a democrat, at a won our donald trump state by 17,000 million percent. [laughter] >> secretary of state programs c-span.org, on t the home page or by searching the video library. >> "washington journal" continues. ost: phone lines are open in this last half-hour of the program today. sk the viewers for foreign policy priority for the trump administration, we're asking president day that trump is expected to be or will justin trudeau coming off a weekend after japanese prime minister and later in the week meeting with prime minister of israel. foreign policy front for the president and his staff. foreign o hear your policy priorities. tw licans call in

202-748-8001. democrats call in on independents nd 202-748-8002. and outside the u.s., 02-748-8920 if you are outside of the united states. to talk more about the president's visits today with canada, rudeau of joining on the phone by mccharles of the toronto star, ottowa bureau reporter there. as i understand it, you just got off the plane with the prime minister for his visit today. what is the schedule today? guest: that is right, john, i just landed. motorcade is leaving. windy day here in washington today. welcome to the city. schedule is to meet ith president trump at the white house at 11 this morning. they'll have initially a talk, them, and expand by literal meeting where canadian officials want to press trump on his promises

to renegotiate the north deal.an free trade the big concern the canadians are bringing here are large, all largely economic. canadians have pitched interesting proposal to the trump administration and will announce a joint agency, fu will, to executives in business and project of ivanka trump. she is someone the canadians have realized this appeals to, that will be launched at a round-table today with business sides of from both the border. then trump and trudeau will have will ing lunch and there be a joint news conference this afternoon. we're ll be specialing, watching for chemistry between the two leaders. trudeau will also take time to drop by capitol to meet some republican leaders, i believe

he's scheduled to meet with mitch paul ryan and mcconnell, as well. host: busy day for the elegation and the press corps following them, as well. you mentioned the personalities and the chemistry between these leaders. do donald trump and justin trudeau get along? guest: well, we don't know that, we don't know yet. this is the fascinating part of this day. know, these face-to-face meetings are, sure, all about policy, but really chemistry and personal relationships, we have heard leaders, do n from matter. so there is so much at stake in he canada/u.s. relation, from canada's perspective. i know americans are not as we are of nadians as ou, and every sort of economic twist and turn down here affects us. you know, there is a lot at trudeau, but tin the chemistry will matter. that is what canadians will be looking to see. they get along? can trudeau bring the message if

reopen nafta, a lot of jobs are dependant upon the two countrys and things like, renegotiating putting in perhaps import duties, some kind of reform, this tax will impact canadian trade with he u.s. and biggest trading partner, so i think if trudeau an get along with trump, i think they will. that will make a difference. host: one issue that has been in quite a bit the past week, the president's travel ban. testegal issues, the legal that has faced. can you talk about reaction to the travel ban and how it impacted canada and specifically the prime minister reaction to that travel ban? uh-huh. he hasn't officially or formally or publicly in person reacted to that travel ban, but right weekend and er the the chaos the ban caused the

prime minister trudeau posted a tweet to his official twitter account saying canada would remain, to those fleeing persecution, an open country. if nots a pretty direct, n-person comment on how he views it. we have yet to hear from him directly. in canada to the an is i would say in large measure, people are surprised by it and we've seen an influx of refugee claims coming across the canadian, u.s. border not at points, but rder cross the border and back of people who say they no longer feel safe to claim refugee worried the u.s., about the trump administration muslims, so a-vis,

we're not sure if you can directly make that connection there has been a flow across the border in the past and prior to the ban, but i are concerned about it, concerned about trump's reaction to cross-border and immigrants and we'll see, this is one of the big i points in this relationship, canada views to lf as more open immigration right now and administration, even this morning are tweeting out, diverse sit our strength. those are pretty unsubtle would say. host: tonda maccharles joining morningthe airport this after landing with the reporting delegation following the prime minister. thanks for your time this morning. guest: thanks, john. ost: the front page of the toronto star, the headline about that visit. rudeau/trump, what's love got to do with it, the question that is asked.

a bro might long for mans, barack obama shared, but those days are over. the viewers for your foreign policy priorities administration in light of the delegation visits that have happened recently as said, the prime minister of israel set to meet with the president later this week. from is up first washington, d.c., an independent. good morning. caller: hey, thanks, john. sits down with the prime minister netanyahu, the definitely needs to tell him he's canceling the free-trade agreement, worst bilateral last ent, gave a deficit year. he needs to tell netanyahu that enforcing 22o begin amendmentaa, the land and he's going to say, look, we can't provide with you foreign are nuclear ou weapons state and that has been

1976.ful since he needs to stop the treasury department from allowing contrin ugzs . lowing into settlements and tell the department of justice to stop fighting to preserve an rule called lative guidance on release of information relating to for israeli capability employeesibits federal from saying israel has weapons. host: are you -- you are in washington, d.c. guest: i run think tank -- grant's right, priorities for the president on foreign policy. ottsville, t, pennsylvania, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? doing well. caller: good. i want to make a points about here,ipeline going through coming basically past our house.

move, it is a great is going to give jobs and let us oil around. our own also, i'd like to see the on space focus more on and stem cell research. myself insome of that a piece i'm writing. 1890 media.com. that is my input, thanks for the program. foreign policyor priorities here this week. here is headline from the "wall in today's al" paper. president backs off early stances.policy the story noting some promises and statements the president the campaign trail during the campaign donald trump had maintained combative pproach to china and broke protocol after victory by accepting phone call from taiwan. thursday, president trump spoke to the chinese president abide by the would one china policy that is

-- american relationships. taken similar pasteur o the north atlantic treaty organization. after meeting with theresa may he said he would back the before he ut described nato as obsolete, that "wall street 's journal." give us a call, let us know what you think should be the resident's foreign policy priority. diana in buckfield, maine, what you snng caller: i've never been so angry in my life as i am right now. reagan was when elected and when george w. bush nixon and george w. bush was elected, goi the angry. this man is, he is hitler as hitler could be. that, why do you say diana? caller: because of what he's doing. specifically? sepre-- this is white

supremeacy in a way i hoped i would never see. host: what specifically, diana? caller: everything. policy toward immigrants, toward refugees and people iving here for 20 year, contributing to the economy, country.children in our to his attitude toward women, minorities, toward other faiths. evangelical right wing propaganda machine that has been that is totally disrupting what america is. host: all right. focusing on foreign policy priorities right now, asking viewers to let us know what you like this administration to focus on. republicans s, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. 202-748-8002. and love to hear your

overseas,ve if you are outside the united states, 202-748-8920. athleen in washington, rolling bay, washington, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: hi. wondering how bannon and steven miller are affecting decisions on gn foreign affairs? having read bannon's background miller's pack ground, i'm wondering, you know, how that is how it affect trump or has affected trump's decisions affairs?n host: what in the background have you found out that concerns interests you most, kathleen? caller: sort of like he's all know he is all right, look at his background, miller as like, i'm not sure what miller is, he's got this background of like right wing on foreign s approach, ationalist so then you know, it's just sort

pulling in on certain also this whole ulling down regulations for doing, working with other countries, like some kind of by trump regarding surean nations and i'm not what that memo was, but i just sort of read this brief kind of about this memo that went out and i'm just wondering and se i don't like bannon i don't like miller and somehow they're in there and sitting in security, you know, on this i'm security thing and sure they've got their feelers out and foreign affairs somehow. host: all right. got your point, kathleen. try to find information about the memo you refer to. ick in the meantime, in randallstown, maryland, a democrat. good morning. aublth caller: good morning. i want to talk about the

gentleman said it was a good idea because it creates jobs. creates jobs.t the republican party never tells the whole truth. that are bs are jobs well paid jobs that when you get jobs, you start thinking about building a house and raising your family, he jobs are l them the temporary, they are going to build the pipeline, they said 5 10% of employees will be held for general maintenance and the probably be sup contracted. see, like i said again, they republicans do, tell you half truth, that is why i much for trump because not because he's the president, i'm an african american, what worse can they do to us, i don't like him as a person. had a think we've ever resident who was hated along every racial line and religious

for his favorite party, evangelicals who are christians. thank you. host: all right. to jimmy in arkansas. jimmy, r republicans, good morning. caller: yes, hello. to do what trump needs is first of all, have some fun, let's make a trade with japan to cutting down the rain forest and pay them back with with rubber polymer in it, their house consist withstand they have to build eart n wood because of earthquakes. whoever can put the most filtration systemos every dam at end of the year, we don't owe them and -- do you want more fun on foreign policy? caller: because that is what america is about, having fun. this guy, i know trump, i've to to new york, he's going

play business. that is the kind of deal i would make, i did it on facebook and everybody loved it. nobody heard of that. coming pollution is from dumping everything into the ocean, every person in the world the mping everything into oceans. you can't drink the water most dirty, ecause it is so even up 30 miles north of me, they can't drink the water. dirty, put a filtration system in it like salt, have you seen salt water been a big filter and keeps filtering the water and keeping it clean. want to help pollution and like george bush changed savings time so we wouldn't have a burden, he wanted us to have freedom, but money and he did. host: all right. lee our point n. arkansas, is in rockville, maryland. line for democrats. your foreign policy priority for the trump administration. caller: good morning. enjoying the show. president now when

trump is going to move the embassy in israel. if you have been to israel, you notice that the parliament, the kineset is in the government ministry are in jerusalem, the prime minister's residence is in entire government is in jerusalem. is only democracy in the middle east and the united make the supposed to world free for democracy. move the ve the, to embarrass to jerusalem and the have ent for many years months waivers every six waiving that provision in the all theit is law and to president trump has to do is not

sign that waiver and i is coming up in june, to move the embassy to the to jerusalem. host: topic people are watching ahead of that wednesday meeting, first face-to-face meeting of een the prime minister israel and president trump. there is the story in the "new ork times" about it this morning. robert, frostburg, maryland, is next. independent. good morning. caller: good morning. how you doing? host: doing well. i agree with the lady who called about three or four calls earlier than the one making about the comparison f our current political administration with that of the remember ny, if you the last three weeks, people all ver the entire planet were protesting the ascension of power to current administration here in washington.

last time that occurred was in 1933, when the entire world did adolfxact same thing with hitler. ascension to his power. the problem that i'm having is the -- i mean, everything of all evilthe root and that is money, according to bible.lomon in the and the little stent that you this particular section, this guy was talking about the privatization, gain of the few, socialized losses to the many. talking about fannie mae and freddie mac. you, this is ask second one. do you think nazi comparisons are helpful to try to have a

political discussion that can move forward in this country right now, do you think we're too quick to use the comparisons? caller: unfortunately reality, it has been stated history itself, the reason it repeats itself is because people forget how history evolved in the first place. know, you cannot dismiss the fact that the amount has been nce that created here in this particular and the ation turbulence created in germany honestly ld war ii, i believe if we continue on the path that we are on, it will iii. to world war host: all right. to nancy in austin, texas, republican. morning. caller: good morning. i am just in awe , people really need to read history. i mean, first of all, we were to go spread democracy around the world. that is not what we were do.osed to that was from the progressive

woodrow wilson who started that. want trump to do per your question nobody seems to be is to adhere to what policy in his foreign speech, that it's not our role to be overthrowing other nations who have not done anything to us puppets.ng in our it's our role to be friends with they ne and unless threaten us with eminent attack be ttack us, we need to setting the example for people. we need to get our own act the example of liberty. that is what i hope he does and to death that some of his talk has gone to, we need rid everywhere of isis, because that is sounds like what we did with al qaeda and then when we decided we wanted to fund them and arm overthrow assad for a

pipeline and turned libya over is quagmire, it, hope to god he doesn't get into, out of the middle east and get our own act together. thank you. host: a few minutes left in today's program. headline from canadian newspaper about today's justin trudeau, the prime minister of canada and resident trump, trudeau to emphasize common ground in meeting with trump, the meeting of canada-u.s. leaders, most decades is the lead story in the globe today. brooklyn, t nothing new york, john, a independent. good morning. thank you for taking my call. one thing on foreign policy that focus president trump to on is the gross domestic product. thing dmroebally i mean, we ave 5% of the world's population in our gdp is 18 trillion dollars a year. know, the next country, i believe, has over a billion

gdp is only $10 trillion. country, the richest country in the world, i think the president needs to intelligent people ashed that will direct them and figure for hat is best globally our country and the rest of the orld, so that gdp of every country is growing at a good rate and i think that needs to that we may have more friendly relationships with countries and while thinking about that, make sure rowing gdp around the world that we are environmentally friendly, also, so that doesn't around the world. i do believe that we need to people around t president trump. host: you think the president has surrounded himself with people? caller: say that again. host: do you think the president has surrounded himself with people he nominated and people white house, confident he

has the right people? caller: well, based on listening closely intelligently know, seems on't more nationalistic focus on just people and not necessarily globally because we planet, 6 ing on one billion people, we all 5% of the the world need to our strategically for to be done, at has every country around the world is growing for their people so that we have less wars, less problems and i think nationalism a a good thing, but we are in world that things are globalistic and because so many now thatonal companies everyone is looking to grow. access to being has it, peep kel see what other ountries are doing, who are richer countries, who are poorer countries, we need to think

everyone can cubing seed and we have less wars. host: already. john. concern, vironmental democrats promising a fight over is the donald ho rump nominee for epa administrator, democrats raising concerns ahead of his confirmation process and during his confirmation heari s hearings. nick, good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. thank you. good morning, thank you for taking my call this morning. i think trump needs to relations with russia and certain regards we need the help of russian and powers to combat isis, we need to tighten clampos china north korea and i think we need to focus on iran. wema gave them lots of cash, need to cut it of his confirmation process and during his confirmation bigly. ost: do you think we can trust russia? caller: i think we can trust russia, i think we can trust

cash, more than the and we need to cut it. host: do you think we need t cat russia? caller: i think we can trust russia more than the iranians and some of the middle eastern powers, but if i can make a quick comment, people have been calling saying trump is similar to. germany voted for hepler. number two, fdr was sitting next to him at the olympics in 1936. bombing them, gassing them, burning books, everything else. host: what do you think the not to comparisons due to the debate in this country? caller: i think it makes our country look bad and it is an insult to the jewish community. when you to stop insulting god's people and start helping people instead of comparing trump to heckler. trump, or we are going to lose our country. host: let's go to bill in