Democrats, 202 7488000, independence, 202 7488002. You can also meet us on facebook, and tweet us as well. We want to hear your thoughts. What did you watch, what did you think, and what grade would you give the attorney general . Will show you some of the wrapups and various news websites and papers this morning , and some of the key moments from the hearing. First from a news website from across the political spectrum, starting on the conservative side of the aisle, here is the headline from breitbart. Com i echo chamber senators ask Jeff Sessions repeated questions. Websites from the liberal side of the aisle, Huffington Post this morning with the headline session launches team trumps russia and counteroffensive. The daily beast refers to sessions as dr. No in their headline, and one more from slate. Com this morning. Sessions sticks to his fiction withe headline they went this morning. We would like to hear your thoughts. What do you think the key moments were deco thomas is in georgia, the democrat line. Good morning. Good morning. Sessions got up there to stand and alluded all the questions they asked him. I think they should have some i think therena, should be some consequence for lying on the stand. They should send him to court for that, because he has lied, lied, and lied. Line,from the republican monica is waiting in delaware. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you this morning . Host doing well, go ahead. Caller i have watched this sessions very carefully. I watched it live yesterday, i watched it on cspan last night, and i watched it again this morning. On how mr. Impressed sessions answered all the questions. I think you did a marvelous job. Marvelous job. He was very forthright forthcoming with what he was allowed to discuss. I was a little discard concerned at the difficulties askingme senators were some questions. He was put under a spotlight that i did not think he needed to be under, some pressure that was not necessary. But other than that i think it went very well, im very impressed with him. All in all, he did a good job. And from our independent one, jack is in providence, rhode island. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. Thatually believe that they already know already are is no collusion. That was said to joe stalin find me the man and i will find you the crime. What they are attempting to do is create an structure and obstructed justice charge. What happened jack other never inspected trump to win. This is a shock to the system and they want him out. We will see what happens, but out of there. The elites controlling this country want him out. How do you define host how do you define the elites, jack . Caller they are located in the d. C. Area, in manhattan, and in parts of los angeles. Antisemi, butan they are primarily, most of them, leftwing jews. Financially very wealthy, controlling wall street, controlling hollywood. And they control the banking here in the United States. But you have to give them credit. They did it. Host so you think religion has a role to play in whether some someone is a leader not . On elite or not . Caller some jewish people consider themselves religious, but a lot of them do not consider the religious. They consider themselves just secular in their ways. We will say like for example, alan berkowitz. He is a secular man. Host we will try to wrap up the sessions testimony yesterday. Were talking to our viewers about that. We want to hear your thoughts on twitter as well. Caller Jeff Sessions a treat this morning, sessions testimony confirms james comey. Try is running out for trump. Time is running out for trump. We will get your responses and here you thought about it. Show you some of the key moments and one of them came from jeff testimony,early talking about the russian connection and his thoughts on some of the early charges made against him. Let me state this clearly i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaigns or elections in the United States. Further, i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the trump campaign. I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, at least some of you. Id the suggestion that dissipated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian ,overnment to hurt this country which i have served with honor to undermine or the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable live lie. Host if you missed any of the testimony, you can go back and watch us on cspan. Org. What grade would you give the attorney general . Also of note this morning, we are offering a different, unique, behindthescenes way to watch the washington journal this morning. You can go to our Youtube Channel and see the 360 livestream of this program today. Youtube. Comww. cspan. A 360 camera where you can click and drag on the screen, and move the camera. You can see around our entire studio this morning. Onyou are on the 360 stream your mobile phone, just move your phone around and take a look on our studio. We are partnering with google and youtube to exterminate with this new technology. We hope you go there, check it out, and see what is happening behind the scenes and around our studio as we talk to you this morning. We want to hear from you from on the phones. Republicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000, independence, 202 7488002. Calling and is eugene, from vermont. Good morning. Host i think caller i know what the entire Mainstream Media is not talking about today. It is President Trump birthday, and i would like to sing to him. Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you , president host a birthday shout it for the president , who turns 71 today. Im a former oregonian, and i would give Jeff Sessions and a minus. He gave ron wyden his hat, and he gave him pretty hurt him he did well. But wyden has been there forever, blooming our. We had him on the show a couple of weeks ago. He has been in Congress Since the 80s. A lot of these guys have worked with sessions for years and years, and how they could possibly think that he would collude with the russians is beyond me. They have moved beyond the collusion thing now and are moving into the obstruction of jeffreything, and gundlach made an interesting comment during his podcast this was simply an attempt to run up the clock for trump. Hope this thing will end soon, and i think it will hurt the in thets, quite frankly, 2018 election. People are sick of it. They want solutions to their own problems and not baseless investigations. Mentionfore you go, you new followed ron wyden when you were living in organ. What do you think of him in his work in this investigation and some of the other Panel Members as well . Who has asked the best questions here . Who has done a good job in their oversight response abilities . Caller i would say that cotton senator cotton. He kind of compares this to a jason bourne movie. You have this many people keeping this under wraps with no proof, no dates, no people, it amazing. You would have to be i do not know how people fall for it, quite frankly. I want no dates, times, people, i want to know the dates, times, people, what was said. Where is the crime . Ive an evenhanded person, but i cannot see where this is. A call from west virginia, mentioning senator tom cotton from arkansas. Here are some of his exchange with the attorney general. A civil question that should be asked is that did donald trump or any of his associates in the campaign collude with russia in the hacking of emails and releasing them to the public act of that is where we started six months ago. We have heard from six of the eight democrats on this committee and to my knowledge, not a single one of them asked that question. They have gone down lots of other rabbit trails but none of them have answered that question asked that question. Donald trump was assured by james comey three times that he was not under investigation. Maybe it is because multiple democrats on this committee has seen no evidence us far after six months of our investigation and 11 months of an fbi investigation of any collusion. What do we think happened at the mayflower . Mr. Sessions, are you familiar with what spies call tradecraft . A little bit. Involves things like covert communications, dead drops, and brush passes, right . That is part of it . Do you like spy fiction . Like ignatius . Do like jason bourne or bond movies . No. Have you ever heard of it in an instance to where there was collusion in an open setting with hundreds of people to pull off the greatest caper in the history of espionage. Thank you for saying that. It is through the looking glass. What is this . I explained how in good faith, i said i had not met with russians because they were suggesting that i, as a surrogate, had been meeting with russians. Now the next thing you know, i am accused of some reception, plotting some sort of influence americanfor the election. It is beyond my capabilities to understand. Appreciate, mr. Chairman, the opportunity at least to be able to say publicly i did not participate in that and know nothing about it. Some more headlines from todays papers. Heres the Washington Times in d. C. Sessions claims russia innuendo to the front page of usa today. And from the front page of the New York Times, sessions denied collude collusion, imploring it was a detestable live. Go ahead. Caller it is all politics, and the more down and dirty it gets, the more the media loves it. There is no russian collusion. I think it is a witchhunts. Entertaining, but Jeff Sessions seems like an awfully nice man, and i hope they do not really get to them. I hope they do not destroy him because that is what they are out to do. That is my comment, thank you. Florida onville jacksonville, florida, line for democrats. Caller thank you for cspan. I would give sessions the d for a d for his answers, because anything and cap stonewalling. That is my opinion. Host the d that you would give congressman by Ben Ray Lujan of new mexico. We will show you some more tweets by members of congress, including elizabeth warren. The ag must be truthful and up hold the law. Sessions cannot continue to serve. He should resign. And this tweet from yesterday. Strong testimony today by the attorney general. So far, no evidence of russia collusion in the trump campaign. What do you think, brooklyn new what do you think . Brooklyn, new york, line for independence. Caller i think it is interesting that sessions is such a poor supervisor. I am former military and i had people under me, and if i do not like how they are doing your jobs, i inform them. When they do a great job, we inform them. He needse was i think to go to school to find out how to be a supervisor. If you does this for the fbi, what about all the other agencies where he is in charge of go the second item was i found it fascinating of . The second item i was his that he was not more just it in the hacking. That would be one of the topnotch items to ensure that future elections are not hacked or how we can go about informing on companys companies, how to prevent a hack . I think he got about a b. Gradeand how would you the senators asking the questions . Who got the best one . I think senator burr. He did really well. Remarks, andosing i thought he summed it up well. Host senator burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee has been leading this program. Brandon, florida, line for republicans. Caller how are you . Host doing well. Caller i think Jeff Sessions, to me, personally, got a d. He could have said more. It allowed more room for the opposition to attack him more, left a lot of questions open. As far as trump, people seem to forget that he is a known lobbyist for years, since the 1980s, playing both sides of the field. Im surprised myself that trump is not more of a progressive than what he is. He has played both sides of the field for so long. Host one of our earlier colors mentioned this exchange between oregon senator juan wyden, a oregon senator ron wyden, a democrat, and the attorney general. Respectfully, you are not answering the question. What is the question . Mr. Comey said there were matters perspective to the recusal that were problematic, and he could not talk about them. What are they . Why do you not why dont you tell me . There are none, senator wyden. There are none. I can tell you that for absolute certainty. Is our secret innuendo being weak doubt there about me, and i do not appreciate it leaked out there about me, and i do not appreciate. Ive tried to give my best truthful answers to the committee that i have appeared before, and people are suggesting through and you i know that i am not honest about matters, and i have tried to be honest. My time is short. Have major point that you you have made it your point that you believe comey is engaging innuendo. You said it was problematic it was problematic you said it was problematic and i asked you what was problematic about it . Host well be talking about this for most of our program today. You can call in. Republicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 our democrat line, good morning. [no audio] are you with us . Sean is in california, and independent. Caller how the going . What is your name . Host it is john. Whats going on . Caller to me, the article you read earlier, that headline you had . Anger, fewer of answers. It makes it sound like sessions is probably lying, because he did get mad about a lot of questions. There is a lot of anger. Caller anything up host anything else to add . Caller i was hoping you would respond. Host i want to hear from you and do not want to take time or it from the callers to do it. Our public in line, go ahead. Our republican line, go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I thought sessions did a beautiful job, and he is a wonderful man, hardworking man, and very truthful. E need more people like him the whole thing is they want to take our president down and they are working on all of his committee. Listen, it is not going to happen. God put him there, nobody is going to take him down, so they need to get used to it and start working with him to get something done for the American People. There working trying to get jobs and get the health care, and the taxes, and a good job. Such hes only getting four hours of sleep a night, so they have to stop sometime. He is not going anywhere, so they need to get used to it. God bless you. Host you mentioned health care. President trump having lunch with 13 senate republicans, working on the health pact, Affordable Care act replacement bill. The story in usa today noting that trump said the new bill will be generous, kind, and with heart, and that legislation will be signed as soon as we can do it. Trump, however, sent on his message bit during the tuesday luncheon, and an aide to a public and senator said that the president called the house andion of the bill mean requested that senators put more money into the version of their legislation. They didnt celebrate the passing by hosting public and lawmakers at the white house, and some fallout from that this. Oaning morning. That, to being noted in the number of papers, including that comment is being noted in a number of papers, including the Washington Post. The time i underway noted in the Washington Post story, that Mitch Mcconnell to say whether thedeclined to senate would hold a vote on the bill. Mcconnell told the supporters that the bill is unsustainable, and something has to be done. Our democrat line, go ahead. Caller good morning, how are you . Host doing well. Caller it is really stunning when you look at the totality of americas interference in elections democratic elections around the world, and the historic picture there is of our nation another political discourses, the failure of the American People to examine a quid pro quo environment, particularly with the russians, and how many countries we have overthrown, their leaders, where is the selfexamination of the American People back are you have a president im a , it is so beguiling that the media just i have never seen a greater level of an elite of our nation, and the world is watching. It is not just watching any of the mistakes the president is making, but when you see these political actors who are engaging in discourse in the and assaulting President Trump no matter what he does, it is really a shameful exercise. Host did you see that in yesterdays hearing . If so, what are your examples . The it is the same type of play that plays out on giving the impression that they are trying to get to the just of what took place, but nothing ever comes out of it. Look at the amount of money money, taxpayers dollars, that they are wasting. This system has been worn for more than a decade. You can go back a very long time and see there was enormous concerns about our electronic collection systems. I have been telling people this, and have been on many talk shows. Wheres the mea culpa from the United States . Ays here is the blame game all we hear is the blame game to the russians, who are turning the cause on america, and even if they did interfere, guess what . We are getting our own just desserts, if that is the case. Host i get your point. We will go to rich, ohio, the line for independence. Good morning. My comment is basically i do not know how we can tell if there is collusion if we do not get any straight answers from the attorney general about what the specifics were of his conversations with the Russian Ambassador, and i do not believe we got any of those yesterday. Certainly, there should not be any privilege covering those discussions because they all occurred before the president was inaugurated. There is no executive privilege, attorneyclient privilege, anything else. If im wrong you can correct me, but i do not think he got into anything like that any of those conversations, except for memory loss, and i think that is a travesty. Host do you think the Democratic Senators on the panel pushed that point of, not answering questions point . No. Er the alternative would have been the same thing, maybe with former director comey. Maybe they could have gone into a confidential executive type session, where he couldve given the details on the types of things involved. National security, confidential information, but i do not see how that would not be the case. They were discussions that occurred in 2016, before the president was even inaugurated. Host here is senator martin heinrich, a democrat. Here is his exchange with Jeff Sessions on this topic. Me whether these longstanding doj rules that protect conversations made in the executive without invoking executive privilege . Im protecting the president s constitutional right by not giving it away before he [indiscernible] am answering your question, saying it is a longstanding policy in the department of justice to make sure the president has full opportunity to decide these issues. Can you share those policies with us . Are they all written down at the department of justice . I believe they are. What is the standard for not answering congressional questions . Inappropriate for me to reveal private conversations with the president when he has not had the full opportunity to review the questions and to make a decision on whether or not to approve such an answer. And there are other privileges that could be invoked. Theof the things deals with investigation of the special counsel about i have questions that investigation. About sk questions if i want to ask questions about that investigation, i would ask them a rod rosenstein. Rosenstein. Adside there are two investigations here. A special counsel investigation, and a congressional investigation. You are obstructing that congressional delegation investigation by not answering these questions, and i think your silence, like the silence of director coats, admiral rogers, speaks volumes. I would say i have consulted with senior career attorneys in the department, and i believe this is consistent with my duties. You missed any of yesterdays hearing, you can always go back and watch it in its entirety on cspan. Org. Getting your responses this morning, your thoughts, your grades on the attorney generals performance yesterday. The on twitter saying senator deserves a b. There is no there about the russia. With and another called the hearing another blow to pence. Host on the line for the pelican, donna a is waiting in new york. Good morning. Caller i have three questions. When President Trump was always meeting putin, you considered him his best friend. Evasive in as very and i his questions, found the senator, mr. Cotton, had a very strong backbone with , and i think that President Trump why did he send his son, who is not intelligent enough to discuss a why with the russians did not the senate go in and have this meeting . We do not know what junior was talking about. Some questions donna has. Julia, greensburg, north carolina. A line for democrats. Go ahead. Caller just like all the rest of the trump organization, i want to respond to that lady who trump,while ago yes he is going somewhere. Host a few more tweets from. Embers of congress congressman Bradley Byrne is a republican from Jeff Sessions. Ome state of alabama im not at all surprised that the Jeff Sessions who kept his silence today testify today was the same Jeff Sessions i. Ve known for almost 40 years Bernie Sanders with a tweet yesterday, calling the saying it raised more questions about trump and whether he has tried to derail the russia investigation. Speaking of Bernie Sanders, he has an oped in the pages of the New York Times today, how democrats can stop looping is the headline there. He ends the piece by saying this pivotal piece in American History if democrats are prepared to rally roster to america in every state and stand up to the breed of the billionaire class. The party will stop losing elections and create the kind of country the American People want and deserve. If you want to read the full oped, it is pages of the archive today New York Times today. Our line for independence, go ahead. Whenever the question trump askede donald comey anything about russia, how you can protect the country, no. The Jeff Sessions have anything have did Jeff Sessions anything to share about how he to prevent the russians from doing anything, any more harm to us . He does not even know. They are not protecting the country. It is party first. It is always party first. We need to see Country First. Remember, republicans, Country First. Country first. Which country . America or russia. . Ahead. Ohn, go republican line. Caller good morning. I would like to make a couple of comments. Especially to the lady who said donald trump is not going anywhere the bottom line is this. There are two meetings going on, and if he is hiding things, it will be shown. It is not a matter of if, but win. When. I think he is owned that she is his own partys worst advocate, because he tweets Something Different every day. And Jeff Sessions if you look at him, he was prepared. He had his lawyers and all of and they sat up there went over days and days of working with him on how to answer those questions. My question is this . How can you sit up there and say if the president has not evoked executive privilege, were going to take a lot of questions back to the president and say ok, what you think about this . How do you want to answer no, you are in front of that senate committee. You have to answer those questions then without invoking executive privilege. Ivory with Bernie Sanders. It brings more i agree with Bernie Sanders. It brings more questions. For ou are calling in as they were to, but you agree with Bernie Sanders. I agree with but Bernie Sanders a lot. I used to be a republican, but no longer after seeing this with donald trump. Host we do have caller that colin on the lines that they currently identify with, the one in onest colors that call callers that call in on the lines they currently identify with, so please do that next time. Good morning, how are you . Host im doing well. Caller i want to remind you will that as we are listening to these stories with Jeff Sessions , comey, all of that, no matter what you are, democrat or republican, everybody hears the same story and has completely different viewpoints on what happened. Election started, it really divided the country as a whole, and i want to be really mindful of the fact that it is politics. Politics s whatever the politics are, be respectful of your fellow americans. We have gotten so divided that we have completely different viewpoints. We do not even know how to talk anymore. It is scary almost. Host do you think it happens more now than in the past, and if so, why . Caller absolutely. There was a talk a couple weeks ago about how the Communications Director for trump sean spicer and the other young lady, im listening to everything they say, but i am mindful of the fact that this is their jobs. Did his job. He no matter what your politics are, you have to be really mindful. To me, it is all this mental divide. No matter what you think politically, remember we are americans first. I do not care if youre black, white, whatever, we are all americans here. Host jerry is in school, new jersey. All, godirst of came the caller who just before me. That really puts things in perspective. But as far as goes, i am a registered democrat. I both the person, not the party, but i am a registered democrat and voted for barack obama, voted for trump, and him trying to make america better. It is not about party, it really is not. It is about america. Im sick of both parties, to tell you the truth. Im not happy about that. But the one thing i wanted to say is that democrats are also missing some major things here. There are going to be more investigations about the resolution. Whohave the reality winner, leaked information to the newspaper she is a democrat, so i will tell you something. You will find out, and i have said it before, the Democrat Party is extremely corrupt, and it will come out. While they are targeting trump, they will be picking up stop stuff about the democrats too, so beware. I thank you very much about the opportunity. One of our earlier callers talking but the president tweets. He did not tweet yesterday, but we will continue to watch his day,er page throughout the and last tweet coming from last night, saying just got back from wisconsin, great day, great people. As the Washington Post notes in their story, he was there to visit a Technical College there jobs. On jobs after after arriving in wisconsin yesterday, the president made a statement about health care, and here is what he had to say. Pres. Trump the house of representatives has passed on to the senate, and the senate is getting ready to do something, hopefully it will get done. Where we will come up with a solution, and a really good one to health care. No matter how good it is, we will get no obstructionist democrat votes. David is the greatest Health Care Plan ever devised if it is the greatest Health Care Plan ever devised, we will get zero votes by the obstructionists, the democrats. It is time to give American Families quality, reliable, Affordable Health care, and that is what we are working very hard to do, and we will get it done. Noted earlier, coming out yesterday that President Trump told republican senators in a meeting that the house passed version of the health care biel bill was mean, and he hopes the senate will improve that bill. That comment is now being asked to a lot of the House Republicans voted for that legislation, including Louie Gohmert of texas. Asked Louie Gohmert what he had thought of trump saying the hospital is mean that house bill is mean. Mike, uniontown, pennsylvania, republican. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to say i watched the thing, and i think he is a decent, honest guy. I really do. We do not have that all the time in this world, but i think he is basically nobody had a problem with him all the years he was in the senate. Just i dont know, they are not happy with tomp and theyre just going keep it up, keep it up, keep it up, and they are not going to quit. But i thought he did a reasonable job. He really did. Host what you think about the caller saying there were questions left unanswered . The frustration that he would not talk about his conversations with the brighter than best president. Goes you know, he could look at comey and there was stuff that is said. You are not you are at a construction job, you talk to your buddies about this, that, in the other. I am sure that you could go all to barack obama, and nobodyc holder, knows nothing about none of it. Probably had a conversation or two with a conversation or two with the guy, now youre making him you are making a mockery of him. They are so determined to get that man out of there, look at maxine waters. She comes on their and goes nuts. President , and if somebody would have done that to obama, you would have never heard the end of it. Want him in there, and i think sessions sessions is a decent guy. [indiscernible] want, butow what you you know what they say better careful what you wish for the one thing i got against trump is the tweeting. Eggs it on. People get the point. From lets go to lewis, Jeff Sessions home state of alabama. Democrat line, good morning. Or an i give him a d f. Questions, lot of who is muslime for the people, he is acting like trumps private lawyer. The guy weust like impeached in alabama for lien. All of these are public and why, republicans lie, lie, lie. Manasked it, but this docked questions, ducked is not coming out with a straight answer. There are no questions in there that they asked, and the only panel asked him, and he really got mad. Ont there are several women the Senate Intelligence committee. Caller the black lady. Host senator harris from california. Caller yes, and some of the republicans asked him questions, is smiling and grinning because he knows they are not going to asking the hard questions host . Questions. , in alabama. And we talked about this hearing wass that taking place, an election was taking place in virginia. The Washington Post did their wrapup of that race. The democratic nomination for won byernor of virginia unexpectedly wide margin, stewart forcory that nomination. Politicals the laboratory for how the Political Parties handled the deep divisions that followed last years election of President Trump. The establishment forces seemed win out as virginia effort virginia voters resisted efforts to pull further to the right or left. Area lower channel the energy and endorsement of progressive leader Bernie Sanders as he tried to shake up the democratic party, but fell short in his bid to bring in new voters from a young dutch among the young and working class to overcome northams command of the democratic machine. Theyll take place later this fall. Byron, good morning. Caller good morning, how are you doing today . Host im doing well. Caller im calling is an american, not just as an independent. I want to say about the attorney general, we although body language, and we clearly see it. Saywhat does Bernie Sanders about raising our project of eyebrows raise very high during the conversation raising eyebrows . His eyebrows raise very high during this conversation. What this new deal is thats going on with everything, and we need to figure out what is next. Are we thinking about our children . The olduld not be about america, with too much social media, the president spending way too much time on social media. Im at work all the time, he is tweeting. We have bigger things to worry about. Lets put our Country First. It is not about the republicans doing this are democrats doing that, forget about that. Lets figure out the problem and move forward. Whatever happened to moving forward . It seems like our transmission is slipping host . Slipping. Host owl in ohio, republican line. Outer some naive collars there. Donald trump is not going nowhere, just like that lady said. He will finish out his office. Lets go back to the sessions guy. Hillary clinton, comey, they all have to say that. You cannot let conversations between you and the president go out in the open, and the democrats wanted this in open session for sessions so they could grandstand, like that africanamerican woman, who let him into the collection. You know what . They are not getting any more votes, the democrats. They are losing them. I talked to a few guys, and they are democrats, and they are saying this is getting old. This is garbage. And id to get back think america is gone. We are never going to get together again. The last eight years, they divided us so bad. Now it will be even worse. LotAmerican People have a it will get worse before it gets better, and my opinion, i do not think it is doing any better because you have these people, who are ripping each other host where does it lead if it does not get better, al . Caller i do not know. Im confused. When republicans were for eight years writing on mr. Obama, it was about his policies. Democrats are ragging on trumped because of him. They hate him with such a distain because their loved one hillary did not make it. I do not want to say it on national tv. That is all there is to it. It is like back in the 1800s. Powell in warren, ohio, as senator sessions mentioned he member one only trump capitol hill yesterday. They argued for keeping the door open to russian cooperation, and offered a sobering excepted and of the afghan war on tuesday. They look at the state Budget Proposal for the budget and Defense Department. That was Rex Tillerson of the state department, secretary mattis of the Defense Department was in that hearing, talking about the pentagon budget, and senator john mccain shared some frustration with him at that hearing about the administrations lack of a plan for winning the war in afghanistan. When can we expect the congress of the United States to get a strategy for afghanistan that is a departure from the last eight years, which is do not lose . Wei believe by mid july, will be able to brief you in detail, sir. ,ere putting it together now and there are actions being taken to make sure we do not pay price pay a price for the the needt we recognize for urgency, and your criticism is fair, sir. A great admirer of yours, mr. Well, i and a great admirer of yours, mr. Secretary, but we cannot keep going like this. You cannot expect us to fulfill the three requirements you gave, find an increase, pass the budget, and have a stable budget present a stable budget if you do not give us a strategy. I hope you understand that i am , but therezing you are problems within this administration. I was confident that within the first 3060 days, we would have a strategy on which to start working. Unlessi can tell you is we get a strategy from you, you are going to get a strategy from us. Wisdom,iate our knowledge, information, and all of the great things come with the exception of some to my left ear, but year, but it is not our job. It is not our job, it is yours. Host and a reminder, to dan capitol hill Rex Tillerson will be before the House Foreign Affairs committee, that is happening at 9 00. Back to your calls. , fromolt russell illinois. Good morning. Caller i believe that sessions was very basic. He was not telling the truth. Like the gentleman said before, every time a democrat asked a question he got very defensive, and every time a republican after question, he smiled and laughed. He did not want to talk about it. If you did not do anything, why ofso saved be so ashamed the questions . You are making a mockery of the senate. About the president not going anywhere yes he is. He will send himself out with his big mouth, tweeting. He is making america look not great, america is looking bad. It is starting to get embarrassing to listen to him every day, with the rants, he does not know what he is talking about, and lying about every single thing he has ever said. Hes not a president , a straight liar. Problem i have with him. He just told the two if you just trolled the truth if he just told the truth, he would be all right. And saying republicans did not care about obama as a person but justice policies, they wanted to make obama a one term president. Himself guy is bringing down. He will put himself out of ,ffice with his crooked ideals and he is not on the up and up on his business, he is getting mushy from russia money from russia, and is guilty of russian collusion. Host 10, on our independent line. Good morning. A general question is question, but about the convention and 787 1787 manyy thought that thought that it elected unelected independent attorney general would be better. Not hamilton though, but i am asking in general, would it have been a whole lot better in independentlyave and independently elected ag rather than john mitchell. The president can still have his or her solicitor general, but if you are beholden to the person confirmed by the senate, you have to give them the legal rulings they ask. Thank you. Host stick around, we will be talking with former senator jim demint, the former head of the heritage foundation, now going to work for a group looking to call an Article Five Convention to talk about amending the constitution. We will talk about that process when he joins us in our 9 00 hour this morning. Houston, texas, republican. Go ahead. Caller i am a conservative republican, and i would like to say i would give sessions a f. At of half grade of if senator tom cotton can ask him a question about a fictional movie and he can answer yes or asks in anator harris specific question about policy that requires a yes or no answer, about what he did, what he remembered, what occurs, and he cannot answer that directly . Asks him questions about were you suppliers of the information or notes or , hehing, if it is a liable will not give a yes or no answer. That is an f in my book. Im about facts, information, and when you try to justify saying that im not going to answer these questions, im going to go around it and say what i want to say and speak on some speaking points, that gives. Ou a grade of f you are an attorney general. If you are an attorney general, you should know the policy of the United States of america. You are inefficient in your job, you do not know policy, and you cannot state which policy will not allow you to answer certain questions. Host lakisha in houston, texas. Randy from mexican michigan, the line for democrats. Caller i would like to say thank you to you and all the men and women behind the scenes that we do not see i guess with the 360 camera we will, but thank you for bringing us this great program. I have to follow on the latest just called. What bothered me about the attorney general is that he was not briefed on the russians and he did not seem to have he is the top attorney. I am only a high school graduate, so the lawyer stuff is above my pay grade, but it seemed to be convenient memory early signs that or of alzheimers, i do not know. Shortterm memory seems to be pretty bad. The people do not deserve that. I know politics. Politics are tough enough as it is, but at least give me answers what is the top attorney. I need to know. Like the lady said with a policy , you come at me with a policy that says i cannot answer the question, and you cannot tell me the policy . That one there is like ok, that is a big red flag for me. When you are telling me, looking me in the eye that i cannot answer your question because of this policy, i will buy that answer, but tell me that policy. I dont know it. Host on the east coast. We want to give our viewers an update on disturbing news affecting members of congress, a report of a shooting near congressional baseball game practice field. It is an annual event where republican members of Congress Play the Democrat Members of congress. This is the field where they are practicing for the game. The hill reporting this morning. A congressman said he heard a shooting. Abc seven news reporting multiple shootings at the alexandria Virginia Area of virginia. Abc reported according to the Alexandria Police, we can take you to the Alexandria Police twitter page. The updates they have been giving this morning. The Police Department investigating multiple shootings in the area. Stay away from the area come let emergency vehicles through. Updates will be posted when available. We will continue to look for on that story. S 7 15, this is what was posted your posted. He wrote other staffers hit, the government has a rifle. Gunmen have rifles. Caller good morning. I just want to comment about the situation. I call you guys many times and you never answer. My personal opinion is you guys are brainwashed for this because i know you sometimes do good things for them, but instead to say all the stuff goods that this president is doing, you keep pushing russia, russia, russia. With freaking enough with freaking russia. I can see this is a very good president. He is doing an awesome job. You guys have to care for the Country First instead of thinking about russia and democrats or republicans or whatever. Can i ask who you mean by you guys . Are you talking about cspan in particular . The news media, nbc, cbs, and you guys are brainwashed. Every single day, listening to is comments about freaking russia. Why dont you guys talk about all the good stuff that he is doing . Why . We are talking about it today because the attorney general of the United States testified before the open hearing Intelligence Committee yesterday and it was the focus of a lot of attention on capitol hill and we wanted to wring our inwers and as we always do its entirety. This is your forum this morning to talk about it, what you andght about his testimony the questions asked by members of congress who were there. We are taking your calls this morning. Oregon, line for republicans, go ahead. Good morning and let me say kudos to cspan p or i have listened to you over the years and you are so dead in the middle, you dont have an opinion. Make our opinion. I just cannot say how happy i am about that. Birthday to the president today, 71 years. I hope i am as spry in a few more years when i reach that age. Couple of comments about comey from last weekend in the attorney general yesterday. I am not going to get into any character assassination. I listened to what they actually said. Of as he is thought a russian input ands pocket because he is standing in some sort of a recession line. Theret know they thought was a linking of morse code going on . It is just inconceivable. The only meeting he ever had with the Russian Ambassador was in the office with aids there. I am sure those aides will be witnesses and will be able to was knowne that there the farias activity going on. As far as comey, last week, i have pointed out the president peopleually endorsed that were associated with the campaign. If they did anything wrong, he wanted that pursuit. You have an upcoming guest, a democrat, and i would like you to ask why is it every time travelers out the obstruction of justice, they say it is because trying to stops the Russian Investigation, but clearly his aggravation with comey, comey would not breathe it wase sunshine that part of any investigation on top of his administration, it was stressing across the united es i would like to know why democrats are saying obstruction of justice and tried to stop the investigation. In nbc news person it was russian heically, so obvious was not part of any investigation. Host cut your point p early have a member of congress coming on. We are still trying to learn the extent of the shooting that took lace in one of the neighborhoods in alexandria. Replace a gunman opening up fire on the practice an hour ago. Metavests have been called near and policel field say the suspect is in custody and the Fire Department say there are various degrees of injured we are trying to find more on that when posted. Thats a Republican Team was practicing there for several years now. Anchorage, alaska, democrat, did you watch the hearing yesterday . Caller i did. Host what did you think . You mean with attorney general sessions . Yes. I think he is not very credible. I think there is a reason he is withholding it and the senator should ask him if he whether he has such loyalty to donald trump. He does not represent the president. No reason to withhold his , said he had been peppered with questions from the russian. I think Jeff Sessions was protecting the president. It is not his job to do that. He represents the American People. You think of the senators asking questions yesterday . Caller i thought the questions were good and they did a good job, i just wish they had asked him if he had pledged loyalty. Heasked comey so i am sure asked all of his administration. I just really think he did and he had a big Public Meeting with all of them praising him. Asked all of them to pledge loyalty and i do not think that its appropriate for a president , for any boss. To pledge loyalty, you should be ,oyal if you work for somebody but to expect it, i dont think it is appropriate for the president. Attorney general and senator feinstein, democrat from california. On may 19, mr. Rosenstein essentially told them that he learned on may 8 that President Trump intended to move remove director comey. Do you know the president has already decided to fire director comey . I would say i believe it has , asked us ouric opinion, he had discussed. Utting that in writing i believe he has talked about it. I believe his speech to on may 11 two days later come the president stated he would fire comey regardless of the recommendation. I am puzzled about the recommendation because the decision had been made, so what was the need for you to write a recommendation . It is consistent with the letter we wrote it i felt comfortable and i guess the Deputy Attorney general did, and providing the information in writing. The problem was the Russian Investigation i guess i will just have to let his words speak for himself. Sure what is in his mind explicitly when it talks to him. Host your reaction to yesterdays hearing. 202 ent, to one of the latest reports coming in from cbs news, multiple people injured in a shooting in virginia wednesday morning. Cbs news has learned that the shooting happened in the dugout field, baseball practice. One Congress Person hit. Hill police officers. The gunmen and House Majority whip, republican from louisiana. , and theyke to him are using a hell of dr. To medevac the injured. A helicopter to medevac the injured. Texas, independent, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I have been following all of this on cspan students it started since it started. That we were investigating the russian interference in our elections. Number came out with a report russia hadhat stated infiltrated 30 four states, i believe the database, i am not too sure. Thinking, all of these hearings, when it changed to the russia, i do with not know but we were trying to figure out how they did it. And why. We were doing questions on the wrong thing. Russia did not get into the databases that you take 34 states, i think the investigation should be how did russia do this, how can we stop them because it has been proven that the Trump Administration did not have any collusion, trump was not involved, that has all been cleared up by comey. On i think we are pressing the wrong thing and doing a witchhunt on people, which we should be concentrating on russia and how to stop this in the future. This is detrimental to our of picking our elected officials. Congress is on the wrong road. That is my opinion. Host all right. Carolina, a republican, go ahead. Caller good morning. I just want to say i really believe this is just another opportunity for the left to obstruct a lot of what is being promote not only our country forward but the American People. The wholee reason hearing sounds like a hoax is because it really is. There is really nothing there. It is a bunch of made up garbage and they keep picking and prodding and everything keeps. Xposing himself a them self we need to quit this nonsense regardless of whether were we arets republicans, americans. These obstructions are doing our country and our people a big promoting ournot country but more like just being so negative about everything and if you listen to the comments, a lot of it is just targeted remarks with absolutely no foundation or basis. Why dont they bring up the lied that comey actually when he was on the bench and caught himself in the lie. He said he was motivated to document on the 11th some of the when theump had made investigation came out, because actually donald trump had not tweeted on the 11th, but had tweeted on the 12th. From the leftks and media, it is ridiculous. Why dont we get over the cry barry crybabies and just move forward with our country . Of seriouseed leadership and we actually have a president now that actually is desiring to promote the American People and our agendas instead our lastg out Like Administration did. Thank you and have a nice day. Host sean spicer tweeting out this morning that both the president and the Vice President aware of the thoughts and prayers are with all affected. Fox news in their reporting this morning noting House Majority. Hip steve shot in the hip at least one other aid also shot in the chest by a gunman with a rifle who had been fired this morning. Police tweeted they have the anmen in custody but he said staffer used a belt as a tourniquet to help stop bleeding. The shots reported in east monroe street in the alexandria area of virginia at 7 30 this morning. 50 one years old, he is the House Majority whip and 2008, the chair of the House Republican study. His district includes new orleans. Keep you updated on the developing story happening about andere a go at this point Police Activity and the police sending out updates and we will give them to you as they happen. New jersey, democrats, good morning. Caller yes. I believe that comey was telling the truth. He said things that implicated himself. Thats how much he was telling the truth. Donald trump would never say thing or sessions would never say anything about them locate themselves because they lie all the time. I cannot believe these republicans believe anything everything they say. I really want to know where are the Tea Party People . Since donald trump came into office, i had not heard them. Obama could not go around the corner with a pair of hush puppies on without them saying he was bennie a lot of money and going on vacation. Trumps wife can stay in new york and we spend millions of tax dollars for her to stay in new york, and no Tea Party President has said anything. Where are they . You used to have them on their show. Your show. Every time obama did anything, he is spending money. Host bring it back to the hearing yesterday. Caller they are liars. Sessions is a liar. Comey served under democrats, under republicans host what do you think he specifically lied about yesterday . First of all, he and donald trump never did even question anything about the our democraticg system. He is the head of, the headlong man in the law United States and he does not question that . He is a liar. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. Host all right. Got your point. Mike, line for independents. Concernedm a little for our country. I know we have got democrats corrupt but the bunch we have got in there now, they act like they dont know what is going on. If they dont, it is criminal negligence. At the very least, whether they are guilty of commission or omission, if it was not for the useful idiots we have got up there pushing all this garbage, they would come right out in the open. They are Public Servants and do not have conversations that do not belong to us. They may have something to do with National Security, but i cannot for the life of me see how any of this has to do with National Security except that our elections have been hacked and we knew that and the republicans showed them how. Pushedd it when they got in and they did it with servers in ohio and the. We have got to go back to paper becausezen initiatives they are not going to be anything up that is useful for the American People until we take this thing by ourselves and start organizing amongst ourselves, these clowns are going to plants like a two dollar fiddle. Anybody, iw what cannot imagine how anybody can stand up there and believe anything said yesterday. Avon park, florida, line for republicans, good morning. Caller good morning. I just wanted to say Jeff Sessions is a good man. Obviously, he did not lie. A year and on for nothing has happened. Let it go and stop wasting our money. Do the temp to the democrats, put all your energy that you are bsting into all this es to us and take care of this country like republicans are trying to do. Why, because you dont like somebody, you dont like the president so youre going to destroy this country . Get on board and do your job or get fired. Int more of our last caller this segment. More headlines coming out in this shooting in virginia appeared we will keep you up late updated. Members of congress reportedly shot, that would be the majority let majority whip of the house of representatives was shot. The pictures are showing the helicopter arriving on the scene of the shooting in our andrea. We will talk with the congressman from alexandria, virginia, in just a minute here. We will ask about any developments we know this point. We will be right back. Sunday night, mike lee talks about forgotten historical figures who fought against Big Government in his book written out of history. The lookoutare on for them, they come to you ask friendspeared and other people i knew who thought they should get more credit than they get, this is an iroquois indian chief from a tribe and they understood the principles because they lived it for centuries. I was intrigued by the outset because it is not in a most americans know anything about. Impact it is a profound on our government. He enabled Benjamin Franklin to learn about federalism and Benjamin Franklin was a conduit through which this float. Minutes way first through the articles of confederation into the constitution. Watched sunday night and i cook eastern on cspan2s booktv. Sunday on q a. Is deeply committed to presenting his story and i think that is different from history. Part one of the interview with a Pulitzer Prize winner. He talks about his book which covers barack obamass life up to his presidency. I think his sense of destiny lead him to push the eger aside aside their there was a wellknown political figure in chicago, a hugely respected man who everyone in black chicago believed could never go higher because he was married to a white omen. So it is in the political tradition of black chicago in the early 1990s that for a black man to aspire to represent it is necessary to have a black spouse. Easterny night at 8 00 on cspan q a. Washington journal continues. Host from virginia, the district that is home to this book field where the shooting