Briefed on these developments at his resort in West Palm Beach, florida. And we begin with the visit to maralago and the cost to you, the american taxpayer on this sunday, april 16. Our phone lines are open. Here are the numbers. Dd host good sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. These were the headlines on north korea. There was another Missile Launch one day after the massive parade that took place and the launch failed just a few seconds after its initial launch. Well have details as we focus later on the program on the developments in north korea. But we want to begin with Newsweek Magazine, among the publications this weekend, again, reporting on the travel costs that the president and first lady are incurring as they head down to West Palm Beach florida. Newsweek magazine writes the following, the trumps are set to become the most expensive first family in history if they dont immediately begin reducing their lavish spending habits and frequent trips across the globe. And taxpayers are picking up the tab as long as they keep it up. For context, President Donald Trump is expected to outpace the entirety of Barack Obamas eightyear travel cost with plenty of time to spare as his first year as leader of the free world, whereas the obamas spent close to 12. 1 million annually in travel costs, trump may have already doubled that benchmark on trips to maralago alone on the close of the first 100 days. Weekends at maralago cost upwards of 3 million per weekend. Last month at the white house, the press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked about this. Reporter the talk last week about the budget and priorities for the american tax dollars, the need to cut tax programs, make cuts of programs of meals on wheels, is the president going to consider cushing some of his trips to maralago with the g. A. O. Estimate could cost 3 million for a trip to the president for palm beach. Is he planning to cut those back at all given his feelings about the priorities for the american tax dollars . [video clip] sean thats a vast reach to suggest. President s always travel. I think the president , wherever he goes, he carries the apparatus of the white house with us. Thats just something that happened. The president will continue to go and travel around the country and have meetings to solve the nations problems. Again, i think just because i know you took a little bit of a shot there, i think even the Washington Post which is no friend to conservatives, even they sided with us that these false sort of narratives on meals on wheels, its not a federal program, 3 is their total budget that comes from a block grant passed through there. The staterun program. Apparently they had a phenomenal weekend this week. I get thats a cute program to point at but its false and mid leadsing to try to make that misleading to try to make that point stick. Reporter no president s traveled so often and so early to their own private sean president bush went to crawford. At the same time, the president is clear he works seven days a week and this is where he goes to see his family and he brings people down there. This is part of being president. Host the white house Secretary Sean Spicer last month asked about the travel costs. Join the conversation on facebook. Some context on this in 2011 and 2012, this is then donald trump tweeting on president Barack Obamas travel cost. Here are two of the tweets, president obama vacationing costing the american taxpayers millions of dollars, unbelievable. The habitual vacationer is now in hawaii and costing the taxpayers 4 million. Where is the 20 unemployment . Lets get to your calls and comments. Bruce from fort myers, florida, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wonder if he would have had a problem with obama taking vacations if he took them to maralago every weekend. The thing is, its not about taxpayers paying for his security and his flights back and forth down there, hes profiting from this. How come nobody has a problem with him personally profiting resort staying at his when dignitaries come and stay at his resort. He profits from it. I dont know if theyre just ignoring it and dont care or the people just dont know. The president is not supposed to profit at our experience. Thats the least of it all. Host thanks for the call. From our facebook page, cheryl says this, start making him pay. Danny davis says fake news, fake comments and fake intelligence and don says, who cares . Heather is joining us, hollywood, florida. Good morning. Independent line. Caller hello, hi. I just want to say how disgusting it is that 3 million to 4 million is being spent per trip to maralago, florida, on the backs of taxpayers for our president to line his own pockets. And it is such a disrespect to all of us hardworking taxpaying families. And furthermore, i just want to say that donald trump needs to stop hiding and show his taxes. Host lets go to john who is next from oregon. Good morning to you. Caller good morning to the man famously known as the most patient on cspan. And i want to thank you for this opportunity. The first caller had it pretty much dead on. The shady nature of all of this, you know, if obama was vacationing at maralago, there would have been nothing said. And mr. Trump proved it right there early on after the inauguration when an official function was moved from a traditionally neutral site to one of his own properties. And so my question is, its all talking about on the taxpayers on the back of the taxpayers, the taxpayers paying for this. Well, taxpayers are going to pay for it pretty much anyway no matter who the president is. My question is, what part of the budget covers this stuff . Is it carved out neatly in little packages from the defense budget, from its got to be written on the ledger somewhere that this money is provided, and if hes just chewing through it left and right, you know, until its gone and then ok, lets start taking away from another program. Anyway, thank you, steve. Host thank for you the call. This from carol, President Trump does work hard when in florida. Obama and michelle did as they pleased and did plenty and werent working nearly as hard. Jan says trump aapologists say he deserves it and give him a chance. Were getting your calls and comments on the president s travel costs to maralago. Nbc news is also reporting on this, the story Available Online at nbcnews. Com. The headline, the maralago costs triggering the costs and ethics concern and part of what nbc news is reporting, that the white house telling nbc news that when President Trump travels to maralago, hes staying at his home, the southern white house, and has minimal staff with him. Hotels and meals for the federal employees involved in the trips are covered by the government even though trump for the most part is working weekends. Conservative wash dog groups think there are less costly ways to do it. They estimate the cost of back and forth from washington to West Palm Beach is about 1 million with air force 1 costing 142,000 per hour. That according to information that it obtained through the freedom of information act through its own requests. Details available at nbcnews. Com. On our republican line, carolyn is next from bloomfield, new jersey. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im a republican and im an angry republican. Im extremely angry. When i was first eligible to vote, i registered as a republican. And can you hear me . Host we sure can. Caller ok. Great. The amount of money that donald trump is wasting on these trips to florida, its an outrage. Im outraged about it. And thats not the only thing im outraged by with President Trump. And i think hes a republican in name only. Hes not being conservative. Hes not being fiscally responsible. And im just outraged, outraged in new jersey at him. And i would not vote for him in 2020. Thats for sure, definitely. Host thanks for the call. This is from jim, unless i missed something, the only extra cost for a trump trip is the cost of fuel. Everybody else is on salary. Well, from market watch theres an essay written by tony wagner and the question is whether or not congress can intervene on the travel cost. The story is available on the marketplace website, a big thing driving cost for the president is location, location, location writes tony wagner. Trumps trips to maralago all but shut down the small airport and overtime for local Law Enforcement costing 80,000 a day though Palm Beach County is enjoying more tourism thanks to trumps visits and hosting the president every other weekend threatens to cause a budget crisis. While other president s go to their private homes, trump is staying at a resort he owns but could put a constitutional check on the weekends in maralago. Again, that from the marketplace website. Josh is joining us. Good morning. Seaside, california, democrats line, your view on the travel costs to maralago. Caller good morning, cspan. Its great to have a comment this morning. Conscience. S no the republican party, im not saying all the people because you do have some good republicans but theyre so hypocritical that its pathetic. President obama didnt have a chance to do any doggone thing. In fact, trump was the first guy that he talked about with things like this. I notice that everything trump starts bitching about is the 100 things he wanted to do and uldnt do him as a citizen and hes doing that as president. And so the earlier caller had made the comment that trump aking money hand over fist about going to his resort and things like this. Hes billing the federal government for the meals, the stayover of dignitaries that are coming in and things of this nature. So its going to be eventually i think a wall right here within the United States among the democrats and republicans. I mean a downright bringing it to the truth and hes the cause of it. Host give us a call. Host not much congress can do besides wine loudly. This from another regular tweeter. The potus is doing a great job. This is his lifestyle but hes earning it and doing a far better job than obama did and finally from steve, if youre a republican who voted for trump, you have no right to call in and complain. Trump is performing as expected. N. P. R. Reporting on the g. A. O. Which also is expected to look into the trump travel costs. Its available on the n. P. R. Website and includes the following. Pointing out that the Government Accountability office has agreed to examine the cost and Security Issues surrounding President Trumps frequent visits to maralago. The g. A. O. Has agreed to review whether the u. S. Treasury has received any payments from hotels owned by trump. The company now run by the two oldest sons but owned by the president has said he will turn over paragraph its the foreign vernments have made to his properties. Thats a possible constitutional implication. Good morning to you from the independent line. Caller good morning, thanks for having me and happy easter. Host thank you. Caller heres where i am as an independent. I supported trump and supported his agenda primarily. As a fiscal conservative, i also have to weigh the money hes spending back and forth. And so i struggle with it at times, but i think the argument that a democrat can make that i can fall in line with is more in line with the tax issue. I do see the president any of our leadership should have full exposure of their tax records so that we can see to what extent the liability exists. Thats my thought for today and i thank you for your show. Host thanks for the call from myrtle beach, south carolina. If youre listening on cspan radio or sirius xm or the potus channel 124. We welcome your comments and a full program. Well look at the situation in the middle east and north korea and look at the 2018 Midterm Election with David Wassermann who will join us in our final 45 minutes. And another tweet saying the coast guard patrol, both sides of the property, isnt he reducing the coast guard overall budget . And another tweet from doral, hes cutting meals on wheels while he eats and plays golf. I dont know how republicans justify it fiscally. Lets go to arnold joining us from oakland, california. Good morning. Caller good morning, how are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Democrats line. Caller no one is talking about the millions of dollars theyre spending on upgrading for security there. They put in a helicopter pad and theyre upgrading communications for secret service to be there and for the president , you know they have to put in communications and a place to be at it theres an emergency. And theyre spending millions of government money for upgrades and no one is talking about all the stuff theyre spending and thats not in our budget, also. Host thank you for the call. Karl, berkeley springs, west virginia, youre next. Caller good morning, steve. Host good morning. Caller from what i understand, hes not taking a salary. So i would say you have to figure that in a little bit. Host he donated the First Quarter of his salary to the National Park service. Caller giving back to the government. Host about 70,000. Caller you can anytime pit anything. Host thats the figure, the First Quarter of his salary, 77,000 he donated and hes agreed to donate his entire salary to various causes. In this case it was the park service. Caller i seen this black lady, ladys out in california. I never heard anything like that on cspan. You know, like i say, you can nitpick him. Theres more serious things going on in this world, steve, than what hes spending on vacation. I would say you should have something on north korea or maybe the bomb you dropped over there so we can discuss that. Host charlie, we have a threehour program and were going to turn our attention to north korea with dean cheng of the Heritage Foundation and youre right, theres other issues and this is one of them. Its been written about, the white house has been responding to calls, even donald trump was criticizing his tread saysor for his own travel expensess. Caller well, that was politics and still politics. You know, thank you, steve. Host on to howard who is joining us from fort lauderdale, not far from West Palm Beach. Good morning, republican line. Caller good morning. Happy easter, everybody. I dont really see what the with trump traveling to florida because during the elections, Hillary Clinton was on air force 1 with obama. Obama traveling her all over the country because shes not good enough to do it on her own so she got to have obama do it for her. All these people crying and complaining about this, that and the other. They did not get their way to a worse life we would have had and it went their way. What those people need to do is grow up, learn how to deal with the situation of losing and move on. Leave donald trump alone. So what, he had not showed his taxes. You know what, its really nobodys business what he paid on his taxes. Its not your business what i paid on my taxes no more your business whether you paid on yours whether youre president or not. I could be wrong. I could be right but it doesnt matter. Thats just my opinion. What we need to do is worry about whats happening in our country and pull together as one to try to help that. Host thanks for the call. Host thanks for the call. His and hers pays for your tax dollars. He and melania adding 100 million to the travel tab so she can fly separately to maralago with son barron to spend the easter weekend with the president. She traveled there separately aboard a military version of a boeing 757, the same plane used by Vice President pence when he traveled to munich, germany. Jerry is joining us from nebraska. Good morning, welcome to the program. Caller good morning. President obama went to hawaii and there was a couple times when his wife had to travel on a separate plane because she couldnt wait for him. That one trip to hawaii would cost more than trump going to maralago for a year. Plus, they use that plane to go to new york for their honeymoon for their anniversary celebration. So i dont see any comparison. Thank you. Host thank you. Newsweek magazine began the program with a quote available from the piece online and also releasing this web video for our radio audience, music with pictures of maralago and runs about a minute. [video clip] host from newsweek. Com. Reporting the secret service asking for an additional 60 million for the budget in the next fiscal year because of additional costs for travel. The story Available Online at Washington Post. The secret service asking for that additional money for travel and protection according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. From mississippi, independent line, good morning. Caller good morning. Its kind of hypocritical of republicans always trying to deflect. Its indefensible. Now, one person said he donated his salary, which he is saying he didnt. We dont know what he did or not. Weve seen no taxes. To the park service. But in his budget he cut if half that same park service. And obama while on vacation, goes twice a year with his this man goes on vacation every weekend. His wife got to fly from new york to maralago every weekend. He said in his campaign hed be working so hard he dont have time to golf and dont have time to vacation. Lie. Lies. And more lies. Hes just like a third rate child. He dont read because hes too lazy. The republicans are hypocrites. If that had been obama, or any other president , they would be investigating everything. Obama couldnt breathe right, unless they want to investigate that. This is ridiculous. This is the United States of america. We all are we all should be outraged. Host thanks for the call. Weve been getting a number of tweets questioning the 3 million figure were using and it comes from a number of different sources, including politico and the Washington Post and Judicial Watch which has been looking into this. This is a story Available Online at judicialwatch. Org, President Trumps 3 million getaway. The estimated cost every weekend. Orlando weekly reporting this morning that officials in West Palm Beach, florida, are considering a tax on maralago to help pay for local costs to secure the area, estimated at about 60,000 per weekend in overtime for officials, local officials who join the secret service in protecting the president of the United States. A number of tweets from another regular viewer saying, quote, all modern president s and candidates have released their tax returns, why is trump different, what is he hiding . This from a viewer who said i knew President Trump had several houses when i voted for him. I didnt expect him to spend his leisure time in government quarters. This from dane, lets do a segment on obama hours to trumps working hours. Not even close. Larry from the democrats line. Youre next. Caller they conducted business down there, didnt he meet with the president of china down there . And those trade deals could be worth billions of dollars, you know. So he is doing a number of hes mixing business with a little bit of pleasure but still theres billions of dollars at stake for our country anyway. , any could also see him political events happening, that he would be close in contact with all the administration, all the administrators down there. And the people of new jersey, they go down to florida every winter, so, you know, we enjoy ourselves down there, too. Host thanks for the call. At cnn. Com, President Trump on pace to surpass eight years of obamas travel spending in one year. A democrat from pennsylvania, what trump has already spent in our taxpayer dollars on vacation is enough to fund 61,000 school lunches. And another tweet from hamden, connecticut. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Caller how are you doing . Happy easter. About ant to comment trump giving his first year salary to the National Park service. Hes also proposing millions of dollars to cuts there so to me seems kind of ridiculous. Thats all i wanted to say. But you have a good day. Host thanks very much. Jennifer is following the trump travels to maralago and reporting the motorcade went a different route. She tweeted out, were wondering why the president s motorcade took a longer than usual route from yesterday to when he was playing golf to avoid the taxmarch protesters. There were demonstrations in florida and california in washington, d. C. On tax day demanding donald trump release his own taxes. That tweet from jennifer epstein. Stan is joining us from falls church, virginia. On the independent line. Caller i have a comment not only regarding his vacation which is profited. Tomahawk nds 59 from northrup grumman. His stock reached the highest point, he and his family profiting from it. You have a chief executive that he ordered this thing and at the same time is profiting. So its very highly questionable. Host thanks for the call. Cbs news, this headline, the secret service cost for the trump Family Protection continues to mount. James is joining us from grand forks, north dakota. Good morning and welcome to the program. Hey, steve. How are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller happy easter. Host thank you. Caller we forget its easter morning. Everybody on the democrats side, ive been listening so many weeks now and ive never heard so much anger and hate and used to make me happy to hear the misery of the democrats. But ive never seen something so amazing in my life. Even after eight years of obama, you know and his travels all over, right away he was traveling all over the world and apology, at least trump will stand up for us. Im one of the few supporters, to make it sound like theres no supporters of him. Think cspan is really draw as lot of anger. And also want to say about the secret service fund. This guy has more Death Threats on him than obama ever had. Lets be honest about that. And i just want to say hes doing business down there. And im still supporting him. And i also want to say one more important thing. I tried to get through a couple weeks ago, talking about the media fairness and stuff like that, whether it was fair. Ill give you one example that has to be told and perhaps you can comment on it, its crucial because the media wont touch it. A couple months ago you might remember there was a rise of antisemitism all across the country, more than a hundred bomb threats. Steve, you do know that even though that was blamed on trump and his supporters, they caught the people that did it, and its crucial your people hear this. The first guy was named Juan Thompson in missouri, an africanamerican journalist and Bernie Sanders supporter arrested as a hate criminal for doing that. The other was a israeli teenager and father arrested in israel. Trump sent agents to israel and demanded they give this guy up. He made over a hundred calls to our schools and to our Community Centers all across this country. So all that was caused not by Trump Supporters and its trurebl its crucial because that kind of propaganda there was hate rising up across the country was all manufactured. Host thanks for the call and thanks for adding your voice to north dakota, a photograph of the first lady and President Trump at maralago where they are spending their easter weekend. And an update on the story we talked about at the top of the program, that vote going on today in turkey, a key vote granting the president of turkey vast new constitutional powers and right now the yes vote above 51 p. Ill have more on this coming up later in the program. John from sebring, florida. Welcome to the conversation. How are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller you keep beating up on trump every day on the show and are scared to death to beat up obama when he was in. You wouldnt say one thing about him when he was in. Host let me stop. You know that is not true. We were beaten up got beaten up by critics of democrats saying we were too tough on barack obama. This is an issue thats out there and were just putting the facts out there and giving you a chance to express your point of view. Caller ok. And im telling you, every one of you people keep butting in when people call in trying to change their mind. But these people that are calling in probably dont pay any taxes. You still there . Host we sure are. Were not trying to change your mind. Caller and in my opinion some of them dont pay taxes and are complaining about our great president. Just like the other day huh a segment on there about obama and what he done in syria and the other one. And these people wanted to dodge the draft in the vietnam war while we were fighting a war and went to canada. You dont know how many of these people wouldnt even go if he did start a war. Nd one more thing. You put up a phone number for the illegal aliens to call and they are paying your salary and you have no business to put phone numbers on for these illegal aliens to call in. Host i appreciate the call. Your money isnt paying for cspan, were privately funded by the cable industry and dont get a nickel from the federal government. Were totally privately funded by your cable bill and get about over six cents per month from cable subscribers, i want to put that out there for you as well. Caller paying for you, everybody has a cable or satellite bill and put it on your show every morning. Host the cable bill. Were not the government. Caller my one opinion is you guys have turned into a bunch of troublemakers. And its eating your show up. Years ago when i first started watching it used to be a really good show. Host what question would you want us to ask this morning . Caller i dont want you to beat trump up every morning when you get on here. Thats what youre trying to do and is trying to change the opinion of everybody on this show about him. Hes doing a wonderful job. The only thing i see that he didnt do is he hasnt stopped that dreamers act yet. She do away with that on those dreamers and illegal aliens still getting work permits. Everything else hes done perfect. Host how are we trying to change minds or beat up on the president . Caller putting all these topics on there. Dont yall understand that . You got College Educations and you ought to understand that. You know. Host you didnt answer my which topics would you want us to focus on this morning. Give us the question. Caller how about putting on there about how god created this world and this is happy easter day, its good easter. Why dont you put Something Like that on there one of these days. Host john, happy easter and thank you very much for the call. Caller same to you. Bye. Host we appreciate it and do wish you a happy easter. Lets go to tony in pleasantville, new jersey, the democrats line. Good morning, tony. Caller good morning, steve. I lost my train of thought from the last two callers. One thing he said was really ridiculous about the war people not going to war when donald trump never served and none of his kids never served. But what i was calling about was the money, the 3 million a day and i have a question for some other callers that may call in. Does that 3 million include the money spent on his sons flying all over the world and protecting trump towers and the wife and son in new york, why cant they all just live in the white house and in one residence instead of the taxpayers picking up the bill for the whole family going here, there and everywhere. That was my question. Host tony, thank you. Well, the president making a reference to maralago and referring to it as the southern white house. Heres President Trump. [video clip] President Trump tonight im having a major meeting with the people we put on the board. He is an amazing man, marvel, disney, one of the great businessman of our times and were having a meeting tonight at what we call affectionately the southern white house, seems to be the most convenient location. Everyone always wants to go to the southern white house. Are you going to be at that meeting . You heard about it, right . Its going to be great. All about the v. A. Host the president s reference to maralago, in case youre interested, the maralago website. This is what it looks like and you can get more information on what it would cost to join to be a member of maralago for a wedding or other event. Cynthia from the independent line. Ood morning. Er why dont you have [inaudible] everybody would find out the real situation what is happening. This is just a circus. Donald trump is not in charge by himself. Congress has run away. I mean, hes got open purse, the whole government has an open purse on all of us. I mean, its not good for trump. Its not good for any of us. Please lets get it together. The people are in charge. They should be in charge. Congress has to do something about this. We need to stand together, everybody now. Theyre trying to teach the Constitutional Rights to everybody. Lets start teaching in schools because we gone forgot about all the rights. Especially the first five of them. Host thank you for the call from texas. Mark knoller of cbs news who keeps fess tidous information on all things president ial with a tweet on President Trump. No official schedule today, hes at maralago. And then keeping track of the weekend schedule as we move to the 100day mark for President Trump, seven weekends at maralago, six at the white house, zero at camp david. Mohammed is joining us on the democrats line, sterling, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. My comment is about the American People thinking that what trump is doing is new. Its not new. He said this before he was elected. The people of this country said they wanted President Trump to be their president because hes going to govern as a businessman. I believe this is what hes doing. Host mohammad, thanks for the call from virginia. Politico is reporting on Bashar Alassad saying the chemical attack 100 fabrication. Mark ginsburg will be joining us in about 10 minutes to talk about the middle east, syria and also the vote going on in turkey now above 51 for the president of turkey and what it means for the region and for the president s power in that country. Di did di is joining deedee is joining us. The trip to maralago, his seventh so far in his presidency caller yes, i do have my concerns about the taxpayers money and him getting around the country with his family. The tab for maralago, the tab for trump towers, and his children going abroad and opening new businesses that may be in conflict. I want to know about the investigations that theyre having because i do really strongly believe that he should reveal his taxes because i do believe hes in cahoots with russia and i also do believe that he does have a lot of debt. And it doesnt make any sense for us to be footing his bill while he is putting money in is pocket. And i wont never vote for him again. Host the news on president ial weekends away from the white house. A comparison of past president s , president bush from roughly the same time period from february 20 to april 16, george w. Bush spending 34 days away from the white house, mostly at camp david or his ranch in crawford, texas. Barack obama, 14 days in that time period and donald trump, 25 days. Re Details Online at nbcnews. Com. Good morning. Same people complaining about president obama, same people defending trump, complaining about president obamas vacations and he paid for his vacations. And we also have to remember host he did not pay for air force 1. He did not pay for security costs, president obama. Caller he paid some of it. And number two, we have to remember trump bragged he dont pay any taxes. Those words came out of his mouth. He has no problem spending taxpayers money. I wonder about his email server. They made a big deal about Hillary Clinton. I wonder if everything is secure at maralago. I believe its ground zero for his corruptions and scams. Thats why he goes down there every weekend. Host thanks very much for the call. Let me conclude, Newsweek Magazine wrote the story and it says the trumps are set to become the most expensive first family in husband if they dont immediately start reducing their frequent trips across the globe and lavish spending habits and taxpayers are set to continue picking up the tab for as long as they keep it up. For context, President Donald Trump is expected to outpace the entirety of president Barack Obamas eightyear travel costs with plenty of time to spare in just his first year as leader of the free world. Whereas obama spent close to 12. 1 million annually in travel costs. Trump may have already doubled that figure according to Newsweek Magazine and the trips to maralago alone before the close of the first 100 days reporting the weekend trips cost an estimated 3 million per weekend. Mike from wilmington, north carolina. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning and happy easter. It doesnt bother me at all. I believe the obamas and michelles trip she took on vacation, that was questionable, too. So it really doesnt bother me. Im just glad hes in office and i dont have to look at hillary. Can i ask you a question . Since it is holy day and christians are being persecuted more and more. Cspan would do perhaps one easter and acknowledge the holiday in a special way instead of just saying happy easter and maybe check into a myriad of ways christianity is being persecuted nowadays and people are being persecuted for the faith. Anyway, happy easter to everybody and thank you for all you do. Host thank you very much. Well go to ken who is joining us from michigan. Good morning. Caller hi, steve. Happy easter. Thanks for taking my call and thanks for cspan. I was going to Say Something but im going to be nice because its easter. I dont agree with this guy that thinks hes the president. I think he really is a hypocrite and he should really if he tax returns cares about the American People as he says. Host thanks for the call. A lot of attention on the situation in north korea and later in the program well focus on that. Joining us will be dean chen with the Heritage Foundation to talk about the demonstration that took place yesterday in pyongyang. Up next, Mark Ginsburg to talk about the situation in syria and the middle east and also the vote going on today in turkey. Cspan news anchor Program Follows the washington journal. Our guest is the secretary of Veterans Affairs and he was asked about the Choice Card ProgramCongress Gave a temporary extension. The program letting veterans get private doctors care if they face long wait times within the v. A. Medical system. Heres part of that conversation. [video clip] you have a Choice Program extension pass by congress, you would say that was critical to make sure the program didnt expire in august and you can continue to serve veterans. You promised wed see major changes to the program and can you discuss when we might see them and when Congress Might have a chance to vote on them . Dave leo, i think you got it right. It was critical the house and congress act to extend our current Choice Program because veterans were beginning to be impacted vinny del