coulter talks 2016 presidential campaign and her new book on donald trump. we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. with national polls showing a tightening race, nine days before election day, politico is reporting that senate democrats are demanding more information from james comey. the justice department warned the fbi about the timing of friday's letter. bill kristol of the weekly standard saying director comey needs to come forward tomorrow or tuesday with more information. at least one chicago tribune columnist says hillary clinton should drop out of the race.

it has been a smokeless 48 hours. we begin with your comments on what it all means. this is "washington journal." if you support hillary clinton the number to call is (202) 748-8000. if you support donaldif you support donald trump, (202) 748-8001. if you are supporting a third-party candidate, (202) 748-8002. you can also join us on social media. if you are undecided, (202) 748-8003. send us a tweet at c-span to wj. good sunday morning to you. let's go to the front page of the washington post. contrary to policy, the story written this morning. senior justice department officials warning the fbi that director james comey's decision to notify congress about renewing the investigation into hillary clinton's intel server

was not consistent with long-standing practices of the department. that is according to officials familiar with the discussions. fbi officials contacted attorneys of the justice department, their message that he intended to it in for congress about new e-mails relevant to the information -- investigation. "we do not take steps that will be viewed as intellectual during -- influential during an election." cnn has a similar story. loretta lynch and deputy attorney general disagree disagree with james comey's decision to notify congress about his review of the e-mails potentially related to the server. he sent the letter on friday anyway after disagreeing with

them. that is this morning from cnn.com. congressman from new york campaigning yesterday in ohio with former president bill clinton had this to say. [video clip] >> had he decided not to go forward with the e-mails declaring there was nothing illegal that hillary clinton had done, the case is closed. months later, after the continued pressure of donald trump and republicans to revisit this decision, the director has sent an unbelievable letter to members of congress. let me just say, he sent it first only to the republican chairman of congress and only after it was tweeted out by the chair of the government reform

committee did the democratic members of the committee receive anything. that is very curious to me. on top of that, we are just 11 days, now 10 days -- 10 days away from the election to determine who the next president of the united states will be. this letter, i read it over and over and over again, provides little new information to the public. all it does is give republicans a new basis from which to attack hillary clinton. host: congressman meeks joining other members of the congressional black caucus yesterday in ohio.

we will hear from him in just a moment. many of you are weighing in on twitter. "james comey appended a presidential election because of e-mails he had not reviewed. stunning and egregious." "hillary and huma need to call their attorney teams and order them to turn over all e-mails immediately." been the has been following all this from politico. he is joining us live on the phone. guest: thank you for having me. host: what happens next? what are we looking for today or tomorrow from the fbi? caller: the clinton and the donald trump campaign are pressuring the fbi to release more about what is in these e-mails. the funny thing is that the fbi

has not even looked at these e-mails because they are still waiting for a search warrant to go through them. we expect that search warrant to be given to them probably tomorrow or today. they will start looking through them. i probably think that hillary's campaign will be asking the fbi to say what are the e-mails sent by hillary herself, and in those e-mails, is there any classified information. there are thousands of e-mails apparently in this cache. it is hard to go through all of them right before the election. the hillary clinton campaign will be asking for them to at least go through the ones that involve hillary. host: those in support of the fbi director saying he would be criticized either way if he did

not notify congress until after the election. now coming just a week and a half before the election, democrats and some republicans come we mentioned bill kristol at the top of the program, the fbi director has the euro at the disposal and he has to come forward with more clarity and information to clear this up one way or the other. host: what is -- guest: what is interesting is that comey's colleagues at the justice department told him that he was going against justice department rules, which were to not reveal things that are politically sensitive 60 days before an election. he told the justice department that he was going to send this letter to congress, and they said, "you should not do that because it goes against the rules we have in place."

comey is a justice department employee. the fbi is part of the justice department. he promised congress that he would keep them apprised of any developments in the case. so that is his defense. i am sure that he probably wishes that he had done it in a different way, at least added details other than the couple sentences which were in the letter which raised more questions than they answered. host: these are some of the questions posed in the new york times with regards to what is happening next between the justice department and the fbi. among the questions are as follows, "did director comey plan further announcements? will the plan a blow-by-blow accounting of the fbi's steps before election day? did he plan to remain silent

about the facts until the presidential vote is tallied?" any potential answer to those questions. guest: i don't have a direct line to the fbi, but i don't think that comey can basically no -- withstand pressure from both camps. both hillary clinton and donald trump want clarification. there is only so much you can -- if both sides are saying every day for the next nine days that they want more information, you cannot say no to them. you have to throw them a bone probably. it will probably not be a running tally of the investigation, but i guarantee you that the clinton campaign will be asking for at least something to clarify things that would make it fairer to hillary clinton. right now both democrats and

republicans think that the cloud that's comey has put on hillary clinton is unfair. he should at least say whether she has done something wrong or not. the one thing i will note is that even if the justice department does not say anything, just keeps things the latest. the fbi, i mean. clinton may still be elected because historically it is -- voters will vote or someone who is untrustworthy if they think that they have a candidate with better qualities. nixon was elected. just because there is this cloud of suspicion over her e-mails she is still the odds on favorite to win. the e-mails do not give voters a

better impression of donald trump. a lot of voters still think downtown is a levine to be president -- donald trump is unqualified to be president. the only thing that could -- derail hillary clinton at this point would be an indictment. host: you can get information online at politico.com. daniel lippman is a reporter for politico. what are some of the headlines in playbook? guest: we are still putting this together. we will be reviewing what is in the papers and what is in our notebooks. we will see snl. we will probably put that in. we have weekend reads and other good stuff at politcoico.com. host: thank you for being with

us on the sunday. guest: thank you, steve. host: if director comey had withheld information until after the election, would that be influencing an election? a supporter of donald trump good morning. your thoughts on all of this. caller: steve, a great philosopher robert this said -- herodotus said that men trust their years more than their eyes. he saw society bemoaning the fact that no interested what politicians said. hillary clinton is the kind of person who has to listen to yourself to know how much she has to trust yourself. she told fox news that she takes classification seriously. and i want the public to take whether she told the cia, which reported from behind that she did -- that she had no

classified materials when she was leaving the secretary of state office -- i want the public to know whether or not they should classify what kind of head trauma she has because she said she forgot how she was trained to know classification, what classified terrio looks like. -- material looks like. that was her excuse. she forgot what her training was. we need to know those medical records. if she ever got tested for what those concussions caused you to problems with her memory. people like me with head trauma know what long-term memory loss is, we don't believe what you say when you lost this memory. if what you say is true, the entire time you were secretary of state, hillary clinton, you

are forgetting what classified material was and what you are trained to know what it looks like a host: thank you for the call. a couple of comments "the big worry for her campaign is that some supporters will stay on on election day because the mainstream media is making it semi-like she is sailing into the presidency even though some bowls show the candidates that cannot. -- some polls show the candidates neck and neck." "the new york times" is reporting on this, along the e-mail decision deeply troubling. saying in fact it is not just range, it is unprecedented and deeply troubling. for democrats it is deeply worrying. the fbi's renewed attention to him else would turn some voters against her.

hurt candidates and competitive house and senate races. that is this morning from "the new york times." supporter of hillary clinton good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: we are fine. how are you? caller: good thank you. thank you for taking my call. i'm supporting hillary clinton because we have 30 years of information about her. we know everything about hillary clinton, including that bill clinton goes out and buys baby lights for his -- wipes for his grandchildren. we know everything about her and we know nothing about donald trump. we know nothing about his taxes his connections with russia, and that james comey is investigating donald trump for his ties to russia.

we know a whole lot about hillary clinton. we know nothing about donald trump. we have 30 years of hillary clinton's taxes. we know all about the clinton foundation. we know that the new york times has investigated every single thing on hillary clinton, the clinton foundation, and they found no paper play. nothing illegally done. we know that donald trump's foundation had to be shut down because he did not even legally register it as a foundation. why are we concerned about e-mails and hillary clinton that have not even been looked at by the fbi? why would the fbi say there is something in those e-mails and we have not seen them. we know that 3000 e-mails from hillary clinton had to do with

chelsea's wedding. maybe that is what is on that computer. host: thank you for the call. another viewer saying that it looks like the gop is attempting to rig the election just like voter suppression and gerrymandering. the comments from bill kristol who appeared yesterday on good morning america, said that the federal bureau of investigation and james coming should come forward as soon as possible with the nature of their reopened investigation into the e-mail server. bill kristol saying that he needs to report in my view on monday or tuesday, something serious or significant that would change his judgment from a few months ago, or are these the same kinds of e-mails, some carelessness, but nothing that fundamentally changes it. that is from bill kristol. in phoenix arizona, here is what donald trump had to say.

[video clip] mr. trump: it was just announced yesterday that the fbi is reopening their investigation into the criminal conduct and the illegal conduct of hillary clinton. this is the biggest political scandal since watergate. it is everybody's interest help that justice at last will be beautifully delivered. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: hillary has nobody but herself to blame for her mounting legal difficulties. her criminal action was willful deliberate, intentional, and purposeful. hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct

from public disclosure and exposure. she set up this illegal service knowing full well that her actions what national security -- put our national security at risk and the safety and security of your children at risk. [boos] mr. trump: she did not care. as long as she got the money the safety of your family made absolutely no difference to her. host: from donald trump yesterday in arizona. heather clinton is scheduled to be in arizona on wednesday. there is this on facebook, "lock her up, she is guilty on so many counts. it is unbelievable. destroying evidence and lying to congress under oath." this is available online on the

chicago tribune, "democrats should ask clinton shouto step aside. they would follow a simple process, demand that mrs. clinton stepped down immediately and let her press presidential nominee stand in her place. democrats should say honestly with this new little investigation going on around her in a server, having hillary clinton anywhere near the white house is not a good idea. what will hillary clinton do? she will ride this out and turn her anger to build come -- comey . for her it has always been about rejecting fortunes already made by selling political influence." a supporter of hillary clinton from indianapolis joining us. good morning. caller: good morning.

it is a sad situation for comey to put this cloud over the election. the fbi doesn't even know what these e-mails are all about. they have not checked them out yet. the people that are calling in are so anxious to send hillary to jail or prison or whatever they want to do to her. they are not even taking into consideration that these e-mails did not come from hillary's server. these are on anthony weiner's server. this have to do with huma abed in. how they can jump to this conclusion and say that this is something involving hillary to a certain extent, they do not know that. this is why it is so sad that comey came out with this at this time. it is giving people the fire to start this thing all over again talking about putting her in

jail and all of this stuff. we don't know what is going on with donald trump. he has legal situations pending too. people are willing to overlook that. he is not a truthful, honest person. they are willing to overlook that. i just don't know what is going on with this situation. i am a hillary supporter. i have already voted for her. anybody that i think was for her will not change their mind because of this situation. host: thank you. victor says "republicans and the media are going shrill. making stuff up. facts do matter." "i wife and i cannot vote for her. she will be in the end sent to prison. she is part of the swap your it is time to drain the swamp." paul, good morning.

donald trump supporter. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. does anybody really doubt that director comey does not understand the importance of sending this letter? people are acting like he heard something and then told congress about it. let me tell you, he knows the importance of this letter. he has read these e-mails. he knows he will not send that letter unless something very, very important has come up that he was not even looking for. he told congress he would notify them if something else came up in this investigation. that is what he did. will everybody please grow up and face the facts? this woman cannot govern. she will not have any credibility with any governmental agency for at least

two years, probably never. here is the pattern with hillary clinton and the democrats. first they deny it. when that does not work, they parse words. when that does not work, they say you cannot prove it. when that does not work, they say your motivations are so bad nobody should listen to you. do you see donald trump following that pattern? time and time again hillary clinton and the democratic party does this. when our leaders are allowed to lie, you create the conditions for the share to be the criminal. host: thanks for the call. did comey violate the hatch act? that is from one viewer. trying to capitalize on the anthony weiner e-mails, he is not careful. on presidential. on facebook, this from matthew a, "huma abedin was under old

she did not hand over all of her e-mails. you do not forget that." a supporter of hillary clinton from tennessee. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: fine. i did. caller: from time to time people will call into c-span and say the only thing that is going to save america and probably the world is to return to god. i completely agree with that. i would like to remind people that god is love. you have to return to a loving spirit. i believe it was gandhi that said we must be the change that we want to see in the world. host: relate that to what is going on right now between the justice department, the fbi, and

donald trump and hillary clinton. caller: there does not appear to be a lot of love going on in this nation. host: have we ever seen that in politics? isn't that the nature of our political institutions? caller: politics has always been a corrupt business. god is getting involved in what is going on in this world. if you remember when bernie sanders was giving that speech in portland, oregon, he had that tiny little bird land on his stage. he made the comment that this finch did not know it but he was a world peace dove. that bird flew up and stared at him. that is assigned. i have experienced some spiritual stuff in my life. i have written a book, it is on a website called godislove.org.

host: very briefly. caller: my mother died in 2006. 10 years ago. the next night, october 30, today, my wife was downstairs and she hollered upstairs at me, and she said where is this smell coming from? and i hollered at her, was now? -- what smell? she told me her p.m.. she told me to come down there so i could smell it before i i t was gone. it took me 10 seconds to get down there. i smelled the air and the smell of perfume was overwhelming. it was thick. it was the perfume my mother wore when i was a child. host: i am going to stop you

there. we have so many other people that want to weigh in. we had this story from abc news, "it is the tale of two elections. a large advantage for hillary clinton a week ago, now a far tighter race. from a 50% to 38% lead over donald trump now essentially a dead heat. hillary clinton at 47%, donald trump at 45%." let's go to an undecided voter from highland park, nine. good morning. caller: good morning. i am trying to decide upon things that we definitely know. when i look at donald trump, i see something that scares me. how he treats women, young women specifically. i have seven women in my family.

when i look at hillary, i wonder , do i trust are totally as a politician? ideally, i think we have to make a decision on who will be better to lead our country. host: how are you going to vote? caller: i do not know yet. i think i am scared by donald trump, and i am wondering about hillary. i'm still making up my mind. host: thank you for the call. "hillary only has herself to blame for the mess she is in." "we must forget mark twain for his errors when he declared that history never repeat itself, but it often rhymes." " if he were alive now, he would be a scottish -- astonished by

the hillary clinton campaign. a restoration of hillary clinton and the presidency would be a restoration of the moral chaos they invariably creates. welcome to the program. caller: i have watched donald trump through this campaign and everything. i know what he is. he is a sexual predator. he is unfit for america. the people who elect him and put him in office will wake up on the ninth knowing what he is. i voted for hillary. i voted a straight democrat ticket. we don't need donald trump.

he is bad for america. he is bad for america. he is no good. people will know that. he's a demon, a sexual predator. he is a bully. if they don't know it by now by the middle of the summer, him and russia will be here in the united states and more than likely, that crazy man in north korea will be here, too. i believe the e-mail, trump is behind it. host: thank you for the call. two headlines. the justice department warning about the timing of the letter. the e-mail issue moving gingerly on friday, but lashing out at direct or komi.

let's go to anthony, joining us from new jersey. good morning. caller: it is ridiculous we are wasting our time and breath talking about someone running who is under fbi investigation. host: we will go to denise. caller: i wish director komi had informed the clinton administration when this was about to come out. i already voted for hillary. i believe something is going to come out to show she has nothing to do with this recent information. i think he handled it incorrectly.

i believe she will be the president. we will find out the trump is turning things around for his good, and not for anybody else. host: her staff tried to warn her, they said she would not listen to them. as we can and corrupt as republicans are, they should not throw stones. what will the senate look like? balance of power in a 50-50 senate as these men worked together. mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer. inside k street, hailing to the chiefs. a look at how the lobbying industry let's go to surely,

joining us from new orleans. good morning. caller: i am not a supporter of hillary clinton. until three months ago i changed over to republican. the democrats have humiliated my democratic mind. all these people who think donald from is prudent to women trust me, most of those women probably wanted it. he did not do this to these women. it was all lies made up.

i am proud of donald. maybe he will help america. host: 50-50 senate, in your dreams. let's go to games, joining us from rhode island. caller: komi should have done this months ago. he got backed into a corner. i don't know why people are so upset about komi doing this. i understand it is 10 days before the election. i am wondering, if hillary has two -- if she does get indicted who is she going to take down

with her? how deep does this go? there was a cover-up. i was a democrat my entire life. the democrats to me there are a lot of shady things going on in here. i am intrigued to see what goes on and who she takes down with her if she is indicted. host: i realize donald trump is and who she takes down with her if she is indicted. not an ideal candidate, but hillary should not be allowed to run. a look at the op-ed pages. an essay by nicholas kristof. the stereotypes that push politicians to wage war. how women respond to the

perceptions of weakness. paul ryan trying to safeguard the party and his job. we are covering the event as part of our coverage. larry is joining us, memphis tennessee. caller: i saw two years ago where the fbi was investigating anthony weiner, why is this just now coming out? they investigated him over two years ago. something smells fishy about this. have a nice day. host: kevin is a hillary clinton supporter, joining us from

toledo, ohio. caller: donald trump owes money to russia. also if you want to prosecute hillary for this, you have to prosecute every senator condoleezza rice, former president bush everybody. you can't pick and choose one person. it is the whole corrupt system. those guys also send confidential e-mails to each other on unprotected servers. it is the whole thing. you can't just prosecute one. you have to prosecute them all.

host: the story this morning from the front page of the washington post, little proof of donald trump -- [video clip] pres. obama: the progress we have made, respect for women is on the ballot. tolerance is on the ballot. economy is on the ballot. justice is on the ballot. send a message about who we are. send a message by voting for hillary clinton.

>> in hillary clinton's america, things get worse. taxes rise, terrorism spreads. americans losing their jobs and homes. and donald from's america, people are put back to work. change makes america great again. host: says that is from the trump and clinton campaigns. senators feinstein, harper leahy and cardin send a letter to the department of justice requesting more information demanding them by tomorrow. a column in the washington post, it is morning in a marca -- it

is mourning in america.

from libby, montana, carol is on the phone, undecided. i am sorry, carl. caller: if everyone has been following this e-mail situation everybody should know hillary is guilty. the best thing for her, someone will have to pardon her. obama should pardon her now and get it over with. host: now we will go to carol. caller: i was a democrat my whole life. i signed up april 1 to be a republican. it is laughable that hillary clinton thinks james comey is doing this to smear her.

i think she is doing the right thing. other people have gotten in trouble in the past for similar actions to what she has done she has to be accountable for her carelessness and her recklessness and her breaking of the law. that is about all i have to say. i am voting for donald trump. >> steve says i wonder if we are electing a one term president no matter who wins. let's go to john and joining us from albany, georgia. >> director komi knew what he was doing by waiting until the last minute.

if my wife was sending me e-mails, you would not go to my boss and dragged him into it. he knew what he was doing. he knew if he gave that letter to the republicans, they would broadcast it. he knew it would get broadcasted out there. i think, under what he has done, he should resign. if he doesn't resign and hillary get then and the next congress becomes democrat, they should fire him. >> mark is joining us from north carolina. you are undecided. tell us what you're thinking process has been like so far. >> i have been undecided for a wild of these e-mails have come out and when i send an e-mail someone else has received that e-mail.

when they receive that e-mail, they send it back to me, it is in mice ever. congress told clinton she had to -- over that, then they get whitewashed. i think komi already knows. they are going to put out those 33 lost e-mails. she was saying she forgot or because of her head trauma, but she gets on the debate and she's teams to have all of her talking points down. i am leaning towards donald trump. with all of this new regulations, i think we will be going out to donald trump to

vote for him. host: we begin to follow the campaign. the final round of house and senate debates will determine the balance of power. when we come back, we will turn our attention to the issue of the integrity of the voting booth. later, the husband and wife team of james and deborah fallows from atlantic magazine. they have been looking at how immigrants and migrants are remaking american towns and cities. we talk about that as "washington journal" continues on this sunday, october 30.

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host: let me begin with an essay this morning by gary that is in the new york times. i know a rigged election. this is not one. your thoughts as we hear the debate about this election being rigged. >> and puts it in perspective. we have a big country and a decentralized way of running elections. it is not as if we have a perfect system. on the whole, our system is generally fair. things we should work on.

host: let's talk about who is responsible for the election. states rights and local communities that organize on a community, precinct, and ward by ward basis. guest: we don't have one election going on, most countries in the world are not like that. they have a uniform system of elections. within states, you have different counties with different types of machines. some federals, but a lot of pushing out the responsibility of the states. it should have the states at the heart of this. some people worry about collect

oil here in washington. there is no one power that has control over all pieces of the election. host: says what are the lessons florida, the recount. guest: we are not a perfect system. our machinery has changed. we have gotten rid of some of the things we had before. our registration systems are not perfect, but they are better. the states each have one. for 2000, only seven states had these lists of voters.

we are moving in the right direction, but we are a decent rise country. we have made strides in the right direction. [video clip] >> these personnel will watch to see that elections are conducted fail -- fairly and in accordance to federal law. whether jurisdictions are adequately serving individuals with disabilities, whether they are complying with the ballot requirements of the help america vote act, and whether they are compliant with the voter rights act compliant to provide materials and assistance in areas of need. our personnel will perform these duties fairly, impartially, and

in close cooperation with election officials. host: what will they be looking for? guest: we had a number of states covered by the voters rights act. there are some observers watching what is going on. they are not the major player. there will be of their parties observing. lots of people watching over our elections.

host: our guest is john. we welcome our listeners on c-span radio. so much focus on the republican party and events back in the early 1980's. >> there were activities, which they agreed to put a stop to. it involved discouraging people to vote. guest: some comments, at one point, they questioned whether it was the case or whether they might be engaging in activities

like that. host: our guests is a graduate of georgetown university. we go to brad, joining us from utica, michigan. caller: the picture i get our two black panthers standing outside a predominantly white voting area with clubs. after being called, the police finally came out there. i could not trust them to not be biased.

guest: at the end of the day this is not a common practice. it is up to people, parties to watch for this. both parties try to get to all of election places, are able to object. that process both parties looking out for their interests cuts back on some of these issues. host: fairfax, virginia, john is on the phone. caller: supporting the green party jill stein. i am calling last time i called, i asked you to put on a program about the fact that various state attorney general's

and secretary of state's and republican states have been using crosscheck to throw people off the voting list. katherine harris in florida cost this country a good president by purging 80,000 legitimate workers, which would have turned the election to gore. this year, there are one million people who were going to be purged by corrupt republican secretaries of state through crosscheck claiming their voting twice because they have similar names to people who live in other states. this is an important subject that needs to be addressed. the american people need to know they can still lose the election through fraud by secretaries of state who are purging people who

should be allowed to vote and will not be allowed to vote because they are black or mexican-american and have similar names to each other. guest: the caller is referring to two things. we have to keep our voter list up to date, that people are still eligible. all sorts of things and go on. secondly, that we don't have one national voter list. we have come to the point where the states, the lists can talk to each other a bit. the states share data to see if john smith in one state has moved to another state. states can have more accurate list's.

it is not just the sharing of the data from this crosscheck program and other programs. there are strong rules as to how states can take voters off the voting list. it is not a perfect system. states would do better to have better data to take people often follow the rules. we are in a better place in terms of being able to get the stateless more accurate. host: on the donald trump website, volunteered to be a trump election observer. what is this about? guest: there is criticism of the donald trump campaign, that he

may be encouraging people to observe the election and cause trouble. there is not a place for people to get beyond a certain radius of a polling place. in most parts of america, you will have democratic and republican poll watchers. they watch for issues that go on at the polls. they are not always able to interview, -- intervene, but they can raise issues. it is part of our process for watching the election. there will be parties watching each other to think -- to see if they think there are problems. host: thank you for being with us.

caller: i don't understand why we allow early voting. if they want to have early voting, i don't understand why it is not done a week before. it is too much time between the early votes and the general election and gives them too much time to sort things out, monkey around with results. i don't believe we won donald trump in office. he is for big business. i know his personality. he is not for little business. never once have i heard a candidate say anything about the poor. we need to get the poor into the middle class and eradicate poor. if you have corporations running the country, they are interested in one thing, themselves and the bottom line. they don't care about the people. they want to be the biggest company in the world.

that is all i have to say. host: robert, pennsylvania. guest: in a lot of states we have early voting. we have a lot of voting by mail some call it absentee ballots. in washington and oregon 100% of the vote is done by mail. i wrote a book about this. it has grown since. we will probably see 40% of americans voting before election day. the one about the length of time, it is not clear that two weeks is better than one week. it depends on the sites you have, the hours you have. people worry that if you vote early, you might vote before the

last debate, last-minute revelations. there are arguments against it but it is a trend we have been dramatically in america. host: says this is from donna who says agreed, make voting a week long. guest: some states have longer periods, where you can just vote at the clerk's office, it is not clear that 30 or 40 days of early voting is going to bring more people to voting places. the exact amount of time, we can argue about. i am not convinced they longer

voting. is going to do much for turnout. host: why tuesday? why not sunday, saturday, or make it a national holiday? guest: tuesday is historical. tuesday was market day, a day when people would go to town. if you give people the opportunity to vote on the weekend and other days, you cover a lot. as for the holiday, it is not necessarily better for turnout. sometimes they go away. the people who would turn you out or also not there on a holiday. i think the tuesday is not problematic if you have an outlet where people have other options. host: do some states or

precincts have a bigger issue with faulty registrations? guest: our system of registration is variable. it has improved. before 2000, many states did not have a consolidated voter list at state level. it was at the county level. counties range from 4 million voters like l.a. county, to small towns in new england that have 100 voters. the administration is very different. states get the lists and are able to check. it does not mean it is the same from one state to another. host: a tweet saying my polling place was packed. david, hawking's, texas

supporting donald trump. caller: i am voting for donald trump, the reason is, i am voting for mike pence. i cannot vote for a person who looks at a family and blatantly lies. that is my comment. guest: about the crowded polling place. host: if they make it a holiday you can see it is another holiday for a mattress sale. guest: president obama, after the 2012 election raise the issue of long lines that had taken place.

he pointed a commission and others to look at these things. most people don't say's lines. we don't know enough about it. at this point, we have a lot of evidence and data. some states suffer. the state of florida. we need to know more about this. part of the recommendations were to do a lot of things to fix the causes of lines. there are a lot of reasons for these things. we don't understand these things.

host: jan responded. i voted in my township. outside of chicago. a big senate race in illinois. our guest is that the byipartisan policy center. caller: i support hillary. i have already voted for her. i want to make it clear i was a bernie fan. i believe in his revolution. that is not the point i am calling on. this is regarding kocomey's job. keep in mind he is a republican. he is in a non-republican job

supposedly, his job is in the front of the line, whether a republican gets in or a democrat gets in. he is a holdover from the bush administration, which obama decided he wanted to keep on. hillary could keep him on as well. as a republican, if trump should get in trump could keep them as well. host: we are here to talk about the legitimacy of elections, but do you think, based on what happened does it cast a cloud on the results, regardless of what happens on november 8? caller: absolutely, it does. you got republicans out with their talking point.

you have them with more information. they should be careful of what they wish for. guest: there is more to the election. just to bring it back to the running of elections, one thing people might feel comfort in, we have these states having elections and not one central pele's -- one central place holding an election. it might be something one side or the other might take objection two. host: another part of the debate, voting from your home computer. will we see that down the road? guest: it is far down the road or not at all. some people want to do this. there are cases of high lit programs where we have made the

effort to make it easy for people who have a hard time to vote to vote that way. there are strong security concerns. most of the community think they are not quite ready. there are general privacy concerns any time you leave the polling place. we are not sure someone does not have power over you or there is some problem transmitting the ballot back to the polling place. one thing we did was give everybody a secret ballot, the right to vote behind a secret curtain. we lose some of the protections we try to put in. we lose some of the protections we try to put in. host: with the early voting, are they counted now or after the closing? guest: they are counted after the polls close.

they are not actually counted until the polls close. we are doing so much voting by mail we have these provisional ballots, we are not seeing the result coming up quite as quickly as before. states like california are taking a month to certify their elections. if it is close and we are in some place that is a lot of vote by mail, it takes a lot of time to count the ballots. host: when we hear the pundits talk about the absentee ballots a record number of ballots sent in, they assume you are voting based on your party affiliation. guest: they are. there is a correlation between party affiliation voting area we have to be cautious. in some states, one party may

push their voters to the poll early and use that as a strategy. on election day, the republicans will come out and vice versa. i don't think these systems have a bias in terms of one or another. host: grundy, virginia. james, you are next area and caller: i would like to thank you for the job you are doing. one of my lessons for him is, on that electronic, do they have a way of having a copy of that to go back later and read town it? does george soros the company that makes voting machines? host: let me take the george soros question.

it has been debunked. it is a story you can check out at washington knows race post.com. -- washingtonposts.com. guest: we have two systems today. one looks like an atm machine. the other, it looks like a standardized test, where you feel -- were you fill out a piece of paper and put it through a scanner. there have been questions about the electronic voting machines and whether there should be a backup. is there a paper trail back up? there are still some places that do that. some places don't. it is still of some controversy. some people think that may be an outside force by hacking could

get at many thousands of votes or millions of votes from afar. there are some security issues, but these machines are standalone machines. you would have to break into them or change the software beforehand. it is not something an outside force could go and flip lots of votes. host: let's go to joe. you are next. caller: in terms of early voting and the signal sent out by the campaigns, do you think this is something that can have a negative impact on the results or influence the results in the end? guest: most cases, we have most people voting closer to election day. we don't see lots of people voting to were three weeks before the election, although the number is growing area i

worry in the extreme cases. sometimes voters that cast a ballot in the states where the candidate had are ready dropped out and those modes have been counted. there is nothing that could be done about it. there is something about the fact that early voting can be problematic. even with the early voting we are doing, a lot is eating done in the two weeks before the election, not much further. host: candidates or campaign staffers can be in the room, or party officials, to observe the vote count. guest: they almost always are. there are cameras and under lock and key, these ballots, when they are not there. we expect there will be watchers. there are different rules about how they might process of actions. they can be there to watch and offer objections they consider

-- offer objections that can be considered. caller: good morning. i have a couple of small questions. are we going to have protesters at the polls like the black panthers did to intimidate the voters or are they going to be -- they are going to try, i feel they are, to do the same thing they did in the last presidential election. are they going to be arrested if they do that? the early voting questions, what i am concerned about absentee voting, is military people. ballots should be automatically sent to the people we have in our military overseas. if they don't come back in time

for election day, the count should be held until they are all in. if anybody in the world has a right to vote, it is our military. guest: the issue of protesters at every polling station in different states have widely different rules. there is a radius you cannot go beyond as a nonvoter. if you want to advocate for your candidate or be around the polls, you cannot go within that realm. they will have to deal with these issues with local police and some issues may have to be raised at a higher level. it is something we try to take care of. the second question is about the military and how we treat them.

military voters, those overseas have a harder time voting. we have made great strides in this direction. we send out the ballots 45 days before the election before those who request them. some states had late primaries. we try to get to them early. many states have creative ways of getting ballots to people overseas. there are electronic delivery systems. i have more concern about the states that allow things to be faxed in or sent back by e-mail. we should do all we can to help our military voters. the service is much improved. we are in a better place in terms of getting the military votes. host: this question from another voter.

-- another reviewer. are the ballots actually counted in the final results or are they included only if the results can influence final results? guest: they are always counted. we may not have had -- some states require the absentee ballots to be in by election day. others have a postmark requirement. ultimately, when a state says we have certified this election they will have counted all of the ballots. absentee ballots will always be counted. caller: i have a few comments. i have worked for the democratic party outside the election office. i have worked with republicans who are my neighbors.

even though we support different parties, we got along cordially we shared meals, made jokes. there was a lot of integrity in terms of voting. the thing i find troubling this year is that a candidate can incite violence in the people supporting them and that is not a good thing. that is the only thing that bothers me about this election. who is supposed to win this election is going to win this election. we need to start looking out for this country and ourselves and the integrity of our people. guest: we allow people, rely on people like you and counterparts from the other party, to be at the polling place.

it is done by volunteers. it is a public service. there is a lot of controversy in the comments about whether the election is rigged or not. there are legitimate questions about the election integrity and trying to improve our systems that we have more integrity. i think our system is generally fair and our problems are small. the idea of a mass scale rigging of an election is hard to imagine. host: john, rhode island. who are you supporting? caller: i'm not sure yet. i can't believe these are the two candidates. i am depressed over a. -- over it. i think our two candidates are

proof of rigging. i see all the time the 1% --. mh -- look bad. i don't want any of the 1% verse . i don't like people trying to get to that point in life. we live really well. the people who do not in the country is who we should he looking for. host: i am glad you liked this suit. $199 for the suit. under $200. i would never pay more than that. do you want to comment? guest: no.

my suit is not much more expensive, either. waynesboro, virginia. caller: i wanted to complement the voting system. i've voted in virginia absentee ballot, and i loved the way i did it. i chilled out a form and slipped it into a machine and that is the same way i did it when i voted in the primaries. i have no complaints about the way the voting system is that up. it is wonderful. thank you very much, god bless america. host: thank you for the call. this tweet, saying how much does the election process cost taxpayers? guest: we do not have a number. some states are -- the costs are spread out. it's a polling place where the

school gives you a free place to vote, should that be counted against other place -- against another place that has to buy or rent a polling place? we have a lot of volunteers. we have tried to -- most of these elections are funded by state and local government. there was only one confusion of federal money. often in a community other local needs are seen as more important than voting. we will see some of that coming as they need to go back and ask for more resources. caller: i will be voting for mr.

trump. i remember when the republican party was the party that had corruption at the highest level back in the 1970's, with president nixon. the scale of corruption i have starting to read in wikileaks and what i see on television with these reporters, like this gentleman who looks like a fine man, but when you look at people who come on television, you don't know who they represent. saying god for c-span. -- thank god for c-span. people don't believe in our institutions anymore. it is sad. i have voted for republicans and democrats. i am concerned about the future of our country for my kids.

thank you. guest: the bipartisan policy out of the think tank where i work both parties are trying to find solutions to things. the president appointed a commission after 2012. he could have thought -- what does my administration or democratic party inc. about elections? he appointed people on the panel to think about what can we improve in the election that both parties can agree on. there are controversial things that one party supports over another. voter id, same day registration, automatic registration. a lot of things improve the registration system and reduce the lines that are -- that both

parties want to do. there is a fair amount that both parties can get behind to improve our elections. host: what is the status of voter id laws? guest: they are in different states. sometimes the courts require the states roll back the requirement were allowed some sort of out, like an affidavit. the court, the supreme court did not will on this in a way we thought it might. we have different circuit courts in different places. we have variations in the state s. we are in different places. there has been a little bit of a pulling back, limiting the strongest voter id laws. host: rick, you get the last

word. good morning. caller: my comment has to do with the differences in the parties. so many people are enamored with the personalities involved, they are losing sight of something important. we have 70% of statehouses loaded with republicans. most local offices are loaded with republicans. 30 one out of 50 governors are republican. half the supreme court is republican. all of congress is republican. if you are happy with the way things are going, keep voting republican. i don't think people are getting the picture. candidates are using the old tactics hillary used. they are lying and just keep

lying and lying. the lie everyone knows a lie repeated enough becomes the truth. i would like your ideas on those comments. thank you. host: thank you, rich. guest: to echo some of what you are saying, this is a big election for president but not our only election. in america, we vote on many things, much more than other countries in the world down to the local level. winning one election, winning the presidency, is not the whole ballgame. to move the majority or change the country, we often have to see changes in several elections. we have a decentralized power. you have to persuade the people over time your direction is correct. host: our guest is the director of the democracy project at the

bipartisan policy center. if people want to follow you on twitter, how can they do so? guest: they will have to do it through the bipartisan policy center's handle because mine is in limbo. host: thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. one of the issues in this election, immigration. we want to focus on that and get the perspective of james and deborah fallows. they are on a nationwide search for immigrants and migrants in america saying they are remaking the country, mostly for the better. we will get their perspective in a moment. later, the countdown to election day. joining us is author and columnist ann coulter to talk about her support for donald trump and the state of the race. you are watching and listening to c-span's "washington journal" on the sunday morning, october 30. we are back in a moment. stay with us. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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husband and wife team, with the -- "the atlantic" magazine and the "american futures" project. you have been traveling around the country. what have you been learning? guest: we are learning how different the process to -- perspective is city by city. we have been in arizona and california. if you listen to the national rhetoric of this campaign, he would think it is a polarized and dark time for the united states. city by city, people recognize the problems they have but generally feel they are moving in the right direction. host: what has stood out in your mind as you have traveled? the people you have met, the leaders in these communities you have talked to? guest: what stood out in my mind the most is the energy and optimism we found town by town that we have been to which runs counter to the mainstream media

message we have been getting around the country the last three years. host: when you hear donald trump talk about building the wall and deportations, what is your reaction? guest: my personal reaction is a little bit of fight and hor ror. but the reaction of people in towns we get to -- let me backtrack for a minute and tell you something different. we started this project about 3.5 years ago. until the last half year when the campaigns were ramping up, the number of time national politics and the national election came up was exactly twice. so it has only been in the last six months or so people have been talking about it. and they have been much more focused on what is going on in their own towns than they have been on the national politics and election. host: one of those communities is eerie pennsylvania, and the northwest quarter. let's watch. [video clip] guest: when refugees arrive,

they are given support by their sponsor organization. after that, groups like the multicultural community resource center step in and offer continuing training and classes. >> the general consensus is the state department likes cities the size to resettle because nobody fall through the cracks. we have had a variety of training programs over the years. the most successful is the dealers training world we teach able to deal blackjack. we have about 50% of the dealers at the local casino. >> back to the dealer. >> our people, they do not have any knowledge about gambling. we did not have casinos in our country. it was a new opportunity. as a dealer, i got promoted to years ago. now i am a supervisor and i am liking it so far. it is a good place with a lot of

opportunity. you have to signal on everything. if you have to go to the hospital, it will not take long. no traffic. it is a good place. >> the city of erie will evolve. it is very supportive of individuals. we have had very little negativity even though the political climate has closed -- we have closed the doors to that. we have nothing of that here. all of that as to what the united states is founded on. the figure over the last 30 years, probably 18,000 to 20,000 refugees have come to erie. wear what erie be without those individuals? host: part of the documentary

available on the website. what is the difference between what we are hearing and seeing in communities? guest: the last family in the video was a family of syrian refugees who have come to erie. a day or two after donald trump happened to be in erie giving a speech about how threatening refugees are and went to see the way of fiji's are being recruited. especially in cities like erie or burlington, vermont, with a history of absorbing refugees, they recognize this as part of their identity and economic future. there are places like dodge city, kansas, which will be a majority latino community from the meatpacking industry. even though it is politically conservative, there is a sense that this is our future. a future of anglos, latinos, and others together giving the town somehow. -- some hope.

host: we will be dividing callers regionally by time zone. if you are an immigrant, here is the number to call. deborah fallows come the census bureau reporting two in 2027 and 2038, international migration will dominate the growth in america's population. guest: is that my sense? host: that is from the census bureau. immigrants will drive u.s. population growth. guest: from the towns where immigrants are largely settling now, i think they would consider that probably a very good thing. in eirie, it had about 200 new immigrants in this past year. the refugees constitute 1/10 of the population of erie. the people there say that is

what is rebuilding the economy and the shrunken population from the rust belt it has been. another interesting thing about this is the kind of language we have is the kind of language we have heard in these towns in burlington and sioux falls and erie and dodge city are that we embrace the new immigrants. we embrace the refugees. we need them. we work together. they are welcoming them in the sense of economics and cultural diversity, and the energy and willingness to work and build their town and contribute to their town. host: the debate between legal and illegal immigrants. you found those who came to the u.s. legally? guest: we found the whole range. we did a profile of a man who is now a city manager in dodge city who got here, a very talented and promising guy in his late

30's, who came here undocumented. he is now staying in working for the city government in dodge city under the executive order to not expel people who came here as children. we have seen the entire range. an important political point i would make is of course there is tremendous friction and division about immigrants in the united states and around the country. is mostly related to how many are there. people are more likely to be upset the further they are from the border. you'll hear "build the rally" more often in other states than california. host: james fallows is a graduate of harvard and studied at oxford. former speechwriter to president jimmy carter, the author of a number of books, and also served as editor of " -- a number of books including "dreaming in chinese."

also a former senior research fellow at the pew research center. host: did i miss anything? guest: we met on a blind date in college. host: what was it like to work together on this? guest: i think it is going well so far. [laughter] we have been married 45 years. jim has always worked at home as a writer, and i have been at home also mostly working as a writer so we know each other's habits and can finish each other's thoughts by this point. in this project where we have been flying around so much and landing in new towns in dealing with the airplane and making our way, we really don't have any time to sweat the small stuff. it has been dealing with as much as we can juggle moment by moment, so i think that keeps the relationship going and makes working together easy.

guest: the secret of any successful marriage of course is recognizing who is in command and we both recognize that. [laughter] host: our topic is immigration. james and deborah fallows are at the table to take your calls and comments. they are both working on the american futures project. i want to put on the screen some regression trends in the u.s. to give you a perspective of where things stand. immigration has driven population wrote in the sun belt, pacific northwest, and mountain states. immigrants have moved beyond the traditional gateway locations of southern california or new york city. the nativeborn population has declined in middle america. immigration has slowed population declines in middle america. guest: yes. we have lived a lot of our life overseas. i lived in china many years reporting in southeast asia, africa, and europe. something that distinguishes the

u.s. internationally from other big countries is precisely that we can absorb immigrants. the united states is the only rich country with a young population. china is very much an aging population. the same thing for your. america's population is largely young -- is young one, largely because of immigration. the video showed a blackjack dealer. that is not the only thing immigrants are doing. on the nobel prize winners in the united states were all born somewhere else and came here. they're not all nobel prize winners, but we have been impressed by the kind of american mix of people who decide to come here and make their children's future here. host: let's go to billy in florida. caller: good morning and congratulations on being together so long. you give a good example. moving on to the topic -- you are welcome.

moving onto to the topic, i live in miami. i am born and raised in miami and i'm 66. during the 1960's when we had the cuban immigrants come to miami, miami had basically an open arms policy. over time, the cubans in the city took over the city basically. it was like, you work for this company, can you get me in? of course, americans being the people they are, they did get them in. eventually you could not get a job in the company unless you spoke spanish. with the internet, i cannot understand why you must speak spanish in this country in this time. in miami, you cannot get a job unless you speak spanish because , with all due respect, they only hire themselves and do not hire other people.

i would ask for you guys to comment. and again, congratulations. guest: we were living in texas during the time of the heavy cuban and caribbean immigration to florida in the 1980's. i went couple of times to miami doing a big piece for "the atlantic" on this. it was a big cover story in the 1980's. i understand what you are talking about. i would put it in this historic perspective. through the long project -- pageant of american life, there has been wave after wave of this phenomenon. german immigrants in the mid-1800's coming to the mid-atlantic, the cincinnati area, wisconsin, etc. having irish in the northeast and then italians, poles jewish populations, and vietnamese coming. at every stage of migration, there has been a phenomenal you're talking about which is

accelerated by miami having made itself the capital economically and culturally of the latin american region. i would put this in the category of the sort of friction the united states historically has gone through as time after time it has absorbed new waves of people. we look back it up and see the new generations growing up with this reality are able to deal with it. but it is always dislocating to the people there as it happens. i believe what you are saying. i would put it in the march of history pattern. host: when you selected towns like dodge city, why there? guest: i will give you a bit of background. we put up an item on the website three years ago saying tell us a story about your town. we got about 1000 essays. we could spend the rest of our lifetimes doing this. for. city in particular, it was the way a conservative town adapted to becoming a majority

latino community and what that met economically, culturally, and all the rest. also, dodge city is interesting. host: let's go to lillian joining us from los angeles. an immigrant from where? caller: you wrote two articles about the philippines. i think it was about 1990 after he took over the philippines. guest: 1987 and some follow-ups. we spent a lot of times in the philippines and like the people very much. caller: that is right. i read it on a flight to london. i was wondering. now they say over 2 million filipinos in california alone and yet as far as i am concerned, and i have lived in

california, new mexico, and south dakota, there has not been any kind of negative thing against filipinos in california. do you have any ideas on the? guest: thank you so much for your call and for remembering the article i did in 1987. it got a lot of attention positive and negative, in the philippines over the challenge of the philippines which bears on immigration because filipinos around the world have been very successful as exiles. the world shipping industry is heavily filipino run. medical facilities almost anywhere you go, there is a large filipino contingent. it is a harder time for them in their own country. california, where i grew up when my town was mainly white and significantly mexican-american, california has led the country in both being able to absorb

lots of different people from lots of different parts of the world recognizing that brings challenges. it always has in our history. but also, california has the biggest economy by far in the united states. the state government is doing well and leading on environment of things. i'm glad you are in california. host: deborah fallows, we have been focusing on what he is callingcalling decaying middle american towns. immigrants moving to these towns tells you what? guest: immigrants moving to these communities tells me there is a lot of opportunity to build in those decaying american towns. one of the things we have seen in the towns with a lot of immigrants is the people in the towns are working very hard together to encourage a new generation of leadership from the immigrants in those towns in order to observe them and give them -- absorb them and give them the opportunity to help build those towns.

a lot of the second wave of migration we have seen from immigrants in these towns have been people who have said we started out in newark and then heard from the people in sioux falls that things were easier for immigrants there. come here, we can help you get a job. we can help you find housing. we can help you be absorbed into this community. and then it will -- you will have an easier time because housing and transportation is less expensive. you will have a chance to build your new life there and therefore it is the rising ship that everybody goes up together in towns that can do it. host: we are talking about immigration and the american futures project. you can get more information online at theatlantic.com. we go to boris from cleveland, tennessee. thank you for waiting. good morning. caller: good morning. this will be on a spiritual level. i have got to be honest. god says to stay put.

philippians 1 god will do things for each and every spiritual believing person that believes in christ, which is god. these things are very important that people leave for better than what they have in their own communities. if you are poor, stay poor. stay poor but be rich in the father's way. host: take that sentiment and turn it into a question. caller: ok. god is god. he will take care of everything. he will take care of those who are without. these things i am telling you are true. take faith in god, not in men. the world is not a fees -- of peace. this world is not of god's world.

guest: the united states was founded by people of the very strong spiritual belief. it was also founded, by definition except by native americans, by people who decided they had to go someplace else. that has been the saga of america from its earliest colonizing days. and even now, people moving around the country and coming from other parts of the world. the american idea is a combination of faith in what is available for you locally but also the ambitions of what you can do some place else. host: you wanted to follow up? guest: one thing i would add to that is what i hear from the caller is a benign version of why people immigrate. what we saw in places like erie where they were coming from absolute violence. their homes were destroyed. it was unsafe. their neighbors were killed. it was not a matter of choosing

a better life. it was a matter of fleeing the extreme dangers that were in the places where they lived. it is not something that was undertaken lightly or undertaking for "a better life." it was undertaken for pure survival. i think that god or anyone's god that this caller was referring to would soften that statement or make some exceptions for people who were not just seeking a better life but were seeking a life. host: let me take that one step further. erie is no different from any other community. in a little italy, irish neighborhoods. when immigrants are moving into erie, how do they know whether to go there or dodge city? guest: the refugee situation is complicated.

it starts with the u.n. commission. they vet the refugees in all of the camp'ss. various organizations like catholic charities and lutheran organizations are the receivers of the immigrants. there are certain towns designated as immigrant or refugee freeman -- friendly. they are assigned to those towns. after they have been there a while, they are free to move around to other places. it is kind of a maze through which immigrants are guided to certain communities proven to be good places where they can get a start. host: james fallows, among your books, "more like us." you know what i am going to say. "making america great again."

that was in 1989. guest: every time i see a hat, i think, where is my royalty? it was the subtitle of my book in 1989. my argument has been the united states has been in a perpetual sense of renewal. we always have crises the civil war was the worst, but we are having them now and before. this is a possibility, it individual reinvention that distinguishes the united states. that is how we make america great again. host: we go to manny in georgia. caller: i am from cuba originally. host: how long have you been in the u.s.? caller: since 1962. i arrived during the peter pan flights. host: your parents friday to georgia or another community?

caller: i arrived in miami in 1962. i was relocated from cuba to an igloo in montana. i went to college in montana and then i moved to new york to work and bring my parents over. president johnson through the help of a conscious been -- congressman in new york was able to bring my dad over. he had cancer. a few days later, he passed. one thing that has stuck with me for the rest of my life is that he said when he saw me for the first time, after five years of separation due to the castro regime now, son, that i have seen you one more time, i can die in peace. but most of all, i can die in a free country. that is something politicians to not realize. that is something politicians do

not know about because they have never lost their freedom like i did, like they did, like hundreds of thousands of us have done. and when you don't have that experience anything that is said is believed. there is no relationship between freedom and loss of freedom in this country. host: how old were you when you came to the u.s. as far as the peter pan project? caller: 16 years old. i came here by myself. i will never forget my flight, 10:30 a.m. departure from havana, arrival at 11:45 in miami. two babies. one was three months old and the other was six months old. they were handed over to the authorities in havana at the airport. they were then turned over to the stewardesses in the airplane.

and they were brought here by themselves with no family, just like i did. that is what you call desperation to seek freedom. parents leaving their children so they can become free. that is something this country's citizenship do not understand. the gullibility being placed in their minds nowadays is so shameful that i don't even know how to express it. when you have someone that comes to this country and takes the growth of becoming us that the sun like i did i went through the process of having to wait for my green card which was a. of four years and then two more years to become a citizen and you swear to up hold the laws of this country and applied by -- thank you very much.

good luck to you here in the u.s.. guest: what he said illustrates a point we have seen across the country. people have thought deeply about what it means to have this kind of country speak to some people who have chosen to come here. if you want some knowledge about civics, often you talk to people who have become a naturalized citizen the spirit that he has describing is something that rings true to what we have been hearing even now. host: michael said america is still the land of opportunity. that and the freedom enjoyed here is what draws immigrants. guest: i am struck by his comments because they are so similar to what we have heard across the country. the word freedom and also the worst dream is something that we have heard often from the

refugees and immigrants. you can ask any refugee what is surgery and they immediately have an answer. usually it is opportunity for my children to have a better life. it is classic but the sentiment that comes from the people we have met is true. and the patients that it takes in a refugee cap in thailand for hermes refugees who are now in monterey very time. host: bob from massachusetts and immigrants from where? caller: from canada. i thought everybody would get a good laugh out of that one. i want to say at what point is it not immigration and it is

invasion? you are bringing in syria and rep ug's who are bringing sharia law with them who want to live by sharia law. it doesn't make any sense. the only reason that we have these 11 million plus latin american immigrants is to change the voting demographic of the country. host: welcome from canada. we spend a lot of time seeing the refugees, including people from syria. they have been bond out of aleppo these people are not looking for sharia law. they are looking for their children to survive. the setting process-vetting process is hard.

the cases that were written domestically evolved terrorism have been mainly i people who have been born here as opposed to people who have been imported. the evidence of bringing in sharia law seems to be much weaker. in western canada -- they're voting turnout has been low compared to u.s. to the reason they are there is for work. the reason the white population welcomes them, it is a big beef packing center. without that workforce they will not be able to attract other people to western kansas. host: a focus on the debates, you say that this election you

tell us more about ourselves than we anticipated. guest: it is showing us the national level of our discussion . it is hard for us to talk to each other. we have one side's view to oversimplify that everything is bad and getting worse and the other side you is that inks are bad and that they are getting better. we have seen the price city with people play this out and say what can we do in fresno about making things that are. it is hard to do that at the national level. host: you were in the carter white house the first four years . a lot of investigation into jimmy carter's -- including bert lance spirit has public policy become more toxic?

guest: it has become more polarized in the last 20 years or so. including bill clinton's first administration and his impeachment. politicians used to -- get along with people, they could not compromise along party lines. people will be surprised that we cannot fill a supreme court vacancy and most bills are filibustered. host: martha joining us from oklahoma. good morning. caller: good morning. my question is what happened to the federal law stating you have to be an american citizen in order to vote? are these immigrants passing has or taking tests to become an

american citizen? thank you. host: are immigrants becoming american citizens, yes that process continues. on the consulting -- voting issues there are 51 terrorists -- different districts. i think it was john kasich of ohio who said that if you look at the state-by-state administration of voting tests the incident of fraud is very low. the people who run the above system say the integrity is something they are taking care of. host: other european countries are taking it immigrants, are there lessons we can take from them or they can learn from us? guest: we could learn to

continue our just just generosity in welcoming the refugees like other countries have. guest: germany is excepting hundreds of. guest: and we have accepted 10000 and it will probably grow. probably because we are starting on a smaller scale. they don't just lands there. there is a vast network of support churches, schools community groups libraries individuals that help the refugees learn how to make their way but will culturally pragmatically in the town.

when you get a vast number of refugees it is harder to have that kind of the scale might look to this country to see what kind of different network can be brought in to help the settlement, rather than just one person i person host:. this program is being carried live on c-span radio. we welcome our viewers and great written and also listening on our website at c-span.org. you can watch the documentary that includes a number of communities at the atlantic.com. gary joining us good morning. caller: good morning. thank you c-span. a comment about how immigrants have defined the history of

california. immigrants and migrants harvest the food that our nation eats. nobody else wants to do that work. could you comment on that and thank you. guest: that is a reality of light. up and down around fresno where this is a reality. i grew up near an orange growing town in california. here is a way to think of this. when we had people in western kansas we are little towns here remote from anywhere else. this is hard work we are offering. if we try to get a from to pico -- topeka to come to western

kansas and work in the slaughterhouse is, they simply will not come. we will not just as a community if we don't have people who are coming from mexico and doing this work. that is part of the reality of american economic life for as long as the u.s. has existed. the conditions for everybody and all these jobs need to and the illegal immigration is bad because those people can be asked wanted -- -- exploited. it would not exist if it were not the presence of the migrants to do the work. host: have the views of americans changed over the last one or two generations? is this any different than what we have seen 30, 50 years ago? guest: there has been concerns

about immigration throughout our history. the concern was before world war one. a recent survey by pew said all major rich countries u.s. is by far the league in thinking that a diverse population eight us -- make us stronger. host: john in franklin, tennessee three good morning. caller: i would like to know why the black have not been assimilated into the society like ferguson for instance. well over 50% of the population were african-americans yet very few policeman, very few people of elected officials were african-american.

could you comment on that? guest: the long axis of american history is slavery through the centuries and the aftermath thereof of legalized discrimination. there were segregated schools and colored and white only drinking fountains is and entrances very on the one hand we talk new the end of the second term of the americas first nonwhite president. injustices and inequalities are a central part of our life. the answer to the question is the ongoing american discussion. host: yes amid immigration help -- hurts american workers. they are both skipping half of the truth. one of the truth is they are

taking away jobs from americans. guest: there is a long and dense economic literature about this. . the question here is who has found how to buffer the harm? host: if any community is interested in what you learn and want to adapt to their towns where can i guest: go for information? guest:they can start at the u.s. commission on refugees and immigrants. they can look for towns that are receiving immigrants and refugees in large numbers heard i would start with sioux falls burlington, here he, dutch city. fresno go to some of the major

conduits that refugees go to. the catholic charities, the u.s. immigration and refugee commission. and number of those and google u.s. refugees in america and you would come up with those organizations and be able to ask about any questions that you want to. host: those immigrants who are in these towns, their general sense is that they are welcome? guest: more than you would think. in western kansas a week or two ago there was a case of a white militia group that was arrested throwing -- threatening to blow up a mosque. local white people who were upset about the somalis that were there area this amount is were interviewed afterwards, but

these people -- host: the difficult part is writing the essays. these are stories that write themselves. this has been easy work because it comes at you like an avalanche. host: the atlantic.com and the work of debra and james fallows. guest: we are continuing our travels early next year. thank you for being with us. donald trump and that perspective and coulter. the washington journal continues

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nine days for the election is author and columnist ann coulter . thank you for being here on sees and. let's talk about the story everybody has been talking about. when you heard the news on friday about the f the out -- the fbi taking a look at more e-mails what was your reaction? guest: at first i was suspicious. he has not been particularly in festive day -- aggressive. his agents were appalled at his refusing to recommend an invite and then i'm closer examination it seems to have come out of the office, the one incorruptible public service in the nation. .

the one man who ago after public corruption matter which party no matter who is is the u.s. attorney for new york i think you pronounce his name --. he has gone after the head of the speaker of the house and new york state senate, he took down the posts -- most powerful man in new york state, sheldon silver, went over wall street banks. he started working for chuck schumer. he is investigating anthony weiner's sex stiting. i assume that is where it came from. host: ahead log -- headline from the new york post back and forth

between the justice department the fbi warming -- warning mr. comey. would he have been criticized either way? guest: absolutely. we don't know what is going to come out. but the assumption is unless it were pretty bad he would not have agreed to send the letter. what will you do wait for the end of the election and he would be the one who was responsible for the cover-up? i assume his hands were for spirit through the -- the reason there is so much more corruption than there used to be it is a timing percentage, something like 19% not that long ago 64% of americans thought the government worked for the

american people now it is miniscule. a lot of the reason for that is because of a corrupt press. call me did not want to turn into can start --comey did not want to turn into ken starr. it is the zero to go with the flow and protect the powerful. host: that would involve one from her perspective? guest: i don't know. this would be total speculation, but what the issue is hillary is sending classified information and keeping them on a secure server and not for serving them. this is a violation of the long.

this is the way they behave. or some reason congress thought it was the order for government officials to preserve government documents. she did not do that. she violated the law. we have a higher standard for the clinton. the standard or them is they have to admit that they intended it. that they have full content and malice. i suspect that looking at anthony weiner's computer and blackberry, and his devices and we do know the u.s. new york's attorney that he did not collect all of the computer devices from him. that is what started this whole thing and they are reopening the investigation.

host: i want to talk to also about the republican party. this weekend marking a one-year anniversary of paul ryan becoming the speaker of the house. the new york times wrote a story about what is not for the gop. any move by speaker ryan and his allies to rely heavily on democrats to pass legislation will provoke it back lash from the hard right element of his caucus and put his job is. they are already educating -- agitating for a delay in party leadership. guest: a lot turns on what happens on november 8. paul ryan is living proof of what all americans are discovering. it has been a strange year this way. i have been a republican my

whole life. i have never seen my ex republican party so clearly has just the polity -- party of the powerful. it is the ruling class against the american people. paul ryan, along with hillary clinton is champing at the it to pass the trans-specific -- transpacific partnership. he is dying along with hillary linton to rant on the state to 40,000 illegal aliens in this country. it is insane. i can't add to the idea that our government's reaction to 9/11 was to increase muslim immigration. before the 9/11.

that was our ruling classes behavior. hopefully enough american pharoah wise to what happened. and will vote for the american party. host: let's get to your phone calls. the lines are open. tom is joining us from dayton, ohio on the public in line or a good warning. caller: hello. i have rum ohio. i am voting for donald trump. the idea of listen to the -- a less people that killed american were born here. but their parents were born -- but these parents are -- have come in from the middle east. we sent our jobs overseas.

you are right. we cannot keep bringing these people in because their kids will be fighting our kids and grandchildren. it makes me sick. if you don't stick with donald trump i am not going to vote for you but i will vote for donald trump. host: guest: it's the same arguments i have heard my whole life. host: bill in marietta, georgia. caller: you are really funny. but state were you born in? guest: why? caller: i just want to know where you get your views of

stuff. taking a citizens weapons saying and that the police and military can only have weapons. the laws are being violated every day in this country. you hear people say take our country back. look at is what happening in north dakota. you talk about killing our kids are in are you an attorney and i'm sure there are a lot of attorneys who look down upon you. bill and hillary clinton were very smart people out of the state of arkansas. you have a good afternoon and where were you born? guest: i understood none of what you just said. kelly read clinton the smartest woman failed the d.c. bar exam.

look at the history of hillary clinton. she has been first lady of arkansas. then the first lady of the nation and every scandal throughout the years involved her hiding stuff. from the whitewater documents trump created 500 businesses, about it does in -- it doesn't went bankruptcies. let's fast-forward to her years in the white water -- in the white house. documents disappeared four years. housekeeper found them in a closet in the white house. the vince foster suicide. you had canterbury with evidence, ripping all of the files out of his office.

lack of transparency. when hillary was trying to push national healthcare there was a human cry about how she was having private meetings about government doing our health care and you are having fast meetings that are not the open to the public. then she gets to be secretary of state. she has heated information from the public, the voters and the american people. what does she do as secretary of state? i will have a private server for my classified government e-mails. the smartest moment in the world, the real problem isn't just that she is corrupt that she is just stupid. host: you are a graduate of cornell university and a graduate of university of michigan law school. i will get your reaction to the

influence you have had in the election. how and culture related donald trump. guest: obviously i loved the quote. i do think for anyone watching whether you like or hate i wish you would read that one book. before taking me you want to read me. it will help you hate me more. adios, america, is the most important book. host: peter in new york, thank you for waiting. guest: good to see you again.

i used to see you on fox all of the time. i miss seeing you on there. did they stop you from coming onto the show? and you'll go on over made a remark about hillary clinton saying she had an affair with her back in the 1970's i have not heard it on the major radio and i am curious. guest: thank you. i noticed this when i was writing about the illustration. does clinton administration. we are busy with information being put on private servers. host: lydia, good morning.

caller: good morning. i am interested in your statement about the magna carta. i have a reference to it because after donald trump introduced his line on why he is a candidate you applauded him because you knew that he was reference to your work -- your book. the opening declarations was better than the magna carta which in my opinion was obscene tuesday and not only because it to files the magnetic cartoon -- magna carta because it applauded you. if you go back and reference

newsweek which was nine, 2016 you can have an answer about the private server because it goes into how a private server e-mails that were not accounted for in the bush administration. where were you in that time. ? going through that issue? i don't think so. you are not at all genuine in your interest in the law. guest: donald trump did not describe my book in his openings reach. i tweeted something -- to the contrary. it was in response to trump's immigration policy paper he put out.

it was magnificent. i was tweeting like mad about it. i recommend that anyone watching this goal and looked about putting trump's policies on immigration and the first week i put out is trump's immigration policy papers the previous the greatest since the magna carta. private service, no secretary of state has ever used a private server of the. some other point in their-- host: you wrote about right part that's right part -- critics of donald trump say he is not

focusing enough on the issues much more on the personality. guest: no. i have all chapter on these attacks in my book. no policies specifics. they kept using with him is he is pushing these popular fish us. bring jobs back to america build a wall. they keep saying he won't give us policy specifics. he has given us more policy specifics than any other candidate ever. it was hilarious. i never realized how much i hate politicians, including politicians in my own party. they have a way of pretending to

answer a question without answering a question. marco rubio as an example here of the way he talks around an issue. what will you do for small businesses? he gives a little lecture on how amazon does business but no answer on what he will do to help small as this is. they have all of these words they use. donald trump is not a politician. sometimes it may get him in trouble. you asked a question and he answers it. the reason he is winning because of his issues. he has fabulous judgment and in his. all of the other 16 candidates are taking positions that are 7% possible. trump cap taking issues that are

80's percent possible. how does the media and the left attack him? they attack and for his personal agates. no one is voting for trout because of his personality. that's not like he got more votes than any republican in primary history. the republicans should know him. they have had plenty of warnings , going back to eric cantor losing his house seat on the issue of amnesty. look at their cheap labor seeking is less friends. three times they try to pass amnesty in the last decade. three times it was shut down not because there was a huge

faction protecting the american people that because the american people got wind of it and shut down the congressional switchboard. how many times does the voters have to tell democrats and republicans we don't want amnesty. we need to protect our own people. that is his message and that is why they don't want to talk about it. we have 390 minute residential debates and the first time there was a question on immigration was in our four of all of these debates. one question on immigration the question that has rocked the presidential year. host: when you look at the electoral map what surprises are you looking at? guest: obviously general ideas

about the states he will do better in. i don't think i would want to get that specific now. my electoral map that in march pointing out that for a lead -- republicans to win democrats have been restocking the country immigrants posed 1970 about 80% for democrats. it's not fair for democrats to bring in 40 million people to vote for them. host: they come in and become american citizens and then get the right to vote. guest: the process of replacing americans to vote. look at what has happened to

california. the state that gave us ronald reagan and richard nixon. it will never elect a republican statewide again. it's not like they have come up with a clever argument that one over the american argument that one over the american people. let bring in some more people and they did it with the immigration act in 1965. as for the electoral map in general, i wouldn't want to look that specific. there are a bunch of states that are available to donald trump. host: who wins the election. host: ron and boswell, indiana. good morning. caller: god bless you and culture.

ann coulter --. the october surprises here. get ready for it. it will be the best one since reagan. lookout, we will thank you for it. just keep doing what you are doing to guest: thank you. i do think you have to spot him three or four points in the polls because i have never seen such a vicious attack on any public figure before, not even on terra palin here the ruling classes determination to stop donald trump has taken on astonishing levels. i wrote about the joe mccarthy. , there has been nothing like

this before when you have every op-ed writer for the new york times scratching his chin and writing these awful columns about how donald trump resembles adolf hitler. the media is going to keep calling the media candidate they will call him adolf hitler. i do think you have to spot him at least three points and maybe more because there was not much of what is called the gravity effect where people are voting one way but not telling the pollsters about it. they were pulling republicans, a republican primary and what is striking about donald trump and i have noticed this from watching sees and and my travels around the country, and astonishing number of lifelong

democrats voting for donald trump now. i have been surprised in my travels of the large number of minorities blacks, hispanics voting for donald trump. it is one thing if you are a republican and your choice is whether you are going to tell the pollster know i will say tom cruise. but if you are a lifelong democrat and black or hispanic there will be hesitation to say you are voting or down from -- four donald trump. host: book in trump we trust awesome. caller: you mentioned the attorney general of new york you

mentioned that he is not corrupt. you just not have seen it yet. i agree with you that nobody seems to be up there in government. this was brought up and the only entity that is not corrupt his judicial watch. guest: they have done a lot of good work. i don't know -- his record is very impressive. he roots out corruption and he is not scared off. he is a human being, there will be things i will criticize about hymns on day -- about him

someday. it is unusual in not being bought. host: jen who says ann is shouting the same races speech as the rest of the deplorables and this from john in north carolina, she is intelligent which drives the know nothings not. guest: 30 years ago they find a races as somebody winning an argument with a liberal host:. cap we seen that this year. earlier this month hillary clinton had a 12 point lead over donald trump. the latest tracking poll gives her a two point lead. she lost 10 points. guest: it looks like the poles are moving in donald trump direction.

i suppose i should say what i have said all year, i figured it was a $.90 chance he would win the nomination and ace escape sent chance he would win the presidency. the polls will move closer in his direction. the posts are so at odds with what i am finding in my life. large groups of people who have not voted at all who have not voted republican at all enthusiastically for donald trump. host: henry from michigan democrats line with an coulter. caller: good morning. i am finding it very interesting that ms. coulter uses the term

treason for her book. i am wondering if she considers treason when a party, the republican party, plots against the president's soon as he is inaugurated to block everything but he wants to do, when a party set down the government and costs the country 24 ilion dollars when a party fights against the president at every step of progress when republican governors refused to take the stimulus money to bring act the economy then blames the president for the most anemic recovery in history then 47 republican senators signed a document for the supreme leader in a to stop the president from a new rear arm steel that is very important.

guest: no. political parties voting in congress that's not treason. host: a few wins can he work was begun our i and? guest: contrary to this hysteria around him he works very well with people. he has saved billions of dollars working in a majority democratic city and also with foreign countries. he has a massively successful business private practice. the market is a little bit more punishing. he obviously can work with all kinds of people and gets along with people.

i was about to say if he wins, surely that will be enough to finally get the message through to washington that we don't want more immigration. we know democrats want to votes but the chamber of commerce need the cheap later. -- labor. we need to dust off the floor. i think the election of donald trump, the political outsider with his party against him and the entire media against tim if he manages to win the election

that will give the message through to washington that we want less immigration. it would be very easy to work with paul ryan. host: never trust a liberal over three especially a republican. i want to get your reaction to what happened last week. it got a lot of attention with megyn kelly and new english. >> the three major networks spent 23 minutes attacking donald trump and 57 seconds on hillary clinton's speeches. you don't think this is a scale of iis >>? he is not a sexual predator. >> people like you using language that is inflammatory that is not true. >> new have no idea whether it

is true or not. i am not taking a position on it. >> you used the words, you took that position. exactly the bias people are upset. >> i think your defensiveness on this speaks volumes. let me make my point. what i say is if trump is a sexual predator than it is a week story. what we saw on the tape saying he likes to grab women by the genitals and kissed him. then we saw 10 women coming for -- forward. he denies all which is his right. we don't know what the truth is. my point to you as a media story we don't get to say 10 women are lying.

we have to cover that story. >> so it's worth 23 minutes to cover that and hillary clinton in a speech in brazil to a bank that pays her 20 -- 200 $25,000 per dream is an open border, that is not worth covering? host: the fox news channel last week. your reaction. guest: people cannot go on tv and just stare at the camera and say nothing. they almost always say nonsense. trump gave a great speech in gettysburg that why did he say he is going to sue these women accusing him so that is what we will talk about. that's all they were going to talk about anyway. and i think -- i get tired of

this with this response from most of the members of my party. you have to punch back hard if you are accused. the idea that someone who has been a celebrity hiring beautiful people to work at his club and running all these really pageants he has never and seriously accused of any inappropriate behavior before. even people who were innocent who are billionaires get accused of inappropriate behavior. all these women coming forward weeks before the election. of course it is nonsense. there has never been any hint of it. we all heard about bill clinton that was his first introduction to the nation where he and his wife talked about gennifer flowers. there were lots of rumors, arkansas state trooper owners --

state trooper spirit and built cost me less will cause be. we heard the wrong mars -- rumors. nobody has heard anything about him at behaving inappropriately. there is the billy bush tape. congratulations, liberals. one million man hours going through every howard stern interview. everyone says stupid things. the ruling class is not representative of the american people. contrary to what everyone is saying on tv, donald trump was not saying that he likes to rap women. he was in a vulgar way

describing the shocking phenomenon of women liking rich men and liking to sleep with rich men. the phrase he was using when you are a celebrity you can grab them and the --. there is no admission of sexual assault. to hear these torry and if urgent who said everybody does it to an intern -- she was still in her teens riding her presidential need ads from the resident of the united states. i had to listen to everybody does it, it's here -- it's a personal life. host: we have one minute left. david from springfield, vermont. good morning.

caller: i just wanted you to talk about donald trump and check out an e-mail that hillary clinton sent when she was at the state department and moving all of the classified information tech -- intentionally. check that out. there were not any headers on the e-mail. it was reported about a year ago on five and how did you get a hold of it. guest: i think people take care of that. if we'll have 30 seconds left i want to tell you this is your last chance to say look at how women, children plants and animals are treated in the third world. thank i will do fine and donald trump will do fine. i have enough money to get by. it is going to be the working class and middle last that will

be gone under this corrupt government of the road publicans and the democrats and the media all backscratching and doing one another favors and bringing in the cheap labor and replacing americans with third world workers. we will argue about everything else. right now we have to save america and hope for donald trump. host: people can follow you at your website. what is your next project? guest: the 10th -- it depends on what happens on november 8. host: thank you very much. we appreciate your time. host: we continue the conversation every day at 7:00 eastern time. on c-span's washington journal heard live on c-span radio. jim pinkerton will talk about

donald trump in the fbi and best ignition into hillary clinton. john hudak will be joining us and stephen vladeck will be joining us to take a look at what the of the probe is all about and legally what happens next. tomorrow morning and news anchor is next. check out our campaign coverage at seized on.org. and we hope you enjoy your weekend. >> here on c-span, newsmakers is

mitt romney speaks to the u.s. chamber of commerce about the economy and ways to make the u.s. more attractive to business. clarence thomas and elena kagan each discuss their lives and careers. >> with just over a week to go until the elections, newsmakers is pleased to host stephen law. he also has the american crossroads and a nonprofit called one nation, all of which aim to keep the republican senate in the majority. thank you so much for being with us. as we started out, i should tell folks that you have been chief of staff of mitch mcconnell. and still have a great relationship with him. you bring all of that experience to our discussion this way. let me introduce our guests who will be asking questions. eric wenner is chief congressional reporter.