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the eastern or central time zone, you can call in at (202) 748-8000. if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, you can call in (202) 748-8001. and if you are a democrat living in iowa or new hampshire, home of the first two democratic presidential contests, we have a special line for you so we know who you support, you can call in (202) 748-8002. you can always comment on twitter or facebook. the again, later on today iowa democratic party hall of fame dinner will be held in iowa at 3 p.m. and you can watch that today oniltered c-span, c-span.org, and c-span radio. this is going to be one of the largest events so far for the democratic presidential contenders as they try to figure out who is going to take on

president donald trump. here's a little bit from the des moines register today, what they wrote about this upcoming dinner. "19 presidential candidates, 1500 residential activists, 100 members of the media descending on a cedar rapids ballroom on sunday and what will be the largest event of the 2020 iowa caucus event so far. candidates have already held over 400 events in iowa bang -- in iowa this year, the hall of fame event marks the start of the summer caucus season --

host: now, let's talk about about who is going to be there today. the candidates currently scheduled to speak our michael from colorado, new jersey senator cory booker, south bend indiana mayor equal to judge, new york city mayor bill de blasio, four -- former representative john delaney, tulsi gabbard, senator kiersten --,er, senator caller us harris, jay inslee --, let , beto -- kamala harris o'rourke, tim ryan, bernie swalwell,ric

elizabeth warren, marianne .illiamson, and andrew yang once again, you can catch all of this live on c-span at 3 p.m. today. party hallmocratic of fame dinner. we have our democratic callers calling in already. let's go to the phones and talk to chris, coming from chicago, illinois. chris, good morning. thedo you think should be democrats party presidential candidate in 2020? caller: it should be elizabeth warren. host: why do you think that? there fore has been the average american. she supports the average american, the working people, the working poor. who didwho did -- host:

you support in 2016? caller: the person i thought was going to win, and unfortunately she didn't win. that was because i think she was -- they pretty much anointed her , the same thing they are trying to do with our former vice president, trying to anoint him as the preferred candidate and i don't think that is going to accomplish anything. if she gets the democratic nod, who do you think she should pick as a vice president? caller: that is up to her, not my decision to make. keith, also calling from chicago. keith, good morning. caller: good morning. this is another one for warren. i'm a big fan of kamala harris. i like everything about her. .ore and is everything she is a policy person. she has the passion, she has the

charisma, and she refused to go on fox. that was a really important character issue for me. callhe was the first to for the impeachment of this criminal president. i would vote for any of these candidates. slate of wonderful candidates in the primaries. we won't know until after the but right now war ensure looks good. host: who did you support in the 2016 presidential primary for democrats? whose side are you on back then? caller: i very proudly supported hillary. lacking the charisma of good onh warren, but policy. i could have easily supported earnie, but the bernie brothers, the bernie brothers, they went a

little too far. we don't need to attack any of our own. it's unnecessary. hiring squads. we have a great slate of candidates. let's stick to the candidates we choose and support the democratic candidate in the general election. all of these people are head and shoulders above trump. how much attention do you pay to the back and forth between the candidates? i a lot? or more later on in the process? caller: i'm a news junkie. right now none of it matters. we are actually kind of pushing things a little too fast. we haven't had one debate. they are a few weeks away. that's when things shake out. but we do have a new poll this morning by cnn and the des moines register. biden, sanders, warren,

buddha judge. -- buddha judge -- pete buttigieg. host: matt, good morning. who do you support for the democratic nod, right now? , let harris -- kamala harris. she can beat president trump. i think it's going to come down to five cities and three states. philadelphia, pittsburgh, milwaukee, flint. pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, i think it's going to be the african-american vote. if they come out in those three states and those five cities, donald j. trump will be a one term resident, hopefully. that's what we need. i think kamala harris can get that out. i would like kamala harris and

maybe tim ryan or. who did you support in the 2016 democratic primaries? were you a hillary fan? bernie fan? who were you behind back in? caller: i was behind hillary. i am a liberal, not a progressive. i dislike bernie sanders immensely. i considered him to be a left-wing version of jordan on the right. he's too far to the left. medicare for all? forget about it. i have blue cross blue shield, i love it, i don't want to be forced into medicare. yourselfyou see supporting any democratic candidates if senator harris doesn't get the help -- the nod? or are you harris or no one? i will hold my nose and vote for whomever we nominate as long as the person has a chance to dislodge president trump. host: ok.

morning consultancy put out a new poll this morning showing where they think the democratic party candidates are sitting in the polls today. if you look at what they put out today, you can see that right now they have joe biden, former vice president joe biden leading the pack out of iowa at 38%. him you have senator bernie sanders at 19%. right behind senator sanders you have elizabeth warren at 10%. in fourth place in this poll, mayor pete buttigieg and kamala harris come in at 7%. now, once again you will have 19 thecrats in iowa today at iowa hall of fame dinner. but democrats have also been in iowa all weekend long, including bernie sanders. senator sanders spoke in iowa and was asked what he would do

to improve the quality of life for workers in the united states. here's what he said. [video clip] view, the major economic crisis facing the american people right now is that you've got over half of our is working at jobs that force them to live paycheck to paycheck. i grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck. i know a little bit about what that's about. some people don't know this. if you've got money you may not know this. it means that if your car breaks down a new native $500 repair, you may not have the $500. what happens if you don't have it? you can't get to work. what happens if you can't get to work depression like you get fired question mark you can't put food on the table for your kids. half of american workers are living under that kind of stress . that is one of the reasons why the life expectancy in the on the decline.

to my mind, raising the minimum wage to a living wage is certainly not a radical idea. our view should be that in the wealthiest country in the if you of the world, work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. that is not a radical idea. let's look at what our social media followers think about who should be the candidate in 2020. here is one tweet that says --

openingce again, we are our phone lines to democrats only and asking you who you think should be the party nominee in 2020. let's talk to john, calling in from missouri. john, good morning. like petepersonally buttigieg and what he says. i will vote for anybody, whoever judge --or, but buddha pete buttigieg is getting mine. bernie and war and need to stay in the senate. we need to keep those senators. host: who do you think pete

pick as a vp if he takes the top slot? caller: excuse me? the buddhahould be judge vice presidential candidate if he gets the top spot? host: kamala harris. caller: those are the best choices? caller: yes, we want bernie and warren to stay in the senate. if buddha judge doesn't get the nomination, do you see yourself supporting whoever they nominate question mark caller: oh definitely -- nominate? caller: definitely, got to get rid of trump. host: carrie, manhattan, kansas. good morning. caller: it's jim. host: say that again? caller: my name is, my name is jim. host: sorry, sorry jim, go ahead. caller: just wanted to say that

i think joe biden has the best chance to be trump. host: do you think joe biden should be the president's own nominee for the democrats question mark sorry, having a hard time hearing you. caller: yes, yes. host: who you think the former vice president should pick as his vice presidential nominee? host: i hope that he -- caller: i hope you fix harris or warren. caller: who did you support in the last -- host: who did you support in the last? caller: sanders, sanders. host: jim, do you think that no matter who the nominee is for the democrats, you will support the democratic candidate? or are you behind biden or no one? absolutely a democrat, anything to get rid of trump. host: all right. isthe phone today with us

anita kumar, white house ."rrespondent for "politico we will talk about the white house and what we are seeing later this week. good morning. guest: good morning, how are you? doing just fine this morning. what do we expect to see coming out of the white house this week question mark we had that late friday announcement about the decision not to put tariffs on mexico. will you hear anything about that later this week? guest: i definitely think we will. the president was gone to a week -- for a week to europe and made the announcement made on friday. we will have the weekend to have talked about it, but he is going to be talking a lot about it next week. he thinks he got a good deal has alreadyand he been tweeting about it. you can expect them to talk a lot about how he feels like he had a very good win, even though a lot of democrats were chris -- criticizing him. a lot of republicans were also

worried about it. he feels like he did a good job. he's going to be going to iowa , some of it for his campaign, some of it is official, i expect he will talk about it a lot with farmers. is there more coming from the russia investigation this week? from guest: over on capitol hill we're going to see a couple of pivotal moments. the biggest thing really is willer the house democrats go ahead and hold the attorney general in contempt. they were scheduled to do that and are scheduled to do that i, you know, in the full house on tuesday. there has been talk in the last few days that they might not officially do that, but change ,he powers that the house has making it easier for them to go after certain documents in court

. basically, they have a process where they can subpoena documents. if the white house and the administration don't give the documents, there's a process to get that the court. they want to speed that up. they are talking about giving them the rules to go to court right away and petition the court to make the administration turn over the documents. the question is whether they will include contempt in there or not. sounds like they have been wavering back and forth on whether they should. contempt is pretty symbolic. it basically means that they are referring a case to the u.s. attorney to say -- hey, you can prosecute this person. the chance that the department of justice prosecutes the attorney general is pretty small. host: what else are we looking forward to this week? we were talking about tariffs with mexico. other conversations about trade in america? yeah, i do think that the

president and the administration is going to go back to -- well, they haven't really stopped doing this, they are going to be pushing their agreement with mexico and canada. people call it nafta 2.0. they are getting rid of nafta and they would have this new agreement between the united states, mexico, and canada. the administration, including the vice president, has been part or congress to go ahead and vote on this. speaker pelosi has been reluctant to go ahead and set a vote. the administration has been pushing congress to go ahead and set to vote and you can bet that they are going to be, now that the president is back they will be pushing for that even more. host: what else should we put -- keep our eyes open for this week? will president -- president trump you said is headed to iowa . anything else we should keep our eyes on? guest: this is the time now. it's june. he has set his first official reelection campaign rally for

florida in another week. the following week. i think you will see the president and his campaign ramping up what they are doing. they are considering that the official kickoff. we have seen him campaigning but i think we will start to see more of that. i mentioned iowa. he has had a fundraiser for three election campaigns. you will see a lot more of them starting to do that. the president is again leaving the country i couple of weeks, trying to get in a lot of things before he goes to asia at the end of the month. host: i know that there was a lot of discussion lately week about the fourth of july celebration going on in washington, the the with president trump us participation in that. where does that stand and what can we expect from the president on the fourth of july in washington? guest: it's not clear how it will differ from the fourth of july celebration already happening.

there is obviously a huge celebration that already happened in the city move something of federal government put on. to beent trump wants involved in that and he says he will be giving an address of that. the big way that we see that there will be something different is that he is going to be giving a speech. that hasn't happened before. it's not clear what the other events will be. there is already a daylong celebration and, obviously, fireworks. the president said he's going to give a speech, there will be fireworks and other celebrations , we will start to see the details of that coming up in a few weeks, pretty soon. host: i would like to thank anita kumar for being on with us this morning and giving us a preview of what the white house this week will be like. thank you so much areas guest: sure, thank you. -- so much. guest: sure, thank you. bet: who do you think should your party's presidential

candidate in 2020 question mark let's go back to james from silver spring, maryland. good morning. caller: i think that elizabeth warren is the president, but i wish she would pick catherine williams as her vice president. because we need reparations. we need reparations for all of the pain and work that we did and did not get paid for it. host: for our viewers the don't know, who do you think she should pick as vice president question mark caller: catherine -- vice president? caller: catherine williams is on a ticket saying the we should get paid reparations, ok? host: so you think it should be an elizabeth warren catherine williams ticket. if she doesn't get the nomination, do you still see yourself supporting up democratic candidate against president trump no matter who it is? caller: yes, i would.

i would support them no matter who, but i wish we could come to some senses in this country about what is going on and what was going on. we don't understand that if we are going to, we be having problems, the country tested by our maker. god who made us all. this is all i can talk about. thank you anyway. host: let's go to dave, calling from des moines, iowa. dave, good morning. caller: good morning. host: you are in iowa. how much attention are you paying to the candidates coming through your state? caller: a great deal. , you know, the coverage on tv, read articles in

the paper and online here and there. who do you think should be the nominee in 2020? caller: chelsea gabbard. host: ok, do you plan to watch the iowatoday at democratic hall of fame dinner? caller: i've been to watch all of it. i like the fact that she said she would never use our troops for political purposes, like bush did. fact that she had the the last timeign

and she favors a minimum wage. i think single-payer medicare , i think she is a genuine democrat. doesn't get the nomination, do you see yourself supporting whatever is on the ticket? caller: no. host: how will you figure out to vote for who -- for president question mark -- for president? toler: i would be afraid write her in. last time i wrote in senator sanders for the presidency. he's ally caucused for last time. actually go plan to to cedar rapids to the hall of fame dinner? or do you plan to

watch it through social media and television? caller: i don't have a car anymore, there's no way to get there. i will just watch it on tv. keep in mind, everyone, at 3 p.m. c-span will be airing partyhe iowa democratic hall of fame dinner in the speeches from the 19 candidates. on c-span, it here watch it on c-span.org, and get it on the c-span radio app. phoenix,calling from arizona. david, good morning. good morning, it's great to hear the conversation. i love to do here all the different ideas for the different people. mostwhat i hear, i see people want to support the democratic nominee. which is different than four years ago. i was a door locker for the

democrats for almost 25 years and i knew hillary clinton wasn't going to win, even though i did vote for her. she pulled what i basically caller john kerry and said -- there will be a lot of people that don't vote for me and i'm not going to waste that energy. that's sad when our candidate does that. 's outcome of this time ongoing centrist spark log, amy klobuchar. i would like to see either may --r peach or kamala harris or kamala harris as her running mate. host: what brings her to the top of the list for you? caller: when i was knocking on doors, i got to meet her three different times. she came to oregon, where i was actually from. i was working on the very first kurt schrader campaign.

his very first national campaign. she came in and she would talk to us, she would push us forward and really dig into why we wanted a democrat. very thought-provoking. where we are in a time are supposed to be in the greatest economic times in's the roaring 20's. and yet we are not paying the bills. cannot pay the bills at the best of times, when are we going to pay them? we need to take down the debt, get our budget in order, stop this block granting that gives of rhode island as much money as oregon or california. that is just stupidity, ok? need a leader who is going to look at all of these things and

so athe necessary changes budget can work for the people and not the politicians. again, several of the democratic candidates were in iowa earlier this weekend. 19 of them will be there today. we had candidates crisscrossing iowa all weekend. cory booker had an event in iowa on saturday and was asked he supports bringing articles of impeachment against president donald trump. here is what senator booker had to say. [video clip] >> i support starting those proceedings because he is now saying that he is above the checks and balances and mandates of accounts edition. he is trying to be an authoritarian leader where he is above the law. it is clearly the job of congress to hold accountable the executive and he is denying subpoena request's requests for information and documents. we cannot tolerate in our society a president that resists

the mandates of the constitution and acts like an authoritarian ruler. starting and peter proceedings -- by the way, i'm not sure if this is a politically good strategy or not. but i know that 20, 30, 40 years from now when my ran parents, my grandchildren are going to ask me when we had a president tilting us towards authoritarianism, i want to say that i stood up and said that he's not above the law, should be held accountable, and we should use impeachment proceedings to get what we need to check that balance. at what some of the viewers of following us on social media think about the question of who should be the democratic party nominee 2020. here is one tweet that says that they believe mayor pete will be that choice.

host: let's talk a bill from douglasville, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: good. go ahead. a democrat aame long time ago, i believe in social justice. i like biden and i like tim ryan. biden isn i like joe and heens, number one,

seems down to earth. he has been through so many things in his life that make him -- will make him a better candidate. senator biden seems to have run into trouble earlier this week about his support for the hyde amendment. did that make a difference to your support one way or the other? caller: no, he was in a different place than. i can see what they are trying to do there. host: we are having our time here you -- hearing you. caller: i said i think that the republicans are pushing hard on roe versus wade right now. i think that that isn't going to hurt haydn at all.

host: lori, wisconsin. caller: good morning, i will be voting for bernie sanders in the primary for sure. my main reason for doing that is i think he is, of all the candidates, the least influence i corporate money. host: who do you think the senator should take as his vice presidential nominee if he gets the nomination? oh, chelsea gabbard. host: do you think you will support whoever the democrats senator sanders doesn't get the nomination? or is it sanders or no one for you? um, i would say sanders or no one, but there are a couple i would consider, possibly. maybe chelsea gabbard. for one. possibly a was a.

mean, i don't think that a centrist establishment candidate will do it for me. something i have always been curious about is why did the antiestablishment candidate win for the republicans in 2016, but we had the establishment candidate? a winningink it was strategy then and i don't to get a winning strategy now. let's go to charles, from covington, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. bet: who do you think should the democratic nominee for 2020? caller: i have got my ticket on joe biden. i have got two words for you areas hello? -- two words for you? race in america and geography. that is what wins.

pick stacey should abrams, from georgia. she excites the base. she puts pressure on herself and republicans. and she brings in young people. other than that, the rest of the field is pretty good. what that is what america needs right now. thank you. host: let's go to rick, calling in from townsend, delaware. how are you? caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: the only imperative i can see is to be trump. and i think that while many of the candidates are really, really good, i think it's joe biden and i think a biden harris ticket would be the thing to do. at the lastlook

vice presidential debate. i think kamala harris would make a great president in waiting when joe biden decides that maybe one term is enough. i think you would just for lay donald trump on a debate stage. you can't govern if you don't win. i think that is the most important thing. that's the imperative. [no audio] in the senate races and in the congressional races of ross the finish line. i think he is a man of character . i think he reaches the voters that we want to reach and i think that he would win. host: in previous presidential contest, someone like senator biden would have thought that would have been thought to be

too old. do you think that will be a problem now? caller: i think that as bill marr said the other night on tv, saying that he's too old and sexism are the last ok prejudice. i think that he's got the energy, the intelligence, and i will tell you something else, i wouldn't be a bit surprised if he ran and won and after one term he said that's it, i've done what i am supposed to do. i be donald trump, i set us back on a course of normalcy, i'm getting things done the democrats want. that's the imperative. i mean, all of these candidates, mayor pete, harris, they are terrific. they are just wonderful. the most important thing if we all going to act like grown-ups is to beat trump. i think he has got the best shot , i think he can reach the voters that we need to reach in the key swing states that everyone talks about. i think a biden harris ticket would do wonders.

host: earlier this week at a d&c gala in atlanta, biden announced he was changing his position on the hyde amendment. he had supported it but now favors its repeal. here's a little bit from vice president biden on that decision and why he made it. [video clip] >> i can't justify leaving millions of william -- millions of women without the access to the care that they need. up i believe that health care is a right as i do, i can no longer support an amendment that that someonependent on [indiscernible] host: gloria, ross, california, good morning. morning to you. thank you so much for your wonderful program. don'ts a name that people mention much. chelsea. chelsea gabbard. i would support her financially.

i would support her morally. i think she would be a wonderful candidate. that she isget given no press, no air, no nothing. host: what brings her to the top of the list for you among democrats? caller: i have heard her speak. it's not easy to find, but she points, a policy. she's not confrontational. she is always tearing down trunk, making herself they buy tearing down trump. herself bigger by doing something like that. to me it's ugly. it's kind of what turned me off to hillary. when she called people who supported trump the florals. -- deplorables. i think that people like her are deplorable.

because i think she's really a very intelligent woman. i don't know what the word is, but someone who is just, like those with moran, who is just somebody who is -- i don't know what the word is. it's too early in the morning for me to come up with the correct words. who did you end up supporting in 2016? behind senator clinton? senator sanders? someone else? sanders.enator i was for senator sanders for a long time. end really upset me to no was the treatment he got from the party. i mean, with those superdelegates that they had? and it she was -- everybody was saying that there was no chance for him at all.

and in a way that was correct in the end. because she had all of these people who were just working against him. and i never expected that. i never expected that from the democratic already. which i don't consider democratic. choiceo, if your current doesn't get the nomination, do you see supporting whoever the democrats put up against president trump? caller: i don't know. i really can't say. ever since the last election, i can't say. i still kind of like arnie. i followed him from the very beginning, when he broke away and became independent. not a socialist, but independent. and i respect him. i have respected him. , allhen when all of this

these things coming against him. what you know, i didn't understand politics. but anyway, i don't want to understand it. there is a dishonesty there. that's really the point with chelsea. broker. honest a very smart person who understands the ends and outs of the democrat party. , calling's go to jenny from dexter, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for that and my call. i'm listening to all callers, they all make valid points. supportpoint i would joe biden, he's the front runner. as i wait for this date online, he can navigate the political system well. a previous caller suggested a tie harris ticket that i think

the great. i think that mayor pete is very intelligent. i think his views are refreshing. i would love to see him as a for to be the nominee. i don't know if that is possible , but i think that field is -- we have got a lot of good candidates. it's unfortunate that it's so large, but there are a lot of good candidates out there? i just think that the debates will separate out people but i do think that it this point if joe biden remains in the lead, i would certainly fully support him. ist: like you just said, it kind of early. how much attention are you paying to the democratic candidates right now? casually caller: i attention? mean, i'm paying pretty close attention. michigan won for trump last time, which was certainly disappointing for me.

i'm not a trump supporter. my husband is a farmer. the tariffs have been pretty impactful. i'm not -- i clearly do not support trump. and just the way that behaves office, for that reason. i wish i could have seen elizabeth warren when she came to detroit. i haven't been able to see any of them in person. but obviously i watch c-span and the other political shows and i follow what's going on. i'm deeply invested in this whole thing. let's talk to paul, from seattle, washington, good morning. good morning. thank you. i would support chelsea gabbard. .he is in a league of her own nobody in that 19 is close to her intelligence or experience. she is a war that. and yet she speaks highly against our involvement in the middle east.

and all of our policing the world. i fully support her. she's good but i have to be honest, by saying the last several elections i voted third party. and i think the other major parties are ruining the country. i'm also a ron paul supporter. and he likes her. if you want an intelligent, constitutional candidate, she is someone we should look at. if chelsea gabbard doesn't get it, do you see yourself going third-party? i will go third party again.

i think they have a real gem here, but she has gotten no press. thank you for letting us speak for her tonight. host: last month, south bend mayor pete would judge asked question -- pete who to judge was asked -- heat buttigieg was asked whether the house should start impeachment proceedings against trump. >> i will say that is very clear the president deserves impeachment and the case for impeachment is being built each passing day. by the white house. we have now is a steady process of taking apart any semblance of respect for law. on see it -- we saw it early . now you see that in trying to block a private citizen from testifying. you see it in refusing

legitimate investigative requests. you even see it if you look at the preface for the decision that came down recently citing james buchanan. you see perhaps the first time since james buchanan that a president has basically try to assert that congress doesn't have any investigative authority at all. all of this is contributing to that case. as to when and how the house goes about launching those procedural steps into an inquiry, i will leave that to the house. because i know that regardless of how that process unfolds, we have got a political job to do as well. >> you support impeachment at some point, but your concern is the timing? won't behe democrats allowed to say this is a knee-jerk action. they are exercising unbelievable discipline given that we are well past the point of what would be ordinarily tolerated in

the republic and still being methodic. look, we should hear from mueller, we should hear from bar . there are a lot of procedural things that should be going on in the various investigations that are half. let's go backin, to social media and see what some of our followers on the media think about it russian of who should be the democratic nominee thousand 20. here's one tweet it says -- bernie sanders was and is the only candidate that can beat trump or any gop candidate. --ther tweet says

host: let's go back to the phones and talk to armand, calling from franklin, florida. good morning. good morning, thank you for taking my call. everybody's talking about who is going to be trump. it's not who's going to be trump, it's who he can't beat. i'm going for andrew yang and marianne williamson. no one says anything about these candidates, but they have more to put up against trump right now. i can't see anything on him, but i'm seeing everything all over the internet. people who don't have the internet don't know and are gang is yet. yangnto the -- who andrew

is yet. get into the yang gang. host: what brings him to the top of the list for you for democrat? caller: he wants to build the economy with a trickle ,p economy instead of being sorry to say, on the trickle down economics -- economy. williamson has the same ideas. you're young. you want your female in the white house with a male. young.want your you want your female in the white house with a male. everybody is wondering who can be trump? well, it's too trump cannot be. he cannot eat andrew yang on all the issues -- he's got 80 some odd issues. nobody's even -- he's not even

being put to the forefront. he's going to be in the debate. about him, anything but he's going to be at the presidential debates. he's got a big halloween and nobody says anything about him because everyone wants establishment. the establishment. the establishment on both sides has failed the country. all of their issues are still failing the country and no one is pushing anything to help the poorest of the poor, that sandra yang, leaving the ubi to people. universal basic income. the country has been profiting, corporations have been profiting off of technology. technology is going to take over everybody's jobs pretty soon. where are the people going to go? to arthur, from memphis, tennessee. arthur, good morning. good morning, i support elizabeth warren. host: what makes her your

candidate? she has got a plan for helping everybody, that's what i like about elizabeth. host: who do you think she should take as a vice president of candidate if she gets the nomination? well i don't know about that, maybe joe biden. audrey, north olmsted, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm for joe biden. primarily because he knows the job. i would like to see the presidency restored to someone who knows the job who can work with the senate, which he definitely could. nobody is going to be able to keep, says unless we have a democratic senate. so, the candidates from the senate i wish would just stay

there and hopefully we can gain enough senators that our democratic to get some of the reforms needed. we need to reform how we elect president. it's becoming to the point where we are not sure whether our elections are honest, and that's dangerous. those are my concerns regarding his vp candidate, i would like to see someone with experience also. however, i think the kamala would be a good choice. to marry, who is going from wolf point, montana. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, we can, go ahead. ander: i think that beto [indiscernible] should go for the senate.

we need senators to be the majority. i would go for more and or kamala. or kamala, they would be replaced by democrats of the got it. otherwise, it's buttigieg. elizabeth warren,, harris, and your third pic is pete , harris -- kamala harris, and your third pete -- pick is pete buddha judge -- pete buttigieg question mark --? caller: yes, we should get more , democratic montana senators, for sure. david, milwaukee, wisconsin. good morning. good morning, good morning, good morning. i'm calling in support of chelsea gabbard. she is the strongest antiwar

candidate that is out there. more inshe would do that regard than all the others. and if chelsea gabbard doesn't get the nomination, do you see yourself supporting whoever they nominate question mark or will you do something else with your vote? caller: no, i will vote for the democratic candidate. right now i believe our country is headed in a bad direction and that getting rid of the person in the white house right now is of number one importance. host: i want to remind all of our viewers that later on today the iowa democratic party hall of fame dinner will be in cedar rapids, iowa, and you can watch it live and unfiltered today on c-span at 3 p.m. eastern, watch it here on c-span, online at c-span.org, and on c-span radio as well. renee is calling from

indianapolis, indiana. good morning, renee. caller: good morning. i'm interested in kamala harris, elizabeth warren, and joe biden. i am pushing more towards the women. i think that would be a great asset to the country if they get voted in. the -- thatve that we need to vote a democratic candidate all the way down. and really focus on the senate. and really, just the republicans have been there, they need to go. they have lost their sight on what their job is, i believe. even when obama was in there. they lost their citing. this is what i believe. definitely women. definitely women. what do you think? bruce,et's go to

oklahoma. good morning. caller: good morning, jesse. i would like to put in two names that were not mentioned on your list. one would be former attorney general eric holder. the other would be former attorney general loretta lynch. i think that either of those two candidates would make excellent presidential nominees. host: have either one of them announced desire to run for at this pointler: i think eric holder is thinking about it lynch, i don't think she has. host: what makes you think that they would be the best candidate for democrat? based on the work that they did as attorney general in the obama administration, they would both make excellent candidates. host: let's talk to rick, from jackson, missouri. good morning.

caller: good morning, sir. host: who do you think should be the democratic nominee for president in 2020? caller: [indiscernible] i like her message. she's much were down to earth on all her promises. host: and do you think amy klobuchar -- who do you think she should pick as her vice presidential candidate? and do you intend to support the democratic candidate regardless of who gets the nomination? caller: i don't have an opinion on who the vice president should be. that is up to her. i am an independent, actually, by will probably wind up voting for whoever the democrats forward. we have got to get the present document out of the white house. that's my opinion. thank you very much.

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we look to secure our fundamental rights and read him, including productive health care. back with tom vilsack the u.s. dairy councils president to talk about trade and what is going on with tariffs and how to fix the farmers. thank you for being with us. guest: it is great to be with you. host: tell us what the u.s. dairy council is and what it does. it is fundedest: through check off dollars from farmers when they sell milk. it is his nieces, processors, traders, co-ops who sell dairy products around the world. principal markets are in asia, x

ago, and central and south america. -- mexico, and central and south america. host: we found out the tariffs against mexico will not go in effect tomorrow and expect decisions on trade in china coming up after g20. what effect would tariffs have had on agriculture and, more specifically, on the dairy industry? guest: this has been a rough stretch for agriculture generally. prices are low in part because the tariffs. china is a major market for soybeans and dairy specifically. it has a rough patch. the administration has provided assistance and help to the trade assistance program that has been announced. at the end of the day, the farmers are happy with the fact that we will not see the tariffs assessed on monday and happy to see the steel and aluminum

tariffs lifted. we are in a position to work with friends in congress to get the usmca trade agreement, which , ratified andafta put in place because that will have an impact on agriculture. we found out the mexican tariffs will not go in effect, what is our trade relationship with mexico? themuch does mexico by from u.s. and how much does the u.s. by from mexico? guest: it is positive for u.s. agriculture. for dairy, mexico is the number one market. roughly 30% of dairy products exported around the world are from the u.s. to mexico. it consists of 75% of all of the dairy imports that country receives. it is an incredibly important market. we are hopeful congress ratifies the usmca to maintain the market free of any barriers and open up

the canadian market a bit as well. this should help farmers across the united states. if we could get things resolved with china, that would be better. host: you served as agriculture secretary, but tell us what the usmca is and how it affects the conversation. indicatedsident trump dissatisfaction with the current nafta trade agreement which involves mexico, canada, and the united states, an agreement in effect for over 20 years. andequired modification they have reached a consensus and agreement. for dairy, it means preserving the number one market in x ago and providing the free flow of dairy products across the border. for canada, -- in mexico and providing the free flow of dairy products across the border. for canada, they have a closed system. the agreement provides for

additional opportunities in terms of export and it ends a pricing system that canada put in place that makes it difficult for american dairy farmers to sell around the world at a profitable price. it gets rid of the pricing system and replaces it with a system which we hope be fair. the bottom line is, the millionion is 200 dollars of business opportunity will open up for dairy farmers as a result of the usmca. for the rest of agriculture, it is preserving important markets for corn farmers for example, the pork industry, and to a certain extent the beef industry is benefiting from our relationship with mexico. farmers will benefit a bit. it will be a positive net effect for agriculture. this is important for your viewers to understand.

american agriculture has a trade surplus with the world paired we sell more products to the rest of the world then we buy from the rest of the world. it helps to create and support jobs in the u.s. export-related jobs usually pay and it is an opportunity to not only help farmers but maintain good-paying jobs. host: i want to let our viewers within this conversation u.s. dairy export council's tom vilsack . for republicans, call (202) 748-8001, democrats call (202) call000, independents (202) 748-8002, and we will open a special line for those who work in the agriculture sector there. we want to hear from you from sector atlture

.202) 748-8003 you were talking earlier about the fact that we have this trade imbalance in the agriculture ,ector there with canada mexico, and frankly, the world. how bad is that imbalance the agriculture sector between the united states, and a, and mexico right now? guest: i want to make it clear -- it is a positive and if it for the united states. we have a trade surplus. unlike a lot of aspects where the world sells more to us than we sell to them, like manufacturing, and agriculture we sell a lot more to the rest of the world. $20 billion to $40 billion a year is a trade surplus we have had every single year for the last 50 years in american

agriculture. it speaks to the productivity of american farmers. they produce more than we need in the u.s. and we can showcase the benefits of the diversity of american agriculture. a lot of market opportunities opening up, a lot of opportunities that could potentially be available assuming we get things worked out with china. it is a difficult period for soybean producers especially, who is selling 30% of the soybeans are own going to china -- soybeans that are grown are going to china. they appreciate the administration's efforts, but aid.want the farmers to and: is a former governor agriculture secretary, what should be included in trade policy that would best help the agriculture sector right now? guest: i think a couple of

things. focusing first and, the trade agreement between mexico, canada, and the u.s., ratified by congress. that would send a positive signal to agriculture. it would be helpful if the administration could continue negotiations with japan and opening free-trade agreement with japan. when we pull out of the transpacific partnership, which was negotiated during the obama administration, when the trump administration pull out, it opened up opportunities for competitors to have a market advantage in japan and to the extent we can negotiate a free-trade agreement with japan, we could re-enter market aggressively. and longer-term is trying to work out a relationship with china. these are difficult negotiations. the administration is asking china to change the way they do business and china is resisting that. hopefully the rest of the world

will side with the u.s. and provide help and assistance to make the case with the chinese that it is in their long-term interest to play by rules that are fair to everyone. situationeen a tough and if the president continues to ratchet up tariffs in china, they will continue to retaliate against american agriculture. in dairy we have seen a significant drop off in china. we estimate with the steel and aluminum tariffs with mexico and china negotiations, dairy producers lost $1 billion in -- between $1 million and $2 billion when dealing with these tariffs. it will need to grow if we don't get some resolution with china area -- china. host: let's talk to robin calling from alabama on the independent line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call.

do you believe that the tariffs that president put on mexico help with what is trying to do on china? and do you or the group you represent believe that the immigration laws or that mexico will be implementing will work? do you agree with president ?rump inflicting them on them i will take your answer off the air. thank you. guest: immigration is important and complex and directs agriculture and specifically dairy producers. many workers who are currently in aquaculture, in the dairy industry, are from other countries. some came here properly and some did not. it has been a difficult

situation. some have worked on these for 15 to 20 years and have been hard-working, reliable people. the company -- country needs a comprehensive- a improvement in our immigration laws. we need a way to acknowledge those who have been here a long time to acknowledge they have gotten here through a payment of pathway toa citizenship so they can start paying taxes and contributing. we need to strengthen the border and there is a compromise for congress and the administration if they could get to work and solve the problem instead of playing politics with it. we have a tendency to use this issue for more political gain. agriculture be very supportive of a comprehensive fix to the immigration system.

the hope is that with mexico the additional troops at the border will stem the flow of folks coming in other countries. the agreement did not include a promise by the mexican to essentially provide asylum to folks coming into mexico. that will still potentially be an issue. we are fortunate that tariffs were not placed on mexican goods. had they been placed on mexican goods it would be a difficult situation for the american economy. of ave had a 10 year run strong economy, but the job numbers this month indicate potentially we need to keep an eye on the economy so we can continue to have the recovery from the recession that we all remember of 2008 and 2009. i think congress and the administration need to focus and get the immigration issue solved. everyone in washington knows what it will take.

it will take a pathway to legitimacy for people currently here and have been here for years. on all take making good promise the obama administration made to dreamers. it will require political courage and hopefully congress and the administration find a way forward. host: let's go to doug from oklahoma. guest: secretary -- caller: secretary, i heard a u.s. senator from wisconsin mentioned since the trump , dairytration began producers have quit producing. town andsed in a small

it is an agriculture town. the corn crop has been ravage southeast of tulsa, oklahoma. when i was raised down there, they had three cotton gin's s goingt one time -- gin at one time. i would just like to say that acres to belot of farmed like that, where the weather is conducive. it is not hard work. you can just get the tractor and

turn a computer on and it will basically drive it self. i just want to get a comment on -- dairyor more firms farms being closed in wisconsin. been a difficult time for the dairy industry generally. job beinglowed the secretary of agriculture in 2017, there were 41,000 farm s working inamilie dairy and we have lost a lot of them. there are a variety of reasons. we sell a lot of commodity dairy products around onld, but we need to focus high value products like cheese. we sell 70% of all of the powder that is produced from dairy processing overseas. it is a commodity and it brings a low price. a low price that has been even

lower in part because of the canadian activity with their pricing system that i mentioned earlier. if we can sell more cheese and high-value protein product around the world, we will begin to see more strength in the market for dairy producers and more profit for processors and producers, and hopefully a healthier dairy industry. the work that congress did in the farm bill of 2018 to improve what was referred to as the margin coverage program will provide some degree of assistance to farmers during this period, more than the 2014 farm bill. that should provide additional assistance and help and stabilize the dairy industry. we are selling more cheese. exports last year were at a record level. this year it, they are not -- this year, they are not at that level. cheese salesarch

were better than they have for one single month. production isse going into the export market. we would like to see that at 9% to 12% and then you would see a healthier dairy industry. as it relates to the weather and thechallenges of farming, reality of crops that can be profitable, it is important for the country to understand that our farmers have come incredibly efficient. as a result, we need to figure out ways to create additional revenue streams for farm families that they can't simply survive on the sale of the commodity they grow. if we can figure out a way to use waste product to produce materials and fuels and iver, -- fiber, we can produce more chemicals and materials and fabrics and what is grown and

raised in the waste product, we can create additional resources for farm families. as we talk about climate change and sequestering carbon, there is an opportunity to use the land they own and create market opportunities. hopefully as we move into a presidential election, there will be a robust conversation by candidates of all parties on the ral economies and how to rebuild them. they not only provide, fiber, fuel, and energy, they also have a disproportionate number of those who serve in the military. it is the contribution that folks want to make to the country -- we want to keep that alive and well and we have to have economic opportunity in rural places for the farm families. host: on thursday, president

trump book to reporters about the trade discussions the united states is having with mexico and china and here is what he had to say. pres. trump: we will see what happened. if nothing dramatic happens, the tariffs will go on. what of will have no idea happens. when you had the money and the product and the things that everyone wants, you're in a position to do very well with tariffs and that is where we are. the united states is the piggy bank and has all of the money that others want to take from us. they are not taking it so easy anymore. a lot of things are happening with the talks with china. on two hunted 25%

billionion and -- $250 and i could go up. host: there has been aid from the government to united states farmers to offset some of the tariffs and dip we have seen because of the trade wars and talks of trade wars. is the aid from the u.s. government helping farmers? guest: first of all, farmers would prefer to have open market rather than government aid. i want folks to understand that clearly. we prefer markets to aid. we areinterim, while having difficulty with tariffs and markets, the farmers appreciate the assistance. the challenge with the assistance package is that it provides a one-year payment or a single payment. for many farmers, particularly soybean farmers, the markets in china are probably going to be

impacted, even if there was an agreement tomorrow. those markets are probably not going to get back to where we were before we assessed the tariffs. there will be an ongoing impact of this discussion and debate with china over trade policy that will impact potentially negatively, some farmers. we have to look at ways in which we can create new ways to use our agricultural product. my bio-basedto economy where we create new revenue streams. we have to look for additional markets. the administration's trade package did include aid to encourage commodity groups that represent commodities to look at additional new market opportunities. we are looking at expanding opportunities in southeast east asia for dairy and to the middle east and it is a challenge for american agriculture when we

assess -- agriculture. when we assess tariffs, the immediate reaction of those countries impacted by those tariffs is to retaliate. when they retaliate, they look at a place where they have a trade deficit with the united states. often times have a trade deficit in agriculture and farm products. they assess tariffs on farm products and it makes it harder to sell in those markets. i mentioned that we saw in china a significant drop off of activity once the tariffs were assessed. we were on pace for a record year in china in the first five months of 2018. in the tariffs were assessed, the market dropped completely. we ended up in negative territory. they have an impact on american agriculture. hopefully, i think some farmers and ranchers are hoping that when all is said and done and agreements are ultimately reached with china or japan or

whatever, the u.s. mca is ratified, hopefully there will isa better -- usmca ratified, hopefully it will be a better situation. whatever aid provided is welcome. host: here is a tweet from donald trump earlier in the week that says that mexico has agreed to buy large quantities of agriculture products from our great a treat farmers. here is information from the u.s. trade representative talking about imports from mexico and saying that mexico in 201820 $6 billion, making it the largest imported $26 billion, in fresh vegetables, fresh root, beer and wine, snack foods and processed fruits and vegetables. we have seen a lot of pictures

out of the midwest farmland. how has the weather been affecting the agriculture sector air, especially in the midwest this year? the flooding has made it difficult for farmers to put a crop in the ground. for those who are able to get a crop in, it jeopardizes whether the crop will grow. normally at this point in time, almost all the corn in the state of iowa in the midwest would have been planted by now. that is not the case today. we are way behind in terms of landing. that makes it difficult because farmers are going to have to decide if they can't plant corn because they don't have enough rowing season to have a crop, what else do they plan? in all probability they would

plant soybeans. the soybean market is not very strong, in part because of the situation in china. you add to the misery by increasing the server was crop -- the surplus crop because we have not been able to sell 30% to china. it has been a difficult time for farmers. they are under stress. they require a great deal of credit to put a crop in the ground and the bankers get nervous when they can't at the crop in the ground. no doubt a lot of stress on the firm today around the country. in some parts of the country, it is not that they have too much but not enough water here and we are facing the consequences of a changing climate and weather patterns that will be more intent and storms that will be more severe and floods lasting longer and drought and wildfires that will affect our ability to

grow and raise crops. that is why it is important to look for ways that we can become more resilient to a changing climate and that requires science and technology to give us crops that can whether these difficult weather situations. ather these difficult weather situations. we need to get into the 21st century and create alternative revenue streams and it could make it easier when they are confronted with a flood or a situation where they don't have adequate water to have a crop grow. it is a difficult time, no question about that. from charlie is calling california on the independent line. very interesting conversations paired i wonder if

you could provide light on the of what is being shipped to china and asia and what effect does that have on the world dairy markets. alfalfant of exports to of western states going to china and the middle east and i was wondering if you could comment on that. guest: that is a question you have asked that i will not be able to answer very well area obviously, the dairy farmers in and country require alfalfa i am not fully aware of what the export potential is. my focus has been on dairy last couple of years. exportarkets have an -- markets have been robust and china has been a significant player. they are dealing with a

situation in china that may not affect the fell for market but it does impact soy market. they are dealing with african swine fever which is essentially destroying a substantial percentage of the production. china is a massive pork producer and they have seen reports as higher 30% and perhaps percentage of their hog population destroyed and will be destroyed as a result of this disease. that impacts the need they have feed,iry products, soy, and that is having an impact. in terms of the export market opportunities, they continue to expand. the reality is we see more and more people in the world that creates more demand for dairy.

as we see the urbanization of populations in africa and asia, it is creating the opportunity for people, particularly middle-class people, to afford the valuable protein that jerry can provide. we see expanded -- that dairy can provide. we see expanded opportunities in --tnam, thailand, thailand indonesia, and other areas. we will see markets in south korea and taiwan. we will see a robust market in japan if we can get a free trade agreement with japan that puts us on a level laying field. -- playing field. if we were at a level playing field in the european union and new zealand in dairy, we would see potentially a doubling of volume of sales in china and potentially a tripling of the value of what we sell to the

japanese. as it is, it is our number four arkin. if we -- market. if we continue to have a tariff differential and if that grows with the eu and new zealand, we could lose a portion of our market share, perhaps as much as one third. it is important for those negotiations to take place because there are expanded opportunities, and we want to be able to take full advantage. host: iphone an article that explains a little bit about alfalfa -- i found an article that explains a little bit about alfalfa. 2017, and news on the export is positive peer total exports of alfalfa is 1.2 million metric tons, exceeding 2016 by 6.3% and marks the first time that the total of alfalfa and other hay exports have

exceeded 4 million metric tons based on data. experts in 2017 totaled a record frometric tons, up 7.2% 2016 and the third consecutive year of alfalfa export year over year growth. when speaking of alfalfa and hay exports, china is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. they purchase 1.1 7 million metric tons of u.s. alfalfa during 2017, more than double the amount but by japan, second-place importer of u.s. alfalfa. that is wonderful, isn't it? it is and the reality is when the tariffs were assessed against china and they retaliated against us, they begin a process of trying to figure out how to rely less on the u.s. than they had in the past. the hogked at

population and looked at new ways that didn't rely on u.s. soybeans to feed the hogs. they reached out to brazil and argentina and other suppliers of soybeans and look for opportunities to increase purchases for those countries. they considered the idea of taking land and other countries and converting it to soy farms so they would produce their own soybeans. that is the reason why i said earlier that these trade discussions and disputes may one a long-standing impact some aspects of agriculture that even if we got an agreement tomorrow, the impact on the slave market will take a considerable amount of time to regain market share we have lost as a result of these tariffs. host: let's go to jeff is calling from california on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask you about your on the hormone additive

to milk and also i would like to forwhy don't you one president because i would support you? thank you. [laughs] there is a tendency for people to think there is a problem associated with it. we had a cheese company enter into the market in the u.s. and in an effort to distinguish itself from other cheese manufacturers and producers, they asked children to articulate what they thought the additive was. they had no idea what it was. they described a monster looking character. they took this description and put together a nice add that showcased this monster and shifted to a mom producing a cheese sandwich for her children in the kitchen. it raises the issue -- as we

learn more about consumers' interests, we know consumers are interested in knowing whether it comes from and how it is produced. that is why the industry -- dairy industry is having an effort to reconnect people with the dairy industry and reconnect them with the emotional side of airy. -- dairy. dairy plays a central role in every family gathering. reconnecting folks and educating them about the steps farmers are currently taking. the vast majority of dairy producers in this country care deeply about their animals. there is an animal welfare substantial a number of farmers are using to take care of their animals properly. they are connected to the community and give back a great deal to the community.

this effort highlights important role farmers play in the community and underscores the nutritional value of dairy products, the essential minerals and vitamins. we refer to it as nature's perfect food. it is an opportunity to educate and be sure that oaks are not discouraged to use dairy products because of claims that suggest there might be a problem with the product when there isn't. consumers have to be wary and continue to ask questions. the industry has to focus on transparency and providing information toh be sure that it is produce in a sustainable way. from let's go to chris maryland who is calling on the republican line. the st. louis fed report about the planting and

how much it is affecting crop. it almost fear -- appears like we may not meet demand or these products that are exported. i know there are weather-related problem throughout europe and china. in the feed prices for corn will raise dairy prices. my main point is -- are we able to meet demand, and the aid that the trump administration was putting forward for the tariffs -- will that be applied to these people suffering from the weather-related losses? questions.e are good the trade assistance package is designed to provide assistance to farmers who have been directly impacted by the tariffs in a negative way. it is not weather-related, it is trade related. so producers, corn, to a certain extent dairy, will receive a

payment from the government in an effort to try to mitigate the consequences of tariffs that have reduced market opportunities. i think we will continue to produce enough in this country to meet the domestic needs. the question raises and point that i want to emphasize and that is americans sometimes don't realize how significant it is to produce enough food for ourselves. we are not reliant on any other country for the food necessary to feed people in the united states. we are food secure. there are very few secure nations in the world. it is an advantage nationally that we have. it is something that china doesn't have and in the long term won't have. they will always be reliance on one else for their food. that is a concern of the chinese government. we can walk out of the grocery store with a greater amount of paychex in our pocket than most people around the world.

nine -- 6% of 9% of take-home pay in the grocery store for food we concern -- consume at home most developing countries it would be 20% and sometimes can be 50% spent on food. it provides x in our economy that allows us -- it provides excess in our economy. exports are important to farmers. that is30% of all produced in the country is exported to other countries. 20% of farm revenue is directly connected to exports. if we have fewer export opportunities because of terrors -- tariffs, that shrinks the bottom line for many farmers. a majority of farmers not only work aeir land but also

second job and their spouse works a job. these are incredibly hard-working people and they have provided us tremendous flexibility in our economy and a sense of security because we don't rely on anybody to feed us. they created opportunities and jobs that are connected to the fact that they can export. it is incredibly important for people to understand this is a totribution that rural folks give us. host: let's talk to dave from maryland. good morning. host: can you speak up a little question mark it is -- a little questio? caller: i just wanted to ask if consumers can expect a price drop in soy products and airy

products any time the near there, assuming international trade situation results in domestic supply for commodities. prices inyou compare the u.s. to our friends in canada, you will find that you have a pretty good deal in terms of dairy products. i don't know that there will necessarily be a significant supplycause there is a -- the folks impacted most directly by that are obviously the dairy producers themselves. seeing american families having to pay somewhere in between -- i saw a statistic averaged $450 per family is being paid as a result

of the tariffs. we are paying more for goods and services than we paid, in part because of the tariffs and that could double over time. it is roughly equivalent to what the same american families received with the tax reduction package passed a couple of years ago. the tariffs are having an impact in terms of what we pay generally for things. i do not think you will necessarily see a significant reduction in the cost of dairy but you will continue to see opportunities and the wide variety of availability of product. when we think of dairy, most often people think of fluid milk, butter, cheese, but there are a whole host of other ways that dairy products are used. many pharmaceutical products contain dairy powder that dilutes the impact of the edison so that you can use the medicine -- the medicine so that you can use the medicine properly.

dairy products are used in health and nutrition bars and drinks. athletes are often taking whey muscles.o rebuild the we are finding a lot of athlete are using chocolate milk as a nutrition drink. lots of different new and exciting opportunities on the dairy side. many snack would you eat have a dairy component -- the components are dairy based. it is a diverse industry and it supports 39,000 hard-working farm families. have this amazing array of dairy products from 39,000 dairy farmers -- if you went to the roughly 600,000 dairy producers in the european union. it is an amazing story of

productivity and hard work. these folks work 24 hours a day seven days a week, we hundred 65 year. year -- 365 days a it is labor-intensive and a hard-working industry that provides an incredible array of delicious and trisha's foods. host: let's see if we can get one more collar in. --caller in. let's talk to susan. i am ahead five points and i will go fast. proud product of the 1960's and 1970's milk consumer. i consider my strong bones a result of that. era,t to talk about in my

when i was a girl, farmers were on the front lines of u.s. diplomacy and the best representatives of the government with their expertise in era geisha and and farm practices. irrigation and farm practices. i think we should revive the milk campaign. i am a huge fan of artisan cheeses. we have cheeses and i think that at the artisan gourmet level, cheese is first in the world for what we produce and creativity. hising to mr. trump and all controversies, i do believe that the failure over 50 decades of the u.s. to enact the visa

program is a disaster. we could collect modest taxation from non-us citizens who need to come here to work or farm and work meet processing plants, but they use our roads and schools and hospitals with the high birth rate on free care. or guest visa program worker program and unless congress gets its act together, there will be another trump presidency i had. host: respond real quick. guest: on the cheese side, cheese is now winning international awards and being recognized as some of the best in the world. campaign, thek dairy campaign is designed to encourage folks about the capacity of milk. seen that this is something the consumer needs to think about.

there is competition for consumer dollars and milk needs to innovate and figure out ways to make it more nutritious and tailor it to the needs of people. specialized dairy products to address health and wellness issues. on the immigration, the guestworker system -- guestworker system is not working and it is imperative that we pass comprehensive immigration reform and that ought to include some guestworker system that does understand the needs of american agriculture. host: we would like to thank tom vilsack president and ceo of the u.s. dairy export council for being here. thank you so much. guest: you bet. enqueue. -- thank you. host: we will have a talk about

abortion with our next guest susan b. anthony list's marjorie , dannenfelser . we will be right back. ♪ today at 3:00 p.m. eastern, democratic presidential candidates at the iowa hall of fame celebration in cedar rapids. speakers include pete buttigieg, christian gillibrand -- kirsten gillibrand, beto o'rourke, and elizabeth warren. watch live coverage of the 2020 democratic presidential candidates in iowa today on c-span. watch anytime at facebook.com.org or listen with the free -- at facebook.com.org or listen with the free facebook.com app. tonight on q&a, a blues musician talks about his book, where he details befriending ku klux klan

members and convinces them to leave. >> he walked in first and was wearing military camouflage fatigues with a blood drop emblem and the initials kkk on his chest. were knights of the ku klux klan. on his hip he had a semiautomatic handgun in a holster. he was followed by the grand dragon in a dark suit and tie. hen i entered the room and saw me, he froze. mr. kelly bumped into his back because he stopped short. they regained balance and i knew what they were thinking -- they were thinking either the desk clerk gave them the wrong number or this was an ambush. so i went like this to display my hands, nothing in them.

i said, hi, mr. kelly, come in. >> tonight :00 at 8:00 eastern -- tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. ""washington journal" continues. host: we are back with susan b. anthony list's marjorie dannenfelser . -- dannenfelser .. host: tell us about the organization. guest: we advance federal legislation and statewide levels. host: do you have a lobbying arm, and what do you plan to do for the presidential election in 2020? guest: we are primarily a political organization. we have a research arm.

part ofvery much a victory andump's battleground states and we will do the same again this time. host: have you endorsed president trump 42020? 2020? -- for guest: i expect it will come soon. host: you served as donald trump's pro-life coalition after securing pro-life commitments from the nominee during the 2016 campaign paired what commitments did you secure from president from? ofst: it was an out growth what we wanted to do for the candidate. once he got to the point where he clinched the deal and was the ur camete, the same fo to the top. it was for supreme court and constitutional

supreme court justices. that is number one. also keeping taxpayer money out of the abortion industry and out of abortions in particular. the to promote and sign bill that stops abortion at the five month mark when science shows the baby can feel pain. plannednally, to defund parenthood and get taxpayer dollars out of the largest abortion provider in the nation. host: has president trump cap the commitments? guest: he has done everything he can in his power to advance those things. courtst important is the , he has done more than any other president in history because he has had the opportunity and has done it thoroughly and methodically. --the other's, progress

others, progress has been made. bill, itin capable passed in 20 states across the nation. know, this senate does not have 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the senate. that has not had an opportunity to happen. on planned parenthood, much progress in the ways he can do that. we are much stronger in the states than the federal level. host: do you participate also in state and congressional politics, or do you focus only on presidential? residential, -- presidential, but because of where the argument is moving and what is happening on the court, the state battles are of primary importance. we are involved in governor races starting with matt evan in kentucky. host: what are you doing in

kentucky? guest: we have a state-of-the-art, top in the nation voter mobilization door-to-door program that we have built. it really is that. voter whoy our basic is not voting regularly, independents and democrats that are motivated, we go door to door. that is a big job. no matter what state you are in, we have found the person-to-person communication is everything. host: do you see yourself increasing the budget for the 2020 election or spend the same amount in 2016? how much is that budget? guest: it is a dramatic increase. numbers, --unicate budget numbers, we always reach them.

our budget this election cycle, which is how we plan, is $41 million for all of the things that we need to do. overis a dramatic increase the last cycle which was $26 million. host: why the increase? reality. based in the reality is we have a supreme court because of the president's election, we see a court inclined, maybe, to allow states to start to legislate on this matter. given that reality, and given the pro-choice crowd and what they think, almost every day of the week there is some new, big thing happening in a state. the predominant is to pass

pro-life legislation but also effort in new york and effort in virginia to pass radical pro-abortion legislation. that increase in budget has everything to do with the reality of the battle right now. you can try to raise money and do all that you do, but when reality hit and you have a battle on your hands, that is when you know it will take a lot of money and it is when people realize that it is real. host: let's have our viewers join in. republicans, if you want to talk about this issue, we want you to .all (202) 748-8001 democrats, your number is (202) 748-8000. independents, you can call (202) 748-8002.

you can always reach us on social media. of the talking about all activity going on at the state level. nine states have passed so-called heartbeat bills that restrict abortion early in pregnancy, some after six to eight weeks of pregnancy. alabama banned most abortions. what is your group's position on these laws? guest: we think it should be on the state level. given what i was scribing about reality setting in and there might be a time not too far away where states are allowed to best the gestation, -- pass legislation, we support any and all as long as they are ethical and they have been so far, legislation that reflects the

will of the people. billsl states passing where you can't abort a child because of disability, ethnicity, or gender. we think that is likely to make it to the supreme court. when a state like new york passes a bill or illinois passes a bill that allows abortion up even ascendedd laws requiring to help the baby if it is accidentally born alive bethose laws will not that is because of what roe v. wade allows. it currently would almost certainly not allow the alabama law and possibly some of the

heartbeat bills to stand. they will be immediately enjoined, and while i wish they would go into law, they are not. we -- with the whole nation is looking to find a point where the supreme court will say, these are the basic things we think is legitimate legislate. the overturning of roe v. wade, we want to happen. what is likely to happening -- happen is there will be a chipping away and more middle ground abortion attractions will come into law. host: let's talk to rebecca who is calling from ohio on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i did not know there was an entity in the white house that , i am so abortion

pleased to hear that. our country is divided on this issue. republican, and just as a woman, i love god, and to me, premeditated murder, that is how i look at it. i know it is abrasive, but that is how i look for it. i appreciate alabama taking the stand, and the wall in new york that they can do post-birth rt, i think when i came out, some of the country was in shock that our country is that liberal in allowing children to we can draw because the line that the life of conception or whatever, but when it comes out of the womb, they kill it, they are making a decision now to actually murder the child. i am going to pray for you, and support you,

and i am thankfu that our president is in the reality of keeping our children are alive. thank you. guest: i want to encourage you that quite a number of people that i work with in the white that think exactly like this president does, he has hired all the right people. there is not an official within the white house that i run. i work outside the white house for the president, and especially in battleground states all over the country, but it is an encouraging moment. i think you're 100% right about what happened in new york. most able to not realize that it would be legal in this country and i baby would be born they would be allowed to die without any protection whatsoever. your question earlier, where people have now come off the sidelines and have really engaged. host: let's talk to miriam, who

is calling from spar, texas on the democratic line. miriam, good morning. caller: yes, can you hear me? host: we can hear you. go ahead. well, i am telling this woman that as a fellow woman here, she should be standing for us. every low income woman should have the right to have access to reproductive regulation. she should be standing for all andn, not just republicans, to think that a person is committing a crime, accusing me of murder, how dare she say that? how dare she judge a woman? thank you for talking about this. aid to lowving

income kids, they are putting kids in cages. instead of that, stopping people from getting access to health care, why don't they work on helping kids that are low income, because they are in the cages out the order? they need to stop putting god in the situation. every woman in this nation should have the right to have access to health care. host: go ahead and respond. guest: i appreciate you calling in. i think it takes a lot of courage to do what i do, to do what you are doing. and you would be 100% right, and in fact that used to agree with the stands that you articulated, very much so, that it was nobody's business but mine whether i would have an abortion hadot, and i might as well easily had one, and i had a lot of friends that did. there came a point in my life, frankly, that was outside of my religious views where i began to

see that this thing that happens, that you can see on a sonogram, is not the equivalent of getting your til tonsils out or getting your appendix looking that a pause in at what we are actually doing to our nation's smallest humans was really important. i was convinced by people who really made me look at that from a scientific perspective. when did you become you? from the beginning. so, while very sympathetic, and i certainly believe in safe whenductive health care, it comes to killing an unborn child, that is not health care anymore. needs ofr the deep people who live on the border and everywhere else who face an unplanned pregnancy, we should all be standing there with an answer to her question, which is -- how am i going to do this? no woman should have to go n emotional,lone, a

health care, or any other level, and that is a vision of a pro-life america that we are right on the cusp of and that i leave 100% in, and so does this president. host: let's go to thomas, who was calling from taxes on independent line. thomas, good morning. caller: hey. mi are now? host: you are. go ahead. want to ask the lady if she knows the bible. if she does, there is one crime in the bible that cannot be forgiven, and if she knows what that crime is. if she cannot answer it, i will tell her. guest: [laughs] thank you for your -- well, you answered your own question i think also. there are a lot of ways that looking at that. i believe in forgiveness, however, for everyone. i think that god is a god of mercy, and when i was in the position of possibly having an

abortion, and again, i probably would have, i believe that if i had gone through with that, then i would be forgiven. but i actually think that where the consensus in this nation is is on the reality of everyday commonsense, which is that you do not harm or hurt children that have been entrusted to your care. you can prevent their arrival, but once they are there, they are there. and again, any difference of opinion on this, i believe, because i believe in the aodness of americans, is that lot of significant groups of people do not see it as a child. but i would ask the question, and the debate, it is really the fundamental question, is it a person with moral standing or not? if not, no big deal, this is a ridiculous movement, but if it is a person with moral standing,

the we need to stand up for child, no matter religious, ethnicity, or gender. host: do you think that the number of abortions would fall if roe v. wade were overturned? about you have concerns women looking for medically-unsafe abortions if roe v. wade is overturned? guest: well, i would be concerned. i would be wrong to not be concerned. i would say that planned on the abortion side of this argument right now is already creating highly unsafe situations for women. medically, at-home abortions where you give yourself a pill with no oversight -- i will not go on and on about that, but i will say that we should all be very concerned. and, yes, i do believe that abortions would go down, because the law is a teacher as well as a prohibited or or a provider, so yes, i believe that would be

true. there same time, however, will be reason to access the over 2500 pregnancy care centers that do not provide abortions across the country. there will be a reason to really dig in on a state-by-state level and provide all of the help and verytance that women and often the men in the situation, the boyfriend or the father, to step in and help. so it is a holistic approach to this that must be, when you are on the verge of welcoming previously-unexpected children into the world, we had better be ready, and i agree with that, all of the work that the pregnancy care centers do, the president feels this way. it is definitely now the dominant pro-life position to say "yes, and" rather than to say "yes, i don't care." ist: let's go to victor who calling from silver spring, maryland on the republican line. victor, good morning. caller: here is my story.

i am 72. , in i was born in 1947 wait a pound and a half. at the time, they did not know that too much oxygen would ruin the retinas of my eyes. reason i can see at all is that i cap knocking off the oxygen mask. this question has been asked to me -- how do you lose your sight? this, andus driver some woman started screaming at me that she had a wife t right to choose, and i told her "i am glad you're not my mother." the neighbor on the next block gave birth to a baby that weighed less than me, 1.5 ounces, but because of the technology to or three years ago, his site was saved. and one time i was asked if black lives matter, and i told asked me thats,

question when you get rid of planned parenthood's in your neighborhoods. womanm so glad that the who screamed at me on the bus, i am glad she was not my mother. is really, theit vignettes that happened across the country, more and more women are fighting to save the lives of children born early, and about the weight that you were, and then in the next ward, a baby at exactly the same point of gestation is being aborted. , on multiplee is levels, relatively obvious. bondok at the baby and with the baby that we want, we of yourdge the humanity child, at the age of around five

months, they respond to that, eyelashes, fingernails come all of those things. but if you do not want those not going tore look or acknowledge. i know this because that is exactly what i thought, we do not want to think that way, but we have got to think that way. that is the moral fundamental. there is a lot to that. without that, none of this really matters. but really what is changing right now across this country, because of what is going on on the supreme court and all of the actions and reactions in state after state, i really believe that the shackles of democracy are coming off, that the will of the people will be allowed to make its way into the law, and that is fair. for as not fair is supreme court decision to say to all of us "we do not care what you think. you cannot do anything to restrict abortions up until birth." that is definitely wrong, and it is really not the american way. host: where does your organization stand on abortion laws that allow abortion in cases of rape and interest?

-- incest? guest: well, we believe that every single life that is already created is one that deserves protection. when it comes to building consensus, say, on the federal level, often there are exceptions that the only way that bill was going to be passive that they be put in there. lawou know, the alabama does not have that. a lot of the harvey laws do not have that. i know personally quite a number of people who were conceived in rape, understand very well that the dignity of their own life is diminished by their conception here they are amazing advocates for their own laws. and another group of people or people who survived abortions. it happens. and they testify in legislatures right now all over the country. when you look at somebody who -- abortion, it is

really hard to look back at them and say "look, i am glad you are alive, but all of these other people do not deserve to live. it does not have the logic at the base of it that can sustain a real human rights battle. which i think this is. and as a human rights battle, the pro-life side is winning right now. who iset's go to ruthie, calling from waco, texas on the democratic line and ruthie, good morning. caller: good morning. and thank you. ask this sweet lady for me about this pro-life, i think she is pro-life. guest: yes, ma'am. caller: i do not understand how you can be pro-life and want to force people to have babies that may they cannot afford to take care of at that time. and then, it seems so hypocritical of her, because the children -- there are children here now that they are fighting -- they do not want to help take

care of. they demean them, they put them down, they talk about them being on welfare, and they cutting food stamps, everything that will help children, babies, mothers, they go against it, and right now, they are trying to kill health care for people. so it is just a bunch of crap to me that she is talking about. marjorie,l, i, believe strongly that you do not eliminate the world's problems by eliminating the people in them. eugenicists of the early last century really advocated that argument, people you get rid of with disability, people with certain ethnicities, especially black people, people that are living in poverty in certain areas, then humanity will be better. everyone will have more, because there will be less of those people. that is a dangerous argument, and i do not care what race you are.

that is simply an abominable way of thinking and enacting policy. that youo pieces described, you are 100% right. babiesng people have were preconception, it would be outrageous to force people to have children because we would -- out of the to circumstances, which would prevent a baby from being born. once the baby is being born, you have got the baby. the question is -- now what do we do? adoption in this country is almost insignificant numbers. they are almost statistically insignificant numbers. sorry. and why is that? why is that? there is a stigma on adoption, which should not be there. there is a cost on adoption, which is prohibitive. and there is a lot we can do to make sure that that changes, and we will. that is actually what we are in

the middle of doing. i hear your voice and i have felt in the past myself that disdain for people who will not help people once they have been born. they are two different issues, and i am telling you, on both issues, we let them live, and then we help them, allow them to live beautiful lives. it can be done. there should never be despair about the hopes and dreams of any human being based on their circumstances. host: yesterday, "usa today" put out a poll, and here is a look about it. "most americans are dismayed about the intensifying efforts to limit abortions. a new poll says in the issues energizing people to the polls, against aose whichled fetal heartbeat,

it happen as early as the sixth-week of pregnancy. , 73% to 27%, there is broad support among those on both sides of the debate for the supreme court to hear cases involving the laws. thesay they should uphold landmark roe v. wade decision, another 30% say it should be held with strict limits allowed. where do you see this conversation going as we go forward to the" 2020 presidential election? guest: well, you know, a lot is in the eyes of the reporter telling the story or in the eyes of the pollstar. i read a story that democrats were in a dramatic defense of pro-life, and that democrats are being pressured, especially on the state level, to have a more moderate, nuanced pro-life

decision. there is no question, too, that pollafter poll after shows a basic contradiction to the numbers you said, that they upheld,see roe maintained, but they want to see a lot stronger restrictions on abortion across this country. those two things cannot stand together. roe v. wade and its companion preventn [r restrictions, even in the third trimester, say in 18 weeks, over 20 weeks, anything, restrictions, will not, either the other side does not want to challenge it, because they know it is not a very good decision to them, or in the ninth circuit, it was overturned. coming together in a transcendent moment of this

becoming more important than the party that you are i. so 80% of people polled in february believe that abortion should be limited, at the most, just the first trimester. 80% of americans. 2/3 of those people significantly were pro-choice people that thought it should be restricted just to the first trimester. 64% of democrats thought it should be restricted just to the first trimester, and 83% of independents thought just that first trimester. that would not stand under roe versus wade. a modificatione or erosion in some way. and then, significantly, 54%, according to a harvard will shouldy, said that roe be overturned, so the polling is all over the place because basically people have not understood what the law is in america. they really do not know.

but one thing happening on the state level, i can tel guarantee you tha polling on alabama's bill has a dramatic support in its state here in ohio, the heartbeat bill has a dramatic level of support in its state. so if we see that the states themselves should have some power over there own laws, then you will see diversions, levels of opinion supporting diverting types of laws, and when you do a national poll, it is going to be national opinion, but the supposition that it should only be the national opinion opposed on every state i take great disagreement with. it is why we have been fighting this for him was half a century since roe v. wade, and it never settled anything. it is just as hot and volatile. the conversations for it t us to be having today, for it to be subtle would be a gift. host: let's go to manasseh on

the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i have three points. and let me just say, i am pro-life. any time you try to resolve or address the problem, it is always good to start from a historical context, so you need to talk about how margaret and howbrought abortion -- who abortion targeted. the second point i want to make i understand people do not talk about abortion is a moneymaking expenditure. a lot of corporations are invested in abortions because our use abortion tissues in supply -- and companies like pepsi, cadbury, and other corporations, i am not sure how they are able to get away with this, and there are two categories, because they are putting aborted fetuses into the food supply.

i am all for a woman's rights to choose. i am all for a woman's rights to choose to keep her legs closed order to make a responsible decision to not put herself in a position where she would eve need an abortion, or for a woman's right to choose to not use abortion as a birth control. guest: i think where we are headed in this nation is not too far away. it will be something that is unthinkable, that we will look , 60, and we will say, "wow million abortions during that time in our history?" was not just a hard case number of abortions, it did and has become the preferred method, your life and the trouble in your life. but i think also, the historical is important, that you mentioned, to think about -- how

did we get here? it will enable us to get out. thearet sanger, who was founder of planned parenthood, planned parenthood still gives out it's margaret singer award a ravingr, was eugenicist. she did not agree with any of the egalitarian principles that we hold so dear, so much better in the early 20's now that we embrace all of the brothers and sisters, ethnicities, and across the world, she did not world, she did not believe in that. she thought that the fema minded, those with disabilities, should not be a love to be in -- feebleminded, those with disabilities, should not be allowed to be in the world and reproduce. we need fewer of them, and we will all be better off. i do not think that is the way americans think, and it does not

speak to the con's of the american soul. host: i cannot let this pass, the caller said something about fetal tissue being put in food. i do not make anyone think that is going on. that is not a major current explosive topic that i am aware of. what i believe, though, is, is the harvesting of abortions and brains,of thei parts -- skulls -- to implant into subjects and to use in potential subjects. host: that is one thing i wanted to ask you, the trump administration had asked about the use of fetal tissue. we believe that all of the science we are talking about can be done ethically and that every single -- and that there

are multiple, 70 current werements now that generated from ethical treatments using adults themselves, using porcord blood, all sorts of different -- ethical ways of achieving that is where we need to go. that is what the president is putting more money into through hhs and where he was very right to stop what everyone recoils from, which is using parts of on born children, recently aborted, in science experiments, which is a frankenstein story that we do not want to live in. host: let's go to laura, who is calling from leesburg, virginia on the democratic line. laura, good morning. caller: hi. good morning. let us say a quick, to the gentleman who just called and. listen, if you want to talk about responsible women keeping their legs closed, have you

respond to the hundreds of men who rape every year because they are irresponsible, nasty ass men? but i will leave that alone, because i do not want to get started. i am a christian, but here is the problem i am having -- the hypocritica. if you talk about being pro-life, you have to take the beginning to the end. you know like i know 500 children in foster care will never find a home. you also know, i am assuming, that your organization does not provide funding oars of work for those children. that is why people in the pro-choice community cannot respect your organization. you know the level of hypocrisy that you cannot fulfill. so when we are talking about the life of a child, whether it is in the womb or without, you cannot stop it. you know that over 500-1000

,omen kill children every day every day, parents who murdered stuffed them into trashbags, throw them off the cliff, you know that happens. so what are you trying to do? if you are really trying to tighten up that message and you're passionate about what you want to do here, you are going to have to step behind what you think is going to happen before the harvey and after the heartbeat. host: go ahead and respond. i think we disagree on what an abortion is, and until we can agree on that, we are going to continue to disagree. if, in the birth canal, we should protect the unborn child from an abortion during labor, which is basically what the , which isf virginia

failed to support, if you think that is a baby with equal as you and me, then you will have to new ones that opinion a little bit. the only way for us to get too common ground is at least to figure out something that you do support. 64% of democrats and 83% of independents believe that abortions should be restricted to the first trimester. that feels like consensus to me. that is a good place to start. why don't we do that instead of trashing each other and trying to manipulate motives and talk about how evil each other are. i do not believe in that. that gets us nowhere. i do believe in finding where we degree, start legislating there. roe v. wade did not allow that. host: let's go to anita, who is calling from high springs, florida, on good morning. the republican line. anita good morning. , caller: good morning.

i have been watching this, and i have really been getting a education. my first thought is the government should not be involved in this kind of a situation. women have the right to make their own choices. i am pro-life, but i also agree that there are times when, perhaps, having a child is not the best thing. like you are saying, there are so many different things going on with this, it is hard to fathom, to some degree, and i do not see a really -- this will go on through all eternity, i think .e one option could be families work together for a young woman or a girl who is having a baby she does not want, and they raiseit, or the church

it, or someone has to take care of that baby from the time it is born until it is an adult, and i think in so many cases, i speak from knowledge on this. i had a sister who had an abortion and then for children, all out of wedlock. to see how those children grew losing thaty -- first child, you know, i do not know if some of this is good, bad, or different, but i do not think the government, the federal government or state government, should be involved with this. it is a woman's right to choose. it is her choice, and she has got to live with it. guest: so i really think if we look back through history, you will see every human rights battle we have a history where we have the tools to address the human rights issue came up against moments just like now. way, butts feel this

do we really allow the government to pass laws that reflect our views on certain things? and on this particular thing, if this is a human being, that deserves affection, than the natural extension is that it be protected in the law, in the law that reflects, frankly, the beauty that you just described with your sister. so i think that we say a lot of times we do not think the government should make us do certain things, and we are right the fundamentals in terms of the fundamentals of the nation and what government at a minimum must stand for, which is the protection of the very lives of the citizens, that is a fundamental. and then we move on from there. i do want to mention, certainly based on the conversation we had this morning, that it is very important to take a look at what really would happen when more

children are being accepted into the world, protected under the law, and cared for by a community. and state-by-state, my organization, through the education arm, the logan institute, the research arm, we state thatevery looks to the abortion battleground where we are working for a day where more children either are conceived because they are concerned about -- they can't or they won't be able to get an abortion, or they are conceived, and we have more children to take care of. we are doing a state-by-state deep analysis of all of the services available. all of the church resources that are available. if you live in a certain area of that state, do you have the pregnancy care option and care that you are going to need? that i feel very obligated to do, based on some of the comments this morning but also just because this is real. this is not a game. and children deserve to live,

and they deserve to live well. host: really quickly, you are also a commissioner on the women's suffrage centennial commission. guest: yes. host: tell me about what that isn't what you are doing. exciting,is super there will be for a state-by-state and in d.c. we are already commemorating the actual bill in the house and the senate, all the states that had to prove this, because it is an amendment, are having huge celebrations. it is coming together, all of the disagreement issues that wee on, we set that aside and celebrate. dannenfelser, i appreciate you being here and taking calls from our viewers. thank you so much. guest: thank you. i really enjoyed it. host: coming up, for democrats only, who should be the party's presidential nominee in 2020?

once again, this is for democrats only. if you are in the eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000.mountain and pacific , (202) 748-8001. and if you live in iowa and new hampshire, and you are a democrat, we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8002. we will be right back. but first, as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of d-day, we take a look back at presidents carter, reagan, clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama who spoke at normandy in years' past. you can see all of these speeches in their entirety at 1:00 p.m. today on c-span3. stay with us. we will be right back. of june,r: on the 6 1944, the allied forces came to known to us as gold, toah, juneau, begin a heroic action leading to

the liberation of europe. bush: and on this channel through binoculars and gun sights, german soldiers could see coming their way the greatest armada anyone had ever seen. in the lead were hundreds of landing craft, carrying brave and frightened men. only the ones who made that crossing can know what it was like. the pitching deck, the whistles of shells from the battleships behind them, the white jets of water from enemy fire around them, and then the sound of bullets hitting the steel ramp that was about to fall. on these beaches, the forces of freedom turned the tide of

the 20th century. first hours on bloody omaha, nothing seemed to go right. landing craft were ripped apart by mines and shells. tanks sent to protect them had sunk, drowning their cruise. as they stepped and floating bodies of their comrades. floating behind the seawall, it seemed the invasion might fail. a,s. al obama: b 8:30 general bradley expected them to be inland. he wrote "we held only 10 yards of beach." in this age of instant commentary, the invasion would have swiftly and rally been declared, as it was by one officer, "a debacle."

but such a race that judgment would not have taken into .ccount the courage of free men boys.bush: these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped free a consonant, these heroes who helped end a war. >> "washington journal" continues. host: once again, talking to democratic viewers, who would be your party's nominee in 2020? hear from we want to democrats only, if you are in the eastern and central time zone, (202) 748-8000. if you're in the mountain and pacific time zone, your number is (202) 748-8001. and if you live in iowa or new hampshire, the home of the first

two presidential contests for democrats, you have a special line, which is (202) 748-8002, . and also, keep in mind later on iowa at 3:00 p.m., the democratic party hall of fame dinner where they will have 19 of the democratic presidential contenders humming to talk today will be shown live here on c-span at 3:00 p.m. you can want to hear on c-span, online at c-span.org, or you can listen to it on the c-span radio app. lets go to robert, who was calling from fayetteville, pennsylvania. let's see who he thinks should be the democratic presidential nominee. robert, good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i think right now we do not have a candidate amongst 23, 24 that worthy of our choice. i think the voters of pennsylvania, democratic voters of myself, are what you have to ride in the same person i wrote in two years ago, and then i

ended up voting for that person. that person is donald p. trump, and he has gone 150% of what he promised, and i am proud that i spent my vote that way. host: robert, do you consider yourself to be a democrat all? caller: yes, i am. i have been a democrat since the early 1980's, voted for mondale, i voted for everybody but bill clinton. i just could not steep that low. host: let's talk to francis, who is calling from selma, alabama. francis, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. jesse, i just want to ask -- i want to say, first of all, mayor pete,rren and mayor pete would be a great ticket, so i would love to see that. host: lets talk to jeffrey, who

is calling from matthews, north carolina. jeffrey, good morning. caller: good morning, jesse. myself, i kind of agree with the young lady who just got done talking. i would like to see harris-warr en ticket. i do not care how they put it together. peter beuth the the judg. -- i like pete buttigieg. but i do not like these moderate democrats. they want to talk to people who do not want to talk to them. we have a bunch of people i feel like california and new york that are not part of america, to takethey still want the money from the farmers. give us the welfare money out we don'the midwest, have money, you guys got it, but we are going to put you down.

i do not think democrats need to go to the old-style get along with republicans, because they do not want to get along. we need someone who is going to push the democratic agenda. host: here is a story that came out of pbs earlier this week, and i am going to read a little bit of it to you. "democratic voters are in really split on whether they care more about the 2020 candidate's policies or whether those ,andidates beat donald trump according to a poll from the pbs newshour, npr, and marist. 47% of democratic voters and democratic leaning voters said they preferred to have a democratic nominee in 2020 of shares their positions on most issues. a nearly identical number, 46%, said they thought it was better for the party to nominate a candidate who has the best chance of beating donald trump. with a field of more than 20 candidates, the question of electability has dominated the

early stages of the race for the 2020 democratic nomination. candidates with higher name recognition, like former vice president joe biden, are leading the poll, and early polling shows biden would also have the biggest advantage in a head-to-head matchup with trump. biden has focused his campaign on appealing to the middle class, a group that helps spur trump to victory in 2020. but data from the last three decades of presidential shows the odds are almost always against candidates who have already run for president, like biden and vermont senator bernie sanders. areother candidates challenging the idea that characteristic that was guaranteed a good shot at the oval office can ill appeal to a democratic base that is becoming . and diverse."e

host: good morning, doreen. who do you think should be president? caller: well, it should not be biden, and it should not be sanders, because like you are saying, because they had a isnce, and right now, it biden. true, what trump is a young, he sleeps -- is saying, he sleeps. he was so violent when he spoke. host: who do you think out of the rest of the candidates would be the best person for the democrats to put forward? caller: i do not know all of no sanders, but because i want them to be younger again, what we are going

for. we have to get into the 2020 not the 1919 systems. host: let's go to stand calling from staten island, new york. stand, good morning. caller: those who are saying biden, biden is moderate. they have to come up with a very clear message. hillary failed because she did not have a clear message. purposes, intents and i still consider it to be biden. finally, i just want to thank you and c-span, because you guys are truly tremendous. you provide us with a wide range of information. youast comment is jesse, need to go back to the bowtie, because you are an aficionado for bowties, thank you. host: let's go to abdul, who is

calling from woodbury, new york. abdul, good morning. caller: good morning. i am calling for joe biden. the reason being that we would like to restore dignity to american politics around the has shown with the obama administration that we have come out from a really defeatist recession that he had in the history of this country, is thatfruit of that trump is claiming for that, but i am for joe biden, and hopefully that he would be the nominee. host: let's talk to brian, who is calling from cedar rapids, iowa. brian, good morning. caller: good morning. how closen, percival,

of attention are you paying to the 19 democratic candidates as they come through iowa this weekend? caller: oh, quite a lot. i just saw bernie sanders on --day night at coke college coe college. we have been seeing amy, elizabeth warren, others coming in, and i have been following politics since 1954, and i campaign for lyndon johnson, actually. my choices anybody but trump, so now we have to determine who is most electable to beat trump. and i like jay inslee up in washington. i like amy klobuchar. i like mayor pete. but the person who has really emerged in the polls and looks like she could be strong -- but you know, it is still early -- most likely elizabeth warren. host: so do you plan to go to or

watch the hall of fame dinner today? many democratic candidates out there for anybody to get their message the right now? caller: it is difficult. i do not know how we are going to do it. [laughs] is june 2019 come as a we still get plenty of time, and they will start to be weeded out as we see the debates and then of course the caucus next year, but i kind of like the idea of having that many candidates out here, so we can scope out what their issues are in such. but again, the main point is electability. who will be the strongest against drunk? and that is so important to be that guy -- against trump? and that is so important to be i guy. host: let's go to gym, who is calling from south bend, indiana. jim, good morning. caller: good morning. i am supporting and have been supporting the guy who has been

fighting for decades, the original -- the original bernie sanders. pete, we have had a lot of crime ads, you know, issues with city services and the city of south bend. "usa today" touched on it last june, the worst crime in the midwest, but i am voting for the original, the one and only progressive bernie sanders. jim, do you see yourself supporting the democratic candidate if it is not bernie sanders in 2020? caller: yeah, yeah, absolutely. devil would be better than trump. host: let's go to homewood, indiana. tina, good morning. aller: i want to make

comment. my comments is i do not think there will be an election this year, this is the end of america. there will not be an election. trump is here to destroy america, and this is how it is supposed to be. host: let's go to dennis calling from toledo, iowa. good morning. caller: good morning. i am for the guy, republicans and trump want to bring up abortions. if you want to bring up abortions, keep your sex organ in your pants. host: let's go to bill, who is calling from maryland. bill, good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i agree with the democrat who good, we do not have a candidate yet, and i think the next candidate should be an experienced woman of color. that is what i have got. host: let's talk to walter, who is calling from ohio.

walter, good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. thank you, c-span. there are two guys that i like the most, and i am hoping, hoping it is going to be a democrat that will knock off donald trump, but it is difficult because of his sexual orientation, it is tough. he is the most clear, the most articulate, he is honest, he is intelligent, he is the mayor of south bend, indiana, pete buttigieg. there is no doubt about it. he is great. i like the governor of montana, bullock. he is very clear and can articulate, honest. what we need most of all is that position in the executive branch, and i think those two can bring it, and hopefully it will be one of them. minnie who is to calling from, lake charles,

louisiana. minnie, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i would like to see someone from the 21st century and office the next time. to i am looking forward voting for mayor pete, because , and he isur values going to urge us right into where we need to be, and i wish joe biden and anders went dropout -- and sanders would not out, because they are going to win, and we need a breakthrough moment as early as we can get it, because you need and get this man in office. once again, 19 of the democratic presidential candidates are in iowa today speaking at the i was democratic party hall of fame dinner, which, once again, you can see live here at 3:00 p.m. on c-span.

right now, the candidates ,urrently scheduled to speak colorado senator michael bennet, new jersey senator cory booker, montana and governor steve bullock, south bend, indiana -- petedo a judge buttigieg, new york city mayor bill de blasio, the john delaney, white senator tulsi gabbard, kristin jim mcgrath, -- kristin gillibrand, kamala harris, amy klobuchar, former texas representative beto o'rourke, ohio representative tim ryan, vermont senator bernie sanders, california u.s. rep massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, author marianne williamson, and businessman andrew yang. once again, they will be speaking at the iowa democratic

party dinner come up with you can see live here on c-span at 3:00 p.m. eastern. let's go back to our phone lines nna, who is thdea calling from arizona. deanna, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you. i think mayor pete would be fantastic. he speaks all the different languages. back,ngs all the allies and a warren ticket would be phenomenal. host: let's go to dave who is calling from florida. dave, good morning. [dial tone\ host: it seems we have lost a day of. -- lost dave. let's go to anthony. good morning. caller: good morning. i think bernie sanders would be a great candidate for the democrats.

wildlife is important to be respected, and i feel they candidate needs to do that. and the border wall is going to be affecting wildlife that could become extinct, so i do not agree with that wall and less it is going to have access for animals. host: robin, good morning. caller: i think anyone who can be trump, with the way he treats people and the way he talks and the way he acts, if people do not start looking and realizing, we are going to be in armageddon before we know it. host: so, robin, with one of the democratic presidential candidates should be the nominee in 2020. caller: i love elizabeth warr en.

i like joe biden. i do not think bernie -- i think he needs to just step back. i think he will take votes from people. i really like all of them, you know, so it is going to be hard. we just have to sit and go through them and hear what they have got to say, but the won we have got to do is vote trump out, and that is really all i have got to say. host: let's talk to maria, who is calling from fairfax, virginia. maria, good morning. caller: good morning. well, i am very happy that we see so many new names. i am educating myself, reading the biography of every single candidate, so that shows the democrats are really into saving the country. i formerly supported joe biden, but i feel like either the mayor of indiana or kamala harris should be the vp, to get some

balance there, but the one who has the experience of all is joe biden. he has the charisma. he has led an act to let life. i want to say i do not want the commander-in-chief to have a second term. he is horrible. host: let's go to daniel, who is calling from san clemente, california. daniel, good morning. caller: good morning, sir. i am in favor of senator klobuchar of minnesota. sterling.ound is she was valedictorian of her high school, on scholar at yale university and the university of chicago, a clerk for mr. mondale. prosecutor,ccessful district attorney in minnesota and was declared to be the

outstanding attorney of the state at some time in the past. on the senateably judiciary committee during the confirmation of supreme court justices. she has legislated successfully. she speaks well. she is in control of her subject. and i think she would be one who would be formidable when dealing with mr. trump. she is the lady come in my opinion, to serve for two terms , and she has the quality, the charm, and the range of emotions and personality that would make her indeed a formidable candidate, and she has shown her electability in minnesota, and i think she would show her electability in spades if she were the nominee of the democratic party. who iset's talk to liz,

calling from mount laurel, new jersey. liz, good morning. caller:hi. good morning. have a lot ofwe good candidates on that list, but i think it is time for whole that are progressive can come from and work with working-class people and provide the changes we need to the domestic economy, so that people are feeling like the american dream is possible for them. and i think some combination of tim ryan from ohio, because he experience working for working-class people, and , but she isrren actually a working-class woman that was raised in oklahoma, and i think she could take voters

away from trump in the heartland once they get to know her. so those would be my two choices. host: we would like to thank all of our callers and all of our guests and all of our viewers today for sticking with us through "washington journal." join us again tomorrow morning for another episode of weshington journal," where will have former u.s. representative tom davis davis talking about congressional oversight in the executive branch, and we will have patrick kennedy and robert gebbia talking about suicide prevention and mental health. join us again tomorrow morning for another episode of "washington journal," and, everyone, have a great sunday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

about hill is writing democratic presidential candidates and the cost of their policy proposals. the story said jay inslee's mobilization plan would cost the u.s. government $3 trillion over the next decade. elizabeth warren's proposal to eliminate tuition and erase thannt debt carries a more $1 trillion price tag. bernie sanders'medicare for all $32 trillionquire in government spending. you will get a chance to hear from 19 democratic presidential candidates this afternoon, including those three candidates. the iowa democratic party is holding its hall event. coverage gets underway at 3:00 p.m. eastern. watch live here on c-span,

online at c-span.org or listen for free on the c-span radio app. >> the house debates a resolution tuesday, giving the g sherry committee -- former white house counsel don mcgann in federal court to compel them to provide congress for information related to the mueller investigation. for testimony and documents, as long as i get approval from a bipartisan leadership committee. watch live coverage of the debate on tuesday, starting at noon eastern. you can listen on the free c-span radio app. next, newsmakers with ceo dr. leanahood

wen. then, i house hearing focused on the federal government's response to white supremacy and of violence. later, cory booker is interviewed by a podcast in iowa as part of their series of interviews with 2020 presidential candidates. susan: joining us on "newsmakers" this week from baltimore is dr. leana wen, the new president and ceo of planned parenthood, been in that role since november of last year. she is the first female physician to be in that role and the first physician in more than 50 years for the organization, which has 600 centers nationally and last year reported revenues of $1.7 billion. dr. wen, thank you for being our guest this week. i wanted to tell people that in addition to your busy role with planned parenthood, you still provide patient care and are still teaching, so a very full agenda for you. let me introduce the two