inflation rate. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and better. host: well, the president is in new jersey. congress has broken for the summer. and the trump administration is six months old. and as we go through the papers this morning, we want to hear from republicans only, how is president trump doing so far? 202 is the area code. 748-8000 if you live in the east and central time zone. 202-748-800 for those of new the mountain and ma past sysk time zones. republicans only for this first segment. you can also tweet us, or join us the conversation on facebook at facebook.com/cspan.

a new poll, a telephone poll of swing state voters, automated phone rolling by the public affairs firm, firehouse strategies, along with the data an will the i can team finds trump's base shrinking among likely midterm voters in the key swing states of florida, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and ohio. you can see here, in august, strongly favorable, 28.6%. strongly unfavorable, 43.6%. and according to real clear politics, the most recent job approval poll for the president, from gallup, approve is 37%, disapprove is 55%. rasmussen is coming in at 39% and 59%. while congress' approval rating is 10%, with a disapproval rating of 84%. that's from real clear

politics. republicans only for this first segment. want to hear how you think the president is doing so far six months into his administration. here's a headline from the huffington post, white house tries to shut down speculation that mike pence is preparing for 2020 run. and radio talk show host michael savage says that civil war will happen if trump is taken down. millions of americans will revolt if the globalists remove president trump from office or render him powerless. radio host michael savage warned americans could even resort to mob violence because they have nothing to lose once they are fully aware of the fact that they've been tricked by their society and that no matter how hard they work as middle-class people, they have nothing to gain, the savage nation host said on friday. let's hear from a republican in miami. this is matt. matt, how do you think the president is doing so far? caller: good morning. i think the president is doing

fairly well, but i think there's room for improvement. he's being taken off his agenda significantly by the democratic party. it's really going in a bad direction with regard to that. but i think he's doing great, doing the best he can as an outsider. host: that's matt in miami. this is layer any washington, d.c. hi, larry. caller: hello. how sflu the president is doing fine. his main problem he has to deal th is in his administration, so forth. with the economic things he's trying to do is great, and the situation, he should give sanctions to russia because they're in involvement, but it's not with him, it's with mr. mueller am he's a russian agent and operative, so forth. so i support what he's doing, so he's doing ok. host: larry, when you talk about deep state operatives, what are you referring to? we will never find out. but this article in the hill

talks about deep state operatives. federal employees step up defiance of trump. government employees are growing increasingly willing to criticize or defy the white house and president trump's top appointees. a handful of current and former career staffers in the interior department and the e.p.a. have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of trump's tenure in the oval office. the growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the white house's legislative agenda has stalled in congress and trump turns to his cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. it also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to trump has at times been rooted in deep opposition to the president's agenda. let's hear from scott, who is a republican in san antonio, texas.

good morning, scott. caller: hey, how's it going? i just want to say a few things about trump. i think he's doing a good job. he's doing the best he can for this country. and i think this thing about -- did you see when he said that the cops need to not be so gentle on the m-13 gang? host: and we're going to be talking about that m-13 issue later in the program, so you ask that question, why do you ask that question? caller: well, because. it's obvious trump was saying h, don't treat them so gently. because they are criminals, and ey're known ms-13 gang members. and policemen were trying, who are allowing us to go home and be safe are forced into a situation where their hands are tied, and they don't know what to do. and anyone who watched him give that speech knows that he

wasn't totally serious. he's just saying treat criminals like the criminals that they are. and everybody knows that. and people need to stop playing games, because it is hurting our country. trump wants to do some good things for us. he's got some good plans. and to say, oh, he wants -- do you think one cop in this country is going to treat criminals incorrectly because of what trump says in that speech? of course not. but they're acting like it's the end of the world because he said that. nd the democrats and those trump never trumpers need to stop playing games and start doing what's best for our country. host: hey, scott, you're the third call this morning, and nobody has brought up healthcare, nobody has brought up tax reform. are those issues important to you? caller: extremely important to me.

i think that the government needs to keep their hands out of healthcare. there are programs in place to help those who need it. it used to be that churches and social organizations would help those who need it, or you would just help your neighbor. the people you know. if they need help, you help them. and to have -- how anyone can believe that the government can run, what is it, 1/6 of our economy correctly when you see their track record, i think it's just insane. and i think it's simply the people who thought for sure that hillary clinton was going to win just cannot get over it. here we are six months into it, and it's starting to affect our

country in negative ways. host: that's scott in san antonio. let's leave it there, scott, and let's here hear from delores in fayetteville, north carolina. hi, delores. caller: good morning. well, i'm a registered republican, and i right now think the president is doing a pretty znt job considering. i would like to say that i think that they need to get on board with him. the republicans need to get on ard and stop being two-faced and be undercover to support the democrats in a sneaky way and need to get on board, because it will be republican senators. d i would like to say that president trump and conservative republicans, you need to get rid of the special counselor and get somebody who's not friends with hillary clinton, who's just a neutral person, and that's what i'm upset about. they need to get rid of that special counsel. i think the whole thing has been rigged because he's not

one of the good old boys, he doesn't play that game, and he's trying to clean the country up. one more thing i'd like to say, i think a lot of people want to take him down because the big people in this country have been pushing through in a that's why i nd really believe. host: what's an issue that's important to you, delores? caller: cleaning up the country, getting drugs out of the country. i'm tired of drug addicts. host: thank you, ma'am. what do you do in fayetteville? uhipe do i do in fayetteville? i'm a home health nurse. i'm tired of drugs. i'm tired of everybody playing the drug game and everybody want to pay for that problem. that's your problem you got on drugs. ain't any problem. i'm not sympathetic to drug addicts, put it that way. host: that's delores in fayetteville, north carolina.

now, this is carlos lozada, the book editor at "the washington post," writing this morning, in the outlook section of "the post," writing about how sad you felt on election night isn't insistence, it's self-indulgence. you saw them, you probably read a few, maybe you even wrote one --

host: that's a little bit from "the washington post" this morning. he goes on to recommend and dissect a couple of those anthologies, in case you're interested. now, good morning to the west coast. we are talking to republicans only this morning for this first segment. how is president trump doing six months in is our question. if you want to dial in from the mountain and pacific time zones, 202-748-8001 is the number for you to call. john is calling in from texas. john, you're on the "washington journal." caller: how you doing today? host: how are you? caller: i wanted to talk about will fair and all that stuff and all that stuff. host: well, we're asking how president trump is doing. so if you can tie it in to that, you can talk. to rwise we're going to west virginia. hi, lois. caller: good morning. and i just have to preface what

i'm saying by addressing that caller who just said those words to you and hung up the phone. so whoever you are, you need to a little re-education. what i have to say, sir, perhaps it's worth noting, i remember that our president who is the man of the hour always provided by god or however one might want to term a god these days, always provides as he did with f.d.r. in the moment of crisis the perfect person to handle things. i always remember, rather actively, what our president said in his early days when he was being interviewed and asked why he was running and what his motives and so forth. and he was very clear. he said i don't have to do

this. he said if this doesn't work out, or words to that effect, and then he said very definitely, i'll just go home and mind the store. d i think people perhaps could pay attention and remember that statement, because we have a person here who has no political necessities involved with his presidency. he has to answer to no one. and so it's very easy for someone like me, for instance, who questions most anything, to believe what the man tells us when he says that he wants to -- when he tells us what his motives are, and i believe they are altruistic. i think the president is doing an absolutely superior job, if only, if only in his ability to contain -- contain himself

against such outrageous odds. when this is all over, if it ever is, i think the mainstream news media will have to take a good look at itself and hang its head, hang its collective heads. but he's doing a remarkable job, and all the positive things, most of them anyway that are going on are very rarely, as mr. gingrich points out and others do also, very rarely publicized. so i say thank you, prutch, for being the man of the hour and being willing to take this abuse, and god bless. host: lois, what do you think with your governor switching to the republican party? caller: well, as a matter of fact, i had just talked to his office about something else not long ago. i think it's a remarkable -- a remarkable situation, don't you, sir? i'm not shy.

i have not followed jim justice's career, as i had when i was involved fairly personally with governor a bill my faction at least got into committee before it was squashed. but governor caperton was a remarkable person and never, ever stopped being a person per se. i know very little personally about jim justice. but i would say god bless to his desire, to his switching. i do think the political motivation is obvious, at least to me. west virginia has always been, my memory, a democratic oriented state. but i think our governor sees the handwriting on the wall,

because there's no doubt. host: thanks for your time this morning. we're asking how president trump is doing, six months in. republicans only this morning. pat in dallas. hi, pat. caller: yes, good morning, c-span. well, i think president trump is doing a good job considering everything that he has to deal with. and i don't blame him for the healthcare bill, because that's congress. that went over to the senate, and they couldn't get it together. so i don't blame him for that. i didn't like the bill, but anyway, whatever. they didn't do it. but he's done some good things so far, and he's trying, but i think they're going to -- i think the f.b.i. is going to bring him down, i really do think they're going to go after him, and they're going to go down ever rabbit hole there is,

just like they did with clinton. and they better not do it. they better not bring him down. this country, there will be a lot to pay if they do that. they better let him serve out his term and leave him alone. and i do have something that i would like to say that's very important to me. i can't even turn on cnn or they because of the way bash president trump sandrksd lady before me, she spoke, they never mention the good things that he's done, like the supreme court justice, the regulations that he's done, the wall that he's trying to build on the border. i'm in texas, and that means a lot to me.

and immigration, and a lot of other things. he's trying really hard. and i just hate the way they bash him. i can't even watch cnn anymore. can't even watch msnbc anymore. and i used to enjoy both of those channels. but i can't do it. but i do thank you for your time, c-span. and i joan watching you, and i think that you are fair. host: pat in dallas. and let's hear from andrew in san diego. good morning. caller: hi. how are you? yeah, i think trump is doing a very good job. i'm upset with the republicans in congress and the never trumpers. they really seem to be out to get trump. you know, they haven't done any

investigations of hillary and loretta lynch and the whole corrupt thing that the democrats are doing. we know there were crimes committed there. what they're investigating trutch for is nothing as far as i can see. if it's true that he colluded, that the candidate, i don't know of any statute or law that says that's a crime. it might not be a nice thing to do, but that's politics. so let's pretty much all i have to say. host: andrew, what's an issue that's important to you? caller: immigration, living near the border. that's one issue. and then i just think that the other big issue is corruption,

the deep state. i mean, these bureaucrats who are openly rebeling against trump, they ought to resign or be fired. because they were not elected. trump was elected. he's their boss. and it's outrageous that we call the deep state this sabotaging the elected president of the united states. if you want policy changes, you know, go out, campaign, and get the voters to vote for you. host: here's mayor een dowd's column this morning in the "new york times," bobby sticks it to trump is the headline. she writes, we are in an epic clash between who people who both came from wealthy new york families and attended ivy league schools, but couldn't be any more different. the flamboyant flimflam man and

the button down, button up boy scout, and we know the president has no idea how to talk to scouts appropriately -- host: that's a taste of what maureen dowd is writing this morning. and looking ahead on book tv in october, maureen died will be our guest for three hours to talk about her books, her work,

and take your calls. that's on the first sunday in october. john's in pennsylvania. john, you're in a swing state. how is the president doing so far? caller: well, i think he's doing a terrible job. and it does not surprise me. i expected this. host: did you vote for him in november? caller: no, i did not. i voted for john kasich in the primary, and then i voted for hillary clinton. i know trump for probably 25 years. i went to atlantic city. and remember, these are the casino owners that are backing trump. every casino owner. there are 525 billionaires in america. not every billionaire is a casino owner. but every major casino owner is a billionaire, and they're the ones -- and this gambling in these casinos no longer even

resembles gambling. it is simply -- these machines have been allowed, they've been allowing these slot machines to pay off exactly who they want to pay off. when trump owned his casinos down there, he was multiple times the person working for trump casinos who won over a million dollars in jackpots down there. and when trump, one of the first advisors that donald trump appointed was carl icahn. carl icahn oins the tropicana casino, but he also owned trump plaza, trump entertainment, and i'm hoping that mueller is investigating every one of these casino operators that had ties with trump, and there are different ones in atlantic city. and what sink very telling is the fact that -- and what i think is very telling is the fact that new jersey governor

chris christie recently said we have to relax the rules and the regulations on the casinos. they're already billionaires, and they are only paying off who they want to pay off, and they have always done that. they have lied and cheated. host: butch is in troy, ohio. butch, another swing state voter. how is the president doing so far? caller: well, he's doing a good job seeing up all these people dead set against him. but yeah, i voted for trump. i don't agree with probably 75% or 80% he's doing, but he's got so many battles ever day he wakes up. and like the caller said a couple of callers ago, he didn't have to do this to go in there and become president. he had enough money. and that just goes to prove, even the rich wanted to get richer. i don't agree with what he's doing. both sides in this country has been taken our money over the years. it's not just a republican thing. it's not just a democratic thing.

nobody is paying attention to our enemies. and they've been saying for the last 15 to 20 years, five more years, 10 more years. now kim jong un now has something that can reach the united states. can he do it? i don't know. but nobody seems to be talking about that. seven years ago, kim jong un would already be dead. we would have bombed him because of threats to our country. americans need to wake up. host: that was butch in troy, ohio. timothy is calling in from temple, texas. timothy, you're on the "washington journal," republicans only. how is the president doing so far? caller: i think he's doing real good. i'm a vietnam vet. i'm a marine. and the disrespect that he has, that's awful. he's the president of the united states, and people need to wake up and respect him. he's in the office. he's doing fine. you know, the disrespect that is going out there against this man, this man don't even collect a paycheck from

washington. and people don't wake up to that, what president in history has never, ever collected a paycheck? he's a very good president. nobody is investigating obama. nobody is investigating clinton. i want to see what i'm doing in the military, but let me tell you, y'all need to wake up, america, because mr. trump is going to be in there for a long time. this russian zpeel all this, all these silly things, the man is an honor. wake up, america. he's doing more for the vets than a lot of presidents. ronald reagan was a very good president. but a lot of people forget the clintons, they're the ones that are trying to bring down mr. trump, and it's very true. it's sad. it's a sad day in america when you disrespect the president of the united states. and cnn, cnn, they don't even say mr. trump or president trump. they disrespect him. and that's not good.

i mean, give the man a chance. he's doing fine. and god bless america. host: temple, texas. tom is a republican in malibu, california. tom, how do you think the president is doing so far? caller: i think he's doing great. and i'll say this, he is a patriot. he's doing it because he loves the country. also, he has nothing to gain, except make our country better. and i think with his attitude, the problem he's doing is the hirk arky in the -- the hierarchy in the republican party doesn't like him. democrats hate him because they lost, and they can't stand losing. he is pulling the country back. he has common sense, rational thought solutions. e's trying his best to improve the country. hen obamacare was adopted, there were 70 amendments

submitted by the republican party to congress. not one of them made it out of committee. and both parties need to work for the american people, not for the democratic party, not for the republican party, but for us. i'm a veteran. i twhashe c-span had other sources to quote, because according to the "new york times," "washington post," at least they could say these are somewhat biased. i want the best for the country. i would love to see it continue. and i think it's going to go and get better. the regulations that we have have been absolutely horrendous on environmental issues, on so many other things, cap and trade. we need to get together, be americans, and work. and i want to thank you guys,

too. but i wish i had somebody else to quote from. and a lot of the authorities and articles are so biased, and there's a gentleman who called, one of the first, i really don't think he was a republican. but basically we want what's best, and i thank you very much. it's only going to get better. host: what's it like to be a republican in malibu? caller: lonely. i'm only kidding. the registration in malibu used to be 50/50 within eight or nine people, actually. live,'s a decent place to i guess. but i'll tell you something. trump has -- i mean, i admire him tremendously. he has to fight the whole world. but he's working for america. he's really not a republican.

he's not a democrat. he's a populist. but the infrastructure, the people who are in charge are going crazy because they can't control it and he's trying to do something good. if people could get behind him, it would be absolutely wonderful. host: this is roger from wichita, kansas. roger, good morning to you. caller: this bright sunshiney day behind you. host: gorgeous day here in d.c. caller: well, it looks good. scha few comments establish that i am a republican and have been since i started the teenage republican club in my high school when i was a junior in high school. so that's been a republican for a while and the basic republican concept of individual freedoms, the roots of our party, i think

those are important. and i think that trump is in tune with our party's roots, individual freedom. the last time a person to not have his labor stolen from him by forcing him to work without pay. that was a big part of the origin of our party. host: what do you think about your governor leaving, roger? caller: well, a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief. it is really strange and he is -- he's going to a job that he is probably better suited for. and i would trust him to protect religions freedom more than i would trust him with economic prosperity. host: so his popularity has fallen, has it? caller: that's a safe statement, yes, you can say that. i wanted to add on to what

somebody said earlier about the major medias not giving trump a hance. and i have seen this several times. well, for example, with bush. when bush won against gore, it was like the media said ok, america. you didn't pick the candidate we wanted you to pick. so now we're going to show you how stupid bush is and just a whole slew of articles suddenly came out painting bush as stupid. i think that is what is happening to trump times 10. host: roger, powder visit a is the coke industry group there in wichita? caller: well, my son likes to quote coke in a negative manner coke y -- well, charles said i want what's mine and

that's everything. and i asked him. well when did he say that? well back in 90 so and so. and i said if you'll recall, he was in a lawsuit with his brother over control of the company. it's not that he wanted to take everything in america. he just wand his control over the company. so the coke brothers have been in wichita for a long time and we can point to monuments -- well, not monuments, but serviceable centers where people can go and have weddings and enjoy the view of the river. those things we have from coke, and really, you talk about wages. they pay their employees very well. there is no one at coke industry is complaining about not having a israel commensurate with their duties. host: you think their activism

has been good for the conservative movement or the republican party? caller: their activism wasn't even known until president obama and his first year in office pointed it out. i mean, we didn't know that they were political active until people started exposing their incomes records illegally. host: what do you do there in wichita? caller: i'm retired public school teacher. and i've been a member of the public teachers union. and i am a pro union republican. host: that's roger in scombch we thank you for your time this morning. joe is calling in from argon, wisconsin. joe, please go ahead. caller: hi, good morning. thank you. i am a republican and i think trump is doing a great job and i think the reporters are pissed off about it and are creating stories and when their stories

are wrong, then they try to look for something else and say see, see, we said that happened and it's going on and on and it's crazy. people in wisconsin here loves trump. verybody supports him. host: joe is next. caller: look at his polls policies what he's cutting. he seems to hate the elderly, middle class, the poor, sabled, children, and even indians. where's charles dickens? he only seems to want to accommodate billionaires, dirty coal and oil barron's, crooked wall street, polluters and those

and help only those that are going to -- can afford to stay in his expensive hotels. he seems to be against wild lifes the environment, clean air and clean water. host: so bill, are you a republican? caller: yes. i'm a weak republican. host: who's your favorite republican? caller: teddy roosevelt. and he wouldn't be a republican today. host: would ronald reagan be a republican today? caller: he -- half and half. caller: the news media, either right or left, it's not in their best interest to help the people follow the money. they get billons of dollars from polluters, whatever. even wall street.

they put wall street people in and our health is at risk. it's not just him. it's all the way down the line. but what are we worried about being overseas or more people going to die from hoar health care than they are from terrorists shooting us. and i really believe that bush -caney administration will be happy because they will move up a notch from being the worst administration thanks to trump. and trump's family's 100-year history, not one of them has ever been in the military service. and my point is if he loves america so much, why don't he and, you know ax lot of these other politicians and rejoin the service? but then again, i think in a way, another crash will come. they seem to need a crash every year when the rich get richer.

we had the dot-com crash, we had -- host: before we get too far down the road, let's say thank you and hear from jim in loma, montana. jim, you're on the air. caller: good morning. i think he's doing a fine job. and if he does nothing else but for four years, present the further progress toward a more social lisk society and then i will consider his tenure a great success. host: "washington post," nearly a third of territory reclaimed from the islamic state in iraq and syria in 2014 has been won in the past six months because of new policies developed by the rump administration --

host: steve, our on the "washington journal." wear talking about how the president is doing six months in. republicans only. his first segment. caller: he had congress that didn't like him. democrats and republicans were outspoken about him. we had a republican congressman down here that said he didn't support him. he didn't vote for him. so congress on a daily basis still lets us know that they're all alike. you put them in a paper bag, wipe their face, they're all alike.

that's congress. everybody in this side really knows this including you, right? it's a crazy world and he's the outsider trying to make a difference. i think he's doing a good job and i would like to break it down. you just mentioned something about military. i think he's doing an a-plus job in the military, restrengthening itself and hopefully, we can keep isis in check. economy, a. no doubt about it. things are changing. jobs may come back to america. he's trying to create a business friendly environment to keep jobs here. i live in a state that we even got samsung coming here from mexico. fox condo in wisconsin, $10 billion investment there. well, let me come back to it. with regard to the federal d.o.d., he's doing a good job other than legislation's trying to make its way out of the white house to mess around with

federal workers retirement system. he's not going to be too popular doing that. immigration. this most recent policy, he's doing a good job. he's trying to. it's just trying to get a check and do something about it. everybody knows we can't handle the numbers. we can't have this open door point of view. we just can't support it. host: your senator, lindsey graham has been pretty critical of the president. what do you think about that? caller: i'm not a lindsey graham fan. but really -- now i will say this. lindsay, of course, is on the senate and arms service lindsay is strong in the military and i appreciate that. but other than that, he is a closet democrat. and he's one of those congressman that has track here and he doesn't have to have obamacare. in 2010 under the legislation,

everybody had to take out an exchange plan. in 2014, the law was changed and they got the government to kick in a portion of their premiums. a lot of people still say i want the same plan that congress has. congress has obamacare. the single most important issue in this country in my view is the economy. and now why? once you get a good strong economy, money starts to flow. revenue starts to flow. it helps the tax base. even poor people and the social programs are supported. and everybody's happy. everybody's working. and the people who are not even working are probably getting some money from the government. that's the biggest single issue. i don't know what we're going to do about the health care issue. host: that's steve in north charleston, south carolina. this is the "washington journal" on c-span. we're on every day from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. and this morning for our first hour, we're talking to republicans only.

how is the president doing six months in? numbers are on the screen if you want to dial in let's hear from j.d. in alabama. good morning. caller: good morning, peter. i believe president trump is doing an absolutely terrible job. i was thinking in the past of some really great republican leaders who had real character, n such as ronald reagan, abraham lynn continue. isenhower. typical excuse of the day to avoid real combat service. he played soldier for some little boarding school upstate. father sent him up there. so now we have got a guy when has been a real estate magnate

who has declared bankruptcy of throes three times in his career and it wasn't all just for strategic reasons. it was because of imcompetence. what he is doing wrong is he promised that he would -- a few of the things that i can list. he promised he would take on the unfair policies involving trade, mill sedation -- military san diego of china. we have seen him do nothing. e've seen him kowtow to china. another issue, jefferson sessions. senator from alabama. a man of real integrity. wove seen trump attempt to humiliate him because jeff sessions did the honorable, decent and correct thing in recusing himself because of his involvement in russia.

trump's administration is the embodiment of corruption. we saw scaramucci. that man embodies trump. the two of them are like characters of the "jersey shore" program. they are absolute lowlifes. they brought the country's discourse into the gutter. the only thing trump has done so far right is to appoint a pro-life supreme court justice. that's it. host: j.d., which way are you going on august 15 in the senate election down there? caller: i'm voting for judge moore who opposed -- actually, he stood up for -- he opposed something and he was removed from office because he stood up and said that the 10 commandments should remain in his courtroom. the liberal justices of alabama impeached and removed him. he won again, the supreme court justiceship of alabama and then

he opposed same-sex marriage. he was removed yet again. he is running for senator. there's a man who went to west point military academy. fought in vietnam courageously. didn't defer. grew up a hard scrambled world and judge moore is the kind of man we need in office. host: this is frank from virginia. caller: i think president trump's doing a real good job on most everything. i don't know with a these idiots that you have called in complain. they either don't listen to the news and all the griping that they prefer doing about him. he's only done two things that i didn't like. one of them is comparing pocahontas from this woman from massachusetts. i like poke han tus. -- pocahontas. he shouldn't have talked bad about her like that.

he should have cleaned the white house out. from all that come in the trash that obama had in there. and they shouldn't be allowed to stay in the office for five minutes he was sworn in. e should have run him off. and i just can't imagine anybody thinking he's not doing good. the best morning i'll have today will be when i wake up and channel 26 and channel 60 are blank on my tv. that will get rid of cnn and msnbc and that will be a great day. host: and that's frank in virginia. a couple of tweets. john smith tweets in. congress needs to leave the gravy train and jump on the trump train and work for the american people. and stella says referring to an earlier caller, jim in montana equals bingo. we must halt the march of

socialism invasion of muslims and eliminate huge bureaucracy and regulations. ed from north carolina. let's see if i punched the right number there. hi, ed. caller: hi, good morning, everybody. i like to say that president trump is doing a fine job. i know that the bureaucracy and everything in washington, d.c. with all of the people in the congress and everything that don't want to support him. but, you know, he's a -- when he came in to the presidency you know. the way of congress and then everybody was against him and all that. i think sooner or later, they're going to find out that this president is for this country and for the people in this country. and they're going to finally figure out that if they need to get -- support this man for what he is trying to do for us. i don't agree with him on the

health care policy and stuff like that. but there's a lot of people that deserve health care, you know, that will be probably cut off. anyway, i just like to say that i'm proud of mr. trump for what he's doing and i hope the people in the congress and the house and everybody would get on board with him and help us make this country great. host: "new york times" this morning. u.a.w. accuses nissan of scare tactics as workers reject union bid in the test of the ability to expand regions in the south. -- host: mona, front royal, virginia. good morning. how is the president doing so

far? caller: oh, he's doing excellently. i want to say so are you. the person -- well, the ones who are for them do a wonderful job, especially when they know their fact and listen to the news. i agree 100% about the and ivity of msnbc and cbs weta. they're very negative. anyway, you're doing a good job and so is trump and so is pence. all the republicans are except -- host: mona in front royal, virginia. just want to point this out. we're not going to have a chance to go through it this morning but in case your interested, the "washington post" is a very comprehensive and extensive study this morning. here's the front page of the paper. fired rehired since 2006.

at least 881 police officers have been dismissed from 37 of the nation's largest police departments for behavior that betrayed the public's trust. of those, 451 appealed and won their jobs back. so it's a really comprehensive study that they've done in case you're interested of reading that online or via paper copy. mike in oak fwrofe, missouri. mike, good morning. how's the president doing this morning? caller: well, i believe that our president is doing a terrible job. i am republican, but i can't fall in line with this tail kissing because all the time, he is preaching buy american, hire american. his companies are overseas. when is he going to do his part about giving americans jobs? and i hate his policy on polluting the environment. i don't think that we can stand

for that. he wants to take our health care and kill us with pollution all at the same time. and i just think that all the lies, he can't tell the truth. i'm sorry, but i can't get behind this man as president. host: mike, where is oak grove, missouri? caller: just south-east of kansas city. we're in the kansas city metro. host: and did you support -- who did you support in the republican primary? caller: i supported trump, actually. and i just hate the way it's turned out. host: all right. that's mike in oak grove, missouri. harry is in forum park, new jersey. harry, you're on the "washington journal." caller: oh, yes. good morning, john. i think he's doing a very good job. it's a liberal media. very upset with the fact that

illary clinton didn't win. but overall, his concern about the economy is very, very important. and i think he's doing a good job. he's getting more jobs back into the united states. i mean, if you realize what he's -- is th some of the going to be building a plant in the united states rather than mexico because he had threatened he would give heavy duty imports if they decided to build it in mexico. what i'm concerned about with him is i remember when eisenhower became president of the united states. the first thing he said was that he's not going to let the military run his administration. and i just hope that's the same way with him. because i'm so concerned about the number of countries that don't like the united states and it's scary to me in that area. i just hope that, you know, we

try to use diploma -- diplomacy with north vietnam and any country. it's just something that, you know, very scary. but overall, i think he's doing -- at job and host: who are you supporting in the gubernatorial race this year? caller: i was very upset with christie as far as his job was concerned in new jersey. we really need the tunnel going into new york because we're just relying on so many of these cars trying to get across the washington bridge or through the lincoln tunnel or the holland tunnel. it's an absolute nightmare. my son works in new york. and he can tell you just how horrible it is to get there. and we had the opportunity and christie all of a sudden just vetoed that. so that's a shame. but i'm not really sure yet. i'm still going to support as

far as the governor is concerned. christie are probably go down as one of the worst governors the state of new jersey has ever had. and i'm very happy that trump didn't take him into his administration because i think, you know, he had more trouble than what he now has with his family members, especially with the kushner family, the father and the son being so involved. host: what do you do in new jersey? caller: i'm a retired school teacher and i drive part time school bus for the morristown area school. it's a prep school in morris town, new jersey, co-ode school. and i do that part time and i am a varsity boys coach at the school. so i'm busy with that.

host: janice us next. caller: peter, it's so good to see you on "washington journal." warms my heart. [laughter] host: makes me tired. caller: well, i wish you would come back more often. host: no, just getting up that early in the morning. caller: it's tough. host: by the way, janice, at noon eastern time on book tv, we have our in-depth program this month. caller: well i know that you're on there occasionally but sadly, i don't watch book tv very off because of my computer addiction. host: oh, ok. all right. caller: but anyway, i remember one of the things that trump has said was we are going to get tired of winning. i'm not tired of winning but i'm tired of seeing his face and hearing his name every minute. i am kind of tired of "washington journal" always leading with trump. i know that he's in the news but he's in the news because they keep putting him there. one of the things and i don't watch as much as i used to, but one of the things i'm wondering is have you guys done any

segments on wasserman schultz nd the i.t. guy and how that's possibly going to tie into the russian investigation? host: you think that's a segment worth doing? caller: oh, yeah. instead of always talking about trump. host: we're taking the polls. we're simply asking republicans only. ow is he doing it? caller: i was dismayed but then i was like this is ok. it's just republicans. host: but we're not add anything. we just want to hear from you guys. caller: right. that's why i decided this is ok. but my point is that most of the segments it seems to me, are trump can spend this and trump can spend that and what is your opinion? and one other caller did mention the use, you know, the news

media is totally negative and they're going to find every little thing that they can that's opposing him. but i think this wasserman schultz story is huge and i would like to see more coverage of it. because i just can't believe -- i would love to see if he would look into this. it doesn't look like he will. the whole thing is just ridiculous, this whole russia thing. one thing, if i may, i was not the biggest trump supporter. and right up until he got the -- i mean, he was way down on my list. he wasn't at the bottom. i don't have a real big opinion of him before this. but i will say that when he went of the iowa state fair and he had his helicopter and he's taking kids up and down from it, i now right there he's going to win. because how can anybody compete with that? and i'm ok with what he's doing except i wish that they would

take his phone away from him. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] caller: some of the outrageous stuff. but it's a great cabinet. and i think that they're getting stuff done. the people that are so worried about the environment, nobody wants dirty water or anything like that. he's just knocking down the ridiculous rules that are preventing companies from making money. he's not going to muddy the waters and such. host: janice, what are you do as an independent? caller: well, i'm retired so i can do and watch. host: from what are you retired? caller: i worked in the telephone company for 30 years, southwestern bell, the best of them all and i drove a truck collecting money out of pay phones. host: you drove a truck? caller: well, then. host: ok. caller: and i do like to drive. i occasionally take up -- i work for another company for four years driving for a car service. you know, people back and forth to the airport.

host: are you ever thought about uber or lyft? caller: i have thought about it. i can't ever get a strict answer from anybody but i think some uber -- i talked to my insurance company about it and they said if you want to pay $300 a month for insurance and i don't know if that's so. but i'd like to get back to work and i'm really too young to just sit around the house. i retired at 49. host: congratulations. [laughter] caller: well, you know, there's trade-offs. but anyway -- i hope you will get up early occasionally because i really do miss seeing you on "washington journal." host: yes, ma'am. appreciate talking to you this morning very much. but we've got two more hours of the program coming up in just a minute. e're going to be talking about u.s.-russia relations and the russian investigations after

that. joe mixon will talk about the trump administration's crackdown on gangs such as ms-13. but first, we want to show you little bit of this week's "newsmakers." richard neil, congressman from massachusetts. he's a top democrat on the ways and means committee as tax reform becomes an issue in the coming weeks and months, we sat down and talked to him this week. ere's a preview. >> there could be room for bipartisan. it strikes me there's broad agreement and 31 years is a long time to wait before we try another attempt to bring the tax code into conformity with a new globalized economic situation. kevin brady and i have had a good relationship. and if they decide that they're going to do this on a one-party

basis that we don't end up just with tax cuts as opposed to tax reform. >> can you talk more about priorities that democrats would like to see in tax reforms? what areas do you think you guys overlap and highlight some areas that could be the biggest problem areas for you. >> it's strong agreement on the idea that there's $2.8 trillion that sits offshore. some of that's intangible assets. so that's not going to be brought back. but there's a lot of money that could be brought back hopefully for infrastructure, for example. there's also on the democratic side, a yearning to address the issue of the skills gap that exists across america today. if six million technology jobs that go unanswered in new england, you have between 16,000 and 20,000 precision manufacturing jobs that go nanswered.

the meeting was anything but harsh. they would adhere to revenue neutrality which means they will prescribe a number of dollars around in the current system. where i think there's going to be broad disagreement with democrats is his ejection of neutrality. that's where the nub of the resistance will come in on the democratic side. host: and the phone interview with congressman neal will air on "newsmakers" at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span and you can hear i on c-span radio and "newsmakers" is available online at c-span.org. we want to introduce you now to samuel charap who is the rand .orporation talking about