on the home mortgage deduction and its benefits for high income households. conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal is next. host: good morning. it is monday, october 23, 2017. the house of representatives returns today at noon for the morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. the senate is in session today. we will spend our opening session today hearing from you about your trust and confidence in the nation s major institutions, including the three branches of government don t schools, unions, the military, police, and others. we want to know which institutions you trust now and why. give us a call. republicans (202) 748-8001. democrats (202) 748-8000. independents (202) 748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media. wj, ander at c-span facebook.com. what u.s. institutions do you trust? that is our question for the first hour. you can start calling now. we show you a recent gallup survey report on american confidence in u.s. institu
cj a german shorthaired pointer. rng good morning everybody thanks for being with us i m kerry drew in for juliet. juliet is suffering from the flu and bronchitis we told her to get a flu shot. mike you and i have got it, it is not i ve had it. yeah. you don t wish that on anybody. i didn t. seriously know if i was going to make it. this feels like it s it. but it s true. a lot of people i know with this weather roller coster a lot of sickness going around. now on the down swing in terms it have temperatures back to normal after all of that big rain and wednesday that we had yesterday. peekskill half inch, and upton out in eastern long island, about three quarters of and a inch of rain that keam down hard with a lot of wind to deal with here too. wind on average gusting up to around 50 to 55 miles per hour as that line came by. doing damage here. 56 miles per hour wind out at the state kings park. 54 and 55 out at jfk. yeah that s now a thing of the past. snow c
oppressors that though they may hate or scorn his defense they must still respect his power and his willingness to never give up. let obama know you let obama know his support for israeli forces will not present change. change will come. new ammunitionless further the israeli campaign but change will come. that change will occur when israeli government acknowledges the palestinian of people not as aliens in their own land. change will come when the israelis learn that their own children s future cannot be built on the misfor tune of others. change will come when they see their lives are not enriched by hatred or occupation. the lives of the palestinians may be cut short but the power of their convictions is too strong to die. last the president can deny this change or work to make the occupation come true. if he denies it he too is spreading conflict destroying liberty while diminishing the ideals of america. if he chooses to end the occupation it will take work, the choice w
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agency. we have a right to ensure our future generations a cleaner planet and i do think that we have that opportunity and that anytime america has been challenged with a problem like this we ve risen to the occasion. host: mike in pennsylvania, independent caller. go ahead, mike. caller: yeah, one of my main concerns with g.m.o. s is the fact they allow pesticides, weed killer, to build up in the soil and i was wondering and then flow into the water system. and i was wondering why this build-up of pesticides from no-kill and all that type of farming doesn t act to control the growth of algae, which is also a plant. guest: that s a great question, mike. i appreciate that. ufl i m not an expert on g.m.o. s but i can say that one of the things we re most concerned about is the runoff going into these lakes and streams in hove alone nearly 5.2 million rely upon the streams and rivers that would be protected under the clean water protection rule. they rely upon those actual strea