>> i can report to the nation america is on the move again. >> live tuesday, march 1, the state of the union. preston bided addresses the nation reflecting on his first year in office and laying out his agenda for the year ahead. live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we will take your phone calls and social media reactions. the state of the union address, live tuesday, march 1, at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back. this is our open phone segment where you can call in and talk about the most important political issue on your mind. we are going to open up regular lines for this segment. republicans, you can call in at

(202) 748-8001. democrats, your lines (202) 748-8000. independents, you can call (202) 748-8002. you can always text (202) 748-8003. we are always reading on social media, on twitter @cspanwj and on facebook at facebook.com/c-span. let's get updated on the current situation in the ukraine with the u.s., russia, and what is going on there. there is a story on cnn this morning but i want to bring to you with president biden soon to talk to russian president vladimir putin. i will bring this story to you in just one second. here we go. president joe biden plans to speak with russian president vladimir putin saturday, a person familiar with the matter said, as the u.s. warns russia

could attack ukraine at any moment. the high stakes talks, at a critical juncture in the ongoing crisis. a significant increase in russian ground forces have surrounded ukraine, and putin could decide at any moment to activate them into a deadly invasion. he has not decided whether to act, the white house said, but that has not stopped american officials from increasing their warnings and attack is a distinct possibility and could occur swiftly. bidens phone conversation with putin scheduled for 11:00 a.m. eastern time saturday will be his first since the end of december. since then the number of russian troops near ukraine has increased as the prospects of an invasion have increased according to american intelligence assessments. national security advisor jake sullivan came out on friday with

the latest assessment of a potential for a russian invasion in ukraine. here is what jake sullivan had to say. [video clip] >> we continue to see signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. as we said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time should vladimir putin decide to order it. i will not comment on the details of our intelligence operation. it could begin during the olympics despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after the olympics. we are ready either way. we are ready to continue results oriented diplomacy that addresses the security concerns of the u.s., russia, and europe consistent with our values and the principle of reciprocity. we continue to make that clear with russia. we are ready to respond

decisively alongside those allies and partners should russia choose military action. our response would include severe economic sanctions with similar packages imposed by the european union, the united kingdom, canada, and other countries. it would include changes to nato and american force posture along the eastern flank. the president held a secure video conference today with key allies and partners to coordinate our approach to this crisis. the participants were the u.k., france, germany, italy, canada, poland, romania, the secretary-general of nato, and the president of the european union. we have achieved a remarkable level of unity and common purpose, from the broad strategy down to the technical details. if russia proceeds, its long-term power and influence will be diminished, not enhanced, by an invasion. host: we want to know what is

your most important political topic to talk about this morning? let's start with linda calling from norwalk, california, on the democrat line. good morning. caller: hello. i just am curious to know why do -- if we own property, why do we have to pay property taxes even when the house is paid off whether property is paid off? host: that is a good question. let's go to gary calling from sterling, virginia, on the republican line. caller: good morning. jesse, the last time i called you we were talking about hurricanes. i had a suggestion to use supersonic fighters to detonate synchronized -- have a squadron fly into the eye of a hurricane

and do a sonic boom because it might knock the hurricane apart before it gets a. i hope you remember that so you can run that up the flagpole any time you got somebody that might have some juice to get that done. i think that might be great. that was one of the most terrifying events when i was four years old, i was in the eye of a hurricane. my dad said that his 37,000 feet or something up. you could just see a wall of clouds. it was amazing. all these people accusing president trump guilty of all these crimes. the man is not guilty. it is because of reasons of insanity. i am really familiar with mental

illness as my father had a severe case of ptsd and gave me a concussion when i was 22 months old, but that is what i see in mr. trump. i'm sorry, i have to say that. host: let's go to walter, who is calling from connecticut on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how you doing? host: i am fine. go ahead. caller: i want to talk about the concerns of automation and declines as far as jobs. i started working for an aerospace company with the aircraft in hartford, connecticut. i'm sure you have been on planes , any american airlines, any

plane. my point is that -- i retired at 45 years. i started right out of high school, went to an apprenticeship. when we were talking about it in the late 1980's, they were talking about automation. we had a study joint with the company. automation, what does that mean? you are going to have less people in more automation. what are you going to do with these people? you are going to have less workers, but you have automation. some of these people are in their 40's. they are not ready for retirement. they say we are going to retrain everybody. we are going to have better jobs. you say that. if you have a machine that replaces five workers, you got 20 or 30 of these machines with

four plans. you have one machine that can do five, 6, 7 employees' worth of work. strong negotiation. we told them no. these people have high school education. some don't. they are not like a toolmaker or electrician. we want to hammer out some of those details. problem now is that the automation is so rampant now that even uaw, now they got trucks that are going to be driving with no truck drivers in the trucks. work for us is not perfect, but it did work. host: let's go to kathleen calling from st. paul,

minnesota, on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. here is a fun fact. 2007, we had 2.75 government employees. 2009, we had host: let's go to marietta from maryland on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i just called to say all of the republicans who are threatening to open up all of these investigations once they get back into office should realize now that they've already set a precedent that if you subpoena somebody you do not have to show up for that subpoena. they are the ones that set that precedent so they could open all of the investigations they want what you do not have to show up. my second thing is what is going

on with the teachers and children and parents in the classroom. i can almost guarantee you that a majority of the people that's doing this never attended a pta meeting and they never paid pta dues. thank you. host: is go to douglas who is calling from florida on the republican line -- let's go to douglas who is calling from florida on the republican line. caller: president biden has given the russians essentially a green light by saying they want to be any americans in ukraine, so there will be no problems with the russians facing the state. no americans will be faced in no americans will be killed. he is also talking about limited interest into ukraine so he is already saying likely it

happened here there's no american armor and nothing to stop the russian army from entering. putin is a thug and has always been a thug. the only thing russians ever understood was force. all of the nato forces not in that country and they can't oppose the russian villa terry. -- russian military. host: let's go to mary. caller: i am calling because i am outraged that trump had the insurrection asking followers to fight hard because otherwise they would not have a country, and then the insurrection happened and he was watching

everything that happened. why is he above the law? he is causing more mischief by supporting the strike in canada. he outwardly said i support the fighting for our country and democracy. he is nothing but a troublemaker. host: go to ronald who is calling from nevada on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to start off with what your first caller asked why

do we pay property taxes when our house is paid off is what the lady said. the question, i would like to go at it from the backside, why do we pay income tax and why do we pay interest on debt that the federal government has set up? really what should happen is the local infrastructure which is based on property ownership are cells that it was originally based on. originally the states got together and the region the states were organized was to promote these united states. the resources that are generated from prosperity of the society

would be actually more local than collectively federal. that is why if you really look into it, why is your property, your homes, why are they in the county? why are they under the -- why aren't they under the county jurisdiction if you think about it, the early teens of the 19th century, everything got switch to everything is federal. we have federal taxes and social security and all this federal stuff and all of this federal debt. i don't think we are ever going to make it back to what the original founders set up, which was life, liberty, and the pursuit of property.

host: let's go to ray who is calling from lezz in view, tennessee on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. you know the saying that elections have consequences, for all of the people who voted against donald trump and voted for biden, elections have consequences. look at what is happening today. you have problems and every front because you don't have a leader. you picked this man who has done nothing for 50 years for the american people and you pick him to be your president. good luck to you. thank you. host: let's go to jim from pioneer, ohio on the independent line. caller: talking about automation

, i am a cnc programmer operator and i don't worry about losing my job to automation. more automation means i can run more machines at the same time. i am in a real good spot. i am making half of what i did the years ago. there are new fabulous machines that cost a lot of money and that makes the calculation a little different than just how much product committee versus how much the pay is there was a caller who called in and talk to how much it cost. host: let's go to stephen who is

calling from quincy, illinois. good morning. caller: i watched a portion of c-span yesterday that had the guest of james bovard who offered no proof of fact to back up his stupid claims that the coronavirus is not serious and that vaccinations and face masks are not helpful. i thought it was one of the most disgraceful programs you've ever had. he in my opinion is a nutcase. he indicated he hated president biden, police officers, and dr. fauci and on and on. after having him on your program, why don't you schedule the congressman when from georgia to discuss how she denies the holocaust ever occurred and it is a fake part of history and schedule somebody who sounds like rush limbaugh to discuss how the sandy hook killings in 2012 of the six and

seven-year-old schoolchildren was staged and never occurred. i just thought it was a disgraceful program and i am horribly disappointed in c-span to somebody as ridiculous as him up here -- appear. host: let's go to james who is calling from romulus, michigan. caller: i just wondered if you could possibly do a segment on the court filings by john durham and who has been named in these court filings. you have georgia tech university, who created false evidence and gave it to hillary clinton's lawyer who then gave it to the fbi who said he did it as a concerned citizen. you have victor darr janco -- darchencyo.

yet the national security adviser involved here you have multiple people from the hillary clinton campaign who have faces in front of the special counsel could you just did a filing last week or a week and a half ago about how this lawyer who is representing these people has a conflict of interest. i think you should get somebody who knows about this who is a legal expert to go in and have a program on this, because when you have a university, the democratic national committee has been named in the indictment. why this isn't on tv or the news or you people don't do a segment on it is ridiculous. host: let's go to scott calling from roseville, california on the democrat line. good morning. caller: i called to complain a little bit if that is ok. host: you wouldn't be the first this morning. caller: a lifelong republican

until i did a complete u-turn when i learned, and there is worse than this, i learned the way to greet a woman from a rerecording early on from the previous administrations term. today i was watching a different network and jumping back and forth and your show is way better. i have educators in my family, first grade teacher, for great teacher, and every lady knows that every single one of those kids in the class is her kid. they are not with mom and dad and they are into the classroom and they respond to the teacher. they took kindergartners to six-year-olds and said you get to take your masks off today here at great is that. all of the kids responded to their teacher who they see as

their mother while they are at school and i thought that was the worst. wait worse than anything -- way worse than anything that is have been to the previous administration. but nowadays, anything is ok, even using the little kids. that will be on the news all day today and tomorrow and probably through the news. i hope we can work things out with ukraine during -- ukraine. host: let's go to robert. caller: some of the democratic callers, i am just wondering, are they made up callers or are they for real good you never rebuttal the left. you let them you on and on and you don't bottle the democrats but you bottle the republicans.

anyway, c-span is great for you have to watch out because the tide is turning. host: go to morgan who is calling from reading, pennsylvania on the democratic line. caller: i hope to say that i hope all americans remember that the republicans have given love and support to the terrorists of january 6 who injured over 100 police officers and five people died because of their actions and to remember that tom invited a teenage double murderer to mar-a-lago -- that trump invited a teenage double murderer to mar-a-lago. i just hope americans remember all of that when they go to their voting booths at the

elections coming up. host: let's go to edward who is con from jackson, mississippi on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to touch on the history lesson about federal taxes that was brought up earlier the concept of the united states. i believe the caller mentioned 1914. i think when the federal government assumes the debt that hamilton wanted the federal government to assume the debt from the war shortly after the revolutionary war, the southern states did not want to do that because they had already paid back most of their debts, but there was a compromise struck at jefferson's house to make the new capitol between the north

and the south and in exchange for putting the capital closer to the south, the southern states were lifted for them all to go in and have the federal debt from the war be pooled together and paid together which is the beginning of the strengthening of the federal government. i just wanted to touch on that. the last thing i wanted to say is i appreciate the fact that you are so calm when people come in and the job that you do. as a former media producer, i think that everybody should -- if you ever hear anything on the news that makes your blood boil and hits all of these buttons and you feel chemicals, go watch another news channel and remember the people you are mad at other democrats are republicans are your neighbors and your family. if we are going to get to this moment in time, we have to

remember that balance is important with political ideologies just like it is with every other part of our life and remember that we are a team of rivals, not a nation of enemies that is all i wanted to say. host: we would like to thank all of our callers for calling in. up next, our weekly spotlight on podcast segment featuring brothers ty and brock benefiel and their podcast “the climate pod.” but first, governors on both sides of the aisle talked about energy and climate issues in their recent state of the state address here is a portion from those addresses. [video clip] >> iowa is a national and international leader. what we do reverberates beyond our borders and that is certainly true when it comes to agriculture and energy, and

especially with renewable energy. iowa is a leader and we lead the nation in the production of both even all and biodiesel and crops that make them. everyone knows that noble fuel is important to iowa. d.c. is losing sight of its important to the country. time and again in administrations of both parties, the federal government has walked away from its commitment to renewable fuels and we have to bring them back. well, we need to do it again. the biden administration focused all of its efforts on electric vehicles, actively working to eliminate gas powered cars. that is a mistake, especially as china works to lock the precious metals that make ev batteries. instead, we need to continue to embrace an all of the above

approach where we support energy sources that come from right here in iowa. to do that, i'm introducing new legislation that will improve access to e 15 and b 20 and upgrade iowa's fuel infrastructure to offer more blends and proposing way invest carbon capture solutions to sustain and build on our leadership in renewable energy. let's send it d.c. a message that can't be ignored. let's remind them that america's energy is growing right here in iowa's fields. [applause] >> while we put the pieces together to address current needs that concern our communities, we also have to take action this day to address the long-term existential

threats the state. in december, i spoke with esther not kayla baron -- astronaut kayla baron. she was aboard the international space station and i was at my home. she is traveling 17,500 miles per hour above us and orbiting the earth once every 90 minutes. i was honored that she took my call. i asked her what perspective this experience gave her about our collective home, this planet . she said something that really has stuck with me. she told me she was amazed by how thin our atmosphere is. how at night there is a burnt orange glow at it edge, revealing just how paperthin the layer is between the livable world and the nothingness of space. she said the most important

thing we need to survive is the ability to breathe clean air. our planets fragile state is not just merely graph with a narrow point to that calamity. you saw floods go through the windows. people who lost 600,000 acres of commercial timber to wildfires. when i looked into the eyes of people who have lost their home and i see the pain they have, that is the pain of climate change and we have to do everything we can to fight it, every corner of our state faces disasters today. this is the