not at all. all his life he had wanted to help poor people, particularly poor people of color. q&a.nday on >> "washington journal" continues. host: the headline across "the wall street journal" this morning, "gop prevails in georgia." karen handel, the republican there, defeating john awsat. also a special election race they won in south carolina. the president tweeting about both of those races today, weighing in with his thoughts. we want to hear your thoughts in the last 30 minutes of today's show. what does it say let the mood of the country? does it say anything about the 2018 election? what to do think of the race in georgia, which wound up being the most expensive house race in

history. when all is said and done, excess of $60 million was spent by both the campaigns and outside groups in that georgia six race. want to hear your thoughts this morning. int: rick is up first albany, new york. line for democrats, go ahead. caller: hey, how are you question mark host: doing well. caller: it was fairly predictable. was whoever got that $60 million, you know? the media? are you there? we've got you. the $60 million, go ahead. caller: my party, the democrats, made so much out of it. we lost so much out of it.

$30 million? $35 million? i don't know who else did, too. republicans had to counter with -- where does that money go? the output of the race was fairly predictable. i just wonder if we have all gone crazy and spend happy just sending money to the media and hoping for the best return. it's him was like rolling the dice. host: on that money question, here's that chart from "the wall street journal." steve cohen -- anotherff, chipping in $10 million from outside groups. karen handel, you can see the comparison between outside spending for her and her campaign. other candidates, this was the runoff that happened in georgia. this was spending for other candidates in the race. and the first vote in the

primary. we are asking what it means, your thoughts the day after that georgia race and the south carolina race. edward's in douglasville, georgia. go ahead. good morning. i just wanted to say that the democrat party is trying to play nice in the lion's den. jon ossoff -- he had a debate with handle where she stated that she is not for a working wage. he never took advantage of that. he tried to act like a nice guy. this throughout the democratic party. they want to play nice with republicans who are going cutthroat. isis.ompare him with they dogged him completely. i'm not in that district, but i was just watching some of the commercials and the advertisements. the democrats have got to play

rough in a rough environment. i am so sick of the nice guy democrats. they are never going to get in control. i don't care how much money they got. two headlines that you're talking about. one from the front page of "the washington post." paul kane with a call them above that, the headline " jon ossoff chose civil resistance and lost. do they need more warriors? wilmington, illinois. go ahead. caller: what a desperate party, to spend that kind of money. this shows you that the democrats are so desperate to win. it's sickening. i will never vote democrat again. and i voted democrat. never again, just from the way

they are so outrageously spending money. thank you. illinois. and more of your calls coming in. republicans -- we will get to those calls in just a second, but first we want to go to joe federman with the associated press, the israel and palestine territory bureau chief joining us on skype. thanks for being here. guest: hey. host: wanted to discuss jared kushner in his middle east trip. what is his schedule? why is he heading over there? thet: in addition to being son-in-law of the president, he's the middle east peace envoy. he's making a maiden voyage here. he came briefly when the president was in town. solo visit.first he's here to listen to both sides to see if he can find a formula to get he's talks back on track. just a few minutes ago he

reached prime minister bettman -- benjamin netanyahu's office in jerusalem. that's know how long going to go in late this evening he's going to be meeting with the palestinian president. mahmoud abbas. what sort of expectations are being set on this trip? is there a possible breakthrough in the works? guest: from what we are hearing in the background speaking to officials, they are expecting listening and learning right now. getting a process going in the coming months. outline for a an , has that changed at

all since trump took office guest: you have sent signals what they would like you decide to do. remember back in february, trump publicly asked the prime minister to show settlement restructuring, that's always been a big demand. the israelis are involved and are looking for ways to improve the palestinian economy, which is always in rough shape. they are looking for different incentives and boost the economy. accused the palestinians of broadcasting i think that the americans are going to push the palestinians on that one. that is also the issue

they have a welfare system in place within a payment the beenies of people who have arrested by israel, killed in fighting, or involved in fight -- violence against israelis. israel doesn't like that system and for years they have been calling to an end to these payments. as we said, jared kushner is in the region today, having these read -- these meetings. remind us what his relationships are with a key players. guest: that could make things interesting. one, it's always important for an envoy to be close to the president and you can't get much closer to the president and kushner. when they are's to him they know they are speaking to the white house, giving them instant credibility.

he has also held to meetings with roadsides in recent months in washington as well. by all accounts, both sides are very comfortable working with this white house and with kushner. that does give him some credibility with both sides, maybe to get something going. i think the bigger issue is down doesoad, no matter what he or how much they like him, he's still going to run into the same areas of disagreement that every other president deals with. and unless they have a magic formula he will just be dealing with those same problems again. theseif there is news on meetings, you can be sure that the associated press will be on it. appreciate your time joining us by skype today. guest: thank you. host: back to your calls. about 15 minutes before the house is scheduled to come in today. we have asked for your reaction to the special election win by republicans in georgia and south airliner tonight.

particularly in georgia, so much focus on that right -- that race. want to hear your thoughts. hosea and rogers, arkansas. go ahead. jose, in rogers, arkansas. caller: thank you for taking my call. this congressman from the , they got torty treading in waters like an idiot. he just lied. the most expensive congressional race in history georgia and he just said that without help, this guy got beat by 2%. we are not idiots, you know? we keep treating us with that kind of disrespect and we keep voting against them.

until they say hey, these people are not stupid. they always keep losing. they will keep losing. we deserve respect. you know? in the bible or something like that? i don't understand. they spend $50 million on that race. come on, we need to be treated with respect. that's my comment, thank you for c-span. combined spending of over $50 million when all is said and done and that georgia six race. the most expensive house race in history. here's a few of the headlines from local papers in the region. from the post out of south ."rolina, "republicans prevail the front page of the constitution, victorious in the sixth, you can see the picture there at her victory speech. the marietta daily journal, the sixth held is the headline

there. we are getting your reaction there this morning. here is the president's reaction from twitter last night, saying that democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with republicans on health care and tax cuts, security, obstruction doesn't work. that's the president from this morning, one of his tweets from just after 6:00 this morning. he was also tweeting about the race last night, congratulating the republicans who one. arnold in tennessee, line for democrats, go ahead. caller: good morning, how are you doing? have four very quick questions to ask you. the first, have you ever seen or calledf a documentary uncounted, the new math of american elections? if you want to know why the democrats keep losing, watch this documentary. "uncounted, the new math of

american elections." my second russian is, have you ever heard of a book by the woman -- my second question is, have you ever heard of a book called "love changes things, even in the world of politics." you can read the first few pages online. it deals with divine which happened in nashville, tennessee, right in the first or second page of her book. my third question is, i have written about -- written a book and i would like to make a statement about it. before i do, that man that you had on, that you just had on, talking about the palestinian problem and israel? ezekiel 33 inad the old testament, you will find god's position on what israel is doing to the palestinians.

to thee are sticking georgia south carolina special election race, a lot of people wanted to comment on that. is there anything you wanted to add on that? i have written a book that you can read online for free, no charge for it. the website is god's love, and statemente me 10 more -- and more seconds, what would it do to everyone's attitude about everything to see evidence of proof of god within the structure of the text of my book. that is arnold, with his thoughts. jackson, riverdale, republican, go ahead. caller: my comment would be just to follow the money. it's ridiculous, millions of dollars being spent on elections. as hard as anybody can, i have that there are groups out there getting the money out of politics.

for c-span to have those folks on and really try to find every dollar. where does it come from? who are the donors? where are the donors protected through some kind of supreme court interpretation of free speech? outfter that, let's find where all this money comes from and where it goes and whose pockets the money is lining. wesley, columbia, independent line. >> has occurred to me that perhaps people are replacing government with some sort of faith in a higher power? we are trying to rely too much on government to take care of every problem, including personal problems, that just doesn't work. thank you. int: david is a democrat flint, michigan. one of the headlines that we republicaners, the

win may dampen the hopes of democrats for 2018. what do you think? what do you think, david? i don't think that will dampen our hopes. i don't see what all the cheering is with republicans. i live in a democratic area. if a republican ransom -- against somebody in my district, genesee county and came close and still got it, that wouldn't be a big deal. they are southerners, they are republicans. they want to vote republican. that such a big celebration for the republicans to think they've done something. with this health care and all of this going on, i'm hoping the guy said, stop playing nice and rough like the nasty republicans have been for the last eight years. that's all i have to say. , paul kaneat topic

in his column for "the washington post" writes that jon whoff was someone "studiously avoided confronting president trump, trying to win over enough republican voters in the suburbs north of atlanta to flip a district that had been in gop hands for debts -- decades. the most passionate activists wanted a full frontal assault, angrily -- angrily denouncing party leaders were not aggressively supporting those candidates. more than 200 miles north of that district a dramatic underfunded democrat nearly pulled off an upset victory in the house seat that the democratic campaign committee largely ignored. they had hoped to find a potential new fat for defeating republicans with a message of peace and stability, calculating that the rage of the sanders voter would not an over centrists, the support that he needed to win the district. so, he he chose the high priest route instead of the fierce warrior.

civil disobedience rather than civil unrest -- unrest and he lost by an even wider margin than the forgotten parnell." that's what we are talking about this morning, what happens next? before the house comes in to talk about it, line for republicans, what did you think? i just think the democrats are really stupid let -- stupid and they look at it very stupidly. this whole election, how do you bring in an outsider not born in georgia, not from georgia. the woman had her children, wife, her marriage was there, she was local. have you bring in someone like that and expect to win? they don't like the country, they don't believe in america or even the people who are voting for them. they keep losing and they don't understand that. it's not about the money. they had the guy on bill martin about three weeks ago, he made a

statement that he gave $1 million to his campaign on that show. that's not going to do that in georgia. they are going to hate outsiders . if you ran a commercial of all the people in california, thank you for the support he's getting. they are not going to put up with that. people realize that. the democrats have to wake up, they don't care about americans. they care about foreigners and everybody else except real americans. paul kane continues by saying that republicans countered with the message that should cause great concern for democrats, returning to their nancys to tie her to pelosi one senior republican involved in the overall effort to say that the more that the race became national in tone, the way that the voters proceeded here, the easier it was to turn him into a conventional democrat."

joseph, delaware, independent line, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to comment about the diversity in the democratic party. there is none. they roll out the colors of the rainbow, all the shapes and sizes of the human being, but they all share the same brain. they all have the same form of thought. there is no back and forth, no discussion. it's either they are right and you are absolutely wrong and that's it. and if you disagree with them, they are going to break your windows and whatever. it's just not funny anymore. host: what about republicans? do you think that there is that same sort of uniformity in how they think and the republican party? i see more african-americans turning republican and conservative more than ever. motherst, my 80-year-old switched to republican. deep blue delaware democrat.

uncle was the mayor of wilmington. recognizehe didn't the democratic party anymore. it was just a bunch of people screaming and yelling. she said she didn't want to go through the 60's again and that they had something to yell and scream about. here it's just, shut up, i'm taking your free speech and i don't want to hear it. that's what it's coming down to. so what, have a discussion, argue about it. if you like a good argument, you know? it's not there, it's i'm right, you're wrong. you're a racist, i'm god's gift to the world. thank you very much. anita, good morning. your thoughts after these special election losses? thatr: well, i just think 25 million was also spent by the republicans and also, right before that there was an ad by the coat others involving the

shooting in washington. i think that also played into it. i think that the win in south carolina is very big. even though we lost. simply because it is just about 2%. also, in the georgia race i that the percentage also is pretty low. gives a lot of democrats hope. especially in a very republican area. and i'm very hopeful and i think that this shows that we have a big camp in 2018 to win and i think that the democrats are still the party of the people. republicans are the party of just a few percentage of the people. this is a bigat

win for us, even though we lost. simply because we are more united than ever. host: on this being a competitive election, he "usa today" noted that georgia doesn't often have competitive congressional races. out of the 69th in 2008, just one was decided by a margin less than five points according to an analysis by smart politics. it was decided last night that karen handel would become the new member of congress from that district, taking over the spot of tom price, now health and human services secretary. houston, texas, republican, go ahead. it's ok to spend $25 million on the candidate. just gets it back in the economy. i've been voting since 1964. just fine with me. you're ok with the spending.

what about the results? is there anything to be read into the 2018 elections from the special election results, john? caller: i don't think anything can be read into the results. it's just a competitive race. i like competition, i play shortstop. host: good luck out there on base, john. linda is in fresno, california, line for democrats. good morning. thanks her taking my call. my observation about what happened in georgia, i think don't really change their party very much. as long as it says republican, i have done phone banking. one time i was phone banking for a republican and the person is up with said -- is he republican? they said -- i said yes and they said -- i will vote for him. i think the gerrymandering didn't help.

i don't think in this country, people don't read anymore. look at how many newspapers are going out. they don't follow what the person stands for, what he suggested. it's just as long as they are republican, maybe even the democrats are the same thing. i don't know. i think it years ago people used across a line to vote. i don't see that happening anymore. read aer and father just policy professor, said read about it. it's not happening. also thenk partisanship is outrageous in this country. the diversity, there's no diversity, no broad mindedness. i think the people living in foreign countries, especially europe, they are more political, they understand more than we do. a time warp inn

some communities where people just obey attention to what's going on in the world. i think they just go to the polls and they vote for whatever they are used to voting for. i don't think they read the issues, frankly. the house getting ready to come in here in a minute or two. a few tweets as we have been having this conversation about this -- election wins in georgia and south carolina. stephen says that the losses came in the republican backyards but the real losers will be the working class and low income voters from either party. host: charles lawton, make it quick, the house is coming in. caller: jon ossoff was a flawed

candidate, he did his best. he needs to fight a knife fight and learn how. karen handel as secretary of state continuously try to tamp down voting rolls and that really helped her out in the election. host: all right, charles, got to end it there. see you back here tomorrow morning. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [applause] the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. june 21, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable john j. duncan jr. to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: please be seated. pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will recognize -- now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour