Ed, go ahead youre first up. Caller okay, i just heard the woman talked about medicare and misinformed people. One main thing she said, it would be more expensive. You know the cost and obamacare is 25 and 20 before obamacare and then we can negotiate for drugs. We could get, we would em eliminate agencies. The agencies are necessary for different age groups and veterans one thing under medicare. Host ed, i dont know you are in silver spring, i should let you know since you being a maryland resident our cspan bus will be in maryland as part of the 50 travels tour. Well stop in every state capital, get a chance to see the bus, learn about cspan, by the way, tomorrow on the program, the states Lieutenant Governor is joining us. You can view that, too. If you go to cspan. Org, there is more about the 50 capitals tour. We invite you to do so at cspan. Org. Terry is next in washington state, independent line. Caller yeah, calling about all the drama around the flag and whether you stand for the anthem and what not. I watch our president talk about respect for the flag and if anyone know somes basic boy scout etiquette, you do not wear the flag as jewelry. You do not wear the flag as a tshirt. The flag is not to be worn, i mean you have every right to do it, but as far as proper flag etiquette, you do not wear the flag as jewelry. I watch this president pop off about everybody else respecting the flag. He has no respect for women people of color, tell us how to respect things learn the proper flag etiquette if youre going to pop off about it. Host judy is up next. By the way nrelation to the caller, the president tweeting as he does during the morning many time, sent out tweet say withing hashtag stand for the anthem. Part of the statements he made leading up to last weekend about the n. F. L. And players involved in those things. Republican line, judy, hi. Caller good morning. I would just like clarification. I watch your show almost everyday, i may have missed a thing or two. Ive heard your congressman come on your show and say, we have Affordable Care act. We are the same as you. But what i heard on another problem was that they are subsidized 70 for the premiums. Now is there any way i can find clarification for this . Some website i can go to to see if that is true . If thats true and youre subsidized 70 , that is not exactly what the rest of the people in the United States are having to put up with when they purchase their own, they dont have it through their employer, so is there a website i can go to find out if that is true or not . Host glad you asked. I will point you to our cspan website at cspan. Org. Our video library. For 30 years weve archived material and content available on search function, pretty easy. Here is what you do, weve had several segments over the years taking a look at the benefits and perks that members of congress have and almost every single time we have these conversations, the topic of health care and what benefits they receive specifically has come up. Some of them from legislature talking about it reporters cover the issues, as well. I invite tou go to our web sxaet type in congressional perks or benefits or Something Like that. We had a report from u. S. A. Today or another publication talking about that. I invite you to go straight there and check that out for yourself. Does that inspect any way . Caller it will. But do you happen to know off hand . Host i dont give specifics, chances are i will get as wrong as nuances are concerned, too. I point you to the website and let the other experts talk about that. Lets go to bernice in new york democrats line. Go ahead. Caller yes, i would like to express how i feel when you take young men and professional who has to take uniforms off drive while being black, friends, families, moms, dads have economic racism throughout their lives. They understand what it is that were going through as a group of people and dismantled this democracy, is well underway. Host katecourthouse, new jersey. James is next, republican line. James, youre on the phone go ahead. Caller the lady who commented on health care covered a lot of my issue. I pay for my own health care and it has tripled under president obama and no one seems to explain to me why Health Care Cost has increased so much. I dont get anything from a company, i pay on my own. If someone could explain why health care has increased so much, id appreciate it. Thank you. Host story in the Washington Times takes a look at Hurricane Relief when it comes to puerto rico after hurricane maria. The opening of the countrys main port in the capital, 11 ships bring in 1. 6 million gallons of water, 23,000 cots generators, food, and dozens of more shipments expected in the coming days. There is growing humanitarian crisis, towns are without electricity, water, or phone service. Officials in charge of relief efforts will take satellite phones to all of puerto rico towns and cities, more of half were cut off during marias devastating cross of puerto rico on wednesday. Also highlighting the fact the islands infrastructure was in sorry shape along before maria struck. Crisis has left the state Power Company broke and the Power Company abandoned most maintenance in recent years, leaving the island subject to regular blackouts. Brian in new york, democrats line. Caller i have a strategy, if i were minority, i would carry out these issues. If i were a football player, i would make it a policy, if i go to college i would only go to a state college, which really treats all minorities well in terms of voting. We take a look at the best states where you dont get a fair vote, so i would say go to college, play football, use your talents in both brains and sports, but dont go to a state in which they dont give minorities fair representation to vote. That would be an effective strategy. Take a look at alabama, which is number one good fraction of minorities yet alabama does not treat all voters fair. So that would be at least strategy that i think can be implemented without any hurt to the scholarship or the players. Host what about the larger issue of politics coming down to the area of football . Caller i that is or the really a big issue. When the president goes wild as he has done, i just think that wasnt effective. It is effective to protest, more effective if it turned out that states which treated minorities well, had the best football teams because everybody would go to those states. Host next up, hot springs, arkansas shirley hi there. Caller good morning. I watched yesterday the ball games and things and i think it is kind of sad for that to happen. I think maybe a lot of the can you hear me . Host yeah, go ahead. Caller well, anyway, i think maybe they have taken a lot of things out of schools. I have a book here a teacher gave me son in high school and it has the name is the america my country, and the american creed was is written by William Tyler page and it was adopted by Congress April 6, 1918, and the last paragraph, i wont read the whole thing, it says therefore, i believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution to obey its laws, to respect its flag and to defend against all enemies. Host next from robert who is in pennsylvania on our republican line. Caller hello. Host youre on go ahead. Caller okay. Id like to make a comment on all these Football Players that are refusing to stand when they play our National Anthem. This has nothing to do with whether you are a democrat a republican whether youre black, white, pink, yellow or orange, this is the song and the National Anthem for the United States of america. I truly believe any player who does not stand should not be allowed to play in the game that day. If they continue to not stand, then i think they should be throwed out of the Football League all together because there are young people who look up to them and its a shame as to what they are doing. Host what about the idea people who look up of freedom of expression . Caller well, freedom of expression goes so far, but when it comes to the National Anthem of the United States of america, that is exempt from that freedom of expression, which if they are true americans, where they are allowed to make millions of dollars only because they are in the United States then they should definitely stand when they play the National Anthem. Host those are just photos you are seeing from the various games that took place yesterday. Some kneeling, some locking arms some not showing on the field, that is some of the things that took place. We will show you those and continue on from open phones. Michigan democrats line. Dave go ahead. Caller hey, good morning. First comment, it was misleading, the Washington Post representative, nobody is paying for my medicare. The one caller correctly stated, Insurance Companies and pharmaceuticals are the ones that have made the difference in our health care, compared to other nations and what do Insurance Companies do . They take our money, they dont see patients and discover medicine. The other comment is, when will the media start to call out this president . Why is his claiming that the russian deal is a fraud when eight former intel agents, including his c. I. A. Director unequivocally stated this is one of the most serious attacks on this country . I think his derelict negligent in call thanksgiving out or acknowledgeing it is cause for impeachment, this is a very serious matter and hes calling it fake. Somebody is lying here and its drastic difference in opinion. The other thing, im sorry. Host well have to leave it there, the topic of nafta coming up in the wall street journal, particularly as negotiations take place in canada. Out of ottawa, the Trump Administration plan to take aims at the areas of nafta it finds most objectionable during the third round of talks that kicked off in ottawa over the weekend. At this point in the negotiation, more challenging issues will take center stage and the u. S. Is committed to advancing substantial changes to nafta for agreement that benefits all americans. That is john melle u. S. Chief nafta negotiator. People familiar with the trump strategy, u. S. Moves at ottawa to bring in the America First theme championed by mr. Trump, including rolling back International Arbitration and other forms of dispute in the current version of the pact. The Trump Administration expressed strong reservations about seeing them as erosion of national sovereignty. Ron from orlando, florida on the independent line. You are next. Caller thanks pedro. Im calling to so my opposition to President Trumps calling the players in the n. F. L. And other players in other sports sons of bitches, the main point is that most fact necessary this country are false facts, not given with truth. For instance, the Founding Fathers were conFounding Fathers, the trail of tears was genocide. The lewis and clark extermination, the west was unsettled and White Privilege is is they cant stand changes that are coming and give me one second pedro. Host well have to leave it there. Appreciate you calling this morning. We talked about this in the last segment, medetails as far as what might look for as far as tax reform and this is damien in the Washington Post saying Party Leaders are quietly circulating proposals to lower tax rate from 35 and lower top individual income tax rate to 35 from 39. 6 , according to people familiar with the plan. White house adviseors are divided over whether to cut the top individual tax rate and Republican Leaders aware the plan could be construed as huge giveaway to wealthy trying to design features to ensure that the rich dont get too large a share of the plans relief. Top white house negotiators and key g. O. P. Leaders agreed on targets, but President Trump is not on sunday he was on Board Air Force one in new jersey and talked to reporters and hoped to see Corporate Tax rate lowered to 15 , all negotiators dismissed weeks ago. To everett, independent line. Caller yes, i want to let america know, we should be more grateful than what we are. Hello. Host youre on go ahead. Caller yeah, i want to let america know that we should be grateful for what we have. Everybody has been mistreated in their life, ive been called thousands of name necessary my life. When i boohoo about my crybaby stuff, people say, ought to just forget it, overlook it, pray to god. That is what we need to do, bring god back to america. God has always been here, we need to bring god back to our heart necessary america. Host everetta, are you talking about the actions of the n. F. L. Player . Caller yes, sir, everyone in america, not just Football Players. I dont agree with what donald trump called them, that was totally wrong on his part by calling them an s. O. B. , no one should be called that. I agree Football Players are using this freedom of expression, it is getting blown out of proportion to get whatever point they are trying to get across. The point is we all need to be grateful. We have many soldiers through all wars and the country have fought for our freedom f. Not for the soldiers who fought and died for our freedom, them Football Players wouldnt be making millions of dollars they are earning right now. You have starving children all over the world people are suffering in puerto rico and were here boohooing crying about colored skin, everybody has the same color, why is it so hard for so many people to understand, when you cut your arm accidently, your blood turns red. Inside our soul, our bodies, it is turquoise blue or purple. We all have the same color blood. Host okay. From alabama montgomery, alabama, democrats line. Next from tony. Caller yes, i have two. My thing is about the health care bill. The republicans have never explained why obamacare is failing. My opinion to that is, you have in alabama, just alabama alone only insurance you have is blue cross, they have monopoly on it. Also the republicans took the money from them, from obamacare to have coverage. Why dont they explain that, why they taking money from the health care to make obamacare look bad . That is my opinion. Two, it is about the players kneeling. Im from alabama and racism has been there all my life and its still there. And they get on and talk about why is she talking about racism in the new era. It will never get better, you have peoples hate for the color of my skin. Thats all i have to say. Thank you very kindly. Host the Financial Times this morning on headline talk about victory gained by german chancellor winning a fourth term in power and talking about her victory and what came along with that. The chancellor went to cameras and talked about the election and her victory, here is part of what she had to say. I thought long and hard about whether i should run once again, i knew it would be a very difficult election campaign, i knew that i would be challenged from the right wing and from the left wing. I forecast that there would be a battle for my position, has taken place, i was prepared for it it. That is why i think the question of the decision that i made at the time was a strong one. Now we have a clear mandate to form a government and i want to thank all the voters who voted for us. We are by far and away the strongest society, despite our disappointment there is polarization and including that it is linked to me as a person but in recent weeks of the election ive said basic decisions that we made that i am responsible for even though i didnt make that decision alone asked the chancellor. Im responsible for this, i believe we made the right decisions and weve made a lot of progress since then, there has been a lot of water under the bridge. The e. U. Turkey agreement, combating causes of people freeing their homes there, is still more work to be done. Host joining on the phone to talk about the victory by the chancellor is martin consumier with ard german radio, he is their correspondence, good morning, sir. Guest good morning. Host could you talk about what factor led to merc