-- make sure to watch american history tv today as our cities tour takes you to richmond, virginia. by going toy videos c-span.org. on washington journal for the remainder of the program is open phones. any topic you would like to talk about this morning. , republicans. (202) 748-8000, democrats. (202) 748-8002, independent callers and others. we also recommend -- we also welcome your tweets. the washington post -- "memos bolster border actions." has write that john kelly signed sweeping guidelines to aggressively detain illegal immigrants inside the united states and at the border.

in a pair of memos, more details will offered on plans of the agency to hire enforcement expand the pool of immigrants who are prioritized for removal, speedup deportation hearings. the new directors will supersede under all of those issued previous administrations, including measures from obama aimed at focusing deportations exclusively on hardened criminals and those with terrorist ties. your call next. deborah in houston. welcome. caller: i disagree with all of the immigration stuff. i didn't vote for trump. sam houston was the president of he turned them loose or

paid them to stay. he has been my personal president favorite my whole life. thank you, and please, everybody, pay attention to the immigrants. ars. host: here is a piece trump could be reading this morning in the palm beach post on the front page. an issue he has touched on -- nafta. theida voters are cheering attack on nafta. florida growers of tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries and specialty crops have been hammered by chief imports from mexico where labor costs are lower. marketplaces have resulted in lower than production costs.

we go to janice. caller: i have been waiting a long time. i am thankful to be on your program. i stay up all night watching it in california. the three speakers that you had on there. the professors that you had on. i'm curious what parties they belonged to. my experiences is where i get my opinions. i lift up north and i watched all of the bay area activity. i was an activist married to a black man for 19 years. i got a good view of the racism and it isn't just the white people. i have two mexican in-laws that my children married. month andars old this

i have watched california go down the tubes, however you want to put it. my father married a mexican woman and brought her seven stalin -- seven starving children and help them become legal befor. host: are you close to san francisco? call co-i don't appreciate that. i lived in the day area for 20 years. and i worked in homes where i saw corruption. i also worked as a voter clerk. and i watched corruption and i reported it. the head people were urging all where i lived,es

it was a minority area and from every nationality, nigerians and mexicans and el salvador, guatemala. they were urging them to vote for obama. host: let's go to james in michigan. james? good morning. on the independent line. caller: yes, something i observed early on in the democratic primaries and i did research on it and it seems to indicate there was election fraud going on and stuff i've heard via the internet and the new toasically has been on this. supposedly there was a study done by stanford university? 13 states were electronically tampered with in the primary to favor hillary clinton. but we never heard any of this. the media doesn't cover any of this and the only thing we hear

is that the russians influence the election. how come the media hasn't spoken about this? me, this is outright election fraud. and there is nothing being said about this. i appreciate you calling. if i can find it, i will. there was a story in the associated press about the voting problems in texas. if i can locate that i will bring that up for you. we do go to texas next with mike. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for having me on the show. there is very little about what he is doing that makes any sense which tells me that it is more coordinated than anything else. he wants us to distrust each other and the press. hate everyone else besides america. trust 60% of

america. to me, it isn't isis said is targeting this country, it is donald trump. donald trump is the biggest enemy this country has had, i would say, maybe ever. he threatens to tear apart everything that holds this country together. and sooner or later we have to wake up and figure out what we have to do to get him out of office. and i don't think we can wait for years. the good news is that george w. bush did everything he could to destroy this country through know,etence or, you illegal wars and everything else. and he wasn't able to do it. so maybe we do have a chance? on theust to follow-up story mentioned in texas, here it is from the associated press that ran overnight. exclusive from the associated

dress, they write that texas election officials say that hundreds of people were able to bypass the voter id law to improperly cast ballots in the november election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo id. considering whether to refer cases to local prosecutors for potential perjury charges or violations of election laws. officials in other areas say mistakes got the citing widespread confusion among poll workers. further in the story, they write that the revelations, after trump makes frequent claims that the voting systems are vulnerable to fraud. the president has repeatedly said, without evidence, that he would have won the popular vote if not for 3,000,000-5,000,000 illegal immigrants in the country. an associated press analysis of

13,500 affidavit submitted in texas's largest counties found that at least 500 instances in which voters were allowed to get around the law by signing an affidavit and never showing a photo id, despite indicating they possessed one. to the democrats line, we go to shirley in colorado. caller: hey, i just wanted to say something about president truman. at a campaign rally, someone in the audience yelled "give them hell, harry." "i justurned and said tell the truth and they think it's hell." host: we go to mario. i'm sorry i missed the three presidential historians. did any of them actually study what led up to harry truman, who i consider one of the greatest presidents of all time, and his

decision to drop the atomic bomb? have they elaborated on how we reach that decision? host: i'm not sure. but they allere certainly written about the presidency and the times and different presidents you can look into. what is your information on that? caller: from what i read was, when he saw the casualties in okinawa, he didn't want to -- he couldn't bear any more casualties. generalad served with patton and world war ii, he finished up the european war in marseille. and his whole second division was ready to go under the of where eisenhower was going to send them to japan. bitterly --e all they had just finished writing the germans and they were not

happy about going. so when truman decided to drop the bomb, they were even related. elated. and i know they look at truman sometimes in history that he annihilated so many people and all of that that if you look at it from the american side, and i wish i could've been there with he wasat the cafe when with his friends, the elation that he was going to come home again to see his family and that he had made it through a live. host: just to let you know, the survey, our conversation with the historians will re-air later on in the program schedule. i don't have the specific times but i know it will air later today and on presidents' day. let's go to kate in massachusetts on the independent line. good morning. caller: yes, hello. the times have changed. and what was going on many years ago isn't going on today.

country has become very partisan. republicans and democrats. and it seems to be that they are at each other's throat all the time. congress never changes. maybe it is time that we have term limits in congress. to turn over people down there so maybe we can get something accomplished. nothing got accomplished in the eight years that obama was there because of high partisanship. and maybe with new blood and younger people willing to serve for two years rather than 15 or 20, when they are senile and don't know what they are doing anyway, maybe we'll get at changes done in the country? post code that was kate in massachusetts. looking at items in the news this morning, reported on the the blind sheikh. he was the egyptian born spiritual leader who was of being a mastermind

of terrorist plots against the united states as was called the godfather a radical islamist movements died yesterday at a prison in north carolina. where he was serving a life sentence. after moving to the united states, he preached at storefront mosques in brooklyn and new jersey and came under federal scrutiny after a bombing at the world trade center. six people were left dead and more than 1000 injured. several of his followers were not.cted although he was instead, he was arrested on broader conspiracy charges of planning to levy a war of urban terrorism against the united states. next in texas is jordan. welcome. caller: hello. i do appreciate you taking my call. i am a second time caller. thank you.

i love your show. and i tried to watch it all the time. and i appreciate your guests. it is very informative. i would just like to say that hasknow, just because trump one, he doesn't represent all texans. not even all rural texans. because that is what i am. id i would like to say that am a good democrat. -- i believe in america and host: telles whereabouts in texas and what you do there? caller: it is 1.5 hours northwest of austin. i just wanted to say that i think that the russians helped electron.

the election was totally hacked. and i don't see how anybody could think anything different. so. host: we go next to the international line from norma from the u.k., watching this morning on the bbc parliament channel. caller: mi on the air? i enjoy watching and listening to the program because it gives political viewpoints. an evenhanded vestige across the airways. what i like to comment on is the gentleman, richard norton smith. he spoke a lot about churchill and he mentioned churchill. and everyone is interested in what will take lace in the party churchill made a speech in 1946 in a place in the

usa and may i say an excerpt of the speech? "the dark ages may return. the stone age may return from the gleaming wings of science and what might now show as a blessing upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. beware, i say. time may be short. ofnot let us take the course allowing events to drift along until it is too late. and i think when you think of that message that he gave, before the cold war, before things started to get between russia and america to a point where they didn't trust each other, maybe that is a message that trump could perhaps repeat one of these days, when he is talking. because if winston churchill could be right, historians won't be in the future, will they? ok?

host: we want to remind our viewers that we do cover the prime minister house of commons and the debate that is happening this week in the british house of commons on monday at 11:30 eastern where the house of commons is meeting to talk about a petition that has called for president trump state visit to the u.k. to be canceled. that debate comes up tomorrow here on c-span and c-span radio at 11:30 eastern. we go to florida. the republican line. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. my comment is that i used to be democratic. and i voted for trump and here is my question. the democrats forget what -- that it is ok for the illegals

to [indiscernible] want tothe only thing i ask. host: ok, michelle. up next in california. hope you are drying out. caller: it is dry today. since we are determined to tolace the aca, i do want point out, so we can have an honest to bit about it, that the people in idaho try to design a better plan but they failed. so for the paul ryan wing of the party who want to replace it, acajust wondering, with the have been vital if we hadn't try to to find so many significant parts of it? and if they decide to block grants for the programs to the states, will the states be able to afford it?

and this is what really bothers me. legislature for six years. and they said they had a plan. but now they are saying they have to make a plan? so i think it is a little disingenuous to say that they were ready to replace obamacare. host: we appreciate that michelle. out there yesterday with a major storm coming through. the front page of the l.a. times this morning looks at the dam in california. they say the spillway doubts were not he would -- were not heeded. hand across the emergency spillway to help drain out water. director of the department of water resources said with an air of confidence at a briefing that the flows were tinyoncrete compared with what it was

designed to handle. his first ever emergency spill was going smoothly. but further reporting at the l.a. times this morning, the vegas, and their concerns there, nevada dams get satisfactory grades, .25% of the state sites were classified as high hazard. here is mesa, arizona, bob on the independent line. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. whyve a comment here on people are democrats and republicans and why people are independent. my ancestors were from the south. my grandfathers served in the confederate war. he was a confederate in the civil war. but they were all democrats. going back two or three generations, they were in the

slave party. the democratic slave party. so i was born a democrat, like most democrats are. or in a democrat. i went into business in california and was an employer. and i got to questioning myself as i was voting democrat without even thinking. and then i found out that the democratic party professed to be the party of the working man. but i found out they are not the party of the working man. wantsre the party that the working man and business to pay for the not working people. so i went to become a republican. withhen i found out that the two parties together, you have a red hand and a blue hand. and they put them together in congress and in the senate. and you have two purple hands. and they are all dishonest. i became an independent. i am an independent now for that

reason. you can ask a democrat why they born aocrat -- i was democrat. ask a republican, why are you republican? a really don't know. but if you ask them one question -- namely me one democratic political leader, one of your representatives that you trust, they can't come up with a person. host: let's get one more quick call. go ahead. caller: ever like to know why people don't give trump a chance. obama would not compromise. he would not talk to the republicans. this with theof democrats fighting like dogs all the time. the humor reminds me of an evil person.

why isn't hillary telling them to call down? remind you that our discussion on the presidential leadership survey from earlier today with richard norton smith will re-air tonight six: 30 p.m. eastern. so if you didn't catch the program, catch it later today online at c-span.org. tomorrow, we have on our president's day hearing from gary schmidt, with the american enterprise institute talking about the recent piece on residential power. kimball.yl what is ahead in terms of the nuclear policy and then we have wright who is an author. all of that starts at 7:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. eastern

here on c-span and c-span radio. we hope you enjoy the rest of your sunday. ♪ >> newsmakers is next with democratic representative joe crowley. later, actor ashton kutcher testifies before congress on efforts he is leading to stop human trafficking and modern-day slavery. our guest on newsmakers this week is joe crowley in his 10th term in 2017.