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>> "washington journal" continues. do open phones for this last half-hour of this edition of "washington journal," about any topic you'd like. we'll put the phone numbers on the bottom of the screen and in updated news from the day. look forward to hearing from you. tweet or hang on and we'll get to the calls. but one story we're following this one. it is out of chicago, u.s. news com, reporting on it, chicago filing federal lawsuit threat regarding sanctuary cities. the mayor is fighting president trump's policy with lawsuit alleging it is illegal for government to withhold public grants from sanctuary cities. the lawsuit is expected to be earlier mr. a day

manuel said chicago won't be blackmailed to change values as welcoming city. new ials say there are qualifications for a grant requiring city to share authorities, ith which they allege are unconstitutional. million in ived $2 such grants last year, which hey have been using for buying police vehicles. news.com, and .s. see how the story continues to play out. rasalea, first from new york. couple comments, one follow-up regarding senators we have, in new york state, i believe we had 26 senators, many two or senators have three fully staffed office necessary new york state. starts their pay, i year. $179,000 a

host: state senators in new york? caller: yes, new york city, we and i haven't checked the numbers, but they hire a lot state.ators in each each senator can have like up to two, some have three, i know them have two fully staffed offices. different if d be we were accomplishing something, but we're not. dying.k state is being squeezed with taxation. the other thing is about the al qaeda. this is kind of follow-up to the fellow who said 30 years war.actured i think i kind of agree with that, because here we're over that have notries attacked us. ll right, one may have, but here we have north korea sending direction and we haven't retaliated in any other to say we're sanctioning, we have been doing that for years, tossing money years.for

the thing is, i believe, we korea afraid of south getting hurt, we're afraid of is a and my belief, this just my belief, is that china is funding north korea. conduit to attack us korea, so all of this stuff about the enemy and craziness going on, i think the is we had many of these senators maybe paid off by companies, l manufacturing companies, so we will gridlock. his is why the parties are fighting. they are all pigs at the trough. host: all right, thank you for calling. want other viewpoints, including mitch. the e north korea story, "washington post" follows up on the weekend activity. korea, be north smart, halt missile test. delivered frank advice to north korea on sunday pyongyang to make a

smart decision, stop investing nuclear tests. the statement from the foreign minister came after a decision impose sanctions on north korea and on export and suggested the american push isolate the regime in north korea, reaping some dividends. the foreign minister calls on the u.s. to dial back the tension. "washington post," mitch, we have you now, memphis, tennessee. ahead. caller: thanks a lot. guest. on your recent since all wars are banker's wars, all have you to do is turn t.v. and watch the guy's eyes to tell he's lieing and he was squirming around on the calls. o, when isis, which stands for israeli secret intelligence service is what it should be attacks tel s,

aviv, vatican, you will know it s real and not green screen terrorism. they are talking about north korea because that war never ended, that is the only card they have left to play where they don't have to go to declare war. that is why they are pumping that up, that is all vito say. thanks for calling, mitch. herry, calling from florida, democratic caller. hi, sherry. caller: hi. want to talk about stephen oore and heidi, with the tax cuts. host: sure, our economic decision. yes, that -- all you downto do is turn the t.v. and watch people's eyes and faces and you will know they are convinced with the things they say, they are just appeal to the american people. didn't believe half of the stuff

that he was actually that was coming out of his mouth and then as far as talking about regulations and taxes, i guess people forgot about bush nd cheney era, how they bankrupt this country by no taxes.tion and no they had wall street begs, going jobs actually bleeding seem to fist and they always go back to -- obama when he came in. was a mess and i don -- you have to spend money to make money. this guy had the economy to get primed again and this is, you now, i look at the claim of trump saying that he has gotten boosting and all.

why? because he was inaugurated? nothing. he changed none of the policies that obama had in. signing a piece of paper doesn't make a difference, why? make nks he's entitled to those claims because he was inaugurated? steve, he was guy, scared to actually mention obama's name. and then heof obama cannot give obama credit. months of trump is ridiculous. ridiculous. host: thanks for calling, sherry. got your time there. on the side from bayside, new york, republican caller. good morning. morning.ood thank you for taking my call. host: you bet, what is on your mind? caller: it's a pleasure. i would like to speak about disheartened.ry i'm a republican, conservative, compassionate republican.

worker.cial i see people everyday. with -- my heart is in people.other the t to get right to point. the amount of money that we send so-called otherg countries, let's say, for when is with isis, enough enough? take care of our own people first. it's the bottom line. see people coming in, all walks of life. you wanted to talk about talk about low income, you used to be middle i grew up, but i'm sorry to say that doesn't exist anymore. health care, the

price of medication, it's and obamacare is ot really working and i'm in the field and i'm in the rontlines and i see what the hurdles people, elderly, have to there. parties, i'm fed up with. i'm a republican and i'm fed up with the republican party. i'm also very disheartened with the democratic party. parties first g and not the american people. nd i wish there were more people out there and more news stop, ations that say, , let's get ough together and do something to solve the problems of this country. and i need and i

thank c-span for giving me the opportunity to reach out to my americans and write to congress people and senators and enough is enough. host: michael, thank you for tennessee, lt rachel, thank you for being ahead, please. caller: yes, i wanted to make a the russia rding hacking. i had recently read reports by cia and nsa intelligence actually better regulate the -- from the d.n.c. in fact it howed wasn't an external hack, it was internal leak that was -- yes, leak copied on a usb

totally recopied and the we have been told for last nine, 10 months and i'm not been why this has covered and these analysts have been interviewed. one analyst, bill benny, former and it iewed reports , usb conclusive evidence drive that was downloaded with copied, les and it was appalled lly, really totally against provocation and constant

anti-russia narrative that is being told to the public and i it is very dangerous to war and go back o the days of the -- and mccarthy era.- there are special interest in the security intelligence industrial complex complex that want this increased tension because helps, you know, their business, bottom line, to have a perceived nemy or threat and when you are dealing with another nuclear power, this right. not o i expect this report to be covered by the news because this everything we have been told thus far regarding the russia hacking is

false and -- going ll right, rachel, to let you go, get other voices in there. the lead story in the washington has this. trump-russia deals once encouraged. local nald trump and his real estate company were making limited number of financial in the 2000s with russians, the political permissive.as more what was done then with encouragement of washington harshly today. investigators looking for collusion between trump campaign russia. whoever talked to a russian is in danger, of being subjected to interview, any deal trump organization may have made five foeder ars ago might be .r special counsel ashington and liberal press corps seem to bless everything russia. bama administration urged

entrepreneurs such as mr. trump to do westbounds moscow. story in ad news washington times today. ook at adam shipp of the house intelligence committee leading things from that perspective, he the weekend er yesterday talking about russia. you lookt tells me, if at context from james comey's testimony, before our committee, opened the current intelligence investigation last means one year later, rather than turning the investigation off and concluding, we looked at this year, there is nothing to see, as the president would the , instead, if allegations are true tis moving grand jury to th subpoena subpoenas, witnesses and documents, that wasn't take there was no evidence, no evidentiary basis to move forward. what has come out in the last month why the investigation is probably closer beginning than the end,

with the e-mails about the don, of the top three trump campaign people meeting with representatives of the russian government effectively are promising dirt as part f russian effort to help your father, to help donald trump, as ell as clear intent by the campaign, don, jr. saying he would love that kind of help. layer of the president, if the allegations helping to fab riicate a false statement what the meeting was about. i continuing is significant development, not particularly unexpected and you're right, you read this means indictments are going to follow, but nonetheless does mean the being gation is not turned off, but moving into a new phase. host: should point out, the lead in the times has this. trump on offensive in the mueller probe. the are saying here that president and his campaign organization are going to war gainst the russia

investigations, launching ulti-pronged public relations offensive to spread distrust of the special counsel, robert his probe. from middlebury, massachusetts, hi, eddy. caller: good, how are you? host: doing fine. shipp is a hack, the emphasis of the d.n.c., probably hacked because of schultz, you know. korea, back to north he's a nut. he killed his brother, executed and he's in kahoots diversion., it is china ng in ukraine and advancing into the south seas, shores of vietnam and philippines, whatnot, that is the problem, it's really russia and china have you to worry about. host: thanks, victor from bar

harbor, maine, hello there. isis to hange from north kore a. host: okay. think, i hope there is and plan to invade ccupy -- because if you don't occu a lot of lives lost. host: do you see this actually that, ng, something like victor? don't see , i do, i other way. going nowhere. host: anything else, victor? thanks for calling. making news es" this morning as far as administration is concerned. pence denouncing article that came out over the weekend about what ambitions for 2020, they say mr. pence declared loyalty to the resident on sunday, denounced

"new york times" article suggesting he was positioning himself to run for if the in 2020, if mr. trump does not seek a second turn. the morning le in times is disgraceful to me, my family and our team. allegations in this article are false and represent the latest attempt by media to this administration. the eport that came out in "new york times" over the weekend. president trump this morning tweeting about this. he he "new york times," writes, which has made every wrong prediction about me, win.ding my big election it is totally inept. look at the tweet, while we take call from kay, in missouri, good morning. caller: hi. taking my call. host: you're welcome, what would you like to talk about? i believe, lieve -- well, mark, first i want to a te mark twain, who was member of the antiimperialist nobody remembers

this, his writings on american activity were very good. he said, capitalism is all about cheating people and i would also ike to point out that the americans need to listen to saying about t is time.publicans at this he thing is capitalism is just a bad economic system. which l based on profit, eans that someone is doing extra to provide that profit and makething does not have to a profit. if public service businesses need to sustain themselves, that includes, of course, making people, but there are questions that are just not discussed now.

i think the first thing we need money out of our elections in the united states maybe follow the english model of limiting campaigns and giving every candidate equal time. think, why aren't the insurance companies in the loop at all?al care they have no real reason to be taking.xcept for profit they are not medical, they don't provide any service. be there. need to and who is going to deal with this d. shortage in country, which we know we have, and every other shortage.ofessional you can't substitute nurses for octors, sorry, i don't agree with that. host: kay, thank you for calling. ther front pages from around

the country. arkansas democrat gazette, about for north korea to calls to hold talks. the star tribune in minnesota of governor mark dav several other folks arriving in the islamic center community and he offer support the day after that community was bombed. see the physical damage from saturday's bomb attack, ncluding destroyed ceiling panels and carpets. the governor condemning the bomb reporters rush in to show solidarity. star tribune. wisconsin state journal, caretaker or undertaker, the they are trshgs ttributing to the president, the photo says the president's administration may find itself awkward role of caretaker of

the affordable care act. democrats fear sabotage, that is in the journal. and the story about veterans and exclusive, they write, the report coming out today goes like this to begin pentagon health care providers fail to provide rucial follow-up for troops diagnosed with depression and post traumatic stress syndrome, suicide.isk for study today by the rand orporation, 30% of troops with epression and 54% with ptsd received appropriate care. this report was commissioned by cases tagon and examined of troops diagnosed in 2013 with or both n, ptsd conditions. "u.s.a. today" received an advanced copy of the report from new york, where joseph?n,

caller: rifkin is west of new falls. in between -- and kingston. there, ort of upstate right? caller: correct. host: what are conditions like these day? caller: a lot of rain and a lot pretty grass and peaceful. host: how about economically? a little distressed. '90s, ss of ibm in the both in kington, slowed everything. we're relying on people from new york coming up to vacationing. right. right. have you called in about what today, joseph? caller: i called in to encourage that you have had reated a very intelligent conversation about all the very ts and america is

alert on what is go og now political and we see things clearly. air, ange is in the thankful for c-span for allowing the space. that's it. host: thank you, joseph, thank you for telling us about rifkin, york. comments about us. jeff, lavern, california, jeff, mind?is on your caller: hi. and explain to talk a trump supporters, as democrat, why we feel there is collusion with russia. as a candidate, trump sa i want russia to bring up e-mails, so we can prove that they were missing. he asked russia to do that and by bill as interviewed

o'reilly. and the only thing i ever agreed putin is aying, hey, criminal, he's a killer. president of the united states said, americans too, they are not innocent . unbelievable ost statement and convinced me there was collusion because he put the united der over states, our integrity and over he forces of the american veteran. does trump why voters believe that those e-mails are only for hillary clinton? been sued in has

court and the judge told him, do the e-mails and he erased them, not to mention, and all the ity for.r stuff he's been sued you trump voters, if you had common sense, you will see the and corruption. host: thank you for calling. if you have been wondering about spicer lately, after his tango with the press corps, sean sit this dance out. what they are talking about here, "dancing with the stars," sorry fans of the spicer u won't see mr. waltzing across the floor. turned down the show because of commitments in the fall. tmz quoted a source saying no explanation of what the entail.nts might another theory suggests spicer could be saving himself from

humiliation, he's not a good dancer said the source from tmz, from rick learned perry his mistakes, perry, who is energy secretary, voted off week during cond his run on the show last year. a bit of flavor from the the ington post," from featured section there. florida, rom republican, you are on the air. host: did i get your name right, name?s your caller: cecil. host: i'm sorry, go ahead, cecil. caller: i'm calling, we get stuff made overseas and nothing country n. my opinion, i blame the union, i don't blame republicans, or although democrats are union people. the union is what it is. years old. o me, the '50's and '60s are the best years of our lives, i buying had two vehicles,

snowmobiles, i lived in minnesota. times, now the best everything is made overseas, the reason it is going over there, union on the three automotive companies in detroit the wages ear raise and raise benefits and wages and all workers thought the well, thewere greedy, companies weren't greedy, they were the greedy ones, they got everything jacked up so much that they had companies had to start getting built overseas and as far country,n cars in this we don't have no more import have, and ie used to blame clinton for that. say s far as working they we got to have mexicans and all over here and work. the reason we can't work, one haven is because we got to a college education to go out and work for some construction up a stop sign, have to

have a college education. seventh even go through grade in thank you for callingd sharing your story with us. michael is on the line. down to our last couple of calls here, we think. democrat from georgia. caller: hi. i was calling because i am concerned about the fcc. i am very concerned about the fact that the fcc is issuing licenses for short short-term broadcasts, lower power broadcasts so people can hear local voices. they are being gobbled up by larger voices, louder voices. i believe that locals should be able to talk to each other. i feel that we are being drowned

out. i also feel that what is going on with the internet is very disturbing. i think there is a disconnect between people like our previous caller, the older generation, that do not quite understand that the newer generation are wise on technology. host: let me jump in on your concern about the internet. caller: specifically? net neutrality. i see the new head of the fcc rolling back a lot of the obama executive actions, and i am very concerned about that. i would like to see a free and open internet, where the

comcasts, the time warners of the world are not allowed to restrict what websites we can reach, what information we can premiums ort paying anything, really. an internet that i grew up with that i started with . dyone can start with an mature, and they can develop a maturedsame way i have and, you know, grown and put in the work. host: ok. thanks for calling. thanks to everybody who called. we are out of time.

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