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Declining income, there is the queeze and thats what all these callers have been telling us all morning and to everywhere this is the kind of thing that the political process grapple own needs to with and come up with creative answers. Right see a lot of it now. Host washington monthly, iewers can read more, your pieces at washington monthly. Com. Hall. Com, and with the ethics and Public Policy center, thank you for being here this morning. You have a happy 4th of july. Guest thank you. Host washington journal ahead, we will speak to gallup most er looking at the pressing problem facing the United States, well take calls obviously, first up well show a recent visit to the National Archives. The home of americas and met with ents farrio. Hivist david guest for those who have never been in this room before, what cases isplay in the behind you and how is the room set up . This is the rotunda of the home of archives, the charters of freedom, the constitution, the bill of rights of the declaration independence, the originals. Why so dark in this room . This its very dark in room. Light is the income of paper and these emparchment documents and these are the most of the documents American Government and were serious about protecting them, light, as the restricted as possible. You can still see them, it is intentionally. Host original for the declaration of independence, how are there . Als guest original means original, t is the only copy of the original that was signed in philadelphia. For the other documents . Uest same for the other documents. Host what other preservation is happening in this room, a visitor may not see . About the e serious temperature, humidity and light. Main enemies of documents. Ensuring erious about that especially the charters, parchment, animal skin, are housed in a way that to have the opportunity survive forever. That is our goal. Host how often do you come to room . Guest everyday. I try to carve out time everyday o monitor and see who is here and get some sense of how people the charters ng experience. Moving we have school groups, we have grandparents bringing grandchildren in, explaining what the documents are. Everyday its a moving experience and i think for me, experiences, we do two naturalization ceremonies space. N this host in this room . Guest in the presence of the documents, those are the most citizens are sworn in in front of charters. Ost in the presence of two mural, what is this mural depict something guest continental congress. Alegorical description of like at ay have looked that point. Regal for what was probably going on that day. Host this mural . Parallel for this same ceremony. Host there is also a banner streaming across this room, that is not usually here. Guest right. That is a temporary gallery, exhibit right now on amending america, tells the story of how the constitution amended. The banner lists all of the 1,000 attempts over time to amend the constitution. Those are all suggestions that people had for aking this a more perfect union. 27 made it. Host where did you get those amendments proposed from . These are not just members of congress . Guest no, they come from the american public, this is how the process works. A citizen, can actually suggest an amendment and this how it u the process works and who has to approve it records. E are all of these petitions, they they are part s, of the record of the National Archives. Host it is broken up by decade . Right, yes. Host a lot of people may know national from treasure. Guest one of my favorites. That move sne ke why is that . Guest the Public Relations got. T the National Archive we get questions from people on he security staff and we get questions kwe see the back of the declaration, they are told really a map there on the back of the declaration . Host have you ever looked on back . Guest yes. Host you can say there is no is no map. E host before we leave this room, what is your favorite memory in this room . Guest i think i was sworn in as he tenth archivist of the United States in this room, by pretty special memory for me. Washington journal continues. Host seg oment washington journal were going to hear the latest Gallup Survey n the most important problem facing the u. S. And joining us via skype is editor and chief of gallup, frank newport, welcome o washington journal, the find frgs your gallup poll say the largest number of people, 25 say that government is the ost important problem facing the u. S. Why is that . What did you find in that poll . Youre absolutely right. That is fairly astounding, we often. Ind that very weve been asking this question, which is basically what is the most important problem facing country, an openended question. Respondents can say what they code into categories. Weve been asking this question for eight years, we have a long record on this and it is rare peep compel back and tell the is government itself, top problem facing the country. That is what were finding now. In the past, y, what sort of issues were at the top . Uest well, the economy typically is the most frequent top problem. The urse it depends how economy is doing. There are time, say after 2008 majority of had people or more who would say the top problem facing the country the economy. R of go back to the late 1970s, it problem, ionflation, the top so on and so forth. That is sometimes surplanted by in rnational problems back the 60s and early 70s, vietnam problem. He top in the 1950s and into john f. Administration, most frequently we find people talking about the cold war, worries or concerns or about nuclear weapons. E certainly found starting in about 20032004, in those years, he bush administration, the iraq war became the top problem dominant there. Terrorism was 1, the top problem. It varies depending what is happening in the real world. Now, i guess this is the opposite side of the coin, people are ew listing economy as the top problem. That is way down. Americans dont say anything about the economy as top problem, that leaves this people to talk about the government itself, dysfunctional government, the things we lump together and we got about a quarter of americans saying government is our nations top at this point. Ost to be clear, this is a survey gallup has done for the past 80 years, a monthly survey; correct . That is right. We havent always asked on a monthly basis. Gallup past, dr. George would ask the most important problem on a periodic basis, year, depending what was going on, less frequently. 16 e 2001, over the last years, weve asked this every single month relentlessly to of what good record americans are talking about or thinking about, i should say, is their d, that concern about what is happening in the nation, particularly july 4. On host as far as you know, the answer of government as most has not come lem up before . Been no, its certainly in our concerns before, it goes up and down. A couple examples, we did have the fall of 2013, even higher percent, up to a third of who said government was the top problem, that was when the government shut down. Point. S a clear high going way back in history, we go 1974, when the f Government Congress in particular, was investigating to vote impeachment on richard nixon, before he resigned in august of that year. We had about the same percentage nixon the government, the presidency was the top problem. Those are the other two times in history when weve had this high percent mentioning the government as top problem. 80 years, that, over we have not seen this high of a percent. May, on the survey for government is top problem, were you able to drill down on that out what is it about the government that people to . Responding guest yes, we can look at specific responses. Openended is an question. We interview a thousand people, do the math. Fu have a quarter saying the is the top problem, 250 people out of 1000. Look at their responses. Like, pick your poison. Democrats, who we interview, are ise likely to say government the problem because they are skeptical about or worried or concerned about the presidency. Some mention trump by name, some just say the presidency. Hand, you have people talking about congress, the failure of government to get done in general, which is a big concern americans have had for many years now. Have low confidence in the legislative branch and in seeing that now, where you have a Congress Unable to come to any kind of decision to fix the healthcare situation in this country. It is a lot of different aspects the government across the mainly two branches, legislative nd the executive branches, thrown together to come up with this quarter of americans who top problem. T is host one bullet point Points Healthcare is out down from may, is that because of the passage by House Republicans of their healthcare bill . Guest thats right. Part is because in may it was high because of the interviewing the house had passed the bill and all thaf controversy had come to the floor there. Healthcare goes up and down. We found healthcare high when Hillary Clinton was heading up Administration Efforts to 94. Healthcare in 93 and that brought healthcare to top minds. Les healthcare bubbles under, always here to some extent, but down right now because of the time we did the interviews, a few weeks in june, healthcare wasnt as prominent as in may when we did interviews then. Chart in the poll showing the concern about the economy, economic issues, a course of years really from the height of the recession. Other nuggets in terms of the economy were you able to hear from people . Is t well, the economy combination of variety of different kinds of aspects of the economy. Are mentioned federal debt, some of them from more liberal biggest problem facing the country issin equality, put that into this bucket, so to speak. I would say the biggest single ategory in that economics category is jobs and employment. We have certainly low on people nt, but a lot of are concerned about jobs in general and future of jobs and so forth. Some peoplen there, say the economy. We call them up and say what is he most important problem facing the country, it is the economy. They give me Different Things that, the economy as a broad category, when we lump it ll together is grab back of different aspects of the Economic Situation in the u. S. Today. Host outside of media, how do a inesses use reporting of survey like this . Guest a lot of people, it is important for a lot of different reasons, like asking in my opinion, how do businesses and u. S. Zations use the census information . Our job is to provide data on people are thinking or feeling and we find people use his in many different ways depending where they are coming from. We think leader shoulds Pay Attention to the public as i think through polls, that personally. I would hope leaders, in and in ar, in congress, washington, are aware of and they would have to be kind of have their head in the sand, not to be aware of, but they need to be aware of the americans are so down on the legislatedive branch, we have 12 competence in the overall and ranch competence in congress on different measure approval of congress has been the team. A major issue. A lot of them reduce dissidence nd say people, might constituent is not my fault, should be aware that put americans a whole, have very little confidence and representatives there in washington. I think that is a major concern for democracy. Ost frank newport, from gal lup, thanks for the reporting this morning. Guest my pleasure to be with you. Host happy 4th of july. We ask you this morning about thoughts on what is the most important issue facing the United States. Gallup and their take, love to hear from you. 2027488000 for democrats. Republicans, 2027488001. Nd independents, and others, 2027488002. End us a tweet at cspan wj, just review of the top couple of responses to the gallup poll. Gallup. Com, may 2017, dissatisfaction with government leadership. June. Umping to 25 in other top responders include terrorism, health or insurance, is down from mays survey, and the economy in six, in both months. Lets hear from kenny in good ola, florida, morning. Caller good morning. I would like to say happy day to the republic of the United States of america. We are a republic, not a democracy. Anyway, the biggest problem i the government turning its back on capitalism and the the constitution, that is the problem right there. The he infestation of colleges with all this liberal crap. Ing you know, who teaches the teachers . Debate with somebody on a local radio station, they said the Elementary Schools were the left m, they are teaching wing agenda to the kids, but like i told the guy, who is teachers and college . Left wing is taking the college is over, because the colleges go in and they become the teachers, they become the politicians, and then e the judges you got where we are today, our back turned on the foundation of country. Thank you. Bowes, ack is next up in morning, jack, democrats line. Caller yeah, good morning. Ey, the biggest problem i see in our country facing right now, by the way, happy 4th of july. To you, py 4th of july as well. Caller is what has happened we went from the country running the and in the eight years, unlike democrat weve seen in our history. And let me define quickly. , very kennedy was alive today, he would be a republican. Tell you why, it is real simple. Said, his most famous quote, country can t your do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Ive e past eight year, seen it all around me, they have give everything away there has welfare, people on more people getting medical such a ty, it has been giveawaystidal wave of and then not to mention that, years, people cant afford things, the average person, man or wife, have trouble and have to go on welfare. 40,000 a year and they get section 8 housing. Out of a young man and woman and work and make taxes, together, minus they are a notch above poverty. Hat is a horrible situation, but the bottom line is, you put us behind horribly in this country worldwide and most importantly country. So with trump getting in, all of a sudden, somebody is really reverse tidalwith wave and nobody is seeing that. Host okay. Caller just because some crazy things, that doesnt matter. Man is a leader. Host asking this morning about finding, monthly finding respondents saying the government, 25 of those saying that government is the most important problem and frank newport, of gallup talking about the low rating of congress and a report from the politico about the senate schedule. They write that republican have called for the majority leader to shorten the group of 10 , the senators sending a letter to asking connell friday for the g. O. P. Leader to shorten august recess or cancel it the party doesnt make sig kapt headway in july. By rding to a copy obtained politico pointing out they have potential of only 33 remaining the end of before the fiscal year. Hat letter from 10 republican senators, look at it here from there. Senate, they say are five imperatives that must be accomplished this year. The first phase of obamacare, repeal and replace, next, pass budge thaet reconciliation vehicle code,eforming outdated tax must agree on appropriations that funds the government and limit before debt that approximate date f. We successfully navigate those priorities, we can finally get to our once in a generation reform. Ity on tax matt is in new york city on democrats line. Morning, matt. Caller good morning, thank you and happy Independence Day. I just wanted to say regarding poll mr. Horton is it . Gallup poll, yes. Caller the sixmonth figure into a new presidency, since the poll has gone back 80 i would be very curious to learn what the sampling of six months polls were. Horton brought up the watergate era and the time when threatened to be shut down as an example of times poll number was higher. I would be curious about just sixmonth with new preside president , a republican. There any chance he can give us that Information Online this morning . Ost you can read that poll gallup. Com, hes no longer on the line with us. Thank you. California, od, independent line, this is nate. Caller thanks for taking my call, good morning. Time calling in, i appreciate you host welcome. Caller thank you. My comment today, i think the biggest problem in the country s the fact we dont have a republican and democratic party, really just have corporate party, the fact that this more people il, than any nation in the world and we have basically prison that subsidizes and work corporations to get and slave labor. Incentivize people to be put in prison, what kind of society do we live in . So i dont think there is a big difference between republicans nd democrats, its really just Corporate Power that controls that. Next up, fornia, republican line, edward, welcome. Hi. Er yes, yeah. My biggest problems that i see and im not try going to be saying happy 4th of uly because, you know, for African Americans, 4th of july shouldnt mean very much. Frederick douglas said, what do African Americans have the 4th of ate on july . And so we have African Americans are discriminated against in the justice system, african are being killed Police Officers murder and away with because you find, i think, very americans serving on so i for some reason, think people ought to take a look at what it feels like to be country. Ty in this it is not very pleasant. I think that also the people dont want to talk about. That was a long time ago, why dont you get over it, there still are effects from that. Not only from, you know, the through it, to people like me, but the people people who e other know, t institution, you into fourth. Problem with ous that. And we look at the congress, you African Americans erving, you see very few in corporate, 500 companies, very f right now, you know, in the government, and the offices and then after that, it is white females and African American at les, you dont see them all, the country has been very, us, very tough on us and it doesnt get any matter and it doesnt how much money you have, if you, you rican american man, could be well off, but you walk down the street and people are just because of the color of your skin. Know, so what is that about . It is not just our group, not that for other minority there is are something really deeply wrong. We are focusing on the to tion of the respondents the Gallup Survey on biggest problem facing the u. S. , most saying the biggest problem is the government or poor leadership. Columnist for n, the washington post, syndicated columnist writing is mad at everybody somebody, the headline on this piece. Historians will argue for decades over what drained Public Confidence in government. Watergate, vietnam, doubledigit inflation in the failures, er economic 20082009 financial crisis ii recession, war war necessary afghanistan and iran, the disenchantment precedes President Trump and the russia scandal, though they contribute to it. Writes other hand, samuelson, pinpointing responsibility for polarization political it is class, including elected officials, consultants, scholars pundits, print, cable and digital, they abondon inflammatory for ebocity, the political equivalent of trash talk, and lets hear from david in los independent line. Caller good morning. Host i there. Caller ill grateful i came in right after the call that preceded me. Me a hope that you give little time, like you give your callers here because i listen to the moralizing of your two guests and the american nightmare for African Americans. Now we talk about slavery, jim now and so forth and so on, i understand why the government is viewed by lets say trump nowdays as being the problem. Inception, ent from has been a government that has oppressing nt on the i mean, enslaving the americans, exterminating the indians, right . And the policies of the at the nt has been benefit of white people. So when the lady sits up there she talks about the progress made. Ich white people have weve made this progress despite the fact that the government which has been olicies that had benefited white people. Have these really when we talk about jim crow and all of these other things, these are Government Policies that were designed to discriminate creating ack people, the american nightmare for black goes over until today. Here you have systemic government cellular now where the only class interested in promote its interest now is actually big business, socalled mmon aucasian people, who have gained from the largest of past has now the beginning to experience somewhat of this nightmare, which have our constant condition from the beginning. Matricalate, black eople, this ofirmative action nonsense is a joke. Are you still with me . Host were still here, david, sir. Caller its a joke and it has been a joke. Heard on your program, where you had some Insane Person being about obamacare reparation, i mean, think about that. Pushbacklways been the that types of advance this crazy place perceived black having foothold advantage, is considered some kind of giveaway. Host all right, david in l. A. We hear from paul in craig, craig, go ahead. Alaska, rather, craig, alaska, line. N the republican caller okay, im a vietnam veteran. In 68, Walter Cronkite came out with a statement that e had lost the war because of tet. We slaught erred the vietnamese, of thatetnamese because one statement, we lost the war. Verybody screaming about trump saying, oh, his tweeting and everything, but what he is doing and what he did, whatever it is, s fighting the perception versus the reality. Nd ill give you a case in point. The left, prot aggressives and reens are trying to sell the country that fossil fuel is bad and we got to go solar wind, is a fal see. Steven moores book, fuelling proves you cannot fuel the United States on wind and solar. With fossil ay fuels or billions of people are going to die. The world, the poor people are tied to cheap energy, with low cost energy, you can have totable water, cutreat your sewage system to keep people from dying and the want to give our Youth Perception that fossil fuel is bad. Perception, were going to lose the world. There is item after item support republicans versus what the left, prot ggressives, which is regressives, because they are girls, us, for example, 40 of women now are without husbands to support their children. Regressive, going back to the caveman age where men just women. And so progressivism is regressivism. Much. You very host paul in alaska. Checking other news this of the new t page york times, dispute over draw h babys fate necessary president and pope. Charlie guard, who turns 11 months old today was born with a rare genetic disease. He is blind and deaf and cannot own. The or move on his he suffers from persistent seizure, at the center of global debate drawing on the President Trump over what medical treatment fany, hes entitled to receive and who decides, family, doctors or the courts . The New York Times writing the treating charlie has asked permission to remove him from life support. Parents want to take him to the United States, they believe an experimental treatment has a remote of ever prolonging his life, even though the disease has no cure. Courts in britain agreed with the hospital, as did the human rights, of which last week rejected latchditch appeal by charlies parents. Pope frances and mr. Trump weighed in, adding another eea legal dispute establishment against the wishes of the childs parents. Udges in the case acknowledge the Case Highlights differences in law and medicine and american try anything, however unlikely the possibility held prolonging the infants life would be inhumane and unreasonable. Terri schiavo, a lorida woman left in a vegetative state and cardiac arrest and was the subject of a battle. The tweet by President Trump came out about this yesterday, Little Charlie guard, as per our friends in the pope, we would be delighted to do so. Ere is boston and we hear from bob on our independent line. Howdy. host good morning. Caller good morning. I believe on this 4th of july, same ggest problem is the problem that we had in the first july, the First Amendment. If religious freedom was the main issue at hand on then, they wouldnt be on the part of Boston Common and wouldnt be christianity on the and like ricans religion i igion, gave us jim crow, hear a lot about jim crow this morning. In when you think about 1790, there was a million and a slaves in this country. Now by the time the civil war about, there had to be 3 million plus. Came up Abraham Lincoln with emancipation proclamation, joined the union forces. Number. Small part, the r the most were the dians the cisions, a lot of blacks were chosen to come here owners and not prejudice and re hatrid in a way. They figured that time, their plantation heir would be blessed scroggins, m in texas, democrat line. Hello, am i on . Host you are, go ahead. Caller okay. Abouted to really call in the previous subject and that was about the american dream. American dream, when i was coming up, was you could have a could have land progress uld really and possibly become wealthy. That is not true anymore. I learned just recently from one to go to that he had oklahoma because he could not in texas buy land because it was so expensive. Thats startled me that a native his couldnt buy land in own land. And that is what is happening in tex texas, Everyone Wants to come here, the reason could be the tax we have no state income or beautiful or something, i dont know what the real reason is. What i do know is that i think it is terrible that the texan cant even afford to buy land in his own land. And thats what i consider a real tragedy. Thank you. Saying most inll the survey, monthly survey, the most important issue facing the is the government. Worse than the government is the gallup poll. In the other news, President Trump will g20eading tomorrow for the summit in germany. Meetinghost a bilateral with, with russian president vladamir putin on the sidelines g20 senate on friday, ather than an informal side meeting. Cnn writes the meet suggest confirmed by the white house and the first meeting between a u. S. And russian resident in nearly two years and comes amid ongoing tension two countries. It is a seating meeting, the staterun task news agency. On the line from is the most at important issue facing the u. S. . Is it the government . Drug i think its the war. Can you hear me . Host we can, terry, tell us a it more about what youre seeing there in indiana. Caller well, the drug war is terrible. Opioid problem, the doctors opioids to bing everybody, its ridiculous. The t. V. They get a ephedra, that disorder in the service and opioids andving them some are overdoseing and go to eroin overdoseing and they are using some kind of oil from marijuana to cure them people of them arercentage being cured from marijuana. Laurels against marijuana, there is no medical value. In my scrap icle book petitions the government to a bunch of ecause patients with seizures say arijuana will help with seizures. And the marijuana is the number that lling illegal drug, rich. T keeping the rich number one sign. ] discernible practical ridiculous, ne and all you need for is sunlight, water and fertilizer, it would the pound to produce it. Legalize it and break up 99 of your gangs. Here is pearl, mississippi, dennis on the line. Lican go ahead. Caller hi. Its denise. That, go ahead, denise, yes. Day. R happy independence my pastor in his sermon sunday, to this scripture, if name ple called by my shall humble themselves and pray turn from their evil ways, i will hear from heaven and heal land. So i feel the number one problem of god have eople loving god from the and also agree with the last problem in the drug very awful, too. That is what i have to say. Host deniseappreciate you calling today. Bob in wheeling, West Virginia, asking about the most pressing based onacing the u. S. The gallup report. West virginia,g, you there . Okay, in wheeling, West Virginia. Hang on a sec. Well try todd now. Virginia, one more time. Sorry, todd, go ahead with your comment. Now . R can you hear me host yes, we can. Caller first of all, happy ndependence day, what a great day to have a great question n. My opinion, one of the biggest america is our division. Citizens, it is something going on. People, sociologist will say, we unique biases, and white with white, poor with white. Those are things we need to more relevant to Current Events is the political divide. Many times, whether on media or just speaking out in public, with folks, about political nts and issues is this republican, conservative ral divide. You know, there will be a debate about something going on, maybe the senate or congress or whatever tis immediately their is, youre a liberal. Im an independent. Get so offended when people automatically lump you in as because you dont agree with their view of something else. What people need to realize is, you know, on Independence Day it was came together to and a corrupt government to fix it and make it better for the people. Nd we as people now in this country fwe dont come together partisan stuff and come together as americans, this, not going to solve we cant expect congress to be partisan if we, the people, cant be. The president to be bipartisan if we the people cant be. As americans, e hold ow than ever to, a, our government accountable, b, media help support the and their coverage of the white and secret meetings and conferences. T press this is our country and the president and congress and enate are servants and just like anybody else who works, we reviews. 90, 120day you are doing a good job, fine. If you are doing a bad job, for this, is not the job you. I dont understand why we as demand the same, a report card for politicians, you are not living up to your expectations, it is time to do your job or move on. Gallup poll is demand the not monthly survey. The caller in West Virginia talked about 4th of july people, comment eflected by ed fullman, washington times, the unity of american nationwide can only through simulation, his view and looking at immigration modernday , immigration practices. Dids see themselves as individuals ready to forsake old on new ce and take identity, John Quincy Adams said cast off european skin and look forward to prosperity than backward to ancestors. Illinois, next up, jane on the republican line. Morning. Welcome. Caller good morning, thank you for cspan. Our most serious problem is we do not have a good amount of running for ple public office. Which means we do need public encourage people and re retiring at age 50 what are they doing for themselves . Run for publicto office who do not have agendas and special interests. History, we at should find people qualified to educated,blic office, serve the nation, that is what we can do for our country. You for your call. Some of the top responses, the last month on issues facing the United States, government problem ut denise was talking about religion and the issue of moral or ethical family decline, not folks in this response to this poll from monthly survey. Here is kay on our democrats line, welcome. Agree thank you, jane, i with your comment, too. Is that it is unbridaled capitalism, which creates a great number of poor and concentrates wealth, mean the most stupid, people very powerful. Capitalism that has evolved into fascism if you look at an encyclopedia, subordinate to the corporate state, which i believe is where we are. Not in lament americans reading and i suggest for Summer Reading the lost city of sea about the mapping and if oration of the amazon, you want hints of what cruelty inflict and have through the years. Recommend a poem on the internet by a man named barnhart, called exodus, which i puts the american nice focus ate in a and may i quote from our current magazine about the decline of public intellectualism in the United States . Host sure, go ahead, kay. Intellectualism got a oost after the second world ar, when the g. I. Bill enabled universities to massively increase capacity. In this period, before specialization fully took hold, philosophers, historians and ociologists explained the postwar world to the new hoards educated women and men, hungering for mental stimulation. Do believe that we cannot educate our children until the schools of education the countryn across most ansmitting the acuous curriculum that exists in education. Host kay, just to be clear, what you just read there from recent Smithsonian Magazine . Caller yes. Host thanks for your call. Happy 4th of july. The report this morning of story vernight of the north korea missile test. North korea missile claim consist reach anywhere in the cnn reporting that north have conducted its First Successful test of a that can missile reach anywhere in the world. The launch was conducted on the leader kim jongun, kilometers, 1. 741 iles and puts the u. S. On could that kim jong un hit the mainland. Issues of the most important issue facing the government on the Gallup Survey. They say the government is the important issue facing the u. S. Seaford u. S. Is up, philip on the independent line. Caller hi. July. Felt happy 4th of thank you to my fellow americans out there. The biggestproblem, issue in the United States, the far is ortant issue by the economy, the economy, the economy. Well, we want to make America Great again, we have to ask ourselves, when was america that is when there were highpaying jobs for middle included retirement and Health Insurance and you say, how do you get that now . Can do that by having theyezones in the midwest, have factories they call tombstones out there, and have a esearch and Development Area out in the rust belt and make it who buys nd anybody products from there and products panels, making is solar batterys with new technology, future, wind he and this is stuff we could xport around the world and any companies that buy from these would be tax free and that is here it should start, in the heart of america and that is this is the most that affects us. That is all i have to say. God bless america and have a 4th of july. Oekd next up, culpepper, virginia, hector on the republican line. Caller good morning. July. 4th of host same to you, hector. Caller i wanted to call real firsttime caller. The issue in our country, we eed to look inward and evaluate, you know, our politicians, conduct, all this seems to me that were on a very large ship that nowhere, there is so Much Division and so much action , but yet little and i really believe that, you now fwe have term limits for the president , why not term limits for members of congress. Though too many people with vested interest in this country and, you know, our security, r national our education, you know, i cant why in the United States of america we still have eople in such poverty going to bed hungry and our children are not receiving good education and that is really all vito say. God bless america. North carolina, gaye, is on the democrats line. Good morning. Morning. Good thank you for taking my call. Host sure. Aller i think that its the disappearing middle class. Disparityuch too much between the wealthy and the poor. And we need some type of limit the amount of money that is campaigns. Litical only the wealthy have the privilege of running office. We have senators and congressmen out of touch with the way ordinary people live. Also, it evidently is so our leaders it live in washington and they have so much time raising campaigns that the republicans and the democrats dont get to know each human beings so that we divide in our really sad. It is moderator martinsburg, via lae, the most important issue facing the issue, vony on the independent line. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Would like to say that i think education in our country the most important thing. Daughter is 37 now. Didnt did grate, she louis was. St. This is a problem. As far as not having blacks in government, they dont get education we get, that should change. At who is stimulus behind what the children are being there is no encouragement. Ost this was your daughter, graduated high school, didnt know where st. Louis was . Caller yeah. Went to st. Louis and she was like how much further is it, mom . Did you read a map when you were in school . Just things they its so lacking in education. That is the biggest thing fthey educated people in this country, they would be able to say, you are not doing this. Host appreciate your call. Jacob, view, arkansas, good morning. Caller id like to talk about the school system, where kids see the t not to obvious. There are no leaders, just slave masters and try not paying taxes and see what say. Ns to you, all vito host diane, woodstock, georgia, democrats line. Go ahead. Caller yes, i do think the government is the biggest were facing. Wasmember watergate like it yesterday. Even yesterday. Even though i was still just a kid, and, you know, the epublicans, they supported richard nixon, didnt understand they got to g on, the point and said, no, this is enough. You know. They werent willing to just they when he was found out the things he was doing, you know, when he was wrong, they were the ones they put his, they were the ones that let him know, either resign or were going to impeach you. They wont do this with trump. Do this with him. Nd i tell you what, i would rather dig up Richard Nixons corpse with my bare hands, reanimate his corpse and put im in the white house and good lord knows that man was corrupt have m a democrat, but i ever seen it is like a cult with people supporting trump, it is like they are mooneys or something. Never seen in all my life, anything like it. There is, he said, during the out and shoot somebody on fifth avenue and people would still vote for him. Host diane, appreciate you getting us on the topic of dead l. A. Times, headline this morning, a headline on 4th of july. 4th of july. When three president s died on the holiday, americans saw the of god. Melissa etta wrote, on july 4, james monroe die friday Heart Failure and tb, in new u. S. Ity, the fifth president had attempted to write autobiography, but was unable to it as his health deteriorated after his wife died the year before. Mourners crowd the marble cemetery. They write that with his death coincidence many people couldnt ignore. Monroe had become the third president and founding father to die on the 4th of july. Ive years earlier, on the 50th anniversary of the declaration independence, Thomas Jefferson and john adams also died. Remind fan of history, you about American History t. V. Programming, including this long Holiday Weekend on cspan three. T. V. , book t. V. And cspan available at cspan. Org. Washington journal back tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. Ryan n, we will hear from shott, looking at the department under Energy Secretary rick perand he adam levin, swiped, how to protect yourself in a world of identity tomorrow eginning morning. We hope you have a great 4th of july, enjoy it, be safe and see back here tomorrow morning for washington journal. Euros a look at our schedule on this july 4 holiday. Here is a look at our schedule on this july 4 holiday. Former president obama is presented with the annual profile in courage of a lord encourage award. Georgetown University Holds a ceremony to rename to campus buildings after 19thcentury slaves, Isaac Hawkins and another. Later, a look at President Trumps Foreign Policy and First Amendment policies. This week during the adult during the july for recess on primetime cspan. Tonight at 8 p. M. Eastern a debate on technology and privacy and whether tech company should be disclosing customer data. Some suggest we should be building a backdoor to allow Law Enforcement to data. The problem with that is that you cannot build a backdoor that works only for the u. S. Government or good guys. If you build it for them encryption is weakened for everyone. Arizona Supreme Court justice. The most important and enduring decision will ever make is who to appoint to the United States Supreme Court and to the federal judiciary. [applause] first toare often the spot conflict on the horizon coming their way. Insight and information is ignored, it often leads to consequences that might have been a verdict. At 8 p. M. Eastern, harvard professor, william. Ulius wilson are the complex forces that have insecurities. Economic insecurities that are breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tensions. This week at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan. This Holiday Weekend on cspan3 on American History tv, tonight at 8 p. M. , David Mccullough talks about how the founders, particularly john adams valued education, viewed slavery, and persevered in the face of hardship and how these ideals shaped american society. David he grew up on a farm where they had no money. His mother was a literate and his father may be could read because there was a bible in the house and that was the only book. Hard every day. From childhood on. Because he got a scholarship to this Little College in cambridge called harvard, as he said, discovered books and read forever he became the john adams who helped change the world. For a complete American History tv schedule go to cspan. Org. President trump will be leaving washington for a series of meetings with World Leaders in poland and germany. He will begin his trip in warsaw for what is being called the three seas summit. The president will give remarks and meet leaders of poland and croatia. President trump will travel to hamburg for the g 20 summit where he is expected to have his first meeting with vladimir putin. Other leaders include angela merkel, chinese president xi jinping, and shinzo abe. President trump early today tweeted out, happy Independence Day to all americans. Expected to be a lowkey day for the president as he spends the day with family here in the nations capital. The president expected to enjoy a picnic or american miliry