>> sunday night on q&a. middle eastpower in and everywhere in decline. ationalists rising up, the big strategic question the u.s. faced, should support britain rising nationals or try to create new order by mediating between the nationals british? michael duran, "ike's," -- guest: aligning with the nationalists, underlying british and taking control of the oil in the middle east, we cared about it was 100% of european oil came from the to make st. we want sure we had friendly arab egime, if not align with the united states, at least keep the union.

>> "washington journal" continues. host: are there policy areas or think reas that you democrats and republican consist work together and come together on? hat is the question we want to ask you for remaining time together. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, you can give us your thoughts, too, 202-748-8002. want to join the -- they ion on twitter can work together, one of the other areas being highlighted in he papers this morning,

especially on front page of "u.s.a. today," potential shut ofn when it comes to matters the budget, members of the house nd senate apropriations ommittee plan to have a deal ready the week of april 24. about a dozen days before the 28th.ne, april president trump complicated the work by sending over emergency billion for 30 defense programs and $3 billion for border security and that $1.5 billion for offset cost with domestic programs, tradeoff that democrats and some republicans oppose. let's hear first up on the idea and eas where democrats republican consist work together from charles. alexander, virginia.

hello. caller: hello, i would like to things that can be things one of the first is education, president trump floated e campaign and $twe20 billion for school choice, school vouchers i think rious states, it is a terrific idea and -- aps the host: is this your personal comes to when it voucher? caller: all you have to do is out reading of what is there, the democrats have traditionally fought against and i choice and vouchers believe they will continue to do exactly that, i think there is compromise, of course. work together on infrastructure,

highways, ges, airport, all this kind of stuff there is a huge amount of many topics that can be worked across the aisle. host: okay, education and two topics, our first guests brought. burlington, north carolina, david, hi ne, there. caller: hi, how are you doing today? you. fine, thank go ahead. caller: my comment is this, you voted in office republicans or primarily and senate he house members need to remember, they just ent everybody, not the people that voted them in office. what i see on the and is the representatives senators basically only representing the people who are get votes next time around, they are more concerned re-elected than doing their job.

i would rather see them and i won't agree with this, rather see them represent their districts at the risk of losing their job and people very unhappy to do what is right for the united states. they report each and every one people they vote for, not the 1%, not the people the ive them the money and lobbyists who keep them in office. there policy areas do you think specifically democrats and republicans can get together a joint effort? caller: well, i mean, for the f-35 program that actually donald trump being wasteful money, they are supposed to have 2400 jets and how many millions each? paired out 400 jets, they

programs that al the -- they all have, 1% have us the crumbs of the pie. they are munching on the nice they have us nd fighting, or the rest of the american public, fighting over crumbs, dollar here, dollar here, while billions spending billions of dollars elsewhere. look at billions of dollars the war machine that is granted, but also lining the pockets of a lot of halliburton and other companies. virgil, in kentucky, republican line. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. the first thing that has to be established is that the emocrats and republicans are working together plenty. e don't get $21 trillion of debt by gridlock.

the public face of the ongressmen and the media like to throw around dc is in gridlock, you do not get the of debt by gridlock. the second thing is that realize thatave to they're there to serve the people, not there to serve themselves or special interests way to do that is make sure you have leadership that ants to adhere to the u.s. constitution and currently in the senate and the house, we do ot have that leadership that wants to adhere to the u.s. constitution, only when we get we e things in place can actually work to turn things round for the better of the people. host: house speaker in phone call conversation yesterday and "washington he post" today talked about potentially what might happen in the future when it comes to healthcare. quoted saying, we'll keep getting at this thing, after inter-party fter opposition forced them to pull he bill, political organization, he continued, we're not going to just all of a

abandon healthcare and move to the rest, we'll move to the rest of the agenda, keep on and work the healthcare problem, it is that valuable, disclose tant, didn't the details of next iteration of healthcare reform. plan would be developed for -- in florida regroup more quickly than suggested.an they would on friday, declared obamacare the law of the land future.foreseeable on the senate floor, schumer and ng about healthcare, talking about where he's open to when working with the white house on this topic. he had to say. >> this past friday was a good day for the american people. put to bed the disaster of a bill that was rumpcare, which would have esulted in spottier coverage, 24 million fewer americans with healthcare coverage and higher

costs, premiums and deductibles the middle class working for older americans. all to finance close to $600 breaks for ax wealthy americans. americans should breathe sigh of relief trumpcare will not become law. it is gone.that we can finally move on. times, we id many democrats provided our replace n colleagues and stop undermining the a.c.a., work with our o republican friends to improve ever isting law, no one said the affordable care act as -- ideas to improve it, hopefully colleagues on the republican side, as well. once replace is dropped, the .c.a. is no longer by administration, we can sit down

and talk about -- yesterday on from the topic of healthcare, maybe healthcare or other topics you republicans and democrat consist work together, you can 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, 202-748-8002. we'll take calls in a moment, we let you know about effort by trump administration when it comes to environmental specifically when it comes to clean power plant as it is known, joining us on the phone, emily holden with e&e news topics of this nature, joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: could you remind our about the clean power plant, what it did and what the scope is? guest: sure. it would have began in 2022 and 2030. in and assigned specific goals to state.

- -- rules start review for about methane emission on land, also rule on fracking on federal land, he eliminate climate

change for different projects, decisions, get rid of the social cost of carbon, a figure out view to what the public health and other and t are of the emissions try to promote fossil fuel ways that look for obstacles and try to lift them occurrence h the moratorium on federal land. host: so what has been the statesn, especially from that have featured resource of energy nd other producing states. caller: i think they are pretty especially nots, needing to imply with the power plan, although in states working decarbonize for longer are saying we'll be doing that work. away fromare shifting coal-fired plants and will continue to do so. to keep in mind as much as you hear today this will bring back the coal mining is not , that necessarily true, that would be very difficult to do, just up

market reality coal is facing. ost: this is emily holden from e&e news. what time does that take place today? guest: 2 p.m. host: emily holden with this organization, e&e news, thanks for telling us about this and joining us. guest: thank you. host: back to your calls, democrats can work together. from maryland, ashton, maryland, go ahead. caller: yes, i want to say, two hopefully can and will work together and one is leave, whichmedical vanka trump eshgs pressed interest in and there is an pportunity there for both democrats and republicans to work together and get the to speed on paid family leave. i think the other issue they can eally work together on is animal protection issues, which even last week's vote on the

extremely was partisan, completely all of them republicans the voted yes. there is opportunity in the future, that is an issue, of whether gardless you are republican or democrat, to not be shot while hiebernating, you don't chased down by planes, that sort of thing. -- : kush kushner is set to reaction from those within the federal government about this effort. headline, government workers are suspicious of the effort, valdez, a long-time official, saysent that the first thing he's hear

suggest reinventing government two or three or four adding he's optimistic the chops in s real business might lead to good ideas. a letter to kushner. says the trump innovators may not realize government has many back to 1883 that will make it harder to bring private sector to government. political appointees in the government might be urprised if they seek to hire friends or business associates to consider the best candidate general, rules about nepotism are unfamiliar from the private sector, where whoever you want. et's go to james, james is in tennessee. independent line. you?r: hi, how are good morning. foremost, o first and

i'm very thankful and appreciative of representative north carolina and john garamendi of california working together. most democrats and republicans, myself, we have the -- actually and i am, these least guy necessary washington, d.c. are not working for us, but for business. and, you know, they need to work together, i feel, not hopeful it happen, though. host: is there a specific area you think they need to work together? caller: they need to work together on all issues. of know, i get so sick hearing democrat this and republican this. know, they are spending, the uy a couple calls before me

said we have come to this place y chance, these guys are working together, they make it appear they are separate, but i think they are together. okay, to john in new hampshire -- sorry, new mexico, republican line. hi. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. my call. for taking if there is one area i really think democrats and republicans are going to work one her, but if there is area where i truly hope they will come to some humility and agree, we need term limits. every congressman that gets in to the airport, lys to washington, d.c., knows that washington and all the lobbyists and special interests rash. the thing is, they have such big egos, they think they are the ointment, the only one that can solve all the

greed and corruption and this is a personal problem. guilty so we're all no one is guilty like good said, we are all guilty of this $21 trillion some of us are guilty. hell no, they are all guilty. some humilitye to on a personal level. very one of the rotten politicians and decide two terms s long enough for any greedy bastard to go in there and pull deals and find and hich -- is on the rise which missile got new apropriation and which will not the deal, that is how they become millionaires. pennsylvania, independent line. caller: yeah, thank you for c-span. lot of stuff previous callers said, i agree with on this.

like to see our politicians work on and the gentlemen on earlier about afghanistan, sounds like something they would to do something about. i'm disappointed with so many they should do. i think relevant, maybe not they do.what for example, just something simple like our election day, on day when at people don't work or most don't about too k, worry many holidays, squeeze together president's day. that,omething simple like something more important, gerrymandering, you know, very has been done about that, looked at the situation, of what was m limits, already mentioned. electoral college, if they were something, i imagine it would be in 2016 and they didn't, they seem rather why not take a look at that situation. host: you think there is common

the things you just listed why two parties won't things?ether on these caller: maybe they see other and s as greater problems jump on this, but, you know, i especially gerrymandering, imagine they could come to some on the s, improvements process. you know, election day, i was even simpler to deal with and would help us a little bit. nothing has been done. thank you. host: got you. topic of a also the tweet this morning 6789 it says we need term limits, that is parties can work on. we've had other suggestions, infrastructure, those kind of things. give us your thoughts in the final minutes of the program. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002. one of the people talking about

democrats t to specifically was the white house press secretary sean spicer, who comments yesterday during the press briefing and talked about seriousness of this white ouse and reaching out to democrats. >> absolutely. starting friday afternoon through late yesterday, he's received a as er of calls, as well other members of the senior staff working on healthcare. of both side, saying they would like to work together, offer up ideas and had suggestions about how to come to to a tion on this and get house vote on this. >> wouldn't this require -- sorry, this is not free for all, jonathan is asking a question. this require press collection for the white house, he president branded chuck schumer a clown, worked entirely with republicans on this bill, require serious change of course for the

president? >> to some degree, sure, i think the president talked about that. we learned a lot through the rocess and i think we're looking at ways to improve how to handle healthcare and other we do everything. i mentioned to some of you in one trait of things, of successful organization is to examine how you do things. we're willing to listen -- spicer.at is sean even after last two weeks involves the billions in payments that therers currently get under wall. house republicans were challenging those payments invalid. they call it illegal. suspended as republicans push to the a.c.a. it could resume or trump could

payments and decline it. end the payments of the lawsuit. broader dilemma facing following failure to replace the a.c.a. ower to accomplish goals by leaking law through administrative action, risk of backlash from voters on the a.c.a. implodes, republicans say voters since they emocrats enacted the a.c.a. and joe the ey said it is responsibility of the government to work now to help the a.c.a. not let it fail. as saying too many on the other side see fall under the is not what hat democrats want. >> perhaps it is healthcare to ork together on, maybe other topics, too. let us know. line, gork, republican ahead. >> yeah, i think one issue we

kind of stand united is matter of national security. ut i think the republican and democratic side is skewed, we see international affairs budget of foreign ll sorts aid and foreign funding and right now we're looking at budget in m that order to increase defense. know from history that gangsty is responsible for and terrorism, so it is kind of ounter productive to increase spending on defense, which is symptom of impoverished nation critical eak infrastructure. when it comes to looking at international affairs budget, they need to unite is where that funds are going and sure we understand the pattern of where tourist starts. think a country we're united

as a top priority. going about it is backward, cyclical manner. that is something i would like going forward. host: let's hear from elizabeth california, independent line. caller: good morning. hi, go ahead. caller: okay. i think both sides could work on housing or homeless have an idea. host: okay. aller: we spend a fortune looking after closed military bases all across the country. i think we could use some of those to house homeless veterans. the necessary facilities are already in place. beds, facilities, kitchens and dining halls, motor pools, office space and the eterans themselves could do most of the staffing and maintenance. t would give them a sense of

purpose again and a sense of amaraderie, the band of brothers idea, and it would give mailing gitimate address, where they can receive heir benefits, which is required by in order to receive benefits, they have to have a address, that would give them one. thoseving the veterans in closed bases would be an conomic boost to the nearby communities. host: how did you come up with this idea? caller: oh, it just came to me. chance to ou have a talk with any legislators locally or your representative this n washington about idea? caller: no, i haven't been able to get through to anybody. i posted it on facebook and asked anybody to take this idea you un with it as far as can and i haven't seen any

results at all. you're my first hope. host: well, there it is, it is ut there, perhaps someone will capitalize on the idea, at least respond to your idea as we on next 10 minutes or so. the viewer mentioned facebook the folks ng to there, they are changing up some f their services to specifically take a look at civic outreach. t is rolled out nonpartisan civic engagement service called town hall. officials,ed elected even local ones and sends you to go vote or pick up the phone. t is how facebook will capitalize on using social network influence keeping up ith friends and addressing humanity's bigger problems, if you look to facebook on the web, washington journal reporting, town hall on the right side of the members, new on phones with other facebook tools under a button

bars.hree vertical one of the town hall's most overing pabilities is elected officials, tell facebook where you live, the more it will identify and many facebook members already share some location an address you answer in town hall won't serve facebook, that report in the "wall street journal." jerry from north carolina, line, hi.n caller: good morning. radical idea for you. i like the priests caller's idea, too, about the bases, that is great. here, we have brilliant people in the democrat and party, i'd like to put them all on the same team. recommend we do away with the democrats and republican parties. and just go to political, congressmen and senators, how would that be?

designation?tical caller: exactly, no party designation. think that you would work as they go through bills and vote on things of that nature? caller: well, we spend to what they contribute, evaluate on who they say and what their record is without party affiliations. wonderful ideas on both sides we're on opposite teams. we need to be on the same team. label is think the pretty much the point of contention? caller: exactly. the label is the separation. you know, individuals have wonderful ideas, but the opposed to it. so it never gets anywhere. if you're on the same party, presentablewould be withstand ed if they

the test. hokt okay, idea from elizabeth and jerry. anne, greensboro, north carolina, democrats line. i just find it interesting this question is eing asked and a question like this was not asked for the past eight years and people coming up of how republicans and democrats can work together hen for the previous administration, the republicans decided they would do nothing to president obama and so feel like the democrats need to follow the republican lead and do not cooperate with the necessary any way. it was very successful for as they ns to behave did, they have three branches of the government by not working democrats and president bama, so i think the democrats need to the same. for the health plan that the

democrats can get together and some ideas of their own and present to the american the affordable care act can be improved. i think they need to do that on own because republicans were not assist them. on ink just what has gone for the past two months, i think they have us that no -- republicans have no intention of working with the democrats. very much. host: next to tom in ohio, independent line. tom. caller: hello. good morning, i think there is things, they uple can work together on to my and donald trump who first republican i think i ever voted for. help this country, raise minimum tomorrow.10 supporters will come right to you. wall, r thing, build the stop drugs from coming in and killing our children.

any way you can. if you can save three lives a wall, buildding the it. build the wall. us safe. thank you. host: one more legislative on healthcare. alabama, al.com, where you find the story. document, the-page congressman filed bill in house of representative to repeal obamacare, whereas stated adult brooks of tection, huntsville introduced a bill ast friday calling his act, obamacare repeal act and the bill uses one sentence to do it. effective as of december 31, 2017, affordable care act is provision for law amended repeal by such act such act hadevived not been enacted.

that is it, one sentence. al.com, goes on. you can see that effort by representative brooks of alabama. next to charles in washington, d.c., republican line. hi. good morning. host: you're on, go ahead. caller: great. i never thought i would say this, but in terms of getting to blicans and democrats work together, supporting earmarks and bringing earmarks partisanship, yes, you could say it is like a little bit of a bribe, but a lot of the ideas are good and stood on maybe controlling people or of the country. having lived in washington, .c., people have to answer to constituents, especially motivated constituents, it is voting for ify something that is unpopular to the area and earmark might say, able to bring f.b.i. school to my area or able to build this bridge. is, you could say it is invest nment bipartisanship on

or bribe on another, i think it might be effective tool. back, someone kind of less cautious like president trump might support thought he could get infrastructure bills. that is just an idea on earmarks back.ringing that host: the committee that deciding whether president supreme ominee for the court, neil gorsuch, will be voted out of committee is holding off on the vote. political reports about what is happening on the legislative to floor it comes ote saying senior democratic voices are -- midto upper 50s it procedural vote, first successful filibuster of supreme abe foshtas since forhe 1960s and latest sign the judge, senator bill nelson said monday, he'll oppose

the closure, expect late next week. nelson n a decade ago, helped bring a filibuster and filibuster mitch mcconnell, heavily telecast he the nuclear option. republicans are confident do it as ve votes to senators are. let's go to elizabeth, san california, democrats line. caller: hi. one thing that contribute to people together would be for the president to stop alling people names, that is a baseline. one thing that could help in washingtonbody is to get the money out of peoples, that would make come across the aisle. people, remind obamacare was named patient

affordable care act and such good dimension number on anderson cooper the night, in 2009, 62% of all medical y were bankruptcy and many of those people had insurance policies. so obamacare strengthened everybody, olicy of not just those in need. when the icans think healthcare redo they're going to build protection in for them, they double-check the fine print because there were protections for everybody. 26-year-olduding the can stay on their parent's plan pre-existing conditions. host: got you elizabeth, davis but the house is about to go in. jump