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You only and. You are awesome, have a great day. Guest thank you, and thank you for judging the donating that piece of history to the local museum. Expanding opportunities to vote, these are fights that play out over generations. They are noticed about what is going to happen this year, what is would happen in 2016. This is a long haul of people care about this country pushing to make it better, organizing together. That is the greater part of our democracy, and this memorial day weekend that is the type of value we should be standing up for. Thank you for your call. Host we will conclude on that note. Anna galland is the executive director of moveon. Org. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you. Host two former members of congress, say it is time for us to open up the president ial debate and include thirdparty contenders like they did with ross perot. Later, retired colonel derek harvey will talk about the isis gains in syria and iraq. Youre listening to washington journal on me
George bush. Guest there is dispute on that. This is not about rigging the system so my candidate wins the under or the other candidate loses. This is about the health of the political system. I did not vote for ross perot, i voted for george h w bush. But is it illegitimate to say that perot could not articulate the issues he cared about . Those are important issues that millions of people care about. I do not agree with those americans that ross perot shouldve gotten their vote. But to say that person shouldnt be represented is not good democracy. You said, we do not want a clown show. Can you elaborate . Guest one argument made, that undermines what we are talking about, is to allow everyone running to be in the debates. We have all sorts of minor trivial candidates who have no chance whatsoever of being elected president. We dont want that. We want a voice on the podium to articulate the views of the large bulk of americans. We do not want to simply open it up and let everyone come
Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you are for the Homeland Security department across the country, we want to hear from you, 202 7488003. Join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. You can send us an email, journal cspan. Org. We will begin with john boehner from yesterday. He was asked whether or not the house would allow a clean Homeland Security funding bill after Mitch Mcconnell decided to separate the two issues. This is what he had to say. [video clip] the house has done its part to fund Homeland Security and to stop the president s immigration. The bill should have been debated and passed. Until the senate does something, we are in a wait and the mode. Host the speaker saying the houses and a wait and see mode until senate acts. They decided to advance legislation on the promises from the majority leader that it would be a clean funding bill for Homeland Security. We will begin with senator mcconnell. [video clip] i have spoken with the democratic le
Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Now we have sean hannity. Wheres sean . Come on, sean. Get out here, sean. Give it up for mr. Donald trump. You all doing okay . They have chairs. Or do you want to stand . Well stand. Lets stand. Ok. First question. Its great to see you. Nice to see you. Dont read into this. This is donald trump. Do not take that as an indication that i am committed. You flirted with running the last time. I thought romney could do it and he let us down. Im building all over the world. I love it. I love this country. My children are grown people he are ensconced in the company. I have great executives. I can let them run things and i have no problem. When youre building it is very hard for a person like me to run because i have a lot of things happening. A politician, they run. What do they do . They run, they run. They lose. They win. They run. With me i give up a lot. I already told the apprentice people. Nbc wanted to renew and i said im doing S