A political and religious crisis. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter is next. Host good morning. It is monday, september 30. Welcome to washington journal. Though congress is in a two week break, House Democrats impeachment efforts move forward. Herker pelosi telling caucus in a Conference Call beterday, our tone must solemn, prayerful, and respectful of the constitution. Is the effort by democrats worthy of the constitution . Democrats, call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents and others, that is 2027488002. Or you can send us a text and that line is 2027488003. We are also on twitter. Tweet us at cspanwj or post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A piece updated in the new york pelosithe headline says pushes for simple message as inquiry barrels ahead. Nancy pelosi made a private appeal on sunday to democrats not to build public support for a school fullscale impeachment inquiry on President Trump. W
Steps with iran. And meet snowball, the dancing cockatoo. His videos were a viral hit but in boston they have got scientists all of a flutter. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in new york and Christian Fraser is in london. Theresa may tried hard with donald trump. She invested a great deal of Political Capital setting up his recent state visit, and she persevered with the relationship in spite of his often public criticisms of her brexit strategy. It was all to no end. Today, the president ridiculed her on twitter while doubling down on his criticism of Sir Kim Darroch, her governments representative in washington. The wacky ambassador the uk foisted upon the United States, he tweeted, is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country and Prime Minister may, about their failed brexit negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was handled. I told theresa may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way, was unable to
Government to hold it, but efficiency is not the hallmark of what we are trying to do here. The onlyency was criteria in terms of our national priorities, we would not have a fourth amendment. It would be much more efficient if police could go into our homes to search whenever they wanted to. Privacy and expectation of privacy is a High National priority. Those things can be balanced. There may be things that are legal, things that we can get Court Approval for, but there may be a better way to do it. Even though we can do it another way, this is more protective of privacy. We can get the same information we need. We can protect the country just the same. That is what we need to ask ourselves about all of our programs. Is it effective . Is a constitutional . It constitutional . The travistive for he of the privacy of the public . He heads u. S. Cyber command. What is the future of this agency . Should they be split apart in the future . I can saym not sure if one model is better than t
It. You do not have the same director or deputy there have multiple people. People under investigation right now. There will be laws. If you look at the Financial Services bill that has gone through appropriations. Not only is the irs defunded for but they have cut the budget. I think the same thing needs to happen with the possible examination of the nsa. But i do not think we ought to immediately toss out a program until we think about it and look at it, you know, and the Homeland Security people on both sides of the aisle tell us it has done the job. Ok. One thing i would like to point out though if the program were abused, we would not know. Let me rephrase that. We would not know it until it was too late. Know or have i read that the way this deal was supposed to work was when the controversy first kind of started, they were going to monitor these phone calls to find terrorists outside the United States. When that person contacted someone within the United States, they were going
In every be engaging possible way to get this under control. Hezbollah is tied up in this. The future of israel is tied up in this. We want israel to survive and ross burke for everything that it stands for. We want to bring a peaceful solution for the palestinians in the area. What is going on in syria affects that. Lex i believe that if the United States is to maintain its position as a world power and dominates as a world power dominates as a world power, we nate as a domi willpower, we need to Pay Attention to syria. It is unfortunate that we did rwanda. Rvene its in we have to recognize that this is a sensitive region of the syriaand what we do in or, what we do not do, may be a lack of u. S. Response to save lives. I do believe that International Allies need to be engaged. The United States should end straight leadership. Our allies should provide support to the people of syria. Thank you. Obamase in resident cautious approach. I think that assad has to go all stop i do not think