What you think about that. For democrats is the line for democrats is 2027488000. Republicans call 2027488001. Independents, call us at 2027488002. And onal media cspanwj facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets take a look at how the clever headline writers at the New York Daily News capture this price cut, health czar resigns over pricey charter flights. Peter baker, glenn thrush, nagy haberman writing for the New York Times on a front page story with the headline, Health Secretary resigns over charter jet flights. Already in trouble with mr. Trump four months of successful unsuccessful efforts of repealing obamacare, tom price failed to defuse his anger by offering regret and a partial reimbursement, the departure the latest from the administration with turbulence at the top, with a week of setbacks for the president. It says mr. Price ran afoul of one of the president s most consequential cap plan pledges, while some advisors make light of his promise to drain the swamp, too many of his voters, it was a threshold promise and a firestorm over price as the president was on the defensive with his face as the incumbent mainstream republican senators the back in an alabama primary race loss to an insurgent,. Hanneling his election move late yesterday after the president accepted the resignation of tom price, the White House Press office put out a statement that included part of tom prices resignation letter. He writes, i spent 40 years as a doctor and Public Servant putting people first and i regret that the recent events have created a distraction from the support and objectives. Success on these issues is more important than any one person. In order for you to move forward without further disruption, i officially tender my resignation as the secretary of health and friday,rvices effective september 29, 2017. We have some comments from facebook. On our screen this person writes, donald trump said he would drain the swamp and the only thing he did was set up a levee around it and fluid more swamp monsters on the government dime. Refreshing, at least one donald trump find someone misusing the job, they are gone, unlike obama where they were just transferred and hidden in place or ignored. Secretary price never left americans to be murdered in a murdered land come he may be referring to benghazi. , the linen indiana for democrats cynthia in indiana, on the line for democrats. Caller they need to look into all the other cabinet members using these private airplanes. Airplane . S on the and what are they talking about while on the airplane . That is the way these people can get private access to them. When price, he is like, i will pay for my seat but who else was on the plane with him and what were they doing . Host interior secretary ryan zinke he at an event in washington gave a statement before his speech about the story surrounding his travel expenses. I would like to address, and the words of general sports gas, general schwarzkopf, bs on traffic travel. I believe taxpayers absolutely have the right to know official travel costs. As common sense, and at the department, we make those document and those travel schedules available to everyone. Using tax dollars wisely and ethically is the greatest responsibility and at the good part of the government. There are times we have to utilize Charter Services because we often travel in areas under circumstances that we do not have other flight options. Tweet, bill king says tom price is not the only cabinet member to use private over commercial air travel, will they also be called to task . Here is a story from the New York Times this is actually a continuation of the story earlier, it takes up here mr. Price may not be the only senior official to face anger over travel bills in recent days a slew of reports over the last lame habits of the cabinet have resulted in a mounting Public Relations headache or the Trump Administration, stocked by billionaires accustomed to using private jets. Ryan zinke he used a charter airplane for several flights, including a 12,000 trip to deliver a speech celebrating a new professional hockey team in las vegas. Scott pruitt, of the Environmental Protection agency, spend more than 58,000 unchartered and military flight, david chilton, he took his wife on a 10 day trip to europe. He had business meetings and sightseeing according to the Washington Post. Steven mnuchin asked about using a 25,000 per hour military plane for his european honeymoon and later used a government jet to fly to fort knox in kentucky in august. It gave him a clear view of the solar eclipse, though he later said he was not interested. On the phone, you cover the white house for Bloomberg News. Thank you for joining us. Guest good morning. Thingso you think whatever turned out differently for tom price, had he been effective in helping repeal and replace the Affordable Care act as republicans had tried and failed several times on the hill to do . Guest yes, one way to look at this is the situation with Jeff Sessions. President trump was very unhappy with Jeff Sessions over how he recused himself in the fbi investigation into russia, which led to a special counsel being named. The president spoke publicly against general sessions but he kept his job, in part because he has been carrying out the president s agenda at the department of justice, whether on immigration or cracking down on sanctuary cities, and carrying out the president s agenda in such a straightforward and effective manner. That is part of the reason the president decided to keep general sessions. When you compare that to mr. Price, he had that same level of when healthecially care, repealing and replacing obamacare, republicans have tried to get that through congress on multiple times. They tried to convince republican holdouts, sending the Vice President over and the Health Secretary over. Even getting President Trump on the phone to try to flip some of these no votes. Not clear any of it was successful and specifically tom price was not successful in selling this plan as the health and Human Services secretary, in a way that would garnish of fort for the American People and get it through congress and onto the desk of the president. That was a big part of it. The negative headlines did not help over travel. At the same time, when secretary price was supposed to be working on Health Care Reform and getting the Health Care Bill through congress, he seemed to be flying on private jets and racking up more than 1 million in travel costs, flying to different parts of the country and visiting his family, flying abroad. Those things in combination made it hard for him to keep his job. I will be interested to see how other cabinet secretaries you mentioned earlier who have also been swept up in this travel schedule will be treated. Whether or not they may be under scrutiny, or whether they will be able to ride this out and stay in their jobs. And part, because they are more effective in carrying out the president s agenda within their agencies. It, threee understand cabinet secretaries under review by their respective inspectors general for the travel practices. Do you have a sense of how the white house is addressing this . First, they sort of wanted this to blow over, saying there was an internal review going on and they would not comment too much. They have now felt the need to crack down. Last night, a memo went out to all the agencies informing various cabinet secretaries that they will fly on private flights , then they would need to get the approval of the chief of staff. Ifthat memo, they said even something is legal, and that does not make it right and the cabinet secretaries need to keep the taxpayer in mind when making travel arrangements. Basically, they indicated they would need to start using commercial travel as the main source of travel. If there are exceptions, they would have to take it through the white house chief of staff, previously the white house had said we are not part of the travel decisionmaking process and do not approve or deny these private charter flights. Now they are saying, if anyone will fly on a private flight, we will have to approve it. Part of it is because of the scrutiny they are getting come in addition to Inspector General reports and investigations going on, congress is involved. They sent a letter to all 24 agencies and the white house asking for full documentation of every private or military flight that has been taken by cabinet secretaries and other officials, and the cost. This will continue to dog the white house for weeks to come as the documents come out. As more news reports cover some of the travel that has seemed suspect and as more people learn about how much taxpayer money will be spent to show for various take various cabinet secretaries to different parts of the world. They realize this is a major scandal that would potential snowball if they do not get a hand on it. Host the president telegraphed the news when asked if he would fire price, he said we will see. He said we will know by the end of friday about the future of price. The fact the president chose not to fire him but accept his resignation, may not be much of a difference, the result is the same. What do you think it suggests about the president s leadership style . Guest the president does not necessarily like to fire people, even though he rose to fame in the Celebrity Apprentice by his catchphrase, youre fired. Has shied away from that competition, even when he fired the fbi director, he said his body man to deliver a letter, versus getting on the phone and telling james comey he was fired. In a number of cases, he has put public pressure on a number of his top officials, either by saying, negative things about them publicly, or talking about how they struggled in their jobs. In order to put pressure on them to resign, not necessarily calling them and telling them they are fired. At the same time, we do not want to undercount how much turbulence there has been in this administration in terms of people leaving with the press secretary and multiple Communications Directors leave, the chief of staff, chief strategist, and now i cabinet secretary, several other officials who have left in the last eight months. Even though the president does not like to set you are fired, he has had trouble keeping people he has hired in the administration as there has been a lot of turnover at turbulence within the administration. That reflects on the president s leadership style as it has been hard for him to keep an administration where people are excited to continue working for people who may be on the fence about staying are going. They would decide to stay on because of the greater goal. A lot of them are deciding to leave the administration because they do not necessarily see the president s vision being carried out. Or because the public pressure because theted up president is speaking out negatively against them. It is clear that this is a unique presidency when it comes to leadership style and the turbulence within the administration has shown that. Host you are one of the top reporters on the white house, covering the white house for Bloomberg News. We appreciate your time. Guest thank you. Host bruce calling from baltimore, maryland, a republican. Caller a good thing he left because i would personally like to chew him out. I voted for donald trump. This is what the media does, from Bloomberg News, the true objective. Listen carefully, the former attorney general and the previous administration, barack obama, took a trip that was personal, the attorney general, eric holder, to watch the horse races, the belmont stakes. Not hear aboutdo that or call of the corruption in the barack Obama Administration. Not concerned about that. This is the real swamp, the media. That is the problem. No matter what donald trump does, if he would walk on water, i am exaggerating, he would still get it because he stood up and is ready to fight back. He says what he believes. I might as well go through the whole thing, quick he calls some of the Football Players who refused to stand up for the , i agreeanthem, sobs with them. With him. You are out to get him because maybe you do not agree with his agenda or his policies. But when you attack and make ridiculous things over such small things, you are hypocrites. Did you that from Bloomberg News . I do not respect you . Host al calling from chicago, illinois, on the line for democrats. Caller i have the opposite opinions of the man who just spoke, donald trump will go down as one of the most corrupt president in our history. He is in a different reality. He thinks he is above belong and he can do anything he wants to do. Above the law that he can do anything he wants to do. Why hasnt he release his tax returns. My brother worked for the irs and i know you can release your tax returns if you are under audit. He is a walking conflict of interest. It is just not the media, the media he is using as a whipping boy. His administration is corrupt, incompetent, and they will go down in history, he will get impeached, i believe. Have a good day. Host fort lauderdale, florida, mavis, independent line. Caller good morning, good morning. Host good morning. Caller i would like to make reference to mr. Price. They have him on tape when the administration with the obama was in power and talking about private planes and the cost of it. Here he comes, quadrupling anything they would have ever done. The hypocrisy in what is going on in this administration, donald trump said he would drain the swamp. Everybody around them are millionaires and billionaires, these are people who are flying around the world in private jets. Taking taxpayer money now to pay for everything. They are doing what their leader has done, President Trump is out on the golf course every week, with taxpayer money. I hope mr. Price loses his health care as he is trying to take away from us. I wish him good luck and more from this administration need to go because they need to pay the money for private jets. Host a facebook post, tom price is a good man, this is an example of how washington corrupts the values and thinking, under the trump cutnistration, a quest to costs in government and drain the swamp of business as usual with ruler class politics is living large and flying taxpayer 100 80private jet was degrees from the message donald trump is trying to send. I am proud of the president for holding to his eyes, even though it means a long time, good man gets let go and hopefully it is a strong message to the entire government. Sue calling from michigan on the line for independents. I cannot believe how polarized some of these people are. You have to look at the facts. , he was ineffective from the first. Physician back a Health Care Bill like that . A terrible Health Care Bill. I do not know how he thought that would begin with the American People. Regardless of the corruption gone now, i am glad he is as the health and Human Services secretary. Thank you. , i think it ises good that President Trump replaces people who cannot get the job done, abuse the public trust. Vineuse jasper on the for democrats in tennessee on the line for democrats in tennessee. Caller i do not blame donald trump for what he is doing, his enablers are so misled about their own future. If this man does not show his taxes, and he plans on cutting maralagoe goes to without any restraint taxpayers by living in this hotels on the weekends costing us millions of dollars, i do not feel sorry for him, i feel sorry for the people who live in this divided, so racially thinking he will make America Great again. The swamp has never been drained. You do not put walls around a these people need to wake up and understand, especially poor, working white folks, especially poor women, you are not going anywhere, he is taking everything you have. Host a tweet from adam schiff, he writes, tom price committed the one unpardonable sin, being rich but not rich enough to own his own private jet. Referring to the fact there are other cabinet secretaries who do own their own private jets and use them. Gene on theisiana, line for democrats. Caller mr. Price was one of the y ones that were host we lost her. Danny from connecticut, a republican. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am a lifelong republican in connecticut, a blue state. The town i grew up in was a bluecollar town, a blue town. About what you are talking about this morning. I want to say one thing about donald trump, his main weakness, he is not a politician or a washington insider. Opinion, obama, in my i am telling you the way it is, that is a way i was as a politician from age 14 on but i am semi retired now. Obama was a leftwing radical and socialist. I have not slept for 48 hours and i do not want to babble. Thank you very much. Host steve is calling from chatsworth, illinois, an independent. Caller i voted for donald trump. The republicans are like gangs in chicago. Sects of the republican game, paul ryan and his crew, kissinger and his crew, Steve Scalise and his crew . You have four Different Things and you cannot pass one law. They cannot get anything done. It is sad. They have the alaskan senator and it is a mess. The airplane travel and stuff these guys are old. They know better. They wrote the laws. It is sad. We got to get rid of them all. That is all i have to say. We got to get rid of all the new republicans and put new ones in. Host that was steve from chatsworth. President trump tweeted this at 4 19, he said the mayor of san juan, very complementary only a few days ago, has now been told by the democrats that you must be nasty to donald trump. Switching from talking about former secretary price to the slow rolling crisis in puerto rico. The president is talking about the san juan mayor, look at what she said late yesterday, offering this life or death message. Documentation,or we have given the enough documentation. Given them enough documentation. Theyhave the golf gall, think it weighs enough . , what are your priorities, mayor . Where have you been . I have been very respectful of the fema employees. I have been patient. We have no time for patients e anymore. Patienc i am asking the president of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge. That we are on the path to saving lives. They are up to the task in africa when ebola came over and up to the task in haiti, as they should be. When it comes to saving lives, we are all part of one community of shared values. I will do what i never thought i ,as going to do, i am begging begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. There isy out listening to us, we are dying. And you are killing us with the inefficiency. Host strong words. Lets look at how this has been captured by the Washington Post a headline, few officials realize how bad this is going to be. Further down, even though local officials have said publicly as early as september 20, the day of the storm, the island was destroyed, the sense of urgency did not penetrate the white house until monday. Destructionof the and criticism appeared on television with one senior official saying, the Trump Administration was slow off the mark said congressman darren soto, a democrat, the first florida lawmaker of puerto rican descent elected to congress. We invade small countries faster than we have been able to help american citizens in puerto rico and the virgin islands. Back to the phones, taking your calls about the resignation of former health and human Secretary Health and Human Services secretary tom price and the crisis in puerto rico and the response of the ad Trump Administration. Liz calling. A democrat. Caller thank you for your work and Many Blessings to the people in puerto rico suffering so much. When you scrape all of the notions aside, it gets down to donald trump was the answer to obama. The two big policy mistakes of the 1990s, the rescinding of glasssteagall and the british freetrade policies. Those two policies led us to demise. Both parties were for it. When you pull the emotions aside, donald trump was the response to obama not doing what he should have. Witches, correct the mistake. Reinstate glasssteagall and rebuilt industry in the u. S. Donald trump is an extreme, but so was obama. We live in a decadent society of extremes. As soon as we change those two policies, i think everything will fall into place. Thank you so much for your work. Host thank you. Chicago, illinois, republican line. Caller good morning. I wanted to call in, for those people worried about dr. Price, now that he is lost his Employer PaidHealth Insurance, he is 62 years old. Oo young for medicare under, i hope he spent some time on those jets reading up on those health care laws, insurance coverage. I want to let him know that he premiums,r his cobra 100 through cobra. Do not know if he is aware of that, when you lose your job, thanks to the clintons in the 1990s, you are allowed to pay for your Health Insurance premiums still, through cobra. Most employers will give you the policy and that you pay the 100 premium for however long, i think six months, one year. I have not used it in years. If you does not take over a, he has 60 days pay cobra, he has 60 to get on obamacare. Whenever you have a change in life status, a loss of insurance , it does not have to be during open enrollment, you have 60 days to sign up for obamacare. Understandsthat he that he, himself is about to experience the life of the noninsured and it is siliceous. I cannot stop laughing he is about to join the ranks of the uninsured and i want to see what he does. I want to make sure the political reporters follow up and ask him about his Health Insurance coverage for him and his wife. Host philadelphia, laura on the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I want to send a message to people in this country, americans, wake up and see what is going on in this country. This is one of the most corrupt governments we have ever had. They are doing everything in their power to destroy this country, not to build a that. Donald trump promised to clean the swap and he brought the swamp with them. Every person on his in the white house he has assigned to a job is corrupt. They are millionaires who do not care about poor people. And kentuckynessee and West Virginia and alabama and all of the other four cities. Poor cities. They just want to align their pockets with american taxpayer dollars, just like they are doing, flying around on taxpayer money. Donald trump has 10 or 20 properties he is going around and the secret service has to be assigned to him. That is costing obama in eight years in office, the secret service spent about 50 million. Donald trump has spent over 50 million in nine months. When are you going to wake up and see what this man is about. He could care less about any of you, he is a liar who does anything he can to rich in his pockets. Please wake up and see this man for what he is. Thank you for taking my call. Host whitesboro, texas, independent line, good morning, james. Caller i do not even know where to start. I wish that there would not be so much hate. I do not know how many times we have had accusations that the Trump Administration is going to go down and history as the most corrupt ever. As far as i know, there have not been any can we wait and see how things turn out . I will tell you one thing, at least donald trump people in the white house, they are not taking this fifth amendment light, the irs, all of these , did during the Obama Administration. I am sure you people can probably remember something about that. I think it is disgusting they do not like trump, they are astonished that hillary lost, i get it. This is just this is essentially they are voicing positions that used to be hateful to americans. Saying somebody is guilty before due process. Flag or sitting out. Something al qaeda does. To and thes mayor of san juan, we all feel for what happened. I am sure the federal government is doing what they can. There is the local government, they could and should have in texas, we were pretty ready for harvey. Florida, similarly ready for the hurricane. The hyperbole needs to stop. Mayor of mentioned the san juan and President Trump has set up another tweet directed at her, saying such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan. Others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers the health, they want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers on the island doing a fantastic job, military and First Responders, despite no electric, roads, phones, have done an amazing job , puerto rico was totally destroyed. The president criticizing someone who criticized him, what he often does, the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. Bill calling from helena, montana, democrat line. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I am curious, i have been watching you and i cd3 past president s with a golf tournament, Hillary Clinton is on a book tour. Where is the Clinton Foundation involved in houston and puerto rico . I will take that as a rhetorical question. Mark from louisville, kentucky, republican line. Caller yes, sir. My biggest problem with this is that it seems like people in this country thinks our president has a magic wand and he can waive it and take care of things. They need to realize that we are doing everything possible. Every time something happens around the country or around the world, we cannot drop what we are doing and run over there and take care of things for people. People in this country he is worried about. He wants to take care of them. Host puerto rico is part of the country, right . Caller i realize that but it is in the middle of the ocean and we cannot just build a quick bridge and get over there overnight and rebuild it. Give us a break. Come on. Host stanley, virginia, alan on the line for independents. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. The point i would like to make an mr. Price may be opening bucket, lets take every democrat, every republican, every independent that is in washington now, lets audit all of their flights. What he who has done did, republican, democrat, independent, get rid of them all. This is the swamp. The Obama Administration did it, all of them. The can is open. Lets clean it up. Do not blame it on donald trump. Democrats and independents call and great to have your opinion but now we see the problem and lets clean it up once and for all. Democrats, republicans, independents. Thank you and have a nice day. Host iris calling from new jersey on the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. It is unbelievable some of the comments i have heard about the situation in puerto rico. You just show the mayor begging with tears. She did all the legwork and they were prepared. This was a catastrophic storm. The house is in puerto rico are built, they are cement, they are more prepared than new jersey, if sandy had cut through the state, some buildings would have been leveled because they are all wooden houses. This storm was something nobody expected and she was prepared with this paperwork. Trump only donald realized recently, he knew, they knew, they are waiting. Host do you have a personal connection to puerto rico . I hear the emotion in your voice . Caller including myself and my brother, we have 31 first cousins. It hurts. I spoke to people before the storm and i have not heard from anybody. From anybody. I am ready to help to send the no but i have nobody way of finding out, i have one on aunt and three uncles and their 90s. I dont know who to turn to. Help. Re sitting on what do we do as humans . What should be happening . Should be cutting through the red tape. Countriesother waiting to deliver help and he is refusing. What kind of a person does this . Host our best to you and blessings to you and your family. Fort lauderdale, florida, democrat line. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I am of puerto rican descent. For donald trump to say that he is realizing now what is happening come he should have known from the beginning what was happening. They were quick with Hurricane Harvey and overly prepared for irma. Got for bid someone doesnt god forbid someone does anything for puerto rico. He wants to say he is doing a great job and the mayor is a disgrace, a disgraceful leader, he is a racist. He is a bigot. He is not my president. Host you touch on something people of puerto rico have said, they felt neglected for decades and the storm and response to the storm compounds it. Do you think there is something there to that . Caller of course there is, i have in puerto rico struggling with water, electricity, food. I have family in puerto rico struggling with water, electricity, food. Host steve calling from st. Louis, missouri, independent line. Caller a few quick comments. On the time price situation on the tom price situation, yes, he needs to get fired or resign. I can only say that at least there was quick action taken, no waiting for an independent review. The guy is gone. He did wrong and lets move on. , as much as i feel for the poor people of puerto rico, i sense that the mayor better tone it down. Never bite the hand that is going to feed you. Host you make a good point, the governor had been very laudatory of the president caller i am confused. I have been following this. This is the most important story i follow is puerto rico. They are citizens. They are citizens of america. I am so confused i see all of these containers, they are saying it took a long time to respond. Did it really . The island was devastated, are you going to send american lives to possibly they could not land with the wind and the rain and possible flooding. I take that with a grain of salt. I see utter frustration. I do not hold the mayor for what she is saying, i think she is totally frustrated and i understand it. Those are her people. I am so confused. I am assuming or i read somewhere, i guess there was some assurances that once we got the containers in their, there would be drivers to be able to get to these locations. I guess americans would not know where to go. I would not know where to go into these remote areas in the countryside. I guess that blew up in everybodys space, no drivers everybodys face, no drivers. I am confused and do not know what to believe. I want to think we did respond in somewhat of a timely manner, considering there was devastation. I see all of these trucks with these supplies, and yet, it is not getting to where i am assuming it is a logistics nightmare to get the trucks to go to the remote parts of the area. I will follow this until the end and hopefully there will be minimal death and injury. God bless those people. We on the mainland love you. Host acting Homeland Security secretary elaine duke a sling her comments earlier about the federal hurricane response in puerto rico. She described it as a good news story. Yesterday, i was asked if i was happy and satisfied with the recovery. I am proud of the work being done. I am proud of americans helping americans. Friends and strangers alike. I am proud of the work fema and the territory, along with First Responders are doing. Clearly, the situation in puerto rico, after the devastating hurricane, is not satisfactory but together we are getting there any progress today is very strong. The president and i will not be totally satisfied until every puerto rican is back home, the power is back on, clean water is freely available, schools and hospitals are fully open, and the puerto rican economy is working. Host talking puerto rico and tom price. Morgan calling from alabama on the line for republicans. Caller i was a going . I want how is it going . I want to thank you for your show, it is a good show, i like the format. I was wondering about the United Nations help with the situation. With the United Nations, what they are doing and what their role is, and how it is being played out . Wonder, i am a kid of the 1980s and early 1990s, i wonder why we do not i know we cannot do a concert there, like live aid, why do not celebrities here have concerts in the United States and all the proceeds could go to those people. This is our hemisphere and these are our people. Is, we are quick to run in and help people in other places that are shooting at us. And some of those places, we went in and in those wars we did not need to be there. Just my opinion. Republican, i will catch hell for that. Host a republican from alabama no less. Caller we are getting shot at and we go do nation building. I lost a lot of friends since 9 11 from my age group. We cannot help people in our own hemisphere. I will hang up and listen to your response. Host wanda calling from westbrook, maine, line four independents. Caller good morning. I am calling regarding puerto rico. I already caught some flack for my suggestion, when the president said that there were no roads going down there, we have navy and coast guard, fair that could bring in heavy equipment and items. Itaught flak for suggesting but maybe i am not smart enough to know. That is my comment. Why we didnt use what was available or could have been may be available . And we have tourists they go to aruba all the time, off the coast of south america, maybe we could ask them for help. Just to get these people some power and on their feet again with power. They need the power more than anything. That is my comment. Host thank you. Hampton, georgia, john calling in, a democrat. Good morning. I am independent. Mr. Price, everybody knew he was already having problems about the stock market. You just get in there and do the same thing we do in georgia. You get what you ask for. Host when you say doing the same thing he was doing in georgia, phyllis in fill us in. Caller he is a crook. He did the stuff with the stock market. Remember . Rico, hey,in puerto you do not understand, those are brown people. Thank you. Host i am sure tom price would take issue with that characterization. Mclean, virginia, republican line. Caller good morning. Very angry to listen to people like number one, the reporter from bloomberg, saying that these ridiculous things about Jeff Sessions, he is after sanctuary cities and deporting immigrants. Totally overlooks the fact that he is trying to round up the ms 13 people who are destroying our youth. Getting back to puerto rico, it makes me furious to listen to these democrats who have been so brainwashed by the media. Trying to turn this into Donald Trumps katrina. The problem is, the electrical plan is a perfectly good shape, it is the wiring that is destroyed. Normally, the money goes to the Electric Company would have gone know, all of the infrastructure, but the corruption in puerto rico has been so tremendous, they have been neglected and you have to but new wires in to run the water pumps and the pumps to get the gasoline into the gas stations make the elevators work , it is like starting from scratch. For them to call President Trump greedy,nd selfish and it has got to stop. Really. It has got to stop. All they want to do is you legitimize him from day one and he is a good man with a good heart. I am sick and tired of listening to this garbage. I really am. Please respond and tell me what you think i am saying that is wrong. Host new orleans, louisiana, angelo on the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for cspan. , ing a katrina survivor really have a heavy heart for the people of puerto rico. It was nine days before i saw my first guy from fema. We lived off of neighbors in the neighborhood. We had absolutely no support. We had the United States marines, thank god, one of the people with us was a former marine, dropping us water and mres on a neutral ground. It was the only thing above water. We depended on each other. What i see in puerto rico, i almost say, very close to genocide. Hese people are dying they are going to die. There is no infrastructure. The only hope they have is general honore, thank a he came here, thank god he came it was no hell of a job brownie. M16sneral henri with soldiers outside the convention center, people dying with no medical care. He came in and within minutes, he had control. We happen army corps of engineers. To go inacilities there and drive trucks. Rebuild the infrastructure. Including the power grid. These are americans. I do not care what color they are. They are human beings, not blacks, not browns, not yellows. Ok . People need to understand this. The man running this country is a racist. He is more worried about wall street banking is about human life then he is about human life, he reneged 33 million on a golf course venture he had in puerto rico. Pardon me for being so upset, i really feel like i am going through ptsd because what i see in puerto rico is so the same as the trina. Katrina. I wondered what country i lived in during katrina and now i wonder what country i live in. These are american citizens. These are not immigrants. These are not foreigners. Do you understand me . Host hank from south carolina, independent. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. I think puerto rico should have been more prepared. They are in a hurricane zone. I have read several articles where the Power Company had been broke had been bankrupt for three years or four years. Poles. D no spare power no spare transformers. Yet, they want all that stuff to come down there within a week or backup. Et their grid it will not happen. I got Something Else to say. I feel for them people down in puerto rico. Ago,ember, 20, 25 years when they had the protests about task was islands vasquez island. It had been a navy base, and other things, within san juan. Protesting because of the Training Base on the island. Everybody was protesting. Jackson alesse sharpton, jesse jackson, everybody, so they closed the bases. If those bases had been there last week, it may not have relieved it the suffering, but it would have helped. There would have been stuff already there. Host patrick calling from palm beach gardens, florida, a republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. I thank you for cspan. I am as incensed by my Democrat Friends to calls ago who talked about the racist comments, donald trump is not a racist. The island of puerto rico is an island, that seems to be the thing people are not comprehending. I live in south florida and have been through hurricanes. Trees fall across roads and road star damage. You cannot get to it. It is not a matter of just racing down to some part of the United States, the continental United States, it is a matter of logistics and a matter of geography. I am sick and tired of democrats trying to politicize this. Playing the race card. It is crazy. I have been to puerto rico and i love puerto rico, it is a wonderful island and extremely friendly. Extremely patriotic people who love the United States. It is a part of us. We are working to get there. We are getting there. It is a matter of logistics as it takes time, they do not have drivers and there are no trucks. Parts of puerto rico, you driveway up into mountain areas, it looks like North Carolina in certain parts of the mountains. It rains continually in certain parts of it. They have the rain forest. It is hard to get there. The infrastructure is not like in the United States. It is almost naive of some of my Democrat Friends to think that it will friends to think it is going to automatically,. Sadly, it is also a reflection of the way democrats think government takes care of everything. The government is there to support us, get us back in our fee, help us build infrastructure, but the total reliance on government in the democrat mentality is a stupid way to think in lots of ways. We have to do this ourselves. At the end of my street, i have a bunch of stuff, and i am waiting for fema. Fema is working in my neighborhood, but they started at the other and of the of therhood end neighborhood. I could get very upset at lima, but i have to at fema, but i have to be patient. It is coming. It is happening. Host is this not a false comparison to compare removing rubbish from your street and drinkable water and food . Caller you have to get that drinkable water there. If you have trucks that are blocked by trees across roads, what do you do . Is that Donald Trumps problem . You have to get the tree out of the road first before you get the truck in with the water. Yeah. You say, why dont they just bring planes in there . Guess what, they dont have runways, airstrips, even helipad in certain places. It is going to take some time. It is going to take time, and it is going to happen. Host here is another tweet from President Trump. He writes, ill be going to puerto rico with melania. People working hard. Last fall comes from sam, a democrat. Caller good morning. Thank you to cspan. I want to make a quick comment about puerto rico, and then dr. Price. It is very sad. They should have sent that hospital ship before they knew the hurricane was coming. Dod should be out there. It is too big of a job for fema. I went through hurricane andrew. Without telephone, six months without cable in an area of miamidade county. Most of that because stuff was on the ground. Anyway, i want to talk about dr. Price. Evil dr. Price, i will call him. He is trying to reverse obamacare ever since it was brought in by president obama. He needs to go. Most of them need to go. Scott pruitt, i dont know how many times he suited the epa, and now he is head of the epa. Sleepy dr. Carson is a friend of mr. Trump, and he doesnt know anything about hud. Rick perry is in charge of nuclear. Is in charge of education. They nominated all these horrible judges. Thats what i have to say. I think you have the greatest expressions on their, and i dont know how you can understand some of these people that call. Host next, the march for Racial Justice is happening today in washington. We will speak to one of the cofounders of the march, dorcas davis. And reportersation on the cost of illegal immigration on taxpayers, dave dana stein of the federation for American Immigration reform, and then senator mike lee. [video clip] i think judge gorsuch will fall in the legacy of his predecessor. He will be a Coalition Builder by virtue of the fact that he is very smart, not afraid to express his opinions, and he is very much in the mold of Justice Scalia and that he focuses on the text. Term,s is his first full and he has had some striking impact in the little time he has been on the court. I wonder what youre watching term, andim in this early on we have seen him lineup with Justice Alito and Justice Thomas and Justice Kennedy, and taking up a middleground position on a couple of things, but i wonder what you make of his approach. I think you will continue to see similar patterns like that. I think he views the law in much the same way as Justice Thomas and Justice Alito, in much the same way that his predecessor saw the world in the same light. We have remember most cases the Supreme Court are not decided. 4, not even six you 63 most of them are decided unanimously or 81 orts 72. It is in the charged cases that you see much more division. Think youll see for judges lining up on the conservative side of things with Justice Kennedy often. I think you will see real value added by justice gorsuch. I dont think he will be blindly following his conservative colleagues in those cases. I think he will be contributing in a meaningful way to their analytical skills. He is in the same league as then in terms of his confidence, judicial philosophy, and ability to apply the law to the facts of the case. Washington journal continues. Host welcome back. Were joined by dorcas davis, the cofounder and cochair of the march for Racial Justice taking place in washington today. We talk about that in the state