what are we going to do that? we need to turn despair into dignity. it gets me up in the morning. wrote about the opioid crisis because everywhere i went in the 2016 campaign, democrat or republican allies -- rallies, people did not talk about it. they saw terry in wrote about td crisis because everywhere i part immunities. it is ripping families and communities apart. there was tremendous frustration with both parties, all candidates, that they might pay lip service, trends -- clinton and trump did, but i have hardly hurt anyone in washington talking about this in recent months. why do politicians avoided? -- avoid it? >> it is unclear what to do. announcer 1: "washington journal" continues.

host: james comey will testify publicly before the senate intelligence committee. that is if the trump administration lets him. .rump trying to block testimony a white house spokeswoman said the administration is reviewing whether they will use executive privilege to stop mr. comey from testifying. kellyanne conway asked about the claims on abc. the president will make that decision. shield theight to president have long figure in relations between the white house. they have been invoked by residents of both parties including richard nixon, and barack obama. this him fewer options to limit his actions and not order the request. go to the phones. a few more headlines in a bit.

eddie calling from massachusetts. good morning. the welfare against state. it is what i call couch potatoes sipping beer on sofas. in 1960, some of the worst ghettos, where the children were 20%. by the year 2000, new orleans, out of wedlock children, 85%. that is what a welfare state does. they don't find ways to collect many -- money. thank you. from clermont, florida. caller: i want to talk about the automation problem. you have autonomous cars coming in 15 years. you will have autonomous factories, and jobs will not be available.

so people will not have the income to buy. you will have some kind of a system where people who don't work will need to have an income to purchase things. this is where the minimum income ideae universal income comes from. host: let's go to kay. she is independent from missouri. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am referring to some of the conversations with catherine mangu-ward. there are coming from the middle three country, there are things that poor people need that they do not have or that have been allowed to languish in our society for reserves as

luxuries. and they are all self-perpetuating industries. education,g about universal education, universal massh care, universal public transportation which was also -- would also help climate control in all kinds of ways. these are some of this is very severely lacking for poor people, especially in the middle and rural areas of this country. and i think the proper couldment in these areas

solve a lot of our economic problems. one, another thing we need is land reform. there is way too much land in the hands of way too few people. i could go on and on. i will let it go at that. thank you. host: interesting insight. but go to north carolina, jim on the independent line. caller: good morning, thank you. i would like to say the segment you had with a young lady was very well done. i liked her. and the discussion. but that is not why i called. i called about the enterprise debate or discussion. i was on disability from

medications. i hate to say this because i ,ove the health care industry but the doctors that treated me, and they were close watching. everyone was close with medications. lot.s regulated a then i see all this happening. i don't see where it is coming from. i don't think it is coming from doctors he could they regulate its very closely. -- because they regulate it very closely. this opioid stuff, they are including heroin, i know that. so they need to separate prescription problems from the counterfeit medications we receive. host: what is the situation in wentzville? caller: the western part of the

state. we are 40 minutes west of asheville, deep in the mountains , which is nice and cool. host: i have been there, it is beautiful. caller: it is amazing. unless you have allergies. there is pollen flying everywhere. it is beautiful here, you are right. i'm fortunate and blessed. appreciate your program. people here, you don't hear them talking about it very much. , but i think know it is a government problem. i don't think it is distribution of medications from doctors. there is some that do things underhandedly. there are in every business. host: let's go to julio calling from new mexico. he is a republican.

caller: good morning. i want to make a few comments on the climate change discussion. first of all, there is a situation many people have not paid attention to that was in the news, and that is the destruction of the rain forest .cross the equatorial belt couple of years ago, there was a brief discussion in scientific america which they pointed it the amount of co2 in the of theere as a result loss of the rain forest was greater than the contribution of all the transportation vehicles in the world during that time. plus overpopulation makes a huge impact on how the

atmosphere either consumes, sucks up the co2 or does not. and one further comment about skeptic.m a climate i am a phd in physics, and i'm aware of the complexity and great value computer models have , but there are serious flaws in the computer models that have been used to predict the climate years fromh 50, 70 now. all they have to do is make a tiny error which will emit things like the effects of clouds that are misunderstood or the ocean currents and the great upwelling's that take place in the reasons el niño exists in other aspects of geology. those are not even understood and not incorporated into the climate models.

to predict a 10th of a degree hundred years from now or 80 years from now is challenging and prosperous errors. -- fraught with errors. i would like to see the survey scientists7% of support the fact we are jim and we are the one interview to into , and100% -- we are doomed we are the one contributing to this 100%. host: now to california. caller: the guy talking about contributing, we in california know that our cars cause smog. get cars specially ordered. we need to get smog stuff.

i'm 57. i went to grade school. there was asbestos within walking distance. 23 tod when i was escondido and they did not have buses for kids to go to school, but we still did. crisis, gas overheating, while the smog and self -- stuff, why does california have efficient smog buses? that would help with traffic, the smog footprint, carbon footprint or whatever, you know? host: the story from the new ,ork times, which goes to further into the newspaper. the trump think climate change

is a hoax? his aides are unable to say. believesffirm he still climate change to be fake, they would expose him to more criticism at home and abroad in public in the lives of the advisors that accept this of -- consensus. if he changed his mind, they would have to explain the flip-flop while facing criticism. and moreover, they were reminded about statements that the actions have only been contradicted within days or hours. .r. trump fired james comey trying to give an escalation, it unraveled quickly. back to the phones, we have mike from virginia. the democrat. trying to givecaller: how is it the comments on automation what

your previous guest talked about , it always chips away at jobs but it also creates new jobs. i think it is different. you have a tractor and it takes away jobs in the field. if you have something that learns and does that without needing outside input, it is only limited by computing power, is different from a tractor that is much more efficient than working in the field, but i cannot make it cannot learn to do new things. a.i. can learn from itself. there are so many things it can do that people don't understand. different,hing very we have to think about it different from automation in previous generations.

host: let's take a quick moment for programming. join us this weekend when cities tour taking "american history tv to eugene, oregon. the bookeature all of programming in one 90 minute blog. we will -- be at the university of oregon to learn about one of their alumni, and author. >> this is the manuscript for one flew over the cuckoo's nest. you can see an editorial and changes to the manuscript. after the book was published, a psychiatrist named louis barlett read the book, and he sent him a fan letter. correspondence about mental institutions, psychiatry and those types of details.

he wanted to know how the andent's experience electroshock therapy because he wanted representation right in the book. he is calling dr. barlett, whong he had a friend received electroshock therapy treatment. he actually experienced it. he said it was terrifying and horrible. he was able to portray that well in his book. noon onat is today at "book tv," the c-span cities tour. let's go to san antonio on the republican line with stephen. enjoy: i want to say i your show. i have a quick comment regarding universal income. one thing i have not quite never understood why everybody advocates for this, in the back of my mind, there are native

americans who received government assistance, and it has not helped them that much. when people are looking for an example, that is not an example. if you have been to a native american reservation, they do have a lot of problems. the money does not help much. think it would help our greater society, so that is one comment. host: thank you for contributing. ,ebbie from punta gorda florida. she is on the democrat line. caller: nice to talk to you. i was wondering, could we create jobs by helping the middle class? the middle class has some jobs that don't assist or help out. i can't your you, i'm sorry. host: keep going. caller: i was wondering if i

could help them out with menial jobs and attend the family, they could do better at middle-class jobs. up thet have to step income. we have to step forward and help out middle-class people to do right and create other future citizens and help themselves. host: that is debbie calling from florida. as i mentioned, james comey set to testify thursday, june 8 senate intelligence committee. they are looking at the collection and potential ties between the russian government and trump campaign. they say he will testify in open session followed by a closed session. c-span3 will have live coverage starting at 10:00 eastern. you can find it on c-span.org and listen live on the radio app . that will do it for today's program. thank you for making "washington

journal" a part of your day. see you tomorrow. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> coming up 01:05 p.m. eastern, the 2017 student cam tom price videos, featuring topics like opioids and cyber security. which of the top 21 videos from high schools and middle schools across the country, and then get your reaction with phone calls and videos. p.m. eastern on c-span. herberty on "q&a," hoover and secretary of commerce and those rules 90 years ago

still govern the way we actually allowed resources to be used in our economy today. >> clemson university professor and former chief economist at the fcc thomas hayes led talks about his book the political spectrum, which looks at the history and communications policy. >> while we went into this political system for allocating spectrum rights, within a couple of years, regulators at the commission are renewing licenses, but very carefully noting that propaganda stations will not be allowed. in fact from early on, 1929, you had left wing stations, if i can use that political term, owned chicago, thein the socialists who bought a station near new york city.

they wanted for political purposes and free speech, they wanted to espouse their opinions. these were immediately dubbed propaganda stations by the regulators, so when they were renewed, they were told to very careful about exposing their opinions. it got eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> next on c-span, this year's commencement addresses from colleges and universities around the country. we hear from hillary clinton, president trump, senator bernie sanders, congresswoman mia love, former acting attorney general's delegates, ceo meg whitman, and the director of the national institutes of health, francis collins. we start with hillary clinton, deliver the commencement address several modern, wellesley college, where she was the first student commencement speaker in 1969. [applause]