who had known him in years earlier, who were deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the obama presidency, and disappointed in two ways. number one, disappointed that barack forgot many of the people, most of the people who were central to his political rise. q&a.nday night on c-span's c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. host: if you want to participate in open phones, several ways for you to do so.

as always, you can post comments and thoughts on social media. from utah, democrats aligned, lynette. caller: i would like to encourage americans to call their senators and their representatives to ask them to oppose funding of the usda inspections for horse slaughterhouses. that is being proposed again to alleviate the horse overcrowding problem that exists in the midwest. about 46,000 horses in pens living out their lives there. it cost the taxpayers a lot. the problem is, we are allowing

too many ranchers to generous subsidies. cows are destroying our environment. we need a more humane method of controlling the horse population. birth control is feasible. our senators and representatives are about to avoid that humane solution in favor of this i nhmane solution. americans to let their representatives know about it because it will be coming to the house for a vote. if there is a humane alternative, we ought to take it. you raise horses, how did you become such a passionate advocate or this issue? >> i don't personally raise horses. i just know that when they slaughter horses, the slaughterhouses that we have in the united states, up until 10

years ago, were built for cows. horses can move around in the holding pens, so it ended up with the bolts that were put in there for his kill them, it could take a couple of times to do. it was very inhumane. they also still have the method where they've pulled him up by their hind legs, slit their throat, and let them bleed out. the conditions in the horse slaughterhouses are even worse than cows. it just horrifies me, it does violence to my soul. i just wish americans would just try to be more humane. host: jim is next, leesburg, virginia. independent line. people talking about the horses need to be disposed of. these horses are now alive and

need to be taken care of. turn them into dog food, cat food. the last topic on illegal immigrants, daca. care if you don't are from scandinavia, yugoslavia, venezuela. you brought your children here as anchor babies. i have no mercy. son isveteran, my a war veteran. if you come here illegally, you get sent back. the world has to know, you will be sent that. i want my representatives to know that, including president trump. host: michigan, independent line. donny, you are next. caller: i called to comment about the illegals coming across the border. i don't really know who is in charge of getting a wall built. republicans have been talking about that for years.

what was that? host: i didn't say anything. finish your thought. thinking maybe they could use the people coming , they areegally breaking the law anyway. why can't they make the people here illegally build the wall? they could give them a green card, and-year green the sentence would be two years labor on the wall. they could give them a trade. after those two years building the wall, that would be part of their sentence. then they would have three years and a good trade. it would benefit our country and their country. host: that is donny in indiana. the washington times highlights a story about attention being

paid to elizabeth warren. pelosi, republican operatives are working to change that. village.rom montgomery caller: i'd like to make a comment about the illegal immigration in this country. i am a navy veteran. my wife is from another country. she came here the legal way. i work in health care.

my problem is, i understand people from other countries want to come here and have a better life. but please, go by the legal channels. they come here illegally and they demand rights. what rights do you have when you are breaking the law? if i break the law, i have to pay the consequences. they come here, they get free health care, they are having babies on top of babies, they are getting subsidized housing, and the american people, the taxpayers, are suffering. they are wasting money, giving the benefits, and they have people here who cannot afford to send their kids to school. they don't have a preset -- decent place to live, they cannot find work. it makes me angry. it is just not fair. i cannot go to a foreign country and demand rights, they will kick me out. why would you come here illegally and demand my children are here, i need to go to school, can you give me subsidized income or whatever,

so my kids can go to university? my daughter is going to college and i'm struggling to pay the bills. you are demanding rights? host: let's go to our republican line. thorny, texas, roger. caller: on the subject of amnesty. , ifink if we build a wall we have an effective in e-verify system, we are enforcing the immigration laws, there probably will be a compromise available to allow some illegal aliens to remain in the country, particularly the children of illegal aliens. but they should never have full and they should not be allowed to vote. if you are an illegal alien in the country and we allow you to stay, you should have a lifetime green card, so you can stay and work and contribute and do everything, but never be a u.s.

citizen so you can then turn around and engage in chain migration, where you sponsor, like your parents, who brought you in illegally. they should not be allowed to stay in the united states. amnesty is ok but not citizenship for illegal aliens. host: california, republican line. joseph, go ahead. i am a republican. i came from europe many years ago. happiest day of my life when i arrived in new york city. host: joseph, what would you like to say, what is your comment? caller: my statement is it bothers me that these people

come over here illegally, they , andwalk over the border they feel they have a right to do so. why don't they come legally, like i did, follow the due process of law? stand in line, go back to the end of the line, come here --egally, respect the laws legally, respectful laws of the united states. entitled tohey are and get all of the help and funds from the federal government, schooling, all of these things. i support that type of a process, however, these people

should be sent back from where they came from and they can come legally. host: that is joseph in california. rick gladstone has a story about an arrest that took place, an american student, the arrest and sentencing of a graduate student , announced a month after he finished in iran, where he was doing research. the announcement on sunday was the first official confirmation. wang had said mr. digitally archived 4500 pages of a radiant documents and had done confidential research for the department of state, harvard kennedy school, and british institute of persian studies. ,t also goes on to say iranous new pressure on the

president, coincided with the second anniversary of him signing a signature of agreement, an agreement with the u.s. and other world powers to curb nuclear activities in the return of easing sanctions that have isolated iran. the agreement has not produced the desired economic boom in iran, giving ammunition to conservatives. the agreement in the u.s. have also complained saying it is too weak. kansas city, kansas. phyllis, good morning. caller: hi, pedro. what i am calling about is the illegal immigration. a lot of it is our federal government's problem. , a lot of people that they put into our government, our military should not be letting illegals into our

military, but they do. they should not let illegals into the border patrol to help the cartels, but sometimes that because they have not checked out the illegals' pap erwork. all i am saying is we have illegals in all sector of our government. that is the reason -- like, obama took, like, a million people so that they could vote for hillary clinton. i don't understand anything about that. to me, i think the government is the big problem, too, by being so political. host: new mexico, independent line. don, you are up.

caller: and i can make a comment about the building of the border wall. ,e are at the rio grande river at the border between mexico and the united states. the wall cannot be built without the permission of mexico. , thereson for this is are agreements under the international boundary and water commission that regulates the flow of water. most of the year, the rio grande does not flow, and the water is held in new mexico and the elephant beauty or gratian district. an agreementimes between texas, new mexico, and mexico, there is an agreed time when the water flows and is received by these countries -- by the states and mexico. if this water flow cannot be impeded -- under international

agreement. therefore, when people talk about building the wall, they will have to talk about renegotiating an agreement under -- international water boundary and water commission with mexico. none of that has been talked about. host: this is hyper local politics in action but i want to point you to a story in the , out ofegram website texas, but it talks about the andial session going in, the cost, $34,580 a day. that is just to cover the per diem of each legislator that .ill receive other costs from utilities to printing will drive the final bill i are or the 30-day session.

there is more about that in today's "star-telegram." julia from seattle, washington. democrats line. caller: first i want to say wow, that was something else that she said. about vetting. i am native american, so that is all i have to say about that. building this wall when we don't have enough jobs for people, so why build something physical when you can put people to work they're doing that? put people to work, not animation, not computers. people actually working. iris.let's hear from

alabama, independent line. caller: good morning. i would just like to give c-span a shout out for being a great information.f i would like to give the reporter's terror and alisa a shout out, and all reporters. if they cannot get any comments from our officials, how are they expected to report without having an opinion? as far as the fake news, if you guess he thinks people will believe it. all i can say about the russian a duck,f it walks like quacks like a duck, it is a duck. host: the guest was referring to the roundtable with our reporters, lisa mascaro and tara missed and you may have

the conversation, but if you want to catch it online, you can go to our website, c-span.org, go to the washington journal page and click on the link. greenville, north carolina. democrats line. michael. caller: hi there, i've been watching all morning. i will try to be very concise. when those two ladies were on, somebody mentioned that the mainstream media put in too much .pinion, and that kind of thing even though i'm a democrat, i listen to a lot of conservative talk radio. those people have been very one-sided, nothing but opinion all the time. a lady two minutes ago talking about how illegals come over, obama got them so they could vote for hillary. that is the same stuff you hear from conservative talk radio. how so manyg

millions of people have been brainwashed into this us versus them syndrome. i don't want to talk about donald trump, but the american , the onlyd to realize real proof of bigotry is the double standard. when you see a double standard, do have bigotry. minnesota. is in independent line. caller: i think one of the big problems, i know hindsight is 20/20 on this one. but if we did not go into these other countries and mess with their democracy is just for our business interests, we would have less people messing with our country. host: nelson, pensacola, florida. my message year is that

if the democrats and the ,epublicans just sat down worked out some sort of deal where they could talk about the issue of immigration and all of the small issues pertaining to the immigration and people coming into this country illegally, a lot of these problems could be resolved. the problem is everybody is thinking about their own philosophy. they are not thinking about the american people, the cost of what goes into getting these issues resolved. what happens here, maybe there should be term limits. republicans and democrats both should be thinking about the issues concerning the whole country. when it comes to immigration, they really need to sit down, it is something they should have done 20, 30 years ago. they are just not doing their

job. we are paying the people to do a job. these people don't qualify for insurance. all these issues can be resolved if they would just sit down, did what the issues of immigration, deal with the issues of health care, deal with the issue of employment and stop grandstanding in the media. i appreciate the time you have given me. host: one of the themes the white house is focused on this week is american-made goods, made in america week. it's the theme of the white house with several events planned. the hill takes a look at questions to the white house about president trump daughters manufacturing, saying that a white house spokesman declined to say if a messaging campaign to highlight the american-made products would be used to bring production for first daughter's line to the u.s..

the president would get back to a reporter. here is william from north carolina, democrats line. caller: hello? say is i want to commend c-span for having this do becausethat they it allows us to listen to citizens all over the united states and give different opinions. theeven allow some of stupidest people in the world to express their opinion so that gives us free speech. if some of these people would listen to the most vile and

hateful things they say, they would not say these things. there is no such thing as an illegal alien. they are undocumented. they are not illegal. rid of all the undocumented immigrants, who will work in the fields, who will pick the fruit, who will do the vegetables? these people that have all this hatred toward them, will not do -- will not go in the fields to do that work. host: thank you for the call away will have to end it. comes at 7:00m tomorrow. we will take you to an event in washington, d.c. their hosting a discussion with the republican from arkansas on russiaic of of the challenge and europe and imprecations for the imf treaty and army modernization. [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] >>