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continues. host: again, open phones for the remainder of our time, 20 minutes or so. host: politico gave us an update on the health condition of former president george h.w. bush. hasn't hospitalized in houston with a mild case of pneumonia. he was admitted to the houston methodist hospital last friday and according to a statement from his office it was to treat a significant cough that kept him from getting proper rest. the ammonia has since been treated and resolved and the former president reportedly remains hospitalized while he regains his strength and is in very good spirits. our first call in this open phones is from jim, michigan, independent line. good morning, jim. caller: jim from hawaii,

actually. host: i'm sorry, go ahead. caller: that's all right. i was listening to kudlow. i have watched him for most of my life. you know, he words it differently every time he comes on, but he's basically just spouting off trickle-down economics, he can cut it and slice it anyway that he wants, it's not going to work, trickle-down is definitely not a working option for us. what we need to do is get the money into the hands of the people that would actually spend it, you know? the working class. the best way to do that is to get a good rate, you know? maybe get a raise across the board to $15 per hour. host: what convinces you that that would make a difference? caller: well, the people on the lower end of the food chain are the people that actually need

it, need the money the most. when you need money, you don't just stuff it under a mattress, you spend it. spending money creates economy. it's just super simple. people that have money, currently, loads of it, bucket loads of it, they are just sitting on that money. it's not really doing anything. they aren't pumping it back into the economy. so, the economy drags and it just doesn't work. this is as old as i am old. i'm 54, almost 55. it doesn't work. host: ok. oakland, california, dimitri. caller: my question is really to congress. i want to know, when is congress tong to honor their promise , at thathe income tax

time, to sponsor the wars. they were supposed to rescind that after the war was over. we are still paying income tax. i want to know why. ok. "the hill" reporting this morning about the political activities of president trump, saying that his inaugural raised a record-breaking 1.7 million dollars to pay for the rest, double the previous record set in 2009 by the obama administration. the inaugural committee said they would donate the leftover funds to charity but conceded they have not selected which organizations the money would go to. it's not clear how much money they have left. the federal commission report detailing the fundraiser was not immediately available and the inauguration was expected to cost as much as 200 million with costs split between the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies and federal

and local government. morgan is next. morgan is in nashville, tennessee, independent line. just curious as to the kudlow take on actually how it is that the 1990's were such a boom. and the 80's. i believe it had to do with the technology boom. that has kind of stabilized. that kind of growth is going to be seen. has beenax base because wescinded are shrinking. we don't have the tax based at least a have. and also, the person that talked about the corporate tax base and what it actually is used for? get a grip, guys.

we are a mercenary military, used for all of the corporate welfare. we are the police of the world. that's exactly where the money is going. what is our budget? most of it goes to the pentagon, defense. everything else is crumbs for the people. we had a military coup. when i see trump say that the has a blank check to do anything they want under his authorization? know, we had better pay attention here. have lost our country. we have lost it. "the washington times" this morning, highlighting an instance between u.s. and russian jets, air bombers capable of carrying nuclear

weapons, apparently unarmed, veered than 100 miles of kodiak island. for then flew beside roughly 12 minutes before the bombers turned back towards russia and according to officials there was no radio contact between the pilots in the cruise aboard the bombers, as the american pilots were deployed only to get visual confirmation of the russian warplanes. north american air defense spokeswoman said that at no time did the russian aircraft penetrated 200 local mile defense zone separating america ,nd the international airspace but she would not comment on whether they intentionally attempted to enter u.s. airspace or drifted off course, but said it was far from the first time they had entered the defense zone near alaska. you go to "the wall street journal" this morning, and fe or by saudi arabia saying that a saudi led force took shape and

found a focus, protecting member nations against the threat from the islamic state. the coalition, sometimes referred to as the muslim nato, expected to have its first substantial meeting over the next few months when defense ministers will gather to agree on its mission. the new coalition is concerned over where the middle east and african militants on the african states could lodge themselves in ," setting up ae mobile military force to aid caller: that was the statement.

which our president ran on. however, people, you notice that they have not talked about that big trade abatement that they tried to push through under obama, under bush, now under trump. in several different ways. they are involved in participating in that trade agreement. now they don't talk about it. host: do you mean a transpacific partnership? caller: yes, sir. the taxes that they are talking about, ok, they go to a country, they tear it down, they rebuild it. countrieshose rebuilding and how are they rebuilding? from our country they rebuild, they don't pay taxes on it. how are those jobs coming back to our country?

the companies are not coming back. sir, for you in for c-span -- i love the program, but you guys are the association that is taking over our country. you read to us out of the newspaper, therefore turning the stories that you want us to pay attention to. people take the newspaper. that's the same news on corporate tv. please go back to the way you used to be and get people on the programs that give us facts, as opposed to the ones not giving facts, so that we have two sides to the story. i do appreciate the time. thank you. host: as far as the transpacific partnership is concerned, i will point you and others to a story by anna five field, a story about mike pence bus trip, saying that when he was asked about it he called it a thing of

the past and the vice president forging arospect of bilateral deal with japan, which president trump has increasingly accused of engaging in unfair trade practices, adding that it was set at nearly 60 mine billion dollars last year. a program about the north korean missile program, a long story this morning from "the new york times," hands of the u.s. leaving the missile program shaken, writing that when it went arrive sunday, blowing up seconds after liftoff, there was immediate suspicion that the united states program was to sabotage it and the odds seemed likely. 88% of the launches had self-destructed since the covert america program was accelerated three years ago, but even inside the cyber command and national security agency, where the operation is centered, it's nearly impossible to tell if

they were the victims of an approach to foil the missile strikes. this much is clear, experts, say, the existence of the american program and whatever it has contributed to the remarkable string of troubles of your to have shaken pyongyang and led to an internal spy hunt, as well as innovative ways to defeat a wide array of enemy cyber strikes. that long piece, again, in "the new york times" again this morning. this is kim, utah, republican mine. caller: good morning. larry kudlow is right on. cut regulations, cut corporate tax rates, unleash this great economy. host: how do you know it works? caller: we saw it worked, we have seen it work. let's have 20 years of prosperity again. 20 years of growth. i want to thank president trump

for putting america first. thank you, mr. president. up, chris, florida, independent line. caller: good morning, how are you? host: i'm well, thank you, how about yourself? well, thank you. i had a couple of comments, this is open phones. the first one is about illegals. many people call up and say this andthat about illegals these programs. i would like to correct them. i was a social worker most of my life. i worked in welfare reform. in fact, iran a pilot, i was the staff director for reform. [indiscernible] , if you are not a citizen or at least have a green card, you don't get anything from the government. and if you come here, you have

to be sponsored by a family member. being a train not on the taxpayers. ok? second point, i think that if melania believes she is too good to live in the white house, you know, every other first lady has lived in the white house. the trumps, if they can't abide to be there, then they need to pay for their resort, their transportation, all the extra secret service costing the taxpayers with that flying and the going to new york and florida all the time. i don't believe other presidents did this. a story this morning in "the hill," talking about recent comments from joni ernst about travel to mar-a-lago by the

president and mrs. trump, saying that she said yesterday that the frequent trips bothered not only her, but other members of the , saying "icaucus wish she would spend more time in washington, d.c., that is what we have the white house for." ohio, democrats mine, this is john, go ahead, you're on. caller: hi, good morning, thank you for c-span. i would like to warn everybody in this country to beware of ohio. ohio is out to get you. if you smoke medical marijuana here, they are out to get you.

if you happen to drive a car and you smoke medical marijuana, even the you haven't smoked it for eight hours before, they will still require you to go downtown and take a test and foundhey have finally marijuana in your system, they go ahead and take your license away and arrest you. that's what's going on now. citizenryaking, the here, we are scared. we're living in a police state. it's just unbelievable. if you want justice here, you had better have money. if not, you don't get any justice. beware, everybody, stay out of ohio. fox news reporting that president trump housewife in their young son will be moving to the white house this summer at the end of the school year according to a senior white house official. the senior trump transition timelinelked about the

for moving to trump tower from washington. he has been living at the white house while his wife and their 11-year-old son have stated new york city. a white house aide saying that and it goes on from there. you can find that at the fox news website. independent line, new jersey. my name is david baron, this is directed to larry kudlow. he was talking about tax reform and the advantages of less corporate taxes. i wanted to point out -- point out to larry that tax legislation exists in the house ways and means committee and was cosponsored by more senators and congressmen than any other tax reform legislation in the country. it does exactly what perry said. it in a much more efficient and better manner.

this past saturday at trump tower, there were rallies about the fair tax legislation and across the nation there were rallies about the fair tax legislation. i would like to hear larry kudlow talk about fairfax -- fair tax legislation. "the the front page of financial times" taking a look at this snap election from theresa may, saying that she sees the initiative yesterday calling for the election on june 8 that she sought a direct mandate for a plan to deliver a smooth exit from the eu, polls depicting heavy defeat that has been in disarray under the ,eadership of jeremy corbyn saying that last month she ruled out an early election, saying it , stunningelf-serving colleagues by announcing from downing street yesterday that she had changed her mind and house of commons will vote today

to trigger an election not originally scheduled until 2020. next we will hear from peter. he is an illinois, democrats mine. >> am i on? >> yes, you are the last call. get a: we are trying to bill passed so that we can get a pension stuff, they are trying to take it away from us. and they shut me off, i will be god damed. host: you are still on, peter. caller: we are coming up to vote for it here at the end of this year, so we can have our pensions and our insurance. gotcha, gotcha. that's peter, in illinois, last call. brand-new edition of the program you're watching today comes to you at 7:00 tomorrow. stay tuned to c-span.org for the latest happening in politics and

we will see you tomorrow. thanks for watching. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> president trump found a republican vote leader in the georgia congressional race replaced tom price, who is now health and human services secretary. tweeted out news of the call and thank the president. president trump tweeted this. democrat john ossof got just under 50% of the vote, requiring a run off of the top two candidates. houston regret leader nancy pelosi saying that he has a commanding first-place