Current Nonfiction Book released, industry news, trend, insider interviews. You can find it on cspan now, our free model mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. It is our open form on the washington journal. Any public policy, political, state issue you want to talk about. If you want to talk mid term elections, now is your time to call in. Democrats, it is 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Phone lines are yours. As you are calling in, i did want to note the federal serve expect it to order possibly a big boost in Interest Rates today. We will find out exactly what will be happening when Jerome Powell speaks today at 2 30 p. M. Eastern, we will be covering it on cspan and cspan. Org and the free cspan out that you app. Turning this program over to you. We will start with robin in michigan, independent. It is open forum. What is on your mind . Caller i heard a gentleman call in talking about the National Guard and january the sixth. It is my understanding, perhaps i am incorrect, that it was up to reaching president trump, so he could order the National Guard to come out and assist in january 6. Am i incorrect . He blamed pelosi, Mitch Mcconnell and other people not getting the National Guard in there to help the Capitol Police. Host did you watch those january 6 hearings, the video that we saw, that last hearing of nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer reaching out to the white house asking federal troops. What did you think of the video . Caller i thought it was remarkable that he could call this line and say that they didnt try to get the National Guard and there. I hope he is still listening, because he is so wrong. I thought maybe i was wrong, because i did watch those hearings and i saw them trying to get the troops in their. It was up to the president to reach out and ask, i believe, the pentagon to send in the National Guard. Host this is cheryl in daytona beach, florida. Republican. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. I think this is the saddest time the country has ever been in. It seems like based in the 1970s, when vietnam was going on, even before then. Host why are you feeling that way today . Caller look at where we are at. Russia, china, north korea, misbehaving horribly. America is a special country. We have always been a special country. The whole world needed country america to be a special country and a beacon on the hill. We have done so much around the world that is unacknowledged. Especially in florida where we suffered hurricane ian, to see the level of support that is common, the volunteers that have come down, the millions of dollars people walked away from their lives and homes to help each other. America is a good and decent country at heart. Americans are basically good and decent people. I think we all want whats best for our families and future. Having security is the most important. I feel a lot of people do not feel that now, especially with the threat of nuclear war and that open border is just and on godly mess ungodly mess. Until the left is held as accountable as the right, it is hard to feel like there is much justice on both sides of the aisle. I hear a lot of hate from the Democratic Party and unrest from some republicans. It is wrong all around. We all need to step up, take sponsor ability for ourselves and help each other out. God bless america. I hope it is never too late. Host this is jeanette in vermont. Line for democrats. Good morning. What is on your mind . Caller hi, good morning. I have been a lifelong democrat. I have voted for republicans before. We have a great republican governor in the state. It is the discord, it is people hating each other. I had open heart surgery. The surgeon was great, saved my life. Later on, i went to some rally. Some democratic rally. Then, i went to a republican rally. I saw my surgeon, my heart surgeon was a republican. It was like, i have this lifesaving operation. I did not care if he was republican, i did not know what he was. The hate has got to stop. People, try to love one another. You never know when you are going to need help. Policeman, if that crazy person is a democrat or a republican yelling at you, do not know what they are or what they can do for you in the future. Just stop it. Just take a deep breath before you ask and just this into the other side. I am just asking that people it sounds kumbayaish, come together, but if we do not do that, we are going to end up killing each other. Host ive got to ask, what motivated you to go to a democratic rally and then a publican rally, both republican rally, both after having heart surgery . Caller it was maybe years later. I started talking to a republican one day. I was at a democratic before you go and vote, i had a sign up. A gentleman had a republican sign. I started talking to him. He invited me to go to this rally, they were going to have speakers. I went. I didnt go there saying, i hate republicans. I did not have that mindset. I was open to it. I am open to people having ideas. I am a democrat, but i voted republican before. The hate never gets anybody anywhere. You just end up hurting each other and violence breaks out. Please, america, we are all americans. Come together, listen to the other side. We are not demons. Either side, we are not devils. Host that is jeanette out of vermont. An oped you might be interested in from doug hi, who was the former director of the Republican National committee the former Communications Director of the Republican National committee, the headline on his Washington Post piece. I helped run the fire pelosi effort, toxic politics have gone too far. This is what he writes. More and more politics, loudest, most vices was his get the most attention and money. Real solutions and politicians to put their heads down and do the hard work get short shrift. Selectively, he writes we have to lower the temperature here and people get people keep getting hurt. We are lucky nobody has gotten killed. Yet. This is josh, arlington heights, indiana. What is on your mind . Caller it is actually arlington heights, illinois. We are talking a lot about the Political Polarization, heightened tensions and acts of little violence. What i think is left unsaid in this, the underlying what i would consider the underlying cause of this is economic inequality. Thomas gettys, one of the underlying themes of the book is the correlation of political unrest, Political Polarization and economic any quality. We have seen that in history, via in the 1930s during the depression and out of that coming the rise of fascism. Post 2007, 2008 financial crisis, this rise of far right will attend see. Militancy. And a all right resurgence, as well. I was wondering if that would be addressed by anyone, it is not a capitalist society i do feel these issues of Political Polarization and Political Violence can be addressed until the underlying cause of economic inequality is at least talked about. That is all ive got. Thanks very much. Love the show. Host this is jay, walnut, mississippi. Good morning morning. You are next. Caller good morning, cspan. You know, i think republicans are going to pick up the house and senate. I even think republicans going to win in some areas where nobody is possible. We will find out about next wednesday. Thank you. Host we head to kentucky, this is kansas city, kansas i am sorry. Line for democrats. I will get my states right. Caller yes. What i was calling about was nancy pelosi wanting extra money to have her security. Her husband just cashed in 1 billion worth of stock, and you are telling me that she cannot afford her own security . Host what we were talking about, members of congress, concerns about the security and whether to add legislation to bills moving through congress, for all members to take steps to add to their security. It was the Capitol Police. Caller she said, right now, it was for certain ones. Host it was the Capitol Police chief calling for more resources that said, there have been threats against all members of congress and in a letter yesterday, a statement he put out yesterday specifically calling for more resources to protect all members of congress. Caller yes, but what i think is that her Home Security if he just cashed in 1 billion worth of stocks, not too long ago, why cant they monitor their own ho instead of making the taxpayers do it . Host not up to date on the financial situation of the pelosis. This is robert in indiana. Republican. Good morning. Caller right. I would like to make a quote from a hold a old song in the 1950s. A ton of the keys, barry bad carry bad news. Until you make no mistakes in your life, be careful of stones that you throw. You talk about security for these people. Nancy pelosi a couple of weeks ago threatened trump, would like to punch him in the face. Schumer threatened to supreme two Supreme Court judges. What is the difference between an ordinary person these idiots, they make threats against other people, but yet, they get by with it . That just do not make sense to me. This country is going to hell in a hell basket. Biden do not know how to get off the stage. Host that is robert in indiana. This is kathleen in neapolis. Good morning. Democrat. Caller here is a pastoral note. In the 1960s as a college student, i had a small group of friends that went out to campaign for democrat and campaign for republican. We saw it as a learning experience. At this point, i live in a building that is a senior collaborative. That and jimmy carter put together so that it was constructed in 1979. The idea of thinking about citizens and having good housing, what do we have today . We have thousands of people who do not have affordable housing, and we do not have congress that can solve the problem of creating affordable housing. Do we live in a civilization, or not . Host kathleen, do you remember who you were campaigning for back then . Caller bill frenzel and another person in our district. I am not remembering his name right now, shame on me. Host what was the impetus for doing that, for going out and campaigning for a candidate in one party and the other . Caller it was a college activity. We had a big college convention. Mayor john lindsay came to speak. It was a big event for people who care both about politics and cared to participate. Host kathleen, what did the other students who did that with you what was your take away from that . Caller we saw these as good people, we thought of the prospect of people choosing which subjects mattered to them because these were both good people. Host thanks for telling us about it