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The largest day in the 2024 thing. Primaries. Obviously, we would want to wel. President biden and former and weve got a crisis in gaza President Trump dominated the contest and nikki haley will be announcing her exit from the race later this morning. We are getting your thoughts on going now. The results of super tuesday and they have a lack of food and the 2024 primary season. Water. Democrats, 202 7488000. Weve got to get that aid in there quickly as possible to republicans, 202 7488001. Avert that ka fast fully and independents, 202 7488002. Hopefully we can negotiate a deal. You can text us at 202 7488003. We are on facebook. Com cspan and twitter. Host this is nbc news with its headline. Administration officials watered down Kamala Harriss speech welcome to todays washington before delivery. Journal. We will take your calls shortly. Her Office Denies having watered here is the headline from the down that speech. Wall street journal. Do you worry about trump scores string of wins to edge closer to the nomination. When it comes to israel . Also from the wall street guest no. I dont think theres been any journal, nikki haley to the fora ambivance. He moved the assets to the governor expected to urge trump to try and earn the support of those who backed her. Region. Nikki haleyspend her our mission is very clear. We have to contain this conflict and make sure it doesnt spread president ial primary bid in a speech wednesday morning. Into a beard regional conflict people plans because the president has beenvt told the wall street journal the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is to figure out whats the path a specter to make an appearance forward here and thats going to deliver brief remarks in charleston area around 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Right now. For decision arrives a day after host tell us why you think that super tuesday when she won only vermont among 15 states that more taxpayer money should go to held gop contests. Ukraine and what are the lets take a look at what former prospects of that actually President Trump told his happening . Guest were at a critical reporters yesterday after the juncture in thwar thats taking place in ukraine in thank you very much. Vladimir putin decided to invade they called it super tuesday for a reason. Its a big one. Ukraine. I think now is not the time t o. And they tell me that theres weve seen our european allies step up with additional funding never been one like this. To support the ukrainian people. Now its time for us as congress lusive. This was an amazing item, and the administration to stand with the people of ukraine who are fighting for their freedom amazing night, amazing day. And our countrys history has and then try to get it to a place where you canegotiate and end this conflict. But now is not the time to back been sad and so many ways but i think it is going to be off. Inspiring because we are going host i want to show you what to do something that frankly no Tommy Tuberville said, the one has been able to do for a blican of alabama about u. S. Long twe have watched our counte aido ukraine he said this. I havent voted for any money to go tine because i know they cant win. Donald trump will stop it he gets in. A great beating over the last he knows theres no winning for three years. Ukraine. He can work a deal with putin. No one thought a thing like this whats your reaction to that . Would be possible. Guest my to that is donald trump probably can work a russia attacking ukraine, we deal with putin. Wouldnt have israel being attacked. That really betrays the ukrainian people. That puts europe at i dont know, was broke when i was running things. They didnt have money for hamas have any confidence in donald trump because ive watched him or hezbollah. In the four years that hes been we had no inflation. In office and was n is destroying the to Vladimir Putin. Middle class, destroying Vladimir Putin is a dictator. Everything. He decided to invade a country look back over the history, that was not looking for hundreds of years back, its called inflation, it is called a conflict. Now freedom, for democracy, for country buster and that is what it is doing to our country, what peace. Is happening with inflation has that is what the United States been unbelievable. Always has stood for. A lot of experts have the lets stand with our european stock market is the only thing allies and support the ukrainian that is doing well, and its doing well because our poll people and lets get this to a numbers are so much higher than point where we can negotiate and joe bidens. End this from reuters that the host we are taking your calls german minister wants to use for the first hour, on the proceeds from results of super and the assets for ukraine. Primary season for 2024. Is that a possibility that we can use some of the money that here is the associated press. Weve frozen or at least the tuesday races and move closer to International Community has frozen and to use that for a november rematch. Ukraine aid . Guest it is a possibility. Also this from the washington post. Its not something thats been talked about in congress. Nikki haley gives aprise each of the legislation that super tuesday win beating trump in vermont. Actually would support using the this is her first victory out of frozen assets to support ukraine. 15 states on super tuesday and host emanuel macron in france the only time a republican woman has prevailed in a state residential primary. Has faced some backlash because we will go state president ial he discussed the idea of sending primary. We will go to john in new york, western trooeps to ukraine in a conference back in february. Democrat. What are your thoughts on that . Caller my ideals for the 2024 guest i mean right now, the ukrainian people and the election is democrats start ukrainian troops have been fighting. Obviously, they need weaponry, talking about bidens our support. They need ammunition and the likes. Infrastructure becausee. But theyve been prosecuting this war and defending their own territory. If we continue to support them, theyll be able to fight and North Carolina got 9 billion. The Russian Troops back a little bit. So thats how i would look at it at this particular moment in South Carolina got 6 billion. Time. I want them to Start Talking host and do you feel that there has been enough oversight on the funding that has already been about the conditions when trump sent to ukraine as to how its been used and how effective its left office. Been . Gu w and look one Million People were dying a month because of his mistakes and inexperience. Analyzed. Lets get the funding, lets cap i want the democrats to Start Talking about this the security supplemental. Infrastructure that biden got youll see more advice and inaction. Legitimately, members of congress are beginning to ask republicans are taking money, they are cutting ribbons but what is the longterm play here . And i understanad thats the■ y they go against infrastructure. I want the democrats to start coming out of afghanistan, iraq and so forth. Talking about that. Host what would you say is your but now is not the time for us top issue for this election . To back out of this conflict. Now is the time for us to set to caller by top issue is a place where we can negotiate from a place of strength. Host lets go to calls now. Democracy. Well start with deangelo in georgia. Getting infrastructure done. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im very high on education. The border, im not worried host go right ahead. About that. Caller my question is about the that can be closed easily. They are trying to make a big immigration bill that trump seee deal out of it. Im rried about infrastructure. Our bridges are decaying. Would get an immigration bill passed this year . Our freeways are not large enough. We lose a lot of time ann the freeways. I want to know how much income guest it is difficult and i think its going to continue to this new train systems, how much be a challenge. It is going to help the economy. That was a very good bill, its that is what i want democrats to not perfect but it is a start. Start talking about and stop i■i would certainly hope we hada talking about trump. Host lets talk to richard in chance to vote on that in the house. Florida, republican. Right now, i dont feel caller hello. Optimistic that light of day. Im very disappointed with how last night went, but i did see i do think the president will talk about certain actions and it coming. Things that he can do. I was hoping we were going to have Something Better than to and again, i hope we could come together as democrats and biden and trump, the rematch republicans and then more long term, think about what this most people do not want. Im a haley s and i was looks like. Next in florida, independent line. Hoping for a miracle. Hi, ron. Caller and how are you . Host good. Caller good. My question to the representative would be, ive been to california several times i guess that is not going to happen. And its alarming to see the but hopefully in 2028, we will amount of homeless camps and have someone better and i hope Homeless People in supposedly the golden state of our country. Haley and rfk get together for a my question is,the thirdparty ticket or something because america deserves better american government, if their than this. Idea of ensuring domestic a bidentrump rematch is not tranquility is allowing mo what most people want. Host we are going to be talking people in the country than we to the chief strategist at no have houses for, how is that labels later in the program. Ensuring domestic tranquility stick around for that. And helping homeless americans julio, South Carolina, find a place if you keep independent line. Bringing more people in when we caller good morning. Know there isnt enough houses . Thats my question and thank you i want to talk about the very much for taking i thanks. Election, and joseph biden. Thats a legitimate question. Ukraine, ukraine, very i would separate that and look at the borders. Important. Because if you ask me, i think the Republican Party, it seems the border crisis will continue like they are doing because to get worse. You see security collapse a of the relationship with donald trump and vladimiru something in a get folks off of. What is it going to be . But somebody that ended their did the people in the united jobs that ended up on the street states understand what is going on . Host donald trump says he could or someone that had mental make a deal with putin and end the war. Illness and deal with those caller he and donald trump issues. Negotiated. Caller good morning there, when he was president , they mr. Bera. I used to live in sacramento. Worked. I still do have a house in sacramento. And we got a lot of crime going even though they lost in 2020, on in sacramento. They planned for this to happen. We have. They plan to this. He went over and kissed the ring. You people should have term limits. You guys are n doing your job. Im sorry to say that. But i look at you people. Dont r the brain cells gone . What is wrong . Host we will talk to edwin in weapons that iran is obtaining. Supposed to haveeven nukes by North Carolina, democrat. Caer i love your callers. The end of the year. And all you guys want to do is youve got to realize, 27 of spend my grandkids money and my childrens money andak harder on everybody. Americans are democrat, 27 of and i thank you very much for americans are republican. Taking the time. 43 are independent. Guest a couple of things. Do ho if the democrats and independents combined, thats 70 against 27 . Address homelessness. Some of that hat were people have shown, even during super tuesday, that 25, 3040 seeing about drugs and mental when he 5 , 30 , 40 dont like donald trump. Illness. Weve got to get folks off e ive been reiterating this for months. Streets and help treat them there. Ive spent a lot of time if you do a slide comparison, in thinking about how dangerous this world is. Im on the Intelligence Committee and you do think about whats happening in north korea. Youve got a hot war going on, the 30 months that donald trump was in office, less than 5 million jobs created. And we are trying to contain a in the 30 months that biden was war in the middle east so it in office, 100 12 million doesnt spread into the regional jobs. Conflict and were trying to one of your clers talked about prevent a war asia. Ukraine. The world is with at a crossroads. And unfortunately a lot of that burden falls in the iowa state building stuff or that war unitedstates of america. Machine in ukraine, and you hear trump, he has no platform. We have the asian nations are starting to step up to take a republicans have . They dont. Bigger role in asian security. And weve got to make sure this what trump inherited in the years that he took office came conflict in the middle east doesnt spread. So theres a lot going on in from barack obama and the recovery act. Trump also said he did the veterans choice act. Thats a boldfaced lie. That came from obama. Caller what are your thoughts people have to wake up. On priority for next congress. I know under democratic i like one of your callers that leadership, yall didnt the said the democrats need to talk bipartisan legislation, covid st about the accomplishments of the biden administration, the infrastructure bill, thousands congress is going to be of jobs coming into this dominated by Foreign Affairs country. All trumel and talk about the priorities that we need to border. There was a border crisis when expect in 2025 . He was in office and democrats guest a lot of that depends on want to put a border bill the makeup together and get nothing done. Host edwin is in north is. That said, an ideal world from carolina. This is also about north 2025, we would hopefully be carolina,the most important govs wrapping up the russianas of ukraine and looking for a path forward to start winding race in 2024 is about to have its own version of trump. That down. Republicans are poised to thats why this is a critical nominate mark robinson, a time to support ukraine so we ca get that place where we can candidate molded in Donald Trumps image. Negotiate a peace. I would hope that fairly soon, robinsonn the primary for you do get a temporary in the mt governor, has done all the things he would normally something that would normally and gaza. Theres still that opportunity make someone a toxic general that would ensure israeli election candidate, he has called home of sexuality filth, security but also looking for a he has made antisemitic result path forward for the palestinian remarks about hollywood, people. Controlling black people and and then domestically, w express retrograde views about have a lot of work to do. Theres still a lot of families women and he is set to have the nomination and potentially block that are recovering from the pandemic. We saw the impact on immigrants out of a State Government in one of the biggest swing states. People, the Mental Health issues you can read that at politico. And etc. So theres still a lot of work to do to rebuild our country. We are going to pause on our calls and speak to a rt and then the prior caller didnt politics reporter. Talk about i am someone welcome to the program. Who worries about what were guest good to be here, thank going to leave our kids and grandkids. You. We really have to start host lets start with the exit addressing how we look at government funding. Of nikki haley. Is it a surprise . Host david is next. Guest not a surprise. California, independent line. To let you know the governments not doing their job. The border was secure when trump she did not ever explain how she was in there. This on purpose and could win the nomination. I dont know why. But i just feel its wrong what the final stretch of the campaign, right before south you people are doing and another carolina to now was very thing is term limits you guys heavy shld limits, point explaining why she needs to stay blank. In. Guest thank you for that. That is not an argument for the border crisis has changed a little bit. Ive been down to the border and winning the nomination,r buildia when you think about what we protest vote. Would see with folks coming across the border two decades not a surprise from that perspective. Ago, it was economic migrants, she just kind of ran out of folks that were working, going back and forth to mexico. Votes about getting 25 of you see a lot of folks coming up registered republicans and then from south america, from central depending on the state, a large america. Share of independents and and thats a real difference than what you saw a decade ago. Democrats. Host cnn is reporting that she talked to the border agent and i is not expected to endorse they will tell that. Former President Trump, and to we have to come up with a talk about how he needs to reach longterm solution. Were going to see more and more out to her voters. Migrants coming into the guest right. Southern border. ■europes been seeing it for the those voters are in different last decade with refugees and pots. There are Republican Voters migrants coming into europe. That is because Climate Change, crime insecurity. I understand why people want to voters that make up about a come to america. Fifth of the party to a quarter we have to come up with a of the party depending on the longterm solution or its going state. Vermont is a good example. She was endorsed by governor to continue a challenge. Host mimi in georgia, democrat. Scott who does not agree with her on many issues but she did good morning. Caller its just me . Well with republicans in that host good morning, mimi. State. She did not do well with republicans in texas and good morning, congressman. Oklahoma. I want to say that i support a lot of her voters, who she referred to as the 40 after New Hampshire and South Carolina sending aid to israel and were not republicans who wanted ukraine. To slow trump down and that is a but i think it should be predicated on those two very fluid drip of people. Counies■qr the laws that all of us have to Bernie Sanders won a lot of votes from people who did not abide by. Want Hillary Clinton to be the there are definitely some things nominee. That israel has been doing which are just heinous and i think that we have a right to demand n the callers you are hearing th8g theyre going to treat the from did not want a bidentrump palestinians as human beings and rematch. A smaller share of voters who allow them to have access to did believe in sup■ing defense,t food and water and medicine and all those things that they need cuts and Social Security cuts, in order to function as a group she had some policies that were held by a smaller and smaller thats what happened in ukraine share of the Republican Party. Those voters are on the fence when Vice President biden went d about whether to vote for trump again, b lot of voters never were going to. They wanted to stop trump by any to fire this prosecutor. Means necessary. He wasnt doing his job. Host lets talk about former President Trump. He was supposed to be states that he performed well in, better, worse than expected . Prosecuting corrupt companies and instead, he was getting paid guest he performed well, off from them, apparently. Especially well in states where there were other primaries. So, i would like to see that you not every state was having a make that more clear to people president ial primary and ste why we support israel and primaries. Ukraine in the first place and five did last night. What should be our plans Going Forward in terms making sure that our support is going to in texas, in North Carolina come support the democratic country up places like that, trump did instead of one that is behaving very well. In a way host ok. Well get a response, mimi. Guest mimi, thank you for the democrats had really competitive races5i in the houston suburbs d the dallas area. He did betterthanexpected in states where there were other comments. It tears our heart tout see the innocent lives lost october 7. So im a strong supporter of the races for republicans to vote in and close primaries. Nation of israel and will continue to support israel. States like alaska, the strength but i agree with you that weve got to get immediately he had in places where humanitarian aid in there. People are starving. Nonrepublicans could vote in the primary, i wouldnt say it people dont have their is surprising as much as it medications. Confirms how much of a grip he an you has on the electorate and how heard the Vice President talking about a few days ago. Uninterested they were in hearing and eleil. Lets aid in there. And then lets see if we can negotiate a solution that allows the Supreme Court saying that israeli people to feel secure states cant remove him from the ballot unless Congress Acts and that october 7 condition happen again but also take us down that that removed a deus ex machina path where the Palestinian People can find some peace and on the horizon. Dignity in their lives as well. Something that might prevent him host do you think there should be conditions on u. S. Aid to from being president again. Not that hailey endorsed that. Israel and, you know, you talked t trump isnt a great position about the■ endstate, a twoste heading into the night. 24 hours earlier, he was a knock solution. Guest yeah, youre seeing a lot you leader from something that of us push back on the netanyahu some republicans worried about. He did better for those reason government. Close primaries, competitive what youre really saying is primaries and a bill of good health from the Supreme Court. Youre going to occupy all that host ng to president territory. That would b state biden. Of war. There were some uncommitted voters. Is that really your vision of can you talk about how many the future . That isnt what our■f policy iss states that option was on the ballot, whether it was uncommitted or no choice, the United States of america. Host suzy, independent line, Something Like that . Chicago. Good morning. Guest question caller hi. Because not every state has that option. Im an independent under the if you are in california and first time. I just cant i cant vote for want to protest vote against biden, you couldnt write democrats. I love the policies but something in, it wouldnt count. In minnesota, you could not vote literally just words on paper. For uncommitted. The reason were having a housing crisis and the reason i uncommitted did quite well. Was in chicago and not my life it definitely got more than 50 of the vote. In california is the percentage it went very well in it of bigs that own the low cost housing or housing just under looked like the president got gc7 500 has increased like, i 62 of the vote. Dont know, i cant be right, but its like 80 over the last the uncommitted vote was 15 eight years or something. Because what happened in l. A. . F it definitely did that in minnesota, it did fairly well in the actual laws with them. Theyre talking about theres no appetite ft. North carolina, not well enough that vote is complicated. You know . Guest i think youre making a fair point. It is mostly branded arod after the great recession, you saw a lot oiv equity message that he needs to change his position and end israels Companies Come in and buy up a lot of the Housing Stock. And now theyve turned that war on gaza through American Housing stock into rental legitimately, thats something , whatever measures that we should look at. He needs to take. And that is part of why theres that is a lot of the uncommitted vote. So few houses on the market and why rents are going up. Some of it is angst about joe thats a legitimate question. Biden, showing up at the primary nobodys breaking the law here and saying not these guys. But should we look at how most of it should be interpreted private equity has bought up the as a protest vote. The fact that it is that large Housing Stock and, you know, again, thats something that we in minnesota, not a state can debate in congress and think democrats are worried about winning but a state where there is a significant number of the about. ■ population, that once the war over. Host freddies next, a you saw the governor, a major biden surrogate, all republican. Good morning. Acknowledging some support and caller i keep hearing people say trump is a putin. There is a lot of frustration putin told trump that he was going to invade ukraine. And what i. He sent nuclear destroyers in it is significant. It is going to be a huge battleships to the agan black presence at this point. I think about five delegates, sea. Biden comes in and he takes them six at most would show up to the convention uncommitted out of out. Trump close down the pipeline. Several thousand. Joe biden told him open it up. It is not a huge beachhead of delegates but look at the larger political situation for biden. Most democrats want a cease fire joe biden told him a minor whether it is temporary or a complete secession cessation. Inclusion of be fine and we will talk about it later. So we know who is. And if you want to fix the it is in the president s border, trump had 91 connective interest for that conflict and. Who does he listen to . Orders. Biden erased every one of them. The other drama thisnt taking ar so, if you want to fix the stance on that. Border, use trumps policies. If there is a cease fire is not permanent, that is too weak and host well get a response on those two things. Israel continues pocketing the war, what happens to biden based on what has been happening the last few weeks . More people voting uncommitted, guest i think its much more sympathetic to Vladimir Putin than President Biden has been. As democrats and progressives, we want our policy to change and and again, i think we saw we want to israel. Host they can also stay home President Biden immediately and just notot after the russian invasn step i wonder how turnout was last up support for the people of night and what could that bode ukraine. A lot of folks, including our for november . Guest im almost laughing own general were just rolling becausea always answers this question by taking a longer account. The ukrainian people have we dont fully know yet. It was not as good as it was in fought admirably. I have been to ukraine and again, theyreoi is trending better than 2012 when barack obama had no serious can. They did not seek this conflict. Opposition to his reelection. Vladimir putin chose to invade ukraine in4 an unprovoke way. The coalition has chge now who e i think peace, freedom, democracy living folks as the collegeeducated, maybe United States of america, we republicans 10 yearsowing up mos should stand with the people of ukraine. Ho about the border and the reversal of the with lower turnout in rural areas. That has been the case. Trump era executive orders by you are seeing higher republican turnout overall in large part a President Biden. What are your thoughts on bringing those executive orders function of nikki haley continuing to be an active back . Candidate. Guest youll see some executive there is more competition on the orders coming back. Reblican side. Youborder. But you increase security . Lower democrat turnout. Can you have more Border Agents down there . I think there is a crisis there and i think a lot of democrats neither have been very would like to see legislation. Impressive. They are all sort of twisted again by how many people are i would rather hope we as going to vote r. Democrats and republicansher ana longer term solution. Host stephen, laverne, i met many on the road in south california, democrat. Carolina and New Hampshire, goodu morning. Caller good morning. Thank you both for taking time people who were going to vote for joe biden in 2024. To answer my question and maybe just a statement. In following the early results some reluctantly, some enthusiastically. Of ourroposition 1, im very they are not being counted as a democratic voter right now. Hopeful that it passes. It seems to me during times like that is over as of 10 00 today. Host you mentioned california. This when were trying to address the severity and the what about the congressional races . There were senate and dynamic around the homeless and house races going on. How did they turn out . Mentally ill popat, some guest adam schiff and steve recent statistics that i happen garvey getting into the runoff to see on i believe it was the news program. Race, everyone runs in the same it looks like maybe 30 or 40 primary, that was a disappointment for progressives. Of our Homeless Population in addition to the problems of homelessness havel serious menl Health Issues that deserve adam schiff ran as a treatment and some stable progressive trump opponent but he voted for the iraq war, he is not for a cease fire in israel and gaza. I find it difficult and do another indication of where democratic votes are on this understand that not everyone issu t schiff who has the least pro cease fire position in that primary, he wants these facilities in their backyard. It is past time that especially prevailed, he is going to be in a race with steve garvey and he we here in california■z who tens is favored to windown the ballos to lead in these kinds of issues are focused on is getting strong and propositions take the stand, candidates and not getting locked out of swing seats, where joe biden won in 2020, gavin newsom won in 2022 finance, support the situation. But republicans have the house seats. Lets show america and the rest of the world what compassion, billy when we are still waiting the real serious treatment could on is the Central Valley with t, help the population. Thank you for taking my call. Republican, we are still try to figure that out. It is likely we will be in a guest think that is exactly race with another democrat. That was the big priority. How we have to think about the homeless. Many folks sleep on the street the big priority was can we how little can we worry about in camps. These races . We get a senate race, a cynical e amount homeless crime we have to get opinion that im sharing but these folks off of the street. From the democrat perspective, can we get a senate race between we will not be ablet everyone democrat and a republican who housed. Is not going to win . Can we get democrats on the ballot in the can you get folks off the general election against ery street . Republican in a swing seat . They are most of the way there ■dyou have to have social worke, and they will find out in the others that could figure out how later ballot count if they did that in the Central Valley. Host any other congressional did this person end up on the street . Districts you are watching closely . Guest for congressional was it untreated Mental Illness . Districts, not that many. When we start to you actually have lks rebuild their lives. See the shape of the general having those Wraparound Services election, who is winning these , that is the compassionate primaries. Thing to do. One thing i thought was good for host this came up a couple of republicans last night was in North Carolina, they redrew the times. What is your stance on term limits . Map to make it impossible forst. Guest im in my sixth term right now. Candidates have blown the race these are complicated issues. In the first they got a differet candidate this time. Reelection every two years. That is up to the voters if they more than congressional races, want to reelect me. Just up and do ballot, host thank you so much for maga candidates are doing well. Joining us today. Candidates who defy all trump or his allies were doing poorly ryan clancy, talk strategist for the grouno us to talk about the Group Efforts to field a unity ticket. The lawyer who defended ken republican rich mccormick of paxton, the attorney general in his impeachment trial, looked georgia will discuss upcoming like he knocked off a state let us later who voted to impeach government funding deadlines, paxton and congressional races borderts youre seeing, the same thing. Maga candidates do much better in gaza and ukraine. Than someone who is more icky haley aligned. As president ■e of the union but people who had said, you might need to move on, it is address, cspan encourages you still the biggest criteria on to engage your opinion. Which issues are important to winning the republican primary, no matter where you are, fr engw yo as the state of the Union Address approaches . Supportive are you of donald one of the most important trump . Did you condemn democratsyou ses issues for me is the stolen . We are already starting to see some of these primaries that the most supportive protrump fentantyl crisis. Candidates are doing better. My name is jacob, i am a incumbents criticized trump for doing poorly. Looking at dan crenshaw in texas, he won by a load by a lower margin. Steve womack in arkansas, postfellow at Johns Hopkins univer. I have researched in getting attacked from the right. Intellectual history. Most important issue i would any raceendorse trump, endorse love to see is the danger ron desantis, a mentor to deceive what happens because one intelligence poses to our trend of this year is just as donald trump reclaimed the relic , particularly in the way it in nomination for president , his might undermine our ability to candidates are in a far stronger fully employ the economy and position. Might threaten our culture. I would like the president to district courts, it is everything. They are in a much better pothe Trump Republican Party tht take care of and close the borders. Would be coming into 2024 is much more unified around his we are getting too many illegals in here. Policies, his agenda, his personality than it was in 2020. It is getting overwhelming and a lot of crime. Host thanks so much for joining i would like to see the us. Guest thank you. Host back to your calls about the primary and super tuesday. Address anything related to gaza and palestine. We will talk to casey in santa barbara, republican. Caller for taking my it stinks to see ignorance and call. I just want to let you know im people not talking about it. Watch the state of the union very happy that nikki haley finally drop down. I voted for donald trump. Address live thursday at 8 00 eastern. My two concerns are this. Im not really concerned about the border, especially being in california. Washington journal. I think joe biden could do a better job of handling the situation and think when biden host we are joined now by ryan does leave office, things will clancy, key strategist for the get better. Group no labels. Welcome to the program. Hopefully policies will be guest thank you for having me. Endorsed enforced. Host no labels, how to get my mother my other main issue is when you go into a grocery started and why . Guest we have been around for store and you see that everything is three dollars and it starts there on up, we have a 14 years. Spent most of that time bringing serious inflation problem, with the price of gasoline. My Car Insurance just went up. Leaders together on both sides to solve problems. Im not happy with stuff like that. ■;i want to hold onto as much we got a lot of attention the last two years. Money as i can. Those are my main concerns. I wa to■8 thank you for ticking we might use offer to a unity my phone call. Host phil is in georgia, president ial. Host some critics label you as independent line. A dark money group. Bill, are you there . Caller yes, good morning. Could you talk about your funding and why you dont disclose your donors . This is bill. Guest we have never released thank you for taking my call. I think we are at the same theres a reason for that. Crossroads that we were in 2020. I cant say but one other thing. America, we have always promised all supporters given short as i can. The fact that a lot of people we have a very simple decision want to shut down efforts to get in this country. On the ballot. Whether you are republican or democrat or independent, they want to intimidate and regardless of what you are or who you are. Bully support within no labels. ■atwo choices. We are not going tsu one is trump and one is america. Supporters to this. Host no labels has been laying the groundwork to build an personally, im going to stand with america. Im voting for■n biden because e independent unity president ial ticket. Is the only way to keep america. Guest the key to all of this is but people who want just cant t Ballot Access. Just for context, 1992, the america because it wont be america as you believedt way. Host why do you think it wont ballot operation had only just started. Be the same america . Caller first of trump has the Grocery Store parking lots, said over and over again, he he had barely started at this does not want anyone there that. States. Thats of dictator. What else could it be . We are active in 17 others. As also said that as soon as he gets in office, if there is a unity ticket, hes going to take revenge on any person who ever spoke out against him. There are some states that require for you to have a named candidate to get on the ballot. Somewhere else where we could i feel like of president or get on the ballot. Host r spokesperson said dictator to me, has just turned their back on america. I didnt serve in nam, vietnam youre looking at some point after super tuesday, who would to give it away to Something Like this. So, my opinion is this. ■c be on it . It is after super tuesday. What is happening. Guest the big event for us this very simple. Are we going to keep america . Week is friday. Are we going to give it to trump and let trump destroy it as he wants to do . We have our most dedicated and i personally feel like that supporters from all 50 states. The decision right now because time 78 years ot us to the people of this country. Will be delegated by former and if we want to give it away, dallas mayor mike rawlings. Fine. Thats what they want to do. Then we will decide whone of the but im telling you now. You want to think about this election very carefully. Because were the same crossroads we were in 2020 and want to put forth a ticket if ie this decision has is one of it could really win. The most important. On friday, the 800 folks from but we do foe thing. We know trump, most people do, a across the country will make their voice heard and let us lot better now than they did in know where they want to take us. 2020 host how could a thirdparty so, thats the way it should be. Candidate not be . Host got it. Caller im an oldfashioned guy but ill take a president any a spoiler . Guest you have to look at past day over a dictator. Elections and over the course of host got it, bill. The last decade, independents lets talk to tim next in virginia, line for democrats. Good morning, tim. Caller wow, i almost didnt have anything to say the typically dont get much gentleman just about said traction. Everything. Thank you for taking my call. We believe that. You do a tremendous service, i believe. You know, does anybody want to you could go down the list of metrics. Vote for trump after they went . We have never been in a you can go right down the list. Where both parties are this unpopular. Where the presumptive nominees are this unpopular. He filed bankruptcy and wind up where the people are this nothing with 20 that was owed. Pessimistic about the future of the country. We know all these things. When we started thinking there was an inkling of an opening was i dont understand. Two years ago. Theres a very scary amount of people out there today that just a consistent question asked over time, if it were trumpbiden, they really get mad if you and a moderate independent dare say anything and weve got some in our family where you alternative, would you be open to voting . Dont want to h the first time we ask that, 59 thinking they have no temper of voters said they would be i mean, a very bad temper about open to voting for that ticket. It. Its not because we think the they just dont want to hear anything but. ■wlxindependent would ever get of the vote. Just like someone said. You really dont want somebody because of the multicandidate thats going to fence for putin race, they dont have to get and i just i think theres close. Some things he should do. The electoral is winner take all. The man cant do much for the border until the republicansip. You get 100 of the■m votes. But all these are just basic host if you would like to join i see whats going on and im our conversation, you could do not a political, you know, expert or anything. So. Our lines for democrats 202 . But boy, thats just in the republicans, 202 7488001. Wrong direction. Host so tim, youre in virginia. Independents, 202 7488002. Results of the virginia primary . The next part of fielding a caller not really. Theres places in virginia just ticket is deciding who would be on it. Like everywhere that no matter what happens, almost, seems like senator joe manchin had been mentioned. When trump says ck■w 42nd strt he declined. Former governor larry hogan will be running for the senate. Or whatever and nothing would happen. And then there are others like are you running out of candidates or is there somebody we dont know about . Myself think and i guest there is plenty of people dont want to be too biased but, you know, virginia knows a lot out there. Host like who . Of the parts guest over the last couple of that this guy is a disaster. Months there have been lots of candidates floated as potential no labels candidates. People that are running for lever offices that lesser are talking to several candidates we think would be offices and im kind of concerned about them as well. Exceptional that could serve on host all right, tim. The tickif those 800 delegates e lets talk republican line in north dakota. Together this friday and caller good morning. And thanks for having a understand they want to keep conversation with me this this Going Forward we will morning. Im a nikki haley person. And i think that there is a escalate our discussion with place in the Republican Party potential candidates and see about putting up a ticket. For people to say like the host what do you think aboutthe fellow from oklahoma last night. Voted uncommitted in the democratic primary . That was pretty cool and he was does that tell you there is an also a haley appetite for what they are doing . The reason were looking at that is Foreign Policy is helping to going on in ukraine. Just sending a message on a similar issue. Strong people in the senate republicanwise that are very guest i dont mollify would supportive of somehow were characterize that phenomenon. Looking at funding and helping heres what i would say, these ukraine. And were not isolationists. None of us are. Primaries we here, America First has strong but its not that its representative for most of the electorate. America last either. We are a world power. At best, even on a good year, and not to forget that. An maybe 25 votes in the people, i believe, myself, go democratic or republican president ial primaries. A lot of states dont allow them for the haley support for to vote at all. Experience ongn policy. And if you want to call us for two years, the public, 70 reagan republicans, theres a place for in the of the public is saying they dont want a rematch of the 2020 Republican Party. Election. I think the super tuesday how could it be that 70 of the showing tremendous support. Country doesnt want it and it 30 , sometimes 35 . Looks like we are going to get it. The answer is our primary for example, she got that state. System. Both parties in different ways and washington, d. C. , there are people in the Republican Party are exhibiting increased control who want to work with donald over the process trying to shut trump. We, i believe, will have a place for that voice in the process. Out voices, not justependent host soz2 do now that shes gog voices, we are shutting out voices within our own parties. To be exiting the race later today . Caller well, im going to watcz they wont even let dean phillips on the ballot in r press conference and see several states. Where shes going with that. And as shes also said, we got the Republican National committee was ready to shut down the whole primary. To look at the support up and down the ticket. Rnc had a resolution on the regardless of who it is in the floor to declare donald trump white house, weve got to have the nominee. Strong support in in the house. I think these primaries are and we can help host as a republican, then at becoming increasingly this point, will you vote for unrepresentative of where voters are. Former President Trump . ■m biggest reason why i caller yes, i will be voting think there was an opening. For President Trump but i will host deborah is our first also be putting my money with the House Republican and senate republican. Weve got to protect our caller i look at your platform country. Weve got to look at whats on your website, it is so going on in ukraine with putin, israel, you know, she brought vague it is virtually out the issues that the world is unintelligible. We should respect the right to on fire. Women, looking after societies weve got to deal with china. Weve got to deal with taiwan. Responsibility. What does that mean in terms of weve got to stand by that. That . Weve got nato agreements. We have to stand with that. We should be the leader of the and thats the reality. World. What is your position on nato, ukraine, israel . And america is the world power you dont start with a party or and weve got to help our candidate, you start with ideas. Allies, as i said. That were having with you this morning. Next caller from washington, it shouldnt be called no labels, it should be called no idea or no clue. Independent. Caller good morning. I did 20 years in the air■s fore you cant tell where you stand on anything. Nerality. Under reagan. We were going into iraq. Guest what deborah is referring and then i got out after my 20 to is last july, no labels years and the released aooklet. Border patrol in 1999. Had 30 ideas based on a years and we were dealing with the worth of polling that we did. Smugglers and so forth. They were running 4,000 to get we could start to say this is across. Where the public stands on most issues. And then as time went on, the Homeland Security in 2003, the by design, we didnt fill in the details. Politics changed. If there is a candidate, we politics got involved with Homeland Security and i worked in central■ california he didnt want them to be the people to comalan restrictive ad potentially handcuff them in. You will see the direction of wants to build this thing and where the public is at. Hes just playing a game with the Border Patrol. I know deborah was dismissive i mean, we spend a lot of money about abortion, that is an in the Border Patrol. I wasvered every equipment the accurate representation of where the publ iif you look at where c is at, they want it available Border Patrol had. And it sent so much money but but with limits. There is a very l fringe, again, mr. Mike johnson, the speaker of the house seems to get lost in all this fray and 15 it should be acceptable. Everything else. St so w best solution then fore border . Theres a small sliver on the others that it should never be acceptable without any exceptions. In between them is everybody caller well, weve got correct else who believes it should be available but there should be the asylum law. Ag certain limits. That is for a candidate to decide. And what caused the drive from host charlie is next in california, republican. People in nicaragua, el el good morning. Salvador and venezuela. Caller guest brought up because in the 80s, i was down there. Who do you think would be spoilers as far as a thirdparty candidate. I wasondering why you dont have a runoff if a candidate best on the border . Doesnt get 51 . President trump or President Biden . Caller right now, i would trust we tried rankchoice voting and bi nobody could figure out how it he doesnt know where hes going works. It was a disaster. With all this. His politics is representative or a senator comes to the senate or to the they just changed the election, house of representatives, they absolutely. That is my comment. Represent the american people, thank you. Not the party. Guest charlie makes a great no democrat, no independent, no point. Theres a lot of different republican. They represent the people and its their job and their committee to sit down and work the committee budgets. And weve gotten to the point now that people are just so angry with each other and all i. Host next caller from georgia. Democrat. Caller good morning, mimi. How are you . Host good. Caller good. Im the primary next week. And i say and i hope that a lot of us, like some of the callers earlier,■i■z can focus on what r leaders are actually doing. They can say anything in front of the microphone but what policies are they actually enact something because i think a lot of middle class and lower middle class voters that we allow ourselvesacted by issues like trans or book earning or woke or these this are not paying attention to practical matters or infrastructure and funding the border bill. And the actions that our leaders are taking, lower Prescription Drug costs and things like that, and i think they take advantage. Leaders at the extremes of both parties, especially the right lately, they take advantage of that by distracting and also relying on the fact that we many of us get our news on one source. None of us should leave on one channel. We shouldnt leave the channel on fox news or cnn. Get your news from different sources to get different perspectives and i think we would be finely, i would say none of the candidates are perfect but ill never forget desperate pleas of President Trumps supporters, crawling through the floors of congress, calling him andg him b who was threatening to kill mike pe he shrugged and he said maybe they should. What more do you need to know about a persons character than that right, leighton. Lets talk to judy in tennessee on the republican line. Judy, did you vote did. And im really excited about it. I believe it allows us to correct a lot of errors. I believe that futures biden laptop will be addressed. Everything that we have is man the war in israel, thats because iran was given back their assets. The ukraine war instead of us talking to russia, knowing that was a big issue, but were pushing it. And when it comes to th border, they removed the policy that trump put in place, keeping people in mexico. I think its going to put history on the right side. Host all right, judy, thank yo next. Caller well, good morning. Information from different sources, i agree with that from the former caller mentioned. But one of the things i keep hearing this thread about how anyone could vote for trump and [indiscernible] one of the things that offer up for consideration is that i dont look superior morality position. I dont think hes any much different us. Weir all in a were all in our own battle with our own selfish selves. ■xbut i voted different sources. I look at various cable channels and i read a lot. And one of the recent articles out of the american thinker in john green where he says i cant judge trump or biden on whats going on in them internally in their hearts or what have you. I can only look what they do. And i see where biden openedf . That border and we have people dying now outwardly with immigrant crimes. But trump has got his own foibles. So, i just i will never vote for another democrat as i watch biden in action. This is just appalling his callousness. And i fully admit that trump hay much an independent. So, i just offer up hes got a pretty good article, john green it captures how many of my republican friends explain why they are voting for trump over bid■ht, beth. Take a look at this article from yesterday in the associated press. Mcconnell weighs endorsing trump is a stark turnaround after the joe mixon 2021 attack. It says the Senate Leader who ha trumps bid to return to the white house having once told the defeated president morally responsible for the january 62021 capital attack. How, when or where mcconnell would endorse trump is less head spinning than thedea that it could happen at all. Eddies xt heights, maryland. Republican. Hi, eddie. Eddie, are you there . In Capital Heights . Nope. Kevin, lynnbrook, new york, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking call. Let me see if i can simplify this. Four years ago, my family, family of four, your basic fa. We were doing ok. One job. I had one job. Paid my bills. In the last four years, i had■ao get a second job. My groceries went from 220 to 300 to 350. Everything is nuts. Its just simplifying the whole fact that four years ago, all of america was better off than we are today. And its just frustrating to hear the hatred for donald trump. If they would just go back, they were no war. He moved the embassy to jerusalem. He did all the things he was going to do. Just annoying and frustrating that the hatred for the man was so huge. We were better four years ago. Its just plain facts. Plain fact. I appreciate you taking my call. Its just so frustrating. Host all right, kevin. Lets talk to mike in philadelphia, independent line. Thank you. Caller a war is not an invasion. Did you see the wall the other day at the border . Come on, man. Hes a con. People need to look into the money that hes funding. It happens every year he runs for office. Thats all he has to run is fear. Hes paying for these migrants. Host you think former President Trump is paying migrants to come to the border . Caller yes. He would do anything he can to host and where did you get that . Caller thats all over the streets. They do things. Theres people [indiscernible]ty money going into that. They need to look into it. Thank you. Host all right, mike. Lets talk tos angeles, democra. Good morning. Caller good morning. I look at it lies thing. You have two boxes. One is gold wrapped with ad stue other one is like a tiffany box. In wrap, you have bone spur, two impeachments, ious, Election Fraud attempt, criticized military personnel, criticizes gold star family, reduces womens choices. And then in the blue box, theres that 24carat charm bracelet. You have our little charms. The strongest economy in the world. The Worlds Largest oil■l producer. Debt relief to students. Pharmaceutical reductions. Womens just think when you life lift the lid. On has unravel to■] so both of them are older. And thats ok. I have nothing against that. But when you lift the lid, what do you have what we want . Thank you. Host lucille, ive got a question for you. You still there . Lucille . No. Ok. Eflin is next in pennsylvania, republican. Caller i a w there is so much hate on the left side. They ignore everything that was done. We are the Largest Energy supplier. We are getting our energy from other countries now. Weret throwing money to the wind at this point. This morning, i watched the news and i showed the episode where they were showing how United States is dropping all this food and aid for the people in gaza but and im wondering why other countries are not doing the same. Why is it always on t of the United States . Host youre saying other countries are not giving humanitarian aid . Caller theyre not doing what were doing. I watched this morning when they were dropping the parachutes with the food in there and all they mentioned, all they ever mention is the United States. And i dont know where is with everybody. Where is everybody else . And another thing. That woman that just got off the phone, it was President Trump whoeople in this country as far as im concerned. Even his daughter was helping women start their own little i dont know. Its just ever since yes, he was impeached and it was all political, i am just so tired of all the hate here. And thank you for taking my call. Host all right. And speaking of the economy, heres President Biden from yesterday announcing new measures to help c pres. Biden under the law, banks are not suppose to charge that are higher to collect lay payment. But we have to banks five times more in late fees than it costs to collect late payments. Theyre padding their Profit Margins and charging hardworking americans 2022. But the announcement of this new rule, late fees are now going down to 8, instead of the current average of 32 late fee payments. This action will collectively save families 10 billion in credit card late fees every year. Thats the average of 220 of savings annually for moren 45 million americans who typically have to pay late fees. Thats a lot of money. Im going to close with this. Fair competitions. To build an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down. And its working. Wages are up more than prices. Unemployment has reached historic lows. Families are finally getting a little breathing room. Prices are still too shouldnt. Thats why were going to do everything we can to keep entering costs for hardworking. Caller were a divided country. But you got 90 of the media backs the democrats. You got washington, d. C. Is lik. How are you ever going to get a fair shake . I mean, its going to be impossible, you know, all the states surrounding washington, d. C. Have federal workers. It just seems like the federal workers are getting paid way too much compared to everybody else. But the big problem has to do with the 51 people who were in the National Intelligence that said that laptop was a russian asset. The whole against, you know, the former president. I mean, wheres the fairness in the media . Hopefully, cspan can come back and you can have people that are openminded. Theres this thing called trump derangement syndrome its real. And that is not right. That is not right. And anybody that stands up, trump is an american citizen and theyre attacking him in the courts. I mean, this is unfair. We had a peace because we had■ s that was made in the lab thats crazy host barry florida. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. Mimi, how are you . Host i mary. Caller thank you. I just want to make a comment and everyone is talking about that stage, he never says what hes going to do for the american people. Hes harping on hes going to get rid of people. He harps on the border which he had two years, two years, when he had senate and the house, soo years . He does nothing. He runs his mouth. He says what hes going to do and does nothing. What are not going to do anythi. Is he going to help the poor people . He hasnt said a thing about helping people. You know who he helped . The rich and thats why they want him in there because hes going to give them all them tax breaks and we as medium income people get nothing. I have no idea where they get these stories from. Host theres lot of people that are not rich that are supporting him. What do you say to that . Caller well, that is true. And i cant figure that out. I mean, hes not going to help them. Hes not going to do anything for them but they dont e thini think. Its a cult. And thats what these people are in now. Host tiny from the republican line, texas. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to give a shoutout to greg abbott for what hes doing at the border. Host your governor . Caller yes. And o proud of him. Trump is the best president we have ever had since reagan. I dont understand why dont see what the Democratic Party is doing to this nation. I really dont. But i know its a war between the good and the evil. The Democratic Party, biden is destroying this nation. And thats what he set out to be. He, they want to trump by having documents when he has documents he one even supposed to have as a senator. He stole them. You understand . I dont understand. And hes allowing us to be invaded, by enemies. And so unless he comes around, hes going to start a war, another civil war just like they did with this. Now they want to tell is it wasnt the democrats Democratic Party fault but we know better. We know better. I know better. I see what he s done. The Democratic Party oh, he was there for two years becaused democrat republicans that dont want change. They just like them but they carried themselves as a republican but theyre not. Host and did you vote yesterday, tiny . Caller yes. Host did you vote for former President Trump . Caller yes. Host all right. Caller of course i did. Host and thats the last call from texas. Up next, well turn our attention to the big debates facing congress on Government Spending, Border Security and the conflicts in ukraine and gaza. That conversation with democrat ami bera from florida. Hes a member of the Foreign Affairs committee. Later, ryan clancy, top strategist for the group, no labels joins us talks about the effort to fill unity to get in november. And a reminder to join cspan thursday night for our state of the Union Coverage. President biden will deliver his third state of the Union Address of his presidency, li likely his last speech before the 2024 president ial election. Our live coverage here on cspan begins thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with a preview, followed by the president s speech and then the g. O. P. Rponse by alabama senator katie britt. Well also have your surviewer reaction here on cspan, also on cspan now, our video app and online at cspan. Org. What issue is most important to you to participate, go to cspan. Org or scan the q. R. Code on your screen to add your voice to the conversationd here are ss so far of that poll. Immigratio security are on top at 27 . Followed by Foreign Policy at 15 and reproductive rights at 14 . Well be back after the bak friday night, watch cspan 2024 campaign trail our weekly roundup pans Campaign Coverage providing a onestop shop to discover what the candidates across the country are saying to voters along with firsthand accounts from political reporter, updated poll numbers, and campaign ads. Friday 7 00 eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org or download us on podcast cspan now. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Cspan now is a free mobile app featuring yourppening in washington. Live and on demand. Keep up with the days biggest events and hearings from the u. S. Congress, white house courts, campaigns, and more from the world of politics, all at your fingertips. You can also stay current with the latest isod of washington journal, headline scheduling information for cspan, tv network and cspan radio. Cspan now is available at the apple store and google play. Scan the q. R. Code to download it for free today or visit our website, cspan. Org. Get Contact Information members of government right in the palm of your hand when you your copy of cspan 2024 congressional directory. Costs 32. 95 plus shipping and handling and every purchase helps support our nonprofit organization. Washington journal continues. Host welcome back to washington journal. Were joined now by representative ami bera. Hes a democrat at california and member of the intelligence. The program. Guest i imagine we will start getting into general election. Host and california also had some primaries. Your takeaways from that. Guest yes, we had obviously the big break was the senate race t. Ive endorsed adam schiff. And he had a really strong showing last night. So, they want to be premature but it does look like schiff will be our next senator. Host are you concerned bidensl rateings . Its looking from polls that former prent in key swing states. Guest no, as you start to get to general elections, you will see this two different of america. Theres still a lot that we had to accomplish to get us where we need to be at the United States of you would like to join the conversation, you can do so now on 2027, 2027488001 and 2027488002. Lets turn to government fug. Deadline on friday and another deadline march 22 which would probably be even more challenging. What are the chances of the governments going to shut i cek were going to vote today on the first six packages of government funding. T republicans and the majority of that are experimenting with different ways to create more representative elections. California has their top two primaries. Some states have runoffs. That isnt something that could have any impact on the 2024 election. Phil is in brooklyn park, minnesota, independent, good morning. Caller i wish she would take that woman from maryland who called previously, if you could take 7. 5 12. 5 from the left and right and bring them to the because most American Voters are moderate. ■nnothing you could do about ths year. Someone that is a moderate and the views of the american education, the first, second, third generation, a little bit from the left, a little bit , ys possible. Your logic ishost go ahead. Guest based on what phil said■, we think that could happen in 2024. One of the most interesting things that has happened to the electorate is the explosion in the share of people who think of themselves as political indepeent. The self identification of voters, a third independent, 43 of voters think of themselves as independent. 27 each think of themselves as republicans. If you have a unity ticket this year and it picks up anywhere from one quarter to one third of democratic voters and a bit more than half of independent, you have a ticket that could win outright. When you look at it that way, it doesnt sound so impossible. Host haley would win as a thirdparty candidate in 2024, what do you think about that . Guest we have not talked to governor haley. She said shested in going down that path. We will stay focused. Under our several leaders that are exceptional. Host anoth text forrun as senae members, not just president s . We are not a political party, we are a nonprofit. What we have done is played a rg bipartisanship. Ehind the problem solvers caucus. A lot of our members mobilize to help fund the campaign for grassroots supports for members bipartisan leadership. Re we launched a high sixfigure ad buy■] to represent brian fitzpatrick, a republican from pennsylvania, who are trying to push forward a bipartisan solution to secure the border and get aid to our allies. They did that after it looked like a similar bill passed the senate. That is courageous leadership. Whatever it does in relation to the 2024 election, that will continue. Host lets talk to joan in the bronx. Caller o good morning. Im watching your show as i do every morning. I have a question. Why is it that people who are registered voters who are allowed to vote in the general guest that is a great question. It isnt fair. Unfortunately what has happened is at the state level, a lot of parties have barriers to make it very difficult for either independents to participate or they dont allow crossover voting. They dont allow a republican to come over and vote in a democratic primary. Part of the reason that is■n sh a problem is in most elections, particularly for congress, the primary election is the only election that matters. There is nothing but a democrat ever coming out of my congressional district. Primary election is literally the only election that matters. The general election is a formality. We have to take a broader look as a country at how we open up participation toake primariesti. Host andy in kentucky, republican. Caller i want to thank you all for what you do. To me, i dont think the no label and independent thing is not the way to go. I love the Republican Party. They fight for the right things. We people involved in the process. I used to be a democrat. They left my values. They are not conservative. They are so far to the left it is sad. We need prayer, that is the key to our nation. If people would start praying again, the lord will turn things around. Nikki haley did a great job. She did. Candidate in kentucky, they lost in the primary. I said the same thing people are saying now. We are not going to vote. After i thought about it, i went with the candidate that won. I stayed and i helped the person, im glad i did. I found out his mother was a good christian and everything. She would go to the capital and pray. We need more of that. Host we will get a response. Guest t know that i could add much more but i appreciate him sharing. Host morning. Caller i enjoyed the program, first of all. I have been learning a lo history about our country. I was born in 1951. I am a 73yearold africanamerican. I was born here, raised here. The constitution, if they will come up with a thirdparty, it needs to try to change the constitution of the United States of america because we have different people in here and the constitution should be for all people. Host any comment . Guest other than to say that is constitution. It creates an opening for all of us to have the discussions, to have different ideas of what we are going to do with the country. It starts with amendment, it is first for a reason. We could say what we want and what we think. I think we all should be. Way the system works. It is very broken. We are lucky to be here. Host chris in birmingham, alabama sent you a text saying please answer the question regarding who are the candidates under consideration by no labels . I know you are not able to answer that so i will give you this one. Abortion beuse the people think we forgot about that. Guest know what our ticket would run on, common sense is what we released last year. Named after the american revolution. You could go on nolabels. Org. It will give you a good sense for the kind of issues we think anime a unity ticket in 2024. Host lrsey. Caller my question is how would this thirdparty be able to ge this huge gap that we seem to have between the two parties in this country . It is kind of devastating. Guest this gets at the work no labels has done this Ballot Access effort. If this ticket would have a readymade group of allies. It has 60 members, a Bipartisan Group. A really strong group of senate allies. Imagine if we had a president that every time we tackled an issue, whether was immigration, fiscal challenges, anything else that we tried to solve that issue from the center out. The unfortunate dynamic we have for years now in washington is both parties start as part of the right and left as they can and they get dragged to the center as far as they need to go to barely get the plus one vote they need. That is one of the real causes of division. Why we never permay solve anything. One party passes a piece of legislation and the other tries to undo it. The idea here is to have a unity ticket. Host ryan clancy, chief strategist for no labels. Thank you so much. 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We h win in North Carolina, and we will be glad to have another military guy. We also have a minority who will be Lieutenant Governor nominee for the Republican Party. Great to see more so i am excitt that. Overall, it is what we expected. Host did you expect nikki haley, about to announce that she will be suspending her candidacy, what do you think she should do next . Guest she is a talented, still very young person with a lot of experience. I am sure she will have something to addg on. Her relationship with President Trump and what their relationship results in, i think there will bophost turning to t funding deadline, you tweeted about a cr that extended 20 of federal Government Spending until this friday and that you were against that and voted against it. Why . Guest i dont think we got much out of it. They talked about 200 billion dollars of savings, when you do the math, it tends to be money gains. If you would like to talk about substantial savings, read trillion dollars in debt this year, postcovid 3 trillion in debt this year, postcovid, and our ratio is about 130 , and if we are going to be the Gold Standard of economies and currency, downgraded, that doesnt bode well for the future. We keep kicking the can down the street, and we are heading towards a cliff, not acknowledging that we have a problem that no other problem has to extent except japan. And it also did not give us anything on the border. Host the Fiscal Year Ended september 30. You have had several months to get the budgets done and agreed to, and it still has not happened. Voting against that cr, the shut down by now. Guest it would be, but i think we can get some wins out of this. There are several Republican Party has, 6 favorability that unites us, and whether it be the border, education, debt, we have overwhelming support, but why not focus on a wind and some of those areas that we can actually benefit the people, get what they want and still complete a budget . I dont understand why we cant do that. Host if you would like to join the conversation, democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488003. 202 7488002. How confident are you that this will happen without a Government Shutdown . That those spending bills running out march 8 and 22 will actually get done . Gu let me give a shout out for the speaker. Very difficult job, especially with a two with majority. I think he is a true conservative and a humble man. I dont envy his job. We talk and the types of jobs they have to do to get something done, it is not easy. I get that they are a shutdowni understand the ramifications of one, but i think there are se people. The border i had veteran groups come to my office yesterday, and somebody had the audacity to say is the military so big . If you would like to talk apples to apples, lets talk about the 11 Million People who are being flown here across the border every way they can. They cannot produce. They cannot pay taxes. 11 milli people or however many, pick your number, the only concern, food, shelter, health care, all consumption. We are■< not taking care of our veterans who are homeless on the streets right now. We have our priorities messed up right now. And, i mean, this is crazy. Host would you be supportive of work permits for migrants . Guest not if you are going to come here illegally. If you talked about immigration reform, i am all for it. If youalking about getting people here to work in jobs that americans cannot work in, i am totally for that. That would be transformational in a good way, so i am all about that, but i will not encourage people to break the law. We are rewarding people to break the law and making it harder for people to become american citizens. That is sending the wrong message. Why would you think people would follow the law if you encourage them to break the law and then punish them for following it. It is insane. Host you wrote in a recent tweet that russia is making iran and china stronger every day. They move forward with their invasion into ukraine, isolationism will ve we need to protect American Interest by supporting allies around the globe. How should congress resolve the impasse over ukraine funding . Guest i truly believe that you can pass and that will help us stop russias advance in ukraine. I think we pass it individually, and i think we pass a support bill for israel and i think we pass a border bill wait, we did, nine months ago. The senate. They did things with bad will, so if you dont wrap them together, th never pass them because they are not doing their job for the american people. If we were to pass something wi h two with the southern border, they will not pass that because they have no interest. This is where bad bills move to get across the finish line, and if they do things with bad will, we will never get our way. That is t host you would be ina clean ukraine bill without border funding . Guest i think the way to get it timely manner, combined them together, i dont care, but they are trying to put ukraine, israel, and a bad border. Have 5 million cross this year, we will do something about it, but that is a giveaway, not compromise. Host i wanted to show what Tommy Tuberville said, the publican of alabama, he said this to the wall journal, i have uny to go to ukraine because i know they cannot win. Trump will stop it when he gets in. He knows there is no waiting for ukraine. A deal with putin. Do think there is no waiting for ukraine . Guest i dont want to call him ignorant, but when you talk to have experience, who has been to kyiv recently and who has seen the gaming on the ground, and i have been to kyiv,. And i have watched the effectiveness of weapons on taking out 2 of armor on the Third Largest army in the world, and actually getting ground back becausth thf we supply them the munitions they need, they will make the sacrifice to protect their own. It is very hard to go against an entrenched home army. When we were going to afghanistan and iraq, we needed to surge as the number one military force of the world and go against thirdrate armies, an ukraine is much more powerful than afghanistan, and much less powerful than we are. Europe has a gdp of 20 trillion. We have a gdp of 25 trillion. Russia has 1. 8 trillion gdp, do the math. There is no way russia can out win this if we support ukraine. We need a unanimous nato support. Host so not all of your colleagues, your republican colleagues, agree with that and would like to stop republican funding for ukraine. What do you say to them . Guest if you dontnderstand the strategic importance of ukraine think about this. It is a topfive nation and resources, 75 of european ther. If you look at that titanium industry and other rare resources, that would be consumed by russia, and when i say that, i mean sold to china, iran, north korea. We have iran producing and disseminating drones against the u. S. All the time, and we are doing nothing about it. We can undercut that iranian and Russian Energy production but underselling them and producing this lower need for energy, and they are going to produce weapons against us use them aga, that is an act of war and deserves some retribution. I think we should be using hackers to come after them. E1if you are in a fight and i he my hand tied behind my back, thats not the way to fight a battle. That is not what we learn ian se fighting or any military colleges, that is not the way you fight a war. Host is in oregon, democrat line. Good morning. Caller i have one question. How much has arc credi downgrad . Guest we have one rating that as we continue to increase our debt to gdp ratio, you will see more people downgrade us, and since 1971, we have been the Gold Standard of currencies because gold is not the standard anymore. ■qthe u. S. Economy uses are gren dollar to the Industry Standard and if that is no longer the case, we know that economic advantage worldwid devastating Going Forward. Host joe in florida, republican. Good morning. Caller how are you . Host we are great. Go ahead. Caller watching you guys live this morning, i am wondering, a representative, isnt it time that [indiscernible] te the party because not much of the party is getting be t host nikki haley will announce she will be suspending her candidacy, but reports are that she will not eoryour thoughts. Guest it is good to agree. People have spoken. She has accepted that. We do need to unite behind one person, a President Trump will be that person. Once it the elementary items of politics right now, smaller government, more in america loves that. Everybody in america agrees that that is a winning issue for us. Every time that happens, it costs us money and safety. Debt, we already talked about that extensively, and then education choices overwhelmingly possible popular. That is how we won our first race in florida, and then energy. Everybody would like clean energy. We do it better than anybody else aro the world. Those unite the Republican Party and trump could lead us with that banner into the future. Not on things that divide the republicans and unite the democrats. I would like to warn fellow republicans, dont focus on things that divide us but that unite as an that will let us win elections. Host you have endorsed the former president. Initially, you supported ron desantis. Gues ron desantis is a military veteran and has proven conservative. He grew his popularity by 19 points in four years while taking on all kinds of issues with covid, attracted there because of the weather and economy. It is what gives you the opportunity, the american opportunities. I think georgia and texas have also done a great job at that. I think georgiamost business fre last 10 years, so they are opening up their economy, and that is why desantis did a greb with that. He has done a great job as a conservative who literally spoke about items to tackle. I worried that even when we have the controlled house, senate and presidency, we had a trillion dollar debt back then. This is something we can no longer ignore, and i thought he would do a great job with that, but i am happy to throw my supportesident trump and look forward to the results we are looking for. Host raleigh, North Carolina, independent, t. You for having. I have a question and pendant for congressman mccormick. My comment isince gdp does not account for ecological social negatives, such air pollution like greenhouse gases, why is it that no matter republican or democrat, everybody would like unlimited Economic Growth on a finite planet that is driving the climate emergency, could you plea■ explain how we are going to live without a habitable planet . I think we are on track for hitting two degrees celsius by mi decade, so lets conserve life on the planet please, seriously. Guest my dad was a forest ranger. I would like to see the planet survive. Lets have a realistic situation conversation about this. Th book which talks about the Federal Reserve that was created. What we use as emergencies to get, and this Climate Change idea, and it has overspent dramatically and you can see and you talk about the realistic conversation about why the earth, i would state that methane makes up. 007 of the entire atmosphere. Is it going to eliminate all the cows and animals that produce methane,or is it carbon dioxideh constitutes. 04 of the entire environment . 11 of that, and 14 of that is from the u. S. And between 9 from all of our planes, trains, so if you would like to eliminate everything u. S. Produces and ruin our economy and the we can control everything that is going on, and have one of the Cleanest Energy producers in the world, but all of that to reduce the Carbon Emissions 5. 00167 of the atmosphere, do think that will actually affect the world . When you look into the entire solar system, is it thethe carb . Of course not. I think you are putting all of your eggs in the wrong basket. t disagree that there is Climate Change, but dont think it is because of Carbon Emissions. At least look athe Science Behind what we are trying to accomplish. If you are trying to address plans that can live in a drier climate because we are going to need more in 2050 then right now, so better to focus on things we can control and lets conversation. Host from atlanta, georgia, democrat. Caller yes, rich, [indiscernible] Border Crossing ok, and just remember like we■y said, donald trump spent the most money of alls and i am a veteran, and you and i bothht np had not been [indiscernible] ydhe would be in ukraine right w. Also, i dont appreciate you all donald trump came to Fulton County and said we cheated he called me a cheater. Nobody i know in Fulton County cheated. That alone goes through the process of how could you allow him to come to this estate owhost lets get a response. Guest covered a lot of ground. I mentioned obama and the bordea lot of things obama said about the border. It is amazing to■t guest majority of america we have 26 Million People and on millions in bangladesh you have been misplaced, and it is a massive problem, and it is only occurring more every year. We have been talking to people about Food Shortages all around the world and it is just on starvation. You feed them, there is more, annexed here, you have more of a problem, need to come up with moreprin order of what you sais tackle the debt. We have a spending problem. You have to grow the economy faster than spending, we have a spending addiction, and that is why i am against on the bus. If you related back to ukraine, we spent about 2 trillion in afghanistan, and nobody said anything. Two decades, 2642 lives lost, and then we give it back, so i am very cynical about were, tood in afghanistan, and i wear the bracelet. But ift the realities of the war in ukraine and looking at it economically into the future, you would like a bigger, stronger europe that helps us in the economy, but you would like bigger, stronger access of people who would go against us that wouldostons to come, not just tense and billions but trillions into the future. That is the question to ask yourself, strategically, does this make sense . Every secretary of state we have ever had agrees we should be helping them. I have been there, i have kyiv, and watching how it isnto tracked, we can make sure it is way more accountable than it ever was in afghanistan or iraq. Believe me, this is a different situation. I understand and it is ok to disclose me, we dont have to agree on everything. Our party is not a colt. We can dre have a good, scientific, close optical conversation and be ok with it, but our strategic importance to that eastern block country, if taken over by russia, would cause massive problems for generations to come. Host we have a t texas. I was against you introducing the process of censoring representativetalib, she was right from day one, and you were wrong. What is your opinion now . Guest if i was wrong and she was right, that means most of congress agreed with me, including 23 democrats. Host talk about the censorship and what it was about. Guest it was about her verbiage. We are allowed to say whatever we would like to, but there are consequences to actions, when we decided to censor her it was because she used rhetoric straight out of the background of hamas and hezbollah, where it basically talks about basically eliminating israel. That is not helpful when you talk about an ally or a people, it is basically talking about genocide. I do notody to die in war. It is a horrible thing. We need to have a realistic conversation about what we are trying to state, and i could spend hours on that. I love that stuff. But her rhetoric is not only not helpful but caustic to any Peace Process and encourages violence and encourages genocide. This is not about getting to peace, which is what we should all want. She was cend,spoke, and it incla bipartisan effort to rein in the rhetoric that she was doing that we thought was extremely hurtful. Host one■ more question from erwin, mr. Mccormick, how would a President Trump reinstate the remaining mexico policy when mexico has said that it will not allow it . Guest they also do not want to redo nafta, but they did because we have incredible leverage over mexico. If mexico could get the government straight, there would be a topfive nation in the world. Ces of a topfive nation and localities right next to the u. S. , and they have a bell shaped curve of the population, Massive Energy sources, they should they could be so successful, but we as americans are funding the bad guys in mexico corrupting their system by buying drugs. We teach our kids that by buying drugs, no kid things they will be harmed or get cancer, but if you teach them instead, you are supporting murderers, rapists, and child traffickers, they will say, well, i do not want to buy that, and then quite frankly, we it. Trunk has shown it before, and said, i do not want to do that reall watch what happens when you talk like that, and, the policy work. Host in illinois, independent, go ahead. Caller i would like to correct you on two eggs you have brought up. One is finance, the other is the border. I was born in california, in law enforcement, retired, and secure because you have already waited too long. I was born in■v the 50s, and, unfortunately, back then, the bracero labor was welcome and they word he fields, the conditions were horrible. I had seen it, i had worked alongside the i could tell you , what you suggested about work permits, i am against that completely. And people here working in the fields in the central alleys of california, they are not mexicans, they are Central Americans and south americans, and they would not be here if we stopped myself around with what a mullah, el salvador, chile, and you said you are a history wonk, look up your history, look at what the gringos have done, and as far you can do whatever you would like. I have never had a doubt of any kind. I retired 20 years ago. Half the population in america is broke and they dont have assets at all, and you know we are running out of time, go ahead. Guest i do not see anything that you disagree with me on. You said what i said. I used to pick bries, feels with Migrant Workers and middle schools before they had child labor applied for us. I have worked those jobs, and i encourage people to do that. I have read the book economic hit man and understand what we have done in central america. We have done some very good things to secure the border in the past, and we can do again, doesnt matter if it is republican or democrat. We need to stem the tide. I could not agree with you more on the debt. I dont see where we disagree on anytng. I would like to see debt reined in, and we dont disagree on much really and the fact that we have done things historically, and i cannot do anything about that. In the 1990s, i talked about the border problems, and when i was a controller, i had to stop firing ranges for people sinking this a long time. There is no hypocrisy or disagreement. I dont think people if they coe illegally. We agree. Host representative rich mccormick, thank you. After the break, more of your phone calls with open forum, your chance to weigh in on political or publion your mind. And another reminder to join cspan tomorrow night for live coverage of President Bidens state of the unione begins tomow and 8 00 p. M. 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There is something for every cspan fan and every purchase helps support our nonprofit operation. Shop now or anytime at washington journal continues. Host welcome back. Live shot of the capital behind me, a dreary day in washington but it is open forum, and we are taking your calls. Quick update from nbc news, the senate gop race takes shape and the race shrinks to two as the senator of wyoming announces he will instead run for the number two position of whip. Lewis in los angeles, democrat, you are first. Caller good morning. In regards to the emigration issues, i know thatesidents froo south america, central, it helps the economy here, but my question is, how come e u. S. Does not penalize president s of these countries . Also, the drug cartels, why dont they seize all that money and invested on helping peopleas and sending them back home for have billionaires participate in giving f and maybe make some future changes to help them succeed the greatest country in the world and do what they have to do to amend all of these because they are needed, but at the same time, their governments shouldies because they are coming this way, and there has got to be away that you have to compensate for any investment tth got it. Guest 80s and caller it is an important issue, but it is something welcome if we can sit together with latin american countries. Host danny is next, republican line, South Carolina. Caller good morning. [indiscernible] President Trump married a had no problem with that. Thank you. Host jerry in new jersey, independent. Caller good morning, everyone. I think trump trump is a celebrity, if you would like to pick a running mate, he should select one of his billio somebon oleary from shark tank or something or cal ripken junior from baseball. He is not a serious person and hates politicians. He could go to celebrity route why doesnt he just go the nonpolitician route and pick an host all right, jerry. Running just an update from reuters, u. S. Lawmakers push for biden to divest tiktok or face a ban, a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers introduced legislation yesterday to give them about six months to divest tiktok or face a u. S. Man ban, seeking to tackle issues on the chinese ownership. Nancy, democrat, you are next. Er thank you for taking my call. Going to try to some everything up as quickly as i can. Trump had no policies that helped the middleclass or poor people. If so, what were they . Trump handed ar was handed a growing economy, but his predecessor, president obama, he misted up pandemic that he handed down to prison biden to clean up. As for the border down to President Biden to clean up. As for the border, trump had four years to build a wall, and then he lied saying he strappedy to paper something he could not deliver. The border influx of migrants are the resultgpolicies at thes remain in mexico under title 42. That was put in place because of covid. Now we are seeing the results of that policy. Democrats do not hate trump. We just dont like what he promotes area he promotes hate, fear, violence, racism, and criminal behavior. With trump as president , how can anybody justify disciplining children on bad behavior. It was when trump became president. Lastly, for the love of god, stop watching fox. They were sued for lying, and it was not done by the Democratic Party. Host lets talk to in st. Petersburg, florida, republican. Caller good morning. I believe our country is in big trouble. I think a lot of us know that, and to me, it is more important now to have a moderate lead our country forward because we talked about courageous leadership. I am 65 and voted in every election since 1976. You cannot make decisions when we are do left and right, and the world is getting ahead of us, so in my whole lifetime, there has never been a more important time to have a thirdparty candidate than right now, and so host do you have a candidate in mind . Caller know mansion manc hin did not go, and i know put himself back there, and there are a lot of people that i dont even know about, but i think we are well past the tipping point,■t and it would go incredibly well, and if they dont feel a ticket this time, being in business, they are nothing more than a ruse, so if that gentleman is still listening or if any of the 800 delegates who are going to meet on friday, put somebody in the race that 75 of americans can vote for that do not want to vote for biden or trump. Thank you. Host as we have mti haley is ao announce that she is suspending her candidacy for the presidency. That will be in about 15 minutes. We are hearing it live on our website at cspan. Org. She ll be in charleston, South Carolina, making that nouncement. You can follow that. We will also have it in our video library. Independent line, good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing . Host im doing ok. Caller i had nopeople listen t . I am serious. How can anyone believe that a croak i am a new yorker highway crook how a crook all those years, taking things from anybody who could, and took the opportunity to be presidenof the United States because people thought he knew how to run a business, and our government is a business, so they chose trump, and trump does not know nothing about anything. He does not care about peo israe dont care about nothing but his own stocking, and tple who listen to him, i just do not know what to say about them. Host mary, democrat, kentucky. Go aad caller i am calling and i have been a democrat since 1968. You had to b 21 to vote back then, and i am fed up with the democrats, and i will be voting for donald trump. Every utility bill i have has gone up. I cannot even afford hardly to go to the grocery anymore. I am a widow living on Social Security, and all pension from my late husband, and i am having to take out of my savings every month just to pay my bills and buy my groceries. And i see where all these illegals get all this money from being here, paying their rent, groceries, everything, and i have had it, and i will never vote democrat again. Thank you for taking my call. mark is next in South Carolina, republican. Caller yes, good. One of the interesting things i just heard yesterday is under bidens policy of immigration kn the college and everything, her parents have not received one phone call from the president because he knows he has blood on his hands. Yet, when george floyd, which his parents deserved a pho call, they got when the next day. That shows the type of president he is. Maybe he does not know who she is,t is my point for today. Host lets talk to kenneth in michigan, independent. University alumni. I hope one of bidens campi wass to vote on committee. If i was, i would have voted because the failures of this administration [indiscernible] i just lived north of detroit. I went to school and worked with many arabmuslim people. They are good people, and i feel that our firm support with israel on the subject banner needs to be revisited by abiding administration. Otherwise, trump will be elected. And i feel sorry to say that. I am a democrat basically most of my life. I grew up on welfare in detroit, with 25,000 palestinians billing being killed like that, i just can support that. He should know better. Host myrtle beach, South Carolina, independent, ronald. Good morning. Caller good morning i called on the democrat line. The problem that i see is that people do not understand what is going on. They always complain about the cost of food going up, gas, everythii am at 68 years now. I have up. It is high. From different president s. That is always going a transfer over and over again. It is not going end. People need to learn that inflation and the cost of living is recycling system that goes from up to down. They need to stop using that as a gimmick to campaign on because that is always going to happen. Host what is your top Campaign Issue this year . Caller right is going to be the border, that is one of them, and i have issues with that. I think the republicans had an offer up on the table and it was legitimate. There was nothing■ had a good offer, and they did not do anything about it, did not even want to vote on it, and they had bipartisanship in the, and mr. Trump wanted to fight it out for his campaign, so we will have it some■s more, and i feel so mr. Lankford. Host lets go to the republican line in cincinnati, ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am very disappointed that nikki haley dropped out because i was going to vote for her in the primary when we have ours on the 19th. Even though i am a republican, i am losing respect for both parties because they are both offering as people that the majority of voters have clearly indicated they do not want. That bothers me. So, that is my top issue. Host who are you going to vote for in november . Have you thought about it . Caller i have thought about it, and i am in a dilemma because since i became of age to vote, i have never sat out and elect ins around the world, people do not have the right to vote, and i consider it my sponsor ability, and many women have died fighting for my right to vote, but i cannot vote for either candidate. It is a dilemma, and i feel like ■ei am being boxed into a corne, but i do not want to be boxed into it and i resent both parties for doing that. I really do. Host art is in illinois, independent line. Caller how are you . Host i am good. ■v■ caller thank you. I am calling now to indicate that we have two candidates that are as corrupt as they possibly can be. Our issue now is to pick the lesser of two evils. Everybody should take their time and look at the difference. Corruption is corruption. We have to look at them and see what they have said, their words, and see where they stand right now. It will make no difference. They are both corrupt. Thank you. Host conrad n new jersey, democrat, good morning. Caller good morning. When i drive around my town, i see a lot of streets blocked off because of build back better. What joe biden has done the last three years, he has created jobs, 25 million in the last 14 months or so, and there was a deal on the border, and the reason why it fell through is because donald trump has no policies. You ask a republican, what is the platform of your pit cannote Republican Party is a cult, personality cult. They say democrats because divion see him on television, he says terrible things about veterans, my father was a veteran, who passed away two months ago, and he was anything but a loser. The fact of the matter is we have a petulant, selfabsorbed narcissist who has authorigod hr gets back into the white house because thou be the fate the lowercase republic as we know it because he has only benefited himself. Thank you. It was a pleasure to speak to you. This is my first time calling you and i enjoyed speaking to you. Host all right, conrad. Post, senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek reelection in arizona, saying i believe my approach, but it is not what america wants right now. She will not be running for reelection in the senate seat in arizona, and mick is in oregon, republican. Caller good morning, how are you . Host caller pretty good. It amazes me i feel like peoplefm forgeho good a job donald trump did when he was president the first time. There were a lot of did, not only for our military, but a lot of people in america. Things at the dinner table are 10 times cheaper. I do not have to struggle as much as i do now. I just feel like people need to see what trumps true values are, and i think he has got a good head on his shoulders and n you say history values, tell us about that. Caller his true values to meet our i am a military man, so he has always taken care of the military. ■he has always made sure we are not spending crazy prices, whether it be food, gas, there are a lot of good things he has done, and i will be honest, i was a democrat. ■ymy family owns a bigmy familyn iowa. I and one of the big farm owners , and at the end of the day, i dont like to judge anybody, but i vote for someone who will do good for america. I have already seen what trump has done, and we have seen what biden has done, andd not be in the presidency. We need somebody good, and right now, the only optionuld be prest again. Host mike in ohio, independent. Caller how are you doing . I agree with the last caller. I have got money in my pocket, when i had trump, i dont have any, and when i got biden, i am tired of higgas mandates withoue approval, open borders is one, climateates are another, i mean, where did they come from . I do not vote for electric cars. Let me decide what i am going to do. I do not vote for people coming into my country who are illegal. I do not what is he doing . Now i am hearing people are getting job layoffs because of the new people coming in. Id ■. ■ mean, this is america, s take care of america. Lets do us first. Am it legally. Host mike is going to be our last call today. The house will be gaveling in shortly. Reminder that we will have our state of the Union Coverage starting tomorrow night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern cspan. Thank you for watching. We will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern with another program. We will take you over w live to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order