Request for states voter data. We begin with an in2ke79 piece on nikki haley from the latest edition of National Review. We want your comments on whether or not she is the alternative secretary of state. Join in on the conversation at 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 if youre republican. 2027488002 for independents. You can also join us on social media. Many of you weighing in on facebook. Or send us a tweetful well read it here at cspanwj. Thanks for being with us. We want to begin with news from the new york morning post and new tweets overnight from President Trump. The piece is Available Online at nypost. Com. The president contending in a clutch of early evening tweets saturday in which he seemed to argue he should keep up his twitter habit. Trump musing about feeling horrible being humans, the fake and fraudulent news media is working hard to convince republicans and others that i should not use social media. That came at 6 0 p. M. Last night. But remember, i won the 2016 election with interviews, speeches, and social media. We will continue to win. He went on to say about six minutes later, im thinking about changing the name fake news cnn to fraudulent news cnn. He vowed to keep up an aggressive twitter approach, my use of social media is not president ial, he went on to say it is modernday president ial, make America Great again. The story is Available Online at nypost. Com. We want to begin with comments about nikki haley, your reaction to a piece from National Review. T reads in part as follows host lets get to calls and comments. Again, the fenn numbers are open. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. This past week, testifying on capitol hill, the you know ambassador, former South Carolina governor, had this to say. Five months and three days ago, i was sworn in as u. S. Ambassador for the United Nations. I came into this position at a time when Many Americans felt a deep sense of betrayal at the u. N. In the wake of the passage of resolution 2334. At my confirmation hearing, i made the following promise, if i am privileged to be the u. S. Ambassador, i will never sit passively while americas interests and americas friends are run down at the u. N. Five months later, i can say that i havent been quiet on the issues important to the United States, and i can say this, i have kept my promise. Our friends and our rivals know that america has once again found its voice at the United Nations. The International Community is now very clear about what the u. S. Is for and what the u. S. Is against. It wasnt long after my confirmation that my promise was put to the test. In early april, the Syrian Regime dropped chemical weapons on syrian children. We forced the Security Council to hold an open emergency session, which some Member States didnt want. We drew a red line. If the u. N. Would not act collectively, the United States would act alone. And we did. Host nikki haley testifying on capitol hill this past week. More from National Review in e piece by Jonathan Tobin ares host lets get to phone calls. Is nikki haley the alternative secretary of state . Michael, good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning, and thank you for cspan. Once again, thanks for taking my call. Host sure. Caller i really admire nikki haley. I think its about time we had somebody at the u. N. That fought for americas interests, United States interests, and was not afraid to stand up to fend israel for everything that the left and the is lack i am community hates them about, and yet still, President Trump on his foreign trip over there, got the attention of all the arabs, all the arab countries, and still was not afraid to leave right from there and go to jerusalem and advocate his position. But nikki haley i think is defending americas interests, and Rex Tillerson, i really admire him also. I think hes done a great job as secretary of state. I think theyre two completely different jobs, and as secretary of state, he needs to be diplomatic. Weve always had diplomatic secretaries of state. And i think hes amazing how he fit into that job so quickly. It sounds like hes been there for 100 years. Host hes a former c. E. O. Of exon, so hes been on the national and International Stage for a while. Caller exactly. Host michael, thanks for the call. This is from karen, who sent this tweet, ive heard more about nikki haley, my states former governor, than Rex Tillerson. Send your tweet, cspanwj. Karen, independent line, your take . Caller good morning, steve. Are you 50 . I cant believe it. Did i look that young when i as 50 . Nikki haley, this outspokenness, i get tired of all these people calling in, democrats or republicans. Particularly the republicans. Theyre always saying somebody is theyre alza tacking the liberals. We got the Social Security and minimum wage because of a liberal president. That was f. D. R. But today, what we dont talk about, steve, and what weve talked a lot about it, but my wife of 62 years was from germany. , d you know, steve, that 1985 there was National Healthcare in germany. Theyve had it for over 130 years. My wife and i made a couple of trips over there, and everybody looked healthy and good. You didnt see you didnt see any overweight people, men r women. We got guys like pat buchanan, youre going to talk to your boss, brian lamb, i wish hed have a talk with the guy who wrote the book on h. R. Mencken. H. R. Mencken said, youll never go broke betting against the intelligence of the every american. If you want proof of that, look whos in the white house. Thank you for taking my call, steve, and keep looking young like that. I like that. Host well, thanks. You made my day. The l. A. Times is reporting on six governors leading the charge against the Senate Health plan. Its Available Online at latimes. Com. Among them, a republican, governor john kasich, republican of ohio, and democratic governor of colorado, three of the six listed in the l. A. Times piece. The healthcare debate becomes front and center when Congress Returns after the fourth of july recess. Live coverage on our companion network, cspan2. Keith, florida, independent line. Were talking about the u. N. Ambassador, National Review calling her the alternative secretary of state . Your take on all of that . Caller hey, steve, good morning. Pleasure to see you, how well you moderate these programs. I always admire it. Little a pleasure to watch. Im an investigative journalist, and i disagree with the presumption of the National Review article. A u. S. Secretary and secretary of state all operate as zero sum opponents. I dont think tillerson has any objection to the strong position that nikki takes. I think what the National Review is pointing to is distinctions that trump made Foreign Policy that they think opposes or puts out of joint secretary tillerson. I think thats a false presumption as well. Jim baker has a resource that he could fight with a lot. Jim baker is no fool. And, you know, with trump, also, part of trumps strategy is to let the secretaries of state one thing, let him Say Something else when he talks face to face, or makes his own decisions. Thats part of the game. Tillerson knew that going in. He has no problem with donald trump. He has no problem with nikki haley. Host well, there have been some stories about some rather heated arguments inside the white house between the secretary of state and because of his inability to get key appointees in the state department. Caller thats an administrative issue, agree, and also, i remember secretary of state George Schulz had bigtime problems. He was the one kind of moderate on against a liberal conservative including oliver north and so forth. He ultimately won, and he points out that he basically saved the presidency in i ran contra by getting him to fire north and other people, and none of the conservatives liked him, but he had no problem. He completed his tenure of secretary of state, as will tillerson. Host thanks for pointing that out. Thanks for joining in on the conversation. We appreciate it, florida. A couple of tweets, haley is the media darling simple as that. Im sure trump has and will make statements that disagree with nikki haley. Fred says the next attack on the Trump Administration is to split off cabinet members. First attack was against sessions, now adding tillerson. Jan says i dont know why we even have tillerson. Republican line, don, sacramento, up early on this holiday weekend. Good morning, don. Caller hi, how you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller ok. I watch you guys a lot. It seems really unsettling that right now were in a situation where the u. S. Approval rating is about 22 in the world. Trump is behind even putin and the premier of china. Hes the most disliked world leader t. Doesnt seem that it serves us really well to have him functioning as a traveling weapons salesman. We live in a global world. This seems more or less like the goal of this administration is to just destroy all of the economic progress this country has been doing. Theyre dismantling everything, all the great trump supporters, of which i was one. Hes taken away the healthcare. Hes taken away environmental protection. Ts just a sad, sad charade. I can only hope things get a little bit better. I think weve been very naive. Biggest concern of all is probably going to be that he got elected because a lot of people were really jaded to the state of our politics, and hes like hes going to finish those folks off for good. We need a democratic participation in this country. And by the time people realize that grandma is not going to be able to stand the senior place because medicaid is gone, its just really disgusting. Our healthcare, we spend more than anybody else in the world. And we have results in the mid 20s as far as life expect at this. Host don, thanks for the call. Nikki would be a brave secretary of state, she had the guts to take down the stars and bars while getting death threats. Be sure to check out cspans new podcast, the sidebar. This week our guest is jeffrey rosen, the president and c. E. O. Of the National Constitution center. Check it out on our website at cspan dogg. Tune in anywhere you find the apple podcasts or stitcher. We focus on what happened 241 years ago, the signing of the declaration of independence. It took place today, was approved on july fourth, but john adams said july 2 would be the day we remember. We also talk about the constitution. The sidebar is posted every friday, also airing on cspan radio. We hope you check it out. This from perry, oklahoma, republican line. Good morning. Aller good morning. Id just like to say i completely agree with the caller, two callers ago, the investigative journalists. Im just glad we have them in their positions and the story from the National Review seems like one big stretch to me. Host thank you. The reporting of Jonathan Tobin, taking former u. N. , nikki haley has made herself right at home, seeking out fearlessly on a range of issues host if youre listening on cspan radio, this program carried live on sirius x. M. , as well as the potus channel 120, and on the Bbc Parliament channel every sunday afternoon. We welcome your participation as well. David from new jersey, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning, cspan, the best channel on television. Good morning. Its wonderful to talk to you. Host good morning, david. Caller how are you and your family, steve . Host were all good. How about yourself, sir . Caller well, i was in the hospital for a while. Host what happened . Caller ive been trying to get on, but i was not successful. What i would like to say about nikki haley, shes the best pick that President Trump has made in his cabinet. She is one of the few politicians that has a true attribute that many politicians dont have. Honesty, integrity, and the hardest of all, the courage, the courage to do the right thing. I remember nikki haley as governor of South Carolina, when she took down the onfederate flag. Shes a symbol for the rest of the country, and its my hope will 2020, nikki haley run for president of the United States, and Elizabeth Warren will run for president of the United States, and it should be a very, very Interesting Campaign for both of them. Host david, will you vote in 2020 . How old will you be by then . Caller [laughter] 20, 20, steve, i will be 2020, steve, i will be 96 years young. Host thats why youre so young and active. Caller well, i love this great country. Were going through a great stretch right now, unfortunately. Like you say, well be celebrating 241st birthday on tuesday. The good lord should also bless the u. S. A. Host its always good to hear from you. Stay out of the hospital, and keep phoning in. Well hear from you soon. Caller i wish everybody a very happy july fourth. Thanks very much. Host 95 years old, and he calls in every 30 days. Were glad to hear from him. Lets hear from blake, joining us from alabama. Good morning, republican line, your thoughts about nikki haley . Caller good morning. First of all, that caller you had from california, i guess you call it the republican line, he was lying. He was not a republican. [laughter] nikki haley to me, the reason shes been picked up, pointed out by mr. Jonathan tobin, and i dont know who Jonathan Tobin is, but i doubt that he is National Review, the way you keep talking about he sounds like hes a soldier in the antiputin army of neo cons who are after the pound of flesh from putin. The soviet union used to call useful idiot. Shes willing to say bad things about putin, but tillerson is being a real diplomat, knows the interest of the United States is not just one person. Putin is not russia. Just like the chinese president is not china. There are so many other leaders all over the world that the people, they have their leader, but doesnt mean everybody grees with it. The only reason the antiputin forces, and hes got putin throughout all this oligarch, which took over the wealth in russia, and putin was the one leader in russia, and he kicked them all out, took their assets, and theyre not going to stop until some disaster happens. Host thanks for the call from alabama. Lou agrees with your point, saying that the caller from california Bashing Trump policies so wrong, he is fake ws, maga, make America Great again. And Rex Tillerson was never trumps first choice for secretary of state. He was vlad my putins. Is haley the alternative secretary of state . Perhaps a bad choice to use alternative, since team trump has redefined the word. Also on the line, brenda is next. Good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning to everybody. I think haley will make a good secretary of state. The American People have all got to pull together. Weve got to try to save the United States. Host thanks for the call. Lets go to john, fairfax, virginia, democrats line, good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. I think nikki haley, people need to understand one thing. State department, you have to have experience. As we know right anyway, people work the state department, they left long time ago because they cannot work donald trump. The reality is we dont need a yes woman that goes out there and doesnt understand how the world works right now. Everywhere weve seen the world oday, theres a problem. Nikki haley did not handle. You have to have the support of the president when youre doing his kind of job. When you Say Something that disagree with him, is going to get rid of you. You cannot run the state department this way, because you have to know what youre doing, and nikki haley, she can say nice things about something, but if you dont have that experience and you dont have people who have the experience for 30 years at the state department, how shes going to run the state department when the president will say one thing and while she goes out there, she going to Say Something else. Host this is the headline from inside the New York Times, im president and theyre not, donald trump attacks, bringing crowd to its feet. He spoke last night at the Kennedy Center, making his quick trip back from his Weekend Hotel and resort in new jersey, and traveling to washington am hes back in new jersey this morning, taking im at the media, while also praising the veterans dating back to world war ii, including a handful who were on hand for the event from world war ii. Heres more from last nights vent with the president. President trump the fake media is trying to silent us, but we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but im president and theyre not. [applause] we won, and they lost. The fact is the press has destroyed themselves because they went too far. Instead of being subtle and hat, and use the people saw it right from the beginning. The Dishonest Media will never keep us from accomplishing our objectives on behalf of our great American People, will never happen. Host the comments of the president at the Kennedy Center last night here in washington, d. C. , and this week, Maureen Odowd of the New York Times writing about the president , cruella de trump and calling him a pig. Noip his vile tweet, he called mika crazy. He often tweets that women journalists, including me, are crazy, yet in that same tweet about mika, he called joe a psycho and told the russians in may that james comey was a nut job. Some, including scarborough, think trump goes after women harder, certainly resonates more with women because of trump history of sexist remarks, his take boasting about assaulting women, his habit of rating womens looks on a scale of 1 to 10. Its available at nytimes. Com. Eddie from maryland, back to calls and comments about nikki haley. Is she the alternative secretary of state, the piece from nationalreview. Com. Good morning. Caller hell snow host youre on the air. Go ahead, please. Caller good morning to cspan, and i appreciate the show, as always. Nikki haley, i live in columbia, South Carolina, doing a really great job. As an ambassador, i think shes doing an excellent job. I think tillerson is doing an excellent job. I believe that donald trump is doing a terrible thing. Not just dividing the country, but as well as, just taking his world status. I would really wish that he called down, because hes divided the country so bad, im tired of this thing with the republicans and the democrats, and im a democrat, but whatever, partisanship in the country like we used to be. We were united and moving in a healthy direction. To trump, i would like to say calm us down, youre headed for civil war and world war all at the same time. May god bless america. Host eddie, thanks. On twitter, this from robert, the National Review no different than other papers, its opinionated coverage, which does have opinions. Its a conservative publication. David has this, tillerson was brought in for the nationalization of exonmobil and lift sanctions. Tell us what you think about this essay by National Review, is nikki haley the alternative secretary of state . Tony, South Carolina, independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve. How are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller for the last few years she was here, we just watched this place bleed jobs. She got elected on out of state money. This lady, people need to research her. Research our state. Look up the myrtle beach mafia before you make any decisions. Thats it. Have a good day, steve. Host next to bubba, dallas, texas, republican line. Good morning. Caller hi. She couldnt get elected dog catcher in South Carolina. Thats why she went to washington and went to the United Nations. Host well, she was elected and reelected. Caller no, she took the flag down. She didnt stand for election. Shes much like kissinger, firstgeneration american, and we just dont need those kind of people running our state department. Thank you. Host thank you from dallas, texas. Phone lines are open. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. And were getting your calls and comments on nikki haley. Is she the alternative secretary of state . A story from the hill newspaper on the Democratic Party and former president barack obama, this is the headline, obama plays a behindthescenes role in rebuilding the Democratic Party, including an extended conversation with tom perez, saying the future of the world is on your shoulders, saying half jokingly, and what hes doing to help the Democratic Party. The former president in indonesia. This is the piece from the washington post, pushing for respect for people differences, taking aim at donald trump without mentioning him specifically. Ead the essay online at washingtonpost. Com. Frank from virginia. Good morning, republican line. Caller hello. This is about miss haley. I think hes doing a very good job. She seems to be very intelligent. Got a couple of other things. The deal about the russians. I dont want to be on anybodys side in the election. It would have been hillarys, because she had everything she could. Dont make any sense. He would have have been pulling for anybody but her. Host thank for the call. Another tweet, we met him in arizona on our book tv coverage, saying maureen dowd occasionally stumbles into the truth, per piece from the New York Times. This from roy, who says ive had enough of this fake president and his fake supporters who have no respect for americans and america. Lets go back to your calls. Joe from pennsylvania, independent line. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. Nikki haley, i think shes doing a wonderful job. Only thing im worried about, how come cspan didnt cover Donald Trumps speech last night . He got a wonderful speech. I think he had a wonderful speech anyway. Thats all i have to say. Host by the way, its on our website at cspan. Org. Carl from virginia, good morning, welcome to the conversation, republican line. Caller good morning, steve. Im telling you, youre falling into the same trap with the rest of these people. Host how come . Caller you dont find one positive article about donald trump, not one. You know what he did for the veterans by signing that bill . You can fire someone for not doing their job. Cant you read an article about that . Host he signed that last week, and we not only covered it, we talked about it. As a matter of fact, i was just going to read a positive article on ivanka trump, when dad is the president , a look inside ivanka trumps complicated world. The piece begins with these ords host an inside look at the style section of the water post on ivanka trump and her role inside the trump white house. Caller everything youve read this morning has been negative. Host thank you for the call. Go to randy, South Carolina, independent line. Caller im calling about nikki haley. To me, it dont matter who trump appoints to office, hes going to do what he wants to do, no matter what. Hes going undercut whatever anyone says. This is about the fake media, i cant believe all these intelligent people can buy into the theory that the media is ll the sudden fake news. Host thank you for the calling. I predict nikki haley will resign or get fired. She makes too much sense to be associated with donald trump, she is in the wrong party. Heres more from nikki haley this past week here in washington. Y seen me bash russia on ukraine. Youve seen me bash russia on syria. Youve seen me call out russia if we see wrongdoing. And yes, i do think russia meddled in our elections, and yes, i have said that to the president. So having said that, i havent asked the president any further questions, because i just its not something thats on my radar. I dont get asked about any of those things at the United Nations, so i am very focused on my work in new york, and that has never come up once. Theres no issues with russia that have come up once by any member state in the u. N. So thats the focus. U. S. Leadership in our global spanning, mr. Meeks, we have really put a strong voice of the u. S. At the u. N. They know were back. They know were strong. I will tell you when the action took place to strike syria, the number of ambassadors that came to me and said its so good to ee the u. S. Leading again. We pulled out of the paris agreement. Im going down your list. Im just talking about how were pulling out. I understand we have a president thats indicated that he wants to do bilateral, no multilateral agreements, he has no confidence in multilateral organizations. He supports me at the u. N. , and he supports what im doing at the u. N. When you talk about human rights, i was the first person to ever bring up human rights at the Security Council. I went to geneva to talk about human rights. Ive been in venezuela, whats what happens in south sudan. The president supports mo that. When you talk about different views and those things that are happening, were on the same team. For notice talk about it, he is supportive of that. Youve said it. The president hasnt. I work for the president. I dont go rogue on the president. Hes very aware of what im doing. Hes very supportive of t. I can tell thaw in all of these issues, were not apart on it. He believes as strongly on the things i talk about as anyone else, and i would invite you to come to the United Nations so you can see for yourself the strength the u. S. Is showing there, because it is strong, it is heard, and it is valuable. Host nikki haley before a house hearing this past week. Its on our website. National review writing whether or not she is the alternative secretary of state. The essay reads the following host the International Diplomacy work by cob trast, haleys appointment did not seem to be based on any notion that she could have accomplish a thing, putting her at the u. N. Was a minimalist effort to throw a bone to the never trump wing of the republican party. Is nikki haley the alternative secretary of state . That from National Review. The New York Times sunday magazine has a piece on the f. B. I. Called free agents, how the f. B. I. Understands its relationship to the president and how donald trump misunderstands the f. B. I. Both Available Online at nytimes. Com. John has this tweet, the media against the American People and working for the globalists, trump is american president , so work with him instead. Go to michael in new york, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve. This is a great show, just wanted to compliment you on that. Host thank you. Caller youre very fair and balanced as far as that goes with the media. Let me say this, ok . The pick, hes picking her, she may be a good pick, but will she get anything done . Thats the question. Because trump has done so much damage across the world and continents, and theyre just laughing at us right now. Im really concerned about this. Mr. Trump has damaged our relationship beyond recognition. People dont understand what it takes to be a secretary of state. And i dont think donald trump does either. The guy comes out and tells a whole bunch of lies. Im just saying what it is. Nikki, she may be a good pick, but i have my doubts there, too. Every time trump picks somebody, it seems like theres an administrative failure. This guy is going to go down as a very failed president , and that concerns me. Because it affects everybody in this country. And we need to think about putting somebody in there thats going to lead us into a prosperity again. I dont see trump doing that economically, Foreign Policy, none of that. He fails in all areas. Host the white house points out the stock market jumped up 17 since he was elected, and unemployment is down to about 4 nationwide. Caller well, as far as stock market is concerned, those are not grave indicators to our economy. Host thanks very much for the call. Politico, Rex Tillerson loads up at Top White House aides. The secretary of state frustrated by negative press coverage and delays in appointing staff, unleashed his anger in front of reince priebus, jared kushner, and others. Republican line from front royal, virginia, ramona, good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning. I think nikki would be onderful secretary of state. She has stood up for many, many ood principles, thank you. Host the National Review piece on nikki haley. Caller this is another bad deal. So far everybodys pick, nobody stands up when saying something stupid. One day, one time they used to stand up and argue about something, but now if he said it, its all right. This is the craziest thing i ever so. Im 70 years old. I ant never seen nothing this stupid. I still up for the people, my anyone in my unit. But this guy, he likes russia more than he like anybody else. I mean, this is crazy. I aint understood thank you. And when would they get rid of this group you . Just told a man on the news a good article about his daughter, and the guy still say youre bad news people. I mean, what can you say to these people . Thank you. Have a great day. Host the only thing i will tell sthaw democrats are critical of us when obama was in the white house. Republicans are critical when george w. Bush was in the white house. Were used to it. What we try to do sheer let you know what people are saying and thinking and whats in the opinion pages and whats in the newspapers. Thats the whole goal, and thats what weve been doing since we went on the air back in 1979. We appreciate it. More from secretary of state tillerson. He spoke to reporters this past week about the issue of human trafficking, putting china on that list as well. Heres more from foggy bottom. Human trafficing is as old as humankind, regretfully. Its been with us for centuries and centuries. But in the expression of this act, as i read that one line to you, it is our hope that the 21st century will be the last century of human trafficking, and thats what we are all committed to. [applause] regrettably, our challenge is enormous. Today globally its estimated there are 20 million victims of human trafficking. So clearly we have a lot of work to do and governments around the world have a lot of work to do. Host National Review saying is nikki haley the alternative secretary of state . Heres this tweet from franklin, who cares who is secretary of state, donald trump is destroying the United States of america. And theres a new survey of about 1,000 americans, the headline, the u. S. Image suffers as the public around the world question Donald Trumps leadership. Read the full essay at pewglobal. Org. New jersey, denise, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Youre on the air. Caller good morning. Im just saying, nikki is not a good choice either, and its a shame, because our country is in chaos, and everyone is sitting up there, get donald trump and dont see that this guy is mentally insane president. Hes like a bully, and hes like a bully on tv. That man has no morals at all. How can he run a country when all he did was file for bankrupt all his darn life . How you going to run a country . Theres a bunch of nuts up there for him. Host another call, rich, youre next. Jackson, new jersey, good morning. Caller good morning. How you doing . I watch the news every day. And i watch both channels, liberal and fox news most of the time. Im really getting tired of these democrats. They got get over with it. Donald trump won. Hes doing a lot more than barack obama ever did. If you recall, the first thing barack obama did, he went overseas and started apologizing to everybody on what weve done. Barack obama never did nothing for this country. You guys never showed a clip of barack obama when he was sitting with the russian guy and says once i give the next four years, ill have a better chance to work with you. Host rick, thats not true. We did show that. I was the host of the program, and i can tell you specifically we did show that. Caller i appreciate it. I watch the show in the morning when i can. The election is over with. Trump is doing everything he can to make this country better. Barack obama did nothing but give everybody an easy pass for eight years. He was fully muslims. We are at war with the muslims, ok . Some of them are good. Some of them bad. But you cant tell theyre apart. He never wanted to admit that were at war. Donald trump is doing the best he can. Give him a break. Let him do his job. If you want to attack his policies, attack his policies. And then get over with it. Thank you. Host rich from new jersey, thanks for the call. Governor Chris Christie adding goth shutdown to his legacy, the move coming after new jersey lawmakers failing to pass the budget by the deadline, which was friday evening. To do so before july 1, new jersey, maine, and illinois, three states dealing with budget shortfalls and some partial closures on this holiday weekend. A number of state parks in new jersey are closed because of hat. Caller good morning. How are you this morning . Host fine, thank you. Caller i continue to be in i need to find the word for what the donald Trump Administration is doing to us, but the ongoing debacle of twitter with his nonsense, its continuing conflicts of interest, violation, the whole bit. Nikki haley, you were on here earlier, compared to the rest of this administration, i guess shes all right. But as far as the governor, she was primarily an opportunist career advance, nothing very impressive. I agree with the earlier caller that said she wouldnt be reelected. , shes red to trump great. Host thank you for the call. This is a tweet saying no president had experience being a president until he became president. Lets go to noreen from florida. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning. Im actually from massachusetts, but thats ok. Host my mistake. The neck caller is from florida. Good morning. Caller hi, good morning. When i hear nikki haley speak or Rex Tillerson, i think that they have good values. So i would say that theyre both good picks as far as that goes. I would like to see the white house and the congress be consistent with ethical views, because for example our recent healthcare legislation proposed by the republicans, i think that is totally unethical and not in keeping with our ethical values in the United States to protect people and give us all good healthcare, and im definitely into tax cuts for their most wealthy people in our country so. Thank you for your show. I appreciate it. Host now to florida, denise. Good morning, republican line. Caller hello. Host good morning. Caller good morning. I just wanted to call, i voted for trump. I live on medicaid, all right . For a disease that i had in the 990s. When they do that, i dont have pay a lot of to these bills. Sthow the right thing to do . This is unethical, a whole lot of people are going to be sick. The Affordable Care act is the best thing. President obama actually did. Host thanks for the call. Joe says this, twitter, hmm, i need to look into that. E mentioned new tweets, late yesterday, a little after 6 00 eastern time, but the president saying at 8 41 6 41, my use of social media is not president ial . Its modernday president ial. Make America Great again. The president spoke last night at a celebration for americas veterans at the Kennedy Center. West virginia, democrats line, good morning. Caller good morning. Host youre on the air. Caller yes, i would comment about nikki haley. I think shes trying to do the best she can. I think shes a little bit over her head. Shes trying to follow the route that trump is trying to set, she needs to do her own thing. She needs to come one her own plan and her own ideas and not follow him, because i think hes kind of lost anyway. Kwloip do you say hes lost . Caller he changes his ideas from week to week. He accuses people of tapping his phones. He seemed kind of paranoid. He wants to argue with women over what they say about him instead of taking the high road. He just wants to get down in the dirt and waller in mud. Thats not something the president should do. It dont make no sense. He should be bigger than that. He is the president. Host im sorry, your final point . Caller i just wish they would get their things together. The republicans, they dont seem to care about much people. They just combaret bigger people who can do things for them. They need to impair the little people. Host this is from politico magazine, the cities issue, how urban america left america behind and gave us trump. Clark on the republican line from florida, good morning. Thanks for waiting. Caller good morning. How are you . I think nikki hay slee doing a good job. Is it just an article or speculation . Hes not stepping down . Host no, its a piece from National Review, we thought it was interesting. Is she the alternative secretary of state . But no, Rex Tillerson is still firmly in control. Caller ok. I noticed a lady brought up medicaid. I also heard it pointed out that its not even a question of anyones medicaid being taken away. Its just that theyre trying to slow down the handing out of medicaid so the country doesnt go further into trillions of dollars of debt. Host thank you for making that point. From the sunday review, New York Times, save the first amendment, dont let internet trolse destroy free speech. Theres a piece to celebrate americas birthday on tuesday. John is joining from us trenton, new jersey, democrats line. Caller i think miss haley is doing a great job. Shes smart. Trump is a predator, and he doesnt want anyone thats smart. I say one thing about trump. If youre from new jersey or new york, you know how he is. Hes a predator. Hes going lose his job. Thank you. Host thanks for the call. Front page of todays New York Times, looking at the heartbreaking story inside syria and the human toll for those who have fled millions. Civil war now is in its sixth year. Front page story and photograph from the New York Times. Lisa joining us from new york, independent line. Good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning. How are you . Host fine. Thanks for joining us. Caller im just listening to all of this and how people are defending jump. I know the topic is on nikki haley. I dont see how nikki haley, who she does have points and sounds like shes giving a good rhetoric on our Foreign Policy, but from the top, her boss is infecting and destroying our relations with foreign leaders. How could she possibly do the job . How could Rex Tillerson do the job when their boss is destroying our relations with Foreign Countries . Host thank you. Back to the piece from National Review. Theres a lock history of tensions and contrast between the occupants of these two offices, but thanks to the huge disparity in power, probably never before has there been a duo which the u. S. Ambassador appears to have the louder voice host republican line, thanks for weighing in, good morning. Caller good morning. I feel that donald trump is trying to do a good job, but he gets caught up in little petty things, and it causes problems. Im totally opposed to the healthcare bill. The people that worked all their life for medicare and medicaid, its going to cut their salary. I wish the country would come together, both democrats and republicans, forget their party, and do whats good for the country and do whats good in gods eyes. I dont believe that we the right attitude toward america. Lets work on america and quit trying to help every other country in the world or well never make it. Host how do we get there . Caller by making america first, and thats what Donald Trumps campaign was all about. Were still shelling out billions of dollars to Foreign Countries that are not our friends. I dont think we have any friends or allies except Great Britain and israel, and thats the two i would look out for. Host thanks for the call. Another tweet from the president , i am thinking about changing the name, fake news cnn to fraud news cnn. The president tweeting that out yesterday before giving a speech at the Kennedy Center here in washington, d. C. Comments from statesville, north carolina, democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I mean, i really dont think nikki haley would be that bad. Rex tillerson is not that bad either, but i mean, they both ve a boss of trump, and hes getting in the way of tillerson, so hell get in the way of her as well. Host why do you say that . Caller its trump. If hes not getting what he wants, hes going to get in their way. E has been so far. One more tidbit id like to make. This is just one thing that hit me, and i thought of earlier this week. It was just an idea. I think once everything comes down to it, and trump, because i believe hes going to get i believe theyre going to get caught up, and i believe once its all sandade done before he finds out that hes possibly going to see some time or possibly lose his wealth, its just an idea that came to me, but i do believe him and his family are going to leave the country and head to russia, i do believe. Thank you very much. Host you can continue the conversation on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan, or continue with your tweets, cspanwj. When we come back, were going to be joined by the head of the Interfaith Alliance to talk about efforts to try to bring civility back to politics. Career diplomat james bob ins out with a new book, Foreign Service five decades on the front line of american diplomacy. News makers follows the washington journal, and our guest is the chair of the house ways and means committee, which is the Tax Writing Committee in the house of representatives, republican congressman kevin brady. He joined us to talk about the Senate Healthcare bill, and if it does pass, what happens if it goes back to the house. Heres a part of news makers that airs at 10 00 eastern. I think it depends on the final product. We know the initial drafts arent the final product. At the end of the day, well weigh with what final product is as it comes back to the house. Well see from there. Can i ask about you a tweet the president sent out on friday morning . He said if this doesnt get done, congress should repeal obamacare and then go back and replace it at a layer point . I know thats an idea that was batted around much earlier in this process and sort of rejected. At this point, is that a credible idea to do a repeal and then go back and do a replace . That doesnt achieve what President Trump set out to do, which is not only repeal the damaging effects of that law, help people who are trapped in it right now. Were seeing it perhaps in front of our eyes. But to put in place, that transition to a free market, where theres a lot more choices than today, and giving control back to the states so they can design healthcare thats right for their region, for their state. I really think the senate approach in the house of not simply revealing, but start to put in place the elements to make healthcare affordable. Thats what the president set out to do. That should continue to be our oal. This also plays in the way Congress Goes about it, using the reconciliation process. You would agree you couldnt go back and do a republicanonly bill to replace once youve repealed using that . I agree. Democrats no doubt would obstruct any fair opportunity to replace the Affordable Care act in the future. The very best opportunity is good, thoughtful tranceful to Affordable Care is right now in reconciliation. Host the chair of the house ways and means committee. Kevin brady of texas, republican congressman, our guest on cspans news