the myth these packets called zombie, scooby-doo, it's not fun stuff. you are putting your life at risk. the lives of others at risk and there will be serious consequences for selling and using. >> ted, los angeles. good morning. >> caller: good morning. listen. i have a couple of comments. and the one is that in regarding the synthetic drugs, it seems they always have names that cater to young people or children, and there already was laws regarding advertising to children from cereal companies and everyone that they seem to get away with this by advertising these products at candy type of products and things like that or incense or whatever. it seems like that law, that should have been taken care of a long time ago. the question to mr. racine is, in hollywood, here, they have these places called hookah parlors where people smoke these large hookah pipes. and is that synthetic marijuana that they are smoking and calling it hookah or what? it seems to be a legal thing that goes on here. i'll take that answer off the air. thank you. you're doing a good job, sir. >> caller: thank you very much. on the hookah question, there are tobacco products that are, of course, legal. and legal for adults to use. i can't speak as to the hookah bars in hollywood. but certainly there are those types of establishments throughout the country. so long as tobaccos are legal products, it's appropriate for adults to choose to do that. >> you'd think the washington, d.c. ag would be more interested in getting guns off the street than hassling drug users. >> i think we live in a world where we can do more than one thing at the same time. the district of columbia, the mayor, council, police chief, activists are focused on getting guns off the street. let me make another point. in that regard, d.c. citizens over generations have clearly expressed their view that reasonable restrictions on gun use makes sense. and, frankly, we're defending the right of the district of columbia to pass those reasonable restrictions. i can assure the caller that not only are we focused on synthetic drug use but the most important issue, and that's saving lives. >> will you address the issue of drug abuse overall in the district, including meth and crack, et cetera. where would you rank it? >> i'm not sure i have an accurate measure or comparison. the method we have traditionally sought to deal with substance abuse is thankfully changing. law enforcement needs to be active, particularly against those who are selling substances that's are dangerous. in a real way were tilting the model, the focus on treatment. >> sue is calling in from illinois. go ahead with your question or comment for karl racine, attorney general for the city of district of columbia. >> caller: yes, sir. i want to know if cultivating, selling marijuana is not illegal and not paying taxes for it. is it illegal? >> in the district of columbia, the law permits residents of the district of columbia to grow and to use certain amounts of marijuana in their private dwelling. >> sue, did you have a follow-up? >> caller: i want to know how is it legal to put people in jail for marijuana and/or write them a ticket within the same city you are cultivating and growing and selling the marijuana? how is that not a double standard? how is that constitutional? when you put one sector of people in prison for marijuana and you have a white sector of people that get to grow it and cultivate it. you're an african-american. the attorney general of the united states is an afric african-americ african-american, and the president. why do you all let that happen. and it affects your people more than anyone. >> let me address that. you're talking about something that is extraordinarily important. and that's disparity in prosecution and disparity in arrest. and convictions. part of the reason, one of the main reasons the district of columbia went forward with legalizing partner was to eliminate the disparity and prosecutions and arrest of folks using marijuana. it was the case prior to legalization that both black folks and white folks use marijuana at the same level. nonetheless, african-americans, people of color, were eight times more likely to be arrested and convicted for marijuana-related offenses. that disparity because of the legalization of marijuana no longer exists. and so the caller is highlighting a problem that has now been resofld in the district of columbia. >> is congress interested in this issue? have you worked at all with the chinese government that these substances are coming from china? >> with respect to congress, i think we can, frankly, do more with congress and ask more of congress. as i indicated before, the organization which i'm a member, the national association of attorney general, bipartisan, a crew of people, republicans and democrats and independents are all in unison in regards to working against chemical drugs. i do think there needs to be more coordination with congress. >> have you approached the chinese government at all? >> i do not have those level of relationships, and i'm not sure that i can report that there's been that outreach. >> karl racine, there's been a case here in d.c. well publicized of a young student being stabbed to death on the metro. synthetuc drug remembers s were reported to have been involved. >> i've read the reports and it does certainly appear that the young man was clearly under the influence of several drugs, including chemical drugs. >> linda, medina, ohio, good morning. >> caller: good morning. listen, i don't know anything about synthetic marijuana, but in this neck of the woods, which is the cleveland/akron area, we're having a serious, devastating effects from fentonol or heroin. it's killing people. every single day i read in though obituaries of people between the ages of like 17 and 40 who are dying from this stuff. but to be honest with you, i genuinely believe it comes back to the economy because these young people have nothing in the future to look forward to. they can't get a job like their dads used to be able to pull us into the auto factories and make a decent living. they can either go into massive amount of debt to go to college and get a degree that chances are good they can't even get a job paying $40,000 a year or work two part-time jobs making a cheesy 9 bucks an hour with no benefits. i feel these kids have a very dim future to look forward to. and i think a lot of it just goes back to the economy. these kids have watched their parents and grandparents struggling now since '05. i don't know about where you're at but here the recession started back in about '07 with bankruptcies and foreclosures and people losing their jobs, way back then. we're making a comeback but it's still not where it used to be. i just feel these young people have a dim future to look forward to. >> that's linda in medina, ohio. attorney general racine? >> i can only add to linda's heartfelt comments there that clearly issues related to education, job training, opportunity, things that get kids and young people and do positive activity certainly contributes to less substance abuse. >> a few minutes left with our guest. bob in kennesaw, georgia. you're next, bob. >> caller: hello. i think the issue is that not only they don't have much to look forward to but putting them in prison for smoking pot for five or so years, they call it criminal university. it makes them into hardened criminals. chris christie was recently talking about how marijuana indicates a lack of self-control. that guy needs to lay off the doughnuts. >> before bob got a little frivolous, he was talking about the criminalization of drugs. has the war on drugs in your view been successful, been worthwhile? >> well, i think the evidence and the data over the last decade or so clearly indicates that the overprosecution, the overpenalization, mandatory sentencing guidelines has been devastating on communities. and i'm happy the department of justice led by former attorney general boulder quite boldly and courageously have absolutely shifted tactics and approaches. >> robert, montross, new york? >> caller: yes, good morning. i wanted to address the use of recreational marijuana, also medical marijuana. there's an increase in ul legal grows in states that allow this medical marijuana. especially in california. and we also see, too, in these dispenseries, it is rather prohibitive for those where it's 600,000 to 700,000 and on the street $200,000 an ounce. and if they are caught on the street they say they got it from a dispensary. the chemical compounds that come in and then it's processed here in the united states. and we realize this is an immense problem. also from europe, we talk about ecstasy. they have powers to combat every time they move the molecular structure. i'm 73. at 69 years of age, i started doing street work in my community and i was privileged with a facility in mt. kiss co. they got me 100% scholarship to the council on alcohol and drug dependence. our children are in trouble. the reason i find for children using drugs is about emotional pain. and i believemedina hit it on the head. it's about the economy. we're tearing at the fabric of our society. what we have to do as a cann country -- law enforcement is extremely important. our group, we're pro-law enforcement. and what people have to do, when you know there's drug dealing taking place, we report it to the police and let them do what they have to do with the north county jazz force. >> let's lieave it there and ge a response. >> i'd touch on one point that robert made. he talked about the regime out there with respect to medical marijuana and concerns that folks were growing illegal marijuana at a high rate. if you look at the california model currently of regulation and compare it to colorado, you would conclude colorado's model is far more elaborate and far more effective. and it's really that type of learned regulatory framework around the issue of legalization where i think the district of columbia and other states decided to go legal should move towards. >> one of the statistics we have shown our viewers is that 60%, and this is from the white house. 60% of emergency room visitors reporting spice use or synthetic drug use are between 12 and 20 years of age. >> i hate to say it but that's where the marketing of the product in these flashy, colorful packaging clearly playing to young people, scooby-doo, k2, et cetera has been regrettably effective. that's why it's most important, like the caller from california to get involved in the lives of kids and get out there and tell them the truth about these substances. it's not a play thing. you can get hurt and end up hurting people you care about. >> kevin, brmingham, alabama. >> caller: mr. racine, it seems like you and your team are doing a terrific job getting the message out. how are you and the leadership from the school superintendent to the mayor and human resource dealing with going into your school system and educating kids. it seems we start educating kids about smoking. do you all have a plan to go into the schools and educate kids about the impact of these drugs? how are you working with your regional partners knowing you're in the nation's captain aital a have maryland and virginia surrounding you? >> have you seen any evidence of these synthetic drugs in birmingham? >> caller: every day. >> where do you see it? >> caller: with young kids. same problem the city is dealing with in d.c. they are having those same problems here. >> do you see it in the convenience stores as general racine was talking about? >> caller: gas stations. >> thank you, sir. >> with respect to the gas stations, about a year ago, the national association of attorney general wrote to exxonmobil and all of the other big oil players who own gas stations and urged them to get these things off the shelf. quite responsibly, the larger players have done just that. so that's -- i think that's noteworthy but nonetheless, we need to make sure the medium and smaller players are getting those things off their shelf as well. >> how many stations or areas where this is being sold have you been able to shut down? >> through various means, with the mayors delegated to the police officer, the ability to shut down stores for 96 hours and our own ability to shut down doors for a year, we're in the area of probably a dozen stores where we've had significant law enforcement. most of the cases, far more than dozens resolve themselves when we simply inform a seller that those products need to go or else. and so there are any number of cases where informally, if you will, the sellers have eliminated those products from their shelves. >> what is the impact of putting the traffickers in jail, removed from the streets. how effective? how much is that slowing down crime? >> well, i think that's a very difficult question to answer candidly. the point is the folks who are the big dealers and really, really controlling the influx of the drugs into the united states and into these stores, law enforcement should come down on them and come down hard on them. the consumers need to be educated and treated. >> karl racine is the attorney general for the district of columbia. he has been our guest for the last 45 minutes. thank you. we've got about 40 minutes left in the "washington journal." we've put some public policy issues on the table. there are a lot more out there. what's a public policy issue that you want to talk about? your top news story of the week. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 748-8000 for democrats. 748-8002 for independences. we'll begin taking your call and going through newspaper stories. this weekend on "newsmakers" the president of the national education association is our guest. her name is lily eskelsen garcia. that airs at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on sunday. here's a portion of that interview. >> we've got teachers all over the country on the edge of their little seats wondering what's going to happen to no child left untested or originally called the elementary and secondary education act. we loved it when it had a boring name. when lyndon johnson signed it in 1965 as part of the war on poverty as part of the civil rights movement. let's give states some extra reading. and then 2002 happened, and in great bipartisan fanfare, educators all over the country going do you realize you're signing something that says 100% of children will hit a certain score on a standardized test. and they signed it anyway. and thinking that we'll change it before we get to that fatal year of 2014, which just passed us by, where 100% of kids are supposed to be above average. and now we're all in a panic because technically without some little waivers that have been given so we aren't labeled unfairly failed schools, we're in this horrible, horrible limbo because of some things congress did 12 years ago, 13 years ago. >> as far as the current versions, what stands in this version. how is it changed or different from the original? >> what we needed out of the house bill and senate bill and were more successful in convincing senators with senator lamar alexander and senator patty murray at the lead, we said you have to do something against this one size fits all. we'll label our children by a standardized test, and that's all that matters. but we have to replace that with something that does matter. we really do want information. we want better information. >> "washington journal" continues. >> and that full interview with the president of the national education association will air this sunday, 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time. 202 is the area code for this last portion. we want to know what your big story of the week is or what public policy issues you'd like to talk about. 748-8001 for republicans. 748-8000 for democrats and 748-8002 for independents. try twitter @cspanwj is our witter handle. saturday down in jackson, mississippi, is the first annual mississippi book festival at the state capitol there. and jerry nash is the chairman of the board of directors. mr. nash, how did this book festival come about? >> thank you for having me. we look forward to having c-span be a part of our festival tomorrow. mississippi is home to just an enormous number of authors and a group of us a couple of years ago decided the state needed a big old festival to celebrate our literary heritage. that's what we're going to do tomorrow. >> who are some of the authors at the festival and we'll talk about c-span's coverage as well and book tv's coverage as well. who are some of the authors you invited and how long in the planning is it? >> we have 165 authors coming. 103 of them will appear on a range of 22 panels. john gresham will kick off the festivities and we end ith a panel we call the last chapter that will be moderated. and in between those two book ends we'll have a huge number of authors are talking about a whole variety of subjects and books. >> is it mississippi centric? >> we have tried to promote mississippi authors, and we've tried to promote topics about mississippi, but the more we got started and the excitement that developed, we broadened our offerings, if you will, and we have a variety of regional and some national authors coming. >> how many participants or people do you expect to be attending the festival?oo >> well, peter, i'm willing to take as many bets on that as you want to do with me. we've never had one of these before. this is our first one. so we have no idea the number of people who are going to show up. it could be as lowe as 500 or 1,000 and some of my more optimistic members are predicting 5,000. luckily you'll be there and get to take a bet on this. >> how did you get involved in this. what's your background? >> i got started doing political consulting and campaigns in mississippi and then a friend of mine, andy tagert and i decided mississippi needed a really good history of our most recent politics. the transformation of mississippi from a predominantly democratic state to republican state. he and i wrote a book about the history of mississippi politics and my interest in promoting history and biography and mississippi authors has taken off. >> you are holding it at the state capitol. obviously some government cooperation here, correct? >> you are exactly correct. we could not have done this without the help of our statewide elected officials, the legislature in providing money to help fund the festival. the mississippi development and division of tourism have been helpful. it's been so great that they are letting us have full range of all of the panel meetings will be inside the capitol. the c-span coverage will be in the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. there's going to be a lot going on. >> book tv will be live at the mississippi book festival in jackson tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. eastern time. that's 10:30 over in jackson. jackson, mississippi. we'll be covering panels such as panels on civil war, history, civil rights and two other panels that we are covering on book tv include eudora wealthy and harper lee, two well known, one mississippi, one alabama author. that's all live tomorrow on book tv on c-span2. jerry nash, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, peter. we look forward to hosting you. 202 is the area code for public policy stories you want to talk about. what seen in the news this week. you can see the numbers on the screen. area code is 202. let's begin with a call from mississippi. this is john in lucedale. where is that? >> caller: down in the southeast corner. >> what do you want to talk about? >> caller: thanks for c-span by the way. yesterday was a politician on that was talking about the automobiles and manufacturing in this country. i had bought one and i've had an enormous amount of problems with it. my fault, i guess. but it would be nice on these vehicles if we had some sort of information on how many and how much is foreign made so that you could compare it with the japanese cars. and so that's what i have to say. thank you. >> john, what do you do down in lucedale? >> caller: i'm retired. >> from? >> caller: refrigeration. >> you talk about foreign cars. there's a couple of foreign automobile plants in mississippi, aren't there? >> caller: yes, sir. they are doing real good in canton, mississippi. >> kobe is calling in. >> caller: i was calling about the iran nuclear agreement. up to this point i've been a huge supporter because it's about verification, not trust. but then as i heard about the so-called side agreement, i'm not sure what else to call that, but they say the iranians will have the power to inspect their own sites. i was wondering if you had any more information to clarify that and if, in fact, it would be them clarifying their own sites? >> what do you think of that idea? >> caller: i think that just sounds fishy in my opinion. >> is this an issue you've been following along with? >> caller: yes. i've been listening to a lot of congressional hearings on it. i follow it every day. >> so if the president is able to convince enough senators to vote for it, but it's veto-proof, is that positive development in your view? >> caller: i think if we are going to deny the deal but our allies are going to support the deal, then it just seems completely pointless to reject it because then our sanctions aren't going to have as much power on iran because it's just us, not us and the p5+1. >> how old are you? >> caller: i'm 18 years old. >> and why do you follow this issue closely. what is it about this issue that's grabbed you? >> caller: i'm very into politics. i'm a double major in journalism and political science. >> where do you go to school? >> caller: i go to salsbury, maryland. i just -- politics is something that's very interesting to me, and this deal seems like one of the biggest foreign policy issues going on right now. and i don't want to see a nuclear iran. up to this point i thought this deal would have been the best way to do it but this side agreement has me on edge. >> going to show you this headline from "the new york times." great britain is reopening its embassy in tehran and the foreign minister of great britain will be in tehran to formerly reopen that. what do you think about that? >> caller: i mean, i guess they are going to be taking off sanctions, there has to be some sort of relations with iran. i still feel they have to put policies in place that go against their terrorism initiatives and stuff like that. >> thank you for your time this morning. good luck in school. michael is calling in from gadston, alabama. if you'll hang on one second. want to show another article with relation to iran. his most comprehensive effort to assure wavering democrats. president obama wrote that the u.s. would unilaterally maintain economic pressure and deploy military options if needed to deter iranian aggression during and beyond the proposed accord. this is jonathan whitesman writing. the august 19th letter is addressed to representative gerald nadler, democrat of new york, but is also aimed at other democrats with concerns about the deal. for mr. obama, it reflects steps the administration could take outside the agreement. they've repeatedly said it cannot be changed. >> so far according to this article, only two senate democrats, chuck schumer and robert menendez have declared their opposition to the deal. that raises the possibility that a resolution of disapproval to be voteod around september 16th could fail to get the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster end anything threat of a veto shutdown. this is the article in "the new york times" this morning. michael, republican, thank you for holding on. >> caller: i haven't really got into a lot of politics here lately and i've been watching like cnbc and cnn and fox news and seems like the republicans are trying to put out their policies, and as soon as they do, cnbc and cnn attacks them and the real reason i called in is race relations. i'm from the south, from alabama. and they are trying to make us out as racists. and i'm a white guy and most of my friends are black. i think the country is coming to a point in time where it's getting divided instead of coming together. >> as of right now, michael, what do you think the republican party should be doing to increase minority support for your policy? >> caller: i'm not sure, but i wish donald trump would just keep his airplane in new york because he's just making this whole republican thing just -- i don't know how to explain it. i like jeb bush, but i think people expected him to come out and just say, hey, my brother did a bad thing in the war, and this and that and just dog him, and it kind of feels like it ain't right. they want to throw him under the bus and i know the war was wrong and stuff, but he didn't have nothing to do with that. but they're making it out like he's george bush instead of his brother. >> what do you do in gadsden? >> caller: i work part time, construction and stuff like that. it just seems like the media deal is just getting crazy with the politics of it. >> you know donald trump is going to be in mobile. >> caller: i don't care nothing about donald trump. >> michael, thanks for your time. "washington post," jeb bush donor event to include his parents and brother. for a candidate who insists i'm my own man when asked about his famous lineage he likes calling in blood relatives to help raise campaign cash. the republican presidential contender is hosting a campaign donor retreat in late october with his parents as the headliners. it will include his older brother, former president george w. bush. on thursday, the 43rd president also penned his first message to campaign donors on behalf of his brother's 2016 campaign. "i wanted to make sure i asked for your support on behalf of my brother jeb," george w. bush wrote. "he's a brucproven leader with optimistic outlook. he's got a tough road ahead. take it from someone that's been there. with your strength, he'll succeed. it had a link asking people to donate $100, $50 or $25. out on the campaign trail, jeb bush regularly seeks to distance himself from his family and touts his two terms as florida governor to suggest his political career has been entirely separate from the presidencies of his father and brother. on thursday, however, bush strongly defended his brother's decision to engage for the first time in the 2016 campaign. quote is that a contradiction? i've got my own record and own life experience, i'm blessed to have a brother that loves me and wants to help me, he told reporters while campaigning in new hampshire. don in houston where this jeb bush event is taking place in houston, texas. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> how are you? >> caller: i'm well. thank you. to chime in on the last caller, i love donald trump because he's putting the establishment on the edge of the chair and the scary part of all of this stuff to me is how much would it cost us to continue a prolonged war. the other part is, what did the senators learn when they went to israel that would help us today to make a difference in trying to rid ourselves of a nuclear iran and israel and even america because those things aren't any good. >> thank you, don. speaking of putting the establishment on the hot seat as don said. bernie sanders' cam pan has some momentum, it seems. tonight he'll be live at a town hall meeting in columbia, south carolina. that will be live on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern time following that town hall, senator sanders will join us for a call-in program. you'll have the chance to talk to senator sanders. and our coverage of the iowa state fair and all the candidates that are cycling through that continues today as well. ted cruz, senator cruz will be on the soap box from the iowa state fair and that's at 11:00 a.m. eastern time today. again live on c-span. next call from steve in phoenix, arizona. democrat. steve, you're on the "washington journal." >> good morning and three cheers for c-span. my comment is, i was listening to the last guest before the question, and it was a marijuana statement. i live out here in a conservative state, arizona. just a couple of years ago it was throw the bums in jail and now it's a money making venture. we can sell marijuana to everybody. the issue isn't the pot, it's the politicians. >> that's steve in phoenix. "washington post" charissa thompson has an early in the style session called a long windy city good-bye, question mark? this is about the obamas and one paragraph. the first couple's go-to weekend destinations have been new york and florida where the president has spent time golfing. the obamas have begun to tell friends they plan to make the big apple their home. they've probably outgrown chicago socially and professionally said slevin who interviewed many of the family associates. chicago can't hold them. greg is calling in from crystal city, missouri, on the independent line. you're on "washington journal." good morning. >> caller: hi. how are you? >> how are you? >> caller: good. thanks for taking my call. i've never been interested in politics until bernie sanders. i just wanted to touch on income inequality, and that's something that they talk about more. i don't understand how a country is okay between 95% and 99% of all new income going to 1% of our population. and if you look at a map of the country of what they would own as land masses if it were wealth compared to what the bottom of the country owns, someone who has actually come out to speak for the little guy. most people don't have any idea that the money is mostly in the hands of a few. and that back in the '50s, eisenhower had a 9% tax rate and now a billionaire will pay less tax rate than a teacher. >> what do you do in crystal city? >> caller: i'm a musician. >> what kind of musician? >> caller: i play guitar, teach guitar, write songs. i play on the street a lot of times. >> how do you do? >> caller: i do pretty well. i make more money playing on the street than i do at a minimum wage job. yeah. >> thanks for calling in. bernie sanders live tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. patrick is in rayville, louisiana. republican line. hi, patrick. >> caller: how are you? >> how are you? >> caller: i'm good. i was calling in response to a previous caller's question about the iranians inspecting their own nuclear facilities. i'd just like to add and answer his question that there's no way in the world that the u.s. government will let the iranians inspect their own nuclear facilities. and to add to that, i, as a republican, i should be against the deal but i'm all for it. >> why? >> caller: any deal is better than no deal. i kind of agree with the president that it's either a deal or war because either way if we don't make a deal with them, they're going to build nuclear weapons anyway. >> all right, patrick in rayville, louisiana, which is where? what part of louisiana are you in? >> caller: i'm in northeast louisiana. >> okay. so anywhere close to shreveport or you over toward mississippi? >> caller: about four hours both ways. >> joe is up next in marysville, ohio, democrats line. what's on your mind? >> caller: this is joe from the canton marysville area. i wanted to make a comment on the 14th amendment. they talk about the anchor babies, and it amazes me, why is it so confusing. even some law professors don't seem to interpret it correctly. when it says foreign nationals, when they are living here under our jurisdiction, not above it they come here so-called legally. if they are here illegally, if a worker is here working with a green card or students here under student visa and a woman would have a baby here, the baby, of course, is an american citizen. if their green card expires, or their visa expires and they are supposed to leave, then they are outside our jurisdiction and here illegally and that baby, if she had another child would not be another citizen. so the first one would be a citizen. the second brother or sister would not be. it's simple and i don't understand what the confusion is. >> that's joe in ohio on that issue, "usa today" has an opinion this morning on their editorial page and an opposing opinion. this is the "usa today" view. retain birthright citizenship for those born in the u.s. moist have given short schriff. would bureaucrats need to check the i.d.s to determine authenticity before any birth certificates iss s were issued. it would cause some women to stay away from hospitals endangering the health of the woman and child. better if it were pult toward more efficient efforts to fight immigration. tighter borders, verification and dealing with visitors who overstay their vis as. it would create an automatic underclass of stateless children unable to attend school or feel allegiance to the country in which they live. louisiana's senator david vitter has an opposing view. he writes in part, it is flat out wrong for children of illegal immigrants to become u.s. citizens just because they were born here, especially when it's justified using a false technicality of the constitution. the only way we can move forward is to make sure we aren't dropping the ball at the beginning. one place to start is preventing birth tourism and focusing on a brighter american future that welcomes foreign citizens leg legally through a thoughtful process. mike is calling in from carnegie, pennsylvania. you're on the "washington journal" on this friday. >> caller: oh, yes, thank you for taking my call. how soon do we forget, remember the ferguson deal over in missouri? all right. what i want to ask you is this. what is loretta lynch doing about having those homes being repaired, having those police cars repaired and having those people who ignited this riot put in jail? we haven't heard nothing about it. we haven't heard nothing from her. in the meantime, anybody can commit a crime. anybody can do anything they want and get away with it. how long has it been? what are they going to do about it? are they going to continue to press charges? do you have any idea? >> mike we'll leave your question stand and move on to david in ardsley, new york. republican line. go ahead, david. >> caller: hi. i'd like to talk about immigration. there's been a lot of attention from -- because of donald trump's statements, the republican party about immigration. now there's talk about ending birth right citizenship, which you just talked about. i'd just like to say that it's pretty clear reading of the constitution that as long as somebody is -- sorry, i have a cold -- is under the jurisdiction of narea and is born in the united states, they are and given that donald trump's proposals and those of other republicans would -- would harm the economy, as a conservative, i have to question how beneficial a supposedly strong immigration policy would be to the american economy. >> and what's the answer to the question? what's your answer to the question you're raising? >> caller: i'd like to ask if you know of any -- any statistics on the effects that a mass deportation or the building of a border wall would have on the u.s. economy? >> do you know any statistics? >> caller: i've read some statistics. but i'm not sure if they're from trusted sources because they're from "the atlantic" which is a pretty left-leaning news magazine. >> so, maybe what you're suggesting is a segment on "the washington journal" the economic costs or benefit of immigration, would that be a fair rewording of what had you to say? >> caller: yeah. >> all right. >> caller: thank you. >> that's david in new york. up next is san in maryland, democrat. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. i would like to talk about the second amendment and i want congress to pass gun control bill. i wonder how many people have to die in this country before congress can pass a common sense gun control bill. >> what do you mean by common sense? >> caller: i mean, background check. common sense. keep mentally disturbed people from owning guns. that's common sense. and i don't know how many people will have to die in this country before congress will pass a common sense gun control bill. this is one issue they only talk about when something happens. they wait until something happens before they will talk about it. gun is not there to protect people. it's there to skill. i know what guns can do. we went through ten years civil war a war. >> thank you, sir. marlene is calling in from new jersey. and she's calling in from -- from are you calling in from, mayor lean? >> caller: waucapakon. >> thank you. democrat line. >> caller: no, i'm independent. i did call in on the independent line. >> yeah you got it all right. >> caller: i have to tell you, i have to laugh. my family came here in 1684. we fought in the original revolution. all this talk about this iran is a waste of time. and the reason is we have already voted on it in a u.n. security council and approved it. >> so, what's your point? >> caller: this is all smoke and mirrors because it's already been approved by us. if you read the papers, the actual papers from europe, it doesn't matter what the united states does. it's a done deal. >> and? >> caller: and we're in decline. and american people better wake up because as a country, we're in decline. and i want our country to bring back our troops, get out -- you know, 25 years ago when they started closing bases around the world, the german people were up in arms that we were going to close bases because they've been living off us for 75 years, since the end of the second world war. enough. bring our money home. bring our troops home and protect our citizens. >> that's marlene in new jersey. zach is up next from pennsylvania. this is finleyville, pennsylvania. zach is also an independent. hi, zach. >> caller: hi. my top news story of the week is about the obamas moving to new york possibly after their term is over in the white house. i just thought that it would be -- make more sense for them to go back to their home. you just mentioned an article that was in the "new york times." i just feel his identity and their identity really should belong back in chicago. >> well, it looks like the library's going back there. >> caller: that's great. i'm glad to hear that. but i just -- i don't know. what will -- what will the chicagoans hope who have -- who may have been excited -- >> you know what, it will be interesting, zach, to see how that charissa thompson article plays out today and how much you hear about it and whether there is reaction from chicago. i agree, it will be interesting to watch it play out from "the hill" newspaper, gerald nadler who received a letter from the president on iran has publicly endorsed the iran deal. he's a democrat who represents manhattan and he is, according to "the hill," the first new york jewish democrat to back the iran deal. from "the wall street journal" this morning, biden could draw wayward voters. one of vice president joe biden's challenges amidincreasing signs that he may announce a presidential campaign is determining whether he could corner a democratic constituency that would sustain his candidcye and make him a formidable threat to hillary clinton. with mrs. clinton slipping in polls, mr. biden could introduce another challenge to her campaign by drawing working class americans and independents. both groups have moved away from the party in recent elections and mr. biden fares better with them than mrs. clinton, according to a wall street journal/nbc poll taken in june. mr. biden is expected to died in coming weeks whether to make his third bid for the white house a campaign that would be far behind mrs. clinton's in terms of fund-raising staff and organizing in early voting states, such as iowa and new hampshire. tamara, glendora, republican line. we only have three minutes left. >> caller: that's perfect. marlene who called earlier, she made comments about iran and all these things, how it's such a done deal with iran. i've been curious about the iran deal. i've been online, i've called a few people that might know something, and no one's seen the deal. i got so far as to -- it's top classified secret document. why isn't the american public allowed to see what this deal is with these people in iran? i don't know if it's just another trick they want to play on us or what, but if you happen to know where i could maybe look at this deal, i would like to see the deal. show me the deal. i'll take the deal. i want to look at it. >> that's tamara in california. don, she left you enough time, in memphis, to have the last word here. go ahead, don. >> caller: i would just like to make a comment. years ago there was a little fat russian dictator that made a speech at the u.n. and he -- what he basically said is there's no army, no air force, no navy that's going to conquer america. we're going to decay from within. and that's exactly what's happening. we're decaying from within. and i'd like to make another comment. that guy calling about the second amendment. if we were to enforce the laws on the books and arrest people that commit crimes with guns and take them out of society, we wouldn't need all this chatter about thes@ gun control. and every time i watch obama talk about gun control, you can tell it chaps his butt and it just thrills me to death. that's pretty much all i have to say about that. thank you. >> that's don in memphis, tennessee. well, i'm sure you all have heard about this -- a little bit of a sensation, this young man, brady olson, who renamed himself deez nuts and is running for president and polled 9% in north carolina. he's only 15 years old, farm boy in iowa. well, there are about 600 people running for president who have announced and filed papers to run for president. and they include people such as the cat buddy -- buddy the cat. i'm sorry. buddy the cat. there's sidney's voluptuous buttocks, eden, james titus the great. jack spar row, buddy the elf. these are people who are literally running for president in different states. that article was in "the national journal" if you want to read that for yourself. well, there is a lot to watch on c-span this weekend. coming up tomorrow, book tv will be live at the first annual mississippi book festival. we will also be live on c-span at iowa. this will be the iowa state fair soap box. you can see some guest there is. that includes bobby jindal and governor christie. they'll both be there. c-span2, baook tv, live at the mississippi book festival at 11:00 a.m.

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