you just saw president trump addressing the gathering. he lunched with republican senators today talking about the economy in his upcoming meeting with north korean leader, kim jung-un. we hope to your more of a meaning from center public and leadership team. surely they will speak with reporters at the capital and we are planning to take live coverage of that if they arrive just before the senate gavels back in and under ten minutes. the senate will gavilan at 2:15 and we will have live coverage here at c-span2. for some democrats try to force a vote to reverse the sec's repeal of net neutrality rules and net neutrality, is instituted during the obama and ministration and five congressional districts in pennsylvania are comin holding primaries today after the state supreme court struck down the old map in january. they ruled that the districts were gerrymandered by republicans.

a reporter covering the race is joined us this morning on washington journal. >> host: primaries taking place across the united states today and for states we focus on one, pennsylvania, in its primary process. joining us for the discussion is just an with the pittsburgh post. good morning to you. >> guest: it's julian but justin sounds cool. >> host: apologies. julian ralph. two statewide races in your state alone and one deals with the center and one deals with the governor in start with the senate. start better for us. >> guest: what you havee in the senate is a race for who will takebo on bob casey in november. he of a favorite here, the congressman, former hazleton mayor he is a favorite running against the state representative, jim christiana, a lot of people here in western pennsylvania are already talking about the potential of a matchup

which they are also telling me it would be the classic referendum on donald trump. you have a staunch critic in bob casey versus one of the earliest and most ardent supporters so not a lot of interest here on the ground in the primary. if jim pulls it off i know a lot of people who will be surprised but lou appears to be the favorite here. >> host: if lou goes on what faces are the other challenges and how will he prepared with money and also info structure? >> guest: he will face mr. casey and you will have a lot of interest from local party officials and he will have a lot of money in his coffers and he will have the familiar name of donald trump and donald trump recorded aroma: missed the

primary heading up to it and he endorsed lou in the primary earlier in the year and they are close to each other and i think you'll see appearances from the president here on the ground in pennsylvania once the general is on. >> host: you have a sitting governor, thomas, democrat there and what are the challengers to him? >> guest: three of them. to we would consider frontrunners but they iran an ugly race. state senator scottng wagner who owns a trash hauling business and he calls himself the garbageman, by the way. you also have retired healthcare consultant paul mingo and the skin from nowhere on the political landscape. >> we leave this conversation the senate leaders are speaking following their party lunches. >> good afternoon everyone for the president was a very good mood and quite funny. he reviewed all the new developments abroad, not only the decision on iran but also highlighted the meeting on june 12th in singapore. we were all in a celebratory mood as a result of having approved the 21st