Cedric Richmond

I would just ask that you commit to briefing us again on that particular issue.

Do you think we are paying them what they are worth?

Would you please do that?

It is just amazing to me that no one in a particular field office in a whole year had any substantial ties to the community that they were not determined to be not a risk factor and released pending their hearing.

Part of my concern--and I will pick a fictional place so that I don't offend any community, but let's think of Mayberry, North Carolina, where Barney Fife was the sheriff's deputy.

Our failure to put money into R&D may cost us not only our strategic advantage as the world's leader in technology, but the global influence that stems from it.

Ensuring that emerging technologies are developed and deployed responsibly requires U.S. leadership.

We must be prepared for our adversaries to use AI-generated deepfakes to create a false history.

I am particularly concerned about the impact of new technologies on our elections.

Unfortunately, one man's tool is another man's weapon.

I think that something this complex and something this drastic, we really do need a belt-and-suspenders-type approach to it.

I think there are small steps we can take such as universal background checks, things of that nature.

I think interoperability is important and we went through that after Hurricane Katrina where we lost 1,500 people that we could not talk to each other.

I would have grave concern as a baseball coach if there was an active-shooter situation about what happens if I have a gun and the perpetrator has a gun.

Parents shouldn't have to be doing that.

Mr. Richmond. Okay. So, the audition is over? Okay. Just checking.

Mr. Richmond. I want to start with Mr. Yoes, who is in my district and represents Fraternal Order of Police.

But all the polls show that we are the only Democratic candidate that's beaten Donald Trump by double digits.

I think the vice president stands by his record. He is who he is, and you can't do anything about age.

The struggle is real, and this President and what he says about go back to your country and all the other racist things he said, I do not think the job numbers matter.

Absolutely not. Anderson, I've said this before when I was chair of the Black Caucus, the black unemployment rate during slavery was zero.

No, I think that the one thing you don't want to do in a campaign is declare victory in a place before an election.

We will continue our investigation, and we will hold the President accountable because no one is above the law.

In other words, the President was trying to force McGahn to say something that McGahn did not believe to be true.

So it is accurate to say that the President knew that he was asking McGahn to deny facts that McGahn, quote, had repeatedly said were accurate, unquote.