Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 20160621

Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Emocrats, 202 7488000 independents, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. Very good Tuesday Morning to you. We begin where the senate left off last night, those for gun measures failing in a series of senate votes. We are getting here thoughts. Here is the headline from the Washington Times this morning efforts to do something about guns devolves into partisanship. The story notes that senators could not find the sweet spot, instead retreating to partisan corners and stale mating on competing plans to try to keep firearms out of the hands of terrorists. Said thekers democratic plan ran roughshod of the Second Amendment. Last night after those votes failed in the senate, senator bill nelson talked about those votes and lamented the senates inability to act on gun control. What am i going to tell 49 grieving families . What am i going to tell the families of those that are still in the hospital fighting for their lives . Tell the going to trauma surgeon whose blood inined shoes have been shown a picture on so many news program . , inwho said he did not know the midst of the screens and the cries, if they were black or white or gay or straight. 40 all brought in over at one time into that trauma operating room. What am i going to tell the community of orlando that is trying to come together in the healing . Sadly, what im going to have to tell them is the nra won again. Host the National Rifle association releasing their own Statement Last night. The display was about politics, plain and simple. Today from chris cox, the American People witnessed an embarrassing display in the United States senate. President obama and his allies proved they are more interested in playing politics than addressing their failure to keep firearms out of the hands of terrorists. We are getting your thoughts this morning after that series of votes in the senate and we will go over what is being called a compromise bill that is set to be released this afternoon. Senator Susan Collins waiting that effort, the republican for me. Surely from new castle, pennsylvania, a republican. Your thoughts. Caller i think going back and forth through this situation, until we first of all stop these people from coming into our country because lets just face it, these people that are coming in, they are not coming in to help us, they are coming in to hurt us. Until we put a stop to this find out exactly what is going on, we are not going to change anything. Host surely, who are these people . Explain what you mean. Caller we all know the borders are open to just about anybody. And i do not want to say all the islamic people because that is not fair. We have a lot of good people here that are american citizens that live by the law, they work, pay taxes, and are good people. But it is the ones coming in, they do not know these people. They are coming here to just cause trou the government needs to get their act together and put a stop to this nonsense or this country is not going to change. It is not about the guns. The guns have nothing to do with it. That is just rhetoric coming out of washington ec washington, d. C. When he to put a stop to who is coming into this country and the people that are here that are listening to all of this isis nonsense, and going out and doing these acts. Host surely in pennsylvania. Jim at lake gaston as a response to bill nelson when he was asking what to tell folks in orlando. You can tell them that background check legislation would not have made a whit of difference. Cj is in minnesota for democrats. Caller thank you for letting me get in on this one. Number one, when we look at the arms, what about the ammunition . If they cannot still stop them from dealing with the arms, what about the ammunition . If they put a freeze on that, are you still listening to me . Host are you talking about the 30 round magazines, restrictions on magazine limits . Caller not only that, but a restriction on the bullet. If you catch that someone who is ordering a whole bunch of ammo you may not be able to stop the arms but you can stop the ammo. Is in kingston, illinois, an independent. Caller i live near chicago and massacres go on every weekend. I think it is kind of phony of the democrats cannot talk about it. It is crazy. There are so many gun laws around the chicago area and Everybody Knows that it would not make any difference to change any law. Anybody can get any weapon they want from any gang member in your town. That is what they do, they sell arms. Until you close the border, which is almost impossible, people will always find a way to come in for mexico. The mexican people are fine. I even know some gang members and they are mostly nice, they just want to make money. But it does not make sense when the gangs go to war in chicago and shoot each other. They do not hurt anybody else, but it is getting so bad where the crossfire is hurting innocent people every day, i do not understand. The democrats cannot say anything to the republicans if they are letting that go on. Host what would make a difference in your area . Caller it is every day. I know a lot of people in chicago is just scared all the time. And justs humongous the crime is unbelievable. I know a few teachers that wanted to leave their jobs. Everybody is fleeing chicago because the gangs are so bad. Mexico is doing better because all the gang members are in chicago. Host sharon in illinois. Four different bills voted on in this and it last night, separate proposals from democratics democrats and republicans on the issue of keeping guns out of the hands of terrorism suspect. Different plans proposed, one authored by senator Dianne Feinstein that would empower the Justice Department to block the sale of guns two people suspected of having terrorism ties, that was voted down. There was a republican proposal along the same line that would halt the sales but only if a that found probable cause the person trying to buy the gun is involved in terrorist activities. On howa time restriction long somebody could be kept from buying a weapon as that investigation proceeded. Was on then cornyn floor last night and talked about his proposal. Heres what he has to say. We all agree terrorists should not be able to purchase a weapon. That is not up for debate and anybody that suggests it is a simply misleading. The question is whether we are going to do so in a way that is cant to show. Are we constitutional. Are we going to do it in a way that would improve terrorism investigations or not . My amendment would stop terrorists from buying guns well assuring lawabiding citizens placed on a watchlist do not have their rights taken away based upon some list created by the Obama Administration or this government. It will set up a process to monitor, investigate, and detain terrorist where warranted by evidence. Is far way, my proposal and away better than the senior senators. Hers are unconstitutional. Kennedy Teddy Kennedy had his name come up on a watchlist by mistake and after realizing the problem, he had a lot of trouble getting it resolved. If Teddy Kennedy had trouble getting it resolved, what kind of chance does an average american have . Host get his proposal failed as well, 5347. Nightes were needed last for those proposals, 60 votes for either one. The breakdown was mostly along partisan lines on the cornyn bell. Senators conley and mansion voted yes. , twoe feinstein amendment republicans voting yes, a yacht tte kirk of illinois ayo and kirk of illinois. We are getting your thoughts and we will talk about the other two proposals. Brent is in charleston, west virginia, republican. Caller thank you for taking my call. And look at what democrats are telling American People in summary. They are saying we have these mass shootings. Most of those have been terrorist attacks, attacks carried out by people who are loyal to a radical strain of islam. The democrats are saying if you just let us infringe on Second Amendment right, it will solve these problems. It will prevent these attacks from occurring. In nomind the fact that case, in no mass shooting in the last five years has any measure proposed by any democrat been casen to have in every it is proven that these laws would not have prevented these attacks. So why do democrats keep proposing them . I do not believe it is because theyre stupid. I think it is because with democrats it is always agenda before country, agenda before fellow citizens. Host do you feel that way about your senator who we noted was one that crossed party lines and voted for the cornyn amendment . He is one of the more reasonable democrats but this is also the same senator who very recent he said that due process is just killing us, that we should be able to do away with due process. We have a system of government where the federal government can put american citizens on a list with poultry justification test. Justification at best. Now they want to take Constitutional Rights away from the citizens and it is more whichant than our liberty is being threatened internally by the machinations of government. That is to simply stand before cameras and say, enough, and propose laws that will prove ineffective as far as the crime goes. But which also blatantly infringe on the right to keep and their arms. Host brent in west virginia. Hillary clinton watching this debate closely in the senate last night, former senator, she had called for more gun control measures. She sent out a oneword Statement Last night after none of these votes moved forward. Enough. And she listed the names and ages of those 49 individuals who were killed in the orlando shooting last week. Moses is in new york, new jersey, democrat. Moses, are you with us . Lets go to our line for independents, james in tennessee. Caller thank you for accepting my call. , the guns, we have terrorists that are born right here. , we have had gangs in america since i can remember. , there was aboy popular show that was all about people killing. [indiscernible] chicago, you had gangs. Host what would make you feel safer in tennessee in the wake of what we saw in orlando . Is there anything that you think the federal government should do . Caller so many politicians will always vote no, especially the republican. They do not care. The guy did a murder in south carolina. He was a terrorist and you do not talk about him. They do not mention him. Host talking about the charleston shooting, the anniversary of that happening last week. We are talking this morning about the gun control measures that have been proposed in the senate that were voted down last night. Another one expected to at least be proposed. We are not sure if it will get a vote but senator Susan Collins of maine tweeting out last p. M. Senator collins and others to in vail bipartisan compromise to help keep guns from terrorist and make america safer. Some information for you about that proposal that is coming out from the wall street journal, noting the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers is being led by senator Susan Collins. The proposal would ban the sale of guns to terrorism suspects who appear on the nofly list, which prevents certain travelers from boarding commercial flights, or a separate selectee list that requires additional screening. Appeal the decision and be awarded Attorney Fees if successful. That is the wall street journal previewing what is expected to be in that proposal that is expected to be released today at about 1 45. Senators schumer and read, two of the Democratic Leaders were asked about the commons proposal and what they think will come of it in a press conference yesterday following the senate vote. She has always loaded with us. That susanng new collins is trying to make a compromise and it is a good thing. But the key question is not whether Susan Collins will set for a compromise, but whether republicans will finally join her so we can get something done. Question, noty whether Susan Collins is willing to compromise. She always has been. Will for the first time with the world changing, and terrorism and lone wolves, will 20 republicans finally step up to the plate finally step up to the plate and pass the most modest of measures . Three times today we mentioned that everybody likes susan and we know that if if something is going to pass we need to get some republican votes. She is alone all the time. Host the wall street journal noting some of the support Susan Collins is expected to receive for her compromise. Ayotte,itkamp, kelly jeff blake, lindsey graham, we will look for that today at about 1 45 and have more reporting tomorrow on washington journal. We want to get your thoughts on what happened last night in the senate and where they go from here. Fill in fairfield, connecticut, for the republicans. Caller i have a bit i have a grievance with Hillary Clintons remark. When she going to open her mouth and Say Something about the 50 million she received from muslims . Northjoe is in charleston, south carolina, a republican. Caller a very angry gentleman called a few callers ago. The fbi failed the community down here. I hope he does not think anybody down here defends dylann roof. A brief word about the Second Amendment. Constitutionrt the , but it is a flexible document and sometimes it needs to be amended. Otherwise we would still have prohibition, women would not be voting, and we would still have slavery. Having said that, some people interpret the malicious statement in several different ways. The fbi in dhs are either overwhelmed or incompetent and so it is up to us as citizens to defend ourselves to a great degree. They have proven they cannot quite keep up with the job. Laws, we know gun that it did not work in paris, in belgian, or in chicago. Criminals have always found a way to get guns, but i want to say the word a word about the watchlist. I want tobject, but talk about the criteria that gets you on there. Could it be some silly statements you make on facebook . If the watchlist is formulated in the right way, if you try to get a gun, lets use common sense. And you cannot get one and it turns out you were on a watchlist, use the resources, use the rules in your favor. March into your congressman or senates office. Scottd go straight to tim , mark sanford, and go to the local Fbi Field Office and say what the heck is going on . I want to get some result. Host in the Susan Collins bill in her socalled compromise bill, you can challenge being on that list and if you win you can collect attorneys fees. You mentioned the Second Amendment and the interpretation. The in alabama writes Second Amendment is grossly misinterpreted. Our creation of a Standing Army by the Central Government nullifies it. Angela is in, window, maryland, window,crat , maryland. A democrat. Caller many people agree with all four of those proposed laws and once again the republicans in congress are being completely unresponsive to the American People. None of these bills takes away my Second Amendment right and a than the law that says i cannot yell fire in a crowded theater takes away my First Amendment right. Whether you agree or do not agree, i think the majority of the people in this country want this and should have it. It is reasonable. Host some of those polls that were talking about refer to support for background checks and how those are implemented. The other two proposals that were voted down last night had to do with background checks. Here is how they were explained in the politico story. Republicans and democrats put forth doing gun proposals. Universalstablish a background check system including at gun shows and for internet sales. But their current measure is broader than the version from three years ago. Chuck grassley does not extend the universe of mandated background checks. His measure would also revise legal definitions on who is banned from owning a gun due to Mental Health concern. 60 voteachieving the threshold needed to move forward. We are spending our first hour talking about it this morning. Marianne is in pennsylvania, an independent. Caller i would like to make three points. The lady from maryland took my second point and ran with it. The first one that called up said we should not be letting them in here. The boy was born hair. We have been born here. We have been purveyors of mass destruction since the colonial times and still are. Mary, barry, a democrat in maryland. Caller i agree with one or the other gentleman who sent it has to be revised. People keep saying, we are violating the Second Amendment right. If you commit a crime you lose your right. You as a citizen who threatens our country, who says you are going to kill lives, you lose your Second Amendment right. Do not pass this for the government do not pass this bill, it is really shameful. And i am a gun owner. I feel like anybody should be able to carry any gun that they want but at the same time, if you violated our countrys loss you should not get your gun. Host we are going through some tweets from different members of congress who put out statements yesterday. Bernie sanders it is not hard to understand, potential criminals, and dangerously mentally ill should not have access to guns. We will show you a few more over the course of our segment as well as your tweets. The texan writes, now that the democratic side show is finished lets turn to rooting out fanatic muslim terrorists and banning new muslim imports. Caller good morning. Host go ahead, and. Caller i was a correctional officer for 13 years and i have heard all the stories about the guns, and how easily they are gotten. I have also worked with Mental Health people and we are missing the whole picture. It is not the guns, it is the Mental Health of those around us. Crazyo be we put that uncle in the attic and nobody knew it. Now we do not put him anywhere. Our Mental Health system has fallen through the cracks. In danger have been of being abused and the abusive husband coming after them, it is not guns. It is our incapacity to find treat and give time for the mentally ill, either through motivation or wherever we need to try to find a help for the so many suffering people. We have missed the whole point. He cannot vote for this and a government. You have got to look around in your own home, check out your own children, look through all the chores and closets, drawers and closets, make sure nobody is hiding any think and if they are, get them help. Host senator tom cotton, republican of arkansas sent his Statement Last night. The threat against america is not guns, it is terrorists who use guns. Response exact wrong to terrorists and violent criminals. Instead, they should develop a new National Strategy to defeat isis and protect americans from the ideology of radical islamic extremism. Keith in worn, massachusetts, democrat. Warren, massachusetts, democrat. Caller my question is, i watched cspan the other night and i saw three hours of n backandforth concerning what we are talking here. The three hours they went back and forth to have a list of organizations that were being attacked. Conservative organization. And then they wonder why conservatives worry about them being able to control this, firearms, and i do not understand. Watching, were you the hearing on the irs . Caller no, on the guns. You cannot even stand three hours on a session spend three hours on a session and democrats at least admit that yes, the irs does target people than this list they want to put ,ogether can do the same thing attacked this list and make it against anybody they do not like. It is the same thing that the irs does there is no accountability. Host lets head to east orlando, maine, dave, an independent. Caller that is actually east portland, maine. Host i have portland on my mind. I have orlando on my mind. Guest commonlaw caller common law gives us the right to use in full force to protect ourselves. Dont these gun bans in some way infringe upon that . That is something that is not being discussed. Host what do you think about state gun bans, about a song weapon bans assault weapon bands that are currently in seven states and the district of columbia . Caller the Supreme Court apparently decided yesterday not to hear any arguments trying to challenge those bands. States can attempt through their legislature restrict access to these kinds of weapons but once again, we have a right under commonlaw to use equal force. If the battlefield has come to america, and these are the kinds of weapons that we are being faced with, give me really want to deny ourselves the right to have them in order to defend ourselves in a situation where we are confronted with these kinds of weapons . Host as you alluded to, the Supreme Court denying without anment a challenge to assault weapons ban. The challenge was to a chicago suburbs ban on semi automatic the news coming from across the street over at the Supreme Court. Along with new york, assault weapons bans are in place in five other states. Today noticinga that since its landmark 2008 decision to have guns at home for selfdefense, the Supreme Court has decided not to strike legislation. Marquee decisions to come before the term is up, keycially a few more decisions to come before the term is up, especially on to abortion on abortion. David is in nebraska, republican. Thank you for taking my call. I guess my problem is in the first place, we cannot trust the government for one thing because and sellinge irs guns to cartels and stuff, and they want to take our guns. Democrats,hat goes, you do not see these people trying to save these 3400 babies they murder and dissect so i guess maybe they better decide what they want. Host gina in new haven, connecticut, a democrat. Caller thank you for taking my call. My call is about the assault weapon ban. I thought that they were not trying to ban guns. I thought they were trying to ban not all guns but bambi assault weapon guns. Assault guns. Republicans that voted no on this amendment, they did not have anyone dying in orlando, san bernardino, charleston, south carolina. Host i just want to jump into the clear. There was not an assault weapons and that was on the table yesterday in the senate. The bills having to do with background checks, having to do it keeping those on terror watch lists to be able to not be able to purchase a weapon. Ler my thoughts are this when you keep voting things down , wait until they kill someone that is your relative. I think your mind will change. That is my,. Host do you have experience with this personally . Caller i have a nephew die innocently and it was not his fault. It was the person with the weapon. The lady that was a correction officer from texas, i do not understand her. She is talking about cabinets and upstairs and drawers. That is not where the terrorists are. We are trying to keep terrorists from getting the guns, that is what it is all about. I do not think it is just me. I am 72 years old and i was raised in a household with a gun. My father used a gun for killing things, not just an automatic rifle. You need an automatic rifle to kill something you need to learn how to shoot. Host automatic rifles have had heavy restrictions for a long time. , thessault weapon issue call for a new assault weapons and could apply to different types of semi automatic weapons and the different ways that those semi automatic weapons are heres is theed story in the Washington Times discussion the thorny issue of defining what an assault weapon is. If you want to read that story goes into the different types of socalled assault weapons and what makes something an assault weapon. They talked about the sixmonth embassy act that Authorities Say was used in the orlando shooting and perhaps the more wellknown ar15 rifle that has become the focal point in gun control efforts. , if youington times want to read that story. Robbie is in red oak, iowa, an independent. Caller has several points to make an i hope you will let me make them. Earth is living under satans government, hate, lies, and war. Gods government is love, peace, and honesty. Until the people realize which government they are serving, we are going to continue to have this. We have come to the point right now in the bible where it says peace will be taken from the earth, and it has been. This is a supposedly christian nation but it is full of makebelieve christians. They cannot seem to see what we are doing to these other nations when we invade them try to force our way of life on the. Heaven helps those who help themselves. Host on that topic of paul,terventionism, ron former president ial candidate, former congressman from texas will be joining us at about 8 30. U. S. Intervention policies is a topic we will discuss. We are taking questions on facebook if you have specifically, for ron paul when he comes on our program. He will be on for about 45 minutes from 8 30 29 15. Robert writes in, the terrorists are suicidal and hour laws will not stop them. Craig,er tweet from gordons shield act only gives a shield to the nra. It is time to move on to a National Standard on gun control , americans have. Taking your thoughts on the series of votes last night in the senate. Gregory is in ballwin, missouri, a republican. Caller hello there. I do not question the Supreme Court aching its rulings and not making a decision, leaving it to a lower court. Writes the state state laws. I think most of them are democrats and impose too much taxes. And also make restrictions if you do not like the state, go ahead and leave. That is fine. I wish the Supreme Court would not have made a decision on the marriage act. Ex marine, i know what a semi automatic and automatic weapon is. An automatic weapon just keeps firing until it jams. Automatic, you pull the trigger and the bullet comes out. Every time there is a problem, democrats are on it they will make it a big issue. Those of the comments i got. Host a few more headlines from papers around the country, the advocate this morning with its the advocate from connecticut with its dueling headlines about the Supreme Court decision on the assault weapons ban, calling it one victory for Gun Legislation and noting the senate votes down for amendments on gun control. Those stories stacked next to each other on the front page of the advocate. The Tampa Bay Times from florida projects curves on guns as the lead story Senate Rejects curbs on guns is the lead story. None can muster the necessary 60 votes. Hook judge, is it unreasonable to sell ar15 . That story talking about an before aase that is judge in connecticut in a packed courtroom yesterday. It included relatives of those killed by the gun man in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the makers of the guns used in that attack a lastditch effort to have that case thrown out before the trial. The New York Times reporting on that case. At issue is a 2005 federal law which shield Gun Companies from lawsuits when guns are used in a crime. This case brought by 10 families in the 2012 shooting as arnie made it further than many experts had predicted and represents one of the most serious legal threat to the industry in years. A case that we are following as we follow this issue. Mike is in akron, ohio, an independent. Basketshere we shoot rather than guns and nobody ever gets hurt. I just live a few miles from lebron james. We are still skyhigh with what happened sunday night. I would like to make a request for you guys to do a special on and the complete 180 degree turn it has done since it genesys in 1871. It was founded by edward forte side and his interpretation was as follows of the Second Amendment to assist in a matters suchtary like thel arsenals rebellion in 1786. Also you can include that one president , i think it was nra president frederick helped fdr passed two gun laws in 1934 in 1938 and he is quoted as saying, i have never believed in the general practice of carrying guns. 1971 a newck in leaderre new in union named william loeb was the first one to refer to federal agents as treasury gestapo after they arrested a conservative member i am sorry, a conservative gun order. Host i always appreciate the suggestion for segments on the washington journal. We certainly will look at those and you can send us an email on that. You can send us a tweet and follow along with the conversation. Said, i always appreciate the suggestions. We go to duly in albania, new york. Albany,hey, new york new york. Caller i am a disabled veteran and im familiar with some of the older weapons. I probably cannot fire and ar15. Is passed us and we are way behind on understanding. When the constitution was written, im not sure what year it was. It is not important for me to know that. I drop out of school and got a all the did not learn technicalities of history as i should have. But the Second Amendment was written over 100 something years ago. Host longer than that. Go ahead. Theer nevertheless, gentleman before me was talking about it. Defending the country and right tofor a persons bear arms. And if you cut me off host dewey, just talk for your phone. Caller i thought you had cut me off. The day when the Second Amendment was written, it was probably a three minute job to reload. Now you can reload in three seconds. You are concerned about the Technology Advancing beyond what the framers originally thought when they were writing the constitution in the 1700s. David is in st. Joseph, missouri, a republican. Caller good morning. Im going to try and control my temper. I have heard so much Barbra Streisand i am about ready to blow my top. This whole weapons ban thing has been a lie from the getgo. That crime has gone down it has gone up but you have politicians going on shows, lying through their teeth saying not only the weapons bans are working and all bands are strictly controlled and they have low crime. Completely the opposite has been proven over and over again. This is just a scam like it has been before, they tried this before and ended up going after weapons that anything was an assault weapon. It could be a semi automatic shotgun that held only eight rounds, no matter what it was. It is just an excuse to get started on taking away our right to defend ourselves. I have been standing up to this crap since i was 16 and im going to be 59. Host obviously you are concerned about an assault weapons ban. What about the legislation last night to expand background checks . Caller there is already background checks, they lied about that. You have agencies that have information that will not pass the information on. It is like they do it deliberately so they can have an excuse to take them away, do you understand what im saying . They. S a bunch of bull use the innocent victims to strip us of our rights. Host the Editorial Board of usa today tax and on and the vote on background checks last night in the senate. They said in an extraordinary act of cowardice, 56 senators, 53 republicans throw away another activity opportunity to keep guns out of fugitives, mentally ill, or people prone to domestic violence. Security guard was able to purchase his guns legally but no one should buy into the absurd notion that it could have prevented the most recent atrocity or all mass murders. Communications director for the Firearms Coalition and takes on the other side of this debate in the column that appears next to the lead editorial. He says the first problem with background checks is someone can easily evade the check. The other issue with background checks is that they use Law Enforcement resources to issue a paper without having a real effect. If you want to read those sidebyside opinions on the editorial page of usa today. We have about 10 minutes left in the segment, talking about this vote last night in the senate for gun measures that failed to move forward. In rocky mount, north carolina, a democrat. Caller good morning. About the guns in the United States, about the United States people putting labels on people that kill, the first thing they holler is mental illness. That is just a poor excuse to me because when someone can walk in just asand buy a gun easy as going to buy a pack of , iwing gum, come out and say hate this group of people like they did in florida, that is not mental illness. Call it what it is, that is a murderer. Then they start hollering about this religion, that religion. Buti am not a muslim because this man was of the muslim faith, he is a radical islamic. What about the people that kill americans that are american and that our christian . They are mentally ill. Stop it. I am getting ready to put my only nephew in the ground. He is not a thug or a dope dealer. I cannot talk about the case because he is a high ranking officer in the marines. A not that hates the military militaryt hates the put him in the ground here i wish that those men that were on your store on your show earlier, it is to protect your house. Wait until it is your son, your nephew. Wait until it is your daughter and then call me and ask me how do you get through it . Right now we are about to lose gun. Ind because of a damn host ashley in houston, texas, a democrat. Caller good morning. Think this is nonsense about these guns, and i am amazed. Yearsed in houston for 25 and i cannot remember, there is no gun shop i have not seen. To top that, all the children that end up shooting themselves and blowing off half of their head with their daddys gone, something needs to be done. I do not care what they do as long as they get some of these guns off the street. It is not necessary. You are never going to be able to weed out somebody elses mental condition. You do not know if they are mentally ill or not but the idea that you can purchase an assault weapon and killed many innocent people is nonsense. I think some of these gun happy people need to go into some of these Level One Trauma Centers and see the death and destruction that is being caused by these guns. I am very angry about it and im tired of hearing about it. Forve wondered in blood years and i think they need to do something about these guns. Host when you say you wandered in blood for years, can you talk about your experiences . We lost ashley. We said we were going to show you some tweets from other senators. Senator dan coats of indiana had a series of tweets following the orlando tragedy. He wrote, there is bipartisan support in congress that known terrorists cannot purchase guns. He had spoken to republicans and democrats on how they can best accomplish the goal while preserving Second Amendment rights. The corn and amendment is the best way. He says the feinstein amendment gives the government too much power. That is the tweet from dan coats. Cantwell, keeping guns out of the hands of those who should not have them is not controversial, it is common sense. A few more calls. Clifton, colorado, the line for democrats. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have so many comments. I do not think these people who have called in have noticed the patriot act has already started taking our rights away. They should go read that. And it haspy of it got some very interesting things and it. In it. My son was shot about four years ago through his liver by a nine millimeter. I did not know if he was going to make it. I wound up losing my second son in a different issue that still in violence. Maybe we can learn something from these terrorists. They cut peoples hands off, like in the bible. Maybe we should let everybody have the guns, just cut their hands off because that is really what it amounts to. There is nothing like looking at your son in a hospital bed, not knowing if he is going to live or not. When he gets out he hands you the bullet and says, i want you to have the bullet that shot me. I have the unfortunate circumstance of seeing somebody , and we arecourt inundated with shootings in colorado. Here and iotings live in a mountain town. It is serene and supposed to be beautiful. Somebody get shot appear every week. It might be a Police Officer or a private citizen. Nevertheless, the bullet goes through the flesh and kills them, as women and children. Rifles, atve their them go hunting, target practice, compete with each other. Host you think the problem is handguns . Caller that is a part of the problem. You have to start somewhere. Our children are like that in columbine. And they killed learned it from us. They learned it from our contentious attitude toward each other and the government and anybody in the administrative process. They just got so angry they went out and did what they did. There was a shooting here last week and two before that. A Police Officer, deputy career four weeks ago deputy career ago. Eer four weeks host we are talking about the senate vote last night for gun measures failing to receive enough votes. Marco from california, the line for independence. Caller i would like to say thank you. Feinsteins dianne measure but when i started , how herabout it proposal would take away our civil rights. When i am also wondering is when ,r. Cornyn puts up his proposal areis it that the democrats begging for something to happen, what was wrong with his measure . If they just want something to happen, why arent they voting for his measure . Host they talked about this after the vote saying his measure would not go far enough. Caller yes, it would not go far enough but at least it is something. They are asking for something to be done. Why arent the democrats wanting to do something . Take the cornyn measure and see if they can do thereing later on but if are republicans supporting that they should have joined as well so they can move forward . Caller exactly. We are supposed to be coming together as a nation and we are not supposed to be divided. That is marco in california and mark is in columbus, ohio, an independent. Caller i appreciate you taking my call. I want to point out that i am not in favor of most guncontrol however i do believe that terrorists should not be able to get our weapons. That brings me to, what is a terrorist . What qualifies you to be on these lists . My opinion, and i have no factual evidence, is that most of the senators, congressmen, house of representatives, they have people, friends, relatives on these lists. In other words, if you vote they cannot do this then these people cannot buy their guns. Their friends and relatives. Host you think that is the reason people voted against this . Caller what other reason could be . Be could there host did you watch the debate . Caller i did not watch the debate that i watched all four counts. Some of the names i heard voting against this justifies my statement. Host some of the senators who talked about these different proposals talked about how one qualifies for those different lists. You can watch it on our website, cspan. Org, or you can go back and watch those vote counts. That is going to do it for this first segment of washington journal. Mark price joins us and how it has grown in recent the former later, congressman and former president ial candidate ron paul will join us to discuss guns, surveillance laws, and other issues in the way of the orlando shooting parent that is coming in the wake of the orlando shooting. That is coming up. Is not onlyze this something i would love to do, but this is different from the kind of books to reevaluate who this person was, what his virtues really were that made him one of the most adored and actuated figures in American History. The things that made him in many ways pleasant and even hated by millions of people. Sunday night, Hudson Institute senior fellow arthur takes a look at the life and career of Douglas Macarthur. That is one of the things about mccarthy you have to say. He saw the future more clearly than the president within the present. The rise of china, split between china and the union, soviet union, and also domestic politics. Washington journal continues. Host economist mark price joins us today. About how thetudy top 1 of income earners competitor the other 99 , he breaks it down along states, metropolitan, and even county lines. Lets start on the national. Evel how does the top 1 compared to the other 99 wacoms income inequality . Roughly 1. 6 million families, in the top 1 , they 21 times what the bottom earns. Is the National Level of inequality. Most of your viewers will not be surprised to hear when you look across the state, new york and connecticut standout with high levels of inequality where the top 1 of families earn more than 40 times more than the bottom 99 . New york and connecticut are home to a disproportionate share and more importantly, it is a home to the financial sector, the tanks as well as the hedge funds which tend to be out in connecticut. The state of wyoming also join connecticut up there in new york with the top 1 earning 40 times more than the bottom 99 . Is driven by energy extraction. A big oil and gas state. When you look at local data, what emerges is the top 1 , the most on it will area in the country is the Jackson Metro in the jackson hole. When you look across the data, in see a similar pattern destination places. Key west florida, they all have very high levels of inequality. We think that is driven by the fact that for those wealthy individuals who do not need to be close to Financial Markets, if you had 1 billion, you would probably think seriously about moving there and similarly for key west. They tend to have a lot of high income folks. The unique thing about this study looking at data on the local level as well as invite ouronally, we viewers to call in so we can talk about income inequality. If you make under 25,000, 26,000 to 50,000 more than 100,000 we would love to hear about your view from your part of america as you are listening to this topic. Studied the income gap over time. Explain what has happened over the past several decades. Guest absolutely. That is more than anything. We all realize there is inequality and there always will be. What is more disturbing in the findings that we have uncovered is since about 1980, the top 1 have captured at a minimum, 50 of Income Growth. During the current economic recovery, it is up and that is quite unsettling, especially when you look back at the previous time, which we do with this data. The picture is very different. Familiesm 99 of thess the state captured vast majority of Income Growth. That has reversed since 1980 and it continuesto over time with the expansion. Profits rise, rent that landlords collect, those all go up. Increasingly, a disproportionate share of that rising income has an accruing. This tiny fraction of folks at the top. Across thee all country, from alabama, west virginia, or gone, it does not matter which state, there has been a dramatic shift. For our viewers, you can check out the study. It was done by the Economic Policy institute. Talk about this study. In the report, are there thatfic policy proposals you think would be the solution . When looking at this data, back to the era when Income Growth was more broadly shared, where low income families saw their income double , middle income families saw their income double, and the wealthiest saw their income double. Everyone got more wealthy having higher income as the economy grew. Different about that era compared to today, a variety of things. Suggesting changes, one that was very different today compared to that era is that Union Density is much lower today. We are at historic lows today. Of membership really does mean as companies do well, it is not necessarily the case that the extra income generated their shows up in peoples paychecks. Something we would look for it is more efforts to expand the ability to join in the United States. There are other policies that would help. Raising the minimum wage is an important policy and it is important to remember in that era when income was growing for everyone, the middle wage traffic with the economy. As the economy was producing a lot of opportunity and gains, the minimum wage went up to reflect that. Productivity has continued to rise and workers are working more hours overtime. The minimum wage is lower than it was throughout the country. Help beginat could to press back on the trends. Another solution has been the change in overtime rules. That affects salary salary workers. Much higher since the 1970s and the result is a lot of salary workers today that in the past would have been entitled to overtime have not been getting it. Change by thent Obama Administration that we think is important as a step in the right direction. We want to see that as the economy grows, the income is broadly shared to people who are making sure the economy is growing, working hard and building roads and bridges and manufacturing goods and services and providing us with all the things we desire. 99 ofe, the bottom families havent been sharing in what they are producing. Host in kentucky, the average annual income of the top 1 is about 620,000. You need to make 267 thousand dollars to make it in the top 1 . The bottom 99 in kentucky is 37,000. The top 1 makes 15 or 16 times more than the bottom 99 . That line for those who make 100,000. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Downsupply side trickle economics theory has held. It is obvious. Will wealth will always trickle up but if you start with a pyramid type scheme, you build your base at the bottom. I will not go through economic equations that i would like to if the result has been the because has been eroded everything is up to the top, if start at the wages bottom, those people will stand and they will buy refrigerators, homes, carpets. Then that money will be taxed. Then that money will again be taxed and, to the people who sell this rings, and once again, until the taxed wealthy will get their fair share. Bottom, theting at tax structure has an eroded. We can now have money for infrastructure, etc. I would just like you to comment on that. Thank you for calling in and those are excellent point and i want to size and build on what you were saying. Everyone should remember in the early 1980s, a decision was rate theut the top tax highest income family faced dramatically. The highest top marginal tax than theylower today were in 1980. It comes back to the issue in the earlier era when a tax rates were much higher on households, Income Growth was more broadly shared. We were promised that if we cut the top tax rates and give more to the financial sector, that in turn, they would take it and create new opportunity and explosive growth in the economy would carry us all forward. Looking at the data across the state, that has not happened. We cut top tax rates but it did not have the effect of lifting all boats. The only folks who really benefited from attic the from the pace of Economic Growth over time has been those at the top. You made excellent points about what tries the economy more than anything else, our consumers and workers. That becomes other peoples income and helps grow the economy. Move in thet direction of changing tax policy so it is less favorable to those folks at the very top and more favorable to low and middle come workers middle income workers, and what to get wages up, i think that is a good point. Host a comparison in maryland shows that eastern maryland is the most unequal metro area in maryland. Makes 27. 8 more times more than the bottom 9 . 99 . Go ahead, zach. Thank you for taking my call. A lot of interesting points so far. I recently dropped down in income level in the past two years, around 40,000, and then i decided to get in a new field and do other things that paid less. It is interesting to see the difference. I see the nation is coddled when they start with youth. I remember being in low income at the age of 17 and 18 and doing whatever i can save money. I was making nine dollars or 10 an hour from 17 to 21 when i got promoted in management. By that time, i had made a lot savense of isis and had no to buy a cheap first house. A lot of people my age are like, i would never do that. Too expensive. But realistically, it was so cheap to do. I made a good bit of money for those years and i dropped down. Going down from that, i tried to make a lot of sacrifices. Job we work at the lowest wage. It is just one thing you do not do. Recently in the past job, and toloyer actually threatened keep it close between us and if i mentioned it, they would let me go, which i think is unlawful in the state of maryland. Unions, when i worked for best buy at the age of 17, they held meetings to talk to employees about the dangers of dissuading you from joining unions. Those are my comments. Host i appreciate the comments. Mark price, on the issue of Income Growth and who benefits and who gets affected most, can you discuss that from your report . Yes, sorry. Thank you for your call, zach. Certainly over time, as we reveal in the report, in times of recession when the economy is and most everyone is losing income, the biggest loss is pretending to be on the top 1 of families, one example of why that might be the case. Now in the economy is growing, it is generating new jobs. It is supposed to be how the economy thinks about the labor market. You begin to see periods of expansion where the wealthy 1 andamilies really make up do significantly better than they do worse during recessions. The top 1 have captured an increasing amount of Income Growth. Although they are technically recoveries and they are generating new jobs, the Unemployment Rate has fallen genetically. Dramatically. When you think about workers in categories,aged 2560 five, fewer of them are working in the labor market ay did them before 2007 van before 2007. To the full not get capacity, you do not see as much wage and Income Growth as you would like to. Income generated from owning stocks and bonds in trading for Financial Markets would be the chief executive of best buy or any other major corp. Ration, those incomes do rise. Major corporation, those incomes do rise. Talk about the study zero for the Economic Policy institute about income inequality. Line, your calls, on the for those making over 100,000 per year, richard. Caller thank you for taking my call and thank you for what you do. I am an Indian American and have lived the american jury and appeared ever since i can to the country with a few dollars, i have gone up the ladder. One of the main reasons i did that is education. The average income is higher than the average in the united. Tates why . We have redefined on priorities on workut emphasis ethics. Just raising the minimum wage and make people comfortable with minimum wage is not the right way to go. This country is the most opportune growth country in the world. It is a wonderful country. People get jobs here. If we can only emphasize education, let the kids grow up to learn their priorities. I know a young growth who works at the front desk and the first thing she does is why a 2016 model car. As she wants an suv and she is trying to sell that to buy an suv. That is not the priority. I spoke to her and said you need to save, you need to get an education and you need to grow. My suggestion is if people need to grow economically, and my life here is all of these three things that i mentioned will definitely have the Economic Growth in this country, at the social level, thank you for taking my call. Host all right. Mark price, weigh in. For your callou in and your work and your passion. You are absolutely right that is impossible to emphasize how important that is. When you look at trend in income clear that even folks with advanced level education, we have a better educated population today. Despite the fact that we have of greater amounts education, you look at College Graduates and they do not fair well in the last decade or so, reflecting the fact that the economy has not been Strong Enough to generate wage growth for those folks. That goes back to the point that education, while deeply important, a value we both real challenge is even in the presence of higherlevel education, the economy is not generating broadly shared gains and Income Growth. It continues to be highly concentrated. An area where we would agree very much that it is a problem for the United States, there is careful research that examines the relationship between income of your parents to your income as an adult. In the United States, that relationship is stronger than most of the industrialized world. In europe in particular, it matters more hear the income of your parents than it does in those places. That is a challenge, i think, really to the american dream. We tend to think of america in the same way you have experienced it, richard. As a place that people, regardless of who their parents were or the income they had, they had a great idea and went on to become a brain surgeon. Ande folks will rise up have new opportunity. The reality today is that is less true than most of the industrialized world in the United States today. It matters a lot who your parents are. Just think about all across the country and maryland and pennsylvania, there are millions of kids growing up who do not get access to a high quality education. That hurts them because they will not achieve their full potential. It hurts me and you because at the end of the day, i want my next brain surgeon or the next app developer to be the best for the job. In the United States, it matters a lot more was income of your Brain Surgeons parents were. And the actual ability. You look at this data, it shows increasing amount of income flowing. A tiny group of folks to the county inmost unequal ohio according to research. The top 1 makes 36 times more than the bottom 99 . Income at the bottom about 42,000. Todd is in ohio on the line for those who make 51 and 100,000. Mark price, you compelled me to want to read a report about the broadcasting. Two comments for you and a question. Distinctiona heavy between being unequal, not necessarily meaning the same thing as being unfair . I am finding that is a common problem with people who talk about this publicly especially in the political arena. Just because things are unequal, it does not mean things are treated as unfair. Me, do you acknowledge it is not just a matter of who your parents are as far as respondbut how well you to education . There are a lot of educated people who respond in a mediocre way to the good education they is, what douestion you feel is the best way to assess the problem of a group of people who got a bad start as a result of their parent but are very capable as far as being part of the american way . That is it. Todd, those are powerful and important questions. Thank you. Not necessarily unfair and i think that is absolutely correct. Saying, home might be the rich are always getting richer, what is the big deal . Again, as we demonstrate in the it has not always been the case. It is the case that the ceo of General Motors in 1960 had much more income than the janitor at General Motors. That is true and it reflects that the ceo had more responsibility than the janitor does. Over time, this eeo pay continues to rise while the janitor pay continues to fall. It does not reflect changes in ability. Reflects changes in the economy that have buys the growth and income to float to the top 1 . I agree with you that unequal is it doese as fair not seem to be a good reason why income would be so poorly distributed. With respect to, it matters a lot how you use your education, i could not agree more. The greatest recession we have greatenced since the depression, a key contributor to , mortgage lenders, with some of the best educations money can buy. They succeeded in fertility facilitating the construction of trillions of dollars in the u. S. , not the they are solely responsible, but to a knowledge education plays a role in there is also Something Else going on that is driving income to the top. To the third point, beyond inequality, the greatest challenge continues to be, what do we do with kids in school districts, baltimore, downtown los angeles, these have tremendous ability and we need to step up and provide them with resources so they can achieve the full potential they have. That is one of the most pressing change,e have, climate inequality, and how we will lift up our kids. Than 2 takes more million to be the average of the york in the state of new tot to make 1 , you need make at least 500,000. The average income in new york is about 44,000. Ofre talking with mark price the Economic Policy institute. It is time for just one or two more calls. We will take david in new york, new york. Go ahead. Income inequality has been going on for so many decades, the rich are getting richer, and we are like brazil now, close to bangladesh on the position of wealth and the rich and poor. People were in the Service Sector centered economy but we cannot buy anything. Minimum wage. People go to the neighborhoods in the bronx, i live in manhattan, people suffer on a daily basis. People suffer in this country so that 1 10 of 1 can be billionaires. Able should go back to senator Sanders Campaign stump speeches to see, he highlighted these things. We cannot forget. Foret a choice, i will vote Hillary Clinton, but i cannot think the establishment of the democrat or Republican Party are and have brought us into a situation where we are at the precipice of a neofascist, oh gosh, anyway. Host in ohio today, being billed as a Major Economic address by Hillary Clinton. Expect to hear . Do you think some of the ideas from Bernie Sanders you were just referencing that you wanted you thinkre of, do that will rub off on Hillary Clinton . Caller i really do p or i have been watching, the Platform Committee debate. Discussions. They are wonderful and that is because of bernie. Hasounds like everybody gotten religion on social , and manycial justice of those things. Berniess movement, that the Political Revolution can continue as an Insurgent Movement in the Democratic Party to do but cornell west tried to with our wonderful president obama, push him from the last four social justice. I hope that continues. I think the youth of america, i am 67, but i think the youth are wonderful, 45 and younger are showing themselves to be wonderful. We need that and we knew the Political Revolution to continue. Unless we get money out of politics your point. One more call, matalin is waiting on our line for those between 26 and 50,000 in annual income. Can you make it quick . Caller sorry, i want to make a comment, like, i am a minority. As good as [indiscernible] clinton is the last person to tell me about income inequality. She gets thousands of dollars for her speeches. 1 [indiscernible] person and i can get my education, like, like, i cant afford college. That is going to screw me over in the long run and that is what is going to happen. Host mark, i want to leave that with you in the last minute or so. Student debt, whether loans or other kinds of debt, and how it is impacting ability to make money. Part of theutely, discussion today is focused on if folks would get education, it would be all right. Again, another issue where you ignore that it is higher harder and harder to get access to a good in quality higher education. Increasingly, states are cutting back support for public universities and that has led to a rise in tuition and for a lot of students to really look at a terrible choice of a mountain of Student Loan Debt in order to do what were asking them to do in order to lift themselves up, it is clearly another illustration that policy has gone in another poor direction and it helps feed this inequality. It puts kids in unforgivable situation in ways where their parents and grandparents did not have to do and were not expected to do and that is unfortunate. Mark price is an economist, one of the coauthors of that report. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us today. Guest thank you. Great to be here. Host up next, we will be joined by former former congressman and president ial candidate ron gun anddiscuss surveillance laws in the wake of the orlando shooting. Plus, we will talk about the president ial campaign coming up in just a minute or two here on cspan. With the political primary season over, cspans wrote to the white house takes you to the political convention. Republican National Convention starting july 18 with live coverage from cleveland. Mr. Trump we will go into the convention with no matter what happens and i think we will go in so strong. Classless the Democratic Convention july 25 with live coverage. Ms. Clinton lets go forward and win the nomination and in july, lets return. Mr. Sanders then we take our fight for social, economic, racial, and Environmental Justice to philadelphia. Every minute of the republican and democratic parties National Convention on sees 10, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Classy realize this is something i would not only like to do, but i think it could be really different from the kinds of books that have been written about mccarthy in the past and the way to rethink and reevaluate who the person was, what his real significant was significance was, what his virtues were that made him one of the most adored and actuated figures in American History, but and, what were his flaws the things that made him in many ways unpleasant and even hated when millions of people. Q a, arthurght on takes a look at the life and career of Douglas Macarthur in his book, Douglas Macarthur american warrior. He saw the future more clearly often than he saw the present, whether it was americass role in nation, the rise in china, the split between china and the soviet union, which he foresaw, but also the fate of american and western politics. Sunday night on cspans q a. Washington journal continues. Screen is former congressman and former president ial candidate ron paul joining us from houston, texas, where he host the Ron Paul Liberty report. Yesterday, you compared the to the 9 11cks attacks, not because of the effort to kill large numbers of americans, but because of the response by politicians and federal officials. Explain that. Guest political people will take advantage of it and promote their agenda. When a gun was used immediately, people who do not like guns and want to control guns and sales of guns and antiSecond Amendment, they will jump on this and make some headway with that. The other side, who wants to stir up animosity against and what is going on in the middle east, they will use it as a justification to go over and increase both your activity over there. Those who believe that the real solution to all of the problem is more surveillance and more sacrifice of the fourth to make sure that government knows everything about everybody, and they will prevent it from another test and proven to be helpful in the past. That it willgument not be helpful again in that it is for this special political interest that goes on. How do we make use of this . I believe most of them are sincere about it that they sincerely believe that individuals do not have the so they willguns use this and others believe we have to accelerate what we are doing in the middle east and surveillance of the people and i think it is the wrong way to go. Host you would argue no new surveillance or gun control laws. Is there anything that could be done to prevent the next orlando . Guest there is no way to absolutely prevented, it is like saying how can we live in perfect safety and you cannot. A lot of things have to change. The Republican Leadership that isis influenced this individual though it was an american citizen who did the shooting in orlando, that isis was an influence on this and therefore we have to deal with that, at the same time, the left says it is the guns who have and we have to do more there. What gives the incentive to isis. Played a role in giving the crazy guy a suggestion, there is no evidence that isis was literally directly involved. Ishink what they need to do realize there was an influence on isis. Whye did isis come from and are we supporting isis and trying to rescue isis in syria . Assads trying to given of and so are we. The russians are involved but we do not want the russians to protect or get rid of isis. On and on and we pump the weapons into that area. Neither right nor left will consider the fact that our Foreign Policy has a significant influence on how isis comes about and where they get their weapons and where they get their incentives. 9 11, been this way since you cannot say this, you cannot ever say that maybe this is a reflection of that policy on our part. That is considered unamerican but i consider it patriotic to try to analyze policies and try to offer a different policy that might not incentivize these radicals. You say pump weapons in, are you saying that continues to happen . Guest it is ongoing right now. Were helping radical factions in syria. We want them to take out assad. The russians are in there by invitation and they said do not do it. They are threatening each other. Isis ends up with these weapons. We give them to the moderates but nobody knows, there are two or three groups in their in the weapons often end up in the hands of bad guys. Are many weapons from libya, and that ends up with a lot of weapons in the middle east of helping these radical groups. The libertarian arches we should not be involved. It is too messy and does not have anything to do with the national security. What is a threat is getting involved and pretend it has nothing to do with people getting angry at us and why we go 6000 miles away from our home and bomb and kill people. We now have people saying see, they are still involved and they caused orlando, which is not true, and therefore we have to be more aggressive here it you hear them say lets go bomb more people. Both sides take that position, republicans and democrats support the idea of an intervention in the middle east, even with out declaration of war. A preemptive situation going on to a large degree in the past years. We have accepted the notion of preemptive war without declaration, and obama, who is supposed to be directed toward a more peaceful solution, he wants to go to war and get rid of the side. He announced we have got to get rid of assad. There are bad people around the world all over the place. We are killing a lot of innocent people and it gives an incentive to those who are inclined to become more radical, and the argument comes up that it is all islam and we have got to regulate every muslim in the world, instead of saying, in every religion, you have radicals who tend to use religion to promote radical causes. We are talking with ron paul, former congressman from texas and president ial candidate. College valley the cottage, new york, go ahead. Caller thank you. A pleasure to talk to you, senator. None of the candidates running for president ever talked about the Federal Reserve. You were the only president ial candidate who tried to talk about the Federal Reserve and how the Federal Reserve is hurting the average american, bluecollar worker, and that Monetary Policy as it is now is helping the top 20 of americans and hurting the low end. Could you please explain to the people have Federal Reserve policy is hurting the American People and why it is necessary to rain the fed in . Other thanaid that, i have not heard anyone talk about Monetary Policy and how it is hurting the American People. I should note that Monetary Policy is a topic of Senate Banking committee happen today. Janet yellen will testify and we will go there right after our program today. Go ahead. Guest this brings up the subject of the previous discussion with your guest a few minutes ago, because income inequality was the subject of your program and i listened to most of that and never once today mention Monetary Policy. Whether you are dealing with inequality or education or whatever. Distortion of money is done by central bank because they get to print the money five for political reasons. It is always to help the poor. We do not have enough tax revenues so we will print the money and give them free there is always somebody who will threaten us overseas and there are enemies we have to deal with and it is very costly. The militaryindustrial complex need the money and that bankers need their money. Say who controls the printing of money . It is very destructive because by its very nature, it destroys the middleclass and takes money and puts it in the hands of people who get the money first. Politicians and banks and the militaryindustrial complex to corp. Rations, to get the money and say, dont wages go up . Never at the same rate. Real income is down but nominal income isnt down and since we have been off the Gold Standard since 1971, they happen printing like crazy. Time, nominal rates have not gone down but purchasing power goes down. You destroy purchasing power which destroys the middleclass, the poor get poorer and everyone says what we need is more money. Said maybe wee are mistaken and maybe the Balance Sheet of the Federal Reserve is too small and maybe we have to make it much bigger. Money for then of purpose of serving special interests is very damaging. Some people at sea believe it helps but the evidence is so clear that it is a power struggle. With the 1 to deal on wall street, you have got to do with a Monetary Policy because it is designed to help them. You do not attack people who get honestcause they give us services and good services. Different from any socialist says the rich is the bad guy. My tape policy is the key to the solution of inequality in income. Monetary policy is a topic not unfamiliar. Libertyreport. Com if you want to check out that. Ron paul is taking your questions and we ask our viewers to weigh in on facebook as well with any questions they might have for you. Here is 1 what do you think . There are similarities but im cautious to say exactly. I worked with bernie when we were in congress together and we was we would try to stop big deals for big as mrs. He wasnt much interested in balanced budget and not printing socialism is really quite opposite of libertarianism, but he is an honest person who really wants to help. His economic theories are is myent, but his enemy enemy, the special interests who are very wealthy. We agree on that. We have some similarities and the crowds were similar with him and what i had. But i separate myself when it comes to having authoritarianism. Socialism is based on authoritarianism. I think wealth is much better when everyone keeps what they earn and have an incentive to and the government passes out no favors to anyone except for protection of liberty equally. That is the way to do it to me a set of this group needs more help and we have to take it from this group. That is an authoritarian solution and that is all we have in the past year essentially from our candidates. Host alex is waiting on our line for independent. S. Caller it is an honor to talk with you, congressman to you have been inspiration to my political philosophy through the years as a student. In regards to your antiinterventionalists policy, many see a duty of the west is to support the fragile aspects of the middle east, considering has of the turmoil that come about by the rejoining of the borders by the west after world war ii. Our duty to prevent ethnic den and genocides and things of that nature considering drawing the borders. How do we balance that duty to the middle east because the west half interventions with the kind of goal to slowly separate ourselves from the situation. Guest you have to give up the principal of nonintervention. It is not authorized in the constitution and we do not have the money and it does not work. The intent is good but we should never prohibit people from helping people who are we should have an opinion but for us to go over and decide that a sod is doing nasty things to its people so therefore we have an obligation to use force against the American People, we should tax the American People, print up money and destroy our economy get a lot of people killed, innocent people getting killed and go over there and say we have to get rid of a sod, was we have been doing for five years. Is youlure of the system do not do it without authority. Even if they voted and said we should declare war against a sod, we do not have the moral authority to do that. We have the moral authority to defend our country and our own liberties that i know it is tempting. Like opening up the door to welfare. A lot of conservatives say there are poor people and we have to feed them. We give up 100 of the principal that you can steal from one person and give it to another. You are not allowed to steal from your neighbor but the government is allowed to. Besides, it does not work. Ofyou give a little bit authority to intervene overseas or in the welfare state, it grows by leeds and bounds until you have what we have today, both in Foreign Policy, totally out of control, an Economic System totally out of control, no productivity or savings. The rich get richer. If you look at our Foreign Policy of intervention, no matter how noble, it is usually designed for the militaryindustrial complex. So more weapons and get involved. They say we have got to sell the weapons. We are doing that all the time and it just does not work and we should look at the history of that. Florida, an republican. I would like to say it is a great honor in my life to talk to you. 2012 reallyn in gave me hope for the country. I appreciate everything you have done over your many years of service. Is, your sonor you ran and unfortunately, his campaign did not go quite as far as id hoped. I was wondering what you think the difference was this year that so many young people were for the caucus for you in iowa in 2012, were this year, it seems like the message of liberty was not as popular. You once said freedom is popular, one of the great expressions ever uttered. It seems sincere. People are just bury their heads in the sand. They do not want to look toward that again. Conditions change, Economic Conditions change care the demagogues are out there, the anger over isis makes a difference. People get more concerned. I do not think the movement got as much coverage. I cannot explain exactly why. He did his best, but we have to woulde one individual who get the attention not for good and sound political reasons, but trump got the attention in the media loved him and huge are the a distractionas from concentrating on individual liberty, like Big Government is the problem. Many went to sanders. There was a little bit of an overlap because we were concerned about the rich getting record getting richer. Different economic understanding. People went there but i am still not discouraged because i still think there are a lot of people who understand this and weill fall of our will not be able to maintain the empire. They cannot revive this. Yellen is not going to come up and say, lets just print more money. It is all coming to an end. The Freedom Movement is alive and well. Take theave to opportunity now that people are recognizing their they are already doing it. Most people say government is a failure and this is a mess. Our message has to get a little louder and a little clearer. A lot of times, an idea goes along by an individual and it realize evenple though they are flocking with a lot of negatives, we have to offer them the option of Less Government and more personal liberty. Host you are not supporting donald trump. Guest i am not. Jet there is a libertarian candidate, johnson, are you supporting him . Thet i am supporting party. I cannot say im really enthusiastic about a ticket. The Libertarian Party stands for a nonaggressive principle. You cannot use the government to get your way by using force. The more votes they get, the more there will be for the nonaggression principle. That is as far as i will go because im a little frustrated with all the individuals running and the discussion going on. My goal is to introduce as many people as possible to the nonaggression principle, which means understanding what she leveled what true liberty is all about, which was the intent but we haveers squandered our inheritance and why doople are thinking we think in terms of individuals rather than groups . That is why i do not like what is going on now. Muslims are bad people, mexicans are bad people individuals have liberty and groups should never get benefits but they never should be punished. People started with groups that get benefits because they are handicapped or something. On aggression principle id i think the nonaggression principle is good. Jeff, you are on with dr. Paul. Caller a longterm admirer, i do not always agree with all your positions. I am calling about mass shootings. It does appear as though the mass casualty incidents do have thread and that is the ability very quickly with highcapacity weapons. Hardersponse to make it for people to get a hold of weapons so if we did have incidents like this, it would be lower, is that a reasonable response here . Guest as i say, cannot be used to kill us you have a person behind it. Put it in perspective for a lot of people were killed. But in the scheme of things, compared to hundreds of thousands, those are the weapons. Puttingdissipates in weapons of war on the streets overseas. The gun is not the issue. How much do we get on a daily or a weekly basis, dozens and dozens and hundreds of people being killed on our streets . Pistols onkilled by the weekends in chicago and detroit so we have to get out of the pistols. No. Economic conditions, problems, hatred, all these other things. It is not the lack of laws. I just dont think that having more regulation regulation is like the tsa. We had a lot of regulation. We have nofly lists. Nobody knows how they get put on. It undermines their civil liberties. The fbi says they have never stopped anything from that so you can have all kinds of lists and monitoring and it really doesnt work. I encourage people to think more about those who are in total denial. How does the Foreign Policy give people incentives to get very violent . People off their rockers grab hold of things like that and say maybe there is a nuttiness. For my i think the gun is secondary and not the prime cause. Morning to washington journal and good morning to dr. Paul. Thatick statement will be rand seemed to have the only common sense statements during he debates, in which he said that he would not borrow money to give to israel. I think that is very much common sense. The other thing i would like to is asked dr. Paul believe the federal income tax is unconstitutional and that if ,hat was to be pursued dr. Paul, are you still with us . He was talking about the income that he felt was unconstitutional. We will go to a caller and get that fixed for you, dr. Paul. Dorsey is in baton rouge, democrat. Good morning. I have a comment pertaining to the use of assault weapons. Talked or your phone, what is your comment on the result weapon. On the assault weapon. I knowthese killings why didnt they do something about that before all this had taken place . Why do they let this go on that long . What do you think should be done . Caller i think what they should do when they go to these gun shows, they should stop with these assault weapons. Why does any human need that type of weapon . If anybody has that type of weapon, he wants to use it for evil and nothing else. That weapon should only be used in the military. Marshall,ett is in north carolina. Good morning. Caller good morning. Nice to talk to you. Host what is on your mind . Caller you are talking about that andstuff like when you get down to the facts, the American Military created isis when we went into iraq. When you going to somebodys house and blow their kitchen up and kill their brothers, their wives, and a their little kid is standing there three or four years old, he is going to run the that. When he grows up, he is going to kill you. That is the basis for isis and we are still killing them over there and creating one problem after another. You throw a rock at a hornets nest and they are going to follow you home. You want to and those wars over there, all youve got to do reenact the draft. ,t would give young people jobs you would get rid of blackwater which is draining our military expense to zero. I wouldhat and guarantee that within two years, the American People will and those wars over there just like they did in vietnam. Whense it is all right little johnny down the street gets over there and gets killed but when my johnny gets killed, it is a different situation. All youve got to do is reenact that draft and quit telling lives telling lies. Host it is an issue that has come up in debates. Under your system, should women be eligible for the draft . Like whats kind of jeb bush said when he was running. Youve got to have skin in the game. If everybodys got skin in the game, they are going to think. And you cant lie when a body bag comes back. Iraq for eight years. You didnt hear one word about killing civilians. Isnt that big big. Want to ask you, on monday, the Supreme Court weakened the Fourth Amendment this is from the New York Times by making it easier for Law Enforcement to evade its requirement that shots be based on reasonable suspicion. His illegal stop did not prevent evidence obtained. I want to ask you about the Fourth Amendment today and what that Supreme Court ruling might mean. I cani am not quite sure put it in context of that ruling but all i know is that i think the Fourth Amendment is dead. I dont think there is much left to it. I think what Congress Tries to do now to tighten it up and protect our liberties, they do what they want, they do it in secret. Take the nofly list, which would be similar if they put on a no gun list. Anybody could say this guy looks suspicious and the fbi just puts him on their list. I think there is so little respect and understanding for the Fourth Amendment that that is one of the principal problems we have today. It started with 9 11 and it got much worse but it has gotten worse with this recent shooting in orlando. Host randall has been waiting for you in elk river, minnesota. Republican. Good morning. Caller it is an honor mr. Paul. Ive been waiting where made aware of what the seven what the Federal Reserve has done to our situation. Is there anybody worse than the Federal Reserve as far as damaging our Current Situation . If you could paraphrase that i am getting some static. He was asking about the Federal Reserve and whether there is anybody worse than the Federal Reserve. In terms of damaging our freedoms in this country. Guest that is a good question because the bad people who want to do evil things and destroy our liberties they need the Federal Reserve. I call it the enhancer. There are partners with big business and wall street and the Banking System and the militaryindustrial complex, the people who like Big Government for welfare reasons, this group needs help so we need to redistribute wealth without direct taxation so we dilute the value of the money. Wholek the enemy is this philosophy of Big Government, and whether it is the income tax or the inflation by the Federal Reserve , it is the authoritarianism of protecting individual liberties that people have the opportunity to take care of themselves. We shouldt trust the people to take care of themselves and they will make mistakes but they make mistakes for themselves. But they should get no privileges and if they make mistakes, they should suffer the consequence. A lot of people endorsed the Federal Reserve and think this is good. This is to help the people and help the economy. The will argue the case bus comes because of greedy people rather than evil. The enemy is the authoritarians who work hand in glove with big and peoplewelfares who want to be in the militaryindustrial complex and they need the Federal Reserve to print their my for it. This is endorsed by both parties. Boehner and John Nancy Pelosi hugging each other, that is the single symbol i think of when they say we need more cooperation in congress. There is too Much Coalition building between left and right, endorsing authoritarianism. That is the problem that we have to face. Host you never got a chance to work under speaker paul ryan, could you great his speakership . Guest i dont have enough information to go into details that i think he is part of that system. You cant get that far along unless you are part of that system. Like myself or walter jones, who are independentminded in the constitution, and others who have been there, you get punished or taken off your committees or dont get promoted. I knew that from the very beginning. I could have played the game and become chairman of the banking committee. It would be irrelevant because you have to sell your soul. The you become speaker of house or any important political figure in washington, you sort of have to capitulate and go along. It is not necessarily in an evil way as much as a little bit of this is good because they actually believe in a lot more government than is endorsed by the constitution. Under those circumstances, i wouldnt expect any miracles from paul even though i am convinced he is probably doing his very best to iron these problems out that he has to face. Host you mentioned walter jones. He was a recent guest on your liberty report. Try one or two more callers for you. James is in indiana, republican. Caller welcome from indiana. The number one state for White Supremacists in the nation. Do you think it is the governments constitutional duty to promote the general welfare of the people or the top 10 that have taken over . Question number two, what wellregulated militia was omar mateen a member of. Guest he wasnt belonging to any militia i know of. He was off on his own. Welfare that is not the purpose of government unless you define it as saying the general welfare of the people are best served by the protection of liberty of each and every individual and have equal justice under the law. Theypeople talk about when talk about general welfare, they morph that into believing their job is to define it. The people who love it will define Free Education for this group, free medical care for this group, jobs for this group, wages for this group, and they are always manipulating. They are not talking about the general welfare being beneficial by enhancing liberty for all individuals. They want to manage it but they are the ones who want to define it. Republicans definition may be buterent then the democrats they are always manipulating, in , that we want to take care of everybody and make it fair and the will and it is very destructive. That is why we are in a bankrupt situation. We have a Foreign Policy that failed, and they think they can define that and the only thing the government should be able to define is what it is to live in a free country. Individual liberty is protected. We dont have the authority to conscript and force people into military service including women , and we cant take away their livelihood by introducing the notion that the government owns every penny you are in by this system of the irs. Then they allow us to keep some based on their rule. I think this whole idea that the government owns and controls us literally or through finance is the real problem we face. Guest in jackson tennessee, elmore, a democrat. You are on with dr. Paul. Caller on cspan this morning you are a man of deep thinking able to identify problems. When we look at what is going on andraq or other middle east the United States today, with samesex marriage and whatnot, when you talk about the root , Justice Scalia and his dissenting opinion he talked about no social transformation without representation. He said that was more fundamentally wrong as no tax without representation. When we are talking about social transformation, which happened in the United States regarding samesex marriage and we did the same thing in the middle east dealing with trying to impose the mock receipt impose democracy, when we began to take a look at that, you have problems. Until you look at it from a different Vantage Point we will not address the root causes. I would like to hear your comment on that. I think the answer comes in the nonaggression principle that you cannot use force to mold people or other countries. In the french revolution did this and they ended up with a guillotine. We have elections in this country and they elect the wrong people so we have to throw that guy out that is the problem. If you use force to mow people mold people, the nonaggression principle skirts those arguments because people can do what they want as long as they dont force it on somebody else. This is mysay definition for marriage and you will accept it. Oh in a libertarian society, people can say what they want to do as long as they dont use force. We should have freedom of choice , economics, and social standards. We should read books and practice our religion but all our habits be freely decided upon and we have to make sure that nobody uses the government to use force, nor can use as an individual. Most people know you cant steal but most people believe that the purpose of government is to steal from other people because they need something, they want something, they desire something and that becomes a right. It is called entitlement and that is wrong. The entitlement system is always designed for the poor. But it morphs into something for the entitlement of the militaryindustrial complex and that is why we have to keep the agitation going whether we get rid of the soviet system then we have to deal with islam and we have to deal with saddam and all these other people. They have to have something to do to keep the agitation going because that is where war profits are made. Host mike in ohio, line for democrats. Caller i think the American People should be told more. We are kept in the dark like mushrooms. Isis, nobody knows much about isis. Isis was a product of the iraq ill baghdadi was in captivity with 500 of his underlings who are now helping in isis. He made a comment to the general, who said i will see you in new york. He fled over into syria and he started the engineering of isis which you have today. Now, everybody is blaming barack because he didnt remove troops in iraq and that is not true. Look what is going on in afghanistan. Mess starting to become a again and now we are dumping more resources and money into their. Into there. Guest we havent turned on its head. Government is maintained by total secrecy. If you are a whistleblower like snowden,wden edward he becomes a terrible figure who has committed treason and not allowed back in the country and he is a whistle our who gave this tremendous amount of information. But what happens to our privacy . The government undermined our privacy. Destroyed. Is we should know whether government is going. We should not punish the people who tell us the truth. There was a cia agent that revealed about the torture and how we were breaking the law and torturing people, which added fuel to the fire of eastern hatred towards us. And he was the only one that was punished over the torture issue. He went to prison because he told us the truth about what is going on. We need to make sure that the government is open but we need the government much smaller. The government is so big no one even knows what is going on. I dont think the president even keeps up with the cia because the cia is so secretive and Monetary Policy is personally secretive, so there is way too many secrets and they are protecting interests of the state, the rights of the state, the rights of the government. Nly people have rights they are not designed by belonging to a particular group. Host we have a minute left and i want to end with a question from twitter. How would you define the perfect president and was any president in history fitting of that definition . Guest i sort of like Grover Cleveland because he did not like aggression overseas, he vetoed a lot of bills, so he was a good oldfashioned democrat. People inno perfect this but tentatively, i used to vice would like to be president because the responsibilities of the Vice President they attend ceremonial things and if i became president i would continue that amount of power. I dont want power in the executive branch. Democrats ared fighting over power in the executive branchs. I like the power of the executive branch in switzerland. We dont need power in the executive branch. The individual who goes to war without declaration and ignores congress it is an executive power. We dont have that candidate but we have to do find the ideal. The socialism, communism, fascism, authoritarians, they all defined very clearly this is the governments responsibility. But we have to do find the moral bases basis of the freeze of free society and that has to do with personal liberty. Host check out the Ron Paul Liberty report. Join us again on the washington journal down the road. So,ur last 4530 minutes or it is open phones. Our phone lines are open to discuss any Public Policy issue you want to talk about. 202 icans can call in at it willepublicans be back in jusa minute. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this is something i would not only love to do but something i think could be really different from the kinds of books that have been written about therthur in the past and way to rethink and reevaluate who this person was, what his significance was, what his virtues were that made him the most one of the most adored and adulation figures in American History that also what were his laws. What were the things that made him in many ways hated by millions of people. Hudson Institute Senior fellow Arthur Herman takes a look at the life and career of Douglas Macarthur. Things youone of the have to say. He saw the future more clearly than he saw the present. Whether it was americas role in the, the rise of china, split between china and the , but also perhaps the fate of american domestic politics. Eastern. Night at 8 00 washington journal continues. Host it is open phones in our last segment of the washington journal today. We will get your calls in just a second. Go to davidrst drucker of the Washington Examiner, a Senior Correspondent there. I want to talk politics with you. A busy day on the campaign trail with news that donald trump had fired his Campaign Manager and news later in the day about fundraising numbers. The headline from the examiner this morning clinton has 32 times more cash on hand than from. Than trump. I dont think we have ever seen anything like this from the major nominee or presented nominee. 42lary clinton has about million in cash in the bank as of may 31. Then you get another 50 million from her allies in the super pac world and youre talking almost 100 million at the end of may to spend on the campaign. It is not necessarily a big deal that clinton outraised trump but what shoulds trouble republicans who want donald trump to win. In the general election, you cant get from here to there was no money. He raised a couple million dollars, not a couple of tens or whatever. He finished may with 1. 2 million in the bank. That is it. He ramped up fundraising in june. I imagine a report a month from now will look a lot better but the only other big commodity in campaigns is time and they blew the month they have. It means clinton is on the air and trump is not on their. They are filling out their voter turnout operations on the democratic side and they are not able to keep up on the republican side. Mentions he has been raising money for the Republican Party and that is true. But that means he is been raising money for himself. His campaign is being run by the Republican National committee. Going to be directed back to the battleground states he needs to win to become president. Attention tot of do. Even the polls good for clinton he is not out of the ballgame but when you consider everything that has been going on, now with the horrible month of fundraising in may, it is catch up time. Host did that contribute to the Campaign Shakeup that started the day of political news yesterday . Guest it is hard to tell there have been a lot of reporting about Corey Lewandowskis fallout with , ands kids, banca trump , he wasnt managing the staff well, but trump has always said and made it very clear that he is running the show. Wasuple of weeks ago there a Conference Call that gathered all the surrogates on a Conference Call to discuss talking points for how to deal with what he caused about his attacks on judge gonzales. It is all standard talking points to shift the discussion and help trump. He says he didnt wrote the talking points. Somp runs the campaign firing Corey Lewandowski is going to make some republicans feel good but from said he is not going to change his tone and rhetoric and i think that is true. I think handing the reins over foralm and afford is good people experienced with real president ial campaigns but you need to buy it from the candidate. Tomp hasnt shown a desire and take direction from analytics. Host you have covered a lot of campaigns in your time. Can you walk us through the Trump Campaign structure and what it looks like now under donald trump and paul metaphor . . Paul maniford host lets talk about the national committee. The Republican National committee has a few hundred staff, 50 or so, maybe they have expanded since i talked to them. In terms of Data Analytics, they are running what is and deserves a lot of credit for uptodate voter turnout and Data Analytics programs. It is something that did not exist for mitt romney in 2012. Reince priebus, chairman of the has directed more than 100 million dollars, possibly 200 million in creating this thing and keeping it up to date. The Trump Campaign has started to put some field staff out there that really, if you look at what trump did in may, after he clinched the nomination and could turn his attention to the general, there is not a lot going on here in terms of digital and data and voter turnout. The question is the rncs operation was to give the nominee a head start. Make sure there was no gap in the clinton machine. To be theintended campaign, so now they are ramping up in a way that they since pect and has that is kind of the situation at that is really the Campaign Host at this host point. David drucker covers it for the Washington Examiner. If you want to read the work of him and his team, thank you for your time this morning. It is open phones for our last half hour. Any Public Policy issue you want to talk about, whether it is the campaign, the vote last night, all four did not achieve enough support to move. Linda is in mississippi, line for democrats. Caller hi, how are you. Host go ahead. Caller when do we decide if free speech is too far . How many people have to get hurt and died because of freeze each . Speech . Should we have a limit of what we can say on tv . Because sometimes the way we talk, there are people out there who are not right in the head and they listen to that and they give them a gold star to do stupid things. My question is, when do we limit free speech . How far are we going to stick it . You is this the debate think needs to happen over the Second Amendment . Caller i think weve got to realize that the Second Amendment we didnt have as many people as we do today. Orneed to rewrite that thing do we need to take some rights away because sometimes free speech gets people hurt. Sometimes free speech hurt peoples feelings. Sometimes it insult people. So what are we going to do. Are we going to continue to say free speech, free speech while we continue to pivot to ugly things about people on tv or radio, anywhere. We are allowing free speech to take over and i think it is dangerous. Host lets go to charlie in ohio. A republican. Caller good morning. I am from cleveland ohio, home of the lebron james championship. I am a history teacher here in cleveland. My issue is our 19 trillion debt. Nobody wants to talk about it, one says what will happen they keep saying we are kicking the can down and it is going to go over the cliff but what happens when it goes over the with. No society has gone this far in debt. Ross perot said this was a catastrophe. What is going to happen when the american dollar is not valued around the world . That is what i wanted,. Host you mentioned the nba championship i want to point our viewers to a story in adweek about what is happening at the cavaliers. The republican National Convention begins four weeks from now, not long after the cavaliers took the championship. The rnc began its move. Begins on july 18 with the dnc beginning a week later in philadelphia. We will be adding live coverage of both conventions here on cspan. We are showing you a time lapse picture of some of the construction of that happening at quick and loans arena. July 18 is the start there. Catherine is up next, massachusetts, democrat. You are on the washington journal. Caller im going to call you to tell you that you cannot miss mix iron play together, you cannot. Doctor a muslim doctor operating on me, he has to stop praying. People come to this country. If they cant assimilate into notican custom, you should lie and coming here the custom. I dont eat pork. I dont like people coming into my house to eat pork. Dont let anybody come in your country and your home and rearrange her furniture. What who gets to decide parts of a culture are and arent allowed to come in to the United States . Caller they pray three times a day. If i had a muslim doctor ,perating on me on the table and they have to stop to go and pray and come back, you would be in bad condition. All im saying is you cannot mix cultures. Host is this just a call for muslims . Caller anybody coming to america. If you cant accept american customs, dont come in this country. Stay in your country and do it you want to do. Host that is catherine in massachusetts. Evelyn is in chicago, republican. Caller good morning. I am sick and tired of people books. To steal our the only person running to defend American People is so trump. Invaders come to our country and andto tell us what to do donald trump is going to do something about it. He is going to put us first, not the people who come here illegal. These democrats only think about these. They dont think about us. Did you get a chance to listen to our interview with David Drucker of the Washington Examiner . We lost evelyn. Talking about fundraising and the comparisons between the Trump Campaign and the clinton campaign. Cnn with a story out on ad spending. The headline on that, clinton outspending trump by 116 million. You can see that story there. Trump and supporters at spending 700,000 compared to clintons 117 million. Between juneserved 7 and june 13, just that we can advertising spots. Ran 389. Campaign the 3723. Son to as we go through open phones on the washington journal, lettuce, east or is new jersey, lender democrats. Line for democrats. Have listened to a lot of people over many years on cspan and this morning and what i would like to encourage people ondo is to become informed the issues before they make phone calls. I just listened to woman talk about a muslim are praying muslim doctor praying in the middle of an operation. Most of our doctors are muslims in my hospital. The woman who says she doesnt muslimk, that isn a tradition. A woman talked about Hillary Clinton and the amount of money she made making speeches without understanding that most of our former elected officials make speeches for money. Some make speeches for money while they are elected officials. That is what they do. Please, United States of america, educate yourself. Host where do you go for your information . To get the best sources of information . Caller of course i like the you the New York Times, the washington post, politico, l explain the will middle east from the point of view of people in the middle east. They have whole sections from egypt, iraq, iran, and people should be writing about the issues. , i take a jazeera look at my phone. When they say people are going to stop reading newspapers, i believe that. I just got an iphone and i get all the information on it. Links, reading the reports that are talked about on the television, there are links where you can read the things that people are just giving you a little clip of so that you better understand what is going on. Not only in america but also in the world. Because when we are better informed electorate, our politics when we are better informed people, we are better able to help ourselves and improve our way of life and get along with other individuals. Those that dont want muslim doctors operating on them, they are in a world of trouble. Host bob is in hometown illinois, republican. Caller good morning. Past march, i voted in the republican primary because i saw what my Democratic Party was leaving me the option of. Party, i used to think they were smart, but now they seem divided. Bored with trump. I think it is going to be a landslide in november. Host what do you think of those comments saying the usual Campaign Metrics of fundraising dont look good for the Trump Campaign right now . Is this one of those usual Campaign Metrics . What gives you confidence in the Trump Campaign . Care how mucht money hillary has or how many people say they are voting for hillary. Hes got the enthusiasm of the country behind him. In november, they are coming out. Host you talked about changing parties for the first time because of donald trump. Think you would change back if donald trump were not your candidate . Not this cycle or down the road, has this changed just because of bone trump or is it something that is going to stick for your voting habits in the future. Caller my eyes have been finally opened. I see the error of my ways and the Republican Party they get behind from 100 . Int push him over the top november. A lead editorial in the wall street journal today , a headline. Donald trump seems to be trying to pack as many selfcreated crises as he can into the 20 weeks until election day. Is a new installment on monday as he fired his Campaign Manager. His leadership or lack thereof the shakeup will mimic a difference if mr. Trump recognizes how badly he is harming his prospects. The problems with the Trump Campaign are mr. Louies are not mr. Lewandowskis fault, they are donald trumps. In 1984 or 72, that cost the gop its house and senate majorities. If you want to read that in full it is in todays wall street journal. Steve is in ohio, independent. I was very curious about this thing with regard to people out of work so i look at statistics of the Great Depression in 1932. 15 million americans were out of work. Mostly, people at that time were men working and not their wives working so i double that to say 24 . If the women were at work. As of may 2016, the bureau of labor statistics, 93. 5 million americans are out of work, which is 23 of the Current Population of 323 Million People. The real issue is jobs, income inequality, they are all of this issues. The real issue is jobs. I think this election is over but i would remind everybody, with regards to the importance spentey, that jon corzine 100 million to beat Chris Christie in new jersey and he was the governor at the time. Chris christie one. Try to beat Barbara Boxer and Barbara Boxer one. Won. Rbara boxer absolutely nothing. The polls are based on the 2012 elections though they are talking to more democrats than they are republicans or independents and i bet if you took a poll you would find that in this country, you have more independence than democrats or republicans and i would add to oft 106 Million People out 239 Million People did not vote in the 2012 election. They allowed somebody else to vote for them. I do not think that would happen again. Host that is steve in ohio. Open phones are our last segment on the washington journal. Any issue you want to talk about, phones are yours. Headlines from around the country this morning, this is the front page of the. Tartelegram out of texas Senate Rejects efforts to expand, tough and u. S. Gun control laws. There is a picture of senator john cornyn there who propose one of those bills that did not achieve enough votes to move forward in the senate. The front page of the philadelphia inquirer, gridlock on gun violence is the lead story there. The headline gun showdown is a draw. Leroy is in new jersey, democrat. Caller two things. First, donald trump claiming he is paying for his campaign, but does he have a tax break on using his plane or does his campaign ticket tax break on that . Second, i heard and i tried to find the source, that he is loaning money to his campaign and that after it is all over, he is going to request repayment to him from the campaign fund. You find that source . I am knocking my brains out trying to find it but ira member hearing it on tv. Host i dont know the answer on tax breaks, but we can probably book a finance reporter to talk about it for you. On loans in the campaign, there are reports on how much he has loaned his campaign and what he may or may not do with those loans is still up in the air. The wall street journal story on the fundraising numbers from last month note that donald trump may halt was with loans which left him with 1. 3 million in the bank. That compares to Hillary Clintons campaign which has 32 times as much in its war chest at the end of the month. Debbie in columbus indiana, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have three things to say. Yes, this country is upside down. We have 50 people going to a party only wanting to enjoy himself and someone is allowed to walk in and children with an Assault Rifle and kill them with an Assault Rifle. Assault rifles are scary. I dont want gun rights to go away. I think everyone has the right to have that but i can assure you if that had been one of my children in their, i would have been standing outside the congress, the senate, whoever will listen to me, and said you are not going to give these people guns to kill my children. The second thing is they said that hillary and bill did speeches at these places because when bill clinton left the white house, they were basically bankrupt. Why would anybody want to run if at one time, running in the white house made you bankrupt. We live on very little money right now but these last eight years of mine and my husbands lives has been the hardest. We raised three children and never had food stamps. Never had any kind of government help. We are at the point where it is just me and my husband and we struggle every day to pay our bills. I do not understand this economy. How did it get so bad since we got married and 75 . That was a rough time too. All of our kids graduated, all of them had their cars bought for them. I couldnt buy one of my grandkids a car at 16 now to save my soul. There is something wrong here. There is something wrong in this country. I dont totally agree with blocking everyone coming in because i think we have some very smart people in other countries that the United States could use but i think we need to get people that are vet people better, and the guy in orlando was born in this country. How did he become so radical when he was born in this country and have the luxuries that every american has to go out here and go to school . If you are born in this country, why would they hate us . Caller you mentioned it is the hardest for you and your husband in the past eight years . Can i ask why that is . In the bounce back we have seen from the recession, has that benefited you at all . Caller no. I have seen no bounce back. My husband doesnt get the raises he used to get. They used to get bonuses at his company. They are great people. He has Great Companies working for him. They are struggling and they have had to take away bonuses and things just keep the company going, the gas prices, even though people are saying they go down, they go down for a week or two. A month ago they were down to a dollar . 89 1. 89. I dont understand that. Go into the Grocery Store i did this test so if anybody wants to convince me on this, come join me i went to the Grocery Store and i just used pork and beans. I wrote them down and two weeks later i went back and they were . 22 higher. People say everything is on sale and i am not going to use any company names. But if you is americans will and at what you are buying checked the price and go back and a couple weeks, i promise you they are up 10 . That makes me wonder who is using this money, where is it going, and why are we being gouged . Earlier, we talked to mark price, economist with the Economic Policy institute, who helped write a paper about income inequality, a study of states and counties and metropolitan areas, talking about how increases in income have impacted the top 1 and the other 99 . You can go on our website to check it out if you missed it. Cspan. Org is the website. Sandy is in indiana, democrat. Caller yes. I wanted to Say Something about bush, president bush. Host which one . Caller george w. Bush. Escalated over hanging chads down in florida. On the Oprah Winfrey show just before that, when he was running for president , she said something to him about what people think of him and he said he doesnt care what people think of him. She says you are running for president and you dont care what people think of you . I care what 51 think. Stop and think about the hanging chads which started the overseas stuff. I watched washington journal and i watched the elections and believe me, they need to clintons back in their because a guy along the highway here was begging people to come to work because everybody had a better job. Host as carranza is in miami beach, florida. Line four independents. Caller free speech. Usually the free speech is being abused. Even fox news, who pretends to sayonservative, they dont example, when donald trump said about illegal immigrants, the media usually says he is talking about immigrants. When donald trump what donald trump said about people coming from the terrorists activities mainly are from those countries, they dont say temporarily. The way the media conveniently even president obama when he talks tout donald trump trying stop people from coming, he doesnt use the word temporarily. Speech not abuse of free ause they should say that host you are concerned about taking donald trump and president obama out of context. Caller i am not trying to do that. What i am trying to say is they should not say it at all because otherwise they are abusing the powers they have to mislead the people because it is not the same to hear because of the terrorists, i would like to stop so we could really know what is going on. Also, the media is not failing us the media is failing us when they say that when obama is 29, 97 residency, from of the people entering this , arery, even legally muslim. Host that is esperanza in florida. When it comes to trying to give you the whole thing, we try to do that here on cspan. We give you gavel to gavel coverage of the house and senate, we try to give you Committee Hearings in their entire form as much as we can, and today, the Senate Banking committee is holding a hearing on Monetary Policy. Janet yellen will be the key guest at that hearing. She is the Federal Reserve chair. She will be presenting her semiannual report on the current status of the economy and what Monetary Policy was doing to sustain the Recovery Efforts happening today in the senate ankeny Senate Banking committee. Lets get in brian in kansas, emma cracked. Democrat. Caller i was talking about trickledown economics. I am in kansas and our illustrious governor has instituted that. Panacea. Republican he said it will be a shot in the arm to the state four years later, we are closing hospitals, schools are having to close early, he has robbed the money from the highwayhes used all te rainy day fund. Our Credit Rating has gone down twice. He has given all the money to the Business Owners. Now they pay no taxes here in kansas. We are hundreds of millions of dollars short going into the coffers here in kansas. Now, four years later, he still wrong. T say, hey i was this trickle down does not work. If you are building tables, a Business Owner building tables and nobody is buying tables you are not going to expand your business. You keep your tax money, you buy boats, cars, put it in your roth ira or whatever. Trickle down is not working. Host that is brian from kansas. Our last caller. We will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern, for a clock a. M. Pacific. We are taking you live to