talk. >> look at the #a to kennedy the day he died and the number to me now. i will not go anywhere. i will stay right behind. >> presidential recordings. find them on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. washington journal continues. host: welcome back to washington journal. it is open forums, so i'm taking your calls on anything public policy related on your mind. go ahead and start calling in now. i want to show you the new york times, the headline, "we made it -- jackson celebrates supreme court confirmation." it says "the confirmation of judge ketanji brown jackson has changed the course of american

life, says president biden." the article says "judge jackson, the first black woman to be nominated to the supreme court, celebrated her confirmation friday, saying it was the honor of her lifetime and understands what it meant to the young black women and girls who followed along with her nomination process." we have a portion of that from the white house. here it is. [video clip] >> i have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers with just my law clerks, in isolation, so it has been overwhelming, in a good way, to be flooded with thousands of notes and cards and photos expressing just how much this moment means to so money people. the notes that i have received from children are particularly cute and especially meaningful, because more than anything, they

speak directly to the hope and promise of america. it has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a black woman's be selected to serve on the supreme court of united states. [applause] but we have made it. [applause] we have made it, all of us. all of us. host: that was judge jackson at the white house yesterday. other piece of news from the hill. the headline says that "white house acknowledges biden would get covid -- biden could get covid," for stresses he's been vaccinated. he was exposed to some people that apparently were positive,

but we haven't heard any further news about that. let's start taking your calls. sergio's first in schenectady, new york, an independent. medigap good morning -- caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. c-span offers everyone of the political spectrum to hear opinions from everyone. it is a great opportunity for me to speak a little bit about the last segment. it seemed that we are always talking about private health care. the issues we have, the problems we have. and we spend i think close to $1 trillion a year honor miller -- a year on our military. no way we would let the military be -- let the way the military is run be determined by this company or that company. when we talk about health care, i believe it is $4 trillion we spend every year. i think it is time we start

focusing on the fact that private health insurance does not work. we do have an answer called medicare. in the aca, i believe there was a provision in the aca that capped the amount of money that private health care insurance companies could spend on overhead, you know, you go past is huge -- past these huge buildings for this insurance company, people are in their pushing paper around, and 20% of what i spent all my premiums paid for that, whereas with medicare, the overhead costs are about 2% or 3%. you also don't see a lot of people on medicare out on the street protesting about, you know, medicare doesn't work. so i think it is -- i implore my fellow americans, you know, it is now time to start thinking about, you know -- and we could see it with these two gentlemen

's discussion. private health care doesn't work. so maybe it is time to think about another way of doing things. host: all right, sergio. let's talk to lewis in staunton, virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for having me. i want to agree with the gentleman who spoke just now. i have fourth stage cancer and private insurance companies will not even accept me. if they do take me, i cannot afford the premiums. that is what i want to say about that, so thank you for mentioning that. i also want to say that judge jackson will be an asset to the american judicial system. i am so proud of her and that she's there. she just gave a wonderful speech. the other thing i want to mention is that the war in ukraine is such a slaughtering event of all the people in

ukraine and i feel as though nato, the allies and mr. biden have a disconnect with the pentagon in sending them the ammunition and armory they need to fight the demon putin. this is a horrible event in our lifetime and we watched a democracy fall to ashes and i get confused as to we are a democracy and yet we watch another democracy just tumble into ashes. it is a terrible event and heartbreaking to see, the children and people slaughtered at the train station, the war crimes being committed, the ra pe and murder of citizens. it is a sin against humanity and i think mr. biden needs to think about other things other than sanctions. sanctions take years to have an effect upon a country, and

although they are valuable, they are not immediate. what president zelenskyy needs now is armor and military to fight the russians that are destroying his country, destroying families and just killing people indiscriminately. host: all right, lewis. you mentioned that attack on the train station. here is the headline from the washington post, the front page. it says "50 dead after attack on ukraine train station, allies validate and -- allies vow aid and denounce killings." president zelenskyy called it an n attack on a train station. grizzly scenes emerged with bodies strewn among luggage,

toys and debris. witnesses described a large explosion followed by four or five cluster bombs that tore into a crowd of people who gathered to catch an arriving train. the head of the donetsk regional administration said 30 died at the station, another 12 died at the hospital. among the dead are five children. 16 children are injured. let's talk to joe in stowe, ohio. a republican. hi, joe. caller: how are you? host: good. caller: good. i am going to talk about high gas and food prices. i have a few kids on their own. i am 60 and they are in their late 20's. they are having a hard time just paying their bills, buying food, higher gas prices, and they are living on the edge, barely making any money. and, you know, the policies of

the democrats have really, you know, made it rough. they all voted for biden and me and my wife voted for trump and now they are realizing that, you know, they made a mistake and they are having a hard time just getting by and, you know, i think the democrats need to get together and the republicans get together and work together and, you know, tried to start drilling again. that's the important thing. once they start drilling again, the economy will come back and, you know, i think that would be really good for the country and start bringing things around the way they used to be under trump, where, you know, the economy was roaring and not all this stupid stuff about the craziness they are teaching kids in the schools and all the abortions and, you

know, i think when they took god out of the equation in the 1960's and the schools, there are so many atheists teaching the kids in schools, how to go to hell, not to be good christians, said i think that's probably the main problem they are having, so that is all i have to say today. host: all right, joe. let's talk to martin in dayton, ohio on the independents line. good morning. caller: thank you for having me. the first two callers, i thought they were very good. girl a quote i -- there's a quote i heard recently, "there's no such thing as a former kgb man," and that was said by vladimir putin. he is moving in the poll bought direction -- in the pull pot direction, like stalin.

if you watch fox news, they are talking about the gas prices and the border. there's a great podcast by david beck worth that looks at demographics. we don't have a birthrate that's replacing the people in our country. we are an older country. we are not as bad as japan or russia or parts of europe, but still not good. at the same time, we still have so many open jobs and such a low unemployment rate. there's a solution here. you need to vet these people at the border, not them all, vet them with a lot of people. a lot of them are just in the immigration process. make sure they are legitimate, they have a legitimate reason to come, they want to be hard-working people, they have a -- people, give them a social security card, a green card, not citizenship, start

having them paying into the system so we can have a better system of social security going forward and they can be part of the system. we have plenty of land and jobs and that will grow our economy. there are people on the other side that would rather have 150 million people in our country. we have 320 million now, but a smaller u.s. is not a stronger u.s. when you can accept more people in a legal, organized, orderly way and get people into the system the right way, but no one will ever say that because people benefit the way the system is now. host: all right, martin. let's talk to william. you will be our last call, from murfreesboro, tennessee, on the democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. i am a little nervous but first i wanted to speak to the original topic of the morning, the repayment of student loan debt.

i am in favor of absolving student loan debt, although i must several years ago, repaid all my student loan debt. i am a graduate. i majored in a technical field, architectural engineering. i also have an advanced degree, and that i researched. my field -- host: william, you are breaking up, but i appreciate your call. that will be our last call. next, david stewart is the host of tax notes talk podcast, and he will talk about his podcast and take your questions ahead of the april 18 filing deadline. stay with us. ♪

>> april 19 marks the anniversary of when jackie robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. it has been known as jackie robinson day. sunday, on q&a, a former senior writer for sports illustrated talks about his book true: the four seasons of jackie robinson, where he writes about robinson's life, career and role in the civil rights movement. >> one way to think about this is realized when he made that debut, martin luther king had still never given a public speech.

he was not a large figure yet, so what we think of is that era of the civil rights movement hadn't begun, and jackson was truly a pioneer in that sense. so when you think about dr. king, probably with characteristic generosity but also being true to facts, said he would not have been accepted as he was were gotten where he was what it not for what jackie had done. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. you can also listen to q&a and all of our podcast on our free c-span now app. >> next week, on c-span, congress is in recess for the next two weeks. monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, officials from the department of interior and the forest service testify on federal wildfire management for the house natural resources committee.

on tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, testimony about evolving trends regarding overdraft programs and fees, their impact on consumers, and help to avoid overdraft fees before the house financial services committee. wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, a look at substance abuse, suicide risks and the health care system by the ways and means committee. thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, an interview with justice amy coney barrett at the reagan presidential library. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, a conversation with justice sonya sotomayor at washington university in st. louis. watch next week on c-span or c-span now, our free mobile app. had to c-span.org for scheduling information or to stream video live or on-demand any time. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> all this month, watch the top

21 videos from our c-span studentcam documentary competition. every morning, before washington journal, we will hear from one of our studentcam winners, whose documentary told us how the federal government impacted their life. you can watch all the winning documentaries anytime online at studentcam.org. washington journal continues. host:host: welcome back to washington journal. it is our saturday podcast segment. i'm joined by david stewart, host of the tax notes talk podcast. he is the tax notes today international editor-in-chief. welcome to the program. nice to have you in the studio. guest: thank you for having me. host: first, tell us about the podcast. when and why did you started? guest: we started in november of 2017. we were coming from a print journalism