me is sore rights and civil liberties like voting rights, reproductive rights, criminal justice reform and productive freedom. these rights are more important now than ever because we are seeing them being violated left and right. there just as important as every other issue. >> the issue most important to me now is the fact that our veterans do not have housing. hampshire,hough new one of our 50 states, should do more for its veterans. right now, veterans have to leave and go to vermont or massachusetts in order to get the services they need. i do nothing that is appropriate. these people make a sacrifice for our country and should be able to have services when they come home. >> i'm interested in having candidates focus on actionable environmental policies, saying you are going to rejoin the paris accord is not a real policy. having to do with carbon emissions and adopting renewables. >> the most import and thing to

me about this campaign is the truth. we need to work on gun violence appeared we need to work on health care. need to work on college education. we have a lot of things to work on. when the senate votes openly and against the truth in a partisan manner, it is time for us to return to our roots, faced facts and listen to witnesses. it is time to face the truth and move forward. and we cannot do that if we do not open our eyes and pay attention. >> one of most important issues to me in the 2020 election is education, including the current cost of education. for postgraduate and graduate work. of concerning legislation coming out of the trump administration in regard secondary and k-12. divorce has not done a lot of good for teachers. -- betsy devos has not done a lot of good for teachers. education is number one and that

is why i am voting. ♪ >> voices from the road on c-span. monday, president's day, on the tv. discussions on the u.s.-china relations. reforming journalism, and startups in san francisco. starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, former secretary state condoleezza rice this cusses u.s. china relations and that when he first century. >> there were those who believed that by the integration of china into the international economy we would begin to see the liberalization of chinese politics. you said earlier the expectation had been cooperation with china. i think the expectation was integration with china. and now you see frustration with that. >> at 4:00 p.m. eastern, marvin lasky on his book, reforming journalism. >> we do not want to make ourselves the center of attention and action or the apparent font of wisdom.

we like to go out and report. and reporting is -- has fallen into rare circumstances. there's so much opinion journalism. there is very little reporting, people listening, paying attention, watching, describing. >> at 6:45 p.m., technology reporter anna weiner looks at san francisco startups in her book, uncanny valley. uberheard people say that could not exist if it did not have this crazy culture. my question is should it exist? and if that culture should not exist and if you do not have that culture and the company does not happen, maybe that is fine. >> watch book tv, president's day, on c-span2. we want to welcome back dr. sebastian gorka, former deputy assistant to president trump and now heard on the program america first. >> thank you for having me, steve. >> i want to begin with this piece from arthur brooks at the national program crist this

month. he talked about why -- the national prayer breakfast. >> he disagreed and said publicly -- he said why he disagrees with the president and says publicly insulting others crazy terrible national discourse in this country, something that needs to stop her he is taking aim directly at president trump. >> i think we have a problem with public discourse. but it was not the president who began it. we have people publicly stating that if you see a member of the trump cabinet in public, publicly harassed them. this is what happened to sarah huckabee sanders, who was abused in a restaurant with her family because of this kind of family. you have obama's attorney general sang when you -- when they are down, you do not help them. this started a long time ago. remember when president obama was president, he said at the thanksgiving cable test table, get in their face if they are on the wrong side of the political argument. so the idea that donald trump

started a negative public discourse, he is responding to the attacks against him, his family, his administration. steve, we have, a media that discusses the president's wife for wearing the wrong shoes. donald trump was elected in 2016 because he is standing up to the abusive left and the mainstream media, and a lot of people applaud him for it, as do i. >> does that not degrade the presidency? , it's justthink so celebrity politics. politics changed reversibly with bill clinton when he played saxophone. member that? from that point on national politics became as much about celebrity is about policies and platforms. obama was a manufactured celebrity candidate.

trump had a 14 season reality tv show, one of the most successful ever. this art of labeling your opponents effectively in the age of twitter and facebook and the rest is part and parcel the content which we live in. you need to be able to brand, and my old boss president trump is the master. is a story this morning inside the washington post getting a lot of attention. the president of germany is saying, our closest ally, under the current administration, rejects the very concept of the international community. guest: what we reject him a what the administration rejects, is

not the international system. globalization. if you look at mike pompeo speech, it was about western values and standing shoulder to todier with any -- shoulder shoulder with any nation that shares those values. the warsaw speech that he gave at the side of the warsaw uprising her he said we are proud to stand for judeo-christian values, and whether it's poland, israel, or anybody else, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you. globalization would require us sovereignty,our that's got to stop. was's why donald trump elected, to reassert those values. we've had enough of the

narrative that america is the source of all evil. the only nation founded on the principles of individual liberty which derive from the fact that -- the what president trump stands for and that's why he was elected. michael bloomberg is leading in some states including florida. hisd hillary clinton be potential running mate? could we get so lucky? that she is going to be his running mate, that is christmas coming very early. but mike bloomberg doesn't have a chance to win the presidency.

such as the superdelegate fiasco -- a man who has as much charisma as an old shoe, he might be rich, but he can spend all his $54 billion and he will never become president. you have toething applaud, is just the fact that politics has become celebrity bound. you can't buy charisma, and mike bloomberg doesn't have an ounce of it. >> how often do you talk to the president? >> we had a chat last sunday to talk about issues to do with personnel and the vindman case, that was a week ago. next he tell you in advance about his decision? >> i wanted to give him some advice about what to do next, and that's what we discussed.

what your matter issue is as a conservative, policy,it's for school it really doesn't matter. if the president is reelected in november, number one, above all else, is personal policy. than 4000 political appointments under the i told the president personnel is priority number one. host: how long will the chief of staff stay in his position? guest: being chief of staff is tough, it's one of the toughest jobs in the u.s. government. excited about the noises about mark meadows coming

on board. you really have to have someone who knows how capitol hill functions. so we shall see. about the attorney general, bill barr? ofst: he is exactly the kind person you need at doj. with her choosing the irs to organizations, the doj above all else was the most corrupt department. having bill barr there is splinted. according to reports, he told the president probably to stop tweeting and then publicly. what's behind it? guest: i'm not going to comment on whether or not that happen. i'm not sure i agree with him

because he is the president of the united states but he also has first amendment rights. and what happened to roger stone, i'm not a fan of roger stone for various reasons, but what happened roger stone should be an outrage to republicans, democrats, and independence. a man in his 60's whose wife is hard of hearing, has a morning raid on his house with swat , where are the dawn raids brennan,comey and john who perjure themselves in front of congress? it is the privacy of justice and the president called them out, and he has every right to do so. did you talk to the president at all about your? decision regarding the recommendations? >> never. >> did anybody from the white house call to try to influence you? >> no.

is one of the things that surprised me the most at the white house. spent onon exoneration. when our raise the issue once with the president, i was so surprised by his attitude, that he was completely hands-off. yet he will tweet about issues, but the idea is going to reach no,nd rattle cages, he said let it collapse by itself, and that's what he's doing with roger stone. news, the fact that he's chosen another attorney to review the flynn case, another egregious abuse of power is also great news and i'm sure president trump had nothing to do with it. that is attorney general barr doing his job.

salem radio, how many stations? ourt: we just started second year and we are very happy. host: in your latest book, you were featured on in-depth tv. guest: it was to discuss my third book. we are in a culture war for this republic. we have failed as conservatives to understand what was going on the last 80 years. we have had a left that is becoming increasingly radicalized, that normalizes violence, if you look at footage of the recent attack against a 15-year-old trump supporter, and we have to unashamedly stand up for the values that our founding fathers built this nation on and understand what andrew breitbart said, that politics truly is downstream from culture and if you have been issue you want to

solve and the political sphere, it doesn't matter what it is, you have to have influence socially first. the understand the connection. it's time for conservatives to wake up and understand it to. my parents past 15 years ago. i'm an only child. i have distant relatives left in hungry. watch.s >> that's not true. i had a meeting with thatdent trump and he said previous years, it was so ukraine, i was very open with him. i told him that we fight ,orruption, we fight each day but to say that ukraine is corrupt, it's not true.

we want to change his image. >> in light of everything that's happening with regard to the impeachment, what is the state of relationship -- the state of relations? guest: i think it is still robust, because remember who this person is. he is not a politician. he's a person who came from entertainment. ticket -- all respect to the president, ukraine is the third most corrupt country in the world, by independent metrics. the idea that he solve that is less than intuitive, but ukraine has a problem. this man hopefully will be able to drain his swamp as well as our president. >> our guest is dr. sebastian gorka.

message,end us a text be sure to telus your first name and where you are texting from. waiting,hank you for you are on the air with dr. gorka. >> i have three points to make. first of all, it was not the democrats that started attacking president trump. with the birth tourism thing against president obama. that's number one. you're saying donald trump has never done anything wrong. two years ago he went to court. he was found guilty of running a faked university for five years, cheating people out of $75 million. he had to pay a $25 million fine. if that weren't enough, he has the money for the veterans. he put it in his foundation and he and his children spent that money for themselves. thank you very much.

>> sent -- sandra, thank you with call from michigan. >> the birther story was actually linked out of a christian campaign. the idea that donald trump is a bad guy because of the birther all from hillary clinton's campaign from when she wanted to take down president obama. 19 minutes after president trump was sworn in on january 20, 2017, the washington post said the impeachment of donald trump begins now. 19 minutes. if you're looking for who started the fight, it is very clear. i know who is going to end it but it is clear who started it. it was not my old boss. host: john in chicago, good morning.

caller: hello. host: good morning. caller: they want to be dictators. why won't trump show his taxes? he is a walking, talking swamp. this guy sounds like a trump sycophants. get off your knees and be a man. guest: i don't need anybody to tell me to be a man, my friend. the president is a wannabe dictator? seriously? this is so, so disturbing that we have people who do not know the facts and are victims to fake news. donald trump hasn't put anybody in prison has not prosecuted , anybody for political purposes. his predecessor, obama, created or signed off on the first ever interagency fbi, cia operation

against day presidential campaign. that is unheard of. that is what you expect in venezuela or north korea. likewise, here is a little statistic that you can check at your hearts delight -- president obama prosecuted more journalists in jail more journalist sources under the espionage act than all previous 43 presidents combined. if you are looking for authoritarian, dictators, check out president barack obama. host: we will go on the republican line to marshall in clearwater, florida. caller: good morning. guest: hello. caller: i was hoping it would not happen but i knew it would not be long. it is said with a man said you about get off your knees.

i want to say thank you for speaking truth to power. guest: thank you, marshal. when they have no argument they go ad hominem. i was in the white house and in the first few months i had 42 hit pieces written on me by one journalist. they attacked my wife, my dead mother and one journalist -- a delightful individual -- wrote about my 18-year-old son using door traitor in the headline. the left is out of control. they have totally internalized the arguments and make politics about personal attack. i want to talk policy, i want to talk substance, the left wants to do ad hominem and that tells you about who they are. host: marshal, you want to follow up? caller: in the last segment somebody said trump was trying to do away with minorities and i think he is but he is tried to

do away with them by helping them find better jobs. i know you know the stats, if you could hit on that a little bit i would be grateful. one other thing, i know you have the facts, tried to go in a little bit of the bias concerning the left when it comes to being charged. host: thank you for the call. guest: i like the philosophical approach. he is not trying to do away with minorities but the idea we are defined based on our skin color and do away with the left's favorite topic of victimhood. if you look at the statistics, it is incredible what has happened in the last 3.5 years. with the lowest unemployment since 1969 but the lowest

unemployment on record for minorities. we have the highest employment rate for women. when those statistics were read out, for the record, by the president what happened? the democrats sat down. did not clap. they are against women employed. they are against the nine-year-old girl getting to choose which school she goes to. they could not clap for that 103-year-old tuskegee airmen who had been made a brigadier general. that is un-american. when it comes to getting justice in the courts there is an issue with getting justice. in 2016, 90.9% of washington, d.c. voted for hillary.

the idea that somebody who worked for the president, like myself, or support of the great make america great again could get justice in d.c. when the pool is more than 90% democrat -- this is a significant problem. host: when the speaker tore up the state of the union address your reaction was what? guest: this is a woman who is telling us she is the adult and donald trump is the child. this is churlish, it's disgusting, but you know it the most appalling part of the story is? people found the video of her pre-preparing the papers to tear them up. to know what part she was doing that at? i did a check. she was doing that childish thing under the table when the president was saying we are committed as a nation to make

sure that children do not suffer from cancer. that we beat childhood cancer and we finally find a cure for aids. how could you not support that? i don't care who you vote for. we're talking about children with cancer and defeating aids. what does nancy pelosi do? she is a childish stunt under her desk. that is to the democrats have become. where the jfk's? people who are pro-life? strong on national security? it has become a party of extremists. host: they did say he was he put hypocritical when it can to pre-existing conditions since he got rid of the affordable care act. guest: but what has he said? pre-existing conditions will be covered. the issue with the affordable care act was that it was

unconstitutional. the idea the chief justice said it is not a penalty to tax. since when does the supreme court get to legislate and redefine u.s. law? they say whether it is constitutional or not. i know the president -- this is important -- pre-existing conditions is vital. host: we welcome all colors. callers.come all if you are listening and cannot recognize the accent, it is dr. sebastian gorka. his book is out in january and you can check it up. trump allies handing out cash to black voters. here are some of the details. allies of donald trump have begun holding events in black communities were organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees. the first took place in cleveland, ohio where recipient who winning tickets were drawn

from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars stuffed into envelopes. a second giveaway scheduled in virginia has been postponed. more are said to be in the works. politico says the events are run by the book and intended to promote economic cities. it is registered as a charitable organization. one legal expert saying the arrangement does raise questions about the group's tax-exempt status as it does not appear to be vetting the recipients. guest: i do not comment on politico. it is not journalism. it is the exemplar of fake news. when it comes to the black community i will say one thing -- the president has tripled his popular jerry in the black community. that has nothing to do with envelopes of cash. it has to do with the fact we

have added $11 trillion to the economy. if you want to work and are not physically able to do so -- and are physically able to do so, you are able. we have almost zero unemployment. we will see some stunning things occur in november because the democrat party, in the last 50 years, has re-created the plantation in a political sense and black americans are leading it. there is a movement under candace owens and they waking up to what the democrats have been doing. the black community is being enslaved economically. host: the president received a percent of the black vote -- 8% of the black vote in 2016. where would he be now? guest: he is about a 23% approval rating. he was accused of being a bigot, a racist, anti-semite and is potentially hitting the low 30's

and approval with the black community. that is not directly translate to voting. approval rights and voting are not the same but we have got five or six months to make that happen. the democrat, party is broken. they've taken the black community for granted. they think they will always vote for them. it is exciting for all americans. host: we will go to california. michelle, good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i am a silent trumper. do you think that bloomberg will split the party even further? guest: fabulous question and keep doing what you're doing in california. every day is increasing the chances of a contested democrat

convention later this year. the idea that you look at the front runners for the democrat party and all you have is rich, white people or rich white communists like bernie sanders, and you have to scratch your head. they are about standing up for the victims and michael bloomberg is one of the candidates? bernie sanders, who honeymooned in the soviet union with his wife who is an american jew? when you have somebody who has repeatedly lied about her ethnic background like senator warren, lied about it when she was professor at harvard getting $200,000 for teaching one course a semester. this is the democrat party. if you look at the president's cabinet, there you will see diversity but not in the democrat party. guest: we go to iowa.

kim, good morning. caller: i have a question. you sound kind of mad. i want to know what trump is going to do about the debt. it is rising $1 trillion per year. i want to know why the debt is going up, not down. what are you going to do about the debt? host: thank you. guest: what am i going to do about it? not so much, i'm going to talk about it but i'm just one guy with a radio show. [laughter] i would tell you with the situation is in the white house. the president is infuriated every single time that his hand is forced when it comes to signing another resolution, another cr, another budget. that is not who he is as a businessman. our founding fathers had a

checks and balance, a division of power, the pursestrings are not held by the president or senate but by the house. i will tell you one thing, kim. take of the president -- check out the president's budget proposal. it is the first of its kind that target the waste and mismanagement of funds in federal hands. the intent is there the question is what is going to happen in house? we can tackle the debt as long as we do our work and retake the house in november. host: i want to get your reaction to what pete buttigieg said last night. clark county democrats in las vegas. [video clip] >> wouldn't you like to see a president who likes to talk tough and thumped his chest and through military parades? to stand on the debate stage next to a war veteran who will educate him on what traumatic brain injury can be more serious than bone spurs.

[applause] it is time for this president to be held accountable. this moment is not just about who we are against but what we are for. that is where i see a powerful american majority coming together. not just our fellow diehard democrats but independence and what i call future former republicans. they stand at our side that we turn a page to a better day. some say why would a mayor run for president? you are not even from one of the big cities. you have not accumulated decades of washington experience but to that i say, that is the point. this is our only chance to bring new thinking to washington and flesh out with this president has brought with him before it

is too late. we cannot go up against the most disruptive president in american history by falling back on the familiar. if we want to go up against the most divisive president and megan history, we've got to call everybody to be at our side. we do not have to choose between one course following our heart and the other our head. we do not have to choose between a revolution or fidelity to the status quo. we can call every american into a better vision for a better future because the american majority exists right now. host: that was from last night. pete buttigieg taking aim at president trump. guest: the idea that pete buttigieg is going to criticize the president on leadership -- look at the viral videos of his mayoral campaign and the people from south bend who are screaming at him because of the police corruption in his little town. the idea he is going to talk to the president about being a military leader? they have to look into who he is and how we got the position. he got to be an officer without

going through -- it was a direct commissioning. it was a strange situation that put him into theater without going through candidate training school. it was a political scenic route. as regard to what your viewers have to know, let's talk about his don't talk about pete buttigieg but who his father was. joseph died last year and was the preeminent, communist professor of antonio graham she. he was the president of that -- the president of that society, the most virulent communist ideologue of the .odern age, prepared the way this is the man who pete buttigieg looks up to. look at what joseph believed and you will understand how much of

a threat this person is to our democracy. far more than any other candidate. host: how much should you be responsible for what your father did? guest: not responsible but it shapes you. i am shaped by the fact by parents suffered as children under fascism. my father was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned by communists. that is the mother's milk i drank as a child. the idea this person's father was one of the most rabid communists out there -- a see him disavow those views. he is going to lecture us about reserve positions in the military that had direct commission. pete, you need to look in the mirror. host: you are quoted from the washington post and you reportedly said why is a homosexual man lecturing us about the sanctity of life and the womb? guest: i find it strange that a

man who is proud to kiss his partner on stage is making judgments about whether or not women should have abortions in the third trimester. i thought the left was about don't comment on things about -- outside of your lived experience. what is pete buttigieg's lived experience about pregnancy and abortion? i would say zero. he is a hypocrite. either the left says you do not comment or i get to comment on anything i want to. it's not about his sexuality but ideology. it's just hypocrisy. host: aren't you taking aim at the fact he is gay? guest: the left says you cannot comment on things that have nothing to do with your lifestyle. they say to me while you are

white you can't say anything about asian life. you cannot understand their experience. then pete buttigieg can shut up about pregnant women and abortion. that is the left costs standard. left's standard. you've got to be consistent. host: let us go to henry in michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. how appropriate it is to get to satan gorka. as a hard-working, taxpaying citizen from a blue state -- a blue donor state -- i am dismayed my tax dollars are going to neo-confederate red states that voted for donald -- filthy donnie trump. we have satan sebastian gorka -- guest: you can't even call the show up and get my name right.

the ignorance is oozing from your pores. satan? is that what you believe in? you need to look in the mirror. 63 million americans voted for that man. are you calling all of us filthy? that is the left. you cannot debate policy. god bless you, my friend, for demonstrating the moral bankruptcy of your party. thank you, henry. you demonstrated that live on national television. host: senator susan on impeachment said, "he was impeached and there's been criticism by republicans and democratic senators. i believe he will be much more cautious in the future." guest: then she has never met the president. he is not changing his ways. he came to the white house to fight for the american people, to reestablish us as the shining city on the hill, to make us prosper. he will keep on doing exactly

what he has been doing for the last 3.5 years. host: anna, you are next from ohio. caller: good morning. three things i have. president trump's is the best thing that ever happened to this country but the worst thing that ever happened was obama. he divided this country terribly. second, they keep talking about the debt. obama had a $10 trillion addition over years. nothing ever came from that. third, if the democrats -- i have a sister that is a democrat. she makes a lot of money on her 401(k) but i'm telling you if they get in their, everybody can bend over and kissed her behind goodbye. this country is going down. it is terrible. president trump's the best thing

to ever happened to this country. the only thing i say as every once and a while he used to be a little quiet about barr. i love that man. host: appreciate the call. you hear this often. we like the president i just wish he would -- guest: it buys me crazy. -- drives me crazy. if i have one more person who says i am republican and complain about the president's tweets, i don't know what i will do. tweets really? let me talk to you about the supreme court. let us talk about the associate justices that protect the constitution as the founding fathers saw fit. let's talk about more than 150 judges appointed. let's talk about isis destroyed. $11 trillion added to the economy.

let us talk about qasem soleimani killed. let's talk about we have more jobs available and you are going to lecture me and the president on tweets? get perspective. i do not understand this. it is results that matter not style. if your issue is with style, support obama because he can read the teleprompter smoothly. it is not about smoothness but what you're doing for america. this man has done more for america in three years the most presidents ever do into terms. host: if asked, would you return to the white house? guest: we have discussed this. right now with 3 million people listening and following to my show and social media i can be most effective on the outside. if -- god willing -- we get him reelected and he needs me, it is not something you say no to. it is not just an honor but a duty.

the agenda has to be supported wherever i sit. host: his latest book "the war for america soul" is available online at amazon.com. the third book by dr. sebastian gorka. heard on salem radio and tess is joining us from north carolina. tess, good morning. caller: good morning and good morning dr. gorka. this is very important. someone who has the president's ear needs to get a message to him that he has got to start being proactive on this whole racism thing where all of the republicans, everyone who voted for him, is a racist. have you ever seen a rally that donald trump has put on where there has been one boo when he

has mentioned all of the jobs the african-americans and latinos have? no, you have not. when they boo is when they talk about the press and they have every right to do that. never has there been a rally donald trump has had that any person has booed when he mentioned the african-american, the chinese-american, the latino american. he has got to get proactive. tell his fellow that runs his campaign this has got to be mentioned. if you do not, people will continue with all of the republicans are racist, everybody in the administration is racist. it has to stop. host: thank you for the call. guest: look, one of the most

remarkable things about working for donald trump the man is that i realized very early on -- it is a very unusual washington, d.c. he wants his programs, his presidency to benefit, to make safe, and to provide prosperity for all americans. he is truly a colorblind individual paired irrespective of where you voted for me -- he doesn't care if you want bernie to be the candidate. if you are american, if you are here legally he wants you and your family to prosper. the man was lauded by the left. they sing songs about who this great example of american success is. as soon as he becomes a

republican he is attacked in ways most men would end up in the fetal position on the floor with the amount of the tax he -- the amount of attacks he and his family have gone under. we have got to push back more on the argument. every single supporter needs to push back. this is a smear tactic and that is because they have nothing else. the democrat party is imploding. we will see contested convention and all they have left is to attack the individual paired host: on our podcast the weekly available on the free c-span radio app or wherever you download your podcast. we have a conversation with aaron parenti who is the director for the 2020 ticket. that available online at c-span.org. i want to ask about john kelly. when the president asked him to be chief of staff he said he would be one of "the greatest chiefs of staff ever."

what happened to that relationship? guest: let me see what i am at liberty to say publicly. john kelly, marine corps legend, dedicated his life to this country. lost a son in the post-9/11 conflict. the most important thing about john kelly -- we did not know this at the time -- he does not believe in making america great again. he could have served more easily as chief of staff in the hillary clinton white house. this is a man who abused his position as chief of staff to block individuals who were loyal to the president and the agenda. this is a man who feels fit to make public comments about lieutenant colonel vindman and his seditious activities.

but has not said one word about the attacks against the president. has not talked about crossfire, the obama holdover to take down the president, the two with the nsa, fbi and cia. i would like to hear his thoughts on the threats posed by the left, holdovers, seditious activities than his comments in regards to vindman. a lieutenant colonel serves the president of the united states. he is not the president of the united states. general kelly, you need to get your perspective correct as well. i respect you for your service but you cannot comment on one and not the other. host: because of the interview he did with the atlantic. let me put the on the screen and get your reaction. he said through the obama administration, up until that july 25 phone call, the policy

of the united states was militarily to support ukraine in their defensive fight. when the president said continued support would be based on that changed. that is why that guy was most interested in. when vindman heard he wanted to see the biden family investigated that is paramount to hearing an illegal order. we teach them don't follow any legal order. if you have given one, you will raise it to who gives it to you and tell your boss. guest: so much wrong with that statement. i hope he is not lying but let's talk about the fact the obama administration was intent on supporting ukraine militarily. he is either lying or does not know the facts. president obama refused to provide legal aid to the government of kiev. the obama administration shipped blankets and night vision goggles to ukraine. blankets, steve.

when we came in, we shipped anti-rocket missiles to use against the potential russian invasion. the idea that the phone call was tantamount to hearing the legal order -- and what worlds president zelensky a member of the armed forces? as president trump is superior? no. by the way, we have an international treaty from 1999 signed by the then president, bill clinton, ratified by the senate that says the united states and ukraine must work together to investigate corruption. the idea that hunter biden is receiving $83,000 a month from one of the most corrupt companies in one of the most corrupt nations in the world when his father, the vice president, is obama's point person on ukraine.

joe biden gloats publicly about, i held up a billion dollars and said unless you are firing the prosecutor who happens to be investigating the company my son works for, you are not getting the aid. that is extortion. joe biden doesn't get criminal immunity. he does not get immunity from investigation because he is running for office. he was not running for office when he did that. he was the vice president of the united states protecting his corrupt son and company. general kelly, a massive disappointment to america. host: the binding campaign says he was fired because he was not investigating ukrainian companies. guest: and i have a bridge in connecticut. host: let's go to the republican line. caller: good morning. good morning dr. gorka. i want to say thank you to you for all of the work you do. i listen to c-span on a daily

basis and have for quite some time. i am disturbed by the amount of people who still overlook the fact the russian collusion thing was debunked. it is a narrative that continues and will not go away. the same people who attacked your father and you for wearing his medal. i'm worried about the rise of socialism and communism in united states and i attribute that to two things. one is the media and the other is long-term threat. you do provide balance with the media problem. the education system. it started in the universities and colleges and has gone down to the lower levels. right down to small children. host: matt, thank you. guest: this is why i've written my book. check out chapter three.

it was the hardest part of the book to write because i cover everything. this is not something that happened overnight. this is an 18 year long progression of individuals who see the west as the problem. who see judeo-christian values as the problem and want to take down america from the inside. the people who launched obama's political career were members of the weather underground. they were radicals who wanted to have a revolution in america in the 1960's. they failed but what happened? did they resign and go back to the rich daddy? did they become poets? no. they became professors. both individuals, terrorist, became tenured professors in

chicago. we let them indoctrinate our student population, our children, to the point -- and this is where you are right -- the last annual survey by the incredible victims of communism memorial foundation found that 72% of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist or communist america. 72%. that is after the ideology of karl marx took the lives of more than 100 million people. we have a lot of work to do. we are still the greatest nation on god's earth. donald trump opened a small window for us to claw back the republic. in november, we have to blast a massive hole through the window and continue what he started for us. host: i want to get your reaction to the debate that took place in the senate this past week on the authorization of military force led by tim kaine. eight republicans supported the

democrats and one of them, mike lee, of utah. let's listen to what he had to say. [video clip] >> if there is one thing we don't need right now, it is anything else that would give more authority to the military-industrial complex to start, and finish, wars without authorization from congress. anytime we introduce ambiguity into a field already riep with ambiguity -- surrounding the commander-in-chief power in the article one power that congress has to declare war -- we run into problems. this would open up the ambiguity. the legislation and resolution is bipartisan. it has clarified that for future offensive action, we need congressional authorization. we have been lied to by the pentagon for years regarding a war that is going on two decades.

we do not want to create additional ambiguity. we don't want more wars. >> senator, time has expired. host: your reaction. guest: it is unbelievable. where was mike lee when president obama -- in one weekend -- bombed seven countries? we have not had seven countries bombed by a u.s. president since 1945. the idea that this resolution -- they will never get the majority -- occurs just a few days after the most dangerous terrorist in the world, qasem soleimani, is neutralized they want to limit his capacity to fight iran that wishes to destroy us and says so every day? the last point, the sheer irony that as this resolution was passed a uss naval ship intercepted a vessel with a huge cache of iranian weapons that is being used to destabilize the middle east and they want us to be incapable of stopping iran

from doing that? it beggars disbelief. host: philip joining us from michigan. caller: speaking of the pentagon, what happened to the audit on the pentagon? did you get a chance to talk to trump getting the shuttle back up? bush failed by canceling the program and handing it to russia. god bless you guys. you're doing a great job. guest: this is perhaps one of the most exciting things about the trump administration. space is back. we have a new branch of service, we have space force. he has provided us a new objective. it is not the moon, it's mars. people forget that the space race, the run to get us on the moon created so many popular,

positive effects for the u.s. economy. america is back and there's a reason there is only six u.s. flags on the moon and no other countries. host: from new york, gail. caller: good morning. i am 76 years old, a democrat, and i wish you would reconsider how you talk about pete buttigieg. how you denigrated his father and also him. guest: how did i denigrate his father? i made statements of fact about his career and his marxism. how is a statement of fact denigration? caller: you know what people think about communism. guest: i do very well because my father was tortured by communists.

caller: let me comment. i think you know what you are doing and i think you're denigrating the person and ramping communism and people who do not like homosexuals together. the man cannot respond to you. you talk about the democrats denigrating other people and sometimes we do that. i think it is wrong. host: thank you. guest: i still don't understand a statement of fact about somebody's career is denigrating them? gail, go to the communist society and subscribe to enter new grahamshe and how you destroy a democracy from the inside.

guess whose photograph is on the inside of the society of america? joseph buttigieg. he is dead and it is still the opening image. why? because they adore this man. you need to check it out and then make a decision yourself on who pete buttigieg is. host: how you prepare for your daily program? guest: i have a fabulous team. about 10:30 my producer will send me stories. i tell them these are the stories i want to concentrate on, these are the audio clips i want because it is a three hour show. with a lot of material we can use. we meet about two hours before the show airs in my studio and we have, what is going to be the topic of the day i like to have one guest per

hour. we begin and we wait for the president's next tweet. host: what has surprised you the most in terms of the learning curve? guest: i've been an addict of talk radio since i was a child. i had a transistor radio under my pillow. it's been in my blood. i never thought i would be on the other side of the microphone. people say how can you talk for three hours? i would like to have six hours. you know what it's like. you prepare for a show and you may have to re-prepare

everything. we are living at the speed of trump. it's a delight to have a radio show. the people have a mission, great businessmen. they want to support people who love this country. host: the book is titled the war for america's soul. we thank you for stopping by. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, author and george mason university professor buckley contemplates the breakup of the u.s. in his new book. as part of museum we, we will be live from mount vernon or will talk about george washington and the presidency with the president and ceo of george washington's mount vernon.

watch live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. be sure to watch washington journal all this week for using them week. tuesday morning, we will explore the national museum of the marine corps. >> monday, president's day, on book tv, discussions on u.s.-china relations, reforming journalism, and start in san francisco. starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, condoleezza rice discusses u.s.-china relations in the 21st century. >> there are those that believed that by the integration of china into the international economy we can begin to see the liberalization of chinese politics. you said earlier that the expectation had been cooperative should -- cooperation when china. i actually think it was integration with china. now you see frustration with that. >> then, the book reforming journalism.

>> we don't want to make ourselves the apparent font of wisdom. we like to go out and report, and reporting is falling into rare circumstances these days. there's so much opinion journalism, there is very little reporting. , anna weiner looks at san francisco startups. >> i've heard people say that huber couldn't exist if he didn't have this crazy culture. my question obviously is, should it exist? and culture shouldn't exist maybe that's fine. c-span2.book tv on here's a look at some programs coming up on c-span. q&a is next. analyzing american presidents through the lenses of the books

they have written. at midnight, prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. after that, democratic presidential candidates take part in a forum in las vegas. ♪ >> craig fehrman, the author of the new book "author in chief." why did he make the claim that he made abraham lincoln president? ohio.was a publisher in