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this hour, what is on your mind. for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, and for independents (202) 748-8002. host: will take a look at some headlines, trumps war on the fbi. reacting to the firing of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. the thought in virginia news leader is led by white house, no exit is coming, the white house is assuring people that there is not a mess exit us -- a mass exodus coming out of the white house. beaumont texas, beaumont the newse is led by that hackers threatened u.s. energy. the threat from russia cyber security hackers to the u.s. other grid, and

infrastructure targets. finally miami herald is led by that tragic incident, the collapsed bridge where the death .oll has reached six there are questions about cracking that was seen on that bridge before that tragic accident. john is calling from herndon, virginia, on the democratic line. caller: thanks for taking my call. i would like to say that i was very angry last night when i saw that mccain had been fired. the reality is that andrew mccabe was set to retire, he gave his entire life for this country the best he could. he doeshis president, not forget and forgive things. he knows if you say something against him, he will get back to you. that is a mediocre way. the reality is this, this president is not talking about

goingappened to the case on right now. he wants to divert the things in different ways. it is a shame that our secretary .f state can fire off a tweet i do not know where we go from this, but the reality is he's trying to evade the issues so we can talk about something else. i'm going to say one thing. fbi alreadyy of the said it, there is no reason we should be doing this. of people would be fired, including john kelly, and jeff would be next. host: according to the wall street journal president trump and his chief of staff john kelly have reached the truth -- a truce.

they had settled on a truce at least temporarily, but keeps the chief of staff in place of the white house grapples with the turbulence of several senior departures. in a rare move white house officials said there would be no major personnel changes friday after a week while stuff was detracted by rep -- distracted by reports that h.r. mcmaster may be heading for the exit grid officials cautioned that the president will continue to make changes as his priorities evolve. the west wing's political operations have come under scrutiny after the republican loss of the pennsylvania house election. on our republican line, good morning. happy sympatric say everyone, i hope everyone is

praying the rosary to protect this great -- happy st. i hope everyone is praying the rosary to help protect this rate nation. i want to ask, is the british nation really trying to get this nation back? i think they are working very hard to accuse states that want to be independent, like russia. leave them alone. we have these incidents where we have the hillary, and the pfizer abuse-- and the fisa were a british spy was paid apparently, and then we have this russian add-on. and now we have people who would been poisoned, and they blame russia. i believe russia is doing their best to try to remain a sovereign country. i believe they have been an aid in fighting isis. i believe we need to back off of russia.

now as far as the focus on great britain, we had someone here peddling his wares to try to promote and get our government to regulate the bitcoin. which is nonsense. here we go again. i think we need to be very consistent in rooting out these contenders to take over our country and plan is one world country, one world religion, and none of us will be happy then. host: jimmy is on our independent line. caller: i would like to talk about the war in yemen. not many people have been discussing that lately, but it is still going on. it is basically the iranians isrsus audis -- the saud fighting over yemen. i think we should consider helping the iranians over the s.udi'

one of the reasons is the iranian army has helped us in our fight against isis in both syria and iraq. as you may know, the capital of synoc,s the knock -- is which is short for is not our problem. thank you. host: on the front page of the washington post today, president swapped $4 million from the saudi's were syria -- four syria --for syria. end of the call according to u.s. officials the president believed he had a deal, the white house wants money from the kingdom and other nations to help rebuild and stabilize the parts of syria that the u.s. military and its local allies have liberated from the islamic state. the ultimate goal is to prevent

syrian president, and his russian and iranian partners, from reclaiming the area or from the islamic state from recouping. has long since rallied against insufficient burden sharing by allies. expecting others to foot the bill for expensive post war efforts. james is calling on our democratic line. for taking my call. i'm very angry. getting lots of money from the treasury department in washington, d.c.. and they are closing community health centers. i have used community health centers in the past, many times. they come in handy.

need money does not to lease. community health centers are very positive. and their closing them for wall waste money is stupid. brand is calling in from nashville, tennessee, on the independent line -- and brandt is calling from nashville, tennessee, on independent line. on the subject of budget and homeland security, please present to us a show about how much money has been spent on homeland security since 9/11. deep, dark,he secrets of our national security, those figures have not really been released en masse.

it is broken up into somebody many different services, let me give you two examples. one is the renovation of an insane asylum, property in washington -- a property in washington. the renovation was five to $15 billion to renovate a single building. let's talk about 4 million people with top-secret security, how much money do they get per year times 4 million? i think the other bike -- the other budget issue i want to talk about, is something like americorps. we need a civic service. we need national service. i do not know if it is volunteer , it is not necessarily military , but we have a lot of young people who are concerned about the environment. i think the environment should be the focus.

thank you. on our republican line, calling from forks, washington, good morning. caller: good morning. i cannot believe that someone would call in and say we should side with iran. that's just amazing. trump, everyone is saying has a war on the fbi. the fbi brought it on themselves . as far as mccabe, trump did not fire him. the inspector general issued a report, and jeff sessions fired him. caller: exactly. i think they are independent from the inspector general. so i think is them that ran it down. but he will not get in trouble, or loses pension. .- or lose his pension

he worked for it. i think something is going on. but i think that is -- that is just my opinion. note this programming weekend, our c-span cities tour will ask floor the american story as we travel to winston-salem, north carolina. coming up today at 12 p.m. eastern time on book tv, all of our programs from the city will air together in one time block. we will visit the home of charlie love it who is -- love it --lovett who is been collecting memorabilia since he was a child. -- lewis carroll memorabilia since he was a child. >> the first edition of alice in wonderland is an interesting printing story, he had 2000 copies printed at his own expense.

we see the famous picture of the white rabbit for chapter one. about 50 of these copies have been bound, and they started looking at them and realizing that some had been too heavily inked. some of the printing on one side of the page was bleeding through into the illustrations on the other side. lewis carroll decided that they were going to start all over again. when he decided those pages were not printed to a height of standard is he sold them to an american publisher. i think he thought that americans would not be able to tell the difference. so it is a rare book. there are only 50 copies. that true first edition exists now only in about 22 copies. six of those are in private hands, one of them is in my collection. in thiske sure to tune weekend to book tv and american history tv where we travel to carolina,lem, north

and to see all of the cities we have visited go to c-span.org/cities tour. darlene, on our democratic line. caller: good morning, i want to say that the bridge in florida that collapsed is a perfect example of what will happen to our projects for infrastructure when we are illuminating or lacks-- eliminating or --lax in our laws. to toutetary continues lowering our guidelines for these huge and construction and its to happen faster believe the federal government has, or has the right to oversee a lot of these projects, when they are paying 80% and private

industry 20%. this bridge, a year ahead of time, put up, even the country to put it up saying we have a problem. no one answered the phone. dead because they rushed through a project. to the transportation secretary, who was very hot in her last couple of meetings -- who was last couple in her of meetings, wants to get rid of any protection laws, construction laws, and anything we need to get this done fast is a perfect example of what can happen to our infrastructure. bridges, highways, without having those environmental --dies, and these contracts and these contractors will bypass and you second quality --

and use second quality things in order to make profit. host: and honor independent line, good morning. -- and on our independent line, good morning. c-span, iappreciate would like to make a comment about the general overarching .heme of the lack of leadership prisoner want listeners to ask themselves. when you are listening to callers, ask yourself, have you ever read the united states constitution? isittle bit of information very interesting. a lot of people call in, and i feel for these all, they are not informed -- and i feel for these people, they are not informed. for every's -- for every problem, there's a solution. what we do on the show is nitpick every issue. when we look at the bigger

because no leadership of our ignorance and complacency , hugh had a great guest today, and i commend you for that. -- you had a great guest and i commend you for that. if everybody can ask, am i thinking critically when i talk yet get that's to say. thank you. host: the headline in the hill today talks about the former national security adviser on the ,ampaign trail, michael flynn endorsed a gop challenger to congresswoman maxine water, a democrat from california. -- hisst public up even first public appearance was pleading guilty to the fbi last year. flynn told attendees that he was not your to complain about who has done me wrong, i'm not here to complain about how unfair i

have been treated or how unfair the entire process has been. it is what it is. my previous statements stand for themselves. kevin is calling from san antonio, texas, on our democratic line. caller: a couple of quick things. first thing, when donald trump ran for president he said he could shoot someone, and there would be people who would support them. it turns out to be true. this guide is outrageous things, and the gop supports him. the second -- this guy does outrageous things and the gop supports him. i think it is ironic that trump testifies under oath, because of the decision in clinton verse jones. it is amazing how the politics works this time, the people -- if it tried, they could not see

with this guys doing. especially republicans who speak up against the president of the united states who is not representing us with nothing to be done. our: michael is on democratic line, from kansas city, missouri. caller: i just have a comment, we are talking about the shakeup . the shakeups of this country and the white house needs are these young white future voters to get out and register to vote and get these people out of office. kids that vote to get these people taking care of will be the ones who actually make the country great again. washingtonmorrow's journal we will be showing -- will be joined by the former russia to zach -- russia director, who will be here to discuss russia's role in the

continued meddling of the u.s. elections. and later on former senator and vietnam that jim webb will be military,scuss major political, and diplomatic developments in the vietnam war. that is all for today's washington journal. we will be back tomorrow at 7 a.m. eastern. happy st. patrick's day. >> for the next, a discussion on how schools handle this up when issues. -- handle discipline issues. in betsy devos talks about this of one issues. john cornyn talks about government to/in.

that will be followed by a look at the student rally at the capitol. at a directive fund school safety under president obama should be removed. hosted by the heritage foundation, this is about one hour. >> thank you to everyone for being here today to discuss this important issue. in 2014, the obama department of education issued a colleague letter notifying schools that differences in ascension rates would because for a federal investigation. overhaul their discipline policies, that throne alone catalyzed many schools across the country.