which party should control congress and why. >> the midterm elections coming i am a democrat, but basically i would just like to along and dy get everybody work together, instead f this and them and everybody bickering back and forth, we need to work together and put a into our pect back country. i think we've lost a lot of that, learn to respect each other again. would like the democrats to be able to hold the party the fact of -- i am personally a democrat, i'm a voter, most likely all democrats, but i know they able to be that way in congress in a long time. you know, where one outweigh the other one, i ould like to see the democrats win and be the majority. ♪ the state, part

capitals tour. >> relationship between political climate and your stress level is our topic for half-hour. arthur evans is our guest, he's c.e.o. of the american whichlogical association, just released 12th annual stress in america survey. evans, how many americans say that the political environment today stresses them how does that compare to previous year? dr. evans: yeah, a lot of mericans are saying they are stressed by the current political environment. 9% of americans are concerned about the future of the u.s. and that's ssed by that and up from last year, where we had 63%, a high number. this year. i think one thing that is crosses about that, it across political lines. majority of republicans, independents feel stress in terms of their concern country. future of the >> over half those surveyed elieve this is lowest point in

the nation's history they can remember, at what point do you somebody who as studies stress and its impacts? dr. evans: well, you know, what survey is showing is that the current political environment is having an effect the ep and he will one of reasons we do the survey is one, to understand what are the tressors that people are experiencing, but more importantly to educate the public about stress and impact on our health. we know that unmitigated stress results in a whole series of mental health challenges and it's important to know what those stresses are and manage them as best that we can. are you questions, stressed about the current political environment, how do you deal with it, how has it your life? give us a call. up. phone lines split two-time middleweight champion and won a bronze medal at the 2000 olympics -- start calling in now, dr. evans,

are americans getting better at that ng, at mitigating stress or getting worse? > what is happening, it looks like the current environment is causing more stress. one thing we know is that as we get older, we are better able to manage that stress. stress the lowest levels are in older americans. in highest stress levels are younger americans and the survey, we looked at generation between 15 and 21. that age und was that group experiences stress at higher rate than other age groups. fact, on a whole series of questions, they rated that, more were stressed ey by events in the news like immigration, , some of the political issues that are happening. numbersme results, some specifically focusing on

sources of , citing stress. 75% mass shootings. shootings.chool 68% are very stressed about the future.'s 57% cite immigrant family separation and deportation as source of stress. you noted sexual harassment ssault reports, 53% of generation z sites it as source f stress, what is the takeaway for the youngest americans? what is your advice to them? dr. evans: right. americans, in that age group, they are not fully mature. that helpof the brain us with executive functioning, or kinds of functioning skill to manage this kind of stress are not fully developed around the age of 25. you have young people experiencing the same thing that lder americans are experiencing, but they are not quite capable of dealing with that. we learn over time, how to manage stress much more

effectively and so you have are exposed to the same things we're exposed having not fully, not the same coping skills, same coping mechanisms and the thing necessary perspective, that is one thing that happens as we mature. have that, they are experiencing that. as a country, we have to be concerned. the role of out social media, not just for young asricans, for all americans, both a source of stress and also oping mechanism for some people. dr. evans: sure. about media, the survey half of respondents in z said social media support. half said social media caused them stress. we have to be concerned about proportion of young people who are seeing this as a source of stress and the other thing that our survey consistently shown is that

the amount of social media that to our in also relates stress. it is important to manage that, to cut it off. say it is like a soap opera, sometimes you can miss a few pretty easy to catch back up. host: relationship between political climate and your tell us about it. david, you are up first, from maryland. caller: yeah, thank you for taking my call. thanks to c-span and for this the guest. -- i was s in the nder a lot of stress at that time and i remember when i came (gulf war) i ended up being under different type of stress, the stress of everyday life. i noticed that my body was affected by the stress the same that was the first time hat i realized or that i

realized how stress affects me ersonally, physically and emotionally, so, you know, as political climate, i ave noticed that i do feel stressful about it. think just thinking about the opics, i think my main area of stress is because, you know, the much, but ies so congress doesn't do anything know.it, you they don't check him. then the people that support him are ultimately, they're these lies and it's rustrating when you can't -- when it seems like you can't do anything about it. the social media, you mentioned the stress level and how that affects people.

i do know that i just want to make a quick comment that i just recently started on twitter and a sort of hat it is stress reliever to be able to and put it out there, you know, because when you can frustration and yo your -- get the emotions out, it helps.f i did notice it was a strange thing about social media on that. thanks for the call this morning. dr. evans. dr. evans: first of all, thank ou for your service, you are saying a number of important things. ne, you recognize that the stress that we feel actually does have an impact on our on our physical state and so that is one of the important to manage it. you also said that you are seeing things that are happening in political sense and feeling that you don't

ability to act on them. and i would push back on that and say that you do have an to push back. you have the ability to vote, you have the ability to be politically. one of the things we know from the research, the more that we take proactivend actions, it actually helps mitigate our stress. to continue to be engaged and to act on those feel strongly about. host: i want to show viewers a stat that you came up with survey on how people are dealing with the political climate. with it plan to deal by voting in the mid-term election. those mericans, 87% of responded to the survey saying they plan to vote in the midterms among the boomer generation, 76%, generation x, that illennials 68% and youngest generation, generation z, 54%. true.ans: that is again, that is an issue because

that is theneration most affected by what they are and least tically likely to vote. as i said, it is important when when were stressing us, are concerned about things, for us to take proactive action to those. message is, young people in the age group who have the ability to vote should get out engaged in the political system. tj, rhode island, good morning. caller: good morning. hello? ahead, tj. caller: good morning. i'm stressed just about every i watch the nightly news, on how everyone cares, i politics big ver time. and i get stressed, my stress are how they distort the ruth about what our president is accomplishing, accomplishments, also, they tell has truths about what he done and anything positive, i mean anything positive, our

is switched s, around to -- just this morning "the today show" how much tax money cost to bring southern troops to the border. this is like they twist everything everyday. to turn it off and i have when i only c-span, hear representative or senator peaking on the floor, i hear everything they say, not just a five-second piece that is going the news. you know what i'm saying? ot a five-second piece, a segment. not just what the president is oing to say for -- they take out a little piece of what he said, but don't tell the whole said.of what he host: when do you feel it is okay to turn some other networks back on? you go back to things that stress you out in the first place? caller: when maybe something entertainment going to come on. i take out the politics.

entertainment segment or when the weather is going to come on. i mean, really the first thing the morning they bash our president first thing first, agenda.main i already voted. i'm actually so true-blue i'm working the polls. this is my second straight year this year. volunteer for my town that i live in. it.njoy i want everyone who is a legal system to get out and vote, no your views are. i have conversations with friends, we go both sides. i'm an independent, but i am -- you, i went down the ticket republican this year the whole way. was disgusted with a lot of democrats not doing anything, to stalling and saying no anything, even if it is on their agenda on their side and lying healthcare issues they want to take away mandatory --

you have an illness, the republicans are going to take it away from you. island.j in rhode dr. evans. dr. evans: only thing i would say, you are doing a lot of that we recommend people do to manage stress. limiting stress, being conscious the things that stress you and are taking action and you're politically. i think the kind of things you are doing and engaging, one i really like that you said is that you're talking to riends who have different opinions on both sides, i think the way you framed it. we need more of that. think it helps to increase the it lity in our country and also is healthy in terms of us managing how these events are us.acting so congratulations. host: harold in wilmington, north carolina. you are on with dr. evans. caller: good morning and thank you. born, franklin roosevelt was the president and i've never

seen a president that causes so disruption, like the entire country was just about to fall a hole by him being so so smart, he's saving us all. them eople head and bash up against the police sob, calling he people names, disrespectful to women and acting like a common man. buying prostitutes, doing just any old common man would do, yet he get away with it. blind and i can't get around and i'm afraid what to the united states. rubbing shoulders with ictators, such as the man in korea, vladamir putin, saudi for a, act like he's not this country. where he's from, i don't know. host: let me ask you one

this survey, in the stress in america survey. do you think this is the lowest nation's history that you can remember? you have been around a long time. i've never known a president to call so much kind of n and -- some complaint, something about this country. so bad, he try is need to resign and get out of office. that is harold, north carolina. dr. evans. dr. evans: one thing the caller out, we have unconventional president. i think both supporters and would agree to that. and unconventionality, relates to ility uncertainty and uncertainty does cause stress. element, that at characteristic can be a source of stress for individuals. waiting in thousand oaks, california. good morning. morning and good thank you for taking my call. comments, couple of

doctor, first of all, someone wiser than myself, father --doctrine, my olite company avoid discussing politics and religion. that advice has actually worked the past several decades and i just don't get because i don't discuss politics or religion with anyone in polite company. just don't have any social media, so that also sometimes people say well, we're not polite. i say, well, i am. that creates doctrine that go aesses and if i want to step further, i go, you shouldn't discuss politics because, ing especially thanksgiving, because it ruins your appetite, you politics or cuss religion during your meal because it ruins the taste and

sdesz discuss it after thanksgiving dinner ruins digestion. people laugh. i avoid stress. that is all i have to say. you. host: thank you for the call from california. dr. evans: i think those are advice.great host: 12th annual stress in america survey, why did you feel it 12 u needed to start years ago? dr. evans: we did because we understand that stress is to our health status. thingsated stress causes like depression, physical onditions like heart disease, obesity and so as profession oncerned about the health of americans and how mental health issues like stress are related that, we thought it was important to get a handle on that. twitter want to know if you study psychological stress of children separated parents by ice. dr. evans: we actually have,

shows ody of research separating children from their parents is extremely stressful children, it's particularly stressful. so we use that body of research advocate for policies that and that would actually not allow children, particularly young children to separated from their parents. so while the more recent policy is beingsomething that studied now, a large body of research shows that is not good for children. host: research available on your website? of american site psychological association. arthur evans is the c.e.o. there. waldorf, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you taking my call. i just wanted to say that i'm a lot of the previous callers, i'm 37. not seen this roar, so much a

division. i'm from california. i live in maryland. the climate is completely different at both ends of the country. to say that my stress comes from the fact that veteran, am a although i went to school and i worked hard as a registered nurse, i was diagnosed with ms. okay. i have challenges, so because i have those challenges, i feel like i don't have a lot of control. of politicsto a lot and that rolls over to the fact the it seems like government is out of control because although trump does are against all of our morals, a lot of our norms, seen, g that we've ever nobody does anything about it, which makes me believe that must feel the same way if they're not doing anything to keep him in check.

me not being able to get althoughun for myself, i have in the past, in the military and as a nurse and to the fund for social security and things, i'm concerned that something is going to happen and take my medical away from me, what am i going to do? many other peep nel my situation. so that's why i'm starting to about what is going to happen. host: dr. evans? again, thank you for your service. and i do think there are things can do. even if you have more limited mobility, you can still engage the political process. you can certainly do things over internet to make your views known, cureach out to your those officials and all things are important in terms of our ability to manage stress. you should ing that be conscious about is what is

social ial support and network? there is quite a large body of the more hat shows people we have in our lives, the network, the cial better we do in a series of areas, in our health status, our and to the degree that you are feeling that kind of stress, you don't want to isolate, you want to make sure you are reaching out to people, be supportive, friends and family. the survey, one thing that people have reported, friends family are a major source of coping with stress. i would encourage you to reach to those people who can be supportive to you. oft: your thoughts on impact negative campaign ads. midterm campaign sets record for negative ads, since 569,000 negative ads have aired in federal races, record of t the 2010 450,000 negative ads, that released to study

yesterday by the wesleyan media project. dr. evans: well, the reason we have negative ads, people believe they work. survey the point to the is that they work at a cost and it is a cost to our health and a nation.our so i think ultimately as decide if have to we'll reinforce that kind of behavior or not. in arizona.tt good morning. caller: good morning. evans, thank you for your participation in this discuss this morning. dr. evans: good morning. to ask thatuld like you have people look at the consideration of music and how can help you in life everyday. intakeuld ration our news to like five minutes total in a 24-hour period. should listen to a lot more usic and then can you explain the difference between pressure, where you know what things are

impacting you, and stress, where you have all these issues and you don't know which is pressure which is stress? host: got that, thanks for the call. sure if i not quite quite got the question. did he say pressure versus stress? yes. dr. evans: stress is the result of us feeling pressure that we cope with.uately o, stressors are pressure, those things that cause us to eel that we may not have the ability to adequately address those things that are happening us. and the point is that we need to things e of what those are, what are those things that re causing stress to us and then either mitigate those things, limit those things as of, have some great examples or learn how to manage the results of that stress. maryland. in you're up next, go ahead. caller: good morning.

political stress is the fear the fear that the party nd this president is going to try to cut social security. i waited my whole life for this, everyday they will cut it, i need the money. need it, enough they water and healthcare. veryday i worry about healthcare, my healthcare benefits for my family, the aca greatest thing that ever happened to the middle class. everything was mandated, the companies, i e i do have obamacare, but shiel-- blue ss blew shield that was mandated. 'm stressed worrying about social security. i think the gop and this president is going to try to cut it, you know. saying they're not going to, but they will, especially if they win the house

senate. host: thanks for talking about your sources of stress. you talk about what you mean by emerging sources of stress in your survey? well, there are issues that are happening in the way i would describe this is the events that are happening in the news, how seeing that and taking that in, that is not benign. issues that are coming up in the news are affecting our stress levels and again, that is having an impact health. host: more results. 42% of respondents says personal is emerging stress and 28% instability.ousing 24% discrimination, 20% hunger. issue was the hunger actually a surprise to us that a quarter of -- almost quarter of are reporting hunger is an issue and when we looked

data broken out by race and ethnicity, some groups like report hiez higher rate of that. hat was surprising to us 6789 host: frank in pennsylvania, good morning. caller: good morning. calling in to say that stressed out behind the fact when i look at this president ere, the way he runs the country, he's mentally unfit to run the country. ego problem big that, her things like legal, eagle and legal that he a president on as and it is obvious to see that he man really doesn't care about the whole of america, not or the black folks white folks, he really doesn't care. is to n objective to me get ahead and people just want to, you know, the democrats

with all d a chance this redistricting and the way children with our this lead in the water and carrying on, it's just a shame. shame. host: frank in pennsylvania. you have been doing the survey or 12 years now, can you compare the finger pointing to the president as a source of under president trump versus under president obama? r. evans: well, the finger pointing, i think is something that is increasing in our culture. it's hard and the survey doesn't look at any particular individual. hat we look at is overall climate. and all of our political leaders contribute to that climate, some that some political figures contribute more to that environment, but it is an environment, it is an ecosystem, that is what we have to be concerned about, overall ecosystem, what is the tenor we want to have in the country discourse?l right now it is not too civil nd we have to do something

about that. host: few minutes left with dr. evans of the american psychological association. how long have you been studying issue of stress? dr. evans: a.p.a. been doing the since 2007, interesting result, we don't ask the same question every year. few years we focused on political issues and there has een a lot of interest in that, clearly from your callers. you see people are very concerned about the political impact it's the having and so we focus a lot more on that in the past few years. this year we looked specifically at generation z, that 15 to 21 what is group and happening to them. host: a.p.a.org, to look at results. time for a few more calls. ken here in d.c., go ahead. morning to both of you. how are you? host: doing well. caller: thank you. you for your time. in a climate such as this, you start to have violence among different ethnic

shootings, it becomes certain amount of racial trauma associated with it. noticed that when something happens, like in pittsburgh, it which a large issue, indeed it should. however, racial trauma in years cumulative effects have been happening in chicago and other major cities for a number of peoplein particular with in color. i work in the intercity, been a new e officer in camden, jersey, district of columbia and miami and worked throughout many including los angeles. there is a certain amount of not gnorance, but to ignore the obvious and i ask you, so in your findings and study over done anything that has analyzed anxiety that in this el, not just climate where, you know, this person that sits in the white i appreciate his candor, i don't mind his honesty, but his honesty is what people, i think at times justifys their irrationality.

study u done any necessary particular with young people and the long-term effects on them, i uses believe societal as much as anything. thank you. the caller is pointing out a couple important things. ne of the things we do do is look at the data, aggregate the data to look at data by gender by ethnicity. ur data showed that consistently individuals who are from various ethnic groups at a much stress higher rate than whites in the survey. hat has been a consistent finding and find females and women experience stress at than men.e each though we see overall tress rates come down for the population as a whole, still discrepancy between men and and discrepancy based on race and ethnicity. not ow these thipgs are affecting people in the same way.

disproportionate for some groups and as caller pointing out, important to recognize that. host: rachel up next in texas. good morning. caller: good morning. i was just going to say that i obama twice and this last election i did not vote, my husband did vote for trump. and we never argue, but when it to politics, we argue. to yesterday, i had him oogle the unemployment under obama and how he created jobs google i had him to trump unemployment and although claim he has created was a lie and he got very upset arguing.tarted and another thing about this wall, i seen it on c-span that wall will never be built for the fact that the land owners do want to give up their property and it will be in court will never d a wall

be built. that is another lie they tell. host: rachel, before you go, how many times a week do you and your husband argue over politics? well, when i had voted for obama, he would come in and on, he would news say, turn it off, i don't want o watch that, i can't stand to watch him. he comes in and wants to tell me everything trump has done. because i watch c-span. host: rachel, have you ever thought of not talking about your husband? caller: it is hard, i'm a head-strong woman and i've never run over me and especially when i think i'm time and that is the only we argue. but he's not going to get the put himme, i'm going to in his place. host: rachel in texas. dr. evans. dr. evans: yeah. well, you know, she's pointed that i nteresting fact think as a country, we've lost of art of debate, right? one

the things that contributes to believe, is ty, i that we haven't had -- we don't country, toills as a debate very controversial issues a dispassionate standpoint. if you look at the models we models we have on elevision, people tend to divolve into homonym attack, opposed the person as to attacking the argument. not saying that about rachel, way s a whole that is the political debate goes. we don't have that skill of controversial difficult issues in dispositionate way, we end up each other and that is a skill and something we can change. arthur evans, c.e.o. of american psychological association. apa.org, check out the results we talked about. thank you for your time.

appreciatethank you, it. >> on c-span live at state dining room at the white house. trump this afternoon meeting with c.e.o.s, business state and rkers, local officials discussing a pledge to create more jobs. should get underway shortly. after this event, the president heads back out on the campaign in florida this evening for another rally, this one at eastern, live over on our companion network, c-span2. >> as we wait for the president

and the event to begin, look at part of this morning's "washington journal," midterm elections in california. host: continue with this discussion focusing on house attleground series as you continue to call in, we're joined for this discussion by vanvectin, political science professor at university of redland. you for getting up early for us this morning. we talked about some of the toss-up races, but he political report has 13 races in play this cycle from toss-up to leans one way or the that unusual for that many races, that many house a ts to be in play in mid-term election cycle? uest: i think any given election, handful of races are toss-ups. whoever the minority party, they

are going after seats as hard as they can. n this cycle, we see democrats going after republican seats, if whiff of ven a vulnerability and some cases, a chance republicans, if there is democratic turnout, that some races, where in which the have been very strong, that they might be overtaken. actually turn, then i think those would be good going to the house is turn democratic. host: we've shown our viewers a where these districts are that we're focusing on in california. located in er southern california. what does that tell us about the olitical fault lines in california today? guest: well, the fault lines have been shifting a little bit. that democrats really do have a plurality registration in the state. are some about 45% democratic registrants in the

state. but we've also seen for the first time, republicans are as ally a minority, as far registration goes and they've callovertaken by those who themselves no party preference voters. o what we've been watching, if you watch registration numbers, really california has been oving into the democratic column. although we're not absolute majority, democratic state, as you can see. over 50% democratic. but we are democratic, at least overall, the top number of democrats registered. what we see is playing out is here in southern california, in last few decades, republicans have had an dvantage, democrats have been slowly overtaken. trump.ka [applause]