Specialite alerted their superiors as early as january to a suspected plot to pay bounties to the tally ban to kill troops in afghanistan. This according to officials in the matterment they believe one troop death was a result of the boupties. They go on this say the crucial information that led the spies and commandos to focus on the bounties included the recovery of a large amount of American Cash from a raid on a tell ban outpost that tromented suspicions. Interrogations have captured militants. Played an essential role in making the Intelligence Community confident that the russians offered and paid bounties in 2019. Another official has said. Thats in the New York Times this morning. President trump you have probably heard is denying this bounty report. Heres the headline in usa today. Nobodys been tougher on russia than the trump administration, said the president. He said that in this piece that facing strong criticism from democrats, trump said on twitter that neither he nor the Vice President had been briefed on the classified assessment. Trump also tried to cast doubt on the New York Times report saying he had been told about the matter. Early in the day sunday the president tweeted this. Nobody, he wrote, briefed or told me, Vice President pens, or chief of staff mark meadows about the called attacks on our troops by russians as reported by an anonymous source as the fake news New York Times. Everybody is denying it and there have not been many attacks on us. Said the president. Host those are two distinct tweets from the president at opposite ends of the day yesterday. Reaction has been swift to this story. Here is joe biden, the former senator, former Vice President , and presumed democratic nominee for president this year. Its truly shocking revelation that if the times report is true. I emphasize again, is that President Trump, the commander in chief of american troops serving in the dangerous theater of war has known about this for months, according to the times and done worse than nothing, not only has he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on russia for egregious violation of international law, donald trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before putin. He had had this information, according to the times yet he offered the host, putin, in the United States and sought to invite russia to rejoin the g7. His entire presidency has been a gift to putin. But if this is beyond the pail its betrayal of the most sacred beauty we bear as a nation, to protect and equip our troops when we send them into harms way. Betrayed, betrayal of every single American Family for the loved ones serving in afghanistan or anywhere overseas. Im quite frankly outraged by the report. Film elected president , make no mistake about it, putin will be confronted and well impose serious costs on russia. But i dont just think about this as a candidate for president , i think about this as a dad, father who sent his son to serve in harms way for a year in the middle east and iraq. And im disgusted on behalf of those families whose loofed loved ones are serving today. When your child volunteers to serve, putting their life on the line for the country, they take risks known and unknown for this nation. But they should never, never, never ever finish a threat like this with their commander in chief trying to blind eye to a foreign power putting a bounty on their heads. Host joe biden from yesterday. Before we get to calls a little more on the times story. Though the White House Press secretary claimed on saturday that mr. Hum trump administrationp had not been briefed with the intelligence report, one american official had told the times that the report was briefed to the highest levels of the white house. Another said it was included in the president s daily brief, a come pend yum of Foreign Policy and National Security intelligence compiled for mr. Trump to read. She did not challenge the times reporting on the existence of the assessment. National Security Council interagency meeting in late march and white houses inaction. Multiple other news organizations also subsequently reported on this assessment. They also say that the officials briefed on the matter said the assessment had been treated as a closely held secret but that administration expanded briefings about it over the last week, including sharing information about it with the British Government whose forces were among those said to have been targeted. That is the upstate dated New York Times reporting this morning on the story. Lots of calls now. Greg in farmington, michigan. Democratic line. Good morning. Welcome. Caller good morning. Its important for the American People to not give up on the Mueller Report. Read the Mueller Report trump operatives met with the russians in the Mueller Report over 100 times. 13 russians were indicted. Of course they are in russia, they havent been convicted of anything. But they were indicted. 1100 past u. S. Federal osecutors suggested that President Trump obstructed justice. That was in 2016. Since then theres zero evidence that President Trump has gone after putin. Hell never saying anything negative about him. He always takes the side of putin over our own u. S. Intelligence. Somethings not adding up. Something is rotten in denmark, im sorry to tell the public. We have got to come to grips with this. This is wrong whats going on. And how long is it going to go on before we get to the truth . Host go ahead and fish finish up. Caller the rumors are Deutsche Bank and russia in together financing the president earlier. Now that should come out eventually. The Supreme Court has a case now over the taxes of the president and things like that. Host thanks. Carl, your thoughts this morning, in oxford, mass marks again the democrats line. Hello. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I cant believe this. This whole thing smells of a false flag. Believe me i cant donald trump turns my stomach, coy never stand him. This is just a distraction to take away something new they came up with to cause trouble so that well be distracted from the problems going on. We have enough problems right here in this country with the race situation and the socalled pandemic or whatever. Its a distraction. Im soarry, im too upset, i cant really be coherent right now. Host what do you think the next step should be if any, carl, in terms of congress or anywhere else . Caller congress, i have been a registered democrat all my life. I think its the democrats that are pushing for this. Like bidens pushing. The democrats want war now. For i know it sounds crazy, but theyll do anything to smear trump and i cant stand it. He really turns my stomach, but they are trying to they are being hawkish. They are just trying to distract the nation, our country, from focus ning on whats on our own focusing on our own problems. We should pull out of there. Should have pulled out of there, never gone in, actually, thats what i feel. Host thanks. Go to the republican line where william is in orange park, florida. William, your reaction to this story and the reaction to all of this by official folks here in washington. Caller you know, i think why would you have biden on there, somebody thats going to tell you the truth when he said we have 123 Million People already die from the virus . As far as that guy wanting to talk about that one thing that they brought up for all them charges, theyll never get that guy could go under oath and talk about how he spent 35 million of our dollars. Host rich, rich on the independent line. Rich, welcome to the program. Hickory hill, illinois. Whats your reaction . Caller when you read Something Like this in the newspaper, its almost like a treasonous act. If you were to be given knowledge of this and you didnt act upon this. His denial of that him never receiving this kind of information. To me this should be verified. If its proved to be true, it should be considered an act of treason that he didnt act upon it. To me this is the kind of stuff that has been with Donald Trumps presidency, the reason he was impeached and the reason a lot of this stuff comes from his own mouth. Says saying that the russia should investigate hillary clinton. Hack her emails. That was a treasonous statement from a person running for the presidency. So this is why that these issues, if they are true and verified, the charges should be like i say, this is the stuff that hes done and said. Why its gone on for as long as its gone on. Anybody that would be complicit in not charging and prosecuting this man is in the same boat with him as far as im concerned. Host rich. Thank you for calling. More reaction in congress to all of this. Expected today, the senate today continues work on the Defense Authorization bill. Its a 740 billionplus bill on defense programs and policy. You can bet that theyll be talking about this this week on the senate floor in addition to in the house and briefings and elsewhere. Some of the reaction that has come in from lawmakers include lindsey graham. He wrote yesterday, over the book end, its imperative congress get to the bottom of recent media reports that russian g. R. U. Units in afghanistan have offered to pay the taliban to kill american soldiers about the goal of pushing america out of the region. Liz cheney, wyoming, member of the house. Its reporting, she wrote yesterday morning, if reporting about russian bounties on u. S. Forces is true, the white house must explain a couple things. One, why werent the president or Vice President briefed . Was the info in the president sention Daily Briefing . Two, who did know and when . And three, what has been done in response to protect our forces and hold putin accountable . Just a little bit of the reaction there. That tweet was retweeted by Many Republican members of congress yesterday. Katherine calling from ohio. Democratic caller. Your reaction. Caller paul, i called my congressman about three or four times a week. His name is steve chabot. I ask him all the time, i want to go by constitutional law. I want to go by rule of law. And high moral authority. Of which the Republican Party have given away to this administration. Because we dont go by constitutional law. The man that sits at 1600 pennsylvania avenue is the most corrupt person that this old woman has ever seen in her life. And they tolerate it. If it was being done by a woman, a black man, or a person of color, the republicans wouldnt stand for it. But because hes old, white, and says he has money, which i dont think he does, and thats the reason why he doesnt want us to see his taxes. Because hes totally corrupt. And he should be removed from office by the Republican Party, today if possible. Because my bad fault in world war ii, my husband was in the vietnam war, my former soninlaw did three tours in iraq. And this is what we have to deal with . Corruption at every level . And his answer is, i wasnt briefed . Who believes that . Host katherine, in ohio. Well stay in ohio. Westchester, ohio, republican line. Deborah, your thoughts to what you have been hearing this morning and reading about. Caller i just want to go over the actual factual information regarding the United States approach to russia during the biden can and obama and what trump has done. At the end of bushs presidency russia invated georgia. Russia said, hey, thats just a peacekeeping measure. And gorge bush put sanctions on gorge bush put sanctions on russia. Jorn bush put sanctions on russia. Hilltry clinton gave russia the red reset button, remember that big button . She said but bush overreacted. Then later on what very soon into the presidency, we stopped Missile Defense that we had in poland. That was a bush that was a bidenobama strategy in europe to stop the Missile Defense going in poland. Obviously that was a green light for russia to be able to take more latitude. Owe bam was caught on a hot mike saying to russia prior to the second election just wait until after the election, ill have more leeway. In 2014, russia invades ukraine. We dont give Russia Military lethal aid like they want. We give them humanitarian aid. There is no doubt so then trump is elected. When trump is elected he starts Missile Defense again in poland, vigorously. Its continuing now. We put tremendous sanctions on russia. And then the other thing we do s we give ukraine lethal military aid. People have got to look at factual information. We are in the worst political theater i have ever seen in my life. Im 68. And the news media can report anything but those historical they are not historical, but those are the actual facts. Biden was a part of being soft. Of course russia doesnt want trump. Our adversaries do not want trump. Hes been tough on them. I am perplexed as to how people can be so against policies in the administration. And be just so overwhelmed with this mans personality, which i dont particularly care for myself, rather than looking atpolicy. Host thanks for your participation in the program. More reaction from congress from either side of the aisle. Adam kinzinger tweeted, yesterday, russia is not a partner. Mr. Kinzinger is a republican from illinois. Russia is not a partner and not to be norkted with. Negotiated with. Donald trump needs to immediately expose and handle this and stop russias shadow war. Heres Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the house on one of the talk shows yesterday. This is as bad as it gets. And yet the president will not confront the russians on this score. Denies being briefed. Whether he is or not his administration knows. And our allies who were will work with us in afghanistan have been briefed and accept this report. Just as i have said to the president with him all roads lead to putin. I dont know what the russians have on the president politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is. But he wants to ignore bring them back into the g8 despite the annexation of crimea and invasion of ukraine. Despite what they yielded to him in syria. Despite his intervention into our election which is well documented by our Intelligence Community. And despite now possibly this allegation which we should have been briefed on. Do you believe the president has been briefed on this . Secondly, how would you explain the New York Times saying it was the president s daily brief, perhaps you didnt read it. How would you explain if the president werent briefed on this . Because the president wants to ignore any allegation against russia. That said to him in that meeting when im pointing to him in the blue suit, with you, mr. President , all roads lead to putin. Russias never gotten over the humiliation they suffered in afghanistan. Now they are taking it out on us. Our troops. This is totally outrageous. You would think as a of the minute the president heard it he would want to know more instead of denying. Host more of your input by social media. In a than rights, probably not true to make trump look weak. Jim from buffalo rights the New York Times as usual printed a story antitrum with no factual backup. They should be forced to provide definitive proof, no unnamed sources. Biden, too, should shut up or provide proof, says jim in buffalo. Then twitter, someone calling themselves Border Collie mom writes, if true, people including trump, need to quit. Needs to be investigated asap. Jeff calling from oklahoma now. Democratic line. Your thoughts. Your reaction to this story . Aller thanks for my call. I just had a simple comment. Its pretty, you know, explanatory, you know. President trump and putin are working together . What if they are part of a group . We know the group. You know the ill lume natty, the panama papers. We know where the money s we know the group they are all working with. We know all our president s are just in line with them all. The republicans are all bought and paid for. Every one of them. You might think that, oh, well, these lobbyist. Who is that lobbyist working for . They are all part of the mafia. Think about who they are. Host thank you for calling. David is on the line now from madison heights, michigan. Another democratic caller. Caller hi. Thank you very much for taking my call. I really cant believe that you let these republicans spew the lies that they do like that woman from ohio. Her whole spiel was nothing but lies. Typical republican. Bringing up brief administrations. Brief people. President obama was harder on russia than any president in our history. So please, you know, you ought to push the button when those kind of lies are spewing out of someones mouth. But i want to say about this story, im sure its true. All president s are briefed. Its just more proof that traitor trump will not go against his boss, putin. You know what i say . Lock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up. Thank you. Host david from michigan there. Washington post doing its own reporting on this lead story. Deaths linked to russian bounties. They write russian bounties offered to taliban linked militias to kill forces in office believed to have resulted in the death of several u. S. Service members. According from intel. Several people familiar with the matter said it was unclear exactly how Many Americans or Coalition Troops from other countries might have been killed or targeted under the program. U. S. Forces in afghanistan suffered a total of 10 deaths from hostile gunfire or improvised bombs in 2018, and 16 more in 2019. Two have been killed this year. And each of those years several Service Members were also killed by what are known as green on blue hostile incidents by members of Afghan Security forces, which are sometimes believed to have been infiltrated by the taliban. Hear from john in trenton, new jersey. Good morning. Caller thank you for having me on cspan. The deal is is that im a vietnam veteran. And my father was in world war ii. And my whole family prior to that has been military. If this president has done that, hes guilty of treason. D if hes guilty of treason, treason carries a penalty of execution or life in prison. Now, the United States people who are backing this president have got to realize that by supporting him they are complicit in his debacle. Whether they like it or not, they are complicit in his debacle. Now, Mitch Mcconnell and all the rest of those in congress have got to own up to this because if they dont they are violating the constitution and they are guilty of treason also. Now, this whole war started with charlies war during the reagan administration. The reason why the United States interfered there is because afghanistan was looking for its freedom. Middle east he long time before then. And now hes going to go out and ut a bounty on our men and arms . I think that somebody should be counted for accounted for and put in prison. Host a little more from the Washington Post piece. They write that the intel was passed up from the u. S. Special Operations Forces based in afghanistan. And led to a restricted high level white house meeting in late march. The people said, the meeting led to broader discussion abouts possible responses to the russian action rage interesting diplomatic expresses of disapproval and warnings to sanctions according to two of the people. These people and others who discuss the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity. The distursr turning intelligence they write in the pose generate disagreement about the appropriate path forward. A senior u. S. Official said. The Administration Special envoy for afghanistan preferred confronting the russians directly about the matter while some National SecurityCouncil Officials in charge of russia were more dismissive of taking immediate action. Thats more from the post. We have bruce from mars, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller i know where the cash came from. Joe biden and obama gave it to him through the iran deal. Loads of cash. They went to 97 billion went to the iranian military. They went to russia and bought k. A. Bombs, missiles, and they went to afghanistan. They even bought the rifles to kill our soldiers with it in several states in the middle east. And nobody ever brings it up. 97 to the military. They bought all them boats. They bought the Missile Technology they are working on. Even the military thats working on the atom bomb for them, it was financed by obama and biden. And that money was spread for terrorism. We know they are terrorists. Host all right, bruce. Frank on the line now from north port, new york. Independent caller. Caller good morning. My comment is well, the gentleman that just spoke, the republican woman from ohio, they all have these stats on how Obama Administration was weak on russia. Trump strong. She essentially blamed the left wing media. I would love to have asked her, where do you get your source from . Where did you get your facts from . My point is this, i love cspan, i loft washington jurem because you get all these varied callins, you guys offer lots of different things. The age we are living in is incredible how you dont know what you are getting. I will admit i am no fan of trump whatsoever. And i will tune in to msnbc and cnn. I am fully aware that this is a corporaterun entity that is looking to get viewers, and they are going to report what they want to report. Host frank would you support congressional hearings on this . Ller well, i think that should certainly investigate it. However, we are so i think personally i am worn out from the investigation. We went through impeachment. It doesnt seem like it just seems like we are at each overs throats. We are not getting anywhere. And i dont blame the republicans or the i dont fault either party. The democrats. The gentleman who just wrote the book recently. Host john bolton. Caller bolton claims the democrats were the one who is were partisan in those impeachment hearings. Had they been less partisan they may have gotten somewhere. Maybe hes right. I dont know. I dont think this leader that we have is fit at all for a variety of reasons. Most of which is that he is dividing us. We were probably already divided, but he has given permission for us to speak of our hatred. Thank you for letting me speak. Host thanks for calling in. A republican back on the line here. James in memphis, tennessee. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host what do you make about all this . Caller well, im thinking first of all you have to look at the source of the information. You got the New York Times. And the closer we get to the investigation with everything they are just going to throw everything on the board to see what sticks. What i think you should do is deep the headline with state offered this money. To kill our troops. Because thats probably what happened. Theres always projection when it comes down to the democrat party. As far as all of these investigations. All of the crime. Its being unveiled. Its being revealed. And they are going to keep pushing whatever the protest, for one thing, one event, one special event after the next, because they are desperate at this point. All we need to do is replace russia with deep state. Offering bounties to kill u. S. Troops and well probably have it right. After all its always been the projection. Whatever democrats blame, republicans are doing, they are doing it themselves. Host thanks for calling. Heres the wall street journal headline on this. Trump says, u. S. Intelligence didnt find russian bounty information credible. The president said in late night twitter post. He wasnt briefed about the information because of that conclusion. More comments from you. Text message from willie in deland, florida. Who says im a realist. Russia having the tally bans kill americans is something they will do and people need to stop saying the democrats are the fault. Ignorant. Fay writes, at facebook, this is from another unnamed source, when the New York Times come up with a named source, let me know. As of now, i dont believe their story. Heres what john bolton had to say on meet the press yesterday, former White House NationalNational Security advisor. There is a lot we dont know and should be cautious. From what we do know from the president s own tweets this morning, to me it looks like just another day at the office in the trump white house. I have never recalled a circumstance where the president himself goes out of his way to say he wasnt briefed on something. We may be in the what the definition of is is when you say briefed. Does that mean hes never been told anything about it . We dont know the quality of the intelligence or the extent of it, if it does go back to march, that raises other questions. And the key point is, if there is any accuracy to it, if the russians have actually been paying to see americans killed, that is a very, very serious matter. Im curious if there was an intelligence assessment like, this can you imagine a scenario where it is withheld from the president . That part of this just seems extraordinarily hard to believe. Is it not for you . Again, it depends on what the level of confidence in the intelligence is. I tried during my tenure at the white house to read as much intelligence as i could. That doesnt mean i passed all of it on to trump or to others. I think its just important to understand there needs to be a filter for any president. Maybe particularl for this president. Theres obviously more to this story. It is pretty remarkable the president s going out of his way to say he hasnt heard anything about t one asks why would he do Something Like that . I think the answer may be precisely because active russian aggression like that against the american Service Members is a very, very serious matter. And nothings been done about it if its true for these past four or five months. It may look like he was negligent, but of course he can disown everything if nobody ever told him about it. Host we have joe from new jersey. Joe, on the democratic line. Good morning. Caller good morning. We are constantly in denial of our own intel sourcersls different tell sources. That bowing exwhich essence in hell sisisky was staggering. Helsinki was staggering. A soninlaw seeking a back channel to russia. The Mueller Report which i read, too Many Americans, including politicians, did not read. And literally on every page there is eye bowel raising to jaw dropping information there. By brow raising to jaw dropping information in there. We cant stick our hand in the sand and pockets. I love my country. I also just finished reading hank aarons the origins of totalitarianism. Thank you. Host thank you, joe. Eloise, sun city, california. Independent caller. Caller you know what, i believe we need an independent investigation. Regarding this matter. Its not about trump. Its not about obama. Its not about the republicans or the democrats. Its about our kids. My grandson went to the marines. Very happy and proud to protect this country. Now i hear this countrys not protecting him . I got a problem with that. We need an independent investigation. Some people love trump more than their kids. I love no one more than my child. I had heard about Something Like this during the obama watch i would be extremely upset because my grandson is out there on the frontline. He could get killed. This is no game. Its time for us to quit playing politics and start worrying about our children. Host john from vernon, new jersey, republican. Good many. Caller goofment how are you. Host well, how are you . Caller good. A couple things here. First of all if this was an intel meeting and it was leaked to the New York Times, thats treason. That is treason right there. I have a big problem with that. Secondly, the New York Times and the Washington Post continue to come out with allegations with no citing. We dont know who said this, where it came from, how it came to them. There are no names. So again they are talking about all of this information, but they are not citing who its coming from. Host that being said, john keep going, go ahead. Sorry. Caller heres the problem that i have with all this. The media is complicit in this in the fact that because of this they are either treasonous because they are complicit in talking and reporting about intel, or they are not citing t now, we know the media is 98 far, far to the left. Its been so for years and years. Thats obvious. You know what, its getting absurd now. Its getting ridiculous. Heres the problem. When he keeps talking about fake news, this is a perfect example. When is the media going to learn this . Host just going to ask you john, all that being said, what should happen next if anything . Caller well, if the New York Times wants to actually have credibility i havent read the sunday New York Times in years because of stuff like this. I grew up reading the sunday New York Times. I grew up in new york and new jersey. But if they want to have credibility again, they have to start citing where their sources are coming from. Lets know who the people are. Lets know whos actually reporting it. Do they have an agenda . Are they making this up . This anonymous stuff has to stop. Host understand the point, john. More from the New York Times piece about republican reaction in a statement a response to questions senator mcconnell, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky said he had long warned about russias work to undermine american interests in the middle east and southwest asia and noted he wrote an amendment last year rebuking mr. Trumps withdrawal of source from syria and afghanistan. The u. S. Needs to prioritize defense resources, maintain a Regional Military presence, and continue to pose serious consequences on those who threaten us and our allies. The taliban and russian mercenary force that is threatened our partners, mr. Become connell said, aid for other Top Republicans either declined to comment or did not respond to request for comment on sunday, including representative Kevin Mccarthy of california, the top house republican. Senator marco rubio of florida, acting chair of senate intel. And senator jim risch of hide owe, the chairman of the Senate Attorney relations subcommittee. Hes a tweet from congressman adam shift, democrat from california runs the Intel Committee in the house f reports are true that russia offered a bounty on u. S. Troops in afghanistan and trump wasnt briefed, thats a problem if he was briefed and still wanted russia back in the g8, its even worse. What will it take to get trum top abandon this fiction that putin is our friend . We have rachel. Rachel on the line from california now. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I just want to talk to the last caller. Washington journal and cspan is one of the most fair Media Outlets i have ever listened to in my life. Secondly, i would like to say the gentleman from new jersey and the lady from california are absolutely right. We need to have an investigation with this. This is rhode island particular cue luss. Agree with john bolton. If you read his book he says things President Trump does not read his intel reports. He could have been tried to have been briefed on it several times and he doesnt twoont listen to anyone other than his own voice. I apologize but thats just the facts. You take someone that has the audacity of suffering in his own charity. His casinos, his college. You think you have an honorable person in office. You, yourself, need to take a really good look in the mirror. I am a military brat. I have members of Service People in my family back all the way from world war ii, vietnam, my husbands in iraq twice. My husband in afghanistan once. He was not a military person, he was d. O. D. My cousin daniel. He helps clear out if a lucia fallujah i would hate to think because of someones ignorance i cant deal with this right now would allow this to continue to happen. Bounties on our amazing men and women abroad fighting for our freedom every day. This should be of the utmost importance for people to figure out. Host thank you for calling. Dan crenshaw, congressman from texas, republican, former u. S. Navy seal. He was responding by twitter to liz cheneys tweet. She from wyoming, another republican. Agreeing with her. This is exactly right. We need answers. We are going to do this for just under 20 more minutes on this monday the 29th of june. Want to take a step back, though, and look at the coronavirus news thats out there. We do expect more in congress this week. At least more discussion. But the house this week is going to take up some housing protections regarding those struggling from the pandemic. And, again, the house takes up a Major Health Care bill today. Nancy pelosi has put it on the floor for three hours of debate starting this morning. They are in at 10 00 for legislative business. 9 00 for morning hour. This bill would expand access to the Affordable Care act in many ways. You can watch that a debate in the house today. Usa today, 10 million cases now worldwide with 500,000 deaths. Thats the headline in usa today on this monday morning. Deaths. The washington journal, saying that debts may be related to , in part because a black peoples heavier reliance on Public Transportation for commuting. In the wall street journal, they have a picture here on barcelona, spain, mask lists patrons enjoying a snack and headline says that mask wearing. Till meets resistance from the washington, raising doubts, print pence promises help for states plagued a new by covid19. Of will notice that both them are Wearing Masks during this meeting and the headline just below that says that mike pence urges mask wearing as. Ases soar heres a little bit of what the Vice President had to say in dallas yesterday. [video clip] when we issue the guidelines to open up america again, we had a phased reopening plan. Texas took the plan and implemented it in a safe and responsible way but there was guidance throughout that applied to all the phases. Chief among them was that people should continue to practice good hygiene, wash your hands, avoid touching your face, and wear a mask wherever indicated. Or wherever you are not able to practice a kind of social distancing that would prevent the spread of spread of coronavirus. We would strongly reiterate that today. I know that roughly half the state is under local ordinances. If your local officials are directing you to wear a mask, we encourage everyone to wear a and in the affected areas where you cant maintain social distancing, wearing a mask is just a good idea. It will, we know from experience, it will slow the spread of coronavirus. Host lets hear from patricia now. What is the name of the place you live . [indiscernible] caller yes. I would just like to address, when you start requesting forces sources to be named from the press, you will bring down the United States. That has been a coveted write for the press. Want to attack the media, go ahead. Just a couple of quick points. It is not lost and it should not be lost on any voter going to the polls in november how they are ripping this rush of priorities and stuff, not briefed, come on people. If we start with an independent on this, we wont 2000 29. Lection until ok . Get over it, people. He has been our president , he is our president. We need to start backing the people we voted for and stop these independent investigations. Its not lost on the voters that this is coming out right before the election in november. Please dont let it be lost on the voters. If any voter is listening, dont get sidetracked by this. We have a job to do in november citizens, democrats, republicans, independent or just dont care and have the right to vote what willo be good for this america and if we keep backbiting the people we put in office, the constitution and Everything Else is going to fall like a ton of bricks. There was a place and time in this country where we voted, good, bad, our party or not, we stood up for that government. And we have to continue to do that. We are too young of a country not to. Patricia, thank you for your thoughts. Lizzie, good morning. Caller i disagree with her. I think that right now with the bill barr situation and the president , we have a dictator situation right now. Hes just dictating. He has no oversight. The lady that just called just set it, they dont want any oversight. So they dont want any oversight ever for investigations on anybody . That is what our government is supposed to do with everybody. Not just, you know, republicans. Not just democrats. Everybody needs to be investigated in our government for the things that they do. Thats just the way it works. Right now we dont have that. So, here we are. We have russians killing our americans. That is awful. I cant even believe we have done nothing, nothing yet for them. Finding out that its true, its an awful thing for this to happen. And i, i remember at the beginning when President Trump was elected, he was in the white house with all these russians just laughing it up, with no americans, no american reporters. This is just getting, its pretty out there and when i think something is up, like a lot of other callers have you can see all of todays washington journal on cspan. Org. Well leave you as the house gavels back in. Members are taking up a bill making changes to the Affordable Care act including financial inis entiffs to states. Increasing insurance