Commanderinchief . If youre a active military, dial in at 2027488000. Retired military, 2027488001. You can also join the conversation on twitter if you like at twitter. Com cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. Good morning to all of you. And well get to you calls here n just a minute. So lets begin first, leo shane, with who participated in this survey and what questions did you ask . Guest sure and thanks for the invite here. This is a survey of our readers who are. Currently serving members. We asked some pretty specifically, you know know given specific matchups, who would you vote for . We wanted to really get some opinions on the likely matchups for this fall. So we asked them if forced to choose between donald trump and Hillary Clinton, who would you choose . And the results were pretty striking. 54 of our respondents said they backed donald trump and 43 said they backed Hillary Clinton. 21 said forget it. Im not going to vote if those are my who only choices. Host and why did they say that, would not vote . Guest we didnt give them a third option in this case. They said if we had a third party option, well take it. And in this case, we were just looking at the front runners and wanted to see what is their opinion, how many people are dissatisfied with these last two choices. Were seeing quite a significant number of Service Members arent happy with only being left with trump and clinton, essentially at this point. Host what is it that theyre not satisfied with . Guest weve heard from some folks that they just feel like these are both establishment, candid in some ways. Weve heard from a lot of folks that there are some frustration that they dont understand the military, neither have served and dont understand military issues. Thats one of the things that well be digging in as the summer goes along, if this is just the initial gut reaction after the primaries or is this more systematic disappointment throughout the ranks. Host you also did the hypothetical matchup between donald trump and Bernie Sanders. And Bernie Sanders fared better than Hillary Clinton did. Guest yeah, slightly better, not enough to overtake donald trump. The biggest thing we saw in all of our result is Party Affiliation is what really mattered. When we look at Service Members who are republicans, they broke for donald trump pretty convincingly across the board no matter what the matchup was, about 80 . And in clintons case, among democrats, she got 72 of all the democrats, again, regardless when shes matched up with onald trump. Were seeing it reflected within the ranks. And thats significant to us because it means a lot of the concerns about Foreign Policy, lack of multiexperience, military issues that weve seen heeps pretty heavily on donald trump. Theyre just not resonated or just not affecting how military members see the candidates. And are most military members conservative . Guest its one of those numbers thats tough to get to. There is certainly a larger number of republicans than democrats. There are certainly still some democrats in there. In the recent surveys weve done, republicans to democrats and quite a few independents too. Us to not surprising to see that folks who very strongly associate with the Republican Party are going to back the republican nominee even with some of the criticism surrounding him. Host how will you follow up on this poll . Guest were looking at a handful of different issues throughout the summer here. Since a lot of our readers were very focused on the thirdparty issue, well be looking at that. We already did do another question when they are talking about former marine corps general james madise. Theres rumors about his possible entry into the race and among the people we surveyed, more than half said he would be a good candidate. Well be looking at those thirdparty options seeing if theres a real appeal or if thats simply just another outlet of frustration about these front runners and searching for some way to vote. Most of the folks that we talked to in the survey said they want to vote. They want to participate. This is one of their rights and responsibilities, but theyre just not enthused with necessarily these two choices that theyve been presented. Host and leo shane, our military members active and retired, a group of voters that you can count on to show up on election day . Guest they usually are. Theres a lot of dlts especially with overseas voters, military members who are serving overseas with getting their ballots in on time with some of the deadlines they have to reach. Its an emphasis that the military puts on getting their votes and sent them back in time. It is a population that, you know, maybe a little more so looks at these kind of civic responsibilities very seriously. Whether or not thats enough to sway the election, that remains to be seen. That military vote could be critical. Host thank you, leo. Guest any time. Host as we go to calls, take a look at how the military times poll broke down. When you look at the different branches of the military, army, navy, air force and marine corps, who do you prefer and a general election between what we have as right now, the two frontrunners, donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Lets go to robert from wisconsin. Retired military. Good morning. Welcome to the conversation. Ho do you prefer here . Caller good morning. Donald trump. Host and tell us why, robert. Caller well, one, i put on our uniform for democracy. And i hate sanders because hes a socialist. I dont believe in it. Clinton is nothing more than bama in a dress. Mr. Trump is going to enforce us as a nation, as a people who we are, americans, hopefully, were all american. And i think hell build our military backup. Ive seen a very change in our military and a lot of us, we get together and talk dont like the changes we see in it. And we think trump will just build us back up, i mean, proudly. Not arrogant, like some of the old hippies used to tell us, you know. Youre all baby killers and whatever. And with honor and i think hell do it. Host robert, do you worry about his impulsive nature . Caller no. No, maam. Every president s got to put on different faces for different situations. Thats a fact. Donald trump to me is like my old commander. He went off left and right. But he got his dimensions through and he told us what to do and he did it. So i love trump in that sense. I do regret dr. Carson couldnt hang in there but i will go with trump. Host all right. Vincent in tulsa, oklahoma, active military. Hi, vincent. Youre on the air. Caller im voting for Hillary Clinton. Host michael in arizona, retired. Hi, michael. Good morning. Caller good morning. Taking my opinion is care in the would seem to be a little unprecedented this one thinking neither one of the two major candidates have any military experience one way or the other. At this point, im worried about trump maybe being kind of quick on the trigger. And ms. Clinton, i see her as being not so much interested or concerned about being attacked or whatever. But she shouldnt make military decisions based on sheer. Litical assessment i do have to say that it is most interesting that donald trump and Hillary Clinton probably are two competitors for president of the United States. But were a strong country. Well survive whatever happens. Host ok, michael. When did you serve . Caller oh, wow. 69. To 19 host and were you in the army, navy . What branch . Caller i was in the air force. For s. A. C. W member host were talking to retired and active military this morning. Whos your choice for ommanderinchief . Recently, donald trump gave a Foreign Policy speech, laid out his vision for what kind of commanderinchief he would be. Take a listen to part of what he had to say. Donald trump tour friends and allies, i say america is going to be strong again. America is going to be reliable again. Its going to be a great and reliable ally again. Its going to be a friend again. Were going to finally have a coherent Foreign Policy based upon american interests and the shared interests of our allies. [applause] donald trump were getting the nationbuilding business and instead, focusing on creating stability in the world. Our moments of greatest strength came when politics ended at the waters edge. E need a new rational american Foreign Policy, informed by the best minds and supported by both parties and it will be by both parties. Democrats, republicans, independents, everybody. This is how we won the cold war and it is how we will win the new future struggles which may be many, may be complex, but we will win if i become president. Host donald trump giving a traditional candidate speech laying out his Foreign Policy agenda if he were to become commanderinchief. And were asking military only this morning. Who is your choice . Go said, sir. What do you think . Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Host youre welcome. So whos your choice here . Caller i originally liked rand paul. I was even a bigger fan of his father but not a fan of either trump or hillary but if i had to choose, i would probably pick trump. Primary reason is five worked with classified information in the past and the issue with our private server, if i did what she did, i have a pretty good chance that she would probably go to prison, that i would probably go to jail. So i dont think she should be qualified to run for president. And ultimately, im leaning more towards libertarian, the third party, but given the choices, i would probably take trump. Host so rafael, let me ask you then. You liked ron paul and rand paul, both of them seen as not wanting to get involved, not intervening in the worlds conflicts. And as a military person, why did that appeal to you . Caller ive seen too many people and too many of my Close Friends suffer from ptsd and various other circumstances that i felt were unnecessary. Im all in favor of defending our nation, but at the same time, i think we have to be more cognizant of which International Affairs that we as a nation want to get involved with. Host ok. So rafael, what you said about National Security and Hillary Clintons private server that she had set up for herself while she was secretary of state. Front page of New York Times this morning has an article. Said a email recently sent is unclassed. And they give this example that on the morning of march 13, 2011, the assistant secretary of ate Jeffrey Feldman wrote an you werent email informing them that host rafael what, they say here is that this is a practice that goes beyond Hillary Clinton and that in the age of the internet, this is diplomacy as its happening, especially in an urgent, fast developing situation. How do you respond . Caller you know i realize the issue here, but at the same time, i still think that people hould be scrutinized and classified is still classified. Host do you think too much is classified though, rafael . Caller sometimes, perhaps. But, you know, i cant really comment to too specifically on that. Host ok. Rafael, active military in seattle, washington. Let go to the back to the New York Times. A review of the emails from mrs. Clintons private server that the state department made public under the freedom of information act provides an extensive record of how suns Sensitive Information often looped throughout president obamas Foreign Policy apparatus on unclassified systems host so that in the New York Times this morning. Sam, alexander, virginia. Youre retired. Whos your choice for president . Caller my choice is hillary. Host ok. Tell us why. Caller mainly because well, first of all, im a little skeptical in this survey. I remember vividly. I joined the military in 1963. I was in vietnam in 1964 and 1965. And most of the people that i served with, we served, you know, regardless of party. But then all of a sudden, the party became the driving force and a lot of the people who identified as being republicans back during those days, they were officers. But what i really want to say is i dont understand how people who are active duty or, you know, retired can back donald trump. This is a man with how many deferments . And all of a sudden, hes this big supporter of the military . When he had a chance to be a member of the military and he opted out . Something is not right here. Host ok, sam. Roy, in california, retired. And roy, what do you think . Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Host good morning. Caller im supporting hillary. And partly because of the same reasons as the last gentleman mentioned. Donald trump doesnt have a clue. He just says things off the top of his head and we have had many president s and many commanders in achieve that lately have gotten us into dire situation about not only dollars, but treasure our blood of our young men and women. And i dont want to take a chance with donald trump. Hillary, i feel is more stable. Shes been there. Shes already established relationship with other government. And i think she will be a way better choice. One thing i want to say to tench thats out there supporting trump. A lot of times when youre upset, you make wrong decisions. You need to calm down and think about what you want to do clearly. Just dont jump because youre upset. Thank you. Thats my statement. Host roy, have you voted for a republican in the past . Or have you always voted for democrats . Caller ive always voted for democrats. And except in this election, if it came down to hillary and john kasich, thats where i would have a little quandary. Host ok. Hes reasonable. Everyones adopted a strident position and now, theyre all going back to trump, no matter what they said about him. All of a sudden now, they have to fall in line. And i dont agree with that. Host ok. Theres a few that are as you know. Speaker paul ryan saying hes not quite ready to get behind donald trump and he, along with other leadership in the house and senate will have meetings with the Presumptive Republican nominee on thursday up on capitol hill. Lets hear from Hillary Clinton. Back in march at stanford university, she talked about National Security issues. Heres what she said to say about defeating ice is and what needs to be done. Hillary clinton we do have to take out isiss stronghold in iraq and syria. We should intensify the Coalition Air campaign against step ghters, leaders, and up support for local Kurdish Forces on the ground and Coalition Efforts to protect civilians. And pursue a diplomatic strategy aimed at achieving political resolutions to syrias civil war and iraqs sectarian divide. Second, we must dismantle the Global Network of terror that supplies money, arms, propaganda and fighters. This means targeted efforts to deal with isis affiliates from libya to afghanistan. It means going after the key enablers who facilitate, illicit Financial Transactions and help jihaddists arrange travel, forged documents and evade detection. And it means waging online battles with extremists to discredit their ideology, expose their lies and counter their appeals to potential recruits in the west and around the world. Third, we must harden our defenses and build our resilience here at home. We need to counter each step in the process can lead to an attack, deferring wouldbe terrorists and discovering and disrupting plots before theyre carried out. Host Hillary Clinton in march, outlining what she would do to defeat isis. Wall street journal this morning with the headline isis kill list expanded. They report Islamic State has distributed long lists of killing americans encouraging its followers to target those individuals, vexing authorities who are at odds who the list poses an actual threat or a scare tactic host were asking military only this morning. Who would be your pick for commanderinchief . Jeff is retired military in las vegas. Ood morning, jeff. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Host you bet. Caller were talking about commanderinchief just between hillary and mr. Trump, right . Host well, would you like to see Bernie Sanders . Hes still in the race. Caller he is in the race. Like i said, im going to try to stay on task of what you talk about because i come from an intel background. Erved on u. S. Nassau, and with that said, ive always paid close to the Intel Community and have a little more knowledge of things that happen around the world. With that said, i have to bring it up because its so obvious, but ms. Clinton with the whole benghazi thing, not making the proper decision and given so ny chances, that, i think it excludes her of even looking at her as commanderinchief. Because anyone that makes a proper decision in that position, i do believe trump in that situation if im looking at those two, he does make decisions. Obviously, he has advisors at the ready but hes a decisionmaking person. Hes not going to believe our troops or u. S. Citizens at risk like that overseas. With that said, its the whole process of who were putting in the white house to be the commanderinchief in the first place. That needs to be looked at so we can actually get people that are going to have a little more experience for that type of a position. It would be great to see someone with a great military background as well serve as commanderinchief. Host ok. Were go to florida. Jim, also retired military. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Im going to vote for trump. Hes the only one throughout the primaries that has spoke about taking care of the veterans a