An employee pushed the wrong button. Charlie cook on the Midterm Elections and the threat we face from north korea. The gop and the 2018 Midterm Elections. Should republicans maintain control of congress . Join in on the conversation. Democrats 2027488000. Republicans 2027488001. Independents 2027488002. Good sunday morning. Front page of the Washington Post has this story from hawaii. Some harrowing 38 minutes as a missile scare engulfed the state of hawaii. A lag in correcting the erroneous alarm is the reason. This is what it sounded like yesterday morning hawaii time. The u. S. Pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. This is not a drill. If you are indoors stay indoors. If you are outdoors seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from windows. If youre driving safely to the side of a road or seek shelter in a building and lay on the floor. We will announce when the threat has ended. This is not a drill. Host of course it was not a real threat. This is the photograph from inside the New York Times. There is no threat. Reuters is reporting that the fcc on saturday launching a full investigation into the false Emergency Alert that a Ballistic Missile was heading for hawaii. The alert to cell phone users are urging residents to seek shelter immediately. The fcc does have jurisdiction over the Emergency Alert system and fcc chair ajit pai saying the fcc will vote later this month to enhance the effectiveness of wireless Emergency Alerts which have been in place since 2012. Yesterday twitter that the fcc was launching a full investigation. Lets turn to our opening question on this sunday morning. You thinkether or not republicans should maintain control of congress. Coming up on newsmakers is the House Democratic whip steny hoyer. He talks about 2018 politics in that conversation. Do i think we are going to take back the house . We see all over the country are real enthusiasm and energy in the democratic base. We see a Republican Party that i think in many respects expects to lose control of the house of representatives. I dont think any of them would say that. Private Congress Conversations with my republican colleagues and friends they say you guys are going to take back the house. We have excellent candidates throughout the country. Are 91 cook says there districts in play. When we had two retirements this week of republicans charlie cook who is one of the prognosticators very concerned about the rightness of his says that both of those districts that republicans are now retiring in are now going to lean democratic. We need to pick up 24 of those 91 seats. I think we will pick up more than that. Only members retiring and higher numbers on the republican side that we have seen in the past. We have also seen in those districts a tremendous interest by Democratic Candidates of running and that means they think their neighbors and friends in their districts are prepared to vote democratic and so they are enthusiastic about running. Will the full interview air at 10 00 on newsmakers. Our question should republicans maintain control of congress . We will begin on the line for independents. Lenny in washington, d. C. Caller good morning. Your question is excellent. Should they . An independent i can look at it a little independently not being in love with either party. If you look at what their job is to keep us safe and create jobs in the economy they have done a pretty decent job at that. On the other hand i dont think they should because there are certain things moral character, standing, professionalism that counted more than that. I dont think the ends justify the means. I think at their year end review if they had a job they would probably be rating pretty well. A lot of times public or Political Sentiment doesnt follow objective thinking. What are your thoughts . Host you express your point of view and we listened to hear from you. Well go to carmen in pennsylvania. Democrats line. To lay the town you aredemocrat tell me the town you are from . An affluent suburb right outside of philadelphia. Good morning. The house dems get back. To be perfectly honest i am kind of mystified by the democrats going to the wall with this thing. Daca who did we lose in pennsylvania in 2016 . We lost white workingclass voters in place of lake erie and meadville like theory and erie and meadville. What are we doing to get these white female voters back . The best herer but i dont understand the democrats strategy. Host in our interview late last week with paul ryan a very Quick Response to the comments by that the democrats will begin control of the house of representatives. Heres what the speaker said. I cant speak to that. Republicans dont tell me that. Host that whole interview available on our website. Guy short of the Fox News Channel has this opinion piece Available Online at foxnews. Com. He says the leftleaning Mainstream Media emboldened by rs have beenumpe eagerly waiting for republican collapse. Political experts dismiss President Trump at their own peril. The president and his party sit on many structural advantages mediahe liberal conveniently ignore. The first and perhaps most important advantage is fundraising. The republican fundraising edge suggesting a reinvigorated political base. Territory fory democratic incumbents who must compete in states carried by joeident trump next is joining us from georgia. Good morning. , youre thee greatest. I am a stockholder and have been for 50 years. I have never had things go better. I think trump is the best stock market the and Business Community in history and i disagree with the democrats. I think the republicans will not only maintain control i think they will add to it. Years andched you for you are a great encourager. You always lift up everybody whether they are democrat, republican independent. I think in politics we need to im a strong trump supporter. I think trump is the best in history. I dont think it is right for me to attack democrats personally. We should follow the guidelines of steve scully and be nice to everybody. We dont need to be calling them that. And things like we want to invite you. Weve got a plaque for you want to present to you. Youre the greatest, steve. Let me ask you this question. You are fond to talk about the stock market. What goes up must come down. Is the president putting himself political situation if the market comes down before 2020 . I have been a stock market investor for 50 years. Anytime it goes down it will always come back higher. If it goes down i will buy more bluechip stocks. Number one color the country thanks to steve scully. I am telling anybody to vote trump and vote republican because i have never seen a better economy. We want you to come because you are the greatest encourager and we love and appreciate you in georgia. Host joe and Betty Mccutchen came to the cspan studios year ago and youre always let me ase back here as well. He calls every month. We do ask that you wait for 30 days to get through. Lets go to david in middletown, new jersey. Good morning. Cspan the best channel on television. Good morning, steve. Host good morning, david. It is good to hear from you after 30 days. Caller i have been calling in but i havent been able to get through. What the gentleman just said, his name is steve . Host no. Joe mccutchen. Caller he is absolutely right. You are a great human being and you exemplify the american spirit. Sayi would like to concerning the election this coming november i think its time we need a new party. The democrats and the republicans regardless of what the names are they have three priorities. Do Everything Possible to get reelected, do Everything Possible for the party, do Everything Possible for the special interests. What we need is a thirdparty and a thirdparty should be called the first words of the preamble to the constitution. We the people. They represent the people. Not themselves and everything like that. We the people. So i would hope that this coming november the new party would come. We the people with a new reign 2018. Led of it stands for get rid of all of the incumbent politicians in november 2018. Always a pleasure to hear from you. You just turned 93 years old. Jim has this tweet. This from michael. If he were to say anything else he would get pushed out. Barone haswn this piece Available Online. In the other 12 off year elections the Opposition Party won a majority. In 1966 and 78s who could have lost 70 plus seats and still kept a majority republicans will lose if they lose a net of only 24 seats. On the line for republicans, keith is next in chicago. Good morning. Should your party maintain control of congress this year . Caller yes. Steve, it really is urgent because its no longer just about policy. Thats what midterms have been about historically. This is about our morals as a country. Who we are as a country. Seeing iswhat we are a highly the most im 58. The most unpopular firstterm president of my lifetime. With a base of 30 to 35 . Kicking off 70 and the entire world. In order to actually make america respected again and to regain our moral center we dont have an option but to clean house in congress. Particularly after this tax cut bill. Ryan to thed comments of last week, that sold us. Host another tweet, no antiabortion law. No repeal of the Affordable Care act. Just more tax cuts for the rich republicans. Same old same old. Send us a tweet. On the republican line, cynthia. Good morning. Caller good morning. The republicans should keep control of the house. To accomplish tax reform the first major tax reform in over accomplishment that merits republican reelection. Furthermore when you see all of the regulatory rollback that allows our economic engine to move forward, that allows all groups to have better jobs, higher pay, more jobs, more americans working merits the republican reelection in november. People in their everyday lives getting more money in their groupspockets to spend as theye rather than having the government take more of their merits republican reelection. I hope the nation sees it this way. From this weeks washington examiner, the cover story. The trump of electionyear agenda. Immigration clash. Maybe infrastructure cooperation. The president delivering his state of the Union Address on january 30. We will have live coverage. This is to symbolize a match with the character caricature of donald trump with his hair on fire. On the line for democrats from cleveland, tennessee. Robin. Good morning. Caller i havent called in in 16 years. Host y 16 years . Why the delay . Caller i used to call in all the time and i saw george bush evolved into a better person and i really didnt feel the need to call anymore. I used to always call in and talk to brian. I miss him a whole lot. Host he is still here. He does q a every sunday night. We now joke that he is semiretired so he is here six days a week instead of seven. He is very much part of this network. Caller i still watch every morning. It is very important that the republicans do get voted out. I was raised at the foot of star mountain. I had eight black people in my whole graduating class. Donald trump is a racist and its basically we are watching him destroy the Republican Party. I had a great aunt that was chairman the first black woman president of the Republican Party in macklin county. We are watching him destroying the Republican Party. Its important for the party because i do vote republican locally for them to vote them out. They dont have any courage. They are cowards. You cannot stand up to a knowinglythat is doing wrong and he is dividing the country. I am still friends with the people that i graduated high school with and we talk about it. It has never been this bad. He inherited a booming stock market. But people were so caught up in the fact that he was black and they didnt want to give him any credit. Now all of a sudden the stock market was good. It was good before. We made money before. I work at amazon. Its booming. So its important for the moral standing of our country because how many terrorists are we making . How many african countries the somalis they are terrorists. When you hear people putting down your country and where you come from and the republicans are silent, where are they at . They cant even come out and say he is wrong about something he is basically roundabout. Benchpress, referring to benches on the Supreme Court. Senate republicans steamrolling the process and the approval of federal judges at a record pace. This tweet from eric manning. My vote is coming november will say no. Good morning. Your thoughts on this question. Caller thank you for taking my call. The republicans should and will control of congress and they will overwhelmingly throw out the democrats because they programs. Utely no its just antidonald trump. We didnt elect a saint. We elected an agenda. Republicans who are in there now dont get on the agenda they will be replaced by other republicans to follow that agenda. The man has the right agenda. The results are his. And he followed the worst president in the history of this country. To sum it up with regard to the democrats the same people saying they are going to take it are the same people who said Hillary Clinton would be president of the United States. Florida,rry from democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Yes. The republicans do not need to maintain control of anything. November of this year. They will be totally out. Won the election by campaigning on pure racism. Every one of his supporters have the same ideological idea of racism. They do not care about anybody except for the rich. Their tax break is just a scam. And the poor people that actually allow them to pretend , they are in them a scam. They should not be in charge of anything. Host on of the best sites if you want to get a look at all of the different polling is available at real clear politics. Com. They take all the polls and they have the generic 2018 congressional vote. We are nine or 10 months away before the election. Another regular viewer and caller. Ithaca, new york. Good to hear from you again my friend. Steve, so good to hear you and see you again. Theyre very happy new year to not only yours but everyone thatdthescenes at cspan puts us on each and every day and all through the day. Its pastor Michael Vincent cr ea and i have pro bono pastored my own human rights ministry. Preface my remarks on the question today on the fact that i served in peace corps. My father had been in logistics in london and korea. Went back into germany during that time and then the berlin crisis my brother served in vietnam. I felt a duty to serve the country and i served in peace corps senegal. When our government screwed up i have been back three times. I was with the rwandan refugees after the genocide in the congo. One of the things that we have to really address is the outrageous reprehensible remarks of donald trump and like it or not he is the head of the Republican Party. That being said my remarks first of all would like to see the republicans have some moral spine and censor him when they get back because right now we are witnessing the latest bankruptcy of donald trump. The moral bankruptcy. And despite the man who is doing well in georgia i agree with monthwho i quoted just a or so ago and its good to hear david from new jersey. , we arehe said to you not divided. We are all in this together. We are polarized. And that being said we have to have balance and this is what the bottom line is not showing. Is that we are not balanced as a people. Theres some people at the top, the top 1 control most of everything we have. The other thing is i would like to refer people to john perkins. The confessions of an economic hitman. We have gone around and we have told elected leaders that if they did not go along with our they would be taken out one way or another. Host you brought up the president s comments. Can you stay on the line for the moment . This is from a weekend editorial in the New York Times. This peace talks about republican retirements raising the talk of democratic wave in november and the editorial by the Editorial Board of the New York Times says donald trump flushes away americas reputation. For a fleeting moment on tuesday President Trump seemed to signal that he would do the right thing on immigration. Alas it was a charade. Was back to days later with his notorious remark. Where to begin . The president of the United States is a racist. And the u. S. Has a long and ugly history of excluding immigrants based on race or national origin. Mr. Trump seems determined to undo efforts taken by president s of both parties in recent decades to overcome that history. He is not just ignorant, incompetent and undignified. He is also a liar. He is by no means americas first racist president. But he ran a campaign explicitly rooted in bigotry, exclusion and white resentment. Your reaction . Caller i first of all grew up in new york and i would agree with that completely. I call mr. Trump the paper moon president. Over aly a paper moon cardboard sea. Hustler does it because he cant even get off the street to take a pee. I put myself through school as a service employee. The likes of him, the people out in the hinterlands of iowa or ,klahoma wisconsin or elsewhere they dont know. He will smile at you and he will have you fired by 5 00. If there is just above their doorway. Hes out for himself. He has always been a charlatan and we need a change. Twost want to bring up points personally. I am in the district that takes in west and Central New York with tom reed and he has voted with trump too many times. There has been times when his staff has helped but there has been times when they totally ignore the people. I wasn Staten Island and in new york this week for the Memorial Service for erica garner. And erica garner is the daughter of erica garner who was killed by a homicide by daniel pantaloon. Dan donovan now sits in that congressional seat after not indicting the cop or having anyone now in the Republican Administration bring in several charges. But who is going to run against him in a primary . Michael grimm, who went to prison. So if this is all that the Republican Party can offer us truly, they are not only morally bankrupt but when we support leaders like trump and these other persons it tells a lot about what we say we believe that what we actually do. Host thank you very much for the call. Can i give you some advice . Stick to the pastoring and not the singing. Caller i agree. Host the cover story of cq weekly. Woodstock, connecticut. Independent line. Good morning. Thank you. I think theyre going to hold the house and the senate because of all the democrats who are not who did not in the 2016 election want to say they were voting for trump. I think they will vote for trump. Has a biggerdaca play to this than most people think. People are tired of Illegal Immigrants coming in here and benefits, insurance all kinds of Health Benefits, all kinds of Health Benefits that a regular american cant get. Host at the bottom of the hour and our focus this morning is looking at the Midterm Elections and whether or not you think republicans should maintain control of congress. We welcome our listeners on cspan radio including those on channel. Should republicans maintain control of congress . Send us a tweet. Jerome in pennsylvania, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I will make it simple. No, the republicans shouldnt maintain. They sold their souls to the devil. Donald trump will sign anything so they will not do anything to vote him out of office or to go against him. And its just sad. Because our moral values have been shot by donald trump and the republicans will fall because of that channel. Because they do nothing to defend our moral values. Thank you. Host ralph northam, now the governor of the commonwealth of virginia being sworn in. Succeeding terry mcauliffe. Another democratic governor in the commonwealth of virginia winning against the less be. From lancaster, california. Republican line. Glenn, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to talk about how the republicans can keep every seat and gain more. Is it worth for the American People cuts they work for the notican people, foreignborn invaders during the parents are no different than the children. They are foreignborn invaders as well. Spending money like we have spent money. There is no amount of quantitative easing. Of obamano amount following trumpet around the whole world trying to not make America Great again. America. The American People need our congressmen and congresswomen to help them. Not the criminal drug organizations bringing people across the border like obama did. Bring them to the border. I will send them all over the United States. Give them american funds. Illegally. He should be held liable for all of that money that was spent through that. They were not refugees. They were brought to our borders and he subverted our laws. He should be held accountable. Maybe he should write a book to pay for all of the stuff that hes done. And pay the american citizens and stop chasing trump all over the nerd states. He is trying to make America Great again. What a great man. He is taking time off from his life to help the American People and the press and all of this i dont know what they are thinking. Hillary clinton foundations Money Laundering machine spent of their money helping themselves. Not anybody else. And this fake russian collusion thing . Whats going on . The press keeps saying collusion. What collusion . Is collusion a crime . Its disgusting the way its going on. The American People are watching. Vote republicans. Vote america first. Host glenn from california. The oped page of the New York Times, without her Hillary Clinton ignited a feminist movement by losing. You can read it at the New York Times. One of the race is getting a lot in arizona. Is the first female pilot to fly in combat. She has launched a onewoman campaign against a military policy in saudi arabia that has forced her to wear a long black islamic robe over her air force uniform. I absolutely refuse to bow down to sharia law. On my battle for the religious freedom of american servicewomen. Troops. Ng our protecting arizona jobs and securing the border. Like our president , i am tired of d. C. Politicians and their bs exclusive excuses. Im a Fighter Pilot and i talk like one. Now im running for the senate to fight the fight that must be won. The liberals in the senate wont scare me one bit. Patriot, warrior, leader. Csally. Mic host thats an open seat that the republicans the democrats hope to pick up. Are the Democrats Senate chances in 2018 overrated . Another race with a lot of attention is a house race in kentucky. Mcgrath and i love our country. I spent 20 years as a u. S. Marine bombing al qaeda and the taliban. I was first woman marine to fly in f18 in combat. In im running for congress my home state of kentucky. He is Mitch Mcconnells handpicked congressmen who said he would vote enthusiastically to take Health Care Away from motor a quarter million kentuckians. My mom is a polio survivor who became one of the first women to graduate from u. K. Medical school. She ended up treating many of the same kind of people whose health care you and mr. Mcconnell would take away. This is my new mission. To take on a congress of career politicians who treat the people of kentucky like they are disposable. Some are telling me a democrat cant win that battle in kentucky. That we cant take back our country for my kids and yours. We will see about that. Host amy mcgrath in that Kentucky House race. Network forbe your all of the debates taking place in the Midterm Election for the house and the senate. A number of key governors races as they unfold in the primary and the general election. Network for all of the debates taking place White Collegethe l. A. Times grads to states for President Trump hurting the gop in 2017. Will it took control of congress to democrats in 2018 . Are asking the question should republicans maintain control of congress . Democrats line. Good morning. Caller i dont believe so. Geteems like the rich never their taxes lowered. They took care of the middle class. My son is all happy. He did not have to pay taxes. Bed insabled laying in a Northern Indiana and i called over 22 ambulances just to get me to wound care. Andve medicare and medicaid they will not take me. Host why is that . Caller i dont know if it is traditional medicaid the stopping them or they just want better insurance. People that have better insurance. There is only one company that took me. I need to go to wound care. I need to go to an oncologist. There are so many rooms all over my body. I cry every night. When that opioid freak out started, thats the drug addict. Thats not People Like Us that need it. That upset me, too. Host the house and senate both in session this week. There was some indication in an interview in milwaukee on friday that they will pass another cr. Tterm democrats continue to indicate they will not support that. Of the goper issue maintaining control of congress, whats going to happen . Question resent the should the republicans. As if the republicans have done and they really bad now must be punished, taken to the woodshed and removed. Host let me start by saying, you can take that the other way and say they absolutely should maintain control of congress because they have done x y and z. You can read it does go different ways. Caller i dont think you can read it two different ways. I think as a veiled moral judgment of the Republican Party. Thats a large part of the polarization that going on in this country. Republicans are automatically tagged as racists and immoral. And on the flipside of this the democrats who have set themselves up as the paragons of are lateterm abortion. I am talking a woman almost nine months pregnant abortion. Now they where are limiting it to 20 weeks. Cant have it both ways. If you are going to set yourself arbiters then you got to first look in the mirror and ask yourself what are you backing. What are you really supporting. , therms of also the racism vast majority of these abortions take place are black children. And as far as the african countries are concerned, at isnt fundingrump the continued abortion of black children. So i really struggle with this. I just wish everybody could take a deep breath, stop throwing these kinds of at each other. Take a step back. You cannot argue with the fact that our economy is finally starting to take off. Retired and for the first time im starting to see returns on my retirement. Funds that i worked my whole life for. Im starting to see the kind of returns i was getting back in the 90s when i was working. Host Chelsea Manning filing for a senate run in maryland. This is a seat held by democrat and karting. Chelsea manning filing to run as a democrat. Jack is joining us from idaho. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Talking about should republicans keep control of congress. I got my iras, i went back and looked up the last year under down and my ira went 10,000. Trump since trump it has caught up 26,000. People in congress quit fighting for this and fighting for that . Take your ideas and work for it. If you fight your never going to get anywhere with the other side. To marcelo ingo texas. Republican line. Caller good morning. Its an interesting question but maybe we should consider every time we have a problem we always say are we going to go democratic or republican. But maybe we should consider every time we have a problemwe should review y people makinghe legislation should come back and live the laws they set for everybody else and if they make Campaign Promises and they dont keep their promises and automatically they have broken vow host . Foul host trump times are going so great that walmart is giving all employees a 1000 bonus. When you vote for republicans to run the country you lose benefits. Send us a tweet. Steve from philadelphia, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Walmart is closing down i dont know how many hundred sams clubs and we are losing jobs. About keeping republicans in congress. I dont see it. I dont see them working at all for the people for the last four terms since 2010. President obama had to do everything himself. Brought s ive whose ira was down, that was in the recession of 2009 when everybody lost money. Took 46 years four to six years for the economy. The republicans said they will not help get this country back on its feet or help the president. So the president had to do it all by himself and he did a pretty good job. President obama. Host edwin has this. We have not seen anything substantial out of congress for seven years. It is time to change control. Another tweet saying we read that one. We welcome back to some more. You can send us your tweet. The comments of senator Mitch Mcconnell in the Washington Post late last month. Senator mcconnell is proud of the lasting policy impact of the agenda and believes it will be enough to persuade voters to keep republicans in power. To change the country and use your majority to think ofant things three things bigger than the Supreme Court Circuit Court and taxes. We will go to shirley on the republican line from new castle pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I am so pleased with our president. I think god every day that we got him in. He is a businessman. He is not a politician. He knows how to make deals. He knows how to make money. Just wonderful the direction their country is going. And i just would hope that the people in this country would just get behind him and pray for him and hope that things keep getting better. Look at the wages. Look at the bonuses. I mean, this tax deal was just absolutely wonderful. Nothing since reagan. I feel that he was put there for a reason. Our country was in such bad shape. People were out of work. Everybody living on food stamps. Thats not the way to live. So lets just all work together. Democrats and republicans, lets work together. Lets get behind this man and i know many wonderful things is going to come out of this president. We will just say this president is going to really bring this country out of the pits and into. Eality but people have money coming in. They can do what they want to do. They can buy homes, vehicles, educate their children. I mean, its wonderful and thank god. Lets work together. Host kevin responded to the earlier caller, exactly what are the waltons closing 63 sams clubs to pay for their measly bonuses to other employees. A longtime republican strategist also late last month assessing the 2018 Midterm Elections. He said the following. We are losing elections because donald trump is incredibly unpopular and makes a lot of independence and soft republicans uncomfortable. Trumps numbers are dragging down tax reforms numbers. Should republicans maintain control of congress . Charlie cook joining us at the top of the hour. Betty on the democrats line from fort worth, texas. Good morning. Caller yes. I am a retired black woman and i am afraid of this president and what he has said about the african nations. Do you realize how many soldiers we have over there . What is he going to do about that . Is he going to get them out of africa . Do you think that the people of africa like what he said . I dont think so. Int we will go to arthur indiana. Good morning. Yes sir. I was wanting to ask a couple of questions here. Nancy pelosi and feinstein get on there and they talk. They are talking about trump. Dont you think that they dont need one . We ask that you turn the volume down on your television set. Should republicans maintain control of congress and our next caller is from oklahoma. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . Host we are doing terrific. How are you . Caller excellent. Here asoing good down well. A little bit cold. To the question. The question is every single one of these no balls no manhood congress they all need to go. Will no longer will stand for the note due congress. The ones who voted for trump they are coming out of their delirium. If can hear in the comments you still stand by this person that is in the white house at if hesnt are not missing in action on the usual golf course playing. The American People are going to claim their country back. That is all i have to say. Host thank you. A democratic pollster and strategist had the following comment to the l. A. Times late last month with a look at 2018. An republicans have become antiscience, antifact antiimmigrant anticonvulsant cosan Party Militias very unappealing to collegeeducated voters. Another viewer saying republicans should not keep control that that doesnt mean democrats should take control as well. Saying, go third party. Michael from stamford, connecticut. Good morning. Good morning. I have a lot of conversations with people who tell me how the economy is zooming through the roof. I tell them when obama got into office the stock market was around 7000. When he got out it was near 20,000. None of them seem to believe me when i tell them this. Its like that time didnt happen. And everything is happening now. The economy is going and getting better. The other day trump was talking about some new jet plane we are selling and he called it by a different name. He called it by one thats in a videogame. Is he playing video games . I dont know the name of a videogame playing or anything like that but the economy was going really really good and thep just jumped into driver seat and he is going along with it. Luckily she hasnt done anything to get in the way. But he doesnt seem like hes that break and hes going to be leading us down any roads that are going to work out for anybody but himself. Trump is out for trump. Who believe him, i dont know. Go to school and learn something because you dont know too much. This is from political brew. What can or should we all agree on . You can follow him at political brew. Line. E, independent from oxford, michigan. Good morning. Hello. Can you hear me . This is charlie the plumber from sunny odessa, florida. Another Beautiful Day to be alive in the United States of america. We are two divided nations. We are the United States of america and the united socialist states of america of course and maybe its time for us to divide. Of course the democrats pulled the moral high ground from what that one woman was saying. 60 million abortions on the democrats, is that moral high ground as they put it . Trumpcists are not donald , its the democrats. They are the biggest. They are the racists. Especially the African Americans. They are beautiful people. And especially the ones that love jesus. They are therats, racists. They are the biggest. Its not donald trump. Celebratingto be mlk day london monday. On trump has all those africanamericans in his office. He has created more jobs for africanamericans that obama did in eight years. He. More jobs for them in one you than what obama did. Whats all this is a racist . Donald trump wants nothing but the best for people. These crude, hes rude. Hole countries. Its the truth. The governments are corrupt. They dont even have clean drinking water. I have a heart for these african nations. The rightto get politicians in and they need to take care of their people visiting. Themselves and stealing from their own people. Why cant we all get along . God bless the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god. Host we will go on to the democrats line. Marie from garden city, michigan. Good morning. Yes. R that man was clearly delusional. Ok. I cant believe anyway. I want to say that no, the republicans should not be in control. And i want to correct what that man said earlier. The clintons did not take 97 of the clinton foundation. Thats a lie. That you haveish corrected then, steve. You know thats not true. So these people are delusional, these republicans. I just dont get it. I cant believe these people. The rocker. St off i believe trump is the antichrist, ok . Thethats what i believe. Read your bible, people. These socalled evangelicals. I believe he is the antichrist. And you people are so ignorant and you are such hypocrites. You claim to be religious and you talk about jesus. You are the worst. The worst of the worst. The republicans are the worst people ever. Host last night, saturday night back on the air after the holiday hiatus and this opened with a spoof on msnbcs morning joe. Good morning. Great fun. Who is that . You know who it is. Me. Thats my original jam. Welcome to the nut house. Good morning. We just played that song live last night at prohibition. We got was there. I come because i have to. You come because i tell you to. Can we not be this selfaggrandizing this early in the morning. Youre disgusting. Your foul. Im going to barf all over you. President trump is at it again. A deeply offensive word when describing haiti and some african countries. The senate for African American studies at princeton. Is a blatant example of inflammatory racist language. Why dont gop leaders condemn this immediately . Because you have studied this stuff extensively. Can you imagine any other president making comments like this . Whats your take . I mean this is not the first time that he has said Something Like this. Is this a surprise given his comments in the past . Hes talking about haitians. Hes talking about africans. And the question is this. When will they get to speak . When is it their turn . How long will they be silenced . I personally great point. Thanks for joining us. Host the opening on last nights s l. Question so the republicans keep control of congress. As guest is going to be charlie cook and then we will talk to Oriana Skylar mastro on how the u. S. Needs to deal with north korea. First is the House Minority whip congressman steny hoyer, democrat from maryland with his look at 2018. Are you seeing the elements of an electoral wave coming, and would it be a disappointment if democrats cannot take the house this year . I expect them to take the house, the majority, and i expect that because americans are looking for stability, focus on the issues they care about in terms of jobs, education, health , and our Environment National security. I think they view democrats as being able to provide some stability to our country and, frankly, also a proper check and balance to our system when we see a president who has trouble creating stability within the white house, much less within our government. I am very positive. I think we are going to take back the house. We see all over the country a real enthusiasm, a real energy and the democratic base. We see a Republican Party that in many respects expects to lose control of the house of representatives. I dont think any of them would say that, but in private conversations some of my republican colleagues and friends, they say, boy, you guys are going to take back the house. We have excellent candidates throughout the country. Trolley that says there are 91 districts in play. We had two retirements this week of republicans. Charlie cook, who is one of the prognosticators, bipartisan, and very concerned about the rightness of his judgments says both of those districts republicans are retiring in are now going to lean democratic. We need to pick up 24 of those 91 seats. I think we will pick up more than that. We not only see members retiring in higher numbers on the republican side than the past, but we also see those districts take tremendous interest in democrats running. Hoyer,ongressman steny the House Democratic whip. Our freeo check out cspan radio app. We want to welcome back charlie cook of the cook political report, publisher and editor. You look terrific. Cardiologista scare the hell out of me, so i lost 90 pounds since may. Host lets talk about Midterm Elections. The idea of democratic control of the senate moves from preposterous to possible. There areoted saying a couple of things you are looking at, which is environment versus geography. Explain. Have 10his map you democratic incumbents up in states that donald trump caret, only republican in a state Hillary Clinton carried. It is the most onesided senate map in history, at the same time though you have got this president ial job Approval Rating incredibly low. Republicans are behind by double digits on the generic congressional ballot test. You have this prodemocratic way with a pro republican map. The question is which will dominate. Host if people vote the economy clinton,o quote bill the economy is up. Economic growth is very strong. Create uphat challenge for republicans . By any standard republicans should be doing very well, but you have President Trumps Approval Rating around 38 . In a midterm the Approval Rating is 50 or more, it is a wash. If it is 46 or below, it is in average lost in the senate and house. No president has ever had Approval Ratings this low at this point. You might remember in 1998, president bill clinton had just gone through impeachment, monica linsky and all that. What held him up was the economy. People did not rock the boat. That is the way it is normally supposed to work where the economy drives Approval Rating. Here you have a Strong Economy and historically low Approval Ratings. Host lets talk about alabama last month. A lot of democrats reading into that result. Was it a vote for a democrat or against a flawed republican candidate . I think alabama was about roy moore. There has probably been tens of thousands of people serve on state Supreme Courts over the years. How many have been removed from office . Comedy chief justices have been removed twice . Incredibly low numbers before the scandal came affectionhis alleged for young women. I think republicans have all kinds of problems, but alabama, if republicans had nominated Luther Strange or any republican out of the congressional delegation, they would have won easily. This was about roy moore. Republicans have huge problems. Host this is a piece inside the New York Times looking at the chair of the Republican National committee and pointing out in her own district, a republican announcing he is not running for reelection. Two key races in california, terrell issa and ed royce stepping down this year, another republican seat now open. Explain what this is all about. 90 of incumbents run for reelection. Open seats is where you get a lot of volatility in the house. If you have an open seat in a onesided district, then it doesnt really matter that it is open. It is open seats and competitive districts. You have got an unusually large number of republicans that are in competitive districts that are looking at this and say, do i really want to spend the next year of my life working this hard and maybe not winning or having coming out of it completely damaged . Thatping point or tipoff the party is good to have a bad here is they have a large number of retirements, a disproportionate number. Host we are seeing that this year . Guest yes. Host lets talk about north dakota. Punishment creamer is the lone congressman at large because of the population. He is bypassing a run for the senate. What does that mean for Senate Democrats . Guest there are five democratic incumbents up in states that orald trump won by 19 points more. This was one of the top races out there. I think cramer probably looked at it and thought, normally a republican would have a huge advantage in north dakota, but given where President Trump is right now, that advantage might not be so great. Heidi cant is pretty popular out there for democrats. It was going to be a pretty tough race, so he decided he would rather stay in the house. Host there are two Senate Candidates running for election in minnesota. Should democrats be worried about minnesota . Guest yes. Wisconsin,rump won but he only won minnesota by a couple points. This is not humor humphreys minnesota anymore. It is getting more purple, becoming more of a swing state. Democrats need to Pay Attention to it. States change over time. Redona used to the republican, now it is turning purple. Minnesota used to be very blue, it is getting more competitive. Host another purple state is nevada. Well democrats and this white house support dean heller . Most notably President Trump . Guest that is a good point. Will heller survive his primary . I think so. If he does, he has a 5050 chance of winning. If republicans go with a more exotic nominee, their odds of winning that seat go way down. Republicans have to worry, are they putting their best candidates forward or not . Sort of like alabama. Host we are talking with charlie cook, the guru of politics. He is the publisher of the cook political report. His website is cookpolitic al. Com, a nonpartisan look at congressional and senate races this year. We have seen you, you have lost some weight. You look terrific. Explain what happened. That i had a cardiologist i had seen for a long time, and actort of read me the riot early this year, and he did it in front of my wife. Host what did he tell you . Guest he said, you dont have grandkids yet. I said no. He said, do you want to be around for them . He knew me well, and he knew thats what he had to do. I lost about 30 pounds on a liquid diet and then had gastric bypass surgery at the cleveland clinic, and i have lost 60 pounds since then. I think president reagan was in office the last time i weighed this. Host we are glad to have you here and in good health. Lets get to your phone calls. Peter in florida, independent line for charlie cook. Good morning. Caller good morning. You look great. It is great to have good health insurance. I think youre going to get a chuckle out of this. The Democratic Party is kind of like a seinfeld show. Seinfeld was a show about nothing. The Democratic Party and their leadership stands for nothing. I think this is going to be a push. I will give you two examples. The leadership and the party wont fight for medicare for all americans even though a majority of americans would really like to have some party fight for that. They wont fight for 15 an hour. They just seem to be a party of nothing, and they think they are going to win because trumps an idiot. When it comes down, he got 50 upthe people that dont show to vote because nobody is talking about issues that matter to them like health care. Host thank you. Guest i have two responses. First of all, i know a lot of people say exactly what peter says, democrats have a problem because they dont stand for anything. Having studied Midterm Elections for a long time, it is like if you were the Democratic Party, i would say no offense, but this election is not about you. Referendaections are on the party in power. I think not having a central message, that is a problem for democrats if they win a majority in 2019. It is a problem for them in 2020. In 2018, this is going to be a referendum up or down on President Trump. That is just the way Midterm Elections are. The second thing is Party Leaders they have to focus on what is google. Democrats could not get a 15 minimum wage through. They dont have the majority. Medicare for all, we may get there someday. It may be in the next 10 years, but in the next couple years and as long as either the political dynamics are the way they are or as long as republicans and 40 seats in the senate or more, and now they have 51, that is not going to happen. You have to do what is doable, so the dynamics are not there as much is some people would like to passionately believe they are. Host what are the lessons from 2016 with the polling and the echo chamber saying Hillary Clinton is going to win this thing . Guest in the national polls, they were off but not by much. The real their politics average had Hillary Clinton ahead by three points. By won the popular vote 2. 1 percentage points. That is not off much. Inwas closer than it was 2012. The problem was in staples, specifically pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. If you look back at the real clear politics averages in each state, there were 96 polls taken between wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan between august and election day. 94 out of 96 had Hillary Clinton ahead. It was the state polling that was way off. You had donald trump won michigan, excuse me wisconsin andpennsylvania by. 7 michigan by. 2 . A lot of Hillary Clintons backers were ambivalence, and they did not believe it was a race anymore. After the access hollywood tapes came out, there was an assumption the race was over. Clinton supporters were ambivalent, did not think they needed to vote anymore, and Donald Trumps voters were intense. They were either incredibly supportive of him or hated her. She called me deplorable. Intensity trumps complacency. That is what you had. The problem for republicans this time is the intensity seems to be on the democratic side for the 2018 Midterm Election, and the the pundits a test spot is a is more on the republican side spondency is more on the republican side. Host we are talking with charlie cook. Brian is next from louisiana. Republican line, golden meadows, louisiana. Caller good morning. First off, i like that the republicans would stay in, but i think the wholesale, congress we need an overhaul whole senate, congress, we need an overhaul. They are out of touch with what the people want. The immigration is ridiculous. We did not have immigration. We had an invasion. When millions of people come into the country illegally, that is an invasion. We need a wall. We need to protect our borders. The budget is ridiculous. What is happening is that congress is looking out for their own interests. They are going to bankrupt the family for a bunch of spoiled brat kids. Host thank you for the call. Know someone to from golden meadows. People blame politicians, and politicians deserve a lot of blame. There is not one Single Member of the u. S. House of representatives that got appointed. Every single one of them got elected. Only a couple members of the senate were appointed. The rest of them were elected. In other words, everybody gets thereby being elected by being elected. If voters think congress is not being representative, maybe they need to look in the mirror. You are the folks that sent them there. If you are not nominating people, not electing people that are going to be responsive to you, it is your fault, not theirs. People want to blame the politicians when you sent them here. Caller brought up immigration and the daca program. Just a few moments ago, the president , daca is probably dead because the democrats dont really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military. This is the next chapter in the ongoing debate following what the president reportedly said about some african countries and haiti as shole countries. For daca oran be against actor, but there is nothing there with the military. We have a strong military. We spend more on the military than russia, china, germany, and japan combined. It is not like it is robbing the military. Im glad we have a strong military, but this is a false comparison. It has nothing to do with anything. You know, the immigration debate is an important debate to have, but unfortunately the motion gives way involved on both sides of it. It takes away from serious policy discussion. Host we sat down with paul ryan late last week. One of the questions, is he going to be speaker in 2018 . He said he was going to meet with his wife as he does every Election Year to determine whether he is going to run again. Will he run in 2018 and be speaker in 2019 . Guest i dont know. I kind of would be surprised if he is speaker two years from now. I dont think he is going to lose reelection. The question is does he decide to run or not. That job is not a whole lot of fun. John boehner did not have a lot of fun in that job. Herd onying to ride this really divergent Republican Congress and the house. It is really hard. I think ryan is a really smart guy, serious policy guide. He signedt the cruise up for, but he cannot say he wasnt warned. Host i know you are a student of history. The last speaker of the house to voluntarily leave his position was tip oneill. Every speaker since was either forced out, lost reelection, or the party loses the majority. The job used to be a lot more fun. It used to be a lot more ,owerful than it is today, and you know, there was a great profile where was it, the New York Times magazine maybe . John boehner, a couple months ago. Anyway, it went into almost how delighted john boehner is not to be speaker anymore because his life is just so much better. I came to washington 1972, and congress was never a highly efficient solution institution, but it did work. Now it barely works at all. This is concerning to those who have watched this for a long time. Host christine is joining us on the democrats line, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. As far as the republicans maintaining the majority, i hope that doesnt last much longer. I think they need to find their moral, this. Compass. E moral we have come a long way since the 1960s. Im so proud of virginia. We need to stand up to the executive branch. Offended by the. Emarks that 45 has made host tim kaine, where do you put that race . Guest virginia is in play. It was democratic a long time, then real republican, now moving more purple and more blue. Democrats swept the governorship, lieutenant governor, attorney generals race. Theyll most picked up a majority of the legislature, which was not even thought to be in doubt. It is a state that is trending towards democrats, and republicans need to be very nervous about it because no state is a microcosm of the country, but virginia is tracking pretty much with a lot of where, demographically, where the country is going. Host complete these two sentences. The first one is democrats will regain control of the senate if they win what state . Guest oh lord. Gosh, im not sure i want to say that. Host you look at arizona, nevada. Guest on the republican side, arizona, nevada are the two republican seats most at risk. Tennessee would clearly be third. Democrats holding onto bill nelson in florida if rick scott runs, Claire Mccaskill was in st. Louis couple days ago, that is probably the second most endangered democratic seat. There are five or six different states that will make a huge amount of difference. I just wouldnt, you know, we are still a long way away. I would not go there. I think the democratic chances of taking the senate are probably one in 4, 1 in three, Something Like that because the map is so difficult for them. The house, it is better than a 5050 chance, maybe even a 6040 the democrats take the house. Mapdemocratic senate is so much more challenging than the house map. The house map is a more sensitive barometer of public trans. When you are looking at a approval of 39 job rating and democrats with a doubledigit lead on the generic ballot test, those are bad diagnostic indicators for republicans. Host how long have you been doing this . Guest 1984, but i started working in campaigns in that in 72. Host you go to new york, republican line. Caller good morning. A tip of the hat to brian lamb. Host we will let him know. Caller im a civics teacher and work with programs that try to get High School Students to work as election workers. Guest god bless you. Caller it is kind of like convincing them to eat spinach. We are going to make the case that this years elections are going to be a referendum on wer where young people were asking their neighbors to show up and vote not as a partisan indicator but a civic indicator of health. Where i was going was if you look at the Midterm Election in the typical turnout, what would be and how to reach but statistically low odds, high goal we could set because we are looking to get that number way up. Whether it is the president or other issues, we would make the case this is a problem that has been festering for 30 years, hyper partisanship. Efforts without regard to party like a great way to jumpstart that as we move into 2020. Host thank you. Guest first of all, theyre going to be some kids looking back and saying, i did not get your lesson, that we all have name, but well have teachers that made an incredible difference in our lives. 40 , the, about turnout in Midterm Elections is about 40 lower than president ial years. What makes the difference is which 50 vote. The trend in Midterm Elections is for the people that are angry, upset, that they are the people that have an ax to grind. They tend to vote disproportionately in these Midterm Elections. If you were to say demographically, young people in your class, in your High School Civics class four or five years minoritysecondly the turnout, a lot lower than white turnout. The gap between whites and africanamericans is not that huge, but when you drop from africanamerican to latino, that is where there is a pretty huge gap. How many vote and how hard or easy we make it to vote are very important indicators. As you said, it is a really good way of testing our National Civic health, what percentage of people participate. A lot of it is driven by demographics. When the baby boomer generation turned 18, the voting age dropped from 21 to 18, that and vietnam and watergate brought participation rates down. As we got past that and the baby boomers got into prime voting age, he saw turnout gradually come up. Int lets go to charlie florida. Republican line. Caller hi. Thanks for having mr. Cook on. He is probably one of the best writers in your state. Couple of questions. The first one on immigration, we have Something Like 11 or 12 Million People here illegally. Dont they arrest the people that are hiring . In florida, they do almost all the labor, putting the roofs on, doing the lawn work. It doesnt make sense to go after 11 Million People that have illegal Social Security cards. My Social Security card is cardboard. It doesnt have a picture, a chip, and yet the government is collecting 70 or 80 million in fica taxes that they know theyre going to pay out. They want to build this wall. It is a 2000 mile wall. Theres not enough money to do it. Just go after the 30,000 people that are the businesses that are hiring them. Other than the people that come in and pick our oranges and vegetables because nobody is going to go out there for . 40 an hour. Host thank you for the call. Guest charlie makes some interesting points. Towards the end he made a good point that a lot of these are jobs that people born in the United States dont really want. Yards, cleaning hotel rooms, vacuuming Office Buildings at night . There is a need to have lower skilled workers coming in to do jobs that a lot of americans dont. I would not put construction in that category for obvious reasons. He makes the point of people paying fica taxes that the government is not going to have to provide benefits for. Here. Are a lot of factors none of these things are quite as simple or easy as it looks. Host a couple final points from the cook political report, these are competitive races. You list 21 republicans that we republican and zero democrats. Hat are competitive what does that tell you about the house . Me for years asked ago, is the house likely to be teetering on the edge before the 2021 redistricting, i would have said probably not. Democratstions, dominated governorships and state legislature seats around the country. Democrats got to draw the boundaries in most states, and they drew them to benefit democrats. 2010 comes around, president obamas first Midterm Election. It is a devastating election for democrats. They lose governorships and state legislature seats. In 2011, republicans drew the maps to benefit republicans just as the democrats had done for so many years. Veryave maps that are advantageous to republicans, and there are normal population patterns. Once you win a Congressional District by one vote, you dont get bonus points for winning big. Where do democratic voters when . Cities and college towns. Where the Republican Voters live . Everywhere else. Doesmap is one that benefit republicans, but if you have got a president whose job Approval Rating is low enough and where the National Polling indicates there was a crappy poll thatuinipiac indicates the 17 advantage for democrats. I dont think it is quite that wide, but it is double digits. If the wave is big enough, it can put it in play. I would not have guessed that three or four years ago. Host here is a look at seven or eight races that will determine control of the u. S. Senate. Mccaskill in missouri, west virginia, and smith in minnesota. Tennessee also an open seat. Is joining us from pittsburgh on the report of the line. Good morning. Caller i have a statement in question, too. Why would anybody wait to vote for a democrat . You have children or grandchildren. White supremacy. When they put these polls out, White College graduates dont vote for republicans. About blackpoll High School Graduates and the way they vote . Ive been voting for years. Im not a racist, but im getting tired of being one. Going against white people. Just like chump the other day where he said that. Who said he did it . Durbin, the guy that called our soldiers terminals and rapists. Why would you vote for them . Host we should point out that the white house did not deny that the president made those remarks. Just to be clear. Caller two republicans did deny. Youre going to take dick durbin and lindsey graham. Graham has been offtrack on everything, yet they are going to go along. Even people. I am not a racist. I dont care who comes in the country, but come in the right way. Host thank you for the call. Room, butasnt in the there is not a lot of debate about whether that statement was said or not. Unfortunate, and i think ryan,ad to guess, paul Mitch Mcconnell, most of their colleagues wish that the president would be a little more careful about what he says and how he says it. The thing about it is President Trump, i think he ought to appreciate that he is making it harder and harder for republicans to hang on to their majorities. If he thinks this thing has been cut so far, how is it going to be democrats have a speaker of the house . How is that going to go . His life is going to get a lot harder. Even just within the next week, the republican negotiating position in terms of government funding and daca and all these things, their position gets harder and harder when he says things that dates their party into a hole. Digs their party into a hole. I would say, there is not a lot of dispute about what was said at that meeting. There really isnt. Host we will go to dub and maryland. Democrats line. Caller i have got to take issue with something mr. Cook said earlier regarding the fault of the performance of our elected leaders, is it the fault of the voters or the leaders. When you consider that every election cycle, voters are told the sage wisdom, both the lesser of two evils. That is not much of a choice here and it may be a choice, but not much of a free choice. When we consider both parties, democratic and republican, are marrying a in special interest are marinating in special interest money. The people that go to represent the people are essentially representing corporate money. Host we will get a response. Guest you know, i wasnt trying to defend politicians. I was trying to say they all got here somehow. Other than a couple of senators that were appointed because of the vacancy, they all got elected. People can run. You live in maryland. Chelsea manning Just Announced she is running for governor. It is a free country. Anybody can run. Host she is running as a democrat. Against senator ted carson. T senate, not governor. ,it is a free country. I think money is a factor. I dont think it is quite as determinant has a lot of people say. Every election, i see a lot of wealthy people throw in money in the races and lose. A lot of sides have money. A lot of these most competitive races, both sides have more money than they know what to do with. Money is not the determinant actor in a lot of these races. Factor in a lot of these races. People can nominate whoever they want, elect whoever they want. I suggest people they ought to look in the mirror. If you dont like what is going on, do something about it. Host dennis, republican line, florida. Caller you say the worst for last. Good morning, gentlemen. Im not a republican or democrat. I did not vote in the president ial election for the First Time Since ronald reagan. When we talk about politics, we keep talking about how republicans have a big disadvantage demographically, but i look at it differently. Instead of looking at race and ethnicity, i think it should be our religious views. At least 80 of this nation is still christian, but Neither Party really hammers that issue home. You could say the republican antt a republicans got extremely High Percentage of the evangelicals, but it was not by doing any religious issues. Host what do you say to that . Guest it is complicated. If you want to predict how someone is going to vote, one thing is, control for race, but second among whites is how often do you go to church . It doesnt matter which church you go to, but how often. People who go to church once a voteor more, whites, strongly republican. Whites who dont go to church vote stronger democrat. The democrats have pretty much become a Secular Party all republicans have moved the other theyith africanamericans, vote overwhelmingly democratic, and Church Attendance isnt really a predictive value. Church iswhites go to a very strong predictor of which way they are going to go. It is what it is. Host another essay at the cook political report, and assessment of this white house and the 2018 election. The white house that cannot shoot straight. Check it out. The final question, North Carolina and the issue of gerrymandering. Where does this put the house races in that state . Guest when you and i got started, the standard for drawing district boundaries was compact and contiguous. Reasons of voting rights, the compact kind of got thrown out of the window to ofcourage the creation minority districts. You have going all the way back to gerry that gerrymandering was named after oddball districts. Ae question is how far can party in a state go to draw lines for partisan purposes . The courts are in the process of cracking down on that. The problem is what is the standard, this is too partisan, and this is not too partisan. That iat standard is is think the courts are real ,eluctant to dive into defining , was it Potter Stewart that said, i cannot define pornography, but i know it when i see it. That is the way with redistricting. You say, come on, give me a break. That is not how the lines ought to be drawn. I wish every state would go to the way i would does it where they have statisticians basically draw the lines pretty much where god would draw them without regard to politics or incumbents or anything like that. Host we will conclude on that note. Charlie cook, it be with you. Thank you for joining us. Guest thanks for having me. Host were going to take a short break. When we come back, we turn our attention to the ongoing situation in north korea. How should the u. S. Response . Ceo ofthe president and the World Resources institute. You are watching and listening to washington journal. We are back in a moment. Tonight on cspans q a, author and wall street journal contributor aj bayne with his book the accidental president , harry truman. Roosevelts funeral was four days before, truman was terrified. He laid in bed and pray to god. He climbs the stairs to the pulpit and looks out and sees his wife crying. She is crying because roosevelt is dead. The nation is in shock. She never wanted her husband to be president. She is framed for him. He has to get up there and inspire confidence in his administration. The whole world has to understand that america will continue, that the war will continue. Tonight on cspans q a. The cspan bus continues its 50 capitals tour this month with stops in raleigh, columbia, and montgomery. And join us on wednesday at 9 30 a. M. On our stop in raleigh, North Carolina. Our guest is North Carolinas attorney general. Washington journal continues. Host we want to welcome Georgetown University professor Oriana Skylar mastro, also a fellow at aei. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host lets talk about north korea. There is the ongoing military threat we are facing as the country expands its nuclear program, and then there is the confrontation last week with south korea in regards to the own picks. Does this present an opening . Guest there are a lot of benefits to them talking. Communication, so it is possible we could get more information about the north korean perspective and their position. Aboutwillingness to talk on contentious issues is not issues isntentious not an indicator that they are willing to talk about their nuclear program. Host if there were to be military strike, what would that look like . Guest military options are limited because of how north korea might respond. The issue is not really about u. S. Capabilities. The u. S. Could conduct a limited strike in which they hit a few Nuclear Facilities where we know those locations. We dont know where all north Korean Nuclear weapons are. Their facilities is this term that is all encompassing. It is testing sites, tunnels, storage facilities. It is not possible through that limited strike option to get rid of the Nuclear Threat. It is just maybe a way to the u. S. To demonstrate its resolve to do more, and then of course the u. S. Could have a Ground Invasion of mark korea. North korea. This would probably be the Largest Campaign the u. S. Has fought since vietnam. Those military options dont necessarily mean the u. S. Could get rid of the Nuclear Threat before north korea is able to retaliate. That is the big issue. Host an editorial from the New York Times, raising the risk of nuclear war. Mention this in part because of what the president said last week, i have a nuclear bomb, and mine is more bigger and powerful than his. How does that affect the dialogue . The administrations position is that escalating pressure will get North Koreans to the negotiating table and potentially willing to give up Nuclear Weapons. This mentality is largely mistaken for two reasons. First, north korea and all countries when they are under military pressure are less likely to talk to our enemies because we are afraid that is going to demonstrate weakness. I just finished working on a book on this topic that will be coming out this year with Cornell University press that shows all states act this way. If you want to get a country to come to the table, you have to stop threatening them so they dont feel they will look weak when they do. That is the first issue. The second issue is i think the Trump Administration thinks they can raise the threat to him enough that he thinks his survival depends on giving up Nuclear Weapons. The problem is i think he believes with 100 certainty he will not survive if he does give them up. Even if the u. S. Strategy is relatively successful that kim thinks it percent chance the u. S. Will attack if i dont give them up, that is still less than the 100 . Host an event with cover. Washington, on our website, we covered in washington, on our website, he said the following. [video clip] i certainly dont think we should give up on the vision of a nuclear free peninsula, but that is going to be a long haul. We better get used to thinking about how were going to manage a military solution, and secretary mattis has said that. It looks to be a horrible option. I think it is a question of first of all really enforcing sanctions that are already on the books, which cannot happen without the security and then that is have the sort it. Host your reaction. Guest i think it is correct to say that denuclearization for negotiations is probably not a possibility. Ourink we could recalibrate expectations and say maybe we can get a freeze on the current program. From the u. S. Perspective, that is important. Right now, there is not the capability to deliver a Nuclear Weapon to the u. S. Is trying to miniaturize the warheads, but he does not have the capability yet. I think it would be important to freeze that program where it is at. As the secretary said, then to have some insurance policies and better coordination with the chinese so we can be better prepared for a military option in the future if that is the way it goes or have a better relations with north korea so those Nuclear Weapons are not such a threat. To the residents of hawaii yesterday, that threat seemed eal, at least 38 minutes. This wireless alert system went awry, someone pushed the wrong button. What lessons does that teach us . Guest the good news is it wasnt a systemic error. It was a one person, one time human error. The good news is there wasnt widespread panic. I have not seen any reporting that suggests many people were injured. The bad news is it highlights something we have known since the cold war, which is that Nuclear Weapons have not been sound,t because of thinking on the parts of leaders, but largely because of luck. Mistakes happen. Have not responded so quickly when they have false warnings like that. It demonstrates that a world in which there are Nuclear Weapons and where leaders are not always rational is a dangerous one to live in. Host our guest is chair at the American Enterprise institute and a professor at Georgetown University focusing on security studies. She is a graduate of Stanford University earning her masters and doctorate at princeton university. First up, independent line, good morning. Caller hello. I just want to say one thing. The United States of america theigned the ending peace treaty that was supposed war in korea that was war the to end the twin the u. S. And north korea. The United States of america has planesops and ships and occupying the Korean Peninsula and the United States of america did use Nuclear Weapons against hiroshima and nagasaki. It is the only country in the world that has ever used Nuclear Weapons against anybody. I would just like to say that both the Democratic Party and Republican Party, including trump, who i think is insane, though Hillary Clinton would have been no less insane, have favored a policy that is imperialistically hope of in running the telling other countries that they had to denuclearize. Host thank you for the call. Guest i understand this position. I think it is very important for a country like the u. S. That wants to make sound strategy and policy to understand the interview of its allies and potential adversaries. The chinese would say one of the largest problems in this green situation korean situation is the u. S. The u. S. With strong superiority has crated this threat such that need foround the Nuclear Weapons to defend himself. The chinese position is the u. S. Should reduce the threat to north korea, allowing north korea to essentially file nuclear dialback its program. To rewardoesnt want that type of behavior. We are in this difficult situation where i think the chinese have a point that to a degree the u. S. And President Trumps tweets especially exacerbate the issue, the u. S. Cannot completely give up its position, withdraw from the peninsula in the face of north korean threats. That would just encourage more problems in the future. Host on cspan radio, our conversation with Oriana Skylar mastro from Georgetown University. She was previously at the council on foreign relations, Uva Miller Center national fellow, and at George Washington university. Lets go to the democrats line. Good morning. Caller how are you . I have a question. I know a lot of people call in on the democrats line and ask about tromping crazy, but i is he crazy orou is obama sending billions of dollars to iran the crazy one . Continueds issue has through president bushs administration, obama, so you could criticize obama for not making the more central. Government officials were not as happy about escalating pressure, but they were pleased to see that this was the most important issue on the table for the administration. Host wiki. A reference to the socalled bloody no strategy. We keep hearing a reference to the socalled bloody nose strategy, what is that . Guest if you really have a strong and targeted strike or hit north korea in such a way that could maybe setback that program but also signaled that the u. S. Is serious about the nuclear option, that would bring kim to the table. Host how likely is that . Guest that the strategy would work . Host that the u. S. Would do it. Guest i think they are more likely than they have ever been before. Host lets go to the independent line, good morning. Caller i have a question. I was in the vietnam war. Tell me if i am wrong. Over there, to die in the combat area, the chinese, the that, theyand all would make their way to heaven. They were very honorable. Is not the North Koreans the same way . They are going to come at you because if they die in combat they automatically go to heaven. I dont think donald trump has any honor. Host we will get a response. Guest this is one of the biggest uncertainties when it comes to planning any military option on the peninsula. On one hand, the north Korean Military might give up immediately kind of like an iraq situation in the gulf war in which they dont actually want to be there. They have conscription up to 10 years in north korea. There is also a reasonable argument to be made that these are individuals who have been indoctrinated their whole life in the regime. Even once the congressional military force has been defeated, we might see guerrilla warfare, special operations units fighting for decades. It could go one way or another. Unfortunately, there is very little consensus. The president is waking up in west palm beach, florida, maralago. He has been tweeting on the topic we are focusing on. The wall street journal stated falsely that i said to them i have a Good Relationship with kim jongun of north korea, obviously i did not say that. I said id have a Good Relationship with kim jongun, a big difference. We now report conversations with reporters, and they knew exactly what i said and meant. They just wanted a story. Guest i think there is a lot of havee that listeners can of whether or not he said i or id. It demonstrates his belief that personal relationships are going to trump security issues. We saw it in china that he thinks if he can sit down and share a piece of cake with xi that the military competition between china and the United States would go away. Challenge and that is a lot of leaders have shown that in the past, but leaders like xi and kim are not going to be swayed by charisma. Low really matter anyway. Host and follow up, if we strike north korea, how will china and russia reacts when north korea is still a buffer state . Guest i am mainly a china and military experts. It was primarily this issue of how china would react. I think the conventional wisdom is outdated and it is time it would either have a small part of the border, which they are basically trying to prevent refugees flowing in, or support north korea but mainly through military political, or assistance. China has changed so much in the past 20 years. They now have given abilities to be much more involved they now have capabilities to be much more involved. My take away was there is no situation which the United States is fighting major operations on the peninsula without the chinese military, not only because they will not logistics,because of theyre likely to enter north korea before the United States u. S. Potential lies is that yes, we will have some kind of invasion, i think that is highly inaccurate. Were to do that, hypothetically, when would they do that . You are saying the u. S. With a six stand down . Would are saying the u. S. Stand down . I do not think the United States should he tried to fight the chinese to get them out. Nuclear weapons in the hands of the chinese will not be used. The Nuclear Weapons estate in the hands of the north aliens, they might. Because it takes United States so long to get to those facilities, in china, it is a matter of days. We would have a less likelihood of nuclear war if china was involved. It is not a negative and the operational side for china to be involved. They have concerns of nuclear security. They want to ensure the safety of the peninsula in aftermath, so we have mutual interest. One of the biggest problems is the tradeoff afterwards, which i think our first caller alluded to. China will not agree to any reunified situation in which united dates oteri stays in the peninsula. Host james making this point, can we please stop banging these war drums . Guest even people who want peace often find it necessary to threaten war. Are leaders, situations, under which countries will try to gain as much as the cancer military force and the threat horse unless they are deterred. The logic behind that is sound, though, we do not want to unnecessarily over complex it but it is important that they understand that the United States and china allies in the United States is prepared to defend itself and japan and south korea. Host as conversation with Oriana Skylar mastro from Georgetown University, if people want to follow you on twitter and your research, how can they do so . Websites, orian askylarmastro. Com. Host thank you for waiting. Caller oriana, i do believe strongly that this president [indiscernible] he cannot allow in the country to threaten the United States without letting them know their actions. Korea, he is going to know that we, the United States, we will take action if we have to. Think it is important for countries to understand it cannot threaten the United States without some sort of response. The problem i think with this comparison between Nuclear Buttons is even though the United States Nuclear Arsenal is much bigger and more sophisticated than north koreas, the risk aversion or the willingness of the United States tubes or cost is lower. Wouldpossible that kim be willing to trade one u. S. City for one of their cities and in my view, that is not something that the American People are willing to deal with. Chain capabilities the over matching capabilities does not mean the u. S. Has the advantage because we are unwilling to absorb the same amount of cost as adversaries. Host our next caller, democrats want, dan, good morning. Caller firsttime caller, thank you. We coexisteds, with the soviet union for what . 50 years . Containmentcy of worked very effectively, and we did not trust the soviet union, so would that not be an option in terms of confronting north korea in this situation . Host your last point . Caller even if they were to get a bomb . Host thank you. Guest there are two lessons from the cold war era that i think are applicable and tell us the situation currently is diplomatic. First, even if you think the presence of Nuclear Weapons the soviet union and u. S. Deterred a nuclear war, it did not deter highlevel conflict on the conventional level. There is a view because you have the tenants at the highest level, it opens up the possibility of conflict at the lowerlevel. No one would say warlike the vietnam war, but in korea, for example, it was not extremely costly in terms of lives lost. There is a fear with north korea that once kim is confident in his nuclear deterrent, while he would not necessarily use this Nuclear Weapons, he would field emboldened to engage in military actions on the conventional level that could lead to war. There is the problem of human error and miscalculation. We were lucky that there was no Nuclear Conflict between the soviet union and United States but historians and Research Shows became close many times. I do not know if that is something we want to risk now with north korea. Image betweenty negotiators of north and south korea meeting in seoul last week. This is what it looked like as we listen to mark from ohio, independent line. Caller good morning. Thank you. You have a very good guest. You are a china expert. I have a question, but i differ with the 100 that i think china controls kim 100 . I think kim is not a dictator, i believe he is the cats paw of beijing. What would prevent President Trump, from a treaty perspective, what would prevent him from pulling all u. S. Troops from south korea to send a strong signal that we do not want our troops in the new zone n zoneuke nuke some that might happen . North koreaninese relationship as changed in the past 10 years. Kim. Not like the futureed about of reunification in which north korea no longer exists and it goes under south korean control, so china their view of north korea has changed. They are not thinking they have to have north korea there, but they serve as a buffer against the United States. As long as the United States is that, china once north korea to be there. In terms of u. S. Troops, we do not want to pull out u. S. Troops when the threat still exists. The threat to south korea, japan, and the United States. The u. S. Is a pacific power, and hip is critical there to our own safety at home. If there is reunification, i think the United States should pull out of the troops in south korea, but the holdup is the u. S. Position is we would only do so if they asked us to. That is not enough of a guaranteed to china at this point, so china will not be willing to push north korea to the point of collapse or conflict if they are not certain that the future of a reunified peninsula does not include the u. S. Host our last call with oriana from erie, pa,s pennsylvania. James comer republican line, good morning. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. The main points with the Nuclear Situation and the north Korean Peninsula, doesnt this give a green light to japan, south korea, and taiwan also develop Nuclear Weapons . As far as hostility or belligerence, the only country that i know has violated the truce is north korea, repeatedly, and numerous times. From that perspective, none of that makes sense. As far as needing our forces on the peninsula, we would only need mobilization assets and not logistics items in place. We would not need combat forces if the peninsula unified because we have a Marine Division on okinawa and other forces in japan. There are lots of other ways to deal with it. Thank you. Guest the question about taiwan, japan, south Korea Going Nuclear is important. This has to do with the credibility of u. S. Deterrence. U. S. Position currently is the itsed states will defend allies against nuclear use of any country uses them against them. They would respond with Nuclear Weapons, even if it opens up United States to nuclear attacks. It has required decades of interaction with our allies to convince them to United States is willing to risk los angeles in order to protect sold or tokyo seoul or tokyo. For that reason, they have not developed new their weapons. The logic is confusing but let you see if i can get us there. Has changedtates its policy towards north korea. Because north korea is developing the ability to reach the u. S. , this suggests the last couple of years were sold and tokyo have already been entered your threats, there is a qualitative difference if kim threatens the United States. It shows United States might not be willing to risk los angeles for the sake of protecting seoul and tokyo. Our policy meets to be consistent that the Nuclear Threats toward so is the same as the one towards the United States so we should be as concerned about what existed before the past couple of years as what kim is developing in the future. If we fail to continue that consistency, it is possible allies and partners mobile that extended deterrence no longer applies under this administration and they might feel compelled to other options. Host we have a call from hawaii. I want to take the call in light of what happened yesterday. Allen, thank you for waiting period what waiting. What did you see or hear yesterday morning with regards to the false alert . Caller i have got i got woken up by my cell phone making an alarm. It was interesting as it had a message with the media show it said, this is not a drill. Missiles are on their way to hawaii. It was startling. I had a brother who was leaving to go back to the mainland and we talked about the usual circumstances that recently hawaii started the program, so i was concerned because when programs start, there is more risk, just like when the country start making nukes. The highest risk, this is a good example because we actually watched a small Civil Defense department, someone accidentally pushed a button and maybe there should have been a few people they will have to figure that out. I dont know if the guy will get fired. The more important symbolism is obviously, we are in a risky situation in proliferation. Hat is going to happen this point is massive china is a gigantic player. Withare coming in big miniaturization pretty quick. I shared a desk with a guy who would tell me about them trying 20 years ago they were telling him there were miniaturized nukes. The North Koreans are trying to figure that out, not hydrogen but small atomic bombs that can blow up a harbor and create suspicion about the player. Host thank you. You will get a response. Next i will be in hawaii month. I think what the caller suggested it is a harrowing experience for what the individuals went through that were there. Plays aee human error huge world in this and it is a dangerous situation. North korea has also developed capabilities much more quickly than expected. Time to havel have a successfully miniaturized warhead, yes, and it is hard to see when that will happen. It is better to underestimate the amount of time it will take them to get there. Given the situation, what should we do . My view based on my research on this topic is that escalating pressure is not going to get us there. We need a complete change in strategy and it includes more reassurance. I think we have a better shot of protecting the United States and our allies and partners if President Trump did have the opportunity to have a great relationship with the leader of north korea, like you said. If they could meet, talk, then the United States could get that regime the legitimacy that they want through other means besides Nuclear Weapons. I understand that that is not particularly popular. It seems to reward bad behavior, but i would rather kim feel like he won and get the United States to the table to have more direct talks and potentially normalized relations with north korea so we can have people on the ground to understand the regime and prepare better for contingencies. Won rather he believes he then the situation we are in when all sides are trying to show their strong when our site is getting weaker. Host Oriana Skylar mastro joining us at the table, thank you. Guest thank you for having me. Host we will turn our attention to some of the top Environmental Issues of 2018. Joining us is andrew shared joining us here is andrew steer. We will be back in a moment. Monday on the communicators, we are in berryhill, new jersey, where the conduct advanced communication research. On the forefront, the most exciting is an interesting thing. It has been 100 years since we have had the First Assembly and this has changed the species and this is what we do with wireless munication. What we want to do is it is a new era of communication and that era is direct communication. As opposed to broadcasting the signal everywhere, we went to target the be met individuals. Is because our search for data is never ending, so he wants more and more, and we have saturated our spectrum at lower frequencies. We have to go through higher frequencies and higher frequencies have many other challenges. Throughhe signal lost the air is too much, so we cannot broadcast in its additional sense. If i want to talk to, i have to direct my being directly at you beam directly at you. This is a changed paradigm in communication. With that, a huge set of challenges in the Wireless Industry. Watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Washington journal continues. Host we went to welcome the president and ceo of the World Resources institute, andrew steer, good sunday morning. Explain your organization. Guest the Resources Institute is 35 years old and established because we believe in economic growth, poverty reduction, but we recognize there are natural limits. Our goal is to ask the question, what about the future of food . The future of energy . Urbanization . Climate change . The ocean . Some Big Questions we seek to ask. We had 700 experts around the world working in 30 countries and in 10 international offices. Host let me put a couple of stories you say we need to watch as the country and world. Number one, bad air days. Will the world respond to the air pollution emergency . First of all, what is that and what is the appropriate response . Guest we all have bad hia days but hair days, but right now, there are a lot of air days. Air pollution has been so bad in areas like new delhi, equivalent to smoking 50 packs of cigarettes a day. Ago, we got anths serious data that shows one in nine people worldwide die of air pollution. 9 Million People died of pollution. 6 Million People died of air pollution. This is a huge crisis. The question is, what will happen . Around the world, or pollution has gotten worse and worse, and we start to see people have a feeling of anger. Countries like china, for example, in the last year, they have gone through incredible links to try to improve the quality of their. In beijing, i was there last month, they have done a good job improving air quality, but the cost is high. They have had to was a lot of factories, tell people you cannot burn coal in your house, and that means some poor people who have no alternative had a cold winter. Getting the balance rights, asking, if china can make continued progress . Can india grapple with this . Kate is a whole range of tough issues. This coming year, we will teach eight is a whole range of tough issues. Host our guest having to open scotland, he went to cambridge university, and earned his doctorate in university of pennsylvania. Is big oil ready for change . Explain that question. Guest this is an important year for big oil. We are producing and selling more oil than ever before. What we are seeing is that countries are now saying no more internal combustion. In the last year, we have seen countries like france, the u. K. , norway, the netherlands same by 2040, we will not allow internal combustion cars to be sold. What to watch for this coming germanyuntries such as also said we will ban automobiles. China has said we will ban automobiles and they will announce a date. From 2030, no more internal combustion engines by 2030. We will see pretty important issues. At the same time, we see shareholders say, wait, we want our Oil Companies that we own shares in, we want them be more clean about climate risk, so exxon last year was instructed it should be more transparent call assets that may become locked in and stranded and do not worth anything, so they have agreed to do scenarios to what their profitability might look like and the different climates. Shell is the first is the first gas major that announced by 2050, it will reduce its total emissions by 50 , including those from sales, so it is starting to see interesting issues. Whether it is on the investor side or if it is on the citizen side, where they say, we do not old any longer to be having fashion automobiles that we can have cleaned once. It inks for the first question about air pollution, as well. Host our guest is focusing on Climate Change. We would get to phone calls in the moments. The numbers are on the bottom of the screen. You can also send us a tweet at cspanwj. Will the world honor its commitment in Climate Change . What are the commitments . Guest the administration in this country has decided not to honor United Statescommitment commitment under the existing administration. Host some states say they will. Guest precisely. What you see in the 12 months of 2017, you have seen a huge number of states, 15, 5000 companies, 500 other institutions all coming forward and saying, actually, we do want to stay in. United states is the only country on the planet that does not have a plan to address Climate Change at the national level. Is there going to be any loss of enthusiasm elsewhere . We monitor that closely. So far, we have not seen that. This coming year is very important. China and india are crucial. Came into power and said, look, i have a target for 20 gigawatts of solar power by 2020. I wanted to be 100. So he suddenly realized all of his economy and air pollution, it would be smart to shift rapidly. So far, he is ahead of the curve. These are unbelievably ambitious goals. This coming year, we will be watching as to whether that can continue to accelerate. Introducing the largest cap and trade system, in other words, putting a price on carbon across the country or all of its power generators. That will be the biggest cap and trade system in the world. That is difficult to do but we will watch that closely. Host let me explain this for our radio audience, the chart goes from 1980 three 2017 and the caption the hottest nonel nino year. On record explain what this means year on record. Explain what this means. Guest if you look at the 15 hottest years in recorded history, 14 have occurred this century. There have only been 17 years so far. Throughout the last 15, we have seen a chair getting warmer and warmer. Each year getting warmer and warmer. This will most certainly be the third hottest ever recorded, but in terms of being called a nonel nino year, it will be the hottest ever recorded, so this is serious and i think everybody three 2017, we had not only the strongest hurricanes recorded but the wettest recorded. We also saw the biggest fire in history of california. Does that link to Climate Change . Yes. Can we say it caused it . No, but we can say Climate Change made things worse. We know with certainty or near certainty, with 99 probability, that Climate Change is making storms stronger. Climate change does not cause the hurricanes in the caribbean or texas, but it does make them a lot worse. Floods inave seen south asia. We have seen some of the worst droughts in history in africa. 1400 People Killed in the flooding in south asia and the price tag of the hurricanes, 135 billion. John in new jersey , republican line, with andrew steer of the World Resources institute, good morning. Aller i would like to comment i went to college in the 1970s. All of my science professors were constantly talking about the new ice age and the new cold front coming, and all of this nonsense. Thank god we have someone like mr. Trump to come along and alert everyone that we have basically a biased, slanted bunch of scientists now that are advocating basically what is a hoax. None of this is true. You know what . The american middle class see through this. Millions and millions of dollars are made off of al gores Climate Change hoax and we see through it. Your guest can advocate all he wants. We are not buying it. Host thank you. Everybody, of course, has to make up their own mind. We had to look at the science to the best of our ability. A lot of analysis looking at peerreviewed documents. So far, 97 of top scientists in the world are unanimous on this. Obviously, Everybody Needs to make up their own mind and you to vote for you want. One of the encouraging things is even within congress now, there is a group called the Climate Solutions caucus, where there are equal numbers of republicans and democrats quite interested in this, and sort of thinking through what should be the future of Climate Change policy. Around the world, Climate Change, apart from in the United States, is not a political issue. I originally came from the united kingdom. The Prime Minister got us very serious about im a change and she was a rightwing, maggie that you, so if you go to most countries in the world, it isnt right or left. It is what science tells us. When a bit interesting things we are seeing right one of the interesting things we see right now is in states florida, which are vulnerable, as you know, to hurricanes, you are starting to see both sides of the aisle take this seriously and it is interesting. After the administration said we are going to allow oil drilling everywhere, in 98 of the ocean around the United States, the governor of florida said actually, my citizens do not want that. Certainly a majority of the citizens are saying, that is pretty silly given that scientists are telling us it is risky. 50 if there is only a chance, of course, there is a 99 percent chance they are right, surely, we should take precautionary action. It is not cost anything to address Climate Change. It helps the economy. Why do you think mr. Modi in india is taking it seriously . He is taking it seriously because he thinks it is good to his economy anteaters rides. He wants disruptive change he things it is good for his economy. He once disruptive change. We have to be careful good to not fall to far behind. Host you talked about offshore drilling off the atlantic and pacific. Sarah sanders last week made the following comments after a question [video clip] i have had a lot of questions about florida. There have been other estates other states the same they would also like to be exempt after he exempted the florida. So how is exempting florida from the van anything other than ban anything other than giving political allies and advantage . The president is a massive advocate for america, not just being Energy Independent but dominant, and that is the process part of the process. This will continue to be negotiated. We will continue to it or places and ways to make america more energy dominant. If that is one, we will continue forward in that process. That is why we have opened up drilling, the keystone pipeline, cuttinga lot of job processes. We will continue to talk to stakeholders in other areas and states. Favort aware of political that that would have been part of, so no. Host from the white house last week. Andrew steer, your reaction . About aonderful thing democracy is people can say what they want and vote for the people they like. The great thing about denied states is the constitution. What it means is that no one person has the power to do what they want, so what we are seeing in this country is interesting. Most of the decisions on issues like Climate Change are taken at a sub national level, city level, and state level and in private companies. Now we have 250 Major Global Companies of which more than 50 are american Global Companies and they say, we are going to act on climate. We are going to set sciencebased targets and d carbonized our supply chain. Why . Not because anyone is telling them but because they think it is a good idea. We are also seen many lawsuits. That is one of the beauties of the United States and the constitution. The Supreme Court has decided that Greenhouse Gas carbon is a pollutant. Thelly, it is required that federal government, the epa, addresses a Greenhouse Gas. That is the law of the land, as stated by the Supreme Court. It will be quite an interesting time to see all of the lawsuits work their way through in 2018. Host you can follow andrew andrewsteer. From pittsburgh, good morning. Tell everyone to that the mayor of new york city announced that he is going to sue for damages the five largest Oil Companies in the world, and it is based on the fact that the ocean has risen and back into beaded to all the damages to new york city with hurricane sandy. Host is she right . Guest yes. These kinds of lawsuits are going through. Host what do they mean for the states and cities . Guest we do not know how they will do, but if citizens feel that the action of private enterprise or the government is hurting them, they have every right to sue. This kind of case is going to become more common. Host bob from tyler, texas, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to mention two points. First, responding to pollution emergencies. In the 1970s, i was selling action areas dictionaries and the air was terrible. Advocate at ucla with a developed the first where weampler improved air from cars. So the United States demonstrably improved quality in los angeles, just as it can be done with other solutions pollution forces. The other thing is on Climate Change. I have worked with the professor at Columbia University who coined the term Climate Change. Video on theube History Channel and he does not believe that Climate Change is antigenic. It is a change in circulation that carries all that heat to different parts of the earth. I saw in the paper this morning somethingdiscovered that submerged office england, level usedt the sea to be considerably lower. So it is natural fluctuations. The 97 number you mentioned is bogus. Twwet from the university a tweet shows from the university how that number was derived. Guest i agree with your first point, which is technology is often developed in the United States and your points of the converters rights. To, it will be necessary advance technologies further. Take a city like regime. It does have a lot of oldfashioned factories in the surrounding province and it is going to working on bringing in more modern technology. It cost money but it is determined to do it. In places like delhi, there are rices of burning in the fields and that requires political leadership. These are often poor farmers and they do not have alternatives. That is the way to clear their land. They do not have the resources to use more modest tractors. More modern tractors. With regards to your second one, if that is the view that you think there is nothing in it, lets let the hurricanes,. Come. St the hurricanes it has been happening half of the century already, but when we deal in our private lives, there are more than 90 of scientists strongly urging us to act on something. Thats the magic 90 of the doctors to visit so you really lets say 90 of the doctors you visit say, you really want to do this. Generally, we do this. The futureut generation. It is massively unkind to future generations. For political reasons and saying, i do not believe in it, and what we are doing is saying to our grandchildren, you are going to have a planet that god gave us, we are handing it over to you in or state and we took it over. We all have to look in their own soul and say, is that what we want to do for our grandchildren . God gave us this planet and said, be good to it, and he was serious. We have to decide how serious we want to be. Host tell us about your organization and who funds it. It is funded by the private sector, by foundations, and by governments. Interactionearch group, so we do leave our opinions at home. We are not political at all. Politicalhave a action group at all. We are independent. We our motto is counted eight, change it, and count it, change it, and scale it. We have a lot of data points anywhere in the world, down to one quarter of an acre every single week, and not only to redo counting and research, but we want to change. We are not an Environmental Advocacy group at all. We are a group that believes in andn dignity and progress Human Progress within these natural limits. Host the website is wri. Org. Our conversation with the president and ceo of the World Resources institute andrew steer, to our andrew steer. Thank you. Host we want to get your reaction to a new york editorial that says President Donald Trump is flushing away americas repetition. It says that the president seemed to say he would doing the right thing on immigration. Alas, it was a charade. We will get your reaction to what New York Times is writing about. You can begin filing now it to 027488000 for democrat you can bid you can dial 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 if you are a republican. Independents, 202 7488002. Washington journal continues. Monday on the communicators, we are in murray hill, new jersey, where they conduct advanced indication research. We have 5g communication. It is an interesting thing because it has been 100 years wirelesshad the first munication and this hasnt changed communication. This is what you do with wifi, your cell phones, but you want to go to a new era of communication and it is direct beamommunity direct communication, so we went to target the individual. We want to do this because our search for data is never ending, so we want more and more. We have saturated our level that lower frequencies, so we have to go through higher frequencies and they have many challenges. One is that the signal lost through the air is too much, so we cannot do broadcast in traditional sense. If i want to talk to come i have to direct my beam directly at you and get data and move to the next person. This is a change in paradigm into medication. With that, a huge set of challenges with the Wireless Industry and we are excited about this. Watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Washington journal continues. Host before we conclude that, we went to get your reaction to a New York Times editorial, donald trump flushes away americas reputation. Let me read in part what they are writing for a fleeting moment on tuesday, President Trump seemed to signal he would do the right thing on immigration. Alas, it was a charade. The real donald trump was back to days later with his notorious and where tok begin question mark how about the simple observation that the president of the United States is a racist and the United States has a long and ugly of excluding immigrants based on race or national origin. Mr. Trump seems determined to undo efforts to overcome that history and he is not only undignified but also a liar. He is by no means americas first places president , but he ran a campaign rooted in bigotry, exclusion, and white resentment. Agree or disagree . Tell us what you think. From massachusetts, a republican like, good morning. If that had an attachment to work a race, i think trump would beat a racist. I think his comments were directed towards that management. I really think donald trump loves everybody. Hatesthink he really unbelievably bad management. When he sees that, he recoils. Sometimes his anger gets the best of him, but i do not think that is racism. I think it is a management thing. Gary fromn indiana, good morning. Caller this is gary from indiana. I am the voice of a prominent man and here to take a stand. These two trumps comments could have been a bit more under controlled and watered down. I sound a little nervous, i know, excuse me, but this really grinds my gears. I am going to tell you now, our reputation is not just the cousin of this man. It is because we are the richest country in the world and we are proud of balance would income inequality and this man is doing everything he can to make it worse. That is one of the things that makes us, puts us in the position we are at now. I want to Say Something to mr. Trump personally. Movement, to start a a revolution, and im going to watch my david against goliath. Get ready. Host gary from indiana. Eric in st. Louis, missouri, also on the democrat line, good morning. Caller to a particular call, how are you . Host find, to our. Caller big fan of the show, first time calling. Throwing americas of the patient down because number one, we are a country americas reputation down. Everyone, we are a country of immigrants. I am africanamerican. Some of us came against our own will, but we are a nation of immigrants. Number two, when he made disparaging comments about haiti, haitians fought along u. S. Troops in the revolutionary war and did the louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened without them. All these scientists from nigeria. For example, the gentleman that found the brain degenerative disease in america for all players, they made a movie about it and asked him to keep quiet. That man was from africa. And all the troops that we havent africa could be put in danger. Host thanks for the call. Randy from london, kentucky, republican line. Your reaction that donald trump is flushing away americas reputation. Good morning . Actually, the last guy that was on, he never debunked the thing about the 97 percent, the scientist, which i remember. I remember that it was a fake report. The daca military and and the dems, if it is tied to the spending bill, it will affect the military. I am wondering about the election people think with more indictments coming down from the , thing,pector generals and i will take my comments offline. Host this is a chance to hear from you, so we appreciate your call. Over the weekend, senator chuck grassley, republican of iowa, at a town hall in des moines, a sampling of how the comments of the president s last service day lays in iowa. [video clip] i just think we all need to come together. I do not know you, [indiscernible] host lou we be able to hear that will we be able to hear that . We will go to great in virginia greg in virginia, he with this . Caller yes. I am right here. At a dow at 25,000. I am looking at elected low africanamerican and latino unemployment i am looking at a record low africanamerican and latino unemployment. The skies not falling. It is the economy, stupid, was the phrase that inoculated the democrats from all of the clinton scandals in the 1990s. And the media is the Mainstream Press and media is out of control. Host thank you. Lets go to our line or independents, john for massachusetts, good morning. Caller good morning. Hisink donald trump is on way to being the best president of all time. The economy is doing great. We had to remember it is not the United States and mexico, it is United States. We have borders. I think we are on the verge of being something great with this president. The Mainstream Media is way out of touch. They are going to get donald trump elected again. Eett i went to share a tw from the president after 7 00 this morning the wall street journal stated falsely that i said to them, i have a Good Relationship with the leader of north korea. Obviously, i did not say that harriet i said, i had a Good Relationship with kim jongun, a big difference. Fortunately, we now record conversations with reporters. A short while ago, the wall street journal posted this on its website, who also recorded interview present term with that being said, president xi has been generous of what he has said. I like him a lot. I have a great relationship with him. I have a great relationship with Prime Minister abe of japan, and that probably have a very good ofationship with kim jongun north korea. I have relationships with tebow. I think you people are surprised. Host that is from the wall street journal website, again, to follow up on the president s tweet and the New York Times saying President Trump is flushing away americas reputation. Texas, goeaumont, ahead. Caller this is really interesting. From bothnd back wees, it would appear as if are attempting for a revolution to sick place in this country from what is going on. Ishave three branches, this one of the three, the president. I have been fortunate or unfortunate enough to spend lots of time in honduras, guatemala, haiti, and when you see what is happening there, perhaps mr. Trump used the wrong phrase, but i could spend hours giving you examples of things that are being done unbelievably to folks there. It is just trying to make a living. We have had so much in this country. It is an exacting effort to try to take everything out of context. It would appear the losing party is trying every way they can with president obama and washington, d. C. , to try to turn this country around and blue race out and create a resort in the states. Real disservice to this country and these people need to be called out for what they are, and if people stand back and look at it, i am sorry to say that the black community has been abused through the years, and they had been promised and all they want is there votes and they quickly politically forget about them. Host we only have a few minutes and want to move on. I want to remind you you might see it traveling through your community, the cspan bus. This is what the 2018 version looks like, where history unfolds daily. We are part of a 50 State Capitol tour. We will visit all 50 state capitals, including hawaii and alaska. We will end in november. This marks the 25th anniversary cspans bus program. Our next stop, raleigh, North Carolina on wednesday. Our guest will be the states attorney general who will be joining us on the washington journal. You can follow the tour on a website at www. Cspan. Org. Helga is next from frankfurt, germany. Helga. Hello, my name is host turn the volume down on however you are watching this, television, or the web, and go ahead with your comments. Caller ok. Yes. All right. Host were going to have to move on msu can turn the volume down. Caller i have turned the volume down. I hope you can hear me. Host go ahead. Caller sorry. I wanted to say that americas reputation has really gone down to the bottom of the pits i would say since President Trump is in office. He has defiled the white house as no one else in history and history will judge him, and to will be the worst president ever. I only hope my american friends can turn this around because we are absolutely appalled at what he says. I cannot understand that trump, his face, so to speak, cannot see him for what he does, when he says, how he behaves. How can you believe anything this man says . He tells everyone you are the lying press, fake news, we had this in germany in 1933. We have seen it. We have suffered from it, what happened to it. I can only hope american democracy will get rid of this man again. Host how are you watching the program . Caller i am watching it on my television through bbc channel, and i am always watching it on sunday afternoon, so i am very interested in american politics. I used to be a great friend of america. I am a teacher. Studentsy children, my , about history, about world history, everything. Sinceas been happening 2016 and 2017 is just, for me, unbelievable. I really got i would not see this in my lifetime anymore. Host when you talk to friends and neighbors across germany, do they share that sentiment . Or are there contrary points of view to how the president is doing in the u. S. . Caller lots of the germans share this sentiment, even the right wing parties, the awful ones that have wo 12 in a parliamentary electionsn, even people from them say america has gone down the drain. We are looking towards china now. If you think that we as a western country with western values would look to china for a partner and give up our friend in america . It is just terrible. It really is. I do not know what we can do to convince American People that you press and program really shows that it is not fake news that people talking, people individuals, and people from all sides and all opinions. I have many friends in america who are sharing my opinion, as well, and around germany, i can assure you, this is what individuals think. Of course, our government has to speak a different language because we depend on america. Economically and in any way, so they have to bow to trump, but i do not understand the republicans either. They used to have my respect, but right now, i cannot see it. I am sorry. I am so upset about it. Host we appreciate hearing from you from germany and to after bbching this on the parliament channel. Our last call on the republican line is from arkansas. Ike, quick comment . Caller yes, i just wanted to say to helga is this the same country out of maize because the women bought it all and thousands were molested on your years . On new years . I hope the president is considered the best we have ever had, and one other comment about the character. Character is what we are. Reputation is what people say about you. Host thank you from arkansas. Back after thel holiday hiatus, and this opening skit that focused on a parity of morning joe. [video clip] michael, one person heavily featured in the book is steve bannon, who was just let go of breitbart news. Here to talk, steve bannon. [cheering] [laughter] [applause] steve. Good lord. My, god, steve. I always thought you looked like death, but this is death warmed over. Danke. You guys know each other, right . Of course, i got him fired. I got you hired. Even the negative stuff, you love it. No one gets the bannon fired. Except me. I did. I never said don jr. Was treasonous. Yes you did. I certainly never said that on television. That sounds exactly like you. Ok, that does sound like me, yes. Thank you. Host bellas last night on saturday night live on nbc. Were back tomorrow morning. A live simulcast of the washington journal and on radio. We will focus on Race Relations in our 8 00 hour with armstrong williams. And Leonard Stein horn, the coauthor of a new book. Professor at American University in washington, d. C. Later, max boot, we will look at the president s Foreign Policy and what it means for the United States and our allies. Newsmakers is next. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] newsmakers with maryland congressman steny hoyer
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