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we are also on facebook.com/c-span. let's go straight to our calls. good morning. caller: good morning. i understand what is going on about this, but last week, they had a congressman. i do not know is first name, but she asked him, what are your plans? what are republican plans to get moving? he could not come up with anything. he just came up with talking points, so it is just about moving the country forward and giving people chances. they do not come up with anything. thank you for your time. host: let's go to georgia on the republican line. good morning.

caller: yes. can you hear me? host: we can hear you. caller: i want to talk about georgia and the race. i am a black republican, but i am appalled about herschel walker. he is not the candidate to be in the u.s. senate. i do not know why this race is even close. that is my political statement for the day. host: let's go to kathleen. caller: good morning. i wanted to get bill press. ever since the supreme court hearing for judge --johnson. there has been this question about what is a woman? the definition. this man called in and i have heard people talk about it, but

i would run by him, there are 15% of men in the u.s. that are infertile. so, if you cannot create another life -- what category is that? there was this horrible story. i think it was in one of the states in idaho, where this young girl was competing in middle school or eighth grade. the parents said --maybe she was not a girl, but i would love to find out because there was this big controversy. this young girl was there since the garden, so they had to go all the way back, to make sure

she was really a female. this whole discrimination against kids and trying to size them up, i would love to have asked bill price that in email. thank you. host: i want to remind you of something that is coming up tomorrow. you can see live coverage throughout the day as nasa launches the rocket. the launch is scheduled for 8:33 eastern, depending on weather conditions. later in the afternoon, we should see the first images of the earth planned for about 5:30 p.m., and all of this will be live on c-span. you can also watch it on our

free c-span video app and on c-span.org. yesterday, at a news conference, a reporter asked an administrator, why are we going to mars? why are we going to the moon? here is what illness in --bill nelson had to say. >> we are explorers and adventurers as a species. that is basically the fulfillment of our destiny. but, in that exploration, we are going to learn new things and develop new things that is going to improve, just as it has been under our space program, our lives on earth. last week i was in kansas and i was with a corn farmer, where we are giving him real-time information on the moisture content of the soil in this crop

, and to it, that crop. so that he knows what to plant. those instruments can pick up disease and it can pick up disease in forests, which become susceptible to fire. that certainly is going to help our life on earth. those are things that have come out of the space program, things that we cannot even inc. of, but there is more. when we go to mars in the late 30's, just think how much more we are going to understand about our solar system and about the universe as a result of things like many of our instruments out there, not the least of which is

the james webb space telescope. we may have by that time found in astroid that we do not have to protect earth on, as we are going to try with dart in another month, but we may have found in astroid that has valuable material on it, metals that we can harvest. by 2040, we may have detected life elsewhere, in the universe. and think what that is going to do in our yearning for exploitation. so, i cannot answer specifically the question what happened after mars. i just know that we are going to know a lot more between now and then. host: let's get back to our

phone lines and start with tommy from arkansas on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to comment on bill. i cannot believe that you allowed him to bash republicans in the way that he did. there is no way that you would allow a republican to do that to a democrat. so much for your unfiltered bias. host: let's go to colorado on the independent line. brenda, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm calling on the independent line from denver. and i do not hear very much about the ukraine anymore. i see it on c-span and others, but i do not see it on the news. i think it is very important that we do not let ukraine lose.

we have to make sure that they win, so that they have the gas and do not leave that control to russia. thank you. have a good day, and youtube, america. host: let's go to florida on the democrat line. caller: good morning. i am calling to get back to the lady who called at the end of the last segment and some of the republican callers who were addressing mr. press and how he spoke to people. i listened to this program all morning and the first guest was making republican points, and nobody on the democratic line attacked him or called him names, but as soon as he got on your show, the first republican calls were all name-calling, and

that is the problem that we have in this country. some people can see --if people would just pause and listen to what they are saying, they would be able to realize that other people are making sense as well. i appreciate mr. press, the very few that can defend the position as well as he does. host: let's go to ryan on the republican line. caller: good morning, c-span. host: james, good morning. caller: i have a comment, a question for you as a journalist as well. one of my big concerns is the loss of the integrity of journalism in america.

the fact that no matter what side we are on, we do not believe what we are hearing because we feel like there is something bad about one side. if you grumble sam donaldson, he made a statement that no journalist can be a true journalist, if he or she votes in elections because they are actually implicitly saying in the voting booth, i support this candidate, but when they go out in the real world come as a journalist, they are pretending that they do not have a bias comes that he believed that journalists should renounce the right to vote in any and all election, if they want to be part of it? have you done that yourself? do you think that a journalist should announce that, i voted republican in the last four elections and here are my comments about donald trump or joe biden, or i have voted

democrat in the last few elections? i would appreciate, what you yourself make that decision of not voting in elections come as a journalist, as a matter of integrity? host: i will answer that question because it is a question i get every year. i, personally will never give up my rights as an american citizen and one of my rights is to vote as an american citizen. as a journalist, i will never give up my right to vote and i will never give up my right to keep it to myself who i vote for. there are some journalists who tell you that they do not vote but i am not one of them because my ancestors fought and suffered for the right to vote, so i will though in every election that i am allowed. let's go to don on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning.

jesse, are you an adjunct professor in your journalism? are you on a tenure-track? host: not only a tenure-track, but i am a full professor. caller: my concern is that part-time teachers, professors and adjunct, teachers for --teachers assistance to qualify for public assistance. the issue of loan forgiveness and the outcry behind that minuscule amount -- when we look at endowment, we know that harvard, william and mary and john hopkins and georgetown, they are initial endowment for the ownership of the african people. that is how they built their endowment. the white southern planter sent their children north.

they were educated at harvard, yale and dz delete universities. when we talk about harvard today , we talk about loan forgiveness and these loans cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. even though people use bankruptcy, you cannot discharge federal student loans through bankruptcy. when we talk about the initial offering from the administration, the current administration for loan forgiveness, i would like to see these large endowments and billion-dollar endowments match that also in loan forgiveness. use those for scholarship and fellowships. help college students and utilize those large endowments for the enhancement of diversity at these universities.

their end have --there endowments are on the back of slavery. host: a call from toledo. good morning. caller: i would like to remind these republicans that -- made national news for being murdered, looking for -- [indiscernible] the president of the u.s. at the time was donald trump, so the republicans and democrats --thank you very much. host: let's go to james calling from texas on the republican line. morning. james, are you there? caller: i am here.

i question is directed towards c-span and the neutral quality issue. my question is this. not you personally, but c-span always gives a percentage, but you never tell us how many people were polled. you never tell us where they were polled at. i understand you are quoting from a certain company that does polling, but they never say where they get it from. did you get it from chicago, florida, texas or wyoming? we never understand how many people were polled, and from what areas, not democratic, not republican, not neutral or independent, but we never understand what the pool

actually says. if i walked down my street and i pulled 10 people and they were all democrats, and only two republicans --she would say 80% was democrat or this was the position of that pole. if 20% were republicans, you would not even mention that. not you, c-span. and not c-span, the polling companies. that is the important issue that needs to be addressed, because when you use polls community to tell us where they are from, how many people were polled and what the discrimination was of those groups. thank you for your time. host: as james was talking about that, normally when we use polls, if you were listening earlier, you might have heard henry olson talking about this. there is actually the information that james was talking about, the number of people that were polled.

usually they are done from random national areas. normally, we use polls for major polling organizations. if you are interested in those crosstabs, they are usually available on the internet. let's go to pamela calling from new york on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i was next in line for mr. price, but you guys land --ran out of time. but i wanted to share was a comment about c-span. i just observed that the phoneline numbers seem to be switched around often. i learned that zero comes before one, two and three. what i wanted to call mr. press and you about is like and learn

about what the major concern i have right now about the next election. that is that it would be interfered with by russia, as the one was that we know, with hillary and donald trump. i know in my heart that the current will prevail. i think that the republicans shot themselves in the foot with the abortion issue and also gun control. not removing the ar-15, so i really have confidence that democrats will win, but i am concerned about the possibility of there being interference. thank you for your time. host: if you watch long enough, you will notice that we switch the numbers every month, and sometimes the democrats line is first and sometimes the republican line is first.

if you wait until september, you will see that we will switch it again. that is just something that we do at washington journal every month. we switch the numbers so that people do not claim that we are being unfair by having one side first and the other second. let's go to richard on the independent line. caller: good morning. i was wondering, did trump ever come out and say why he wanted all those records, and what he was going to do with them? shouldn't he start being nicer to joe, so he can at least his sentence commuted? host: all right. let's go to the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. bill press said america is

concerned about democracy. a big number. when you think that there are 300 million of us, and i think but a lot of it is, donald trump is destroying our country and our world. i do not know why people listen to him. he seems to be somewhat of a charlatan. the new internet age that we are in, there is so much false news out there. we are really in a gray area now. what is true and what is not true, and how do you control it? can you control it? it is a scary time. i think some time out in the future, it will settle it self down, but right now, it is scary. ted, 20 years ago was in a log cabin. he wrote his manifesto, and he did his thing. he blew up some dumpsters and

killed a few people, but now, they can get together on the internet and be better against our country. now you have millions, not only an individual, but millions who believe these conspiracy theories. i think america -- americans in general just cannot cipher who --what is true and not true. i am worried, just like that when percent in the polls. i think that we need to be careful of the next few years because what trump trying to do a few years ago, they will do it again, and they will lose. then it will be fake news, and it will be, we won, they lost. what happens is that people will start taking out their guns. it will not be over.

host: let's go to ed, calling from troy, new york. morning. caller: this is troy, north carolina. host: i'm so used to upstate new york, my mind went right there. i'm sorry. go ahead. caller: i'm calling about the comment on the topic this morning. i tried calling this morning but i could not get through. but i was one of those hello? ok. i was one of those with vocational training and high school, back in the 1970's. i came out to a trade school,

but i got a job. i made a good living, all my life. that is what i wish education would go back to. having bricklaying, motor mechanics, stuff like that in high school, before these kids cannot go to college. it worked out because i could have gone to north carolina state on a football scholarship, but that is where i think that we are failing our kids in school. we are not giving them the opportunity to come out when they graduate from high school and have a chance to make a living at a job. but -- host: let's go to morgan.

caller: thank you. you look rather dapper this morning, sir. there is hypocrisy in the republican party. we see this whole list of republicans that had hundreds of thousands of dollars forgiven. unbelievable. it is supposed to be the party of law and order, but they show more concern about january 6 than they do about the police officers that were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray. it is just mind blowing. how low can they go? host: we would like to thank all of our guests and social media followers and all of our callers for a another --for another great washington journal. it has been a pleasure talking with you today. please continue to be safe and wash your hands. we will have a new washington

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