And for independencets 202 6280205. Lots of issues in the news to talk about including the unrest in ferguson. The fallout from the fraternity at the university of oklahoma. Hillary clintons personal email use. The letters sent by republican senators to the leaders of iran. What are you interested in this week . On the ferguson issue the front page of the usa today, how to fix ferguson is the headline. The Washington Times has the same photo. This is what the st. Louis postdispatch is writing about. Here is their headline. The ambush is still fresh. In a spot yards from where two Police Officers were shot hours earlier, the shootings escalated and already jittery city. It was an issue that the president addressed. This is what the president had to say. What has been happening in ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest. There was no excuse for criminal acts. Whoever fired though shots that should not detract from the issue, they should be arrested. What we need to do is make sure that likeminded people on both sides, Law Enforcement and people who want to not be stopped and harassed, we are able to Work Together to come up with some good answers. Host that was the president on Abcs Jimmy Kimmel show. One of the top stories related to the president and the white house is the secret service. It this is on the front page of the Washington Post. Agent drove up next to a suspicious package. It was offered by the reporter who broke the story. We are asking for your stories of the week. It we have a tweet on that. The secret service, are you prodrunken driving . Brenda is a first on the democrat line. Caller i have two. Nice to see you, bill. We dont see you enough. My top story are the 47 senators that sent the letter to iran and humiliated america. I want charges run up against them. If the democrats dont do this, i will leave the party. The second is the ferguson situation. That was someone caucasian who did that. Thanks, bill. Host rod is next up in florida. He is on the republican line. Caller regarding that charge of treason coming from the democrats, treason can only be leveled against the sovereign. That goes back to old english times. You had to challenge the authority of the king. Under the United States constitution, the people are the sovereign. For democrats to charge 47 senators with treason for interfering with obama implies that obama is the sovereign of the United States. That is extremely dangerous. The constitution charges the senate with advising the president when it comes to treaties. This is silly and a of these people to charge senators with treason. Host ralph is in washington dc on the democrat line. What is your top story . Caller the Biggest Issue right now is the 47 senators who signed that letter. They are trying to sabotage negotiations with the iranians. They want to win the president ial election. They think they are going to do that by seeking favor from israel. What they want us to do is be there attack dogs and start a war with iran. If we do that, russia will stay out. Theyve got 1 trillion in u. S. Debt. All they have to do is send over a few tactical nukes. Israel has 200 nukes. They have three nuclear submarines. You could start world war iii with this. This is not going to work. Thank you. Host it wasnt just the republican senators. A number of other politicians have weighed in. This is mitt romney with a piece in usa today. Obama should say no deal to iran. Agreements with tyrants have a short shelf life. Our agreements with north korea the agreements did not work. They look tougher than what we are hearing about the negotiations. The north to korea korea deal was tougher. Those are the comments of mitt romney this morning. We are looking for your top stories this week. Jack is in rhode island. Go ahead. Caller all right, we will move on to ryan in new orleans. Caller i think the oklahoma the rant at oklahoma is the biggest thing. I think its horrible for you to have young kids like that that are racist like that. It tells you about the south. It tells you about all of these states in the south. It tells you about the police. You never know who you are dealing with. You dont know who the police are. You dont know who these people are. These are college students. They are racists. I just think its a crying shame. Its horrible. Its just horrible. Host the fraternity itself is considering suing the university of oklahoma. That is sigma alpha at salon fraternity at salon ep silon. The act by the president to expel was worse. Lets go to the republican line. It is built in New Hampshire. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have come up with a little ditty. The first verse goes like this. You dont need your obamacare just remove your head from your derriere. Host we believe it stand like that we will leave it stand like that. Caller good morning. I would like to make two quick comments. One is about ferguson. I saw on tv, they were explaining about where the shooter was. That makes me think it was somebody who had training to do that. It was wrong with they did to the Police Officers. My son is a police officer. Its good Police Officers then the letters to iran. They should be working together for people with unemployment, transportation and jobs. They should help the old roads around our country and help these bridges. They should be working on stuff like that in steady not sending out stupid letters like children. Host to follow up to a couple of comments, the ferguson story is front page of the atlanta journalconstitution. The attack was called an ambush. To her issue john kerry testified this week before the Senate ForeignRelations Committee. We covered it and you will see it again this weekend. You will see it on our website www. Cspan. Org. By reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. In my 29 years in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed, something comparable to this. If i had, no matter what the issue or who was president , i would have rejected it. No one is questioning anybodys right to dissent. Any senator can go to the floor any day and raise any questions that were raised. To the leaders in the middle of a negotiation, particularly to suggest that they are going to give a lesson on the constitution, which was incorrect. Its quite stunning. Host john kerry talking about the letter written by the freshman senator from arkansas and signed by 46 other republican senators. We have posted that on our website. That is on www. Cspan. Org. Randy is in illinois. What is your top issue of the week . Caller my topic that i would like to bring up is the issue of the cable companies. They are getting away with so much increases. They are just increasing. I started with 24 for basic cable and now its 89. I would like to see our senators and the house get together and put a cap on that. Or else pay as you watch. I am only watching 20 channels and im paying for 200 and 80 channels. 280 channels. No one is watching these cable companies. Directv had a thing going on. This is a big fraud charge. You have to sign up for a twoyear program to get the low prices. Host how long of you been watching cable tv . Caller i have had cable since it came into effect. That is the thing. It seems like they are sliding by with these increases. Host have you tried to get just a basic package . Caller that is the basic package now. The basic p package wanted of 289. Went up to 280. Host the sec is beginning work on the Net Neutrality rules. The New York Times writes about how they would regulate broadband as a public utility. This sets the stage for a legal fight. The release of the rules has been eagerly anticipated by advocates and lawmakers as well as technology companies. This is just some of what the New York Times is writing about the fcc. We are looking for your top issues this week. Here is gwen in alabama. Caller i understand what secretary kerry was saying. The republicans anything obama wants to do they want to stand in his way. It is a shame. That is what is this belief, that the leader of the senate john boehner, they can invite netanyahu to embarrass obama but neither of them can go to selma for the march. That is utter disbelief. They can stand in this residence way. You can hear some of this stuff that they say. They just talk disrespect. As a black person, i am offended by what is going on in america towards racism. We cannot sweep it under the rug. God will reveal you. You will get revealed in the eyes of god. Have a good day. Host gwen mentions the ceremonies in selma, alabama. We covered that. We have live coverage this weekend on book tv. We have 48 hours of coverage every weekend. We are covering several author panels on topics like the Supreme Court, the environment immigration. This is at the university of arizona. This is going to be the tucson festival of whats. This is keith in baltimore. Caller good morning. Host height, keith. Hi, keith. Caller he mentions that part of the documents that were leaked i snowden noted that the Israeli Secret Service know that iran is nowhere near a Nuclear Weapon. Benjamin netanyahu knows this. The president knows this. The American People need to check this out there it. Please make reference to it. Host what got you reading the daily banter . Caller i saw it in a country that is reliable on democracy. They covered the thing about Benjamin Netanyahu coming here and its just a farce and everybody is all startup about nothing. His own secret Service Knows that iran is not near capable of making a Nuclear Weapon. Host we are going to explore the issue more in the next segment about 7 45 a. M. On the issue of Nuclear Threats this is not a Nuclear Missile fired, but north korea fired a missile into the sea amid tensions. The bbc reports that they fired seven missiles into the sea. This comes on the last day of the military exercises. Michael, welcome to the conversation. Caller its good to see you again. Its laughable to hear democrats talk about treason when the party that founded the ku klux klan, if you read history. I just want to say i remember distinctly Hillary Clinton chiding us, saying there are people who they can disagree with this administration. You are unpatriotic. We have the right to dissent and disagree. When it was bush it was the highest form of patriotism, now it makes you a racist. Host i appreciate your comments. Patricia is on the democrat line. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. Just a couple of comments. Going back to cpac convention everybody came out for the republicans. It was down with obama and down with everything, down with the government. It sounds like they were looking for a call to war. Then the republicans invite benj and not in yahoo to speak Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to congress. That is another insult. Then john boehner needs to step up and take control of the tea party. I dont know if its more than a 47 boehner needs to step up. What is he doing with all of this . Thank you. Thats my comment. Host we want to hear what your top stories of the week are. This is facebook from jerry the gop hates the president more than they love america. One says obama fans the flames of racial hatred. Having to pay doctors because insurance wont cover since obamacare. Mary judith is in virginia. Caller hi, sir. Its the shooting in ferguson. This is hideous. Those officers were not even from ferguson. They came in to protect the citizens and the protesters. What i am disturbed by is the fact that white racist reactionaries are very ready to assign collective guilt to the protesters in general. Its really silly. What should they do . Should they pick up quarters to hire a shooter . Of course they did not. We dont even know at this point who. This was a sharpshooter. This was somebody very skilled at what they do. Somebody with military background. You cannot say that all of those people Peaceful Protesters are responsible for that. I am appalled by this. I can see where its going. Dont be that stupid. Host we heard from the president yesterday afternoon. The attorney general spoke to reporters and made a statement about what happened in ferguson. This is what he had to say. I am committed to ensuring that the plant we put in place do not impose risks on our Law Enforcement officers in an already hazardous environment. There should be no situation in which an officers life is in jeopardy because of concerns that by appropriately defending themselves they might he viewed as committing a crime. That is not something i will allow to happen. Host eric holder yesterday on the shootings in ferguson. Your top stories of the week, the house has been out all week. The senate has been in. This is the headline they are reporting in usa today. A Bipartisan Senate bill to combat sex trafficking has hit a snag over abortion language that threatens to derail the popular registration. Legislation. This would increase Legal Protection and restitution for domestic trafficking victims. Part of the reporting of susan davis in usa today. They will move forward with that legislation in the senate. They were supposed to get to it next week, the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next attorney general. That needs to be seen if that will happen. The house will be in next week. A tweet from jim who says has congress been made completely unworkable . Can america survive without a workable congress . John is on the line for democrats. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. My top that the pat ppet peeve has been a letter from the 47 senators. In my opinion, my humble opinion, i think each one of those people as far as i am concerned they were wrong in sending that open letter. I believe they are trying to undermine president obama and each one of them im not saying to take him to jail because that would make them martyrs. I will say this, this country dont underestimate the power of the American People. The people they represent can recall each and every one. I wish they would recall each and every one and have a recall election and let each one of them be replaced at it that is all i have to say this morning. Host anthony is on the independent line in lawrence, kansas. Caller thank you for taking my call. I was shocked watching it all unfold. The shooting happens and instead of trying to resolve it, the next evening they interview the citizens and they say that it doesnt other me that this happened. One of them said and i foreign i. Eye for an eye. If we dont keep an eye on this, its going to get bad again with the national guard. Its really shocking that the president hasnt ordered Something Like he did before. Thats all i have the say. Thank you. Host lets move on to tulsa oklahoma. The story you are paying most attention to . Host its the sae Fraternity House at ou. I dont think its a good thing. The Athletic Department and students on campus are putting their input in. Who is ralph nader . Host who is ralph nader . The former president ial candidate and political activist . Caller what does he do . Host that is what he is. He is an environmentalist and eight medical activist political activist. Host back to your issue on the fraternity at oklahoma, what has it been like in the state in terms of the reporting on that story . Caller i was in the tulsa courthouse today. They said some attorneys that went to tu host that is told the university . Caller i would guess there are other houses that are under investigation. I really dont know. It was just a regular hate song that they sing at all the parties. They got caught. Host we appreciate your perspective. This is a frontpage story from north dakota. The collapse of crude prices takes its toll on north dakota. The gas price has ticked up a bit lately. The epicenter of the oil boom, this was a magnet for lou koller jobseekers. Bluecollar jobseekers. This is not the land of opportunity that it was. Jerry is next in massachusetts. He is on the independent line. Caller thank you for cspan. I just wanted to ask whether you have ever done a segment on the Legal Definition of a treaty. It seems to me the republicans would have a point if this was in fact a tree that was being negotiated or whether its just an executive agreement. Be helpful to have eagle scholars on that could, for example, discuss when an executive agreement meets the status of a treaty. Has the Supreme Court ever dealt with an issue between the senate and the president on what is a treaty . Has it ever been adjudicated . I think that kind of segment would help the public understand whether the republicans in fact have a realistic point. Host that is a good suggestion. Im sure its an issue that we have covered in some form or another. You can go to the Video Library and find lots more. You can type treaty into the search box. We have coverage at 1 00. We will hear from rand paul. He is just outside the washington area. Jeb bush will be attending a party at the home of the former chair of the New HampshireRepublican Party. We also showed you rick perry yesterday. He was talking in New Hampshire. He had here is what he had to say. I think americans are sick of the gridlock in washington. People are talking past each other. They are not getting anything done. They are walking away and taking their toys and leaving. Thats not acceptable. One of the reasons i do think our