leadership. interesting that the reatest american president, abraham lincoln is bracketed by least successful american president. >> this holiday weekend, on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. taking calls from our viewers now about the recent military actions by the trump administration or whatever else is on your mind. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. active andt line for retired members of the military 202-748-8003, for you. on the owie , maryland, independent line. hi, gary. caller: hi, good morning. there is, shi know this, but just a question. for this in ocol

terms of striking at another country? it need to go through ongress or any other sort of regulation? i am noticing that it looks like doing this at will. i mean, wouldn't it take a ittle more time to get the approval to strike at another country? that something you would like to see? congress went to the previous went to congress before conducting a military trike in syria, would you like to see the trump administration go to congress before carrying action?tary caller: i mean, it is what they have to get things approved, why not. you can't do whatever you think do, according to your head. according to your -- how you are feeling about the matter.

should go through acts before you just strike at another country. are people very well experienced in this matter. that regulate e things and have been for years would trust them a lot more than i would trust someone doing it and en they are just head strong about these matters. a strong urge el that citizens should act upon that these and things are done. host: okay. john is calling from pennsylvania on the democratic line. john?is on your mind, caller: am i now? host: yes. host: let's take a look at other headlines, north korean fficials are warning of

preempative strike of their own. he hill reports top korean official is threatening the if his v e strike nation believes america is taking reckless military action. minister hong song real press that ociated president trump's tweets are art of a vicious cycle of escalated tension in the region, adding north korea will continue more nuclear warheads and improve on the country nuclear program. continues to publicly weigh options to contain the country and nuclear hahn said north korea would not simply stand by if hey believe trump will follow through on his threats. powerful nuclear deterrent is in our hands. is in the wake of president rump saying that he would

respond to north korea if they testing, which is expected to happen this weekend. mericopa, ng from arizona, on the republican side. hi, tony. the military 29 -- tested lso was that bomb in arizona at one time and i seen the area where they it.ted that bomb that he dropped is simulating nuclear weapon tochlt me, that is a war crime. trump cerned that donald is abusing his power as president. powers and he's rachetting up tension and this into a very serious situation. ongress needs to put some controls on this individual. he has no prior government experience, never been in the military. he seems to be acting as if he a reality show.

host: okay. elmontes calling in from , california, on the democratic line. david?s on your mind, caller: i'm concerned about the numbers of people killed in the rea, just because they kept talking about bombing in the west, there are always area, we may the end up increasing the number of people that want to be in isis. for the previous comment made no t president trump has previous government experience, look at the mess we're in now ith all these experienced government officials, i'm afraid we are headed for another vietnam. thank you. host: okay, other headlines today. apan is warning that there might be possible missile korea, the hill reports japanese prime minister korea could be missile f firing a

carrying gas at japan, according to reports, there is possibility korea is already capable of delivering warhead containing the gas. the warning comes amid heightening tensions between the u.s. and north korea. u.s. deployed navy strike group the west pacific near cot concerns grow, as over the country's weapons program. richard from gulf port, member ofi, a retired the armed services. hat branch did you serve in, richard? caller: u.s. navy, submarines. ost: what is on your mind today? caller: y'all need to get off trump and let him do what he's president came in with experience except re-elected people. will learn what he's got to learn. the department of -- will help smart enough get to use the glow in the darks and

stop the crazy crap in the world. host: okay. we have elija, who is calling from chase city, virginia, on the independent line. hi, elijah. caller: hi, good morning. is on your mind today? bombs that america eeps going throughout the world, innocent people and i think that america should be themselves and need him t a leash on him, hold back, all this type of i think that america for theput him in check wrongdoing that he's doing to nations. eople always trying to uphold them after they drop a bomb, everybody get excited and they about this and that,

what we got to kill with, how we think that they need to cut it out. they are christian nation, they jesus. look at them. come back and see the kind of activity taking place throughout this government. host: okay, looking at some other headlines, some reaction lawmakers to c that missile strike in afghanistan. democratic orts warren is demanding explanation after that strike, says senator warren is challenging president trump on america's n to trop largest nonnuclear bomb during in afghanistan, questioning whether he has a strategy in the region. part the case with every f trump's foreign policy, we

to understand what is the strategy, warren told reporters saturday night after town hall eecht in massachusetts. we can't figure out what it means, it's sort of to understa hard to maketrategy, that a message, she says. tulsa, calling from oklahoma, on the republican line. hi, craig. toler: yes, pleasure to talk you. i'm watching what is happening and i would say that over the eight years, obama and his of, i es have been kind believe in peace, just like he id, he hasn't really been present and it's kind of given weth korea the feeling, yes, can fire missiles all over the place, toward japan and threaten our ally, japan, and china moved started area and building, you know, platforms on islands for womens. a lot of aggression and forward we can fire moving of people who not peaceful, that

has been going on over the last years. think what trump is do suggest what should have been done. he's saying, no, we're here, we're present and that bomb ago id in the area, years was think what trump is do sugt what should have been done. saying, somebody needs to do something about all those caves, there are terrorists being trained and all that, that was the perfect bomb to collapse the them, to stop them. that probably saved a lot of american lives. anything wrong or out of control about what the saying, somebody needs to going to allow that anymore, be active. our president is interested in presidents at all have to do, which is protect the terrorism.ople from

host: okay, gregory, retired of the military. what branch, gregory? the army.served in host: what is on your mind today? caller: i just wanted to talk choice.rst ammunition so we've dropped a bomb on a network and in terms of munitions that was appropriate use for the purpose you want to achieve. little collateral damage to civilians in the area, because many, but it very was the rice choice for that particular environment. talk about want to authorization for the use of military force. so we got the president who can in his role as commander-in-chief, take actions circumstances, if something occurs in the world, he can take an action on behalf

the american people to make sure that we're addressing a particular issue, but it is the responsibility of congress to weigh in to make sure that we're doing it in a way, that reflects the will of the people. i think in this particular case, taken a pass on their responsibility for many, many years. talk about want to the calculus of war. is contingent upon your view of the appropriateness of the weapon and in world war ii, we dropped a nuclear bomb on opposed to ought as taking a lot of personnel and warships and going to the home and that would be the best way to address the end authorization for the use of th. we his particular method, don't have an end state in mind with the goal we can achieve and is part of the discussion that should be occurring veryday because as we're looking at firing missiles into syria because of use of chemical the end of the day,

if we can't solve that problem, that e need not take action. thank you. host: okay. ou calling in from pennsylvania, on the democratic line, hi, lou. hello. i think that we need to get the russianation of trump's connections moving very, very rapidly. motives know what his are. e could be escalating military adventures in order to distract from those investigations. motives made his clear. we've never seen his taxes. we know that he has several were deeply involved money ssia, all kinds of flowing from russia, perhaps he himself did. maybe these military efforts are ppropriate, but he could also just be trying to destabilize things and sort of wag the dog from the t

investigations. host: okay. the other headlines today, hill reports that the feds have funding for about seven miles of president trump's proposed border wall. it says the trump administration currently has funding to build seven miles of proposed wall border, e u.s. mexico according to a new report, u.s. costom and border protection has million for the structure, reported on thursday. agency's topid the contracting official revealed the amount during a conference san antonio this week. that is only a drop in the border the u.s. mexico runs for 2000 miles, trump's proposal for a wall covered a is estimated to cost $20 pillion. waxahachie, from florida. hi, dan. caller: good morning. comments.ouple of

first of all, i think that trump ade the campaign when he was campaigning, beat out 17 other republicans to win the believe he is president and that's the end of that. but he said something during his he didn't believe in killing our enemies what he doing, he may have took action and didn't advise congress. message ift and sent a to the world that our president and our country has changed. we're going back from talking things to death to actually action.an it is now clear message to the world, we have a stronger is willing to be a ruler. see them.e laws as we second of all, i think one thing as far as the process of going to congress, i agree they need to go to action is further taken, but i do believe that rubio is right when he said we 500 plus e

commander-in-chiefs through congress and the senate, we only and we should support him. i believe that. of the powers to the nation that the message has been sent. the united states wanted a change. we might not like all the ornges he's going to produce we're going to have, but we are seeing change and i can applaud for that.ent thank you. host: okay. james is calling in from collins, pi, mississippi, on the independent line. hat is on your mind today, james? caller: good morning, happy easter to d happy everybody. calling in reference to the i heard thatut how they were saying make this ountry great again and america's first. okay, i would hope on your you would also have people that calling in, ask them country become

great or what was the reasoning of the greatness, because if you they leave astory, lot of it out. but, you know, the native were over here and by "the misused government," or whatever you want to call it, the treaties. americans were brought over here in slavery, quote, human beings. people that stood fought for sted and the rights of this country. in after ment came african americans, white people, native americans, protest, even had to protest about their rights. me what dy please tell year that this country became not the ause this is way america should be looking at dominant party a

because when you have not orrected your own mistakes or failures, you know, that generational curse is still on this country. i don't care who is president, every time somebody say this we're going tot, bring it back, you insinuating that all these other countries here, dictators and, you know, they persecute people, but great, tell me martin luther king, jr., president kennedy's and ohnson signing actions taking action because the american people stood up, not the government, not the politicians, they the one that marched and protest, even segregation integration was forced on people of this country. to allow white people them to go into schools and things like that. hold you so to long. thank you. host: other headlines today, the ecret service has fired two

officers over fence jumping incident at the white house. the secret service has fired two divisions, two officers from the uniform division on duty when the jumped the white house fence last month and 17 ed the grounds for minutes. an agency official confirmed this on thursday, the officers were not identified, have been stationed near the treasury and the east executive avenue close to where of california first the white house grounds shortly before midnight on march 10. resident trump was home at the time in the executive residence. david is calling in from sweetwater, texas, on the republican line. hi, david. hello.: i was just wanting to make a couple comments on the strike

syria and the bombs of afghanistan and moving korea.ers to north trump is doing the right thing. if we wanted to just start a war ith the sauds and russian to detract investigation into the campaign, we would have done it. intelligence al agency has a well thought-out out syria, regime of assad, efficiently, quickly.ly and we let them know we are not afraid to act, we don't want to we will if you tonight calm it down. we want to focus on isis and the is what we did, we did ight thing, prevented war with russia in the future. maybe. we may go to war with them anyway, but if we let things keep going the way they are, we on the to war and be losing end because we will let everybody build up power and get stronger and we're going to sit back and watch them war. and then go to

so we're sending destroyers to orth korea right now, letting china know, look, reel your kid in. playing with you. we're not obama. we will strike you. and we're play withing kid china right now because we don't want to get because we need china to reel in north korea. we bombed afghanistan, not to show force or anything, ecause they have a complex section of tunnels that they are to other opium countrys and importing guns and raining terrorists activities, planning strategies to kill americans in afghanistan and we we didn't ht thing, put more troops on the ground, we didn't attack afghanistan, war like we a big could have like bush did with iraq, we learned our lesson. a major strategic strike lives and itlot of

will save lives in the future. if we sit down and let the and get build arsenal bigger and stronger and all the terrorists spread out more and pread out more and get stronger, they are attacking through cyber space in our own and we're going to sit back and watch them do it. host: okay. headlines in ex-pentagon chief is saying this is not military, a report in the hill this morning. serves leon ponetta, who as both secretary of defense and ia director in the obama administration, criticized president trump on thursday for militaryg the american as "his," when discussing the bombing in afghanistan. knows exactly what i pened, so what i do, authorize my military, trump said hours earlier when asked if e personally authorized the strike, which reportedly killed -- 36 isis militants.

the military belongs to the country, our defense system elongs to the country and not the president's military, it is the military of the united and he has erica responsibility as commander-in-chief to make to our s in regard military, panetta said on but if you d ball," ask the then and women in uniform, who are they are think their o, i answer would be responsible to the united states of america. neither trump nor the white directly confirmed whether trump had authorized the strike itself. john from rochester, michigan, on the democratic line. hi, john. caller: good morning. just can't believe how many armongers are calling in and secondly, i don't know where these people get their information. things just saying crazy about how -- about korea and

so many an and uninformed people shooting their mouth off. unbelievable. you. host: stephanie from east hampton, connecticut, on the line.endent hi, stephanie. caller: hi. good morning. time, you know, when i an't understand neither of the presidents, obama or bush, this big r to use bomb. -- this ist they are very detrimental to a bomb. thought we were more of a emocratic country, we are supposed to talk to congress. havingdid anything about

a discussion about how you are choosing what weapons or what are going to -- destroy your e to something. just all very upsetting to me. i can't understand why they a bomb like that nd, you know, to call it a mother, mothers don't -- i'm sure, their name on a bomb. god in u know, we need our lives more and i really think that. it seems we lost her. darren calling from seaside, military.tired what branch were you in? caller: navy. mind what is on your today? too much, ma'am,

ust about too much, just about -- -- and about mark one hello, you know. he followed , but eight,t 3000 yards, mock and boy, he was going about mock 50,000, i couldn't catch up to him. host: okay. calling in from herald gate, tennessee. couple seconds left,

what is on your mind? are you there? all right, we're going to try to toledo, washington, just a few seconds before the house ga vels in, something you quickly? ,aller: military, over 30 years different admirals and bunch of you.oyers and what have i -- host: go ahead, al. caller: i want to say one thing about the military. to purpose of it is not fight wars, it is to be ready to don't have to, in other words, to keep the peace going. war, you know,or let's go out and kill them and all that stuff, that's not what all about. if we go ahead and project our and we prevent wars from happening, that is a benefit to world.ire

host: okay, al, that will have to be the last word today, the is about to gavel in. c-span bringing live coverage on that on c-span. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the u ted states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of epresentatives.] the speaker: the house -- the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. april 14, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable fred upton to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, rev rnd gene hemrick from st. joseph's catholic church here in washington, d.c.

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