Intelligent officials aided president obama in wiretapping trump tower, a claim british officials deny. We are asking viewers on your thought between President Trump and chancellor merkel. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. And ints can call independents can call 2027488002. You can also reef us on social media, on twitter at cspan. Org and on facebook at acebook. Com cspan. On the Washington Post front page, President Trump unproven allegations that predecessor lays a new path of political disruption friday as he dragged two foreign allies into his increasingly then argument that he is right. Standing next to german chancellor merkel, trump declined to express regret or the accusation he tweeted nearly two weeks ago despite some of the highest ranking members of his own party saying they have not seen evidence of any such wiretapping occurred and trump passed on the opportunity to reject a fox news report that British Intelligence agency aided in that effort. Lets start off by looking at the member of the german press asking President Trump a question yesterday about media relations. Reporter so how dangerous do you think this isolation policy is what was the import terrorist that he plans and also was the fact that he doesnt think the e. U. Doesnt deal with the e. U. In a very respectful way and then mr. President , dont you think this is going to weaken the European Union and why scared off diversity in the news and in the media that you speak so often of fake news and that things that cannot be proven that you have been wire tapped by mr. Obama . President trump nice friendly reporter. First of all, i dont believe in an isolationist policy but i also think a policy of trade should be a fair policy and the United States has been treated very unfairly by many countries over the years and thats going to stop. But im not an isolationist but im a free trader and also a fair trader. You look at the deficits that scombeff you look at all of the accumulation of debt, were a very powerful country, were a very strong country. We will soon be at a level that we perhaps have never been at before. Our military is going to be strengthened. Its been depleted. But i am a trader. I am a trader that wants to see good for everybody worldwide but im not an ice lacist by any stretch of the imagination. I dont know what newspaper youre reading but that would be an example of as you say, fake news. Host and there were moments of fremont and praise between the two leaders yesterday as shown in this report from a german newspaper. It says donald trump and Angela Merkel make nice, sort of. But it points out that there was praise given by both sides. Says President Trump praise and vows to continue that germanamerica partnership and the value it rests on. He declares his support in nato and he lauded germanys apprenticeship model and expressed his hope to bring some of those foils the u. S. For the benefits of American Workers and he grease as merkel did state to participate in the g20 meeting even though he generally prefers bilateral talks to multilateral one. Merkel expressed not just that she understands one of President Trumps seams that americaneuropean allies should pay more for their own defense but that berlin was doing something about it and ready to increase its military outlays. Rom democtic ng f line. Hi, dennis. Caller oh, well ill start off with when trump said that somebody on fox news was the one hat put out that report. About the white house, trump towers being bugged because fox news as already issued a statement that they didnt have anybody on there to say anything at all about that. Which is one lie that he told today. And Companies Moving back into the United States, i want him to let us know every time a company move back into this country, he got this country on a fear, scaring people thinking the military wasnt no good and everything in this country was bad. Everything was terrible. Started off the first thing they asked him was that mexicos are rapists and murderers. So he got a lot of preng white people to support him that was head of obama hated obama and was so glad to see obama go. They started all those walls and spend all that money and obama did not start that war in iraq. His name happens to be george bush. Thats who spend all those trillions of dollars when yall keep talking about the deficit. Host ok. We have rob calling in from new york. Rob, what are your thoughts about the meeti between chancellor merkel and presint trum caller hey, good morning. Thank you for cspan. Host good morning. Caller you know i am a democrat but i agree with that with President Trump that thai nato should pay its fair share of the defense of europe. And i agree with what trump said but i think as far as fair trade is concerned, he needs to stand up to china and japan. You know, theres a way out and i think that theres a way out of this mess that i dont hear anybody really get in too much. The mess that we have 20 trillion in mess and i think the wealthy people have a lock on low taxes and i dont think that middle class and working class can and i wish you would do a program. We need to selfimpose a gas tax of 1 gallon, 2 gallon as an Emergency Fund. Maybe even on stock trades, 1 a trade, 2 a trade or more. Maybe 100 per automobile sold, an Emergency Fund to go money that and not a vat tafpblgs tax. Ed to keep our people need to speak about addressing the financial emergency that is 20 zprl come up with a concrete plan. I think we need to put taxes. The middle class needs to tax ourselves and it needs to go down to pay down the 20 trillion. Host ok. You mentioned nato and President Trumps repeated request that nato members pay their fair share. Lets take a look at what he said about that yesterday. President trump i reiterate you to chancellor merkel. My strong support for nato as well as the need for our nato allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense. Many nations owe vast sums of money from past years and it is very unfair to the United States. These nations must pay what they owe. During our meeting, i thanked chancellor merkel for the german governments commitment to increase defense spending and work towards contributing at least 2 of g. D. P. I want to thank the chancellor for her leadership in supporting nato and its efforts in afghanistan. This has come at significant cost including the lives of over 50 german soldiers who sacrifice whose sacrifice we greatly honor. Host larry is from la mesa, california. What was your thought . Caller i thought the meeting was informative. It shows that donald trump is not connected with the rest of the world. He seems to be on a tangent and destiny is trouble. It seems that he should be more analytical instead of producing these offthewall words. He produces things out of his mouth that dont really make sense and he repeats himself. He needs to be more decisive and more like a president instead of somebody who bids on contracts the world would be a much better place. Thank you. Host ok. Derrick is calling in from randaltown, maryland on our democratic line. Good morning, derrick. Caller good morning. Donald trump is a vain, selfcentered, habitual liar who has a serious disease. If you lived in a decide you had a disease he has, you would call it he has diarrhea of the mouth. He talks too much. He has no idea what hes saying. He has more enemies than he can possibly manage imagine. This guy is probably hated by every race and religion in this untry except for the evangelicals and they arent even a legitimate religion. Thank you. Host ok. And we are talking about yesterdays First Official meeting between fed cup and german chancellor merkel. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Nd independents, 2027488002. A little bit more from the guardian, the take of the british paper on the ongoing situation with the white house claims of wiretapping. It says the white house reveals a leader willing to alienate allies to stay safe says the extraordinary public review by the United States closest surveillance partner has revealed an emerging characteristic of Donald Trumps white house ax willingness to antagonize even its allies instead of admitting error. Gchq intimately linked with a National Security agency has taken public exception to an allegation repeated from the white house podium that is true would probably shatter the Intelligence Alliance so dear to washington and london. Host ron calling in from memphis, tennessee on our independent lin good morning, ron. Caller thank you. Talking about President Trump and the way he he wouldnt even check shake merkels hands on germany. The way he carries himself and the way the is a disgrace. How can anybody look at this and see that its a positive sign when hes doing stuff like hes acting like a spoiled child. He got his children and oninlaw standing back. Its like a joke. Its like this whole thing thats going on with the administration is a joke so far. Like were going to start a war or go to war with north korea. We are going to send people into a country that we know nothing about. You would think we got to stand back and think about this before we go with Something Like his. The comments about allies, it baffles me. Host ok. Caller it kind of worries me. But i appreciate you taking my call. Host tim is calling from columbus, ohio, on our republican line. Tim, what did you think about yesterdays meeting . Caller i thought the things donald trump said about the meeting and the conversation with president merkel were woerful. And in fact,reat support of nato. And it is true that most of the members of nato dont pay their fair share. The same as most of the members of the United Nations dont pay their fair share. The United States has been footing the bill for most of these countries for many years. Now i keep hearing about how he is upsetting our allies. Well upsetting our allies is on we did to israel, the surrounded europe by radical islamist terrorists that want to overthrow israel and condemn it. And thats just one ally. He reinforced the our friendship with Great Britain right off the bat. And all of see, we turned our back on our allies. Now were rebuilding our relationships with them. Now and the unfair trade with other countries. That should stop. Its time for fairness in america. And america used to be a leader. Its time to lead again. And i think this Foreign Policy is the best ive seen in the la 20 years since ronald reagan. I think that trump makes sense. The only people who dont are the people that watch cnn. Because look at brazil. Caught redhanded and fired for what she did. And then turned around and made head of the d. N. C. Which shortly after that her emails on wick leaks got caused her to tend her resonation there. Resignation there. Host lets look at the handshake when President Trump didnt respond, according to u. S. A. Today, amid the chaos of President Trump and germany chancellor Angela Merkels first meeting on friday. A request was made. Photographers wondered if the World Leaders would change hand. Merkel turned to trump. Do you want a handshake . Trump didnt respond. And then merkel made a face, sort of one of the awkward moment between one of the two as they pose for a photo op amid meeting yesterday for the first time. Tims calling from alabama on our democratic line. Good morning, tim. Caller good morning. Host and what did you think about yesterdays meeting . Caller well, i thought some of it on the news and what i saw was Angela Merkel and donald trump sitting in the chair in front of the cameraman and he sat there with his hands clasped together. And he wouldnt even shake her hand. He never looked at her. He never acknowledged her. Insultingght that was and disrespectful. And youre doing Something Like that in front of all the cameras with all the news people watching and other countries and leaders from around the world and this is supposed to be, you know, your ally that you are acting in this way like a child. And then the other comment the other thing that i saw was some was questioned by german reporter and he he had the nerve to include the British Government of wiretapping trump towers. Which is another one of our allies. And the guy is not wrapped right upstairs. And theres something seriously wrong with him. Host ok. All right. Here is a call from our republican line from jackson, florida. Good morning. Caller the people criticizing president um dont realize e wants to protect america from illegals. Plus the last thing i want to say, the ones that say hes racist and all that, 93 to 94 of the black people voted for barack obama. To me, they could be say racism also. Thank you. Host and a little more from the New York Times about the meeting between Angela Merkel and President Trump on the issue of immigration. It says that mr. Trump did not mention his executive order banning travel from six predominantly muslim countries. He did say immigration is a privilege, not a right in the safety of our citizens must always come first without question. Ms. Merkel offered a vision of what she called openminded globalization. Refugees needed opportunities to improve their lives in part to stabilize their countries and prevent them from sliding into civil war. She extoled freedom of movement as one of the great strengths of the European Union. Germanys success was tied to the success of the European Union. Host kenny is calling from st. Thomas Virgin Islands on our independent le. Good morning, kenny. Caller good mning. How are you . Im good. What are your oughts about yesterdays meeting with the german chancellor at the white house . Caller the president , President Trump seems like he was in another world. No interest. He didnt show any respect to the german chancellor. You know . Host and what would you have liked to see the president say or what issues would you have ike to see him focused on . Caller well more about nato because even some of the people do not pay a lot of their countries, allies of natos, they lost lives during the gulf war. That was unnecessary, started by bush, president bush. You know, these people, these untries lost soldiers even though you do not pay up your full share of the money. Your soldiers lost life. Who is going to compensate these countries for the loss of lives . For holding the americans back . By going to war with the u. S. A. . I dont understand if you know where im coming from. Host ok. Lissette is calling in on our democratic line. What did you think about yesterdays meeting . Caller well, i do apologize. I only saw snippets of it and i did hear a lot but ive been paying attention to trump for quite a while now. And i dont know what Business School he went to but apparently, its not the one that i did because everything that i learned in Business School is not what hes saying. Yesterday what i did get to see though, i dont know what has happened to diplomacy. A simple cordial smile would have gone a long way. I would have liked him to extend his hand in a gracious manner as to show her he was happy that she was there even though there may not be things that they agree on. Smiling always helps. Weve always been the country that, you know, is open armed and hi, were glad youre here. Were going to make sure you have a nice day and well talk about whatever we need to. Even if theres disagreements, but it was just literally like he could care less and i cant believe he continues to go on games laming rants and dish mean, thats so childish. I cant believe somebody hasnt actually really let him have it because i just wonder what all of my teachers would be thinking right now, watching him. You dont blame people. You just a good leader takes responsibility even if its not his fault. He could have handled all of that and smoothed it over. But i dont know where hes going with the way his behavior s. Host lets watch a reporter about his twitter habits. Reporter what is your take on it . Are there other suspects or do you think it was a mistake to blame British Intelligence for are there y the way, from time to time 2003 tweets that you regret President Trump very seldom. Reporter ok. President trump probably wouldnt be here right now. Very sell do. We have a tremendous group of people that listen and i can get around the media when the media doesnt tell the truth. So i like that. As far as wiretapping, i guess this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps. [laughter] and just to finish your question , we said nothing. L we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didnt make an opinion on it. That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on fox. And so you shouldnt be talking to me. You should be talking to fox. Host and according to the New York Times on friday, fox news forced to disavow the statement by that legal analyst. Said fox news cannot confirm the judges commentary. The anchor shepherd smith said on the air. Fox news does not know that the president of the United States of america was surveiled at any time. Sharon from kingston, illinois on our republican line. Good morning, sharon. Caller hi. I dont think anybody cares about that wiretapping stuff or other russian stuff theyve been hearing about. People are too worried about whats going on on their own lives. Only rich people who have nothing to worry about worry about that kind of stuff. People are too busy working to pay off their insurance money and everything. But i think if President Trump was friendly to merkel, i think it would have, you know, it would have been kind of phony and i think it would have scared the American People, you know, people would have think that hes turning into a rhino. You know, there with the other stand up he has to because he doesnt want to turn into germany or ance. I dont think its prejudice or anything to you want to protect yourself when you see whats happening in germany, its really scary. Nice that Angela Merkel tries to let people in and feed people and everybody wants to do that kind of stuff. But its just too dangerous when youre not looking out for your own people. The white cultures there that having their nazi guilty guilt or whatever or white guilt scares Angela Merkel. But everything having to do with the nazis was just not a few people. Probably hundreds of people. Everything that went on with germany has nothing to do with the Common Personal your normal everyday person. Its nice and kind and will help anybody but when you mix cultures, its not really a prejudice thing because cultures are different. Every culture is kind of prejudges another culture because theyre afraid and theyre different and once you get to know specific people doesnt mean everybody is harmful but you have to look at it in a broadway. I dont think host ok. Jacquelines calling in from heightstown, new jersey on our new jersey line. What did you think about yesterdays meeting between President Trump and chancellor merkel . Caller good morning. I have to apologize for my voice. Im getting over a flu. And thank you for cspan. Ive been watching you for almost 15, 20 years. I thought saw snippets of it. It was really embarrassing. It just goes back to show that hes really unfit and unqualified to be president. The very word president ial, having manners, knowing how you should be a host. Whatever your personal an mist towards chancellor merkel, for those who keep saying president merkel, its chancellor merkel. You are representing the United States and all of its people and when you display the lack of civility, not acknowledging her presence, his to the body language but he respects women. But beyond that, everything that hes doing is just a shell game, smoking mirrors. He rode into the white house on this birther thing where the president wasnt really a citizen, used that for five years even after the birth certificate was produced. So for people who keep saying they have discounted everything he said, theres no evidence. He should give it up. Hell never give it up. Thats not what he dums hes going to double down. Double down, double down, double down. When are articles of impeachments going to be drawn up . At the very least, you smear a president , you smear the first black president , now youre accusing our allies, United Kingdom of illegal activities. They should censure him. There should be some sort of retribution for this. Host ok. Lets take a look at the New York Times, again, with more details abou yesterdays meeting between chancellor merkel and President Trump. It said world apart on style and policy. Mr. Trump and ms. Merkel made a show of working together as they sit side by side in the east room, the white house that they could not disguise the gulf that separates them on trade, immigration and a host of other thorny issues. Well people are diskets ms. Merkel said when asked to corose buhas ateee ecd f. Eryinju wt ke th who aroemwe, u dteepotianto d the js. Mr tmphoan f oic a th aitsiof cveiol lici sleat tt ne he m t le om suolewery o puicik hiom caerhi w e u in i dn g t s t mh. Ki osa aite t o. Silli fur,heha thgn mm wh e lira ololis d ve lleay,ecseasal it just wle dfent idli me, lers nto erhio e olwod d gbast biclyre stiguses wt te ov t wleor uilll thibalanhe coertis wt d us ty dtarabtny ho . Eeto heos reoi tgo t kaere omhe bnxn r go mnisatri. Caerheo, gd rng. 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Anond um igog rnhicotr aun r n ud iepde earikdoldru i buhe ausesan heidoon swnerna fe ani in a tseth ads nd sp t t atanstt pinthr she d g uouof ts 0 trli dt ateasng ono r anid a tir ki ao rtanso o a icui ithanow thro, wne t g uan rely sp a erydy nes pk r esen stok caerhe dsn he ske esfoig lde hds ho lseehachceor meelaiabt e iornc ofhe. Sgeaneliohi chancellor merkel let me look back into the past. We, the germans owe a lot to the United States of me, particularly with regards to the economic rise of germany. This was primarily due to the help through the marshall plan. We were also able to regain immunity after decades of the United States standing up for this together with other allies. And standing by our side during the period of the cold war. And we are very gratified to know that today we can live in peace and freedom and a unified country due to that. So i was gratified to know that the president underlined how important he thinks nato is. Nato is of prime important for us and it was not without very good reason that we said during our summit meeting in wales that also germany needs to increase expenditure we committed to the 2 goal until 2024. Last year, we increased our defense spending by 8 and were going to Work Together again and again on this. Host and edwards calling from washington, d. C. In our democratic line. Caller i am very embarrassed by our president of the United States of america. But i want to say this, cspan. You are doing a beautiful job on that program and i thank you very for that. And sten, i speak german anish and the thi is, Angela Merkel is a classy lady. The thing is, shes the head of the European Union and shes done a beautiful job in germany and she outclassed donald trump. He didnt even shake her hand nd she has a ph. D. In physics. And shes chancellor and outclassed this man. He didnt want to shake her hand. And i have also a ph. D. And i. Tudied in germany also i was an africanamerican scientist. One of the only scientist in germany and she said to hillary clinton, she would be the only one right now facing Vladimir Putin and had she been elected, she would have been the only president in the western world facing Vladimir Putin. She is a classy person and im very much ashamed at this p. Im going to work the rest of my life to see that this man does not get another term in the white house. Thank you very much. You keep on doing a good job. Youre doing a beautiful job. Host thank you. And we have neata calling i from charleston, tnks onur republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to say i dont understand why he did not shake ms. Merkels hand during the press conference. Did he shake it earlier when he met her . President trump is refreshing to me because he is not ashamed to tand up for america. We have been so client with leaders of other countries for sheers. And now its time to put america first. I am in my 6. Im retired. And 60s and im retired. And i want to say that for once, i have hoped during the past 10 years or so that my grandchild will have a future that is bright, that is sunny, that is one that he will be rewarded for his hard work. And my hope is because of the stand that President Trump has taken with the world view and putting america first. I was at the rally when he came to nashville. I stood for five hours on concrete. And when i got into the arena, there were still thousands and thousands. I would estimate at least 10 waiting in line to get in but it was full. I was one of the last ones to get in. We love President Trump. There are so Many Americans that love to see this refreshing man. Thank you so much for letting me speak today. Host all right. And from eureka, california, williams calling on our democratic line. What are your thoughts, william . Caller yes, good morning, everybody. I joined the basket of deplorables. I am a democrat and i was embarrassed yesterday. Im still for donald trump. He is our president , but he was so embarraing yesterday. And everyone listen. What youre missing the whole point. Youre mission everything thats going on in his head. Whats going on in his head is he did not get person of the year on Time Magazine and hes sitting right next to her. That is what was bugging him and i know imtill the day i die. That is all that was on his mind. Hes sitting next to the person of the year of Time Magazine. He wanted himself to be that person. Host ok. And in some other headlines today from politico, it says that reince priebuss talk with the f. B. I. Aptos have broken white house rules. Reince priebus requests that the f. B. I. Refute a report with russian intelligence aptos have violated the white house policy restricting political intending an investigation according to a conomy of the copy of the policy. E policy says host ronny is calling from sohern pines, North Carolina on our independent line. Good morning, ronny. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I just want to say i am amazed that this is even a topic that everybodys harping about whether he shook her, hand and how everybody is so embarrassed when he didnt shake her hand. Led her into the building. I watched later on as he moved into the building. He was very courteous. Just because he refused to bow down to some photographers wanting a handshake. He did what he had to do and thats fine. I dont know why this is such a big deal. But i lived in germany for 21 years. I speak the language fluently. I have friends who are like family there. I went and visited two years ago. Theyre not the average everyday german are not happy with chancellor merkel of what shes done to their country. So making her the leader of the free world and making us to be world d or third class citizens is just news people hyping things up. Concentrate on what hes been doing instead of spending the whole morning talking about whether he shook her hand or not. Host on the massachusetts line is robert. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Im calling to say that the party line is kill democracy in this country. People cannot see that donald trump is really acting like a guy who is not representing this country. And people are talking hes look at what hes doing. What is this guy doing what hes telling our former president did this to him and do not apologize . This is a guy that is feeding White Supremacy that the jewish places are being vandalized. This is a guy who does not all he cares about is greed. And people got to stop the party line because somebody called earlier talking about when obama was president , people vote 93 vote for obama. Of course. As black americans, we never had a president. People are not i think people re looking at trump is a immigrate, hes against minority and a lot of people watch the president , they like that. Please, why dont we look at a country that should be run properly, a guy who does not act as a sick mind and hes making a lot of people sick and the White Supremacy love the way he acts. If obama ever act like that, they would say this guy is unqualified but trump is ok. Please, get off the party line and look at this country. Thank you. Host and then some other headlines. George conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway senior white house official is eyed for job as a Justice Department according of the wall street journal. George conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway is set to be nominated to run the Justice Departments civil department. The position would put him at the forefront of defending the controversial executive order on immigration and fighting other lawsuits against the trump administration. Mr. Conway, a partner at the wall street firm host jenny is on the line calling from farmington, new mexico on our repubcan ne. Good morning, jenny. Caller good morning. How are you . Host i am good. And what are your thoughts about yesterdays bilateral meeting with chancellor merkel and President Trump . Caller well, i have to agree with several people. I agree with a lady earlier who said yes, he greeted her very cordially. He was smiling. He was happy to meet her finally facetoface and thats one thing that she made the statement that things are different whenever you are facetoface. You know, sometimes we dont realize exactly whats going on in some peoples whats going on in the inner circle because they know so much more about whats happening in our world than we do. And i personally think that we are some people are very hard on President Trump and was calling him earlier very unpresident ial. But they forget about how obama whenever the Prime Minister from israel came over, they knew exactly when he was appearing. They knew he was there at the white house. They left him sitting in an office for two hours while him and michelle went upstairs and had dinner. Now to me, thats called very unpresident ial, especially when they knew that he was coming. And so, you know, i just kind of feel like we forget. And i am so proud that we have a president now who is standing up for the American People. I mean, every time president obama would go overseas, he would talk about how horrible we were. And im excited that we now have a president who will at least lift up his people, you know. We are americans. And he needs to support us. Not everyone else. And yes, i think we need be really nice to everyone but sometimes we cant always be nice to them because theyre not very nice to us. So if you lk around the world right now, just this just recently in paris, another person was shot, you know, over trying to come in and kill people. Do we really want not happen to us here in the United States . Weve already had 9 11 and numerous other attacks. We need to be careful. We need to make sure that the people that are coming here into the United States want to be here, want to be part of our culture here. Yes, its great to have other cultures, but we need to make sure were stimulating them into our world of america. Host ok. Lets take a look what chancellor merkel said yesterday about the importance of compromise and diversity. Chancellor merkel well, im here as chancellor of the republic of germany. I speak to the president of the United States of america who, well, stands up for the american interests. That is our task respectively and i must say that i was very gratified to know the very warm and gracious hospitality with which i have been received here. We held a conversation while we were trying to address easy to areas that we disagree wery to show what is our advantage point, what is the american advantage point and find a compromise because we need to be fair with each over. Each and every one is expecting for his or home run leader that something good comes out of it. For germany, i can say people are different. People have different abilities and different origins and have rounds their way into policy along different pathways which is different diversities which is good. Sometimes its difficult to find compromises but thats what were electeded for. Host shirley is on the democratic line from virginia. Hi, shirley. Caller hi. I thank god for cspan. Im glad youre well. Well, i saw yesterday and i saw the same way i felt when they were having the debate. He snubbed her. And we dont you know, the American People as far as im concerned, he does everything he can to get us off of russia and his taxes. I know that, you know, the people in the world, you know, seems like everybody, all of a sudden, its black and white. It aint no black and white. We all are connected in this world. All of us by blood from somebody else. And he makes he is not a true patriot. He doesnt talk good about our country. He doesnt act like hes proud of us. And i feel hurt by it because i feel like if we in this world together, we got to breathe the same air. We all got to eat, which hes messing with. Hes messing with everything that has anything to do with the people that are not making more than 250,000. We dont matter. And thats not fair. And i just want to say i love our country. I love our people. I love our world. And i dont want him to start a war because hes got his nose stuck up in the air and i thank you for taking my comment. Host ok. Kennys calling from baton rouge, louisiana on our independent line. Good morning, kenny. Caller hey, hows it going . I just wanted to make a comment on i want to make like three major points. And one, with one is trumps a nationalist. And Angela Merkel is a globalist. Most of what she said on the press conference yesterday, she was lking about us doing business with the e. U. Instead of doing a Bilateral Agreement between germany and the United States and thats why a lot of their talks failed. Really dont think that people understand the functions of donald trump. Hes a negotiator. And if you do read the hart of the deal, just like to yesterday yall were talking about the budget, you know, what was in the budget is outrageous but its kind of like whenever you go to buy a car, you know the guy offers high and then you go low and you find somewhere in the middle. Im not really worried about meals on wheels and it being cut. Theyre going to find a middle ground somewhere but i do think trumps major goal is to break down nafta and just like the u. K. , i think they want to break down the e. U. And that in itself breaks down the commissioner which breaks down the whole globalist scheme. And i think people really need towns that if they donkeys they really need to go and research what it is. All the way back to Everything Else and thats all i got to say. Thank you. Host roberts calling from mt. Carmel, pennsylvania on our republican line. What did you think about the meeting, robert . Caller well first of all, good morning. Host good morning. Caller i like to say that all those people that are embarrassed for our president yesterday at that meeting and also i would like to say for those liberal judges that insist on putting america at risk including hawaii who has really nothing to do with mainland america. They have they are two different worlds. I would like to say those that are so embarrassed by our prident, watch how embarrassed they are once we get t good. That is all. Host ok. And beverly is calling from North Carolina on the democratic line. Good morning, beverly. Caller good morning. How are you . Host im good. Caller i have a long speech but im going to cut this thing short. Host we only have a couple of minutes. Please cut it short. Thank you. Caller he is just really embarrassing. Its not just this meeting. Hes embarrassing all the time simply because President Trump needs help. Theres a problem there. I taught school for almost 30 years. You can tell when a person begins to walk or talk. This man needs help. He hates everybody except himself and his family. And im going to make this really short. This man is if were not careful, hes trying to become a dictator. He has put everyone in those office who is either hate the offices or dont know about the offices and when those offices or departments fail, its over for us. You know, i dont know why people cant see through this person. But well, whatever. God help america. Host all right. And thomas calling in from ironwood, michigan on our independent line. What are your thoughts, tom . Caller hi. Thanks for taking my phone call this morning. Yeah, donald trump, a psychopath, truly, a compulsive liar. 75 of the words that come out of his mouth are either from breitbart or alex jones or the National Inquirer is also another good source for him. Instead of obtaining data and using his intellect to come to a decision, he watches fox news. And if fox news tells him that if something is true, well then by god, its true. Its really scary. How can you trust a man who was unable to use Critical Thinking to arrive at an answer . And he has always been like this. I would assume that he always will be. There will come a time when this country actually has a crisis and we will need to rely upon donald trump to say yay or nay. Or to say that maybe we should incompetent said this country or maybe we should not. And i would say half of the countrys going to say i cant trust anything this man says and you cant. It is very scary. I have a daughter. Shes 17 years old. Shes scared. This whole country you know, you hear these people talking about how great donald trump is and it just astonishes me by their ignorance. They all need to go back to school, take a civics class and concentrate and take donald trump with you because he has no idea how the government works, what the constitution is, what this kins built upon. Its not built upon the million and the billionaires. But thats donald trump. I thank you for taking my phone call. Have a good day. Host ok. Up and next, we will have a discussion about u. S. China relations and an update on whats happening in the region with Timothy Heath of theion an the atlantic council. And later, our weekly spotlight on take a look at Charter School education. Ashley mitchell will join us then. Had of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for judge neil gorsuch, cspan caught up with Chuck Grassley to discuss how he prepared for that hearing. Our live coverage of that hearing starts monday on cspan2. , whether itration is for this one are going way back to 1981 when i have the first one, it is about the same. You read all you can about the individual. Tendonlawyer that i am, i to rely upon people that raid the 200 read the 250 some decisions he has written but i like to read about him, and i have briefing papers for my staff. I also give direction to the staff of the kinds of questions i want to ask like for instance, appreciation of what they think about the original intent of the constitution writers, the extent to which they give deference to administrative bodies on writing rules or interpretation of law. In other words, i want to know that they are going to be a referee of our separation of powers. Is certain executive responsibilities and certain legislative responsibilities, and i want to know how they approach that and divide the line, or draw the line because i see them as a referee of our constitutional system, and the final voice in regard to what is constitutional or not, and whether or not administrators follow congressional intent as we write the legislation. Youow much do you feel like can learn in the meetings with the nominee before hand, and went to you need to learn in a public hearing . In the private meetings a have had with the nominee you try to understand and become acquainted with them as an individual. He did not get into the weeds of the law. Maybe some members have, and maybe some nominees in the past i have done that but with this particular nominee it was under staring understanding where he comes from and i knew about his reputation for a year because he was on President Trumps list that came out. Some came out in march, the rest came out in june, so you kind of had a feeling of the type of people that President Trump, if he were president , would put before the senate. Out that with three or four of them that were cropping up as possible nominees , then you zero in on those three or four. I can certainly see why President Trump picked this nominee as opposed to some of the other three or four prominently mentioned. Washington journal continues. Host we are joined by Timothy Heath, Senior International debt corporation. T rand they are here to discuss u. S. China relationships. Thank you, gentlemen. Guest glad to be here. Guest thank you. Host