidates will be like as they debate. will they fizzle out? will they make it to iowa? will they make it to new hampshire? those are some big questions in my mind. host: several will not make it to the next debate where the threshold to make it onto the debate stage is higher than this one. guest 1: correct. some of those lower polling candidates may not be on the stage in california. this was some of their shots to make a name for themselves. host: nicholas wu, bigger moment, the debate or the mugshot? guest the mugshot -- guest 2: the mugshot. trump stole the entire new

nicholas wu? a lot there.i think josephine's comments about women's issues being decisive in this primary is very interesting. as someone who covers congress, i am seeing it played out a lot whether it is congressional candidates making abortion an issue or the broader range of social and economic issues that can be folded into that. the question for a lot of republicans will be how the rhetoric of candidates like trump will affect them. we have seen weakness with trump over the past few years among independent women, particularly in the suburbs. the test for republicans will be whether they can win that demographic back. guest 1: i want to add in the debate that we saw it was interesting to see nikki haley talk about abortion. her views were significantly different than a lot of the other candidates talking about how being able to pass a nationwide abortion, and a kind of legislation, they will need to get lawmakers here on capitol hill on board. that was a starkly different view we saw versus some of the oth

coming up sunday morning, washington examiner's samantha-jo roth and politicos nicholas wu talk aboutpreview upcoming congressional spending deadlines. then, atlantic council's john herbst, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine discusses the latest in the ukrainian counteroffensive against russia. c-span's "washington journal." join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. >> in his book, the is for victory parts on the number of casualties from world war ii. he writes according to the u.s. department of defense the military casualties were 1,780,000. 673,115 were wounded according to the bureau of labor statistics, there were over 8.9 one million americans industry workualties. 75,000 died and 8.8 one million were wounded between 1942 and 1945. author craig nelson further says acro htory, the arsenal of democracy has come to mean this miracle of manufacturi but when president roosevelt often used the term, he meant however the miracle of the american people. >> author craig nelson on this epode above notes less. is on the fre