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>> watch the march for our lives gun violence rally on the national mall in washington at noon today on c-span, our mobile app, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. ♪ this is "washington journal" for june 11. one of the themes for the midterm election is crime. san francisco's district attorney was outed because he was liberal and others are showing they are tough on crime. we want to get your thoughts on what party you trust when it comes to fighting crime overall. here is how you can let us know. (202)-748-8001 for republicans, (202)-748-8000 four democrats, an independents (202)-748-8002.

if you are in law enforcement and you want to give your thoughts, (202)-748-8003 is how you can do that. you can use that same number to text us your thoughts. you can post on facebook and twitter and follow the show on instagram. "the washington post" looks at how democrats running for reelection are facing this crime . in this article it goes to san francisco and the primary that took place this week. it fears democrats losing ground or compounded by the primary, in which it included the recall of san francisco district attorney, whom voters saw as overly lenient toward criminals. and los angeles mayors' race, rick caruso, a former republican who campaigned on improving quality of life, is projected to go to a runoff with karen bass.

it was too the results of the primary that even president biden while in california referenced them and talked about the larger issue of crime. "the hill" picks up that story saying the president said tuesday the primary results in california and mississippi and other states sent the message that voters want leaders who will take a tough stance on crime. the president again traveling for the summit of the americas in california, but made those comments earlier this week. here's president biden from earlier this week. [video clip] >> i think the voters sent a clear message last night. both parties have to step up and do something about crime as well as gun violence. and, as you recall, billions of

dollars are encouraging to be used to reform the police department. very few have done it. in addition to that, i sent the congress a request for $300 million in this year budget to retraining cops and make sure they are adequately dispersed around the community. it is time to move. it is time the state a locality spend the money they have to deal with crime, as well as retrain police officers. as well as provide more community policing. it is time to get on with doing that and that is what i think the message last night from the american public was in all of the primaries. host: you can see more of that on our website at c-span.org. when it comes to fighting crime, which party do you trust to do that? (202)-748-8001 for republicans,

(202)-748-8000 four democrats, an independents (202)-748-8002. cnn picks up a scene looking at the crime and how it plays out in election related issues. they start with last year say new york city's electorate chose the now mayor, eric adams, running the most forceful tough on crime campaign. they highlight los angeles. rick caruso came out of nowhere. in chicago, mayor lori lightfoot, who is up for reelection last year, has infuriated progressives and keep in mind that president joe biden won all these cities by at least 53 points. the story also looks at statistics when it comes to specific crimes across the united states. they highlight that larceny theft is up 20% from last year

in san francisco, the same in the three most populated cities. it is up 51% in new york and 43% los angeles. other theft categories have shown a 16% rise and theft is up 66% year-over-year in chicago. you can give us some of where crime is where you live and what party do you trust when it comes to fighting crime? the numbers are on the screen. you can text us at (202)-748-8003. we start with dirk in minneapolis, minnesota, democrats' line. do you trust one party over the other when it comes to fighting crime? caller: yes. it is not that the republicans are insincere, but i believe the democrats have a better idea on gun control, how to limit guns.

i have one slightly off-topic -- host: let's stick to the topic. when it comes to other crimes, do you think the democratic party has a better approach on fighting crime overall? caller: except for the radicals, yes. i believe the police should be funded more, not less, and that they should be given better equipment for fighting crimes, especially school sites. they got locked out of their own classrooms at robb elementary. i believe they have to have the equipment to deal with their own reinforcements. host: that was dirk in minneapolis. let's hear from dee in ohio,

lucasville, independent line. caller: i don't see why they don't give the border police the wall to keep the drugs out because the drugs are few willing -- fueling crimes. they can still bring in as many illegals in as they want. host: so which party -- tell me, which party do trust on crime? which party do you trust more? dee, tell us what party you trust more on fighting crime? caller: to help them keep the drugs out. host: ron in maryland, democrats' line. caller: hello. host: you are on. caller: thank you for c-span.

i think if you would step these republicans stopping these guns from invading the cities, that is the base problem. about two months ago a 13-year-old boy shot and killed somebody in maryland. how does a 13-year-old get enough money to buy a gun? and all of these guns are coming in from virginia, new york, all of these major cities. these republicans own all these gun shops and they are sending the guns into the major cities. host: when it comes to other crime, do you trust the democratic party more on that? caller: do i do what? host: do you trust the democratic party more in fighting crime versus the republican party? caller: i think so. when we have this election coming up in november, if the

voters do not do one thing, if they vote the democratic parties in, we can get these guns out of the community. host: aside from gun crime, what other crime do you think the democrat party does better at fighting? caller: i think all of this is tied together. host: why do you say that? caller: people are out robbing people and doing all this stuff, they have guns doing this. host: that is ron in maryland. this is thomas in humboldt, texas, independent line. caller: you have where it is democratic or republican. you are trying to say which party is great for it, but that makes no sense. what method is best for it? host: which party has the best

method then? caller: you have not asked that. do you have any numbers saying how many crimes have increased since 1990 or decreased? we all know there is a drug epidemic. when you need drugs, you spill, that's it. until you get people help, they are going to be stealing more often. when you have no place to live, you steal. you steal her food, clothing -- you steal for food, clothing, things like that. host: are you saying neither party has a good approach of fighting crime? caller: no, they don't. the logical problem is homelessness and people without.

people do not steal just because. they steal because they need something. evidently, they need health care, they need food, they need money. thank you. host: that was thomas in texas. we set aside a line for those of you in law enforcement. this is robert in clearwater, florida, republican identified and law enforcement. go ahead. caller: this is ridiculous. people make excuses. that is why we need law enforcement to get drugs off the roads. they are attacking people, killing people -- host: let us start with a couple of questions. are you in law enforcement yourself? caller: my family is. host: we are setting aside the line for law enforcement as far as those in law enforcement.

that said, which party has a better approach at fighting crime? caller: law enforcement. i think they are the best at fighting crime and the have to change the politicians. you have to go back to all republicans if you ask me. host: that is robert in florida. you heard the president talk about the use of the american rescue plan funds for help in fighting crime when he was in california. statement or press release from the white house on how the funds are being used. $6.5 billion, $1 billion for public safety workers, over $2 billion to ease the burden on police, including community violence intervention, crisis responders and substance use disorder and mental health services, and then over $350

million set aside to help formerly car serrated individuals reenter society and provide at risk teens and adults with opportunities in the summer and during the year. it also sets aside $450 million in new police cars and upgraded radio systems, and $600 million to support victims of crime. when it comes to the topic of fighting crime, asking you which party do you trust to do that? you can call and give your thoughts and text just this morning at (202)-748-8003. this is dan in santa barbara, california, independent line. caller: when it comes to our political parties, i don't trust either one. they have both been taken over by extremism's within their own -- extremists within their own ranks. the republicans have been hijacked by authoritarians and

fascists and i do not trust them. on the other hand, the democrats have extremists in their own ranks and we saw that during the george floyd protests. what happened with the chopped zone, what happened in portland with antifa and the jails trying to get burned down. it is frankly depressing to see how our political establishment is basically just giving in to the loudest voices in the room. host:host: if it is not either of those parties, what is the best approach? caller: just hoping the center holds and we have voices of moderation and reason get back into the mix. right now, all you see is extremism on both sides. host: what does that mean as far as fighting crimes, these voices

of moderation? caller: i hope they are in some cities but on the left with what is going on in san francisco and l.a., it is a joke. if you look at how the right is treating the january 6 hearings, it is frightening. i don't know where the moderate, normal, reasonable people are, but i do not see them in the media anymore. host: that is dan in santa barbara. he referenced san francisco, the ousting of the district attorney. megan mcardle picks up on the events of crime when it comes to politics in a column that talked about san francisco. she also writes in a column this morning saying, progressives talk about addressing the root causes of crime that they forget one of the most important is human nature. we are selfish and greedy beings and of crime is rewarding or disorder tolerated, people will engage in antisocial behavior

even if all material needs are met. it is the job of the criminal justice system to deter that. she also says it progressives are wrong about the problem, conservatives are wrong about the solution. too often they try to solve crime through harsher punishment. this is often because of underlying mental illness or substance abuse problems. you can find that online at "the washington post." this is bonnie in modesto, independent line. caller: i don't trust either side. i am more drawn toward the democrats. they have gone too far in the right. they are crazy.

there is no consequences. if they do a crime, they get away with it. as an older person, i do not feel safe even walking in the street because they are getting bolder and bolder because the democrats have the laws way too lenient. you have committed a crime, we are going to slap you on the hand to let you go because it is really not your fault. it is kind of scary because here in california, your cars are not safe because they will take the catalytic converters. you cannot even have ornaments in your yard because they will steal them. host: what is the police presence like in modesto? caller: they do what they can do

but there is not enough of it. host: ok. that is bonnie in california talking about her experiences living in california. let's hear from ted, cleveland, on the republican line. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: the reason why this began, i will say this, in the early 1990's during the clinton administration, you had people wanting to take the 10 commandments out of schools. and one of them says "thou shalt not kill." if that was instilled in that 18-year-old man, he would not have killed. aegon is an inanimate object -- a gone is an inanimate object --

a gun is an inanimate object. host: why is that? caller: when ronald reagan had an attempt on his life, he came out and said many things. host: that is ted in cleveland, ohio. across the united states today, there will be march for our lives rallies looking at gun violence. one will be scheduled in washington, d.c. you can see that live starting at noon on c-span, our app, and watch alongside on the website at c-span.org. and the january 6 commission held its first public hearing this week.

there is another scheduled for monday at 10:00 in the morning. you can view that on c-span, the app, and the website, featuring more of what you saw on thursday night. you can follow along and see the hearings archived on our website at c-span.org. which party do you trust more when it comes to the issue of fighting crime? rich in danvers, massachusetts. caller: how are you? host: good. caller: i will be basic. right now, we do not have a president. we would be better off -- [indiscernible] host: to the topic of the party best on fighting crime, what do you think? caller: neither one but i would go with republicans. one of the reasons is -- [indiscernible] host: i apologize, you're

breaking up awfully. if you wanted call back and try again, you are breaking up really bad. rebecca in vermont. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. hello? host: go ahead. caller: i live in a democrat run state and there is actually a lot of crime here. i live in the queen city and a lot of stabbings go on as well as, the past two years, shootings and stuff. people running around a vehicle at a mobil station. we had a young lady sitting on the pavement eating food last fall. she did not even know the guy. he walked up with the skateboard, smashed during the phase. he drew back a second time --

this is on camera -- he busted her nose. the police never caught up with him. then next week a man on main street stabbed two people. we had a stabbing in front of ben & jerry's where the person ended up dying. it is really terrible. it is a democrat run state and they let them practically go on horrible things and people walk away with ice cream as a treat. host: when you say that they let them go, how do you determine that? caller: when somebody is on camera, you see the man's face and you don't catch him? and the guy that stabbed two people on main street was never caught. and when they do get caught up with it seems like nothing is being done.

they are not allowing the public to even know. you can abuse your animals, cut your pet rat's tail off, doused it with gasoline, lit it on fire and set it running into the brush. host: that is rebecca in vermont talking about her experiences. let's hear from fortuna, california, independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning. i am concerned with the entire nature of the question from this regard. crime was a problem long before political parties and will be long after political parties. and it seems to me political parties spend a greater chance of not solving crime then a society without political parties. look at the crime being generated because of sectariani

sm. host: why do you think that is the best approach and why do you think that will work? caller: we are all humans. we all intrinsically want the same things. bob marley said "an angry man is a hungry man." let's not worry about political parties which do not solve everything. let's sit down and solve crime as humans with a little love. host: that is a caller from fortuna, california. one of the people getting their thoughts on crime or several republican senators and one of those featured was iowa republican chuck grassley. he talked about republican efforts over all to reduce violent crime and compared that to democratic efforts. here senator grassley from last month. [video clip] >> violent crime is very much on the rise. homelessness is up 30%. carjackings doubled and tripled in some cities and those are

only a couple of statistics of many different statistics we get. violence is up in the blue cities. this is due to de-policing, progressive prosecutors, and failed reforms. can you imagine prosecutors saying, we are not going to prosecute this crime or that crime? we know there has to be prosecutor discretion, but you don't tell people which crimes you are not going to punish or you get a big rise in those crimes in those cities in america. with the rising crime in larger cities, democrats blame that on violence and in red states with higher crime rates. but it shows that blue states because the crime, so set aside

blue cities and red states are much safer. law enforcement is under attack at an alarming rate. more law enforcement officers were killed in 2021 then any year since the disaster of 9/11. iowa in 2021 had nine law enforcement officers dying. the biden crime plan is, as you know, gun control. that will not reduce crime. we also have this fentanyl problem. democrats are fighting the schedule of fentanyl and why?

74,000 died because of drug overdose. we must back the blue and take crime more seriously than this administration. host: that was senator grassley. that took place last month and if you want to see it, you can go to our website, c-span.org, to do so. brian in grand rapids texting saying, neither is better for fighting crime. our elected leaders have to get together to help people rather than casting blame. jeff a massachusetts saying, i think it is more effective in dealing with crime. the democrats have so greatly failed. scott also sending us a tweet this morning saying, while the democrats new york city, seattle, chicago, los angeles, etc. are doing a good job. viewer in chicago this is joy on the independent line. caller: i absolutely agree with

the california guy. i am from chicago and i could not sleep last night because my husband has to go and pick up my stepdaughter in an area where a gang banger was shot last night. we don't go into chicago anymore but it does not matter where we are. we have grand theft auto, we have the purge. i have not trusted a politician since paul simon and he was buried in a pine casket. they have been taking so much money from the nra and nobody attempts to tackle the issue of drugs. we declare war on so many different countries, but what about the countries funneling so many of the drugs inside the country? is that not a margin of issue?

all of these drugs are coming into our communities and why is that not an issue? but oil is an issue. but it does not matter -- i am more conservative and i am a black female -- but it does not matter because we are so against each other. i think it really matters when they get together and stop taking the campaign contributions and have it shut down. host: that is joy in chicago. ed in akron, ohio, republican line. caller: i think the republicans could do a better job just from the democrats' messages right now. they don't even follow the laws. take the january 6 investigation, that is an illegal investigation that is one-sided. it is the witchhunt, which there are no witches.

host: why do you think republicans are better on crime? caller: i think they will enforce the laws instead of just picking and choosing which laws they want to enforce. when you have the vice president of the united states raising money to get people out of jail that she think should not be there, that is not enough. let's reform bail rights. nobody has to pay bail. let them all out. that is what the democrats are doing. they don't prosecute what they don't want to. they follow their own laws. it is illegal to come across the southern border, but they ignore that completely. host: let's hear from richard in north carolina, independent line. caller: until we start holding our government responsible for their crimes, nothing is going to get better. host: what do you mean by that?

caller: let's see, we have hunter, we have russiangate, we have people poring over the borders. this would be treason on the democrats' side. host: how does that associate with the local level? caller: look at the riots during the summer. they were bailing them out of jail. until you start holding these people responsible, nothing is going to get better. host: that is richard in north carolina. gallup poll in looking at issues related to crime and samples of poland from over the years -- polling from over the years. in march they asked, how much do you worry about crime and violence? 53% saying it was a great deal

they worry about it. 27% only a little. 14% and 42% in march of 2020 said a great deal. about the nation's policies to reduce or control crime? if they were satisfied or not. 2022, only 6% ever stand ins said they were satisfied about the nation's policies. they do not specify which ones. 18% said they were somewhat satisfied. 30% they were somewhat dissatisfied. and 42% were very dissatisfied. more of that at gallup.com if you want to see those samples. when it comes to political parties that have the best

policy of fighting crime, that is what we are asking. (202)-748-8001 for republicans, (202)-748-8000 for democrats, (202)-748-8002 for independents. you can also text us on (202)-748-8003 and post on facebook and twitter. lori in flint, michigan, republican line. caller: the republicans are not doing a good job. let them not mislead us. republican voters, vote democrat. host: are you a republican? caller: yes. host: why do you say republicans are not doing a good job? caller: because we have seen it. they have not prosecuted trump for what they did. they let him go. they have taken money from putin. they probably spend it on these big-ticket items and they will not give the money back. follow the money. putin has gone after rich people in other countries and taking

their stuff. you don't think he will not come here? host: you have identified yourself as republican -- caller: i am being self-critical. host: if the democratic party has a better approach, what is it? caller: incentivize people to turn in people who do bad things. put cameras on the street. encourage our people to take better care of themselves, eat right, supply the brain. host: why do you think those approaches are best? caller: because they do not cost you anything. it reduces crime. people who are in prison unlawfully should be let go. teach the young ones in our communities how to resolve issues because they have been in the prisons. they have learned some things they can share, positive things they can share with the communities. host: let's hear from beth in

louisiana, the line for independents. caller: hi. host: you are on. go ahead. caller: my main concern is the municipalities and he goes to both parties. the democrats are a little bit better. i agree with the woman who just called, but the problem is special improvement districts. you are young -- let's say all people in normal middle-class. they want a roof over their head and if you keep putting in big chains in every single town and you do not have little stores anymore -- i know in my town the man that used to have a local shop is working at home depot. nobody is allowed to have their own store. the special improvement districts take away the ability for the regular people to make decisions about their town and

they choose who is going to be mayor. and now we have big chains everywhere taking over. host: but how do you connect that specifically to crime? caller: because you have people trying to get ahead using power through a gun or stealing. young men have no ability to have power. they have the ability to go work for a chain or work for a huge corporation. that is not the way this country was built. everybody could have an opportunity. now everybody has to go global. you cannot have the person that makes good cupcakes and great spaghetti sauce, they cannot go global. what are we training who come out of college to do? work for a chain?

host: let's hear from michael in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. thank you for c-span. i think the republican party is better because you can see the things that biden did nothing to stop the crime in the cities during the riots. harris actually condoned the violence and let people out of jail, as the one caller said. trump has supported law enforcement where biden has done nothing but blame law enforcement, which has resulted in so many of these problems. host: but what does the republican party offer when it comes to fighting crime? caller: they supported law enforcement. president trump was big on law enforcement and they would not have condoned this in the

cities. look what he did -- you talk about the hearings recently and nobody pointed out the democratic party, certainly not the democratic party, pointed out that trump asked for protection before the riots on january 2. january 2 is when he told pelosi they should bring police in, the national guard into protect the city. host: let's stick to the topic at hand as far as crime when it comes to party fighting. but he brings up january 6. that monday hearing you can watch is going to be at 10:00 and you can see it on this network, c-span, on the c-span now app, and c-span.org. if you want to see the hearing from thursday night, you are welcome to go to our website,

c-span.org, to see that whole hearing in its entirety. let's hear from red wha -- redwood city, california. this is joann. caller: biden wanted billions of dollars -- trump wanted billions of dollars for state and local police. he wanted money for the atf to help their budgets. he wanted to hire another 300 agents of the atf to help with all of these gun crimes that are happening which the gop refused to do anything about. host: they also talked about the american rescue plan and how many was set aside but it has not been used yet. money is already been set aside. do you think that is not going

to make an impact? caller: i think it will if the republicans will ever go along with anything. they don't do anything to protect us. why would we expect them to protect us with the police? joe biden has plans he wants to enact in the gop will not vote for any of them and that is why the crime is going up. the gop will not do anything. they are the party of "no." host: the ousting of the district attorney in san francisco, what do you think about that? caller: the gop have been doing this. this is the second recall they have done. they did gavin newsom and they did boudean. this has nothing to do with anybody's feelings. that is what people need to

understand. these recalls are being financed by wealthy gop donors. host: but if the voters were the ones in the process of voting him out, what do you think about that? caller: i live in the bay area. i saw how many ads they put out. and has to do with how much marketing they did. they spent a lot of money in advertising for that stuff. host: that was lorraine in redwood city. one of the people commenting on the ousting of the district attorney was the san francisco mayor london breed. she talked about the recall and what it means for the future of criminal justice efforts in san francisco. here is a portion of that. [video clip] >> criminal justice reform in san francisco is not going anywhere. it does not mean there will be, all of a sudden, a significant setback. we have to make sure they never get to a point where those lines

are crossed. but we also have to be realistic. when those lines are crossed there is a decision that has to be made and there has to be accountability. to be clear, sometimes accountability means rehab. sometimes accountability means community service. it is not just about law and order and tough on crime and locking people up and throwing away the key. that is not what this is about. it is about accountability when lines are crossed and coming to a reasonable conclusion around justice and what that really means. in some cases, not just for the perpetrator, but for the people who fall victim to those crimes. host: that is in san francisco. if you move to the democratic runoff currently taking place in los angeles, it features the current representative karen bass, who is running for that position, and real estate mogul

rick caruso. both of them talking about crime in their advertising. here is karen bass. [video clip] >> there was no time to hesitate during the pandemic. we had to act to save lives. that is the urgency i brought as assembly speaker, making tough decisions to save our economy and helping people behind the numbers. i am now running for mayor to meet today's challenges. i am karen bass and i always run toward a crisis to get the job done for you. host: that is one of the people running to become the next mayor of los angeles on the democratic side. the other rick caruso, republican turned independent term democrat. here is a reason out of his. [video clip] >> nearly 1500 shooting victims, a wave of property crimes, there

is one candidate for mayor who can turn it around, rick caruso. as police commission president he took on city hall politicians and cut crime 30%. as mayor he will not defund the police, he will invest in making l.a. safer with 1500 new officers, increase youth crime prevention, and crackdown on illegal crimes. rick caruso can clean up l.a. host: we have been asking which party you think is better to fight crime. you can let us know about the party. you may think neither party as some of you have expressed. (202)-748-8001 for republicans, democrats (202)-748-8000, independents (202)-748-8002. joe is in new orleans, democrats line. caller: good morning. i think neither party is doing a very good job and that is because they do not work together. in fact, money has corrupted our

political process. i can remember when it was voted corporations work individuals and could contribute money to political entities and that president obama, at the state of the union, told how that was going to corrupt politics. host: let's get back to the topic of crime. you said people were not working together is the reason why. why do you say that when it comes to crime? caller: crime and everything, nothing is being done because of money and wanting to stay in power. doing whatever is needed to stay in power. forget about people. forget about their constituents. it is what their money contributors want. host: dan in kansas, independent

line. caller: thank you for having me on. i believe the answer would be to vote for candidates who would represent full disclosure so we know who is leaving the money on the dressers. and accountability -- host: how does that relate to fighting crime? caller: because if you eliminate the money or expose it, the people that are allowing themselves to be bought off will be exposed and they will be voted out. host: give me an example. caller: well, this whole thing with the russian money floating around. if enough people understood how much of that was being used in politics, they certainly would not put up with it.

host: how does that relate to crime? caller: well, you would not have the people voting out or not voting on gun related problems because of the money being used to sway their votes. there has been a problem with the border since i was born and i am 72 years old. it has become a political football. there is no real solution between anybody. neither party has ever taken a strong, honest solution of it because they profit too much off of the conflicts. host: let's hear from kathy in ohio, democrats' line. caller: hello? host: hello, you are on.

caller: what a loaded question. i live in ohio. we are a republican state. they have done away with any laws -- they actually made it legal -- to sell guns on the streets during demonstrations and protests in a cordoned off area. that was the republicans. they don't want to stop 18-year-olds from by automatic weapons. they should not even be selling them. i say it is the republicans. host: which republicans are responsible for that in ohio? caller: all of them get together, the senate and the house, and they passed spell about selling guns on the street in a cordoned off area during protests and peace marches. host: was this a state bill? caller: yeahcaller:. host: which bill is that? caller: for the state, not the city.

host: which bill was that? caller: i should've looked up the number before i called. there is a bill where they can sell guns on the street in a cordoned off area. host: let's go to bob in santa rosa, california, republican line. caller: i say the states have been getting bad since 1960. in 1960 in california there was a group of people that decided to get rid of all people that had green cards. they wanted them out of the country. what they were doing was they wanted illegals to come in and take the job and wages were $1.25 an hour at the time. hey, can you go to work for us? i cannot have outsiders here. all of the ranchers up here in bonoma county -- [indiscernible]

host: as far as the party fighting crime versus another, how does that relate? caller: i will tell you how it relates. i found out it was a guy named ray pelosi. i did not know he was nancy pelosi's husband. i do not think he was back then. but they threaten people with their lives. i saw people beat. host: and how does that relate as far as which party is best on crime? caller: this be the democratic party and i have been up here and for four weeks these events went on. finally, they got rid of the legal workers and illegal workers took over the work in

sonoma. host: steve on the independent line in massachusetts. caller: good morning. the democrats use common sense. once you kill the morale of a police force, you are done. you concede in san francisco, l.a., where they made it legal to steal $4000. my wife always says it is the first broken window. we need to use common sense. i think you are born with common sense. you are just done in this country is going down with people who have no common sense whatsoever. host: that was stephen massachusetts on the independent line giving us his thoughts on this idea of which party is best at fighting crime.

you can call and the remaining minutes we have or send us a text at (202)-748-8003. it was after the ousting of the district attorney in san francisco that "the sacramento beat" wrote, they were right not to seek the death penalty because capital punishment is unjust and does nothing to deter crime. it causes 70% more to try a capital case. he was right not to try juveniles as adults because to do otherwise is not only merciless, but ignorant of what we know about brain development. we also know voting is based on emotion more than facts. san franciscans are not wrong to feel their city is less beautiful. they are not wrong to feel their streets are scarier, as in the case across america, but they could elect a younger rudy

giuliani and that would not matter. you can read that in the pages of "the sacramento beat." victoria is from texas, republican line, identifies as a member of law enforcement. caller: good morning "washington journal." neither party is doing anything to protect us from crime. the reason why i called on the law enforcement line, i did have an issue. i reported it to my representatives. a lot of the problems i see is with the court matters. this was a law enforcement matter where i had property that was sold illegally for $585,000. i reported the county to the dallas county da. he refused to bring charges against the people who sold my house illegally.

i reported it to the fbi, i reported it to the state judicial conduct commissioners. the law enforcement are not enforcing the laws, but neither party is supporting crime. host: that is victoria in texas. that line for members of law enforcement. if you are going to call that line, make sure that is properly representing you. prescott in washington, d.c., democrats' line. caller: how are you doing? longtime time listener, first time caller. i think neither party and here is why. both parties over rely on incarceration. the country has 25% of the world's imprisoned population. 25% and it makes no meaningful difference on crime. incarcerating people in a small cage without rehabilitative services for as long as possible is not helping with crime.

all of the argument about common sense, lock them up, throw away the key, we need to incarcerate more people and longer and as much as possible makes no sense. neither party is trying to change that. host: sheila in california, republican line. caller: hi. i think the republican party has more respect for the constitution and for the law. at the same token as all the other callers said, both parties are not doing what they should be doing and that is respect for the law, respect for the constitution and respect for the people they represent. because they are not really doing it. host: sheila in california. given her thoughts this morning. "the wall street journal" looked at the events from earlier this

week and they wrote, the prosecutor had ridden into office as a champion of criminal justice reform which turned out to be no prosecution for crimes for drug abuse, vagrancy, homelessness, assault on the innocent. the recall is a de facto endorsement by the left of center voters of broken windows policing. failing to prosecute minor crimes leads to larger disorder and lawlessness. that worked wonders in new york and other cities in the 1990's and 2000, but progressives insist -- that is the insight that failing to prosecute minor crimes leads to larger culture of disorder and lawlessness. progressives dismissed it as

crime rates fell in voters became complacent. caller: like the summer of 2020. the riots and everything like that, that was really bad. democrats did not try to stop that too good. and this thing about trump, that is never going nowhere. and it is all going to be based on the economy. poor people are getting poorer, the middle class is getting run out. the poorer people get, the more crime there is going to be. they should never try to defund the police. host: virginia, democrats' line, this is betty. caller: i don't believe either of the parties are doing what they can do. everybody is serving his own personal agenda. but the main reason is that

people, the poorer people, are going to suffer as far as crime is concerned. you have people like trump who can do illegal things and get away with it. and it is simply not a good system. we are not following the constitution at all. neither party. and if it serves any party, it will be taken as moving that party forward if the people like it. host: betty finishing off this hour. your calls taking a look at issues around crime. we will talk about other topics during the morning. peter morici will join us in recent reports about inflation

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find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime. our first guest is peter morici, a publicist in the " washington times" and professor emeritus at the university of maryland. as far as inflation, news about the 8.6% figure, what does that number tell you with inflation itself? guest: it is worse than we thought, very widespread and permeates most aspects of the economy. the measures that we have taken so far are inadequate. they will not get the job done, and even with that we should be clear that we are not going to go back to than the last decade or no matter what the government did the inflation was less than 2%. this will be like after paul volcker broke the last inflation

when we hovered around 4%. host: how long until 8.6 to 4%, what happens? guest: there has to be a greater realization of the set of the challenges and realism at the white house. we cannot run economic policy like it is a blackboard harbored -- at harvard. i will give you one example. we are making a transition to electric vehicles but constrained by the availability of batteries. no matter what we do the majority of vehicles on the road will be gas powered for the next decade, it will be a declining share. in that context we need gasoline so shutting down or curtailing leasing and so forth and encouraging oil companies to shut their refineries is not a good idea, it is not a good idea at all, and we have a similar set of problems over and the food sector. even without the war we were facing difficulties, and now the matter in which we are

handrailing -- handling the embargoes and so forth compounds that. that does not seem to be much appreciation and they are still behaving like this is a short-term problem or as if it is the work of monopolists. let us face it the same folks were running the chicken industry when barack obama and donald trump were president. i do not think it is them. i do not think it is greedy monopolists out there, but yet they keep talking that line. either mr. biden gets new economists where he sends them back to school. host: the president spoke about the new numbers that came out yesterday and offered his own thoughts of what was happening. i want to play a little bit of that and get your response. [video clip] >> i understand that inflation is a real challenge to american families. today's report confirmed what americans already know, putin's price hike is hitting america hard. gas prices at the pump and

energy and food prices account for half of the price increase since may. inflation outside of energy and food, core inflation moderated the last two months, not enough but it has come down and we needed to come down quickly. my administration will continue everything we can to lower the prices for the american people and the congress have to act. one of the key ways to fight inflation is by lowering the cost of moving goods through the supply chain. when i first started talking about the supply chain when i came here a year ago the american people understandably wandered supply chain, that is not a usual part of the jargon every day, but they understand fully, they understand it. if you cannot get the material needed to build the product you are building whether it is an automobile or whatever, it makes it difficult to be able to move, and that is called the supply chain. that is why a been focused on ports.

last fall ports were congested due to disruption caused by the pandemic. we brought together port operators, shipping companies and labor and to ease the bottlenecks. as a result, over the holidays, 90% of all packages were delivered on time and on shelves when you went christmas shopping. remember, we were not going to have anything. you all did it. not a joke. you did it, on time with minimal delays. delivery times where quicker than they were before the pandemic. and today there are -- there are 40% fewer containers clogging the docs for long. of time -- long periods of time then last november. [end video clip] host: he starts deploying things to vladimir putin, how would you respond to that? guest: i do. think let mayor putin had much to do with shutting down america's oil industry. it is ludicrous to tell the

europeans to find natural gas somewhere else because we have ready supplies. the europeans have substantial natural gas on -- at fields that they are shutting down. but just energy, imports, the last i heard baby formula comes from michigan and rent is jumping through the ceiling. and by the way, that enters the consumer price index with a lag. the worst on that is yet to come. one third of the consumer price index is housing or shelter. and that is just one example. another is travel and airfare. energy permeates the entire economy. oil permeates the entire economy. there are good uses for oil but do not contribute to global warming. are you we going to make our personal computers and keyboards out of glass? think about everyplace that you find plastic, that comes from an oil well.

when you have an ideological approach from the left or right as we have had from both administrations, eventually it culminates in trouble and the pendulum has swung widely one way and then the other, and now we are in a fix. if i were to give joint responsibility for this mess to anyone, it would be to donald trump and joe biden much more than vladimir putin. if this war had not happened we would still be in a fix. host: our guest is with us until 8:45. you can call 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents 202-748-8002. or text us at 202-748-8003. economic spending because you pointed to both presidents, pandemic spending from the previous administration and this one including the american rescue plan, how much of that is a contributing factor? guest: let us look at how it was financed. it is kinda complex and i do not want to play professor. when the government decides to

spend money that it does not raise in taxes, it sells bonds. the bonds never really got far because the federal reserve turned around and purchased them and purchased them by printing money. most of that money did not get spent. enough of it did to cause the inflation, about half of it. the fed printed $4.5 trillion. an advanced $5 trillion worth of stimulus and we still have 2.5 trillion dollars sitting in checkbooks. so raising interest rates half a point and ringing the rate to say on mortgages to 5% when inflation is 8% or 9%, it is just silly. when paul volker was chairman and inherited a situation like this which came off of a commodity squeeze in oil as well, he raised interest rates a full percentage point every month. and he took them all away in the end to 17 or 18%.

and frankly, that is the kind of response we have to have now. maybe 17 or 18%, because he was dealing with 12% certainly 10%. at the same time i would like our viewers to consider when was the last time that someone from the national economic council or council of economic advisers who had the ear of the president said something other than b putin and monopolists -- vladimir putin and monopolists. there are different problems going on. one is the transition to electric vehicles and the lack of batteries and the other one is climate change and the agricultural market. we will be having problems in the market without those problems, but when you go around trying to blame people, people you do not like you will have problems. so the republicans are in, the unions are the problem. when the democrats are in, big

business is a problem. maybe the problem is right behind us. i know that is very rough talk, consider how much thoughtful discussion we have had on capitol hill about these inflationary pressures as opposed to posturing. we are now in a situation where basically we are campaigning all the time, not addressing the problems and every solution we get just wants to spend a lot more money. host: for the congressional approach thing, what is the best way to counteract? is it cutting spending? guest: we need to look at how we spend our money. let us take the military, i will be a good democrat for a moment which is a rare experience. we spent well more than what china and russia do together. yet they have hypersonic missiles and we do not. they have the capacity to knock out our satellites, we do not. letter mayor putin has tactical new -- vladimir putin has tactical nuclear weapons we do

not. the president is afraid and we are starting to get in the situation where america is being cowarded. to provide a naval located to get the ukrainian wheat out, that would be very useful and it would not directly confront -- confront the russians. they would have to decide whether to confront us but everyone is trembling in this town that vladimir putin will push the button. the reality is that he has buttons we do not have and we spend much more than they do and are defense secretary whenever an important strategic issue is raised, strikes another committee that delivers its report late and then we pave a new airstrip in guam. i think we should dedicate parking lots, it will be cheaper. host: formerly of the university of maryland and columnist for several publications. the first call is from derek in tallahassee, florida. republican line. go ahead. guest: good -- caller: good morning i think

that joe biden has been the worst presidents of my lifetime, and i just want to say that he should fire janet yellen, he should fire the secretary blinken and where is the accountability on the democratic side? they do not take responsibility for their policies that they have put in place that have caused this problem. i will give donald trump his credit and i criticism -- and i criticize him for some of the things he did under covid. the reality is that the democrats have caused the crisis and they need to take responsibility for it. guest: certainly the to trillion dollar stimulus package passed shortly after joe biden became president illustrates that. when he was campaigning he said that milton friedman is not going to run the economy so instead he embraced this new monetary theory, this modern

monetary theory that says that the federal government can finance itself by borrowing and printing money. if some inflation emerged because we had supply constraints which is what we have right now, more than man than supply, the fed could raise interest rates. we are seeing a fantastic real-world experiment in this. this is all conjecture and hypothesis, but joe biden did it, so joe biden is responsible, and to blame that on vladimir putin reminds me is when president obama was president, something like three years into his administration he was blaming george bush. there is a fair amount to that that i would also point out to my republican friend that it seems as though every democrat that comes along is the worst president ever in the eyes of republicans and that is silly. in terms of his presentation yesterday, at least joe biden showed something that donald trump did not, a great deal of

empathy for the american people. i would have to say that the president is poorly advised, i think he probably lacks energy, which is unfortunate, but i do not doubt his sincerity or his commitment and empathy for the american people. and i think that is important in a chief executive. what i would like to know is what will the republicans offered to replace him? i have not seen anyone come forward that articulated an understanding of these problems and instead the republicans are content to refight the last election. host: new jersey, democrats line. hello. caller: i was wondering why isn't there more being done to reduce the cost for mass transit ? first subway mass transit, bus fare, just to ease up on the amount of costs that you have to pay because of inflation, and i am also wondering why isn't

biden concentrating on the oil reserves in latin and south america instead of going to saudi arabia? guest: we have some of the same problems in venezuela and mexico that we have in saudi arabia, authoritarian governments and left-leaning governments that are hard to deal with. venezuela is not a nice place in the question is who are we going to a courage, iran, saudi arabia or venezuela? can -- at least saudi arabia has strategic importance. my feeling is that we have not seen what we need to see which is an understanding of where ordinary people spend their money. mass transit is an example. however work at home is starting to entrench and the states have been given a great deal of extra money, and some of that money is getting spent on sports facilities and they and that out of the stimulus. perhaps maybe some of that should be used for mass transportation. i know there are situations

where it has, but not many. and so that is a valid point. i want to come back to one thing i said before, can you tell me what the republican campaign fact -- platform is for the midterm elections? senator scott went off and said some silly things in president biden takes to keep pointing at it. to be fair he will point at anything to get your mind off of the inflation, but what is the republican platform for bringing this under control? the answer is they have decided not to have a platform and run-on discontent with the president. in a world like that leadership ping-pong was between the two parties. -- ping-pongs between the two parties. someone needs to come forward other than donald trump who is blazek pat -- basic platform was i am donald trump. host: what should be the platform? guest: we need to look at electric vehicles and develop a

timeline for the conversion recognizing the shortages of minerals like lithium which are necessary for battery making, how long it takes to open mines, availability and locations in the other important metals. and this is a timeline we can pull out all over -- we can pull out all of the corks and then pull out all of the corks and then you feel out -- figure out how much oil you will need and make a pact saying that we will taper down, but let us make sure that we have that and get more for here at home because it is available. joe biden recently raised the royalties that oil companies pay by 50%. how is making it more expensive to take american oil from the ground to put in your gas tank an anti-inflation policy? it was insensitive and done by an energy and interior secretary that are pursuing their own ideological agendas. host: wasn't one of the

arguments that the oil companies would take the leases and do nothing with them? guest: that is silly. oil companies in this environment will space out how they use their leases, they will not use them today because i do not know when they will get anymore or when they will get another republican in the white house without ideologues running energy policy. if you give them more leases they will drill more oil and we have to remember that the russians were running refineries that were producing diesel and gasoline one or 2 million barrels a day. that is gone now. we have more refineries, but why should shell, exxon and some of the independent companies whose names you do not see on gas pumps make more and they are afraid of becoming a bullseye for environmentalists and the president is handing out arrows. they will not do it.

you do not kick a guy in the shins and then run a sprint for you. host: from massachusetts, independent line. mark, go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you. guest: this is just the way a.m.. you should've seen me when i was young. caller: now that the inflation is so high, i like what you said about the electric cars and i would like to bring up toyota specifically because i think they have hesitated in putting out all electric and them being the largest automaker in the world, there is a reason why like audi and all of these and tesla and whatever, and also to the ports, you look at how the port of los angeles and how they have stalemated automation and leveraged improvements because they are way behind.

host: thank caller. guest: with regard to electric vehicles i would ask you to go to new york city and do not go to manhattan the problem is press and go to queens where ordinary people is and ask yourself how all of those folks will plug in their vehicles or go to montana, it will be a nice trip and it is a pretty place and ask yourself how people with pickup trucks are being able to survive with vehicles that have a range of 250 miles with the kinds of distances that they have. the answer is difficult, and those are the concerns that toyota had. i would also ask you this, every so often we have i-95 in washington and in january we get a blizzard and something happens and vehicles are backed up for five hours or five miles, and people are on electric batteries? what happens when all of those batteries run out? how do we get them out of there? we do not bring electricity and gas cans.

i asked my wife, my daughter lives in a condo complex south of alexandria and i live in a row house in alexandria and she follows a local news very closely and i has said did they put anything about plugs outside the houses like little parking meter so we can have electric cars? no, none of that has been touched, nor have there been any measures about the necessity. he talks about putting the charging stations along the interstate, that is great. folks are not gonna spend three or four hours a night sitting at a charging station and what there be enough of them to charge up there electric vehicles? toyota was focused on that. however let us not focus on poor toyota. general motors hardly produced an electric vehicle because his dedication to mediocrity gave us the volt which caught fire in people's garages and the only

safe place to park it was across the street from a fire station. there was his guidance, do not park this near your house. they have not been producing passenger cars. the big three are very happy to sell you something that cost $50,000 that you have to wait on line four for six months to get. but they are not putting passenger vehicles out there, so there is some culpability. right now electric vehicles are very fashionable, so they are going to people who live in big houses in the suburbs that have garages that they can put in charging stations of their own. no one has explained to me what the plan is at the white house are charging stations for that mass of people who live in cities, rowhouses, and apartments do not have a garage. most important, they do not have a dedicated parking space. so you cannot put a meter out there are for them to use where they know they can go at night to plug in. host: the headline about five

dollar gasoline in ". the wall street journal." what is the long-term economic impact? will people drive less or spend differently? guest: it depends on who you are. you can divide the american economy into those -- two segments, those above and below the median income. overall the average wage in america is going up at half the rate of inflation. and most of that pain is concentrated if you are not in the hotel and hospitality sector where wages have taken a big jump, most of that is concentrated among low income workers. so my feeling is if you are in a place in california where it has reached $10 a gallon and you need 50 gallons a week to get back and forth to work, all of a sudden it is $150 a week on an income of $50,000 a year, which is less than $1000 a week, or

even if you earn a little more which is 7770 -- $70,000 or $75 and after taxes you are making nine, $150 a week, i do not think that brian has ever done this math or he would not be blaming monopolists. that is a terrible burden. i saw in the 70's growing up working-class what it did to my parents. and it is a shame. no one is really highlighting what it is doing to ordinary working people. as for the ports, we have a problem, it is not just at the ports. certainly with union contracts it is hard talk -- hard to automate that we had in m.i.t. professor quoted in "the wall street urinal" and "-- the wall street journal" or bloomberg that said robots will create unemployment which is like saying we should still be

pulling sleds on mule -- sleds with mules. every single technological innovation destroyed's and creates jobs. what is developing out there is sort of this mythology that somehow technology that improves our circumstances makes us worse off. if that were the case we would be using land lines or smoke signals. now how did this guy get tenure at m.i.t., i do not know. these days tenure is given out for the state -- for the strange region including being intolerant. host: a columnist on several fronts including "the washington times" and professor at the university of maryland. mike in stockton, california, independent line. caller: hello, i am really taken aback by some of your comments. you started out, i thought you were on the right track when you

talked about the federal reserve. and, isn't this just a continuation of what we saw in 2007, and 2008 and we got all of the congress people doing insider trading. we have derivatives out the wild zoo, and what you said and focused on is a problem is that they printed out $4.5 trillion and those moneys did not go into productive uses, they went into for example stock buybacks, very low cost to all of the corporate crooks, goldman sachs, jamie dimon, all of these people who took advantage of the cheap money policies to feather their own desks and executive compensation and you talked about wages. we have 1000 to 2000 times

workers wage being paid to executives. what is scary about your dissertation so far is that you know, i do not know if you are asking for an australia -- an austerity program which is not equitable to laborers and people in our country have worked for an honest wage and have not caused this. host: we will leave it there. guest: let us be clear with the purpose of the pandemic relief money was and where it went. it went to businesses and individuals, it did not go to jamie dimon. for the purposes of keeping them going while we turned the switch off on the economy. and then what joe biden did was that there was more relief to get people going as we put the switchback on. so both presidents, the attendant -- the intentions were good and the fact that 2.5 trillion dollars are in the checking accounts that did not exist before of individuals and nonprofits, mostly individuals but the data is amalgamated,

indicates that jamie dimon did not get that money. it is much more difficult to make economic policy in a rational way and talk about the contributions that large contributions can play when the ceo of apple decides he should get $1 billion this year. or when jamie dimon decides he should get $400 million, but we have corporate boards where they serve on each other's boards and feather each other's nests. if there is a monopoly in this country, it is probably corporate boards but that is not the sort of thing that the monopoly laws cover. so, there is a lot of irrational behavior on wall street, a lot of unseemly behavior. i do not think that they are being very wise about rewarding themselves so lavishly. host: 390,000 payrolls rising from that much. do you see a trend as far as

jobs being added to the economy? i know inflation plays into these things? guest: i think the jobs market is slowing down. it is past the peak on that and i know it is very dangerous for an economist to say past the peak. people are writing it down and they will be calling you up next week or next month when i am wrong. i think the employment market slows with a lag, and i think that is happening. one of the reasons is that tech companies are not printing money by issuing their own stock. their stock prices are down relative to everybody so they are cutting back on hiring or what have you. the automobile companies, i think are exercising a conscious policy the way the airlines did after their crises of making less cars, it is not just chips. we are looking at a world where there will be fewer automotive jobs. electric cars take 60% fewer parts and they tell you that 60%

of the parts they just deploy fewer people so i think that the jobs market is slowing down, it is still overheated, but maybe the temperature is at 250 degrees but instead it is at 230 but still below the boiling point. host: i want to talk about a recent column of yours talking about stagflation. what is it? guest: it is when you grow slow and are but deb by inflation. i think we are headed there and some of the policies are taking us there. let me give you an example, the combination of a policy that says we will all get into electric cars tomorrow morning and we need to shut down oil wells gives you people he -- either working or spending on automobiles and gas. one of the problems that we have in this great transition, and i saw it as a boy. we heated with coal in new york city when i was a boy, i remember my father banging the coals at night.

we are in the process of a great transition, just as we went from wood to coal and coal to natural gas and oil. to electricity. if you try to manage it out of the white house, or through brian's office where there is contempt for oil companies or out of the department of energy where there is contempt for oil companies what you do not get is the oil that you need in the transition, and with that you get a lot of inflation. more than that you miss a lot of growth. remember every barrel of oil we import from saudi arabia that we do not produce here is lost growth, and it basically puts money into the pockets of people who do not like us very well anyway. so, it is kind of silly. and that kind of behavior repeats. there are a lot of real and substantive things that we could do and i have written about it in the west. they will help with the problems

of water shortage but we have very poor land use policies and what you -- and we lose water in the distribution system. that is not being addressed by the white house and if it was addressed agricultural production would be better. i will give you an example that people do not think about but it shows how endemic this problem is. most people do not realize that the fifth largest producer of wheat is france, and france's harvest is down because of dry conditions. the reality is that american cattle ranchers have been suffering from dry conditions for several decades. now when you talk about helping them, the organized left will say they are grazing on free public land, we should be taxing them, what will you do by taxing the cattle ranchers? you will basically hurt the little guy and raise the price of hamburger at mcdonald's. host: philip in ohio, republican line. you are on, go ahead.

caller: thank you for taking my call. on this economy i called in when barack obama was in and every time the government wants to print more useless money i have suggested that every federal appointed employee, senate, house, and president and all of these cabinets, every time you raise $1 trillion they have to take a $10,000 pay cut and after three or $4 trillion they will start working together and get this spending under control because this runaway spending is causing runaway inflation. i will take your answer off of the air. guest: two things, the people in washington are not paid lavish salaries, even the president of the united states is not. and i think it is silly to start talking about cranking down there pay. if you could see the personal

sacrifices that judge kavanaugh has made -- justice kavanaugh has made to become a supreme court justice by divorcing -- devoting his life to the judiciary as opposed to the kind of money he could make as a loss to graduate. i had a son who went to cornell and he is five years out and earning more than a supreme court justice which is common. so i think that kind -- that is demagoguery. i have a tax reform proposal, you want to get the taxes simplified, have you ever noticed that april 15 is as far from election day as you can have? and everyone is pulling out their hair around april 2, third, fourth, or if it? i think tax return day should be halloween, it would be appropriate. it scares the heck out of everybody. so, if we had to deal with those very complex taxes which are borderline us -- absurd and

unnecessary, the absurdity and complexity a week or so below -- before the election wouldn't that provide an incentive -- but it will never change. i am not surprised we do not have taxes every other year so we do it on april 15 an odd number years so it is really far from an election. so i do not know that taking on -- picking on these poor people is a problem. folks enjoy all of this and they like watching fox and cnbc and so forth and having people say crazy things. it has become a form of entertainment. at the time of the revolution, you know it was one of the best-selling books that people could read in north america? "wealth of nations." i do not think we have that level of literacy anymore. people do not spend time informing themselves. instead they listen to talking points and jargon. and it becomes sort of -- what

do they call it, a hall of mirrors between the politicians and electorate. host: virginia and maryland, democrat's line. guest: how are you -- caller: how are you, i just have a quick question. you have addressed just about everything other than the housing market. instead of raising the interest rates, they basically have written off middle america. if your average income is $50,000 a year you cannot possibly afford a $200,000 home at 5% or 10% which is what you are suggesting and how are we supposed to live? how can anybody in middle america buy a home? guest: let me say this, why not addressing inflation sharply and with great force, interest rates over the next 10 years and inflation will be much higher than they would be. if we took our medicine quickly,

raise interest rates a lot got inflation down and then gut the inflation rates again. we also have to alter our expectations about housing whether you make $50,000 or 50,000 -- or $500,000. because the suburbs were based on cheap land and cheap energy. those days are over. even without vladimir putin, they are over. we have used up all of the close by land and we are going to have to change how we live. prosperous people, the 1890's through the 1930's lived in cities, closer together, and i think we are going to need to return to that for everyone. if we are going to have adequate housing. there isn't a large constituency out there for a congressman to say i do not think we need the suburbs. i think the congressman would be

spending all of his time permanently where he came from because he would not be sent back to washington. we have expectations about housing which are inconsistent with the resources available. host: a fannie mac economist says that u.s. could see a significant contraction of housing. guest: well when you raise interest rates a lot, you will not have a contraction in the number of houses but you build fewer houses for a while and that is happening. that is how monetary policy works and that is one of the wrongheaded things about the federal reserve. unfortunately we have an attorney who thinks that if he can convince the bond market that inflation is coming down it will come down. he spent the last part of two years saying inflation is temporary and pointed to the bond market. bond traders do not focus on these things the way economists do. my feeling is that we are going to be seeing a period warehousing is not constructed at the same rate, and as a

consequence it will make it scarcer when we come out. rents will be rising for a long time, and the only way we will deal with that is unfortunately living in less spacious accommodations. host: let us hear from mike, texas. republican line. caller: a great segment. thanks. i wanted to mention what a whiplash and life experience and quality of life we are in compared to where we were three years ago. it is unbelievable and i respect her comments. but it is total whiplash. i heard this past week from a gentleman from the manhattan institute that 95% of goods and people moved by way of fossil fuels. and when you think about that and think about another whiplash approach to policy of diminishing the opportunity of extracting oil and so forth and

energy from the united states and being energy independence and then deferring to countries that are overseas and venezuela and saudi arabia. those are the places that survive and thrive by turmoil. the moratorium oil in the world allowed russia, -- the more turmoil in the world a la russia, the more money they make. that is our singular source of income. guest: i think we have clearly established what russia is, but what about saudi arabia? where were they before 9/11 that trained the people or educated the people that pulled off 9/11? and the crown prince that is effectively running the country thinks it is ok to assassinate journalists outside his own borders when he does not like what they say. i addressed this earlier and said that our energy policy causes us to enrich folks that

do not like us very well and create problems in the world. you know, by not doing a naval convoy to get the grain out, by not addressing vladimir putin more forcefully than we have permitted the ukrainians to do, we are exacerbating our problems. host: this is peter received, -- peter moore ec. let us -- morici. let us go to clyde from oklahoma. democrat line. caller: does anybody even know that? guest: well, we are going to go through a crisis. someone mentioned the whiplash and it reminded me of the quote "grandpa how do you go bankrupt? an bankrupt said -- and grandpa said a little bit of a tot -- at a time and then all at once."

unfortunately when when they get presidents they bring a lot with them into the white house. they do not change what they think when they get there because it is such a kaleidoscope and it is like going down in a roller scope -- roller coaster. they do not have time to change what they do. course corrections are tough unless you are as brilliant as bill clinton. he was a very smart guy. my feeling is that this does not get fixed until we get a new president, even if it is a democrat. we need a new gang at the white house. we simply do not have a competent crew. host: you can read his post -- his work in the "washington times" and a former economist professor at the university of maryland. guest: i am an emeritus professor. it is in the cattle dog -- in the catalog. host: thank you very much. we will go to open for them. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats and

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pressed forward with hearings of threat and they offered recorded testimony to their effect from the former attorney general william barr and that is what you can expect as a hearings take place. you can watch on this network uninterrupted as a progress over the next several weeks. that next hearing is on monday, 10:00 on c-span and c-span now on our web app and our website at c-span.org. in washington today, it is the march for our lives rally, a gun violence rally that will take place in several cities including washington, d.c.. you can see events play out on the national mall starting at noon. you can see it on c-span, c-span now and c-span.org. among the participants is david hogg, the co-founder. you will hear from cori bush, becky pringle, and also a guns violence survivor and activist

with march for our lives. mr. brown joins us now via zoom. thank you for joining us on washington journal. guest: good morning and thank you for having me. i am excited to represent gun violence survivors and people who want to be safe. host: how did you get involved? guest: my stepfather was killed in 2018 and i had a teammate killed the year before. growing up black in america i grew up with a fear of guns and gun violence in america. i wanted to do this right. host: as far as the events, what is the message to the crowd and because you are in washington, what is the message to lawmakers on capitol hill. guest: i want to talk to lawmakers and to the people of d.c., there are so many mothers and fathers who have lost children, 18, 14, and 15 years old and there are so many young people who have lost their parents to gun violence. i want to tell everyone, use

more love and that is it. if we do that our nation will look exactly as how we desire it to look. host: how does that philosophy translate into issues like gun violence and making changes? guest: there are immediate changes that we could make. we have been talking about raising the age to buy assault weapons and universal background checks. things like that can help us. we are not looking for short-term long-term growth and long-term peace, long-term safety in our country. that will require for me as a constituent to allow my politicians to do their jobs but i want them to do something that they do not do, to use love in their work. host: when you talk to the people today, you will want to talk to politicians on the larger front. we have seen efforts on capitol hill shortly after parkland and sandy hook. as far as the talk on capitol hill, do you see the change in the passive gun policy, is the

chain -- is a town different than the past. guest: certainly, i think america feels that two. i think people are willing to work together and there are people standing up and speaking that never have. the reason that that is happening is that people are realizing this could be them. we have seen that the capitol is not safe, the schools, and the streets are not safe. we imagines that some of the schools were not safe and certainly the streets are not safe or is not -- so as long as you are not in those you are good. and that is not true anymore and that can happen to anyone anywhere. host: when you talk to people on these issues, i assume you talk to many people who agree to your position. what would you say to the gun owner or the one who is concerned that rights will be taken away? guest: i will say keep your gun. you bought it for a reason but i want you to use it to serve people, not to hurt people. and so if there is anything that

will cause it to use -- to destroy your community or people around you do not use it. we came to america to live, they came to america to live, we were brought here, but now we want to live, and since we want to live, do not use guns to hurt anybody. host: have you had a chance to talk to those who advocate and done right -- for gun rights and one of those conversations been had? guest: sometimes they are hostile because people assume we are coming to take their guns but i want to pivot to remind people we are not here to take your guns but to make sure that you are safe and that we are safe. i do not care if you are pro-or anti-gun, that is not my job and i am not the regulator of policies. what i do want all people to do is to diffuse love, which will require care and responsibility and respect from both parties in order for us to come together. america is supposed to be a melting pot and all of the ingredients are not melting. host: you mentioned love and

your co-founder of something called love wore and love -- love one and love 100. guest: love one is my clothing line where i take the proceeds and give that to communities that are impacted by gun violence and that is important because they do not have the resources that they need to bury these people. love 100 teaches people in underserved communities to have love in their lives. host: where'd do you go from here. the rally is today,

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ocean now to the point where it is polluted with mercury. let's go to brian in california. if you look in the past and history of passing laws by governments on people in regards to weapons they get their weapons taken away from them and then they go put to death by the government that is what happens

when you put away and that is why we need to our weapons. i am 84 years of age and in the early 1960 i was in the u.s. army. before world war ii the army issued pistols from six shot revolver and it was a sick shot bowl revolver and they were both loaded one at a time. there was not time to reload the rifle so the bayonet was linked to the rifle barrel and the soldier use the bayonet to fight the enemy that was also carrying

an empty rifle with a fixed bayonet. during world war ii, the pistol was designed and issued to anyone who might need it. there was a magazine loaded semiautomatic 45. also during world war ii the rifle was also designed and issued to the combat shoulders. what is the point you are trying to make? no american citizen needs an automatic magazine loaded rifle or pistol to protect themselves in a close quarter combat situation. let's go to ernest in columbus, georgia. i want to make a comment about

mr. brown that was on for the crime advocacy with young people being killed. i wish him a lot of luck. i think he is in the right place and the love thing is ok. one of the problems is we don't put criminals away. as far as people going into the streets going to commit crime. love isn't going to change people. we have to put some people in jail and throw away the key. we have so many people that are re-offenders. i am sorry that i am hard about it. there are some people you can rehabilitate. we just have to be stronger about enforcing the law.

you will get a lot of speakers at the march for life rally. you can see it starting at noon on c-span, c-span now and c-span.org. then to tell you about that second hearing on the january 6 hearing monday morning, 10:00 is where you can see part two. again, the main network is how you can view it. if you want to download it on your device, you can get that at c-span.org is where you can watch it. president biden while he was in california talked about the opening-night proceedings of the january six proceedings. the anywhere -- the insurrection of january 6 was one of the darkest moments of our history. we heard about it last night.

it is important to the american people that they understand what truly happened and that the same forest -- same forces are at work today. i submit to you that i never thought that it was going to be the straightforward a challenge before. the rule of matters in democracy. we are seeing the battle for the soul of america. we can unite and defend the soul of the nation. allow no one to hold the dagger to the throat of democracy. host: more of that is available on our c-span. now at. that will air monday at 10:00.

from idaho on a republican line. caller: there is not enough power generating capacity to handle everybody's electric cars and the power grid could not handle it in less you want to build new power plants. that is just not going to work. half of the power in this country comes from coal. half of what you're doing comes from natural gas. if you are looking at what the cars putting out. the second thing has to do with solar power, i recently watched al bors in inconvenient truth.

he talked about how sunlight reflects off the ice caps. once the ice caps have melted, the democrats solution seems to be covered the earth with solar panels. host: let's go to paul in kansas city, missouri. caller: i would like to know why the police did not pull their guns during the insurrection but will kill black kids. host: let's go to gym in florida on the republican line.

caller: the college economic guy who called in for michigan said he was all over the place. he was directly on. president biden has created the problem that we have right now with energy, with electricity, with the inflation. when he closed down oil production because he put his banking department and energy department against the oil companies and they stopped producing and he is restricting it now even though he keeps saying otherwise. he is getting saudi arabia to produce oil which will be dirty oil.