find out more about it online. on june day, historian &a, historian david mccullough. >> joe mccarthy, a dozen books about him. there is no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to him first, margaret smith. >> do you remember how you went about caring for that speech? worked on i ever anything i have ever delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book on the selection of speech is going back to 1989 tonight. "washington journal" continues. host: as congress returns, what

can we expect this week? we want to get to your calls and comments. you can send us a tweet. usa today is writing about it with developments over the weekend. congress returns with just five days left to keep the government from shutting down. president trump is adding to the pressure by demanding money for southwest border wall, a controversial program. stopgaps passed a spending bill back in december, which funds agencies through midnight friday. agencies are working on a bipartisan compromise to keep the money flowing through the end of the fiscal year, september 30. they may pass the short-term measure to keep the government funded for a few days to give themselves more time to negotiate. we heard from house speaker paul ryan in reports that congress

will focus this week on just that and not the health care bill. what do you think about this? line fromblican illinois. good morning. caller: good morning. i think the cr resolution has to be passed. i think congress has to find a way to impeach trump because of his russian connections. i would like to comment on the previous issue. i was going to ask them who designed secretary clinton's yard signs? she demeaned donald trump by using his first name in the debate. she should have used h. clinton in her yard signs. a lot of people looked for hillary to vote for as stupid as they are. i think donald trump is a terrible danger to this country.

host: thank you for the call. cnn reporting on a professor whose full name has not been released, the third american being detained in north korea. he was trying to leave the country, heading to south korea. ken is joining us from michigan. good morning. caller: thank you for having me. deal, --orth korean said that donald trump has to offer in all the branch -- all branch to thelive leader over there. wise to listenbe to paul ryan and forget about obama care. , he is goingform

to have to release his tax returns. disingenuous.s electionnd before the i went to a barn party, and on the way home i was surprised. every yard sign was donald trump. that stuck with me. i did not see one hillary sign. there may have been. it seemed like every sign through the rural country was donald trump. that stayed with me. host: thank you for the call. another viewer saying in regards to congress, the clowns return. send us a tweet. making his first public appearance and stepping down as 44th president, reporting on

barack obama returning home to chicago to talk to the university of chicago tomorrow. he will be talking to young people about organizing. he will be in boston to receive the profile in courage award. we will cover that area frank from ohio, independent line. good morning. caller: i am calling about your last segment. it very difficult -- well, the reason i voted for trump was i would not vote for hillary or bush. revolutionary war to get away from royalty. if hillary won she would have more than likely won for eight years.

that would mean i would have lived under a clinton or bush for almost a third of my life. to me that is crazy. we need new blood. without 320 million people in this country, and you are telling me only two families can run our government. host: thank you for the call. newsday is reporting on the return of congress. returning with a top priority, avoiding a government shutdown. the senate comes back tomorrow. the house on tuesday. that gives lawmakers just four days to close a deal and approve a $1 trillion plus spending bill. the key sticking point has emerged over top priorities for each side. the president's demand for money on construction of that southern border wall, and democrats demanding congress must keep the affordable care act of flow. --

afloat. bill o'reilly is going back on air with a new podcast returning tomorrow evening at 7:00 p.m. eastern time, and this is after getting fired by fox news channel with the reported $25 million a out following allegations of sexual harassment. mike from maryland. democrats line. what are your thoughts? caller: good morning. that is north dakota. host: good morning. north dakota. caller: we watched wall street get fatter and fatter. in the recession of 2008 until present, we had a 9000 point gain in the stock market before donald trump went into office. the only thing we had was minimum wage jobs. when was it going to get to the point when the actual people in this country -- the question is

high,y health care is so but why we cannot afford health care. the reason why is our wages have been stagnant for 30 years. when is congress going to come up -- get a backbone and start telling these people that wall street is flush with cash, and we have taken it in the shorts just a little too long. have a good day. host: thanks for the call. let's go to another mike in kentucky. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. in regards to congress shutting down the government, that is ridiculous. what we can do is go back to congress, vote for the wall, pay for the wall. we can put toll roads in the united states, $35

getll, and that is how you mexicans to pay for. -- for it. host: thank you. giving the president a 53% disapproval. the base maine's loyal to the president. he is the least popular president in modern times. the story is available online. daniel is next from florida. good morning. caller: good morning. it has been a long time. the last time i was able to reach c-span, the lady was collins.ing judy anyways, that has been some time ago. we miss her. host: she is on the air.

she will be on the air this week. we will be glad to have her. caller: whatever the reason, because i don't watch on a daily basis, pertaining to the continuing resolution, and i suggested this to senator nelson years and years ago when the $14onal debt was a paltry trillion, and at the time obama still had six years ago because we knew he would be reelected. i said if you are going to amp up the debt put on $1 trillion a year until the end of his term. the same thing in this instance. $4 trillion, add it to the debt. there's a lot of fear about what happens when the debt crashes? it is not going to happen. it has not happened yet. host: a loyal viewer in alabama

responding to the bill o'reilly story. bill o'reilly cannot go peacefully into the good night, his ego is too large for that. as the president approaches the 100 day mark, he will be holding a rally in pennsylvania this saturday. that is the same evening as the white house correspondents dinner, which we will also cover. at franklin d roosevelt, who has become the modern day measuring stick. the first 100 days devoted to the starting of the wheels of the new deal. since then, the idea of the first 100 days has taken a life of its own. some try to gauge the success or failure of an administration on the actions conducted the first few months, while others view it as a chance for leaders to set the tone for the rest of their presidency. the first three months say little about a new president's

achievements or his agenda. it is too short a time to achieve something lasting and meaningful. the first 100say days is a useless benchmark. michael from ohio. you are next. welcome to the program. caller: good morning. independent need an ethics department. we never hear anything out of them. when we do, it is usually on the weekend. if every news reporter did their job, 90% of these people would be in jail or prison. trump is in office now. he is not part of the old click that took us decades to get where we are. they are trying to bring us down to a third world country. we the people have been off-track. we need to get rid of the old

people, the old guard, congress and representatives. host: thank you for the call. karen is next. good morning. caller: i am in agreement with ohio. i can assure you. this is not happen even in the even in theappened last eight years with obama. 1965s been going on since with the immigration bill. the flooding of the market, the workplace with illegals and the disregard for law in this nation is an outrage. host: one of the issues congress will be dealing with potentially this week is funding for the wall the president has promised. do you think there is a need for a wall? hello? she hung up. let's turn our attention to the voting returns coming in in fran

ce. it is election day. it appears as if there will be a runoff in two weeks. the top two contenders will face each other. early voting is going on. marine le pen is expected to be one of the top two contenders in the race for the president of france. samantha, go ahead. caller: good morning. how are you? host: we are fine, thank you. caller: i want to thank you for taking my call. on congress, i hear a lot of the republicans saying -- during the election. they elected mr. trump as president. we did not do it as an overwhelming majority. we are still people in this nation that don't agree with the views. i think the proper diplomatic solution is to realize that and

negotiate within those terms. majority votes republicans and they went, that is great, but we still live with each other in this nation. let's figure out how to do that and create laws that work for both of us. pointed out all the flaws during the election, but they have not pointed out solutions. solutions should be easy to come by they are greatest minds in our nation. i don't understand why they cannot come together and solve these problems. host: thank you. according to the l.a. times, the french vote could be the end of europe. from the rising and hidden toll of the airstrikes in syria where tens of thousands have died. the civil war now in its sixth year. a focus on global warming and the environment on this earth

day weekend, which was yesterday. does climate change mean big storms? the issue in texas in particular with tornadoes and hurricanes in the region. randy is joining us from tulsa, oklahoma. health care, taxes, and funding the government this week. good morning. caller: i think the politicians need to stop thinking about themselves and start thinking about the country. as far as the border wall goes, they don't need a wall. they are coming on these buses every day. i see these buses from mexico. they empty them and go back and get more. it is sad. we are doomed to be a third world country if this continues. they have to think about us and group in theerest country.

thank you. host: thank you. let's go to tim, arkansas. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. you mentioned roosevelt. since then, we have had 80 years of socialist entitlement programs. when johnson increased medicare and put that on labor, you got a war between labor and capital because all those entitlements are on the back of labor and not capital. we are not really $20 trillion in debt, more like $150 trillion of unfunded liabilities because of all of these. they need to get to work and get rid of obamacare entirely. the government cannot afford to pay for the medical system where the ama keeps the number of doctors down so doctors can make more money.

there are too many variables. they need to get out of it and free up -- stop interfering with lawful insurance. if people could just buy remarketing insurance, the insurance company would sell them what they wanted, and the market would eventually get down to a reasonable and real number rather than one that has been inflated by federal dollars blowing it up. host: thank you for the call. another tweet, times change means whatever you want -- climate change means whatever you want. caller: good morning. government the should be investigated on where all this money is going with the trump tower. all the different security folks that have to be guarded, regarding the first lady and

mar-a-lago. i think this is unprecedented, the amount of money we are spending. another thing that is going to be coming out of the taxpayer's pockets is health care. my brother is an older person , ands in assisted living his health care will be completely cut if this new bill is passed. his medication that has to be distributed three times a day for his heart, if he is denied that, he is not going to be around anymore. that really concerns me. we are going to be footing the bill for a large part of this new health care bill that is being presented. this is a very rural state. many of the hospitals are rural. they're going to be shutting down because of this new health care. people need to read the plan in its entirety.

they need to find out what is going on. it is very important. it is going to affect negatively over 24 million people. you. i'm going to stop we are short on time. health care is one of the issues we will focus on tomorrow morning as congress comes back to work. "washington journal" gets started every morning at 7:00 a.m. we will break it all down, what to expect on a number of different fronts. also, our focus on public service loan forgiveness programs with marketwatch reporter jillian berman. that is here live on c-span television and on c-span radio. the senate will be back this week on c-span two. newsmakers is next. thank you for joining us. hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. have a great week ahead. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its

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