short time when we do not know the side effects. police reform, if people would stop talking about race and talk about the issue, this is police brutality. they should have dealt with that. our officers are supposed to be trained in nonlethal holds only. this should not have been an issue. if you leave race out of it and deal with police brutality, you get policies for. if you put grace in front of it and try to push policy through, people get back lash from the rest of the american people. take the race out of it, then you have that solved. as far as the sex scandals, the media needs new sources. host: joey, new hampshire illinois -- hampshire, illinois, republican.

what grade do you give the president? caller: a d. i want to give a higher score. he is our president. he is killing our economy. my 401(k) will go down, inflation will hit. i desperately want to speak to nancy pelosi, there is something that i missing in my train of thought, why they look at things a certain way. the only conclusion i can come up with is that politics is full of money, people are getting paid off, they are making money and we are not. i cannot understand the thinking of this. i am starting to doubt myself. if someone he explain this to me. i am all for change for myself. the border, everybody hates trump. he got the border deal going on with the triangle and mexico and

that was working. biden wanted to change the outcome on that, leave things in place until we figure it out. host: okay joey. we lost him there. steve in north carolina, democrat color. caller: how are you doing? i give him a b. i am fed up with the republican party. i use to care about them in the 80's, they have good ideas but now they only care about three things. taxes, judges and power. host: let's go to everett in florida, republican. caller: i would like to say on this issue about grading the first 100 days, i would give him a d, not only the president congress as well.

the president is pushing the issue of infrastructure, this big bill. republicans are in favor of infrastructure, so are the democrats, why do they not work together and take everything out of the proposed bill and focus on infrastructure only? so we can stimulate jobs, construction, the economy. get the country going back in a more positive direction. host: this is what members of congress are saying about resident bidens first 100 --president biden's first 100 days. "the potus has proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending and tax hikes, infrastructure bill, stimulus bill and more liberal priorities. he wants to finance these plans with tax hikes that will hurt our economy." andy biggs, the republican from

arizona "100 days down, 1360 to go." representative alan lowenthal "he has taken bob steps -- bold steps to prevent climate catastrophe and lifting up environmental justice now communities. this is how we build back better." hoyer says "the present give the order to end u.s. involvement in afghanistan, a new approach is needed, it is time to bring our troops home, i join in honoring the american allied coalition service who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom." on afghanistan, here is what the president said earlier this month on the withdrawal of troops. pres. biden: we cannot continue

the cycle of extending or expanding our residence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result. i am now the fourth u.s. president to preside over the true presence in afghanistan, two republicans, two democrats i will not pass this onto a feather. after consulting with our allies and partners, military leaders and intelligence personnel, diplomats and development experts, congress and the vice president as well as many others around the world, i concluded it is time to end our longest war. it is time for the troops to come home. when i came to office i inherited a diplomatic agreement, negotiated between the government of the united states and the taliban that all

u.s. forces would be out of afghanistan by may 1, 2021. three months after my inauguration. that is what we inherited, that commitment. it is not what i would have negotiated myself. but it was an agreement made by the united states government. that means something. in keeping with that agreement, our national interest, the only states will begin our final withdrawal on may 1 of this year. we will not conduct a hasty exit. we will do it responsibly, deliberately and safely. we will do it in coordination with our allies and partners. host: president biden talking about his commitment to withdraw u.s. troops, the promise he made. it is already underway, you heard the president site may 1, cnn says that the u.s. troop

withdrawal from afghanistan has already formally begun. republican lindsey graham critical of the decision and top member of the senate foreign relations committee. here is what he had to say. [video clip] >> i am heartbroken that president biden for political reasons took the high-risk strategy, it felt intimate upon me to support him if he went another way, it is incumbent upon me to point out the perils that await us. everybody i am about to tell you i hope i am wrong. i hope it works out. if he does not change his mind, i beg you to reevaluate, do not lock yourself in, things are to change quickly for the worse. al qaeda and isis are going to benefit from this decision.

i feel like i need to tell the american people why it is in our interest to keep a few thousand troops over there until conditions are right. if we leave afghanistan under the path charted by president biden, the government will deteriorate, people go back to the corners. the taliban will gain strength in the south, the central government will lose its ability to manage the country. it is tenuous already. a terrorist organization will reign in the east. the northern alliance, the mortal enemy of the taliban will reconstitute and form militias in the north. in the west, major city in afghanistan on the border with iran, iranians will have a major influence. what do we lose? we lose that insurance policy against another 9/11. we lose a listening post in the

backyard of one of the most radical movements in the world. afghanistan has been a platform where we can monitor what is going on. we lose all of that. what do we gain? we gain the idea that the war is over. the joe biden ended the longest war in american history. you have not ended it, you have extended and. host: lindsey graham from earlier this month, talking about the decision to withdraw troops from afghanistan. what grade would you give the president on his foreign policy? there is also the covert response, economic recovery, immigration, guns and policing. climate change, calls for national unity and cabinet appointees diversity.

these are things he talked about on the campaign trail. how do you feel he has done? kevin in indiana, independent, good morning, your grade? caller: i would say to be honest and fair, the only grade i can assign is incomplete. he has made progress in terms of fighting covid. he has made major steps in terms of economic recovery brought on by the dangers of covid. in many other areas, aspects, including the infrastructure proposals and you turn to the prompts along the border this is an administration that has work ahead of it.

not the least of which is the work to commence at the american people that it is on the right track. the best thing i can say about president biden in contrasting to the previous administration is that he is showing himself to be a true president. he is engaged in the art of governing and which is more than i can say for the republican party in congress and cannot have said that for the previous president. host: renee, newport texting that her grade is a b plus. he has been great on the coronavirus and the economy, but need to do better on the border. the messes that he inherited will not be cleaned up overnight and democrat divas like mansion and cinema are not helping -- manchin and sinema are not

helping. host: mary what would you give him for a great? you have to mute the television before you start talking. moving on. jorge in new mexico, democrat color. you are next. caller: good morning. america is a union, it is more like a family of different nations. migration is natural i would give this administration a c plus. elections to not have consequences they have a purpose. he is going to do the purpose of why he was elected hopefully. if people need ids to vote, they should need ids to give money to

political donations, thank you. host: fred, indiana, independent, your turn. caller: good morning. host: we are listening. caller: i give him a d minus. for several reasons, his handling of the border crisis. i give him a c minus for his handling of the covid. i give him a d for thinking of packing the supreme court. host: when it comes to the c minus for the pandemic, what do you like and dislike? caller: warp speed -- as far as the vaccine that was well done

for him. he got it out there good. i have to give him credit for that. host: got it. darrell in spokane, washington texted us to say that he has done a good job on covid but the government spending and debt make it to the point the u.s. dollar will not be the safeguards of the world. when that happens the value of the dollar will go down. joseph in fremont, california, republican. caller: i give him a c plus. we have a good economy even though we had a pandemic. it went up this year, there is no reason for all of this money to be spent like we are. we are going to go so far into debt. it is sad. the pandemic, he did not have to do anything. on the border i give him a f.

this is ridiculous. we had it fixed, now it is a mess. host: tina in pennsylvania, she said her grade would be a solid f. immigration is out of control. energy, it seems like he would like to make his family roots. menthol cigarette, he would rather have americans high, we are no longer free, we are being ruled. penny in north carolina, democrat caller. caller: thank you for c-span, the only thing i would improve this fact checking on both sides. on the immigration, even the democrats will not tell you that those three countries guatemala, el salvador and the other one --

when reagan and all over north was in there, started covert wars to get parts and cocaine and brought it back here. they gave it to the mafia and split the money so they could send guns to nicaragua which congress had said do not do that. he found a way to go around that, as illegal as it was. when they got what they wanted, they abandoned them. would you be in a country that has cartels running the country for 20 years? as for afghanistan? when we went in there, i was behind a bush, but what did he do? 180 country said they would help us, he and cheney said no that we would do it on our own.

it was not about democracy or anything else over there or running the taliban out, it was to make money. eisenhower sent be aware of the military-industrial complex, they will dismantle democracy. host: we have to get in some other voices. mike in brooklyn, independent. caller: considering that he has a bunch of republicans fighting him all the way up and traitors down the line, as far as immigration is concerned. it is blaming americans for opening up the camps that the nazis were running, all of a sudden you blame the americans for what the nazis were doing. that is what is going on. host: tommy, springdale, arkansas, republican. how do you grade the president? caller: i would give him an f. host: how come? caller: going back to obama,

they said that everything he inherited was bush's fault. now biden is writing coattails of trump. the vaccine was already in place. the 100 million shots, i do not believe he could have done that. hello? host: we are listening, 100 million. caller: his administration says there was no vaccine process established. from none established how could they give 100 million shots? host: they were referring to distribution. do you give him credit on distribution? caller: no that was already set up. host: what about the economy? caller: i think the economy was doing great considering what happened last year. if you look at the 401(k)s and

the stock market now, i think we are in trouble. it is just going to hurt americans. host: looking out the economic headlines in the papers. the wall street journal with the headline, "u.s. economy bounces back, near its peak, consumers lead the activity. bringing the nation within 1% of the level reached pre-pandemic." new york times this morning, "economic surge lift hopes as people aim to spend." the washington post this money, "growth speeds up in the first quarter, the economy on the verge of erasing losses." president biden from yesterday in georgia talking about infrastructure investments needed [video clip] pres. biden: we will provide high-speed internet everywhere in america.

15% of georgia households do not have internet. we will change that. those projects will create millions of good paying jobs, just installing them. 2 million women have dropped out of the workforce during the pandemic. because too often they had to choose between care for their child, family or go to work. in the 21st century, infrastructures not just steel and concrete, it is people. it is time we start paying people to come to our homes an d care for people. when a lot of people talk about climate they forget the most important word. i made a promise that i would rejoin the paris climate record. on day one, which we did.

that i would have in the first 100 days a climate summit in america. inviting all of the world polluters and emitters, including the biggest nations of the world. and they came, everybody from russia to china, european union, india, all of them. what came across? every single one of those countries whether they will meet obligations or not, finally understanding that taking care of saving the planet is going to create millions of jobs. millions of jobs. we are going to put engineers and construction workers, electricians, electrical workers, building efficient buildings and homes. we are going to install 500,000 charging stations around the highways we will rebuild. there is no reason that the blades for windmill turbines cannot be built in pittsburgh rather than beijing?

there is no reason american workers cannot lead the world and the production of electric vehicles and the batteries that repel them. we can do what we need to do in saving the planet and create millions of jobs. host: president biden from yesterday pushing his infrastructure plan. he wants to spend trillions on infrastructure. republicans have been critical of the president in his first 100 days. for the amount of spending that he would like to do. [video clip] >> president biden believes that government made america great. only government can keep us great. senator scott with whom i agree believes that the president could not be more wrong. what made america great and

ensure it is ordinary people doing extraordinary things. that is the difference between democrats and republicans. democrats put their faith in government, republicans put it in people. i was disappointed in the speech. it is clear to me that he could have done his speech in 30 seconds. he could have walked up, said i am president biden, here's my message. i want all of you to send all of your money into freedom to washington -- and freedom to washington. thank you for watching. i do not agree with it. i have been disappointed in his first 100 days. he is a modest man but based on his record he has much to be modest about. it has been a radical agenda.

i do not think it is supported by the american people. host: senator kennedy of louisiana, republican reacting to the joint address. charles in new york, democrat call. how would you grade the first 100 days? caller: on the whole alphabet, a z. host: why? caller: he is horrible and people need to see the reality of what is happening. he is spending out tons of money. there is nothing done yet. there is no work in progress, tons of people are out of work but he talks about green this and electric that but there is nobody working. the stock market is doing great, the committee's are not making money because nobody is working. just starting to show money now, i have no idea.

the stocks are overpriced for no reason. a $40 stock that used to be $90 is back up to $70 for no reason. it makes no sense. they want to ban cigarettes but legalize pot. i do not want to walk with my child down the road and have some kids smoking pot and blowing that into my child's face. host: i will go to lupe in california, independent. your turn. caller: i want to speak to the callers and anybody else listening, just remember ezekiel 18:4 all the lungs to god. judge yourself, do not use the word hate, think about what you're going to say before you say it. i wish everybody a good day.

host: nicholas, asheboro, north carolina, republican, we are grading president on his first 100 days. caller: a c. i will give him credit for the vaccine rollout. he has ministry reaches promise there. i am not safe at the vaccine yet, i am amino compromised. i believe the border needs to be improved. i believe that other issues are being left out of the picture like china's actions in the pacific along with russia's actions in ukraine and the falcons. i believe that president biden -- i do not have the confidence he will stand up to them. i believe all that he can do is antagonize them to pursue more dangerous actions. host: steve oak ridge, tennessee, democrat caller. caller: good morning.

i am a retired teacher. i will try to give him a great that is objective. the stock market is at all-time highs. there is companies in the way that the government is going. on the pandemic i would give him a a. people are giving trump too much credit for the vaccine. at the end of january, the biotech industry had developing the vaccine if that warp speed started in april. on the border i would give him a d, he has created a mess. there were not on top of that to begin with. i am a decent man, i will give him an a. it was nice not being called a

radical, socialist, communist democrat which i am not. it was interesting to see when he said that he was going to lift half of american children out of poverty, that the republicans set with hands in their laps and refused to give any credit for trying to help people out of poverty. i tell you, we are in a helluva place. it is sad that we are so divided that people are not willing to look at everybody's opinion. i watch fox news, cnn, i do not watch msnbc. if you only watch msnbc or fox news you do not know what is going on. you are listening to what you want to hear. i think that is sad.

ab is a good rating -- a b is a good rating. host: what did you teach? caller: science. i started studying climate change in 1985, israel. there were a series of science programs, one of them, the scientists at the labs said that if we continue with the suburban automobile culture we live in it will create a climate situation that is 1958. host: i will leave it there. axios is reporting that the secretary of state anthony blinken is to visit ukraine in the wake of a massive military buildup. tom from jacksonville, north carolina, republican. caller: good morning.

i wanted to say that joe biden campaigned as an irish catholic and when a person tells a young woman that it is okay to kill their babies -- i hope he can do much about getting england out of ireland. host: sergio from florida, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i give him an a plus. covid cases have gone down excessively. i believe the economic will be prosperous. he has been telling the truth all along. his people have been coming out and letting us know step-by-step what is going on. his infrastructure plan is a

plus, kudos. we need to get the money out there for transportation especially in florida. we need this man and the administration. it is going to be a prosperous economy. host: sergio likes the president's infrastructure proposal. he wants to put $621 billion towards bridges, roads, obligate transit, 580 billion dollars into manufacturing, research and development and job training, 300 billion dollars in drinking improvements, more broadband access and electrical grids. he would spend $300 billion to build and retrofit affordable housing and $400 billion for home health care for elderly and disabled americans. there is also the american families plan he is proposing. he would like to spend 800

billion dollars to permanently extend the child tax credit and child and dependent care as well as the aca premium tax credit, 225 billion dollars for child care for low and middle income families, 225 billion dollars for national paid medical leave program, 200 billion dollars on universal preschools and $709 billion for two years of free community college along with $85 billion in pell grant's. jim in illinois gives the president and a the first 100 days. he returned honesty, stability and integrity to the office. gail in west springfield, massachusetts, democrat. caller: good morning. i would give him a b plus. he has a long way to go but i think he has done a wonderful job. i am interested in his

educational measures. it is wonderful to afford children the opportunity to go to a community college without any debt. that is all i have to say. have a great day. host: you said he has a long way to go, what do you mean? caller: in the presidency. he has many more days to go at more measures to complete. host: okay, rich in texas, republican. caller: good morning. i would give him a d. some of the stuff he has done -- talking about voting for -- host: we are listening, voting for? caller: when he brought up the jim crow two point oh, that was irresponsible to bring that up.

that was bad. on vaccines, i would give him a b. some of the other stuff, you never want the president to fail. i would not say it is a bad mark across the board. he has work to do. host: david in alabama, cut call -- david in alabama, democrat call. caller: i am not a democrat. i would give him an f minus or incomplete. he has been in office forever. just like nancy pelosi. they say a lots of stuff but they are politicians from birth. their family was in there. we do not have somebody who is

an independent anymore. host: mlb sends a tweet to say that she gives an a for effort but he will have to stay on the road because his words are important to voters. the right will twist his words anywhere they can but there results will prove the truth. as people get back to work they will see that he is right. kathy in princeton, democrat line. caller: i would give him an a plus. you cannot change things overnight, the things that have been done for the last four years. he is going to get us there, just have to do as he says. it is not going to change today or tomorrow. it is coming and you have to stick to it. host: john, darlington, south

carolina, democrat caller. caller: i give him an a on his first 100 days. i think what happened on the border is a combination of years and years, immigration needs to be repaired now, not later. the economy is on its way back. president biden and kamala harris is what america needs. all of those naysayers and people who do not understand the alphabet, they need to go back to school and start over. the president deserves the recognition we can give him. he deserves support from all americans not just half or african-americans. host: paul atwood, tennessee,

republican, what is your grade? caller: from one to 10 i will give him a zero. host: why? caller: he ate done nothing. -- ain't done nothing. he tore everything down. he has done away with the jobs. he wants to get us together -- he hates us. he hates people. he is a liar. they do not realize. host: linda in pennsylvania, democrat call. you are next. caller: i really like c-span, i

watched a couple of times per week. i hope you and the other staff keep going. i give him a b. i think we are going to see more if that can be continued, the outcome over time is important. i support many of the things he said a couple of days ago. my concern is immigration. i think it is a difficult issue. our congress, the senate should be in a think tank about what to do. i welcome immigrants but they need to be vetted. i need to make another comment, i watched c-span's two days ago and today, i am hearing racism in a new form.

a caller said that immigration was acquainted with opening up the camps from the nazis and they came here. we know who they is. i am a jewish american. i really should have the right to practice their faith, i heard a similar statement two days ago. people who do not like their immigrants are subtly expressing their point of view. thank you very much. host: thanks linda for calling. the president during his first news conference was asked about the surge at the border. [video clip] >> you blame the last administration, is your messaging and think that the structure will be allowed to be in the country and work their way through the process encouraging families to come?

pres. biden: look -- the idea that i am going to sign -- which i never would do, that an unaccompanied child at the border we are going to let them starve to death on the other side. no previous administration did not either accept trump. i will not do it. that is why i have asked the vice president of the united states to be the lead person on dealing with focusing on the fundamental reasons that people leave the countries in the first place. it is because of earthquakes, floods, lack of food, gang violence, a whole range of things. that's when i was vice president had the same obligation to deal with. i was able to get it slowed by

working with the heads of state and communities. people could not walk the street because kids were getting beat or shot. we were not giving money to the head of state because so many were corrupt but i was able to say that you need lighting in the streets to change things? i will put lighting in. we got a contractor, we got the lighting, we paid directly to the contractor. violent crime was reduced. fewer people sought to leave. when the hurricanes occurred, instead of helping in a major way, so that people would not have a reason to want to leave in the first place because they did not have housing or water or sustenance, we did nothing. we are going to do a lot. we are going to be spending that

700 plus million dollars per year to change the life and circumstances of why people leave. host: that was president biden on immigration at his first news conference. this is from joe woodstock in georgia, giving the president and a minus -- an a minus. because of immigration. he needs to address this issue and unearned amnesty and citizenship is not the answer. norman, independent, you have one minute. what grade would you give? caller: a c. host: how come? caller: the virus is already here -- i mean the vaccine and immigration you cannot let everybody in and not help the people already here. we are not helping people already here.

we are giving money to people outside of the country. host: sheila in north carolina, democratic call. caller:mine is a d, e has done great on the climate. i give him my grade because of his perpetual light on tv about systemic racism. that does not exist. 50% of the murders are done by black people. out of the 13% of the population, 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. not the police, we need the place, without them we are going to be like those cities that were burned. those dumb custard nothing to stop it. host: doris in buffalo, new york, democratic caller.

caller: i would like to give him an a. he is setting the country back on the right road in terms of infrastructure, i think everything included as necessary. this country has been decimated by the virus. he has done everything he can to help the people of the united states. host: we will leave it there. thank you all of you for calling in for the washington journal. we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern with more of your calls. enjoy your weekend. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> here is a look at what's

ahead on c-span. today's white house corona right just coronavirus response briefing is coming up. we will have that life are you when they start. it is set for 11:00 a.m. eastern this morning on c-span. this afternoon come a discussion on president biden's first 100 days in office hosted by house republican whip steve scalise at 12:30 p.m. eastern. a little bit later, remarks from homeland security secretary who is expected to talk about immigration at the ucla center for immigration law and policy. live coverage starts at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at www.c-span.org or listen free with the. >> saturday on the communicators, brookings institution vice president darrell west discusses his b