16-20,000 precision jobs that go unanswered. rate is 63%, we need to acknowledge how to align conomic growth with job opportunities. brady met with democrats on the constructive, as anything but harsh. hey will adhere to revenue neutrality, move prescribed number of dollars around in the system. where there will be broad disagreement with democrats, his togestion he will not adhere distributional neutrality, that is where the nub of resistance on the democratic side. you can watch newsmakers sunday morning at 10:00 on c-span. it is open phones to end our program today. to talk about any public policy issue on your minds. at blicans, call in 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. 202-748-8002.

start calling now. will show the front pages of this morning's paper frchlt west dispatch from herald at trump rally justice announces party switch, that would be justice, the governor of west virginia announcing president trump's ally last night he was switching parties from democrat to republican. you can see the governor there with the president. a few more front pages. ews sentinel with this news center, their headline about the rally. a grand old party question mark, feelings on justice's return to being a republican, a of the two of them there. one more front page for you this morning, gazette mail justice, return to the gop, headline. this irginia newspaper morning. what is on your mind? anne in powder springs, line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. this ideanterested in

of party identity. d'souza brought up interesting points about democrats and history of the past. in the past, democrats have not always been on the right side, always on the right page, to the ly when it comes rights for all people. first up in the south, my president was franklin roosevelt, inaugurated the year born, i've seen a great deal of how the democratic party years.anged over the f.d.r. believed in the party that we should be. believe that. many rty has gone through hanges overthe years, we are not the party of wallace, people connect us. he modern democratic party has changed. i think we have become in effect we have cratic, that

really become the party of the we have become more the party of diversity and we believe in the common apart in what sets us from republicans, really, the apart from our values diversity and forything go, we really are people who for the are not blessed with status from birth. i think it makes a big difference. host: do you think the emocratic party has changed more than the republican party in the same period you're talking about? we've almost k reversed positions. i think they have become the wallace. george and we have become the party of franklin roosevelt again. think that the south really

as changed over the year and become more republican. hereas before, we were more democratic. host: you think this would be another flip decades down the road? i hope so. i think that we almost flipped, almost cobb county, flipped the county. we've come close. hillary ty went for clinton. of course, georgia did not. e have worked very hard to build very strong coalition for eople who believe in diversity and in equality and in the workers of georgia. georgia, joseph is in massachusetts, boston, a joseph.can, go ahead, caller: yes. i'm calling because i heard your guest say he was talking about, you know, that was like a ump dictator. the truth is, he is our

of ident, regardless whatever. i'm hispanic, i feel respect for eople that voted for him, you know. now according to policies, where, you know, i would like jeff session is doing, i don't feel like, you know, commissi should take -- le's party without being without the court deciding if the person is guilty or not, i is right. that confiscating properties. civil asset forfeiture? is er: yes, i don't feel it right, should be like a -- like court ruling first before somebody goes right ahead and just take people's stuff just want to.hey talk about leak investigations. c-span at ch on c-span.org, on the c-span radio we are joined on the phone

by carrie johnson, justice correspondent for n.p.r. good morning. what do we know, heading into announcement today at 11? very serious a show by attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney rosenstein will be there and head of the director intelligence, dan working on ill, leaks and intelligence for a long time. glean, we do an not expect criminal charges to be announced today, rather message from administration about cracking down on national security leaks say threaten the nation's position here and abroad when it security.ational host: national security leaks ould be transcripts of the president's phone calls with the president of mexico, the prime

australia, the front age of the "washington post," would they fall into that category? guest: good question. administration coming from trump on down has done decrying leaks all year long. criminal.eaks are some are gossip, some are negative information about the president and what he's doing, what is criminal are leaks that implicate national security national defense information and what happens in those cases, intelligence agencies send a report called a concerns ort that unauth rised disclosure of classified information and assessments are done as to what kind of damage that leak has done to national security. prosecutors and f.b.i. units investigate and decide to bring criminal charges. criminal.aks are and it is not clear to me that these transcripts released by "washington post" yesterday with respect to the president's secret re the kind of

information that would produce a rimes report to the justice department. that is one of many questions we'll have answer third degree orning at 11:00 at the press conference. host: hear from attorney general about how much damage has been done? we expecting him to give an assessment of that to explain the impact of the leaks? we are expecting sessions to say is that they have opened of investigates and his view more than the leader ears of the obama administration to pursue criminal leaks and possibly leakers. but i don't expect announcements indictments to come today. of course the attorney general has announced indictment this ear against one person for alleged leaks, that woman's name s reality winner, government contractor accused of leaking classified national security news document to a ept,nization called interci

she's pleaded not guilty. general jeff ey sessions will signal mightily hat will not be the only criminal case he anticipates coming down the pike. host: we'll see in an hour and minutes. carrie johnson with n.p.r., we appreciate your time. guest: my pleasure. thank you. host: again, we'll be showing that press conference on c-span c-span.org, you can listen on the c-span radio app, 11 a.m. morning, watch it here. until 10:00 this morning, we're taking call necessary open phones, any public policy issue you want to talk about. georgia, lineart, for independents, good morning. caller: good morning, john. tie, incredible, guy. paradigms going to work here. love c-span and behind "washington journal" is book t.v.'s q&a, the second best.

brian lamb hank you and thank you, producer, erin, job. doing a wonderful the -- both informed segments, house, this ishe what i want to say. john, you can't interrupt callers get the their ideas out as much as possible, but in the same tone, interrupt these guests when they start filibustering trying to get our question necessary and get a better idea. defense, john,our all right, when the callers call n and they question and they criticize and try to besmurch guys, i would imagine that you went to four years of high chool, got a four-year degree from some college and you've done a lot of reading and and try to expert -- your xpertise in communication and these people who call and say that you're not

being as professional and as you ted and digified are. ost: what would you have asked if you had a chance to ask a question? caller: i called and erin said a few calls in front of me, i did get the opportunity to call back. did good and rashad robinson did good, nobody will agree 100%. work here, gms at the first is the undereducated versus the educated. paradigm. local agenda versus a worldly third paradigm is unwealthy, someone making below the wealthy, s someone making $100 million. n between all three paradigms, middle t a sliverof the class. tear away the titles and labels democrat and and become americans and look at what it is that is exactly going

on in america, that is when we can try to unify and try to country and that is sitting on the shining hill. host: appreciate the call and the advice. democrat, go ahead. caller: good morning. host: morning. all, : i called, first of to get what the lady from about the t said democratic party flipping. who d attention to the man wrote the book saying that the have roots in nazi-ism facism and to me that is just other party, the the way they really are. is all i want to say about that. with d like to agree 100%

the lady that called from georgia. in mississippi and i i involved in politics when was about 14 years old. my grandfather ran for supervisor in a rural county in mississippi. and i was about the time that ross barnett, and all those office, re running for cards from political a number of those, but they disappeared over the past, i i had them now to go on antiques roadshow. -- i saw exactly georgia saw. in the people that were running the party today, , an ially in the south evolution of the old democratic south.in the

host: got your point, james. ant to let the viewers know unemployment numbers are out, monthly numbers for july, market story, u.s. eir creating 209,000 new job beating wall street forecast and showing labor market has plenty of into , eight years expansion, economists predicted the unemployment 4.4%, lipped to 4.3% to retouching a 16-year low, those morning, the his president tweeting this morning saying excellent jobs numbers released and i have only just begun, many jobs stifling fall, tions continue to movement back to the united states. 5 minutes left in our program today, eric, virginia beach, virginia, line for independents. go ahead. yes, thank you. those jobs are credit to also becausema and

trump isn't putting policies in place. president obama came office, jobs took a loss from bush was attributed obama.ent also, these are not leaks from the white house, those are whistleblowers and southern strategy for trump actually took southern he took strategy nationwide from our -- last thing i hacks to d with, the the voter machine, i am a were changed in the voting machine, this is what leaker was the locked up for in georgia. host: are you saying -- you are hacker and you hacked voting machines? caller: yes, i actually had a voting machine. host: why would you do that? aller: hacked into it, not during voting season. companies software

also conspiring with the russians, casper city security russia, they giving security, all you need is a is what code, that happened. do a show on hack intoing voting machines. touched on that topic several times over the past several months. ohio, line for republicans, tom, good morning. caller: hi. for c-span. host: go ahead. caller: the president is working immigration. we could stop a lot of problems ith immigration, if we would just stop abortion. an you imagine how many millions of geniuses we every year? can you imagine that? with the country coming to? this is where we should start no more abortions, lord help us all. thank you very much.

thomas, glenburn, maryland, good morning. morning.good i notice when you have people on it's always issues, blacks, you never have a white person come on and say what they about civil rights. host: i promise if you go that is he archives, not true. go ahead, finish your point. caller: okay. 96% of the blacks voted against donald trump and now they're he won't do everything they want. none of them supported him, now him to support him? we have villains on television that was it's time changed. why should we be discriminated against? the department of justice is finally investigating whites ination against college administration, that should be looked into and action should be ended. we've had it for 50 years,

enough.ong thank you. host: al, in florida, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning to you. i just want to say to your out there, i don't know if you watched west virginia last night, crowds of up our president and you seen job numbers, you coalminers back to work. i don't know why people don't taxes in this country, that is what we need. trump is for.r. now trying to get a grand jury against him n. washington, d.c. 11,000 votes and hillary got 250,000 votes, how a fair jury out there? that is all i want to say. good luck. host: "wall street journal" breaking that news yesterday been grand jury has convened in washington as the russia ation into

interference in 2016 elections. you mentioned the president's last night in ly west virginia. could watch ng you on c-span in the entirety, we'll showing that rally after today's "washington journal" program, where the president is headed today, a story in "u.s.a. already he president under fire for so many weekends at his resort in florida, jersey, set to w leave today for what aides call atday working vacation based trump national club in new jersey. trump's today" noting trip this month may draw fire, he's been a critic of the dential vacations in past, at least those taken by barack obama. tweeted itizen trump vacations, chopping heads off journalists.

took disdain to cbs' "60 inutes" of vacations for presidents. aerial is in new york, line for good ndents, ariel, morning. caller: hi, my name is ariel, today i would like to say from hudson valley refugee immigrants, crisis is not -- we need to country, le into our that builds our country and makes it the beautiful country it is. going to hold politicians bltable for their actions and on them.to keep watch watch people are paying attention in new york. we're making sure that our water clean, that no one is we continue toat hear position to renewable energy economy. are you doing that, ariel? well, running off renewable energy, we brought the

home who was deported, he police.rump's ice joel now is safe with his a citizen of our country, he was deported illegally. host: the group you are involved with in new pulse helping do this? there is. many groups, i'm a part of activist groups. host: could i ask how old you are? 21.ler: i'm host: and how long have you been this level gaged in with politics, with events going community? caller: about five years. host: what got you involved, first of all? caller: well, i've watched the corruption unfold for most of my seen, the past 17 years we've been at war, our fighting for en fossil fuel infrastructure many we end w and it's time

the destruction of humanity and ontinue to build renewable energy infrastructure, which will stop the violence, most it is e about resources, not about -- just political oundaries, trying to gain resources. if we continue to protect resources that we have, less to ence will continue happen. also, we have ways of cleaning caused, we need to hold industry like exxon the oil spills in new york. host: how do you get -- caller: across the country. host: how do you get fellow in this?lds involved caller: i'm an educated citizen, sir. fellowow do you get your 21 year olds involved? how do you reach out to them -- all pay attention, rally together, we listen, we are protesting. isn't ia coverage just

there. host: ariel, thanks for the call from new pulse, new york this morning. tim, line for democrats, go ahead. caller: yes, good morning, for taking my call. mueller investigation. the mueller investigation is not not directed toward president donald trump, directed towards all those some kind volved in of collusion or involved with political thing with the voters voters, manifort, flynn and like, kushner and donald, r., not just toward president trump. and the other thing i want to ay is all those republicans, his is about health care, all

those republicans who voted to you your health care away, need to vote to take them away, so them out of the office they can stop do thanksgiving type of things. say, st thing i want to and i thpt question, i talked to it.friends about the most dangerous man in the trump.today is donald thank you. host: tim on issue of health in "new york congressman, by democrat tom fried, a republican, bipartisan fix for chairscare, they are the of the congressional won't -solvers caucus, take you through the whole article, proposal, multi-part at, first part focusing on skyrocketing cost of ndividual health insurance premiums, trump administration is considering suspending

ost-sharing payments that defray out of pocket payments like deductibles and copayments for people earning less than 250% of the poverty line, they are play withing stabilized saving y making cost mandatory and preventing rates for rising sharply, just one part of their plan. you want to read about it in the "new york times" today. calhoun, georgia, republican, go ahead. hello, after listening to all these historical and flat out ludicrous stuff going on this in.ning, i had to call the reason people don't like historical nfronts realities as they are uncomfortable with. look, all democrats are not harry truman inly wasn't, he opened up the military, j.f.k. wasn't, l.b.j. wasn't.

l.b.j. l.b.j., civil rights legislation down their throats and made them like it, they had to change or death.litical he didn't come down off the cross and absolve them of all sins. they tried to say, oh, are -- all now republicans are like the is a ats used to be, that great big lie. i'm really sick and tired of hearing that. i mean, they -- i've watched on l.b.j., you know, naturally giving hem a hard time vietnam, but in singing his praises about civil ights legislation, which they should. but they tip toed around and never used the word democrat in tone.tive they would call them southern which atives, you know, is great. smears the south, which

emocrats don't anymore completely and they been trying you know, their own the nixon ism since administration, trying to say 100 ern strategy changed years of oppression of black know, i just u sick and tired of hearing this junk. caller mes, the last today on "washington journal." but for more callers, more "washington journal," you can tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern, 4 a.m. pacific, in meantime, have a great friday.