Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 11142017 20171114

Reform efforts. At 9 00 a. M. , a politico reporter on the process for several hearings who want to keep you aware of happened today. Jeff sessions will appear before the House Judiciary Committee. At 5 00, a markup of the text reform bill. The governor of the Virgin Islands and puerto rico will testify about recovery. Go to cspan. Org about more information. It is the washington journal for november 14. When it comes to roy moore, Mitch Mcconnell says he should step aside from the race. Carlisle colorado governor said the senator this as a fifth woman accused him of sexual misconduct. For the first half hour, your thoughts on roy moore, particularly if you believe him or his accusers. If you are alabama resident, post on twitter or facebook. If you go to the aol. Com, that is a newspaper based out of alabama, take a look at news out of alabama, it has the story about yesterdays accusations that came forward saying that minutes before the new accuser came forward with allegations come his campaign issued a statement describing it as a witchhunt. The new accuser is the fifth woman to accuse more of having sexual or romantic account with him when they were teens. Moore campaign issued their response saying that is from the moore campaign. The story that broke yesterday. Was on capitol hill where Mitch Mcconnell was asked about roy moore in light of these accusations. Here is what he had to say. I think he should step aside. Are you encouraging a writein campaign . That is an option we are looking at. Whether or not theres someone who could we will see. Versus someone to prove these are true in these situations. The believe these allegations to be true . I believe the women, yes. Host that was Mitch Mcconnell from yesterday. A look at cory gardner on monday who rested up his position on roy moore saying that all taking place yesterday in the first half hour of our program, your thoughts on this matter, particularly if you believe a judge more or his judge moore or his accusers. Joe in georgia. Independent line. Joe, i have been calling your Great Network for over 30 years. I think judge moore is innocent until Proven Guilty. The real problem is Mitch Mcconnell. He is not getting things done. He are to be replaced. I think these accusations against moore is nothing has been proven. I dont think he should drop out of the race. If i lived in alabama, i would vote for judge moore. Ast why is it more of problem for Mitch Mcconnell . Caller we didnt get the health care thing past. The senate bill, we need tax cuts now, pedro. We need to cut taxes. Im a Big Stock Market guide. That will help the stock market. We must pass these. Republicans were going to cut taxes. We must cut taxes. Host we are going to leave it there. John industry heights, maryland. Surprised theally way this new not really surprised, the nation what is going on is coming through the pipe. And tryhappening here to discredit them because they are coming forth now. I believe the ladies because i find it difficult to believe that a woman is going to put herself out there and expose. Hat happened to her whether 35 of 40 years ago, it doesnt matter. The trauma comes back in your mind so i believe the women at what is happening here is going to come in thing in this country where if a lady make an accusation against a public figure, then they are going to try and discredit her credit rather than dealing with the allegations. This thing is eating ready to get really ugly for the people who call themselves christians to sit and listen at this stuff and dont have some type of moral compass with these guys is beyond cap retention. Even starting with the president. Host flushing, new york. Caller good morning. But if you areze going to it is not about leaving the woman or man. This haso say become politicized for me now . Im sure that everybody would argue he should be for any office but we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Why should i say i dont trust him . Who am i to say that . Politicians, both republicans and democrats are using this for the own election purpose. We are recognizing sexual allegations. We are doing a disservice for this harassment. For me, i am not going to buy any argument politician is telling me. If you go on that, george bush senior has to become to do. Do you trust george bush . I am very much disappointed. Host news has a story this morning i look through texas senators in response. John cornyn who would chew his endorsement. Amonga rare public the gop leaders. Rosemarie is next. Michigan. Hello. Caller good morning. I dont think he should withdraw from running. If he wants to have anything done, we should have had it done with the president first. It seems like this election has really gone corrupt. [indiscernible] start whipping up some stuff. I just understand it. 75 years old and this is the lifetime,tion of my period, right up to the president of the United States. Host who do you believe more . Caller i believe him. Host why so . Caller 40 years, give me a break. You sit back until this guy is going to run for office. Why didnt you get him when he was just a judge. Now he wants to go to government, now you want to go after him. Theres somebody out there stirring the pot. Host allen is next and washington, d. C. Caller without a doubt, i mr. Moore should have his day in court. System is innocent until Proven Guilty. Hello . Host go ahead. Caller you are innocent until Proven Guilty. I dont know who to believe. The justices system needs to go forward. Not this witchhunt which as decided to come after this man. People of alabama did step forward and then vote their conscience. Host maxwell in maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to talk about roy moore on the ladies that came out. I tend to believe roy moore before he had an interview with sean hannity. Sean hannity asked him questions, do you deny having an affair with an underage girl . He said he cannot do that without the permission of the mom. He cannot even the night. That she could not even deny it. He could not even deny it. , he cannot even deny it. If you watch that show, everything he said was like, he did it. [indiscernible] that is wrong. Host that is maxwell. This goes on at a story coming out yesterday about the former president , george h. W. Bush. This was reported by the Chicago Tribune saying there is more reporting in the Chicago Tribune this morning. Our first half hour before our first guest, your thoughts on roy moore and his accusers from oklahoma, democrats line. Go ahead. Caller i think that guy is a pedophile, because he asked the girls mother. I think you know better than that. Asks a a guy like that parent to take a donor out, and you know he is in the wrong. That is all ive got. Host santa barbara, california. Go ahead. Caller i think they should cut to the chaff and have all the and they willoore all take a Lie Detector Test. And find a what is going on, we wont have to listen to all of this back and forth. Host you think a Lie Detector Test to settle peoples opinions . Caller i think a lot of people believe steve wilcos. You have three or four accusers there and he is not, it will come out. Host aside from the Lie Detector Test, is there one person you believe . Believe it is unusual that all these things come out just before the guy is running for the selection. It is a little questionable. Sudden i dont know. I think we could get it settled really easily. If moore would be willing to go on the sea wilcos show in the accusers wooden, that would settle the matter. Host about 15 minutes for the segment. The attorney general will appear before the House Judiciary Committee today at a hearing that is scheduled to take place at 10 00. He might be questioned about a possible special counsel to take a look at actions by Hillary Clinton concerning uranium. They include on the website, a copy of the letter that was sent to Bob Goodlatte. Heres the letter from the department of justice. That is part of the letter you can find online through Bob Goodlatte judiciary committee. James, hello. Caller good morning. I have an issue with the timeline in this until i heard the reporting that he had admitted that he got in touch with all the mothers and a new he was going out with them. A 30 year old man in a 14 euro girl, that doesnt add up. He was banned from the only mall. As far as the timeline and people waiting, people got to realize this meant was a position of authority. Even at that point. Imagine a 14yearold girl being threatened by an attorney. I have no doubt in my mind he is a pedophile and should be in jail. Host massachusetts, we will hear next from michael. Go ahead. Caller i just want to say, i think what about meism coming they see bill clinton did this 20 years ago, well louis c. K. Did this a year ago. We have to accept a child molesters just seems crazy to me. It is about the whole is she just came out now pretty was a systematic thing didnt think they could come out and say this happened to me because your entire lives were on the line. The fact that people are coming out and saying within the past year, me too, enough is enough, it makes sense this woman would come forward now. Host do you believe the women then . Caller definitely could with that many women coming forward, what do they have to gain . They have nothing. They are not looking to book deals. All they did was go on the record and say, yes, this happened. Host lets go to north carolina. Mike, go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have a question to address. Where is the due process . Where is the theory of innocence until Proven Guilty . His name was from the very start. I think its a plot to justify the millions they spent against roy moore. They need to take this case to a special prosecutor. Something smells fishy about this. , she probablys knows a million liars. I am saying there needs to be due process. Something to make him resign. I hope he stands in their. This to conclusion. Dont rush to judgment. Give this man a day in court. Host on twitter, one viewer says if you want to make thoughts on twitter, that is how you do that. Pages of the wall street journal ask a look at tweets that were recently sent by donald trump jr. In connection with contact he made with wikileaks saying here is dennis in australia. Independent line. Caller good morning. When they have had 40 years to complain and theres only four weeks out, i think is highly suspect. Clients. T is no strong if he has committed an offense, that is not very good but have 40 years. Host tell us about interest in the story from australia. Caller i follow u. S. Politics quite a bit and it is quite exciting. Donald trump has a strong following in australia. A lot of us are very pleased ofh the change administration to a republican administration. Host how are you watching us . Throughfox television cspan. Host i dont know if that is the network. Thank you for calling us. Caller fox is our cable provider. Robert, he is in arizona. Hypo. Caller im going to bore everybody with the truth and history of how this country was formed. Take andd on violence, on the time element. We talk about the time, how are you going to bring this guy up to trial and try him and say, he is running at the same time . At trial takes a long time. When you take stuff, you leave women pregnant and then you talk about, all these children cannot be aborted. This is very serious stuff. How about all the abuse . Are we try to obtain civility . That is why we have government and that is why i believe in mandated voting. To the point caller federally funded elections just equity fund wars. Host who do you believe . Accusers. Course, the why would anybody say anything. When a person is very powerful, they have all the attention, they have all the power and when they abuse somebody, have to wait for the time element. It never gets to them. Host we will go to don in california. Caller i want to talk mainly this latest accuser of judge moore. Her story doesnt just isnt possible. Hit anyone who works at a restaurant knows that when a restaurant is open and when it is closing, the doctor area is not a lonely place. There is always someone having a smoke, watching something or dumping garbage. That would be the last place that he would drive up to try and pull anything on her. Also, this woman your own admission, she said that her boyfriend at the time had a terrible temper. It could be that this guy beat her up and in order to explain her bruises, she made up this story. That is the story she has been sticking to all of these years. Also, lastly on this whole thing, all of these politicians pretending to be so upset at roy moore, we have a sitting senator menendez who is on trial for bribery. It included under age prostitutes and he is still sitting in the senate. This is just a bunch of stuff made up by people who dont like his politics. And they are not honest enough to say that. Host done mentioned senator bob menendez, a story coming out when comes to the jurors deciding on this, they cannot agree. This is quoting the juror next up is susan, mclean, virginia. Caller good morning. Thank you so much. I wanted to mention one thing about this situation that my 17yearold High School Son and i were talking about. As awful as this is, i am a woman and he loves his grandmother and he said that if anybody did anything like this, they should go to jail. Our second amendment, the american constitution guarantees an individual to a right of a fair host are you still there . I think you broke up. Lets go to sherry, des moines. And the. Caller good morning. What i have got to say is i dont believe the women. Number one, what parent is going to let their 14yearold, 15, 16 go out with a 30 somethingyearold man . I cant understand why all these women get up there with gloria and they read. I wouldnt have to read the stuff that happened to me. I wouldnt have to sit there and read and cry and all of that. I would come out and say it. Ajo, the democrats ajo, the democrats, they have sold their souls to satan. That is all of got to say. Host dylan from alexandria, are you there . I think are on people are applying the wrong standard here. Innocent until Proven Guilty and something we give when we are taking somebodys rights. Is for a privileged to be your senator. The whole idea of due process doesnt apply to him. We as voters make a judgment based on everything that we know. Forget this innocent until Proven Guilty krapp. Just go with what you think. Host what judgments have your right at . Caller i believe the women 100 . The Details Behind his last victim who came forward is amazing. Anybody who would complain and say it is 40 years later, people dont talk about this. I was groped once and i didnt talk about it for years and years. I went home and try to forget it. I cannot believe that people would blame women the way they do. It is really infuriating. Host that is the last call we will take on this topic. More open phones to come as we continue on pete we do have guests scheduled including fred upton, republican representative from michigan. A group of legislators working to pass legislation for daca. We will get a status report on that update next with fred upton of michigan as washington journal continues. Watch cspan this week as Congress Debates tax reform. The house debates its bill on thursday. Live coverage on cspan. Get the pills get details at the span. Org. App. He free cspan radio cspan, where history unfold daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. My name is lissette menendez. It takes place in downtown miami at the campus of miamidade college. This year we have a little over 500 authors representing every genre. Anything that you can think of, we are representing at Miami Book Fair. Watch our live coverage saturday and sunday starting it in 30 a. M. Eastern starting at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan two. Washington journal continues. Host this is fred upton, representative from a skin. From michigan. Good morning to you. Guest good morning. Host remind viewers what is daca . Guest the president said that he wanted congress to fix this program. It is run by executive order. Congress, do your job and lets figure out a way to deal with these hundreds of thousands of kids, many of them come in at age 2, 3, 4, years old. Gone through our Education System, they have jobs. Registered, all of that. Without a legislative fix, they could be forced to go back to a place they dont even speak the language. There is a Bipartisan Group of folks that is working to have some legal way for them to be able to stay. Theres a couple of working groups. Im a part of a group called problem solvers. We have had a lot of discussions and we are meeting this afternoon. The idea is, maybe before the end of the year, but certainly at the beginning of the year, we need to have a legislative solution that we can move through the house and senate, get to the president that he can sign to give some assurance to these kids. Host is there a legislative solution . Guest i think there is. Presently if they dont have a violent record. This is not a pathway to citizenship but it is a pathway to legitimacy and being able to stay here. I have met with a couple of daca kids. They are fearful. They have seen some of their fors being deported out maybe even running a traffic light. They dont know what the story is. They want some resolve. They are right. As i have found, our telecom meetings, my meetings back home in michigan, theres a pretty Strong Majority of democrats and republicans that say we need to fix the problem. Host is the ace bill is there a bill . Guest there is not a bill i guess you can say there is a bill, the dream act. I am going to be supportive and is less of a legislative act. Theres a lot of instructive work that is being done behind the scenes. We are hoping we can pop out and be able to get not only the Administration Support but a clear majority in the house and senate. Host are those the typical committees that deal with this issue . Not. no, it is i care of this issue. We got got a large some great educational institutions and western michigan and university and a good number of hispanic kids and a good number of daca kids that are there. It needs to be fixed. That is what our group is all about. Dividedthat is equally between republicans and democrats to work on a host of issues, of which this is one. We thought we could get through the partisan squabbles and be able to get something done that ought to be. The president gave us a challenge. We had a Republican Press conference last week. 12 to 15 republicans with their saying we need to work on this. Democrats on the same page. Ive had some good discussions with leaders on the democratic side. This is what congress we need to solve this. Host our guest is going to be here to talk about the status of daca. Perhaps you are under daca are here illegally anyone to give some thoughts on this matter. You can also post on our website. Is there an economic component to what you are doing . Particularly the jobs and taxes . Guest i call them kids. There are many young adults but many of them are working. They are paying taxes and having Social Security taken out of their payroll. They have gone through the educational system. They believe that they are an american. They grew up in our neighborhoods and in our public schools. Getting often scholarships to go to university and when they get their degree, they want to stay. They want to go back to wherever it was that they perhaps were brought. Is a number of these families leave their economic status at home. I met with an Adoption Service back in michigan, and they told me the story about two little girls became. They were eight and 10 years old. Got a letterrnight under the door, they didnt have parents. These were drug traffickers and they said, we are coming for you tomorrow. The 10yearold said, we are out of here. She took her eightyearold sister and they made it to mexico and into the u. S. Now they are in michigan and being adopted by family. They go through the normal 12 questions. One of the questions is, have you thought about committing suicide . She said yes. Said, ifrted and she they were going to get us, i was want to kill my eight youll sister and kill myself. Often they come from that kind of background. They have been here and been placed in families. Congress, get your job done. That is what i to the president s message to be. Who knows . Get your job done. Send me a bill that i can sign. That is what we are try to do. Host brooksville florida. You are on with representative fred upton. Caller thank you for the chance to say something. I believe that the president has done what the law requires. He has turned it over to congress to make the decision by the daca children. I do believe they should be allowed to stay, but let them do it legally through congress. Exhibit orders dont hold up until the next person that comes into the presidency. In addition to that, 40 years ago, our laws and morals were different. Those gross would have had a better chance if they came forward then. Thank you. Guest you are right about the daca situation. The president said deal with it. Im tired of these executive orders. A lot of folks question of the constitutionality of what happened before. That is the challenge that a lot of the sea and that is why we are going to work hard. We are going to try and get that done. The chance we can get done before christmas but certainly by the early part of next year. We should have a proposal that we can move through the congress and get to the president where i think he will sign it. We are not looking to have him veto a bill. Provide some sense of relief for these kids. Hundreds of thousands. Gio of texas said he thinks he can get through into votes. Guest the two former chairman, he was a part of the group of 12 or 15 republicans last week. I think he is right. I think well get over 300 votes done host . Im interested in learning whether or not there will be building of the wall. Funding that would be incorporated into this, because i dont think this is going to solve the problem longterm, if there isnt a definitive approach to building the wall to stop the schemers. Guest i dont know yet. There is a working group of folks that the speaker is appointed. I am not a part of the group. I am part of the problem solvers and weve got it working group there as well. Border security could well be part of this. It is a question of how broad do we make the fix. Go echo do wee go . Border security, some could find this as a border wall. The president has talked about he is not anxious to sign any continuing resolutions spending bill come december less its got money for the wall. Orwas looking for 1 billion 2 billion. That doesnt fund a lot of the wall. Generalthere is a support to make sure the border secure, whether it is a wall, securing more agents. We will see how this plays out. Host we heard dave brat talking about the future of raqqa sing that anything that goes forward has to encourage migration enqueue to deter hiring immigrants legally and it would eliminate the would you be on board . Guest lets see. Lets see how fast and other freedom caucus, theyve showed an outline of those principles. Lets see how we at just those dials. Do we have more Board Security . Program . For a worker no . fundamentally, yes or guest i want to see there is a right balance. I havent looked at the details yet. I want to hold my fire. Host north carolina, republican line. Caller how are you doing . Im notally really happy with any of these elected senators. They are really just concerned about people that didnt elect them. There are so many people in this country that need their attention, and their work to be concentrated on the citizens that are here. All of these people, young people and children, need to go to the back of the line or make some way for them to get legal citizenship. Instead of letting them tax our welfare system, tax our educational system. It is a most impossible to track these people. They can say whatever they want and youve got to believe what they say. How is there any way to prove it . There is no way. Guest there is a way. I have sat down with a number of our daca students. They have been in the public schools, theyve got School Records that mightve been there since third grade. They are now in college. You can see that they are there. Those that have jobs, many of them do, they are paying taxes. The employer can provide that. They are paying Social Security taxes. In fact, you can define pretty easily that they have been here for maybe even 20 years ago when they first came. Likeave adoption records, these two girls that i described. No one is talking about automatic citizenship. Many folks say, theres a process that we have. You go to the end of the line and make sure you know english. In parts of the constitution. You take the citizenship test. Many of us have been at those ceremonies in our states. In fact, you establish legitimacy, a legal way for them to stay and the facts show only about 40 of the folks that have come to this country actually want to become citizens. My view is, they want to become citizens, great. They infect do go to the end of line or go through the normal process, takes years for them to build to take that oat to become a citizen. Host this group of euros, have you had a chance to meet with the speaker . Guest i am not a part of the formal group. Ive had a good number of conversations with our leadership, including the speaker over the years in terms of time to resolve this problem. It. E got to do it has vested for a long time. The president said get it done by march. Weve got to meet that timetable. Verybody realizes it is time it is time we get this done. Lets put good people at this table. Lets move it forward and whether we have a hearing you talked earlier about what are you a member of the Energy Commerce . I care about this. Technically, it is the judiciary committees responsible to the. At the end of the day, were going get a bill to the house floor. . Ost karen in michigan caller yes. I think we should let the people michigan for work in and there has been several farmers that has not been up to do their crops like asparagus because they didnt have the people to do it. Then on the other hand, the aople that come over here and dozen of them live in one house and a go get food stamps and just one person, just one person is working, nobody else. Ago, i made a dollar i was taking care of five children and my granddaughter and it would get nothing. I think they should be able to come over to work but then go back home. Thank you. Guest it is more than just several farmers. My district in michigan, very diverse agriculture. Apples, we go through great apples by the way. Very diverse. A peachtree st picked three times. We really require a migrant workforce. As i sit down and talk with a good number of my farmers, they left farmers last year literally hundreds of thousands of unpaid crops, whether it be cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches, apples because they havent had the workforce is there. On a cold day like today, it is going to be snowing, theres not a lot of work out there. They have gone someplace else, to california, other places. Florida got decimated with the hurricane, but were looking at a workforce that we need for seven or eight months of the year. Our guys are losing that crop because we dont have the workforce. That is different than the daca program. These are young people that have come, ages, three or four and now they are in their early 20s. That act workforce, that is another component of Immigration Reform that we also have to deal with. Part of this stock to fix or not, i dont know, time will tell. I like to think we can do that too. How much leeway we are going to build a have to include a fix like that. Not wanting to be citizens but really wanting to work and frankly, we dont have the workforce now to do the job that we really need. Host alexia in phoenix. Independent line. Caller i just wanted to add a comment about the daca students, soda like a question. What will happen with the daca students who got accepted into universities . Guest it is all the same. Ive got a number of i set down a couple of weeks ago with a good number of my daca kids and i have done that a number of times earlier this year. They are worried because if they lose their daca status, they could be plucked out of school and they could be forcibly sent back to where they came from. There is real unrest. Theres real uncertainty and they are pushing us to deal with this so they can get on with their lives. Its not like back in the 1960s and 1970s on a draft status. Your draft card that you got some student and therefore youre ok. Weve got to do with this, whether they are a student or not. Host i want to ask you about taxes or the tax reform plan. Where do you stand on the vote . Guest im looking forward to getting this bill up. It is not perfect. The design are right where they should be. Different so neither house nor senate bill is going to be the one that becomes law. You can see these pieces begin to fit together where in fact that conference agreement between the house and senate can work. It is targeted toward the middle class, doubling the standard. Eduction in the hospital, we drop it to we are squeezing out a lot of the loopholes. We are Loss Companies overseas because we have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world. The last number of years, we. Ave heard lots of complaints lets change the tax code and stop these companies having a set thats having an incentive to go overseas. We are going to bring back capital investment. One of the biggest arguments and concerns they have is the cost of capital. If we can lower that tax rate on 25 , businesses, to getting rid a lot of these loopholes, our economy gets a lot stronger, and average the reports for the average middleclass family is a savings of 1100. Maybe we do a little better than that. Host should more be done on the area of state and local taxes. Guest i would like us to see have us a little bit more of a deduction. It helps to get the votes in the northeast and out in the west. We will see how that works in the house. You can see i saw kevin brady say over the weekend, the house language will prevail. We will make sure theres some relief. I think he is right. That will be one of the fixes. Host we saw the president saying what about a 20 tax cut . Is that an area of concern . Guest in the house, we are 20 in corporate. Thisrd on the radio morning, the senate may be talking about test Susan Collins talking about a 21 . I think it will hit janeway first in 2018. Is thene of the issues individual mandate for the Affordable Care act. Guest i support the individual mandate. I do not believe it should be a part of this tax bill. The discussion and focus on to build tax relief and to be more competitive with the rest of the world. When he had the element, it is a whole new ballgame. Host democrats line. Wilbur, thanks for holding. Caller good morning. Hello . Him to ask this guy one question. How do those kids get in school . That is my first question. Guest i didnt quite understand. Host how do the kids get in the workforce . Michigan, thanks to our good governor, our unemployment is lower than it has been at 15 years. You cannot go anywhere without looking and seeing employers looking for people to come to work. We had a manufactured we had a michigan Manufacturing Day a couple of weeks ago. They brought in 900 High School Kids that are looking for jobs. The factories are looking for jobs. Restaurants are looking for people to work. If youpretty good want a job, especially in michigan, you can find one. Host from iowa, the independent line. Brian, go ahead. Caller good morning. I have two quick comments. 350 years ago, this country was predominantly occupied by the native americans and and it is amazing to hear people complaining about them now, but because we basically have a terrible situation with potential terrorism and whatnot. Now our hands are tied almost. A horrible thing. I just basically want to make a comment. Host lets go to lori. Caller good morning. Is this regarding the daca children that go children yucca in their contributing to the economy, why are we so against them . Ahead. Olor, go caller i think they have given more to this country than americans who are born here. Most americans were on welfare, section eight, medicaid. Who dont work, who dont pay taxes and these students are working, why are we so against them echo against them echo guest so against them . Guest thank you for your comment. Ive met with a good number of daca folks across my district, all walks of life, all different ages. They want to be here. This is a country where they came to. This is where they want to school, these are the values that they know. They are signed up to pay taxes. Theyre getting a decent education. They want a future and they want to get married and raise families. All those Different Things we care about. If all of a sudden a program ends, and they are forced to leave, your life is in shambles. They are part of our community. For the most part they are pretty good people. From connecticut, independent line. Caller good morning. Thank you for having me. I wanted to comment on a few things. , if we were to deport these children, this would be an awfully cruel thing for them. Most of themhat are not culturally familiar with the countries they came from. To send them back there would be terrible. Else is that is about the tax rate. Personally, i dont think it is that bad. In this country, we get some of the best Tax Deductions in the world. Having the problem is exaggerated. The real issue here is you have an llc and he was speaking through a pastor rate. Pass through rate. The federal government says what ever profit your llc makes, that is your money. That is what needs to change. That would help people more than changing the tax rate. Host thank you. Guest you are right on the docket kids. On the daca kids. They may not have a single memory perhaps of where they were born or raised. Depending on the child. On the tax side, look for some change to happen. The senate and house bill are different. At the end of the to me, it is important. Most jobs created in the country are Small Business jobs. That and the reduction in the tax rate will mean something. A lot of those deductions will be gone which is how they make , by reducing the corporate rate and streamlining the process, and we have all heard objections about companies and not paying any taxes at all because of deductions. Those deductions will be gone which is why you will have the lower rate. Rate, maintain the upper employerw the largest in one of my counties, they moved to ireland. Their taxes were lower. That will change and by allowing those profits to come back home and a lower rate, they will invest in the midwest and connecticut and places around the country, creating more jobs here and making us more competitive with the rest of the world. Will happen. If we were to believe the website out of west michigan, it says you are contemplating a run for senate. Guest we are thinking about it but have not made a decision. A lot of people have encouraged me to actively consider running for the u. S. Me to actively consg for the u. S. Senate. We have not made a decision at some point soon. It is all relative. Stay tuned. Host what are you thinking about . Is a big state with 14 congressional districts. I have towife and consider is the money you have to raise, the time you spend not working on legislation, the time you spend not working on family issues, all those Different Things. Is really a tough decision for all of us to make. Host is any of it a summit possibility of the senate, the resignations taking place amongst republicans in the last few weeks and possibly what happens in 2018 . Guest an issue to me is i have always been bipartisan to her you know my record. A lot of things i have worked on bipartisan there there is a real frustration not only in the country but in the house, that many of us have with the function of the senate, not eating able to get things done. They are not working together. Palace hadin the good pipe bipartisan support. Those were stalled in the senate and that has got to change. If i was able to get the confidence of the voters to win, i would work hard to change the perspective of the senate. Host what about the possibility of the house turning over in 2018 . Election is important. There is a small margin in both the house and the senate. We have got to get the tax bill done. That is a big thing. Because of the margin we have in the house, i think republicans will keep control of the house but by all expectations, we are likely to lose a number of seats. Host what about roy moore . Guest i think he needs to go and get off the ticket. He is a bad face for the party in terms of what we ought to be focusing on. I watched it woman come forward the other day. He needs to get off the ballot , nor shouldot win we want him to win and be the face of republicans, whether he served in alabama and they you or the u. S. Senate. It is discussion disgusting. Time,we appreciate your fred upton. Coming up, open phones for you to comment on. We will take those calls momentarily. Watch live coverage of four he hearings today. Hurricane Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the virgin , preventing Sexual Harassment on capitol hill before the House Administration committee. Jeff sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee and also 10 00, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee looks at the use of nuclear weapons. Live coverage of four key hearings today beginning at 9 30 eastern on cspan. Org. I am the Program Director it takes place in downtown miami. This year, we have over 525 genre, representing the watch our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair saturday and sunday on book tv on cspan2. Watch cspan this week as Congress Debates tax reform. On house debates its bill thursday. Live coverage on cspan. On cspan. Org and listen to live coverage of tax reform using the free cspan radio app. Washington journal continues. It can also tweet us. The pages of the Washington Post are looking at legislative spending money on trump property. This is Jonathan Oconnell saying between election day 2016 the end of this ear, the Political Committee reported paying at least 1. 2 million to the federal Election Commission and not a dollar has come from democrats. The first person on the list, sayingt trump himself his campaign has paid about 20 2000 in new york, for a stay in the sea, about 3000 on Office Supplies for his ,ottled Water Company republican of texas spending 16,000 saying in january he held a reception at a meeting will meeting room in trumps onend tell and the list goes , about 10 people on the list, republicans who have spent money at trump property. Line, youre up first. Go ahead. Caller i was calling in to speak to upton. Host he has unfortunately left us but go ahead with your comment at least. Caller i think the huge majority of us are sympathetic to daca and something should be done to make them legally able to work. But i have never heard anyone question the source, allowing these children into our schools. We have thousands and thousands now and we will have thousands more if we continue to allow illegals as permanent schoolchildren. I can see where you can have instances where family brings their children and they can get of documents so they can go to school while here, but to just have people , the parents are illegal and they are putting their children into schools that are illegal. We will have thousands every couple of years. Host lets go to democrats line. Roger. Caller my comment this morning is hello . Host go ahead. I was wondering about donald trump and all of his business in town. Taxes to apays communist country but we do not know if he pays any in this country. Moore trying to take the senate seat. Win. Inion is he will he wont be the first one in the Republican Party who has one because of things one guy in florida got caught up in a drug bust and was Trafficking Cocaine from florida to d. C. And he was host what do you think about the calls from some including the Senate Majority leader saying he should be expelled should he win the seats of the senate . Caller why should he . Understand why they would not want to seat him. Lets go to South Carolina where bill is, next up. I wonder where all of the people, she was going to bring suits against trump. Another thing. Just like the people in alabama, thank you. Wall street journal, a story taking a look, health and human services, saying President Trump has announced he nominated a secretary of health and human former georgeng a Bush Administration official who criticized the formal care act, carrying out to help law. He served as Deputy Deputy and wouldof hhs inherit a 1 trillion Agency Charged with overseeing the 2010 health law, and congressional republicans, fared efforts to repeal it. Familiar with the work of the federal government, he praised republicans who said he would ring significant Institutional Knowledge to the job and consumer consumer groups criticize the job, might neglect lowering the drug cost. Keith in missouri, go ahead. You are on. Thank you for taking my call. Republicans were ok when illegal with illegal immigration as long as it was cheap labor. They then decided, guess what, we got a better deal and we can ship jobs overseas with slave waterand not worry about and air with no regulations and everyone can ship our products back to the United States and not even pay no taxes on it and then we are going to get a big tax break when we are already paying nothing talk about corruption in the government. It is unbelievable. Becauseote democratic republicans are totally unacceptable. I dont really like the democrats either but until we start arresting and putting them in jail, our politicians, we will never get this cleaned up here i want to thank cspan and you all have a nice day. Host republican line, florida. Caller i want to talk about daca real quick. These politicians want to talk are a nations laws. They want to pick and choose what laws they want to enforce and which ones they dont want to enforced. It really will not solve the problem. Upbe they got screwed governments. The only people who dont want that are the drug cartels and the people in power. Every other mexican would probably love it. That is all i have got to say. If you want to join us on twitter, you can do so. If you want to post on the Facebook Page where the conversation takes place in the course of the program, you can do so at facebook. Com cspan. Several hearings taking place today. Jeff sessions as well will appear. If you want to go to our website at cspan. Org, all the information that will take place concerning attorney general sessions talking about a variety of things. Usa today has a story taking a look at what potentially might come up, including the hearing, which will ask questions about associations with russia saying they could not be more definitive when he told us that he had no knowledge of Trump Campaign contact with russia. Im not aware of anyone else who did. I dont believe that happened. In march 20 16, sessions and other advisors, that meeting, public hapless told the group yet connections that would help arrange a meeting between President Trump and russian president vladimir putin. These people, the mexicans or whoever they are, dont make no difference, it is not just mexicans. Across,people coming there is no way to vet this stuff. The schools are overrun. You talk about the quality of our Education System one is the potential drag of what we have got in the country. Do we not have a right to turn these people back because they are not far following the law . Once we establish the laws and they break them, we do nothing but give them food stamps, a place to live, a free education, the and then you want to keep them because they dont know their country. You should have sent them back when they got to the border. Baltimore, maryland, democrats line. Caller i wanted to make a comment about a lot of politician arguments in favor of tax benefits for the corporations. Theissue i think is major rate of pay, the salaries of most of the countries, india, their wages are significantly lower. Not to mention programs that cost money in addition to salaries. Thank you. Halt e New York Times highlights cases the limits of First Amendment protections on free speech. When asked if the california mayor made Agency Centers require information about bit wearinge for Political Support badges or other insignia at polling places. The National Institute of family and life advocates concerns a law that requires centers operated by women to provide women with information wearing Political Support badges or other insignia at polling places. The National Institute of family and life, and the persuade eded to the program and to get to provide information. The law violates their right to free speech by forcing them to convey messages at odds with their valise. Incompleteay it is and completeombat information. And complete information. Even talk about issues you have heard this morning so far. They are illegal after all. On the bill,rgin we do not know how much taxes they will pay once they will be completing that education. They come into the already low bracket. We should bring a system in , where their economies are going, australia and canada, haveing the best minds may a good system based on the education of people. That actually start shipping to we should not be relying on daca or any kind of this migration. Host they take a look at the issue of tax reform. Thatn find out more about on cspan. Org. Cspan3 and 9 00 in the morning, you see it at cspan. Org courtesy of the cspan radio app. In the senate, talking about the gop tax billing criticizing it. Here are some comments from yesterday. Republicans are giving huge handouts to wealthy corporations and they are taking away he said durbin suburban deductions. Student loans, and more. Congressional republicans are doing their best to put their majorities at risk. If republicans thought it was hard last week with the drag of an unpopular unpopular president weighing them down, wait until the voters here about it now. If they thought it was hard to pass a Health Care Bill that would raise premiums and kick millions off of their insurance, wait until they see how hard it would be to rate when elections after they raise taxes on lanes of the middleclass. Host democrats line, we will hear from william. I live in california but i grew up in the south and what i see now is, unfortunately, instead of us focusing on the real problems, we are concerned with immigration. Most of those people are not contributing a lot to the country and not impacting the country as much. My life is more impacted by these tax laws and that is what people should be focused on, not so much immigration. Bad we have distracted people. Host as far as the tax efforts going on, how do you think it will directly affecthost you sd it pass in the house and the senate . Caller i can relate it to my own experience. My tax bill went up so i listen people saying how great it is just rubbish. I experienced it and i know i was impacted. Less money than engineers. All of a sudden, we are impacted. The middleclass, not the rich, are impacted. It will be the same with this tax bill. Host this is from the examiner examiner website. The Washington Examiner he had no motive for why he would be struck from behind. He says i am not concerned about the motive and im concerned i was attacked and someone broke six of my ribs and gave me a damaged lung. Ive heard for 10 days, the senator said, after arriving back in washington. Rand paul is doing yard work on november the third and was blindsided by the attack allegedly by his neighbor, chart with fourth Degree Assault and released saturday on 7,500 bond. That is from the examiner website. Paul,le more about rand his physical state, things aids, thed by two senator had no obvious scars or bruises. He quietly explained he was still struggling to breathe and politely declined a handshake from marco rubio, one of his 2016 president ial campaign opponents not out of spite but because he said it is too painful. Michigan, go ahead. I love your open lines and to me, they are the best of it. You to if you want to totally, had what country, in this sorry, i read my books during great breaks at lunch but they are good books. Republicane by a that is pretty good and it is called dark money. Far as the books you listed, what would people learn if they read those for themselves . Caller premuch everything from what is going on without her systems, Social Security, privatizing everything, and that is not just republicans. Also democrats. Host give me an example from the book of why they want to privatize everything. Ourer for one, it shapes money and puts it in the hands of a few private people. It were still going toit were s. Lets take the voucher system for one. There is no oversight within it that you normally have with a school board. There is no oversight within it that you normally have with a school board. It allows them to eliminate otherthere is no oversight witht that you normally have with a school board. It allows them to eliminate other people. Just because there is no oversight. They should be held to a standard and probably hit with false advertising for not providing a service that they are actually saying. These Crisis Centers do not want to help the women coming in and tell them they have the option of abortion. There are only prolife and none of them actually give people the full scope of the Information Available to them here that is why california had to pass the law. If they were held to a standard where they had to tell the truth, it would not en issue. That is the best example i can give you. If it is a private organization and they believe a certain way, doesnt this turn into a free speech issue . Caller just like the hobby lobby decision. My free speech cannot override your free speech. Sphere, that is where we are running into the problem. Just because i believe you should not eat fish, does not mean because you work for me, i can make you not eat fish. We are running into and the Supreme Court has to come down and decide free speech has a point where it has to stop. It cannot usurp another persons believes. Host republican line, frank. Caller i would like to comment on this last speaker. Counselorn a prolife and i have done sidewalk counseling in front of Abortion Centers for 22 years. The Crisis Pregnancy Centers are not medical facilities. They are in the courage months of dads to give birth to their children and they provide Financial Assistance sometimes, material help host some provide medical services, right . Caller no, they do pregnancy test but they do not do the service you would find in the doctors office. Host sonograms and the like . Caller i think a minority of them have sonograms. But if california will force prolife centers to talk about alternatives like abortion, why doesnt it work the other way that abortion facilities should about life to tell centers . That would only be fair. Host as far as the last callers point about giving the full scope of information about services of these types, that should not exist at the prolife centers . They should not have to tell about abortion, no. Because they are not a medical facility. They are promoting life and encouraging moms to get earth to children. That is the mission. Host last call, jason. Ler roy moore, i believe i think democrats will do anything to get back at republicans. Host why do you specifically believe roy moore . Well, i have been listening to his show, it has come out at an odd time that they are just now coming out point this here is what i say. Where is the proof of these show the proof. If he is guilty then yes, step aside. Host how do you think these are affecting people. Caller i have not really talked to anybody about it yet but it i will talk to people about and see what their opinion is on it and see what they feel about it. Host jason and in alabama, of last call on this set ocean phones. Two guests are joining us in the next hour. We will be joined by susan. Uzan delbene she will join us next. Later, we will hear from politicos elana schor as she discusses the current process for Sexual Harassment on capitol hill. Those conversations are coming up when washington journal continues. Watch cspan this week as Congress Debates tax reform in the house debates its bill on thursday. Live coverage on cspan. Coverage of tax reform using the free cspan radio app. Cspan, where history unfold daily. In 1970 nine, cspan was graded as a Public Service by americas cabletelevision companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. I am the Program Director of the Miami Book Fair. It takes place in downtown miami cami county. Everything you can think of, we are representing at the book fair. Watch our live coverage saturday and sunday on book tv. N cspan two washington journal continues. Host representative suzan , from the us ways and Means Committee, the tax reform currently being discussed and debated. Where are we in the process of productmight see as a guest for thursday. The bill went through the ways and Means Committee last week. There will be a discussion and a vote. It has been unfortunate. We have the opportunity to really talk about what we should be doing in tax form and it should have been a bipartisan effort and it has not been. The goal of tax reform should be to help middleclass families and have a Strong Economy Going Forward and that has not been the goal of this tax reform unfortunately. Im disappointed in what is coming to the floor and i do not think it represents the values he should have represented in our tax bill. I think the ryan and mcconnell plan saved favors organizations over people. We have deductions were taking away from families. Peoples ability to deduct state and local taxes, property taxes were capped at 10,000. But businesses get to keep deductions for state and local or they can deduct moving expenses if they are offering facilities. A 15 tax cut for corporations and middleclass families really get small amounts of rakes and those are only temporary. It is not a reflection of our values or a bill that helps middle west families. Would you say corporations dont need that type of tax break . Guest when we talk about a Strong Economy, we should be talking about investing in people. Skills andple with we need to make sure they have the skills we need for jobs of today and of the future. Would youwe know the trickledy of economics has not and proven to work ever. We need to make sure we are making investments in people and that will help build a Strong Economy. Host we have several people saying high tax rates that corporations have to pay forces them to make those decisions. Why not consider a tax break for them . Guest there has been a bipartisan agreement you could lower the Corporate Tax rate and lot of special loopholes and deductions that are in there and simplify the tax code, and you could lower that somewhat but this has been a situation where it is a huge thefor corporations and focus has not been on middleclass families or building a strong longterm economy. It puts us in a bad place with a and increase to the deficit i think that would be a drag on the economy Going Forward and move us into the wrong direction. Host is the Corporate Tax rate of point percent to low . Absolutely. We should focus on families and builds and make sure we longterm opportunity in our country. The tradeoffs we made in this bill are wrong i think. Host is there a number you would be satisfied with . This is something we should have done, we should have sat down and brought in experts and people who represent different issues and we should have talked to them and understood what tradeoffs to make and what impact we would have. It went out and was jammed through committee and will be rushed through the or without getting feedback on what we could do, and what would be the right thing to Health Businesses to thrive and also help middleclass families to thrive here it i think this has been a missed opportunity. Is joining delbene us, a member of the ways and Means Committee and a democrat from washington. Calling in on other issues host you can tweet questions or comments at our twitter feed. Local taxes, how will Washington State residents be affected . Guest host guest they will be affected greatly. It used to be something that had to be approved every year by congress to allow rapid residents to do that and we finally made that permanent and at republicans are looking ripping that away. Part of the issue for families is certainty Going Forward, knowing what the tax policy is so they can plan and when you change things like mortgage interest deductions or Student Loans or medical expense deductions, you impact families and they are not able to plan and many folks are uncertain about the what the future may hold. What do you think that proposal of that proposal . Guest it is unclear where republicans are headed but corporations get to deduct property taxes above that. It is off it is unfortunate. Deb is on our republican line, houston, texas. Caller thank you for cspan. A question and they, for your guest. Wefar as the trickledown are always told, because im 55 and i grew up with it, we are always told it does not work. Facebook and all of these places, they only want to have one central and. You cannot call it person to talk to them, you cannot walk in and there is no local community. They keep all their money parked overseas. Why dont they bring the money back and why dont yall in court encourage them to be job makers . More jobs . They said when they automate there will be different jobs but it is not true. The made all the money but good job growth was in service, waitressing and bars and restaurants and hotels. If a rich person stuck house money and they buy a yacht or boat, someone has to clean it, i guess. Wherehed a program on pbs people were foregoing rvs now and families want their own planes. Host thank you. Guest i think you are bringing up an important point, which is we need to make sure we have an economy that works for everyone in the country and we need to understand what are the opportunities we have today and what are the changes and disruptions that will happen through new industries and innovation and that is what we should he looking at. We should absolutely encourage investment in the United States and encourage innovation and new opportunities. We need to look at investing in people and making sure we get the training needed to participate in this economy. That is where this policy and the budget that was passed is really disappointing. We are not investing in people and the longterm opportunities. There is a shortterm view that would take away from the future. Increasing the deficit impacts our future and takes away the resources for folks to get a great education, for interest for instance, deductions and the tax will. There is a shortterm view that would take away from the future. All of those things impact families. We should look at a policy that create and keep jobs in the u. S. But also makes sure we invest in people so they have great opportunities Going Forward. Host democrats line. Create and keepcaller greetin. Guest good morning. Host are you still there . Go ahead, youre on. Caller yes. Ive heard from everybody from Steven Mnuchin to kevin brady tout how the new tax bill to and therporations home money with it. I wish you a challenge, if this is good enough for President Trump and his father to bring their corporation money home from overseas, it seems to be lacking when the conversation hit this. The tax returns, who knows if they are paying taxes on it. I wish you would challenge him with that, thank you. One, absolutely, we need to make sure we have incentives for corporations to invest right here and that should he the big goal of tax reform. We also need to make sure the focus is on the middle west wealthiest not the and largest corporations. It is another place where this bill has fallen short. The focus is not on middleclass families. A family tax credit put in place is only temporary and would expire. Corporations, the 15 tax cut is permanent. Make sure the focus is on families. It is unfortunate that benefits they might have seen in the bill are only temporary. Host when you talk about incentives to invest here, what are you specifically talking about what would you specifically like to see . Guest investing in people, making sure it is about investing in training, making sure companies are able to invest in training, skills, education, so they have the skills they need for the new economy and the economy Going Forward. I think that is important. We have things in the tax bill that make it harder for companies to provide tuition for students and take classes. That is going in the wrong direction. We need to make sure investments are taking place for people right here. Corporations are taxed 35 . Do they really pay that in your opinion . The overall effective rate is 18. 6 sent. It is another place where Small Businesses tend to pay higher taxes and large operations tend to pay lower taxes. This is an opportunity to understand what we could do to make sure we have a system that is fair and we dont have folks to take advantage of loopholes and have tax attorneys to lower their effective late, to understand what we could do espy their bills tend to be higher. That smallake sure businesses farewell as well. Our guest previously served as Corporate Vice president of microsoft. Joining us for this conversation. Virginia, republican line, you with representative suzan delbene. Caller good morning. I have got a couple of facts and you may agree or disagree. What we call the 1 in this country, they pay 73 of the tax, is that correct . Guest i do not know exactly where youre getting your numbers. Ok, romney when he was running said he 7 dont pay tax. Guest we have people across the paying taxes and as i mentioned earlier, we have a lot of folks who do not have resources or the tax attorneys and accountants to go through it a complicated tax code. It is middleclass families and low income families who are not able to take advantage of loopholes in the tax code. Wealthy families and large corporations, they are. That is why the effect of the many Corporate Tax rates are a lot lower than the and for a lot of families, they wish they had the same opportunities. We need a similar and error tax code and we need to make sure Small Businesses and their families are treated fairly. I talked to my constituents and i hear frequently about how families feel they are not given the same advantages of large operations. Hello,rom arkansas, independent line. Make a i would like to comment. There has been a lot of talk about reducing the Corporate Tax. In the United States, used to get paid 30 an hour, and the same worker in china and philippines is getting paid mainly maybe less than a dollar an hour. If you have corporate manage the rate, the ceo, same or similar in costs,ay so much or would you rather reinvest all of that money back in china, india, philippines, to take advantage i do not think it has any basis in reality. That is all the comment i have. Guest there were these efforts to bring back money parked overseas and many cases that went out as evidence, shareholders, not necessarily as that is all the comment i have. Investors. I think there could be a bipartisan effort to make sure it goes to investing in infrastructure here at home. We know that helps create a foundation for economic growth. Use repatriated dollars to focus on jobs and skills training. So everyone in the country has access to the skills they need for jobs. The department of labor says they had 6 million unfilled jobs in our community. Lets make sure the jobs are filled and the people are given letsills they need and make sure those opportunities are widely available. The republican bill talks about ringing the bill back but it is a missed opportunity when we are not talking about how those dollars are invested. There are no specifics. They really have repatriation to pay for the big hole in the deficit by not paying for the , there have been proposals so they would be used for things like infrastructure. That is another opportunity for the tax bill. Ultimately pay for those tax codes. What do you think about the arguments . Guest there will be huge amounts of growth and it will magically pay for everything. I will call that magical thinking. Again thatn time and the idea of tax cuts create jobs and a stronger economy. That has not proven out even more recently in the state of kansas. Kansas is still trying to dig out because of policies like that. We should be responsible stewards of the finances caret our government dollars. We should make sure those are our countryely for and we should not be in a place where you are increasing our deficit 1. 5 trillion and may be higher. A lot of gimmicks done in the tax bill to make it fit into package, it fits in 10 years by having things package, it fits in 10 years by having things like Corporate Tax rates in the intoe will that do not go effect for a year so they can save the money for a year. Or benefits for families that disappear in five or six years just because it makes the numbers work out better. We should be looking at being fiscally responsible and making sure we have a budget that works for families and making sure we have a strong Balance Sheet right here for our country. The hearings for the house ways and Means Committee still on our website at cspan. Org. The final legislation will be voted on this week. Berlin, maryland, stephen, republican line, go ahead, you are next up. Caller how are you doing today . I really like what you are saying and i want to put in a little more to berlin, it. I married twice, i had six children and they all resided with me. My 18yearold just went into the army. As a father, i became disabled. House innd purchased a a nice part of maryland where they have Great Schools where i reside. They do notying is really give married people a lot of perks to deduct. If you are married and established, you should have more of a tax break. They always separate the married people. It is like they want to end marriages throughout the whole world, it is just ridiculous. Mean, i paid a lot of money in kid, and ii was a moved to another part, in myrtle beach, where taxes were a lot lower and they were a lot cheaper. When you made kid, and i moved to another xml of dollarsr hour, you had more in your pocket. Guest i think the important topic you brought up of fairness, it should be a that is fair and works for everyone in the country. That middleclass families that middleclass families are getting a fair break and Small Businesses are getting a fair break, that we realize how important it is, it the contributions they are making to our country, and make sure they are treated well in our tax code. That is the opportunity when we talk about tax reform to address the issue of fairness and unfortunately, i think the bill we have before us is moving in the wrong direction. From new york, democrats line, jeff, hello. Caller good morning. I saw you on the marco Committee Last week. Thought you spoke very well on the issues. Of course, i live in new york and the big issue now is the elimination of the property Tax Deduction and i hope folks realize a lot of that property tax obviously goes to schools. I consider this republican bill really a raid on the wealthy in and thetern states south and southwest and of course california is a target. I am also a retired schoolteacher and an army veteran. I got a call from one of my American Legion buddies and slated for elimination and maybe you can tell this representative, there was an exemption for those who hire disabled veterans, is that included to be eliminated in the house gop reform bill . First of all, thank you for your service. Proposed under the guise of sympathy kaisha and, a lot of deductions were limited, things like medical expense deductions, deductions for Student Loans. Ofnow there was also a lot concern about the issues you bring up in terms of disability. Be thehould not tradeoffs we are making it i have heard from families in my district who have high medical expenses and have a Family Member who has longterm illness like alzheimers, and their expenses are great. They are worried about being if they cannot deduct medical expenses because they are so high. The changes in the republican bill do not address issues like that. It puts them in a much more much worse situation. These are examples of things where if youre talking about tax policy being a reflection of our values, this is going in the wrong direction. It is a missed opportunity for us to do a better job to help them was across the country, to make sure if there are issues that our taxties, policy take that into account and helps out families like that. It is disappointing that was not a part of the conversation and that we never even had that conversation. The debatehing in about the bill was President Trump off his call for the repeal of the individual mandate of the Affordable Care act. Do you think that will end up in either version of the house or senate will . Still in discussion behind closed doors with the republican leadership. I do not know. It has not been in the house bill yet. They potentially still could make changes before it comes to the floor but there has still been talk about that so it is still a possibility. Host minnesota, independent line, you are on with our guest. Good morning. America and morning good morning, cspan. You are proving my point and we talk about income tax and you bring up things like you should medicalto deduct expenses and this that the other thing. It is income tax. There should be no deductions. It is based on what you make. You ared point is addicted to spending money. We have a 20 trillion debt. You cant have an issue and you keep up the same thing, our values. We have 300 point game people with different values spirit you cannot just generally say values. You are addicted to spending money and what comes up through tax reform is a lot of cutting. So get your talking points ready for the fact that now we need to what is spent in washington because the best thing for families is where we pay less to washington and we keep our money. I actually think this tax plan, if you really want to be fiscally responsible, this is absolutely the wrong bill. It will punch a huge hole in our deficit of 1. 5 trillion, and more. On interest is not covered that so that would make it more. It is looked at in the 10 year window where we know it would impact, there would be a great impact to us beyond the time frame because they are trying to make it look like it is worth than in 10 years where they are delaying things are taking away of those things continue, it would put a bigger hole in the deficit Going Forward. When you look at it from thiscal standpoint, absolutely is the wrong bill here it it is the least fiscally responsible. We we need to make strong investments. To build an economy into the future, we should be investing infrastructure, education and skills training, like research, because all of have given us great return over the years and they are the foundations for a Strong Economy. So were moving in the wrong about on, if you care this responsibility, this bill moves us in the wrong direction, realize thatave to sometimes there are investments we make that actually save us run and id long say infrastructure is a great example. The pot hole today, it is cheaper to fix the pot road bed fix the whole later because you didnt do anything, those are tradeoffs expenses to the backs of our children and grandchildren and i think thats thats d i think irresponsible. Host representatives hold a at sexual ay looking hararsme harz harassment and what needs to change. Change. T should no tolerance policy for Sexual Harassment. Be training for everyone in the capitol. Clear if you are a victim of harassment, it needs should go, where you who you can talk to, there is someone that will treat the there seriously and so, needs to be rethinking and i know there have been proposals that, we need a zero tolerance policy. House, congresswoman jackie spear has been pushing or reform and i think that there will be various pieces of legislation, shes been pushing or legislation to make sure that it is clear that we have training and it is clear there process that where people can go and where people know how works, who they should talk to and theyre treated fairly and respectfully. What is your perspective on the last couple days moore . Tion on roy guest i think roy moore is unfit to be a u. S. Senator. Was not a supporter of roy moore before these accusations came out, because i dont think qualified, but clearly we have many, many women who hes reated terribly and i think that he should step down and not be a u. S. Senator. Here is george from stubenville, ohio, on the line for republicans. Guest, good th our morning. Caller yes, how are you today . Guest good morning. To know oneuld like thing, why are you people so people . Rich what is your problem with a rich person . You dont look like you lost me. S to host excuse me, caller, continue on, but be respectful. Respectful. I like to know what you have against rich people and im not there. Well leave it guest we need a tax system that is fair. I think we right now have a were and the policy that looking at Going Forward actually favors the wealthiest favors large , corporations. We need a system that is fair, that works for middle class that works for Small Businesses and you know, if you resources and youre able to have tax attorneys and others elp you out and youre paying lower rate than someone who doesnt have that and maybe has fair . Ncome, is that no. Fairness is about making sure that everyone pays their fair we have equal responsibility to supporting our country and nd our so, i think fairness is a key compone key nent, should be a component of our tax system, a ething that we should make priority and unfortunately, i dont think with priority we have breaks large corporations families dont get, when you talk about state and local taxes or if a family has of a job, they dont get to deduct moving expenses, but a company can moving expenses, that is not fair, that doesnt address of our core values and those are that is one example of a problem with the plan that coming to the house floor. Host one more call, mike in north carolina. Line. Ats caller good morning, thanks for taking my call. Listen, im having a little trying to figure ut the way the republicans are se ing this Corporate Tax break situation, theyre saying it to s to be lower tax rate bring jobs back from overseas, ut when i listen to mr. Upton earlier, his defense of corporations and how little they pay now was simply they were going to close the loopholes, cases, as i was taking it, was going to make bracket, sogher tax f thats the case, how many boats of equipment will we be seeing coming back across the ocean, if it is actually going to be higher . Seems like theyre trying to this kind of both ways, it doesnt make sense. Caller, thanks. Are theo, i think these reasons why tax reform should be something that is debated, where we have lots of hearings, do not bringsts of hearings and things in so we can understand how Different Industries, taxes, how corporate Different Industries would be impacted or respond to changes in the tax code. That we had the opportunity to do that, i think board cuts ross the doesnt really get at the issues that youre bringing up. Look at eally need to is how do we make sure that we have an environment that allows part of my to grow and that is making sure that we have great investment necessary Human Capital so that there are great workers right here in the u. S. , able to take those job to book us right here in the United States, you have incredible infrastructure behind you, a great Education System, great workers, those are things and we have hold dear need to invest in them to keep those Going Forward and those incentives and where dollars need to be focused, not taxesnassuming if you cut that magically thats going to mean it will trickle down to country, across our that is the tradeoff made and that was the wrong tradeoff. Representative suzan delbene, member of ways and committee. Guest thank you. Exists andat what what is being proposed with of politico, shell join us next. Wash cspan this week as Congress Debates tax reform, the its bill on thursday, live coverage on cspan. Details at cspan. Org congress, and listen o live coverage of tax reform using the free cspan radio app. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. 1979, cspan was created as a ublic service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your provider. Atellite my name is mendez, program of the Miami Book Fair. Miami book fair takes place in downtown miami at wilson campus miamidade college. We have a little over 525 authors representing every genre, everything that you can were representing at Miami Book Fair. Watch live coverage of the and book fair saturday sunday 10 30 a. M. Eastern on book t. V. , on cspan2. Temperature washington journal continues. Host elena schor joining us she covers o, congress. Here to talk about a hearing looking at today Sexual Harassment in congress. Genesis of it. He take a broad look at arassment on capitol hill, comes as multiple outlets, my wn, New York Times, Washington Post, associated press, tally the sheer number of tell. S that women have to some anonymously, some not, about experiences on the job. Extremely pervasive and this is a cultural moment coming to washington after start the ng hollywood with Harvey Weinstein scandal and ther celebrity that have touched the media and tech industry. Host what kind of numbers are talking . Guest it is tough to tell, that is part of the problem. Ere at politico, we are covering push to reform the system. Know is 15 harassment complaints were filed with the office of compliance, which is hill harassment and workplace misconduct policing office, basically. Instance, the New York Times interviewed 50 folks for and we ory today alone ourselves have many stories we have printed. It is pervasive. Walk us through the process, if someone has a charge of Sexual Harassment, walk us the process on capitol hill . Guest before you can file a complaint, even formally, you go through a mandated period. Ing and mediation this is controversial among victims and victim advocates for several reasons. Office of compliance says were admin sterg the law that created us. Training. Ndatory we want more freedom to sort of give victims a bigger role process, but theyre going by the book, which reason why all are calling for reform. During this mandatory mediation period, say, it is feasible that lleged victim could be in the same room as the alleged arasser or coworkers of the alleged harasser who talk about the victims allegations. His can be psychologically damaging environment. It is true a victim can request to not be in the same room, but you think about the age of some victims, early 20s and heir first job on the hill, its extremely intimidating and there is so much fear of retaliation. Continue in our conversation, if you want to learn more about the currents comes to sexual charges. Nt 2027488000 for women to call. 2027488001 for men to call. Cspan wj. Mediation takes place. Oes that resolve the issue or other step . Guest the ultimate goal is to settle the issue without taking it to court. The last recourse is filing a federal court if the victims feel their concerns havent been addressed. Know that about 69 settlements between fiscal year current fiscal year were filed totaling 2. 9 million. Types of harassment, we dont know how many of the 69 harassment, versus based on religious beliefs or nashlt. That is are saying public money going to settlements tis confidential offices involved never get named, it is time to name and shame. Congressman ple is tim murphy, who was recently resign over serious personal problems of his own. Politico uncovered systemic problem with harassment, not sexual, but really abusive work behaviors. Of members turn to staff and it stays under the radar. Host your colleague, rachel, talking about this said one issue is each office is a feast with its own policy true . H of the is that guest absolutely. Yes. What offices like to say, 535 of them inesses, each have their own policies. Now we talk to pretty much the and we actually found as senate was passing andatory Sexual Harassment training, many fnot majority, were requiring it or moving in themselves. On of course, it was impossible for senate to know its own members in this direction already because of the systems. Corporate world, Sexual Harassment is a mandatory not taking place on capitol hill . Guest no. Ust on thursday passed mandatory training for member and aides and that is a big deal. Resistance hear among certain members, why should i take this training, it the r my aides, they are problem. The house has yet to act, todays hearing and seenistration committee is as important. Host is that the standard amongst the federal office d. C. . Sary washington, guest Sexual Harassment train something host yes. Guest of some sort. I cant tell you 100 require it r it is voluntary, but it is the standard. Host lets take calls. Florida, keith is up next, elena politico, keith, good morning, go ahead. Caller good morning, thank you answer our re to questions. Can you hear me . Guest sure. Reality. We s eed to teach our kids that there is no job or money or worth being s assaulted, male and female. The reality of it, this has been on since the beginning of man and woman and the government on this for ing years. Now hollywood and sitcoms, a joke out of Sexual Harassment constantly. Courses and everything. The reality of it is that women to stand up at the time. You need to learn failure and be to start your life over. The last woman that gets ssaulted by the man host caller, i think you are fade nothing and out, well leave it at that. Point about women needing to stand up is a valid one. Senator brand and congressman spear, the folks on the hill working on this, say, that is what were trying to do with this bill. There is a bill being introduced this week to broadly reform the process and create confidential office of the compliance, the theory being, these woman, in order to stand resource they can guarantee wont pass information back to the employer. Betweenat is time frame the start of the process and end of the process typically . Typically three months, including mandatory period before a complaint can be acted on. Host go to california, cynthia is next, good morning, cynthia, youre on. Good morning. Thank you for letting me express my opinion. I believe that these women are coming forward now because they environment ent make its safe for them. I applaud them for doing that. I dont think they have anything to gain by being on t. V. And alking about it if it hadnt happened to them. Happened to me quite a few years ago, so i think it is great and i hope that the whole environment is changing now, where women will feel safe, or matter, coming out these people some of the treatment and getting them people harming them in the work place and they also dont believe that people should be in Public Office if they are doing these things to people and their power and harming their employees and people them. Host elena schor . Guest well, the caller make omes really good points and seems to subtly refer to the roy moore scandal, which did not senates quick move to create mandatory training. Of course, the alleged victims moore were not subordinates in the work place, but nonetheless, it helped raise awareness and sensitivity among republicans who arent really accustomed to speaking about these kinds of issues. Listen to Senate Majority leader believe the ing, i unequivocal y clear statement fight withing alleged victims, thats a big deal. To filer those who wish charges on capitol hill, is it clear they can go to a series of get this rder to process done or where to start the process . Guest mostly, no. Be fair to want to the office of compliance, they havent had much of a budget doing more theyre and more and more work. That said, they are under raise their ure to own profile and since politico and New York Times and started to post write about this, office of here, nce, hey, we are come by and take this training. It is hard for them because it mandatory until thursday and only on one side of the capitol. Terms ofds are tied in impressing upon aides that they are available. From john is next, john is new jersey, good morning. Caller good morning, sir. Is no clear holesome work place harassment policy, it is held over everybody like a veiled, vague trend. What is it . It might be a look, might be a and re, very sad hypocritical and needs to be specialty out very clear and and the vast majority of people do not commit it. Shouldnt be held like everybody else. Thank you. Dnigz of a schor, the harassment, is that clearly efine . Ed guest actually it is not. Every system can set own of harassment. Some offices go far further than thers, saying a suggestive picture hung up in your cubicle, a joke that is racially that is harassment of anyone listening to the joke mchlt offices take a much cleaner and less specific approach. Host from illinois, tonya, good morning, youre on with our guest. Go ahead. Caller good morning. My call. For taking because i wasptsd sexually abused as a child. Raped by a grown man and reason why you dont say nothing is because youre afraid, you feel ashamed, you it is your fault. So i believe those women, those are not lying and also, it is not that i didnt try to do my life, i went to college and i have a masters a ree and then when i got job, i was under a man and he me, i got rassed retraumatized again and had to reporting you know, him at work and it it makes you got to amed, prove it and it is very ifficult for women to come forward. So when people say why did they wait, why did they wait . Is hard to talk about. I see a erapy and psychiatrist, but this stuff is happens. , this i was sexually abused at the age of four years old, four years that was not my fault. So, i just want to say that shame women nt to or men who come forward, shame on them. You. Guest well, thanks to the caller for sharing her story. Lot of itself takes a courage. Shes right, it is not her fault. It is not your fault. I talk to senator illibrand, she has been active on Sexual Assault in the military and campuses, before this. Pointed to a survey, getting republicans onboard to repair military, a n the survey said 59 of females in sexual tary reported assault felt they were retaliated against. When the caller talks about the big concern in other institutions, if we change the system, there is still this is no way to police that happens. On host your stories democratic womens proposal expect to require Public Disclosure of congressional offices if they happens. Ed a settlement, can you host your stories democratic expand on that . Guest yes, it is about an sparency, if there is office like congressman murphy, deter behavior is to name the offices. Complaints are filed, put it out identify it. And there is nondisclosure requirement, few people know here, i talked about this pot of money available, taxpayer adjudicate settlements. Condition for going through the process, right now, alleged victims have to sign nondisclosure to not talk about their experience. For some people, that can be beneficial, some victims want to career, but their once they talk about it, google has hundreds of hit of their that is painful for future employers. Make he women want to do, it optional. Let an alleged victim decide how story. Nt to tell their host transparency is expected to get pushback. Is a well, congress selfprotected institution, bound by tradition, it is not personal change, but any change is bound to get pushback. North nne marie, in carolina, calling. Hello, go ahead, you are on. Caller hi, good morning. All, pedro, i want to apologize for how you were ago, a several months guy called in and started yelling at you. You are north of the border, i wanted to say im sorry that you had to put up like that. Ing host appreciate that, caller. Go ahead. Of sexual the point harassment, i worked in one of the u. S. Attorneys offices in the country. All from 1985 to 2007, we had videos and sign off hat we saw, certain films or whatever, on Sexual Harassment, what it was, how to identify it, blah, blah, blah. One thing that not a lot of eople talk about is, it certainly is about sex and other thing is i but arassed, not sexually, more like violent thing. The man i worked for, assistant attorney, who would slam when i made a wl typo, slam phones, slam doors was always when no one else was around. Comes under lso Sexual Harassment, the bullying look who we have in the white house, nothing but a big bully. Elena schor, ive seen you on bill press show periodically on free speech t. V. People need to check out free speech t. V. Thanks for your time, appreciate it. Guest so, the caller makes a great point about types of harassment. A lot of ways, hostile Work Environment and all of them are 1995 law that created office of compliance. E were talking about Sexual Harassment, because harvey einstein, tim murphy, another proof this happens in many different forms and on all eforms being proposed to the system, cover those types of harassment, as well. Debate over roy moore, change the dynamics of this conversation on capitol hill . Mean, if moore is elected to the senate, there will be a move to expel him, take over the news cycle. Absolutely it will, because roy oore has become a cultural symbol of the negative side of behavior. Of host to memphis, tennessee, ashley, next up, good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I was just going to say that who going to hold these people accountable if they are charged harassment . A third party that people can even complaint to and then who is going to take them out of congress or the senate, know . Who holds them accountable . Ost what is ultimate punishment then . Guest she raises a great question. The office of compliance is that Third Party Entity who can field the complaints. Employees, happens to oftentimes senior staff in an office, you cant kick them out be the ess, it has to lawmaker to fire them. You saw a great example in brenda lawrence, wwho reported on. Leader of the antiharassment push, turned out women in her been having a very tough time with a senior staff fully and she wasnt aware of the situation, so ultimately she put the senior leave, remains to be seen if he will be fired. Because of every office is a a lot of ness nature, cases, it is up to the member of congress to decide. Fired, the person is could they file legal challenges and complicate the process there . Guest certainly. Can happen. Nything talking to lawyers involved in this process, lawyers for actually as long as you have a good lawyer, the process isnt as bad as it is to be. T the thing is, that is not cheap and folks are very young. Host mike in connecticut, hello, go ahead. Caller hello. Ahead. Oure on, go caller my name is mike from connecticut. Confused. F on one hand, toughest men are cops, were firemen, Fighter Pilots and can do anything a man do, yet delicate flowers. E said something to me, im so upset, i need medication, i i wish they could make up their mind. I learned in high school, if you woman against men, they will take your country. It could someone explain to me, tough or delicate flowers . Guest well, im pretty sure tough and are both occasionally delicate. For that matter, so are men, of harassment es are filed by men, not something gender. Ows men can be sexually harassed on the job. Have clearer t to rules so we can understand better what actually constitutes harassment. There is confusion clearly. Florida, hello. Caller hi. How you doing . Make a brief to remark, first of all, i think what a lot of women go through and i sympathize. Want to make one point, though, about more general kinds job, i sment on the would call bullying harassment. I have been living in the state 1989. Rida since state, in antiunion which employers, bosses have aximum power over labor, over workers, employees, and workers power or clout. I have worked for temporary remember own here, i one job they sent me on back in the 1990s. I worked for was a younger man than i was. Stuff and he would literally he would throw, took threw it er and against the wall he got so he as there was something disturbed about this guy. Had to call the temporary i dont want to continue working here, there is something wrong with this guy. They argueed with me, i was technically working for the temporary agency. Im sure women go through this probably 10 times or 100 times more than men and it also has a sexual component to they argueed with me, i was technically working for the temporary agency. Im sure women go throughit. So im not making excuses for saying bullying and Sexual Harassment probably go are her, where women concerned and also caller, leave it there. Guest i think the caller makes quite a lot of fair points. Describing in his work place is the same sort of emotional stress and psychological intimidation that make its tougher for people in junior positions to speak up, no matter gender. Host from pennsylvania, tom is next. Aller yes, i think as reporter, you should be asking Senate Republicans that dont roy moore what anita hill . She still stands by her story f. Were going down this rabbit is anitaele like who elect elected, disregard the role of the peep and he will play by our own rules, go to the hill. Guest im not sure what the caller means about asking senate hill. Licans about anita i dont know if all viewers know, she wasele elect elected, accuser of Justice Clarence thomas during the confirmation process in 1988. She is actually recently spoken p and said this moment culturally about Sexual Harassment is something i never faced a lot of skepticism and criticism, including from senate did take s, but they her up to the hill and hear her testimony. Ost from new jersey, mir, go ahead. Caller yeah, im thinking this ime thing is validation not saying they are not true, they do sound a little true, but details describing are too clear for somebody to remember clarity from 40 ago. Host caller, you there . Caller hello. Going. O ahead, keep caller yeah. If these things happened more years ago, how exactly that, i think whether it is true or not, may be true, i think the details are completely fabricated, the details have to be fake. Mean, i assume again, the caller is talking about moore. S of roy certainly there are interviews with victims of Sexual Assault how many esnt matter years pass by when you experience trauma on that level, the details stick with you. To say more beyond that. Host Committee Hearing on the house side, after this, where do go and what legislative efforts will we see . Gillibrand and r are expectedie this week and testifying about proposals. Where we go next is frankly anyones guess. We have a story on politico. Com, that examines possibilities. Senator amy this week and testifying about proposals. Here we go next isklobachar isp democrat on the rules committee, as power on making further changes. She has convened a working combrup, her goal is to get in, because to buy doing forms is great, we have to pass something. She has but not a lot. Host who are allies then . Now its chairman Chuck Grassley on judiciary 1995 lawe, he wrote the that created the office of compliance, he takes personal in updating it and shelly moore capito, from west virginia, is on the rules committee. Host the house side, any republican buyins or supporters of the effort . Greekt congre congressman speeer is get nine house republicans, including congressman costello to sign on her bill. Hello. Obert in virginia, caller how you doing . Thank you for cspan, love listening to you. My concern with roy, obviously with the sexual abuse, is seems like everybody accused lost for. Caller how you doing . Thank you for cspan, love like theyre already found guilty and were accusing the gentleman or whoever accused of sexual being ent of already guilty before the trial and telling them to step down or whomever it is, like not getting due process. I feel that they should. That is my comment. Guest well, due process depends the forum in which alleged offense occurs. In congress, due process is mostly beyond closed doors, really no way for folks like you and i to know how the are handled by the office. For roy moore, the statute of limitations had expired for these offensives these women are of. Sing him to say they should have come forward at the time, these are didnt men who likely realize until they grew older exactly the nature of the offense. To try everyone in a court of law tis not possible at this point. And what happens on house senate side when it comes to charges of what is being debated hearing, ated and the that would change due process so to speak. Yes, exactly. By signing more spotlights on who is called complaints. Ffice of host glen in birmingham, alabama, go ahead. Caller yes, good morning. Of all, i would like to say this. Mediaick and tired of the with their they love roy moore in alabama, please. Dont. And there is a lot of people that dont, either. I want to say this. Men, not the one that just called, women want to hear about were ocess, these children, these were children, teenage girls. Know how hard it is for women to come out against men . Rful you are already saying, if, if, f, these republican men, these are the most spineless, i dont see how a woman could be married man right now. That are spineless wimps were not right. Host gw enn, alabama. Final thoughts on the process on capitol hill and what you expect from it. Alonging to see speier can d and get on board. Two members will go a long way toward getting air time, final word, i think it incredibly hard to go beyond mandatory training. Elena schor, congressional reporter, thank you for your time. That hearing, you can see on go to cspan. Org for more information, open phones until program. Of the 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. Independents, 2027488002. I am the Program Director of the Miami Book Fair. Iami book fair takes place in downtown miami at wilson campus of miami dade college. Have a little over 525 authors representing every enre , anything that you can think of, we are representing at fair. 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Org, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions on the house side in front of committee, udiciary questions of him concerning russia, concerning the story taking a look at the possible look at the clinton 1, those and uranium possibly up for discussion, too, seehe hearing, what you can in front of the House Judiciary Committee with the attorney general. Steve up on open phones. Florida on the independent line. Steve, hello. Caller hi, how you doing . You, go ahead. Nk caller listen, ive done a little studying on the subject the nnon is upsetting republican parties to the point this seems like a conspiracy, number one, fund the Justice Department and get all he heads of the different entities inside the Justice Department and get them appointed, same thing with the are department, they tearing down all the cultural political the cant bements and that right. Hes an involved this bannon. Got this russian mess and the whole nine yards. I got to tell you something, pony show has got to end. Host from illinois, austin, on the line for republicans, go ahead. Caller yeah, there is no that is all a , hoax. Talk about President Trumps amazing Approval Ratings hello. S would be host youre on. Caller with the media against at so bad and still got any all, any support, they say he hasnt done nothing, this guy much, the country is doing so well. If they would give him the say e, if the media would one nice thing about him, report one good thing hes done, and Approval Ratings will skyrocket. Ost what good thing would you say tops that list . Caller well, neil gorsuch, of course, and other judges in the queue waiting to come in and shaking up the country, getting things moving, deregulation, border, at the southern its amaze whatting this guy has done with all the opposition hes faced. Host robert in illinois. The Washington Post this david and emily look at the president s asia trip, week, talking s about one topic that didnt come up a lot was that with human his s, saying throughout 12day trip to asia, the president focused primarily on trade, alk about terrorism and north Korea Nuclear program, saying lgs bout chronic human rights abuse, in a region known for brutal regimes, the theme for trump who declared during a may speech in ront of leaders, we are not here to lecture, but offer partnership, unlike barack cancelled meeting with the philippine president year, the two men peered at ease as they pose for photographs with other leaders tagalong shirts. Across from that, across the ay, pictures stemming from the meeting, as well, you may have seen these handshake pictures so the Washington Post. Look at that, hear from tammy in line. Ota, democrats go ahead. Caller hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Response to a caller a while back. How these ioning women with accusations can emember the details from so long ago. We never question a soldier that comes back with ptsd and his of what happened to him, but we can always question a woman. A woman on thursday night, the men on friday are cant ning, i know this be true. Say, om experience, i can that when Something Like this you, you remember every detail. I can still remember the mans face. I am 54 years old and this 17. Pened to me when i was i can remember every single detail. For these men to say, these cannot recall what happened to them is simply wrong. I want to say kudos to gw enn, shes so true about guilty women that can tick by these disgusting pigs that are out there. Thank you for the call. One last thing, the last caller says we should praise trump. I will praise trump for this, he accusations against him for Sexual Assault and harassment, lets do something that. Host republican line. This is jack, mount eden, kentucky. Jack, go ahead. Caller yes. Say, you know, former president bill clinton was never held accountable for accusations against him was he . No. In the state of alabama, i would be voting for one, these se for allegations always seem to come exact same time, just like they tried to pull on any of t trump, did those come through . No, they didnt, seems like all he women accusing trump of doing something, they kind of like dropped out of the picture gloria alrich was behind this, also. This is a witch hunt, trying to, you know, get a instead of there, roy moore. This is all political. Want to push it, they could prove it if they wanted it. Lets go ahead and prove host from springfield, massachusetts, well hear from democrats line. Caller hi. Yes, thanks for taking my call. I was 11 years old when i was first sexually assaulted. Detail. Er every id see these people that did this to me everyday of my life. I didnt have the power when i was 11 years old and it was too realized e time i things, the details will stay with me forever and people need understand that. Ts the men who conveniently forget it if they want. Host judy in massachusetts. Couple stories in the paper this taking a look at iran. Some showing photographs of the which 445 there in 7000le were killed and over injured in iran, according to he semiofficial tacman news agency, gave estimate significantly higher than 407, earlier. D eight people were killed at the iraqi side of the border and waited in line to donate blood in response to a call from the government. Leader delivered message of contollence on monday, urging rescue workers to keep searching for survivors, from the paper this morning and New York Times looking at the earthquake. New york times sorry, Washington Post this morning taking a look at iran and the saying the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential viewed by reuters and others, iran stock piles of enriched uranium have not xceeded the limit of 300 kilograms and iaea gained access o any sites they tried to visit. Iran isme iaea attested meeting six major powers, ncluding the United States, implemented early last year. Iaea provides ammunition for agreement, whothe say the United States will isolate itself and be responsible for killing the deal imposes restrictions beyond what was agreed on in negotiations. Oklahoma, this is patrick. Patrick, good morning, go ahead. Morning. Ood i have i am a republican, i have two comments. I dont believe the five women are all lying, i do believe oore should step down, number one. Number two, i really thought obama would be better with the time, i did e first vote for him second time, i did ot what he couldnt do in eight years, trump has done in 10 months, get the economy to in eight years he kept it at 2. 1, i just dont think he that much about business and the economy, where trump obviously does. Hes a world traveller, i think he and knows how business works, that is why i voted for him. The gentleman on earlier, i think he has done a airly good job, i dont think hes got too much good press about him, they should write something. Last thing i want to say, keeps talking about republicans, but lets face it, have the democrats, what they done . I think america is sick and ired of that and we want to do better together, not twieded. That is my comment. Tennessee, umbolt, independent line. Presley, go ahead. Calling about this moore, roy moore. What he did and if he continue that. Obody can defend the people that support him, hat knowing what he done, they are the about as bad as he time, clinton e was elected, everybody knew what e done, raping the women and all that, and then his wife acked him on it and he was elected twice, his wife run and he people that knew what they done and still backed him and people that that he done, they t are worse and sorrier than the clinton fist they backed them they done. T never been a country in the history of the world that has propaganda put on than this country has in the last 50 or 60 tis absolutely terrible. Stories about the environment related to the environment, out of bond New York Times reporting Trump Administration needed stability United Nations Climate Change by giving defense fossil fuel, nuclear down answer to driving global Green House Gas emission, advisor. Banks, special on International Energy issue executives with top foss to make sure rest fossil fuels are used they can be clean. Heads in the sand, before the trump team could make disruption ere was by chanting demonstrators and protesters walked out, leaving room half empty. The remainder of the presentation, audience members officials, house who attempted to explain trumps view that Global Warming is a hoax. Carbont taking a look at emissions worldwide, 45 billion tons being pushed into the according to the report done by Global Carbon hopesct team, which dashed emissions had peaked. We hope we entered the quarter, havent, said the study oauthor jackson of stan ford, university, United States Climate Change in germany, it lso goes on to say on average about 2. 57 Million Pounds of the n dioxide emitted into air every second and top five china, ng countries are United States, india, russ ja and japan. Urope would rank third, as a whole. Susan, sacramento, california, happened line. Two areas that relate to the womens issues hat have not been traeszed and one of them is racism, plus sexism, which impacts only women color, the other is the types hidden that are being of ractice, experiences women having reproductive organs sterileized eing against our will. There is research and dat aall vailable online and throughout the country and we are not able to get Law Enforcement to take complaints or enforcement agencies for civil rights. Get things ying to to cnn, so have many women. Ae harris foundation, im not part of it, but they have data reproductive removal. T sends young women into conditions that are at risk of their lives and of course the to both being subjected racism and sexism is so structive to the lives of women color. I hope cspan at least, i hope women will call about these issues, they are out there by the thousands. Thank you for letting me speak. Being conducted today, amongst many hearings on capitol hill, one in senate cspan 3, mittee on if you were to go to that channel now, you would see that look at leastng a working through tax reform efforts. That ing taking place on as we speak, again, monitor that on cspan 3. Attorney ons, the general, expected to hear before the House Judiciary Committee, that hearing taking place shortly. Again, hell talk about a lot of different topics and being republicans and on these topics, that is available to you, as well. Our website as always, you can find the complete details for ll the hearings and more, that at cspan. Org. Myranmassachusetts, democrats line. Caller hi. This is myra from massachusetts. Host uhhuh. Caller thank you for taking my call. Im calling regarding the comments made before about in le coming forward late their lives after being harassed young. Hey were and i was sexually harassed when and i our years old remember, i didnt have the 18. Ory until i was something triggered it. I had suppressed it for all years and all of a sudden, could visually see everything that happened to me and i was shocked because i had suppressed it for so long. Ost that is myra, in massachusetts, calling. Florida, lake placid, line for democrats, hello. Caller hi. It at all xpress embassy is reporting that in roy town he was banned from ma mall for his pension for teenagers. For those who dont believe he was ung children, banned from that mall for that exclusive reason. At age 12, was groped by a brothers friend and i never told a soul. For those who dont believe, believe. Host one of the issues taking week, the houses expected to vote on its version of tax reform. He economy section of the Washington Post this morning shows or talks about letter or americans who define themselves as rich, dont cut our taxes is the message. Americans, including doctors, lawyers accident chief eneurs and executives, saying it is a mistake at a time when the ations debt is high and equality is at worse levels since the 1920s. Notletter calls on congress to pass a tax bill to exacerbate inequality. Letters Tell Congress to raise like them, h people being released publicly this week as republicans debate would add to at the debt to pay for widespread ax cuts for businesses and individuals. Jeff. Ee, alabama, this is go ahead, youre on. Caller yeah. Roy moore Sexual Harassment deal. Al harassment is back of this includes both parties in alabama, you know. And that is about all i really got to say about it. Thank you. Host as far as roy moore himself, do you believe what he says or believe the accusers . Jeff in alabama, are you there . Hes gone. California, democrats line. Hi. Caller good morning. Happy to be here. Been watching you all morning. My comments are the following. I think fred upton is right on when it comes to daca. Sexual harassment, which is the current subject, i harassment sexual raining with Lockheed Martin 1970s and any in late early 1980s and there were by that i o that, mean when it first started out, only the managers were trained Sexual Harassment. The managers said to themselves, are we responsible, lets get everyone trained. Was trained and everyone became aware of sexual it ceased to exist. It was very simple, it was easy do. And ill give you a certain kind of funny. Of sexual ed harassment one time. The accusation was heard distant one that was relative open cubicle situation had at lockheed. It was from my wife. A daily nd i had conversation on the phone, maybe during break time and i would answer the phone, is this my first called it. And that i d that was sexually harassing someone they were sexually harassing me and filed a charge against me. Funny. Really so naturally we went through the saw my manager, i went and saw the secretary that had that, we discussed it, we realized that it was my wife and it was somewhat hilarious and i can look back on hilarious. Harassment is al and being male individual and i realize what