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u.s. revises charter. it is a document posted on the white house webpage. where's the original charter first drafted by winston turtle and frank ladonna roosevelt was months before the was entered world war ii. it contemplated the nazi destruction. the new version focuses on the climate crisis it is sprinkled with references to emerging technology, cyberspace, sustainable global development. it ranks the threats to democratic nations in a technological era. we affirm our shared responsibility for maintaining our sustainability and

resilience against the spectrum of modern threats. as long as there are nuclear weapons nina will remain a nuclear aligns. our allies and partners will build to count on us as they continue to strengthen their own national forces. that from that new atlantic charter signed by president biden and boris johnson yesterday in england. also during his first overseas visit yesterday in england, president biden announced the united states would be donating some 500 million pfizer vaccine shots in an effort to help poor nations in the fight against covid. this was president biden yesterday. [video clip] pres. biden: america will be the arsenal of vaccines in our fight against covid-19. just as america was in world war ii. over the last four months, with taken a number of steps toward this historic effort. we have contributed more than

any nation to covax, a collective global advert -- effort delivering covid-19 vaccines across the world. we support the manufacturing efforts abroad through our partnerships with japan, india, and australia, known as the quad. we shared doses with our neighbors, canada and mexico, and in addition, three weeks ago, with america's vaccine supply secured and with the confidence we have enough vaccines to cover every american who wants one, we announce we would donate 80 million doses of our own vaccine in-house now to supply the world by the end of june. many of these doses are shipping to countries around the world as we speak. today, we are taking a major step that will supercharge the global fight against this pandemic. my direction, the united states

will purchase another 500 million doses of pfizer vaccine that will donate low and lower income countries. they will be the beneficiaries. host: president biden yesterday in england. he continues that trip today. he is expected to meet with great britain, leaders of great britain throughout this weekend, including the queen sunday. today this morning, expected to meet with the duchess of cambridge, kate middleton. meeting expecting to happen within this hour. we may show you some of that if it does happen live. but this morning, we are asking in this hour, what do you think america's role is in the world today? republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002.

we will also look for your social media comments as well and text messages, (202) 748-8003. as you continue to call in from the pew research center looking at the view other countries have of america under president biden. they know the election of joe biden has led to a dramatic shift in america's shift of image. in the 16 countries surveyed, more than six in 10 say they have confidence in biden to do the right thing in world affairs. looking at 12 nations surveyed this year and 2020. a median of 75% expressed confidence in biden compared to 17% last year in former president trump and some charts to go along with it. you can see the dramatic shift there from trump to biden in terms of confidence and no-confidence and favorability to un-favorability from 20 20 to 2021.

we want to hear from you. what is america's role today? steve is up first, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i think it is ridiculous what biden is doing. donald trump wanted tanks in ukraine and wanted to get out of germany. due to the pipeline, he is allowing the pipeline to go through but canceled the xl pipeline in the united states. he is giving away everything. russia is going to sell gas to germany and the eu, and they want china's goods. what good is it? what good is he doing? he is not doing anything. kamala harris is not going down to the southern border. nothing is getting accomplished in this administration except for more that. -- debt.

this is rita in alabama. caller: yes, sir. i've been trying to get on for two weeks. let's start from the beginning. host: rita, bring us to today, because that is our question, what is america's role in the world today? guest: it is not going to get any better. human beings are not going to stop what is going on. it's going to take god or the -- god up above. like i said, everybody that hates biden should never have taken the stimulus checks. trump lovers are all over this world, but there is coming a time when we all gonna suffer for what's going on in this world. host: that is rita in alabama. from london, kentucky, this is mark, independent as well.

what is america's role in the world today? caller: unfortunately, we have a negative role in the world. i'm not meaning that in a sort of bash america way, but we really have to understand what we have going on in the world. we are essentially, people are not going to like to hear, peope not going to like to hear this, what are we not, if we are not an imperial power to have 800 bases around the world, constantly provoking and acting aggressive. we've got black site torture places around the world, guantanamo bay. we have prisoners around the world. we provide the world with more arms, the world's biggest arms dealer. we have to take a good -- trump, there was article that came out, he tried to withdraw all of our

troops from all of the different places. it was talking about how he was foiled by the joint chiefs of staff. i thought how great that could have been. seems like the joint chiefs kick against the military, any sort of coming home, not because they care about the soldiers. they let 20 of them kill themselves every day in a pile. we really just need to come home and focus on the country. host: mark, one of the focuses on the biden administration, they said, is to strengthen the nato alliance, to reassert american leadership in nato. it was yesterday on capitol hill that the defense secretary, general lloyd austin, was testifying about the pentagon's fiscal 2022 budget and talked about both nato funding and the overall funding for the u.s. military. this is what he said. [video clip] >> i would say, when you look at overall contributions to nato,

we contribute a substantial amount to nato effort and continue to do so going forward. i think the budget gives us the right mix of capabilities and flexibility to be very effective in our efforts to deter china going forward, and russia, or anyone else that would want to take us on. i'm confident this budget will allow us to match our resources to our strategy and strategy our policy. host: general lloyd austin, secretary austin yesterday on capitol hill. those budget hearings continuing on a number of fronts this week and next in the wake of the release of the biden administration's fiscal 2022 budget plan before the memorial day holiday. we are asking you what is america's role in the world

today? and you're in massachusetts, republican, how do you answer that question? caller: firstly, we are pretty much a selfhood's orbed, pretentious policing country. i think the best way to port it -- to put it is we are the derek chauvin of the world. host: what is america's role in the world today? caller: i think america's role is to -- we need to be the leader that is not so corrupt. host: in what way, barney? what way do you see it as corrupt? that was barney. carl's in massachusetts. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i think america, for one thing, should be less militaristic and should try to cooperate as far as trading with other countries

not sanctioning other countries, like china and russia i'm sure. i'm sure their governments are every bit corrupt as ours, but those people do not want war. they will do maneuvering as far as trade, and i'm sure we do the same. they don't want war. they lost too many people during world war ii, tens of millions of people. we lost 400,000, and we should just stop being a bully. and stop pointing a finger -- host: where have we been a bully, give me an example? caller: syria, libya, south america, just about every country in south america. iran, going back to the 1950's, we toppled the government, as a

result they gotresult they got h there because people revolted. all around, i agree with the previous caller, we got like, for example, russia and china, here, if a chinese or russian ship came into the, you know, by our shores, we would be outraged. but we do the same thing over there. we interfere in other countries. host: that is carl in massachusetts.

a few of your comments from social media and text messaging services. michael in organs, the only great power competition there should be would be to compete in aiding other countries in always possible and end -- a final end to militarism and a rise out of barbarism to uplift the whole world. that should be america's role. this from william in middletown, connecticut, america was a role is to protect american interests and show what democracy can bring to people around the globe. must have a border as well and another says we were a world-class laughingstock under the corrupt trump administration, it was well documented. we are reclaiming our world respect under biden. we sure need it after being driven into the ground. i ask you, what is america was a in the world today? what should be our foreign policy priorities? where should we focus our attention in the world? the next caller, a republican

from texas, how would you answer those questions? caller: it's nice to talk with you again. we have talked before. you know, there is a lot of people that like to be idealistic about this, and that would be nice. if this was a nice, peaceful, fun world to live in and no one was coming after one another, even out on the streets of america, it would be nice if we could walk down the street without having gangs or bad actors come at us. but it is like the border crisis right now. kamala harris goes down to the triad and tries to figure out what is going on at the border down there. to me, that is naive. it is just as naive to think that china is going to just stay in their own little part of the world and not be aggressive. just yesterday, one of our

military men warned us that china is building there armed forces at a rapid rate. you've got russia invading ukraine. so perfect world, we all get along. it's not. . host: what is a realistic world, and a realistic world, what is america's role? two remain the sole superpower? caller: somebody has to be. we have kept world peace, you might say, for a long time because, as teddy roosevelt said, we want peace, but we carry a big stick. people have to respect the fact that if they come after us, they will get its in the backside. look, it is that simple, because you can't eliminate human nature. we could make -- if we can make everybody peaceful, that would

be great. that does not mean if we are strong and have all of the guns in the world that we didn't go after people, we have never done that. name one land we put our name on after we rebuilt the country or sprung people from a bad situation. we have been sort of the policeman of the world, which i don't necessarily agree with. host: but what about sites that require collaborative effort, things like climate change, very much an issue with this atlantic charter talked about? how do you fight that with an adversarial stance or at least -- caller: yeah, just because you have a strong stance militarily or in leading the world for freedom doesn't mean that you can do what biden is doing right now, provided he could get it done, go over there and talk with the prime minister of england, boris johnson, talk

with our allies, with nato, gathered together our strengths, sit down and talk, let the world know that we are together, and that we will -- we will try to do what is best for the globe within the realm of thinking about freedom and democracy. all the big guys that want to be dictators be afraid of us. host: that is cliff in texas this morning. the new atlantic charter, the signing of that was part of this conversation this morning. one of the thing that discusses the threat to democratic nations in technological era, and it was yesterday on capitol hill, during his confirmation hearing, that national cyber director -- the national cyber director spoke about preventing cyber wear and ransomware attacks against the united states today. this is what he had to say.

[video clip] >> it will not stop on its own accord. it is not a fire raging that once it is consumed, the fuel will stop and we can wait for that moment. we must stand in. there is a range of activities we must undertake. we must create resilience not just in technology but people. we must align actions to consequences. there should be benefits for behaving well and consequences for badly. not such that it is a sibron cyber problem, we should bring all instruments of power across not just the private and public sector but nations, like-minded nations to remove the sanctuary and bring the consequences on those that hold us at risk. >> you think it's doable? >> i do think it is doable. i think it must be doable. there's a good discussion that takes place in this community about whether deterrence is possible in cyberspace, whether we can impact the decision calculus of adversaries, and it often gets conflated with nuclear deterrence.

the jobless to keep the nuclear weapon off of the field. thank goodness we have been successful in that. we will not be successful if that is the going cyber, but we need to make the systems defensible. that is a human endeavor, such that we can change the calculus of adversaries that we reduce it by 85% to 90 for p -- 90%. i understand if we did something like to factor authentication -- two factor authentication, networks, 85% of the problem goes away. if we train our people, get it down to a reasonable fire so we can manage it, it will never go completely but we can bring into heal significantly. host: national cyber director nominee chris english yesterday on capitol hill -- inglis esther down capitol hill. you can watch that whole thing at c-span.org. we ask you what is america was a

role in the world today as president biden takes his first -- america's role in the world today as president biden takes his first foreign trip. he is had to meet with vitamin prudent next wednesday. what is america's role? it is (202) 748-8001 for republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. new stories from the domestic front to keep you apprised of, including movement yesterday on perhaps infrastructure deals. this, from the hills morning report, at last, any infrastructure deal, kind of, is what they write. five members from each party announced yesterday they reached any infrastructure agreement, but many questions continue to swirl about details of the proposal, including the cost and how it would be paid for. the proposal is expected to total $1.2 trillion over eight years with 579 billion dollars

in new funding for projects, according to the hills alexander bolton. senate democrats from the group briefed them on the plan but said some questions needed to be addressed on a number of topics including the pay-fors of the bill. we will continue to watch that group about this perhaps compromise bill on infrastructure. the lead story in today's "new york times," noting as the justice department investigates who leaked classified information early in the trump administration, it took a highly unusual step, prosecutors subpoenaed apple for data from the accounts of at least two democrats on the house intelligence committee as well as aides and family members. one of which was a minor. the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those representing adam schiff of california, the panel's top

democrat and chairman. that is according to committee officials and other people briefed on the inquiry. highly unusual tactic is how the new york times describes it, that story. but that is also in several of he major national -- of the major national newspapers. rick in arkansas, independent, what is america's role in the world today? caller: hey. host: hey. caller: yeah, i'm calling about the deficit going on in our business. host: ricky, we can talk about the deficit, and we do a lot here, but only what you think america was a role you -- role should be in the world? where should we focus? caller: our foreign policy should have less to do with domestic debt. do you agree? host: i'm not quite sure what

you mean, rick. explain a little bit. caller: i am a vietnam veteran. so we spent a bunch of money to fight the war, and i understand that. but now, we are spending way to fung the world, -- fund the world. and china is picking up the debt. host: so you think more focused on america, less focused overseas? caller: ok, i will. that is rick in arkansas. that -- this is art in california. good morning. caller: hello. host: hi, art. how are you -- art. caller: how are you? host: i'm all right. caller: i think we need to do more about the border.

he wants to give vaccines away and we should be vaccine in these people coming across or chipping them so we know where they're going and we need to do something about the water supply. we don't know how the virus got over here but if they hit our water supply, we are all in trouble, you know? host: arts, a focus on the border coming up in the 8:00 a.m. eastern our, we will be joined by john hostettler of the texas public policy foundation, former u.s. representative as well from indiana, but a focus on border policies and immigration, so if you're interested, stick around for that discussion. tom is next i need you jersey, republican, -- next, in new jersey, republican, what should america's role be in the world? caller: back what it was before world war -- host: tom, can we cut it with the cursing? caller: i think we should just

let europe fend for itself. if we are going to be united, we have to be united -- not every american taxpayer. pay their money out to give to other countries in order to support them when they are not willing to support themselves. i was in ireland back in the early 2000s, and with george bush, and a guy came out to me and said what is george bush going to do about this? i am in ireland, not the united states. why don't you take care of your own country. you understand what host: that is tom in new jersey. this is nicole in new jersey, republican, good morning. jersey, republican, good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to make a comment on the things they are talking about this morning. my comment is that, as long as biden and harris are in office

in this country, there will continue to be danger all over the world, because they are danger in whatever they are host: that is nicole in new jersey. as we continue to show you biden's trip overseas, the trip there with the duchess of cambridge, happening right now -- that meeting happening now now overseas. you can listen into perhaps the conversation. president biden expected to be in on the meeting as well, the g-7 summit happening throughout the weekend. then the biden's meeting with the queen on sunday.

a very busy first overseas for the biden family. we will continue to show you coverage throughout the weekend as we wrap up that trip every morning and every day of the trip here on the "washington journal." our program, seven days per week, three hours per day. joe is in illinois, and democrats, good morning. caller: yes, i just got a question. why is it the rich feel they don't have to pay taxes when the poor people pay taxes? host: joe, what are your thoughts the united states in the world today, our image in the world today, and how we should be leading the world if that is what you think we should be doing? caller: i think the rich ought to be paying taxes, just like the poor people. host: all right, that is joe in illinois. a few more comments from social media and from our text messaging service. "united states needs to abandon itself from the trilateral bowl

-- trilateral commission which its mission is to bring the most prosperous and democratic nations as the same level as third world nations both politically and economically. that is -- we must first get our own democracy in order. currently about a third about of the american public no longer believes in free and fair elections, a core value. it's hard to convince people in other countries that governments run by elected representatives are better than autocrats when they see american democracy in tatters. lola saying our biggest threat internationally is cybersecurity. just a few of your comments from social media. this is mark in washington, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. i think the main problem is there is a three way competition for power, maybe four if you

consider north korea. and that was the one thing i think trump did the best was having the courage to walk up and cross that line and shake hands with the north korean president. but it is between china, russia, and the u.s. right now, i would say china is ahead, but we will see what happens with putin and biden. host: mark, you say it was a good thing for president trump to meets kim jong-un. do think it is a good thing for president biden to be meeting with vladimir putin? caller: i don't want to put good or bad, but it took a lot of courage for president trump, at that time, to cross that line where we lost a good amount of our men, some of our best men, including vietnam as well we

lost a good chunk of our best men. the best men have already passed. host: that is mark in seattle, washington. this is lou in florida. a republican. in morning. caller: good morning -- good morning. caller: good morning, john, c-span. america was a role in the world today, we have to salt -- america's role in the world today, we have to solve the problem in the middle east with the palestinians and israelis. they just had an election, and we have to have these people get together and find the solution, because that is where all the problems start, that is the key to peace in the middle east. we have to play a major role in taking care of that. thank you. host: on middle east politics, the topic very much in the headlines in the

congresswoman ilhan omar. here's the wrap ups from the new york times comments from congresswoman omar, seeming to compare israel and the united states to hamas and the taliban touched off an ugly showdown among democrats that pitted house leaders against progressive lawmakers of color who accused miss omar's detractors of islamophobia and anti-blackness. it ended in a clarification from miss omar that minnesota democrat and peace overtures from her colleagues. they right it exposes sharp divisions when the party needs unity. sharp divisions when the party needs unity. ms. omar wrote about a virtual exchange she had with antony blinken about the international criminal ward. here is from that exchange -- here's a little from that exchange this part discussions and outrage by some members.

this is the congresswoman omar for monday. [video clip] he >> last time, i asked about the trump sanctions on the sec staff, so i wanted to thank you, publicly, for doing the right thing and -- that sparked the discussion and outrage by some members. this is the congresswoman omar

denouncing her tweets and her statement, acquitting the main sites in israel to the taliban is as offensive as it is

misguided. and up best discredits one in -- one's argument and at best -- worst reflexive deep-seated prejudice. congresswoman omar going on to clarify her statements with another statement released yesterday, this was the statement she released yesterday. on monday, i asked the secretary of state about the ongoing investigations of the international criminal court. to be clear, she says, the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding the icc cases, not a comparison between hamas, the taliban, the u.s., and israel. it was no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems. that statement from the congresswoman yesterday. that statement from the congresswoman yesterday. then the new york times mentioned the response from democratic leadership. here is that statement from speaker nancy pelosi, the majority leader, james clyburn,

and other members of leadership. they said, yesterday, legitimate criticism of the policies about the united states and israel is protected by the values of free speeds and indeed such criticism is essential to the strengthened health of our democracies, but drawing false equivalencies between democracies like the u.s. and israel and groups like hamas and the taliban undermines progress toward a future of peace and security for all. they end by saying we welcome the clarification by congresswoman omar that there is no more a equivalency between u.s. and israel and hamas and the taliban. . that is the exchange -- taliban. that is the exchange happening over the course of this week. we will see if they say more today. back to your phone calls. this is hermit in florida. independent. good morning. caller: can you hear me ok? host: yes, sir. caller: i, self hermit because i'm kind of isolated. i'm like a hermit crab.

i'm a catholic, judeo-christian values, and i believe america is supposed to be the guiding light for the rest of the world. in terms of living those values, and freedom, which we struggled with and america is the outcome -- which we struggled with in europe and america is the outcome of that struggles like so many other countries like to force their values on their people. i wish more people in the united states would use freedom as a tool, use values of being a guiding light in the world. that is what we have to do. sometimes we get caught up in the struggles of the world because they become violent and they start to make it difficult for everybody to live on planet earth, so sometimes we get caught up in it, but i think we have been too caught up in it. we need to draw back and live our values as individuals and groups in america, and be a

guiding light for the rest of the world. host: drawback where? caller: well yeah, we need to improve upon it. i'm not say we have been a perfect example. host: wears a place we have overextended, that we have been too caught up? caller: i think afghanistan, in terms of military. if that is what you're talking about, in terms of foreign affairs. host: yeah. you said we need to drawback, i'm just asking wherefrom. caller: i think we have been in afghanistan for too long, put too much money into power since world war ii. i think we need to drawback here in our country domestically and start living the values we are's post to live by, judeo-christian values, as individuals, something we have to choose freely. i think there is an extreme left on the democratic side and extreme right on republican side that want to force their values. that's why used to be a democrat

but i became an independent. i want to choose my values and not have a party choose for me. i think we need to drawback domestically and live the values we are supposed to -- that's we ideally wanted. host: got your point. our next caller is a democrats. good morning. caller: hello? host: go ahead, sir. caller: yes, my opinion, the worldview of us around the world is totally messed up because donald trump made sure our image in this country looks murky. joe biden and kamala harris are the ones to rectify the wrongs trump has done to our country and our image all over the world. thank you. host: that his horse in

philadelphia. this is lydia out of portland, oregon. good morning. caller: i am a republican, but i may never-trumper. i think america's role in the world is to stand up for freedom, wherever that is, whether it is congresswoman's on mars -- omar's right to express freedom, for congress to do their jobs without being tracked by a vindictive president doj, whether it is muslims living in our country without fear, or jews living in their faith without fear. that is what i think our role in the world is, expanding freedom for everybody, not just people

with color, we are saying judeo-christian. host: that is lydia in oregon, this is our next caller and a democrat, good morning. caller: i want to extend to armand on his idea on moral values. that is something we need to embrace. i think it is time for us to look at everything, from a centrist point of view more than anything else. fairness and balance in a way that benefits everybody. and i think there needs to be stronger leadership, not in a to radical -- in a tyrannical way but in a fair way, like teddy roosevelt, which would be a good example of that.

and we are too far divided. we might have the strongest military in the world, but when -- how much does it do us when you are so far divided? countries like china might be looking at us and licking their chops right now. so we need to try to think about what is most important and put a good emphasis on edge, come together as a team, work together, and emphasize fairness for everybody. host: gary, how do you emphasize fairness for everybody on a global stage when, as you say, china is looking at us and licking his chops -- its chops? caller: that's a good question. to be honest with you, i wish -- we just need to be as strong as we can be, defensively, in case something happens. that is one answer. in the meantime, i say let's try

to keep everything together in a peaceful manner and try to prevent that. if we get together in a balanced, partisan way to talk things over and try to decide what the best solutions are, it would be far better off. host: that is gary in indiana. the call or two before gary was talking about the image of the united -- caller two before gary was talking about the image of the united states on the global stage. the image from pew showing western confidence in u.s. presidents, going back to 2001, george w. bush administration through 2008. you can see the jump during the obama administration, the fall again during the trump administration, then the surgeon again here at the beginning of the biden administration. those four lines there, the

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g7 and the meeting between joe biden and president vladimir pridgen the last part of this trip. back to your phone calls. speaking about overseas, we are talking about america's role in the world today. what should it be? getting your thoughts. as usual, for republicans, democrats, and independents. this is david in new york, independent. caller: good morning. the long term strategic plan for foreign policy should be at the national level so we do not have the foreign policy that is dependent on a political party or individual serving as president. really, that goes back to the basics, fairness, equal treatment, equal opportunity, and level the playing field, with respect to expecting human rights and justice for

establishing peace and tranquility, that not only keeps us competitive as the number want to look up to, but also to our own action, domestic and internationally, to be able to have that emulated for other countries and for us to learn from other countries with respect to their experiences as well. host: david, do other countries emulate us right now? caller: quite a few. ironically, as odd as it may seem, the 85 million people in iran are grappling with another fake election with electing another president, they have for the past 100 years looking -- years been looking up. we have not enabled