Tech, 202 n send a text,03 is that number 202 7488003 is that number. Is day number four of New York Times adding on that story. Heres the focus on todays lead in the publication, cash discovery tipping off spies. Special operations officers in afghanistan alerted superiors as early as january 2 a suspected russian plot to pay bounties to the taliban to kill american troops in afghanistan host here is the headline from usa today. The president says in this piece that facing strong criticism from democrats, trump on twitter said that neither he nor the Vice President had been briefed on the assessment. So, early in the day on sunday the president tweeted this distinctse are two tweets from the president at opposite ends of the day, yesterday. Reaction has been swift to this story. Here is joe biden, presumed democratic nominee for president. [video clip] a truly shocking revelation ist, if the times report true, i emphasize again, President Trump, the commanderinchief of american troops serving in a dangerous theater of war, has known about this for months and done worse than nothing. Not only did he fail to sanction or pose any kind of consequences on russia for this egregious violation, hes continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin. This information according to the times, yet he offered to host putin in the United States and sought to offer russia to rejoin the g7. His entire presence has unique gift to putin. But this is beyond the pale. Its a betrayal of the most sacred duty that we bear as a nation, to protect and equip our troops as we send them into harms way. Its a betrayal of every single American Family for the loved ones serving in afghanistan or anywhere overseas and frankly im outraged by the report and if im elected resident, make no mistake about it, Vladimir Putin will be confronted and it will impose a serious cause on russia. I dont just think about this as a candidate for president. I think about this as a dad, father, who sent his son to serve in harms way for years in the middle east, in a rack. Im disgusted on behalf of those families whose loved ones are serving today. When your child volunteers to serve, putting their life on the line for the country, they take risks, known and unknown for this nation. They should never, ever, ever face a threat like this, with their commanderinchief turning a blind eye to a foreign power and putting a bounty on their head. Host joe biden, from yesterday. The White House Press secretary claimed saturday that mr. Trump that mr. Trump had not been briefed, one official told the times that it was briefed to the highest level of the white house and another said it was included in his daily brief. A compendium of foreignpolicy policy and National Security intelligence compiled for mr. Trump to read and back in a didnt challenge the existence of the assessment. A National SecurityCouncil Meeting about it in late march, multiple other news wereizations reportedly briefed on the assessment and said that it had been treated as a closely held secret that the administration expanded briefings about it over the last week, including sharing information about it with the British Government whose forces were among those said to have been targeted. That is the updated reporting this morning. We go to greg, first from farmington, michigan, democratic line. Welcome. Caller good morning. Yeah, its important for the american to not give up on the Mueller Report. I read the Mueller Report. Operatives met with the russians in the Mueller Report over 100 times. 13 russians were indicted. Of course, they are in russia, they havent been convicted or anything, but they were indicted. U. S. Federal prosecutors suggested that President Trump obstructed justice. In 2016. Since then there has been zero evidence that President Trump has gone after Vladimir Putin. Anythingever say negative about him. He always takes the side of the mayor putin over our own u. S. Intelligence. Something isnt adding up. Something is rotten in denmark, im sorry to tell the public. We have got to come to grips with this. Its wrong, whats going on. How long is it going to go on before we give to the troops. Host go ahead and finish up. Caller the rumors are that Deutsche Bank and russia are in together financing the resident earlier. Now, that should come out eventually. The Supreme Court has chased down things like the taxes of the president. Host carl, oxford, massachusetts. Democratic line. Hello. I cant believe this. The whole thing smells of a false flag. Believe me, donald trump turns my stomach, i could never stand him, but this is just a distraction to take away from something new they came up with to cause trouble so that we will be distracted from the problems going on. We have enough problems in this country with the race situation in the socalled pandemic or whatever. You know, its a distraction, sorry, im too upset. I cant really be coherent right now, but thank you. What do you think the next steps if any should be in terms of congress, carl . Caller ive been a registered democrat all my life. I think its the democrats that are pushing for this. Biden is pushing for the democrats want war now. You know, i know it sounds crazy, but they will do anything to smear trump and i cant stand i mean he really turns my stomach. But they are trying to, they are being hawkish and just trying to distract the nation, our country, from focusing on our own problems. We should pull out of there. We should have pulled out of in,r and never gone actually. Thats what i think. Thanks. Rl, william is in orange park, florida. Your reaction to the story and all of this by official folks here in washington . Caller why would you have biden on their when he said we had 100 and 23 Million People that already died from the virus. As far as that guy wanting to talk about that one thing that they brought up for all them, all them charges, they will never get that guy to go under oath and talk about how he spent 35 million of our dollars. All right, william. Rich, on the independent mine. Welcome to the program. Whats your reaction . Caller when you read Something Like this in the newspaper, its almost like a treasonous act. If were given knowledge of it in ofnt act, and his denial him never receiving this information, i mean to me this should be verified and if it is proved to be true, it should be considered an act of treason that he didnt act upon it. To me this is the kind of stuff donald trumpe presidency, the reason he was impeached, the reason, you know, a lot of this stuff comes from his own mouth. He says the russians should investigate Hillary Clinton and hack email. That was a treasonous statement from a person running for the presidency. Ifs is why these issues, they are true and verified, the charges, these are the things that he saying and why its going on for as long as its going on, anybody that would be complicit in not charging or prosecuting this man, you know, is in the same boat with him as far as im concerned. Host rich, thank you for calling. The senate today continues to work on the Defense Authorization bill, a 700 and 40 billion plus bill on defense programs and policy. You can bet that they will be talking about that this week on the senate floor, in addition to briefings and elsewhere. Some of the reaction that has come in, grant wrote yesterday and over the weekend that it is imperative its host just a little bit of the reaction there. The liz cheney tweet was retweeted by Many Republican members of congress yesterday. Democratic caller now from ohio. Your reaction . Caller i called my congressman i call my congressman three or four times a week and i ask him all the time, i want to go by constitutional law and rule of. Aw and high moral authority of which the republican has given away to this administration. Because we dont go by constitutional law. The man sitting at 1600 and sylvania avenue is the most corrupt person that this old woman has ever seen in her life. And they tolerate it. Its if it would be done by a woman, a black man or a person of color, the republicans wouldnt stand for it. But because he is old, white, and says he has money, which i dont think he does, thats the reason by he doesnt want us to see his taxes. Hes totally corrupt and he should be removed from office by the Republican Party today if in worldy dad fought war ii. My husband was in the vietnam war. My former soninlaw did three tours in a rack. This is what we have to deal with . Corruption at every level . I wasntswer is briefed . Who believes that . Host we will stay in ohio. West chester. Deborah, your thoughts about what you have been hearing and reading about this morning . To go overust want the actual factual in nation regarding the united dates approach to russia during the biden and the obama and what trump has done. Wishat the end of the presidency, russia invaded georgia, saying it was just a peacekeeping measure. George bush put sanctions on russia. In geneva, 2009, some of your callers may remember, Hillary Clinton gave russia the red reset button. Remember that big . She said that bush overreacted. Later on, very soon into the presidency, we stop to the missiledefense that we had. That was the bush that was the biden obama strategy in europe. To stop the missiledefense going in poland. That was obviously a green light for russia to be able to take more latitude. Obama was caught on a hot mike saying to russia by your to the second election, just wait until after the election, i will have more leeway. In 2014 russia invades ukraine. We dont give Russia Military lethal aid like they want, we give them humanitarian aid. So there is no doubt. So then trump is elected. When trump is elected he starts missiledefense again in poland vigorously and it is continuing now. We put tremendous sanctions on russia. And then the other thing that we do is we give ukraine lethal military aid. Its people have got to look at factual information. We are in the worst political theater i have ever seen in my life. Im 68. The news media can report anything, but those, those historical they are not historical, but those are the actual facts. Biden was a part of being soft. Of course russia doesnt want trump. Our adversaries do not want trump. He has been tough on them. I am perplexed as to how people can be so against policies in an soinistration and just be overwhelmed with this mans personality that i dont take it early care for myself rather than looking at policy. Host thank you for your participation in the program. More reaction from congress on either side of the aisle. Host here is a Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the house on one of the talkshows yesterday. [video clip] this is as bad as it gets and get the president will not confront the russians on this score. His administration knows, some of our allies worked with us in afghanistan have been briefed and they accept this report. Just as i said to the president , with him all roads lead to Vladimir Putin. I dont know what they have on the president lytic, personally, financially, whatever it is, but he wants to bring back and displace the annexation of crimea and annexation of ukraine. Based on what they yielded to him in syria, despite his intervention into our election, which is well documented by the Intelligence Community and despite, now, possibly this allegation, which we should have been briefed on. I wanted to ask you about. Do you believe the president has been briefed on this and how new yorkexplain the times, saying he wasnt in the daily brief . The president wants to ignore any allegation against russia. Mr. I said, with you, president , all roads lead to Vladimir Putin. Russia is now taking it out on us, our troops. They have never gotten over their embarrassment in afghanistan. You would think the president would want to know more, instead of denying that he knew anything. Host four of your input from social media its host jeff is calling from muskogee, oklahoma. Your thoughts, your reaction to thanks for caller my call. Host youre welcome. Caller thank you. Pretty simple comment, pretty explanatory, what if President Trump and Vladimir Putin are working together . What if they are a part of a group, you know . You know the group, the illuminati, the Panama Papers . All the president s are just in line with them all. The republicans are all bought and paid for, every one of them. You might think that these lobbyists are paying them here or there, but who is the lobbyist working for . They are all part of the mafia, the illuminati area think about who they are. Calling. Nks for david, democratic caller, michigan. Caller thank you very much for taking my call. I really cant believe that you let these republicans view the lies that they do, like that woman from ohio. Her whole spiel was nothing but lies. Typical republican bringing up previous administrations, previous people. President obama was harder on russia than any president in our history. Please, you know you ought to push the button when those kinds of lies are spewing out of someones mouth. What i want to say about this story, im sure its true. All president s are briefed. Its just more proof that traitor trump will not go against his boss, Vladimir Putin. You know what i say . Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up. Thanks. Michigan,d from there. Washington post, doing their story,orting on the lead Coalition Forces in afghanistan, bounties resulting in the deaths u. S. Military members and several people familiar with the matter said it was not clear exactly how Many Americans or Coalition Troops from other countries may have been killed or targeted under the program and that forces in afghanistan suffered 10 deaths from hostile fire or improvised bombs in 2018. Two were killed this year and in each of those years several servicemembers were killed by what is known by green on blue hostile incidents by members of the Afghan Security forces that are sometimes believed to have been infiltrated by the taliban. Lets hear from john, now, in trenton, new jersey. Caller thanks for having me on, cspan. Host youre welcome. Caller the deal is im a vietnam veteran, my father was in world war ii and my whole family hired to that has been military. If this president had done that, hes guilty of treason and if hes guilty of treason, treason carries a penalty of execution or life in prison. People whoted states are backing this president have got to realize that by supporting him, they are complicit in his debacle, ok . Not,er they like it or they are complicit in his debacle. Now, Mitch Mcconnell and all the rest of those in congress have got to own up to this. , they are they dont violating the constitution and they are guilty of treason also. War started with charlies war during the reagan administration. The United States interfered their is because afghanistan was looking for its freedom. Vladimir putin was, Vladimir Putin was in the mideast a long time before that. And now hes going to go out and put a bounty on our men and arms . I think that somebody should be counted for and put in prison. We have more here from the Washington Post piece. These people and others who discuss this, they did so host we have bruce from mars, pennsylvania. Good morning. Cashr i know where the came from. Joe biden and obama gave it to them through the iran deal. Plane loads of cash. 97 billion went to the iranian military. They want they went to russia and bought ak bombs and missiles and they went to afghanistan. They even bought the rifles to kill our soldiers with in several state in the middle east and nobody ever brings it up. Military, they bought all of them boats to harass us and the Missile Technology that they are working on and even the military thats working on the atom bomb for them. It was financed by obama and biden. That money was spread for terrorism. We know they are terrorists. Is on theright, frank line now from northport, new york. My comment is to the gentleman who just spoke plus the republicans from ohio. Stacks onave these how you can blame the media. Like to have asked her, where did you get your source from, your fax from . My point is this, i love cspan, i love the washington journal. First of all, you get these various collins. But the age that we are living in, its just incredible how you dont know what you are getting. I will admit, i am no fan of trump whatsoever. Cnn,l tune into msnbc and but i am fully aware that this is a corporate run entity looking to get viewers and they are going to they are going to, you know, report what they want to report. Host would you support congressional hearings on this . Caller certainly i think this should be investigated, but personally, i am worn out on these investigations. We went through impeachment and it just seems like we are at each others throats, you know . We are not getting anywhere. I dont blame the republicans in other words, i dont fault either party. Gentleman who the just wrote the book recently, john bolton, he claims that the wererats were the ones who partisan in those impeachment hearings and had they been less partisan they may have gotten somewhere. Maybe hes right. I dont know. I