correspondent about the state of the u.s. housing market. later, representative brad sherman will sit down for a conversation on democrats fall agenda. we look forward to you joining the discussion with your calls, text messages, and tweets. host: we will begin with your reaction to the death of queen elizabeth eric -- elizabeth. she was the longest-serving monarch and met with 13 u.s. presidents from truman to biden. after ordering u.s. flags at half-staff yesterday, the president said her legacy will loom large in the pages of british history and the story of our world. this morning, your thoughts on the legacy of queen elizabeth ii

. if you live in the eastern part of the country, (202) 748-8000, mountain/pacific (202) 748-8001. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. you can tweet us at the handle @cspanwj. your reaction and thoughts on the legacy of queen elizabeth ii , longest-serving monarch in british history, and can tell us your thoughts this morning on king charles iii, his official title if he takes the crown and becomes the monarch of the united kingdom. we want to get your thoughts on that. president biden yesterday speaking at an event before the democratic national committee, but before that, he and the

first lady went to the british embassy to sign a book of condolences for the royal family, and after that, he went to the democratic national committee and this is what he had to say about the passing of queen elizabeth ii. [video clip] >> a few words about queen elizabeth. i stopped by the british embassy to sign a condolence book in her honor. i had an opportunity to meet her before she passed and she's an incredibly gracious and decent woman. the thoughts and prayers of us are with the people of the united kingdom in their grief. host: president biden in his first public comments about the passing of queen elizabeth ii. peter baker for the new york times writes about the queen's interactions with u.s. presidents. she met 13 sitting u.s. presidents who basked in her

global prestige. he writes, they danced with her, rode horses together and went for a boat ride or picnic. they took her to church or a baseball game. they hosted her or were hosted by her for dinners and receptions. they basked in her global prestige and historic majesty. between elizabeth ii -- queen elizabeth ii met 13 sitting u.s. presidents in the course of her life, some kind of record, and a show of fortitude. she would dutifully roll out the red carpet or buckle up on her royal jet for yet another visit to the white house. the queen's myriad encounters with u.s. presidents over the last seven decades provided a regular tableau of the enduring british-american relationship, a symbol between the bond -- symbol of the bond between

the one-time colonial power and the united states there is always something grand when a president met with the queen. your thoughts on reading what peter baker had to write and the legacy of queen elizabeth ii. let me show you the front pages of the british newspapers this morning. the london times this morning with a picture of a young queen, a life in service their headline this morning. moving on to the sun. we love to you, ma'am, their headline. the daily star. "you did your duty, ma'am." the daily express, "our beloved queen is dead." the mirror with a simple "thank you" on their cover. the daily mail, "our hearts are broken." the guardian with the same picture we are seeing in may

newspapers. and the daily telegraph, grief is the price you pay for love. on c-span two this morning, the british house of commons is gathering, as you can see, and we have live coverage on c-span two as they will make tributes this morning to the queen. they look like they are in a moment of silence. let's watch. [video clip]

>> before i call the prime minister, it is with the greatest sadness that i rise to say a few words in tribute to her late majesty, queen elizabeth. almost all of us in the house have experienced no other monarch but her late majesty. there are indeed only a score or so members in this house who had already been born, letlow -- let alone who can recall a time when she was not the queen. she is wedded in our minds with the crown and all it stands for. after her accession in february of 1952, she came to

westminster to open a session of parliament in november 1952, when winston churchill was prime minister and speaker william morrison was in the chair. 67 complete sessions of parliament have passed since then, and as she was there to open all but three of them, us parliamentarians have celebrated with her her jubilees and mark hurd platinum jubilee this year -- and marked her platinum jubilee this year. in this place, her reign saw w 10 different speakers occupy the chair. i'm sure the prime minister will remind us how many of her predecessors she welcomed and always with quiet wisdom. as the longest-serving monarch this country has known, she

would have been assured of a notable injury in our history books even were it not for the magnificence in which she undertook the role as queen, but her magn -- her magnificent service and what it entailed, not just as head of the nation, but ahead of the commonwealth, the armed forces, and the church of england. she had seen unprecedented social, cultural, technological change. while she understood the nature of duty, which sometimes must have weighed upon her heavily, she also delighted in -- she was the most devoted mother. as well as queen, she was a wife, mother, grandmother and

great-grandmother, roles she carried out with the same sense of occasion and human kindness as the role of queen. her life and memories of her will be filled with the image of the gently smiling dedication that showed throughout her life. indeed, while this is a time of considerable sadness, those memories of the noble, gracious lady who devoted her life to her family, the united kingdom and those nations around the world who she served as queen, will bring us some consolation and joy. my deepest sympathies to his majesty the king and other members of the royal family to whom i commend all our sincere condolences and support at this very, very sad time. >> here. >> order. we are meeting today for tributes to her late majesty

queen elizabeth. i would like to inform the house that we will sit today until approximately 10:00 p.m. for tributes and approximately 6:00 -- and at approximately 6:00, the house will be suspended while his majesty the king makes his broadcast to the nation. members will be able to watch the broadcast on screens in the chamber. we will then resume our proceedings to continue with tributes. the house will then sit again tomorrow at 1:00. the first business will be for a small number of senior members invited tomorrow, to be contacted by my office. all members will have an opportunity to take the oath when the house returns. after oath taking tomorrow, tributes will continue. the house is expected to said until approximately 10 p.m. the house is not expected to sit on sunday.

i now call the prime minister, elizabeth truss. >> here. >> mr. speaker, in the hours since last night's shocking news, we have witnessed the most heartfelt outpouring of grief of the loss of her late majesty the queen. crowds have gathered, flags have been lowered to half-mast, tributes have been sent from every continent around the world. on the death of her father king george vi, winston churchill said the news had still the clatter and traffic of 20th century life in many lands. 70 years later, in the tumbled of the 21st century -- in the tumult of the 21st century, again. queen elizabeth ii is one of the

greatest leaders the world has ever known. she came to the throne at just 25 in a country emerging from the shadow of war. she bequeathed a modern, dynamic nation that has grown and flourished under her reign. the united kingdom is the great country it is today because of her. the commonwealth is a family of nations -- is the family of nations it is today because of her. she was devoted to the union of england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. she served 15 countries as heads of state -- as head of state and loves them all. her words of wisdom gave us strength in testing times. during the darkest moments of the pandemic, she gave us hope that we would meet again. she knew this generation of britons would be as strong as any. and as we meet today, we remember the pledge she made on her 21st birthday to dedicate

her life to service. the whole house will agree never has a promise been so completely fulfilled. her devotion to duty remains an example to us all. she carried out thousands of engagements. she took a red box every day. she gave her assent to countless pieces of legislation and was at the heart of our national life for seven decades. the supreme governor of the church of england, she drew on her deep faith. she was the nation's greatest diplomat. her visits to post apartheid south africa and to the republic of ireland show the unique ability to transcend difference and heal division. in total, she visited well over 100 countries. she met more people than any other monarch in our history. she gave counsel to prime

ministers and ministers across government. i have personally greatly valued her wise advice. host: the newly minted prime minister of the united kingdom, liz truss, giving a tribute at the house of commons today. we have live coverage of the tributes on c-span two for the next couple hours. you can tune in there and watch more. you saw as well a concise recap of the queen's legacy by the speaker of the house of commons, lindsay howell, there at the beginning, and he walked through the protocol of what happens after the death of queen elizabeth ii. the first thing that happens was her son, heir to the throne, became king charles iii.

we will hear from the new king today when he addresses the nation and the world. we are getting your thoughts on the legacy of queen elizabeth ii and the ties to the united states, our history with her as monarch. in the eastern and central part of the country, dial (202) 748-8000. in the mountain/pacific area of the country, (202) 748-8001. you can text with your first name, city and state at (202) 748-8003. you can join us on facebook.com/c-span or send us a tweet with the handle @cspanwj. we showed you the house of commons. in the house of representatives, the spokesperson for nancy pelosi tweeting yesterday that tuesday of next week the house

will pass a bereavement resolution in honor of her majesty queen elizabeth ii consistent with precedent. the house will then adjourn for the day in her honor. as we told you, president biden ordered flags at half-staff in and around washington. the flag of the u.s. capitol ordered at half-staff by the speaker of the house yesterday. flags around the nation and embassies around the world, the american flag lowered to half-staff to mark the death of queen elizabeth, serving seven decades, 70 years. she turned 96 and celebrated the platinum jubilee in 2022. the washington post this morning with a breakdown of a look at the royal line and what happens next, may be answering some questions that many of you have.

who inherits the throne? as we said, charles, as the queen's eldest son, inherited the sovereign title and job, as well as land and property. in her life, elizabeth expressed her desire for charles to take over. this is what she said in 2018. charles, 73 years old, has waited decades to become king and is the longest serving air in british history. he's the oldest of four children of the late queen and her husband, prince philip. let's get to read, and aurora -- to ray and -- in aurora, colorado.

caller: i don't have much memory of queen elizabeth. i will say the most exposure i had to the queen was back in college, when i took a course on the politics and society of great britain. the professor played a bit of her christmas message from 2005, and of course, this was one of the first things she talked about, the earthquake and ensuing tsunami and flooding that occurred within southeast asia. she was talking about the humanitarian response from around the world. that is the most i remember about the late queen. host: what are your thoughts on the monarchy? the system of government? caller: you know, i mean -- i

really don't know what to think other than it's really a symbolic -- you know, more of a figurehead. other than that, there's not many countries around the world -- i mean, there are some countries around the world that are some form of monarchy, but it's not like it's anything more than a symbol. host: ok. sharon in southside, west virginia. let's hear from you. are you with us? we will go to greg in mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. caller: good morning, ms. brauner. i can tell by the fact that you were reading a lot of stuff that apparently there hadn't been too many calls coming in this morning about queen elizabeth ii , and your first caller kind of

summarized what i expected to be the reaction from most of the people who are -- who supported joe biden, frankly. it seems to me that this legacy thing is extremely important, extremely. she was an historic figure, and yet there doesn't seem to be much reaction here, and, if you go online, you will see and hear and read lots of negative things about her from people who have no clue who she was. it's an indication that we are going in the wrong direction. what happened in the past is important. everybody should understand everything that happened in the past, but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind, and there

should be no doubt in any other listener's mind that what britain and western culture have done to the world has been the best thing that ever happened. there is no other culture anywhere, asian, african, south american, that has done what, uh, judeo-christian western society has done. it is the best thing that has ever happened to the world and it's disappointing that we hear so much negative stuff about what's happened over the last 200 years. i hope november is a reckoning. i hope people begin to appreciate what has happened and why anyone would judge somebody now who died 200 years ago by today's standards is just stupid

and wrong. i think the queen was great. we will see what happens to great britain. she was wonderful and hopefully people will begin to recognize that. host: before you go, there was a headline this morning about whether king charles is to political -- is too political. what do you think with her son, her eldest son, taking over? caller: i am not sure what your question is. that's part of the role. host: i'm wondering about whether you view him as more political than the queen. caller: i personally do not. he has said some things that i do not agree with, particularly on climate change, but -- and when he was making those statements, he was not king, and

so one of the things that i think she demonstrated was, when you are in charge, you cannot preach to the choir. you are in charge of everyone, not just the choir, so, to make the analogy to what's happening in d.c. today, you see a president who is angry all the time and is preaching to the choir. she did not preach to the choir and i think that was, uh, what she should have done and what i think she did and we will see what her eldest son does. host: ok. here's the wall street journal. king charles iii to forge a new path. they write he is not universally popular with his subjects. with a 42% approval rating, he

was the seventh most popular british royal in a recent poll, below his son, prince william. the queen was the most popular. they expect his popularity to rise as the country grows accustomed to him in his role as king. charles has had decades to study for the role. he's the oldest man to ascend to the british throne, it clips -- throne, eclipsing william iv, who took over at 64. many former presidents putting out statements. former president trump meeting with the queen when she hosted president trump and first lady melania trump at buckingham palace for a banquet dinner. he wrote queen elizabeth's re

ign and leadership in diplomacy secured -- we will always cherish our time together with the queen and never forget her generous friendship, wisdom and sense of humor. what a grand and beautiful lady she was. christopher in englewood, new jersey. let's hear from you. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. queen elizabeth ii was not just a woman of great virtue and wisdom, but also a woman with class and style in also -- style and also a woman who did noble work in her own way. she was a voice to the voiceless, for people with special needs, and especially for people like me on the spectrum of autism. this queen left an indelible

impression on the 20th century and the 21st century. no woman in human history has done so much more for the world and england and for the entire universe as this great lady. my heart is broken today for not only her family and the new king who will be taking the throne very soon but for all of the united kingdom and all of the commonwealth. we extend our deepest prayers, our deepest sympathies, and we raise our arms out to all of them to embrace them in a large and gigantic hug and let them know they are comforted by her great wisdom she leaves behind, the work she has done. may she rest in peace and her memory be a blessing to the whole world and maybe live by her example to do the good work. as thomas paine said, the world

is my country. all mankind are my brethren and to do good will be our religion. host: caroline in lancaster, california. your thoughts? caller: good morning. my thoughts on queen elizabeth i believe -- elizabeth are i believe she was a great lady an example to the world. god has spoken by the years she has lived. my thoughts on charles are he knows nothing but what he's seen for the past 75 years, so i think we will see an extension of the queen and him -- in him. i was in the hopes that she would have been celebrated as woman of the century by most of the women leaders of this world and by example.

we should try to stress a camaraderie with other countries. i think we should look at -- i lost my thought now. i'm very sorry. host: that's ok. robert in huntsville, alabama, your turn. caller: i would like to join in the accolades of your two previous scholars. my heart is a little sad this morning. i was in the united states air force for 24 years. i spent 16 of them in the united kingdom. i got to england in 1972, and i learned about the british monarchy and queen elizabeth and the entire family. it is a sad time. i still have family who live in

england. my daughter lives there, my brother-in-law lives there. i was speaking with them via text and its sad times in the united kingdom. she will be missed. she will indeed be missed. host: what are your thoughts on the monarchy? caller: king charles iii will be a great leader. he's more outspoken than his mother for sure. he is indeed an environmentalist and he will probably be more accessible to his public than she was, and by that i mean he's such a gracious, humorous type of fellow. i remember seeing him via television at different events and he always was seeming to have a great time. now, some of the bad ratings he

may have had probably have to do with his previous marriage to princess di. that was bad for the monarchy. but king charles iii will rule with justice and it's going to be great times in the united kingdom. i cannot wait to see it. host: all right. the codename for the protocol for after the death of the queen, for queen elizabeth, was operation london bridge. this is from cbs news. they talk about the first 10 days after the queen's death. the day of the death is referred to d-day -- to as d-day. that was pushed today. today, camilla, charles's wife,

now queen consort will return to london, and there will be gunfire salutes at hyde park and in the tower of london. at 6 p.m. local time, charles will deliver a message to the nation, and the prime minister and others will attend a service in remembrance at st. paul's cathedral. the house of commons will convene at noon local time for members of parliament to pay tribute to the queen in an extraordinary session set to last 10 hours. there will also be a rare saturday sitting where senior lawmakers are able to take an oath to king charles iii with tributes continuing again into the evening. we are taking you live over on c-span2 for the first two hours of those attributes. the leader of the scottish national party speaking now.

many of those house of commons members will be speaking today, and you heard it, going until 10 p.m. their time. first two hours live on c-span2 if you care to listen in on the tributes from the house of commons. let's hear from chris. we are talking about the legacy of queen elizabeth ii. your thoughts on the monarchy and the transfer of power to king charles iii and also u.s. relations with the u.k. over the years? chris in grass valley, california, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: doing well. go ahead. caller: in my house, we've been having conversations about the queen. when i was a teenager in ventura , california, she sailed into santa barbara, which made the papers. that was a memory of her.

and of course i remember watching the marriage of princess diana to prince charles at the time and stories of the death. i remember stories of, when princess diana lived, she was contentious with the queen a little bit, periodically, and the dresses she wore seemingly upstaged the queen at times, as i recall. one of my initial reactions was focused on a professor in america who is saying, i'm not wishing she's dead, she's already dying, i'm wishing her an agonizingly painful death like those she caused for others. i thought there was a really horrible thing for an american academic to say, and i think in light of that, you know, something i recently learned is

that george washington was a general by means of being a member of the aiken -- the anglican church. thomas jefferson, although he became a deist, nonetheless was raised within the anglican church. the system of government we have in part was preached from the pulpit of the anglican church. although the bible was restricted to being the kings james version early -- similar to the catholic bible, which had been banned and burned, to the limit of only four that made it into the france. so, you know, the queen has been known and stated to be the queen and like the queen of the world, because when people speak about the queen, it automatically for 70 years goes to her, which

is now gone. but as a monarchy, i agree with a comment i came across from somebody else. it's a very persistent form of government, no matter to what extent, and it's had a tremendous amount against it to eradicate it, whether it's been through assassinations like that of holly selassie -- of hallie selassie in ethiopia when he was an old man and so on, and the jefferson manual, i think, took, no, our principle that our president does not go against the presidency or another president and the house impeaches the president because a president cannot be against himself is something rooted in the monarchy that are colonists

came from. so i know i'm not really speaking so much about her, but the history of britain to the united states and the importance of her in my life has been rooted -- host: sure. caller: go ahead. host: that's welcome, those thoughts. i'm not sure the criticism you read was because of the colonization that occurred under, you know, the british monarchy and slavery. that's some of the criticism we are seeing out of africa. here is from the africanreport.com. "queen elizabeth's death prompts dueling emotions in many africans." caller: good morning to everybody. like everybody else in the

world, i want to extend my condolences to the royal family and to the world. she was a matriarch not only of the royal family of the world. host: ok. michael in indianapolis, what do you say? what are your thoughts on the legacy of queen elizabeth ii? caller: hello and thank you for taking my call. i'm really surprised. guest: we will go to earl -- host: we will go to earl in washington. caller: yeah. there's no such thing as royalty. these people were corrupt from start. they raped and robbed and murdered around the world and no person of color should be feeling anything but joy that she has passed on and is off the

world scene. the whole rest of the royal family should go with her. bye. host: eastbrook sure, vermont. timothy. caller: yes. good morning. host: good morning. good morning. caller: i'm a guitar player. not a very good one, but the thing about queen elizabeth is that, actually, if you think about it, she, you know, bands, punk rock bands, especially the sex pistols, and then you had other bands like charge dbh, u.k. subs. anyway, her monarchy started, i

believe, in my humble opinion, in england, pretty much the punk rock movement. i -- you know, she was an amazing gal. host: in what way? can you explain that? caller: well, the thing is is that there's a cause and there's an effect, and you had bands, like i said, i mean god save the queen by the sex pistols. think about it? and it blew up from their. now, as i recall, at 76 that song came out by the pistols, and then it just blew up.

next three days talking about a 96-year-old woman who never worked a day in her life and was given billions by her government. the whole thing is ridiculous and i'm happy to be an american. i'm happy we had the american revolution. we have nothing to do with monarchy or a king or a queen. host: michael's thoughts. from the washington post, how will william's life change once charles is king? charles will inherit not only the title of the monarchy about land and money as well. william has inherited the title of duke of cornwall, one of many held by charles. he does not automatically become prince of wales. that will be a gift of the king. william will inherit an estate

of 150,000 acres with a yearly income of around 20 million pounds, about $20 million, and catherine will become the justice -- the duchess of cornwall. good morning. caller: hi. i'm with the person who doesn't understand the monarchy. i don't understand our fascination with this. i just don't get it. i'm for abolishing the monarchy altogether. they are really just a bunch of parasites and what they cost us and what they cost the english people in taxes and property -- she's not leaving any of her property to the english people. she's leaving it to her heirs, and it's just archaic. it's outdated, but every news program today, including yours, but i'm happy to have yours done in a different way, every news

program from last night today talks about how great a person she is. she probably was a nice lady, but why shouldn't she have grace? she grew up with grace. it's all she did have. it is just archaic and i don't get it. host: it is different here on the washington journal, and the difference is you. you and the other viewers that call in, so we encourage you to do so this morning, not only in our first hour, as we talk about the legacy of queen elizabeth ii, but we will go on to different topics as well. we have divided phone lines. eastern and central parts of the country, (202) 748-8000. mountain and pacific, (202) 748-8001. you can text us with your first name, city and state with your thoughts at (202) 748-8003. queen elizabeth ii was the first british monarch to address congress.

here's a portion of her remarks made on may 16, 1991. [video clip] >> mr. speaker, mr. president, distinguished members of congress, i know what a rare privilege it is to address a joint meeting of your two houses. thank you for inviting me. the concept so simply described by abraham lincoln of government by the people, of the people, for the people is fundamental to our two nations. your congress and our parliament are the twin pillars of our civilization and chief among the many treasures that we have inherited from our predecessors. we, like you, are staunch believers and the freedom of the

individual and the rule of a fair and just law. these principles are shared with our european partners and with the wider atlantic community. they are the bedrock of the western world. some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. so it can, but history shows that it never grows well, nor for very long. force in the end is sterile. we have gone a better way. our societies rest on mutual agreement, contract, and consensus. a significant part of your social contract is written down in your constitution. ours rests on custom and will.

the spirit behind both, however, is precisely the same. it is the spirit of democracy. these ideals are clear enough that they must never be taken for granted. they have to be protected and nurtured through every change in fluctuation. i want to take this opportunity to express the gratitude of the british people to the people of the united states of america for their steadfast loyalty to our common enterprise throughout this turbulent century. the future is as ever obscure. the only certainty is it will present the world with new and daunting problems. but if we continue to stick to our fundamental ideals, i have every confidence that we can

resolve them. host: from the c-span archives, queen elizabeth ii on may 16, 1991. if you go to c-span.org, you can find more of queen elizabeth's interactions with our government in the u.s., whether it was congress or 13 sitting presidents. renita in new york, what are your thoughts on the queen this morning? caller: i want to just share a few words about the role model that she became for me and other women around the world. i'm originally from alaska and i was born upon the bering sea -- born up on the bering sea, but most of my life has been spent in new york -- not new york, anchorage. anyway, she came to power at a

time when women were still dominated, to a large extent, by a deeply male, very powerful society and world of politics. she was not elected. she didn't seek the office of the queen. what she did was she was schooled when she was very young about what her duties would be, and rather than shy away from the awesome nature of that duty, she set out to learn the history of her people and to use that history to make herself a valuable asset, and i think she accomplished that over the years. i saw her in front of congress.

you were playing the clip of her in the joint session. that was the woman who was not afraid of men. she stood there and she wasn't simpering or exhibiting any kind of emotion except quiet confidence because of how she had carried out her duties by then for several decades. to me, she represents someone who juggled the duties of motherhood and her job in a world that changed from one where men dominated to one that has, i hope, become increasingly more balanced in terms of the sexes. she entered the world where, you know, people who had been colonized or subjected to

colonial thinking became people who became self determining. she adjusted herself to those changes, and i think she did so with great integrity. i have followed her life. it has not been an easy one. it is not for most of us. and i'm not sure how charles is going to handle what his mother handled for 70 years. i just hope that the person he was when he was a young man still exists inside this older man. host: ok, renita. harry in norcross, georgia. caller: good morning, c-span.

host: good morning. caller: the queen became queen i believe the year i was born, which was 1951. it might have been 1952, the anyway, my mother -- 1952, but anyway, my mother was a great admirer of the queen. she was a women's movement thing and very much against jim crow, and the queen learned early on that divestment of the empire was what they would have to do in order to survive, and so the decolonization was very much something that she pushed and that's why old winston churchill kind of fell out of favor with her, because he wanted to keep empire. the anyway -- but anyway, she

was very much what you would call a modern woman and a role model for women in america, and i was actually out on the st. lawrence river when the st. lawrence seaway opened and the queen mary came by with the queen in it and the british navy came down. the st. lawrence seaway was what allowed oceangoing ships to come all the way down to chicago, and it was like 1958 or something. it was a joint program between canada and the united states. but anyway, i just have great memories, and i always admired her. i think anybody that said she didn't work a day in her life has no idea. she grew up as a teenager

supporting the war effort. host: this is a fact from the washington post. nine in 10 humans alive today were born after queen elizabeth took the throne in february of 1952. good thoughts this morning on queen elizabeth ii. carol in massachusetts, good morning. carol, are you there? all right. one last try for carol. all right. so as we said at the top, queen elizabeth met with 13 sitting u.s. presidents, many hosting her here in the united states and vice versa. they would go and she would host them in london as well. i want to show you queen elizabeth ii addressing then-president obama at a state dinner at buckingham palace

2011. [video clip] >> entertainment may not be so obviously an example of our close ties, but forms part of the lives of many of our people. over the years, we have enjoyed some of america's most spectacular musical productions and any number of what we call films. you might prefer to call them movies. in return, british films and theatrical productions have achieved considerable success in your country. this exchange of people and projects has enlarged and invigorated our common language, although i think you will agree we do not always use it in quite the same way. mr. president, i firmly believe that the strength of our links and many shared interests will

continue to ensure that when the united states and the united kingdom stand together, our people and other people of goodwill around the world will be more secure and can become more prosperous. ladies and gentlemen, we are here to celebrate the tried, tested, and, yes, special relationship between our two countries. i therefore ask you now to join me in raising your glasses to the continued health, happiness, and prosperity of the people of the united states of america and especially to the health of president and mrs. obama. host: queen elizabeth from 2011 when she hosted the obamas at buckingham palace. she had other interactions with u.s. presidents from her 70 year

reign. the new york times describes this one with the younger bush, george h.w. bush. it says the younger bush met the queen again when he became president, welcoming her into thousand seven to mark the 400 data bursary of the jamestown settlement -- 400 anniversary of the jamestown settlement, saying, you helped us celebrate our bicentennial in 17 --cutting himself off -- saying then 1976, giving him a look. she said the next night i wonder whether i should start this toast by saying when i was here in 1776. betty in galveston, texas. good morning. caller: i'm betty from alvin, texas.

host: go ahead. caller: i didn't start watching the queen until i was in my 30's, and then i found out i was born on her birthday in 1946, and i think she was a great lady. she was very kind. and i don't think anybody should say anything bad about somebody that has passed, especially with of the life that she has lived. so she made me feel good because i was born on her birthday in 1946. host: ok, betty. a viewer on twitter saying, as an american, british cultures seem -- british culture seems familiar but strange at the same time.

elizabeth's rain is an example of sterling service and how to comport ourselves to protect our heritage. good morning. caller: good morning. first of all, heartfelt condolences to the british royal family and the people of england. queen elizabeth by my estimation was an exceptional human being. it was not her royalty that gave her grace but it was her grace that made her royal. and i would ask anyone that takes it upon themselves in this country to run for office to truly serve the people as she tried to do throughout her life, to emulate her in that regard, and bring a level of stability that she always mean -- of civility that she always maintained to the discourse of american politics.

we are on a bad slope right now. we are losing our ability to communicate with each other. and civil discourse could possibly save us. history has shown us what the lack of that can lead to in this country, so that is pretty much all i have to say. god bless america. host: tom, bennington, vermont, what do you have to say? how do you remember queen elizabeth? caller: good morning, greta. no, i have nothing, no praise for queens in the world. she killed it, killed, killed in india. i love all people in this country. eleanor roosevelt did more work in 30 or 50 years than her, you know? for the u.n. and for world peace and the constitution. i love, there were names wells

from our country. and boggs, a black lady who lived to 101. we haven't broken our connection with england. think the marine corps. corporations, you know, we're still using them around the world. they are all connected with corporations. and my mom, my mom, a single woman raised seven children and worked and loved us. i just read her book and it is so fabulous. what a world leader she was.

i love this country, but we are in a bad way. thank you for taking my call. host: here is lynn on twitter saying the queen is now in the arms of her king the rainbow proved he is waiting for her. may she rest in peace. or from operation london bridge to share with you and what happens on saturday. today we are expected to hear from king charles iii. he will address the united kingdom and the world on saturday. to formally acknowledge the queen's passing and proclaim charles the new king.

the new king will declare the british constitution in the church of scotland. former propagate -- proclamations will be read publicly. at st. james palace in london. the team of arms will lead the first proclamation of the new sovereign from the balcony of st. james palace and king james the third -- king jamesiii will meet with her cabinet. these protocols continue for 10 days. there will be more coverage, more for you to watch out of england as that country and the countries that the monarch ruled mark the death and legacy of queen elizabeth ii. we will take a break and then we will turn our attention to

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what they can control and often times a mistake here and there can change a race. so the senate is clearly up for grabs at this point. 50 today, it can end up 50-50. we just don't know. the house looks a little bit more favorable to the republicans at this point. the last four times one party has controlled the house they have lost by margins that were greater than anticipated. president biden's numbers are underwater. if you take a look at what has happened in redistricting the democrats are coming in needing to pick up five seats to pick up the house. that looks a little better but in politics, two months is an eternity. a lot can happen at this point. you have a lot of competitive races. when you take a look at these

snapshots, those are just that's today. it doesn't tell you anything else. having said that, absentee voting starts tomorrow. it starts very quickly and we go from there. we just have to wait and see. but i feel like the republicans are in much better shape for the house. the partisan divide will be explaining what happens in american politics why we become balance of power structure and try to make some sense out of what happens in washington. the best thing in micro does biography is i left congress undefeated and unindicted. host: you held your book up

upside down. do you want to turn it around for us? there it is. the partisan divide. thank you. so we are asking the former congressman to handicap these races, prospects, the house changing power and the senate as well so we want to hear from you, the viewers this morning what do you think is going to happen in november how do you plan to vote and why? we are dividing the lines. the former head of the house campaign committee said there may have been some irrational exuberance earlier this year. what do you think he means? guest: i think there was a lot of talk early on because the president's numbers were so bad. they thought the republicans could go to 30, 40, 50 seats.

akin to what the democrats had in 2018. but we have had five special elections in the last few months that if you have that, you would have seen it expressed to some extent or another. these races, it just didn't seem to be there. republicans kind of under preformed. recognizing at this point, it is going to be closer than a lot of republicans anticipated. host: want you to respond to the dutch president last night. here is what he had to say aligned that he had repeated in recent weeks. [video clip] pres. biden: we have to win this election for more reasons than just being able to move our agenda forward.

we have to. and it doesn't do a lot to show the new poles showing me beating trump by whatever the hell the numbers are. it doesn't matter much in this off year. folks, you can't be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. let me be deadly earnest now you cannot be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. you can't support law enforcement and call the mob that attacked the police patriots. very recently said, he said if he gets elected again he will pardon them all. he will pay their legal fees. how can you call yourself a democrat with a small d? how can that be? that's why those who love this

country, democrats, independents , and mainstream republicans have to to be more committed to saving democracy than they maga republicans are to destroying. you have to vote, you have to organize, mobilize, get out vote. remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. so let's get moving. host: tom davis, the president calling some republicans maga. will this work? guest: i hope it gets -- it helps get the bass boat out. one thing we find in midterm elections is the out party has a more active base and turns out and excuse the turnout.

second thing he is trying to do is make it a choice election between him and trump and the maga republicans. most midterms have been basically referendums on the president. the times, i can't show the campaign committee. martin frost, my co-author at a time when the immigrants controlled the white house some of them it happened three times in history but he is trying to nationalize this and make it a choice election. the reality is there are very few republicans that are insurrection republicans. that is absurd. you have democrats who were giving money to the protesters in washington that were smashing down federal buildings. you have to question the certification in a couple states

but democrats did the same thing in 2005. so, you know, this goes back and forth and the record gets very heated at this point. there is a good political factor, it doesn't necessarily bring over independent but it helps swell the democratic base which was dejected a couple of months ago but now with legislative successes, the democrat successes in washington. it brought this race closer. host: as you know, house races tweeting out in may politico the gop gained 25, 30 seats. we revised our outlook to a 10-20 seat gop gang with dems remaining control not out of the question. guest: i guess nothing is ever out of the question because the voters get the final say and two men -- two months is an

eternity. a lot can happen that can turn things around but if you look at the variables that are likely to dominate the political landscape , it is more likely to work against the incumbent party. i think republicans are in decent shape. host: let's get to calls, teresa in tennessee. republican. caller: good morning. give me just a minute to get this out. first of all, i respectfully think you are wrong because you are failing to take into effect the anger of the american people out here. if we vote on election day, we don't early vote, we don't absentee vote, we vote on election day and we are sitting here just holding and waiting to get to the polls to vote these democrats out.

we have been through covid, that was a democrat thing on us and we know they are going to do it again unless we vote them out. they are going to put us back in masks and act in vaccines, judgment and school wearing masks we know it's going to happen. this is a revenge boat. we are going to vote in revenge for what these democrats have done to us and this country for the last two years. have you been to a grocery store lately? have you tried to buy groceries in this country? we have people taking on such as to be able to buy food. you guys say nothing about it. you're wrong. about the senate, holding the senate, fetterman cannot even complete a sentence. he has skeletons in his closet

and he wants to release the prisoners. and let's talk about the crime from black joe biden supporters across this country, the crime rate that is going on because of democrats. host: i'm going to have tom davis jump in. guest: i think that shows the anger of the out party. republican turnout is going to be through the roof. but democrats, their intensity is raising. there is a lot of anger out there and people want to come in and even up government and put a check on joe biden. but, and i just say this, democrat anger, democrats are slicing that up and trying to even up the turnout model and the dobbs decision itself and going after the maga republicans.

republicans had huge swings, democrats got their turnouts. they had a higher turnout than they had four years before in terms of their governor's races but the republican turnout is through the roof. i think that is a more likely scenario. i think it is conceived republicans will take that seat. host: npr.org has this headline, kind of speaking to what you were saying the recent polls show abortion and inflation collide. the top issues in the midterm elections both political parties are facing crossman's heading into this 2022 midterm. democrats and independents have the advantage of abortion and republicans have the advantage of economy. keith, colorado, emma credit color. caller: good morning. inflation?

it is a temporary thing. it happens and it happens globally. removing the lights --rights of american citizens the majority gender of american citizens is a game changer. to your guest, you are whistling past the graveyard. you caught a cod and i have a question. how can this republican party, the republican party of today exist as a purely white identity party to decry identity politics, you invented them. and your party does not reflect the per reality and the demographics of the country.

where are you -- when are you going to get with the game? two independents which are only 5% self identified independents they have swung to the democrats. largely because of dobbs and guns and out-of-control gop that is out of step. guest: thank you for the question. number one, i don't know what republican party you are talking about. in virginia our governor, we have an african-american republican lieutenant governor anna a hispanic attorney general. i think across the country looking at the republican caucus, a latino republican just picked up a seat in texas in south texas. we see more and more african-american members at the house of representatives that

are republicans. california, last time republicans took up seats they picked up a couple of seats with hispanics and a couple of seats with asian republicans. a number of people reporting democrats not on ideology but just voter identity. i don't conceived we are -- i can see we are a much better party. governing is a top business in today's world. terms of inflation, colliding with a portion of the voters will make that choice. different people are going to come to different conclusions. in my judgment, he is to say voters are not stupid. they are just not informed when they know the she was pinching it is time to get a new parish shoes. maybe inflation is passing, maybe it is not. it depends on how the food -- fed and administration handle it but it is having a real impact

on people and i think you will see a reflection on that on the ballot. you just heard two callers say completely different perspectives but my vote is on the economy being the more donna meant -- dominant on election day. host: what role would you want trump to play? guest: depends on where you live. there are over 500 counties were trump got over 80% of the vote. most of them were rural white counties but he can ignite the bass in some of those areas. you go into my neighborhood in fairfax and put up a trump side and people consider it a hate crime. you got 60 miles and people are making their own trump signs. i think he's going to be selective as to where you can use him. with republicans i don't think they need to make it a

referendum, excuse me a choice between trump and biden. they can do much better if they make it a referendum on biden. we all know trump is going to be the nominee in two years. we can get to that after this election should republicans take one of the seats in congress. they can make their decisions accordingly. if he has a role, it is a limited role. he also has a lot of money in his accounts. spread some of that money around with the help of republicans and some of the states where they are being outraised. host: are you disappointed he has not? guest: i come from politics and we worked as a team. i think parties that do that are better served and do a better job. host: dillon, virginia, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm a 58-year-old man and i have

never seen a country slide downhill so fast over democratic leadership. i will be voting republican across-the-board. they are not perfect but the issues that affect me and are weighing heavily on me in this upcoming election is number one protecting our children in the public schools. any parent out there who has children, when did we reach the point where we have allowed the federal run public schools to brainwash our kids on critical race theory, on gender identity, i truly believe they are confusing young children at a young age and i do consider that to be child abuse. inflation, gas prices, food prices war on fossil fuels, i'm against the war in ukraine. i traveled the country many years ago during the cold war. it was corrupt then it is

corrupt now. the covid lockdowns and forced vaccinations, either you lose your job or you get the vaccine. election fraud by unsolicited mail-in ballots, i believe that has been the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime and illegal aliens and securing the southern border. those are the issues i care about and that is why i will be voting republican across-the-board. host: all right, tom davis. guest: you are in a district that represents -- that district is going to determine the house. some of these places were people of the outcome is predetermined because of the way the district lines are drawn but you are in the seventh district that is part of my old congressional district. it's been chopped up since that time and i think again this

republican turnout is going to be very high. host: milton as watching in baltimore, democratic color. caller: thank you for taking my call. mr. davis, i think you are coming across very delusional. i say that because i have served in the military, two tours and i took an oath to sit -- defend this country. you come on tv saying you want republicans to take over the government when they tried to destroy this country and government. especially, that's asinine and i can't wait to stop it. guest: i mean, look, people look at this differently i would add that when houses were being torn down and people were being killed in places like seattle

you had democratic leaders giving money to help people when it came to capital. i don't in any way condone what happened at the capitol. i think those people should be punished. it was a handful of people. there was failure around by we didn't have more police officers that day? i was in washington years ago when they were fighting and protesting the vietnam war but nobody got near the capitol because we had sufficient police out there to stop them. there are elements of people who identify with the republican party who were part of that and there were elements that identified with the democratic party who were active in overturning and burning federal buildings, shops and stuff in

these other cities. i don't condone that anywhere at this point. but to label this one party i think you are mistaken. again, when it comes to protesting the election, this started in 2005. you had 31 democrats in the house who voted basically not to ratify, certify ohio. so you later precedent their for this last time around. i think the republicans need to get serious but i think they basically reacted to what they were hearing back home what the voters who had heard on this issue. i think this caller expresses a point of view and an anchor that you see in they did cut excited -- democratic side. host: we will go to mark who is

in hampton, maryland. caller: good morning. i have a question for your guest. host: tom davis, former congressman. caller: good morning, mr. davis. i think republicans really have, we have a point in our country were republicans have a certain culture. i think one of the major problems for at least the last 55-60 years is that the american people had about half a dozen huge lies in echo chambers through academia, hollywood, and media. there was a caller that said republicans invented white

supremacy and that really, that really grinds my gears when i hear things like that because these people have nothing of history. they don't realize it was the democratic party that held slaves. it was the democratic party that started the klan and wrote every jim crow law in the south. i hate when i hear colors --callers calling in and they don't push back. joe biden last week called republicans fascists which is the height of irony. fascism was invented by a guy named giovanni who was a marxist. the right never had anything to do with fascism i think it's time we start calling out this nonsense when we hear it. i think there are several generations of young people in this country who have just

basically been lied to for the last 60 years through our education system and i think the education system as the first thing we need to take back when we have the opportunity. host: mr. davis? guest: i would say people don't tune into the news now to get information. they get affirmation and have their world to be validated. there are people walking around in different bubbles with different information. they are right and the other guy is particularly stupid. i do teach at george mason university. one of the things i taught there, you have to understand what is being said. a lot of americans only know what they are now and they are tuning in and going to one website and getting bombarded with one side and not understanding the perspectives of other people.

you are right it wasn't until the introduction of the civil rights act that things started to change in the south. host: let's hear from john in virginia. republican. caller: good morning. my comment is as much polarization as we have, a lot of it stems around from the last election. and the competing views of whether it was stolen. the thing you must commonly here and i have even heard it on cnn is that it was proven in court 80 times and my understanding is it has never been proven in court. every judge refused to hear the case and you can't blame them because by which you work -- why

would you want to? your house might get picketed. it is never proven. the judges don't hear the evidence before they decide whether to take the case am i right? host: tom davis, go ahead. guest: i think, to put your comments in perspective let's assume for a minute that the election was stolen. at that point, we have a procedure in this country, the court system. the court system decides whether we should go ahead and ratify the results are over 10 them. i think it was in those cases he had plenty of time to bring this forward. trump lost so the election was certified under the law going to joe biden. al gore, he got more popular votes than bush.

but al gore got more votes than bush did nationally and once the court ruled on the florida vote, or didn't go on and raise havoc about it. he walked away and said i lost and went on with his life. that is the difference. gore understood the system, he lost in court. he felt he won he the election they even pursued this on the house floor. that was the difference between 2001 you had a legitimate reason to kind of question this and it was the democrats but did it in 2005. republicans took it further in 2021. host: democratic color. good morning. caller: hey, how are you doing? host: go ahead, dion. caller: i keep hearing him talk

about the democratic party from 1870 which is not the democratic party of today. there are many people like fdr, social security, they brought peace to the world paired they can't get over the fact that trump lost and he lost bigly in his words. he has proved to be an incompetent moron. when you have a pandemic and you say it's going to magically disappear, he was unprepared and unfit for office. host: tom davis? guest: i think the caller is representing the diversity of opinion. that's why we have elections. you see a democratic base. it is also getting more intense which is what i think we are heading towards a record turnout.

host: thank you sir for your time and your insight this morning. guest: thank you and think you're callers for the comments. host: at the top of the hour cnbc's diana olick joins us to talk about the state of the housing market. the first -- after this break, it will be open forum. we will get to those thoughts in just a minute. ♪ >> american history tv saturdays on c-span two. at 12:30 p.m. eastern on the presidency of look at preserving presidential site including museums and homes of american presidents.

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you can call in with your thoughts on that or any public policy issue. marilyn in ohio. caller: with the situation the way it is, the republican party has become so violent and dangerous and dark. they think they are going to lose their place in the population. their rhetoric has caused people to run their cars into other people, their rhetoric has caused people to go in churches and grocery stores and kill people. it's very scary. and trump has always been a kirk. --crook.

ask the courts if he tells the truth, the irs if he tells the truth, that man can't even borrow money from any bank because of his business dealings and ratings. that is why he had to go to russia to borrow money and that is why he is so nice to putin. because he may have to borrow money again. host: burning in new york, what is on your mind this morning? caller: i would just like to reflect the last call who said in particular about donald trump has captured the soul of part of the country. he is a disgusting disgusting personality. my only hope for the country is that they will wake up to the fact that this man has had

nuclear, top-secret information in his office. what is he doing with that? who is he selling it to? or threatening to sell it to? i mean besides that, besides that, what does he do? he is capable of doing anything. he is a disgusting person. thank you. host: happening across the ocean this morning, of course about the british citizens and the countries that were rolled, are rolled --ruled by the british monarchy or marking the death of queen elizabeth ii. we have live on c-span2 of tributes to the queen and the house of commons. bringing you coverage in less than 20 minutes but the tributes

will continue into the evening over in london. 10:00 p.m. is when they are slated to conclude with those tributes to the late queen. king charles iii has arrived in london and he is slated to address the nation around 6:00 p.m. eastern time is what we are reading in the papers this morning. of course more of the nation will be watching as well. i want to show you what boris johnson, the former prime minister and conservative leader of the party who was replaced by liz truss in recent days. here is what he had to say on the floor of the house of commons this morning. [video clip] >> if i begin with a personal confession, a few months ago i

was having a conversation about the queen. the cameras started rolling and they requested that i should talk about her in the past tense. and i'm afraid i choked up and i couldn't go on. i'm really not easily moved to tears. but i was so overcome with sadness that i had to ask them to go away. and i know that today, there are people in this country and around the world who have experienced the same sudden access of unexpected emotion. and i think millions of us are trying to understand why we are feeling the steep and personal and almost committal since of loss. perhaps it is probably that she has always been there. the person who all of a sudden they say -- some are thinking

she might be in some way eternal. but i think our shock is keener today because we are coming to understand in her death the full magnitude of what she did for us all. host: the former prime minister boris johnson this morning paying tribute to queen elizabeth ii. you can watch more of that over on c-span2 this morning. you can also watch on c-span.org. to see all of our coverage on queen elizabeth ii through her seven decades of power, she met with 13 sitting u.s. presidents. jay in fairfield, iowa. democratic color. good morning. caller: at a disadvantage when

it comes to local property taxes. i would love to see a national property tax add to whatever existing property tax. i think national property text you apply only to houses and condos foreign land with more than $1 million. and there could be other arrangements for the top 10 most expensive areas like new york and san francisco but it could be a progressive sliding scale a milk -- $1 million house would pay a certain amount of cash but a $10 million house would pay much more that way all the rich people who have so far even aided taxes because of the fast tax errors would have to pay because every county has a tax assessment already set. thank you very much. host: steve, silver spring, maryland. independent. . caller: good morning, dear.

my issue is about emigration, illegal immigration. in the census is taken, all people in the country are counted and therefore territories and representatives are elected on the population count. but when they come into this country, the kids get automatic citizenship inherently that corrupts the of the election process. i think that should be looked at seriously. the supreme court, they had to do what they did but the republicans and the democrats, until they do immigration reform this is going to become more and more of a problem for

generations. it's not fair. it corrupts our political system. host: ruth in illinois, independent. caller: good morning, greta. host: good morning. caller: january 6, i wanted to answer a question that you asked a lady. host: ok. caller: you asked her where she heard antifa was there? my sister said she saw antifa there. and she said if you want to see that i was, that she was right she said just go back and listen to the young girl, the officer that was pushed down on the steps. she said in her testimony, she

said when i looked up i saw the proud boys. i don't know anything about the proud boys but she said and then came antifa. and that little girl wanted to know where is the rest of our police? nancy pelosi set the whole thing up. host: have you followed the cases against the 800 people that were arrested? caller: yeah, and you guys had a real long -- a girl on one day and she said one person has signed a statement. she doesn't tell you the whole story. that one person was a

26-year-old bernie sanders supporter. he went home and he told his mom and dad, he said he was standing there. he said the doors were open. he walked in. he said they have them on tape, on surveillance tape inside and he was just walking around talking to the officers and he said they told him that's against the law. host: what about the others? somebody was just sentenced to 10 years. caller: there were some, yes, there were some that they should be the ones going to jail. host: ok. david in south dakota.

democratic color. open form. --forum. caller: i tried to get on with your last, tom i can't think of his last name. host: tom davis. caller: davis. my feelings are we are in a country if we don't quit this fighting between ourselves and the hate, can't even talk to your neighbor without getting into it in some places. we have to start working together or we are going to lose our country and it seems like it is getting worse instead of getting better. i told you, when you hear our -- i didn't like trump and i'm not crazy about biden. i am a democrat i probably will go independent but we have to stop this and get back to the

country, we are the united states. i didn't do anything, but we just got to get back together as a country. we can't go on like this are going to lose our republic or our democracy or whatever you want to call it. we have to start working together. republicans and democrats, we are all the same. we are all god's people. host: ok. political reporting this yesterday as well as some newspapers. the doj appeals special master rolling in trump mar-a-lago probe. the justice department is seeking to overturn a federal judge's ruling that blocked investigators from reviewing an array of documents seized from document -- president trump's estate. a tear from emma who is in

washington, d.c. caller: i have always voted democratic but i'm planning to vote and from now on and thedobbs --dobbs decision changed my mind. i always felt i was pro-life but after that happened i reflected on it and i do believe abortion is the taking of a life. i do think it should be avoided and i'm really sick of people saying women need to rise up and fight this because not all women think the same and there are a lot of pro-life american women. women are not a monolith. host: vicki in new jersey. independent. caller: i'm going to change what i'm going to say. mr. mason, mr. davis from mason university i thought he was a very pragmatic and site for person.

i thought he was wonderful and i hope his students were not going for their gpa but to learn. i thought he was one of the best ones i have heard in a long time. in reference to nowadays, i'm an independent from 1972. so i have a different viewpoint because i don't always go with the same party. i go by issues only and what i notices an odd phenomenon. right now, but artie's -- parties seem to try to attract the more extreme is because they are the ones that show up for primaries only now the legislators don't necessarily reflect the opinions of their voters. so that is a very tough situation and i have no idea

what's going to happen but god bless us all, most of us are not as extreme as the legislators that make the party. host: sammy south st. paul , minnesota. caller: i was just thinking that most of the republican party is like living in delusions of grandeur or something. i think was going to blow this thing up is that abortion rights. and i think it's going to change the whole program. that's my prediction. thank you for your time. host: berry in arizona. republican. we lost jerry. alexandra, we will go to you.

caller: i, i'm calling to say the former congressman had a point when he said that the hate and rhetoric of the maga voters and they maga supporters are not a reflection of the entire republican party but the problem is those people who are the maga republicans they speak the loudest. they are the face, really of the republican party and their people and mitch mcconnell who will not condemn that. if a congressman makes a video of him killing another congresswoman, chopping her head off, like that's a problematic thing and that is on the republican party. marjorie taylor and that other congresswoman screaming at joe

biden as he's giving his state of the union, although that was not a complete reflection of the republican party, they are the loudest voices. and it is problematic. it makes independent voters like me como towards democratic even though, you know, like bill barr said joe biden is not -- he is like nondairy creamer he's not everybody's first choice but gets the job done. host: democratic color from ohio. caller: i believe the republican party has set the ball on january 6 to keep pelosi when they said the vice president couldn't even call the national cardin that the only person that could call them and was the president because it was federal grounds.

people believed fox news which is the fee kissed news of them all. host: rene in ohio. sorry about that. apologies to renee. caller: that's right. i am talking about the popular, i never heard that discussed on c-span. if we have a republic, which is supposed to mean that our officials are elected it just seems to me that since the majority of the people are not, their votes are not or at least many of their votes are not counted because over the last years there have been a number of president who were elected without the popular vote. i never hear anyone discussing it.

i hope you will cover that sometime on c-span. thank you. host: the house is about two gaveling here shortly for just a quick pro-form session there not in washington. we will go there when they do and we will come right back. the house next week according to joe hamel who is nancy pelosi's spokesperson on tuesday will pass april brief meant resolution in honor of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. the house will that adjourn for the day in her honor. and also the speaker of the house putting flags at half staff at the u.s. capitol, the building behind us. the president saying yesterday all government buildings across the nation as well as embassies across the world in honor of the

late queen, queen elizabeth ii he said her legacy would live on in the pages of british history. the house is probably going to come in here. caller: i'm a vietnam veteran. i was wondering why some of the states -- host: we have to go. live coverage on c-span.

heal our divisions. give us a spirit of holy obedience and trust that under the leaders of our nation we may journey together. to build up your kingdom on this earth and one day inherit the kingdom of eternity. we pray this your most holy name. amen. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 2 of house resolution 1289, the journal of the last day's proceedings was approved. the chair will lead the house in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam. pursuant to the permission grant

the in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 8, 2022, at 3:36 p.m. that the senate passed senate 958. senate 1198. senate 3662. senate 4791. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 5754. h.r. 8656. appointmentses, senate trustee to the james madison memorial fellowship foundation, signed, sincerely, cheryl l. johnson, clerk. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 1 of house resolution 1230, the house stands adjourned until 2-on tuesday, september 13, 2022.

host: we are joined by diana olick, cnbc's real estate reporter to talk about housing prices. diana olick, where does the rate stand right now? they are changing every day, what is going on? guest: mortgage rates don't move day-to-day but you can get an average. we have a guy who runs them for us. we have seen this remarkable move higher since january. january we saw the 30-year fixed at re-percent. that was in your record low. came up in march and may. at june it was over 6%. it but i hammer unaffordability. came down a little bit in july and august. in the past week it shot up over 6% again. 6.25%. mortgage rates are a range, an average. it is double what we saw at the

start of this year. host: why did she back up? guest: people say the fed raises rates. i will not bore anyone with details of how mortgage rates work. rates follow the yield on the 10-year treasury. the yield reacts to how investors feel about the overall economy. one the fed says we will get more aggressive, continue to raise interest rates, the general population, that will hurt consumers. the chairman said that in his last speech. it may hurt consumers. it may hurt the economy but we need to pull back inflation. the markets reacted to that. yields went up and the mortgage rates followed. host: he said yesterday the federal reserve chair that the fed will continue raising rates until the job is done. guest: right. that was a signal that it will get a little uglier for

consumers out there. that meant in the bond market investors were selling off bonds when yields go up. then the rates follow that. host: he said he's doing this, or they want to do this because i don't want high prices to become the norm in the american conscious. doesn't that bode well for housing? guest: it is a double-edged sword. everyone says rates are up and home sales have started to fall at home prices -- we saw the first data that home prices are starting to fall. that is not a terrible thing. the housing market was completely on fire over the last two and half years, since the start of the pandemic. we saw prices go up 43% justice t -- just since the start of the pandemic. first-time time buyers fell out of the market. low income borrowers cannot get into the market. housing has become unaffordable. we really did need to bring it

back. whereas, yes, higher mortgage rates -- this direction may pull more help into the housing market. host: where are prices falling the fastest? guest: in the markets that would highest the fastest. mostly on the west coast. san francisco, seattle, l.a. do you have not seen prices drop in the south -- you have not seen prices drop in the south. demand is still strong. supply is still very low. supply is still low across the country. we are seeing prices come down a little bit. we are talking less than 1% from june to july. that was the first data point we saw from black night. that was the first monthly drop in almost three years. it was the largest monthly drop from june to july because the crisis -- prices almost always go up from june to july. that was a big red flag.

something is going on nationally. markets are going to see no price drops. they are still way up from a year ago. they will be markets that will really overheat and prices will come down a little. host: i want to invite viewers to join in. i'm curious what the market is like where you live. tell us that and if you are buying a house, we want to hear from you. we want to hear what it is like where you live. the lines are divided. start dialing in. diana olick and i will get to those calls in just a minute. what are you watching now in the coming weeks? what are indicators and what will they tell you? guest: prices and supply, those of the most important indicators right now. they play off each other. the homebuilders really pulled back and that was not a good thing. they saw demand pull back in

june. they started to see fewer contracts being signed. baseload construction. that is the opposite of what we need. we need more homes. despite some demand pulling back, we have a very large housing deficit. there are all kinds of deficits ranging from one million to 5 million homes deficit. we need to see the builders build more. the prices -- i keep saying this -- it will be nothing like the great recession went home prices plummeted. people went underwater on their mortgages and there was a massive foreclosure crisis. not going to happen. this mortgage market is much healthier. people have tons of home-equity right now. even if prices fall 5% on every home nationally, you would see less than 1% of borrowers be underwater on their mortgages. host: where are their home

deficits across the country? guest: everywhere. look at washington, d.c. during the boom of the last two years there was nothing for sale. i don't know if you got the letters in the mail. i would be happy to sell your home and get you top dollar. it's happening all over the country. i have not heard of maybe -- maybe in the midwest a little bit. ohio and illinois. those are some markets don't have quite the deficit in houses. everywhere needs more homes because we have more demand from millennials. they started buying homes later in life because of the great recession. that wave is coming to the market right now. they do have savings. they might be pulling back because they got concerns over higher mortgage rates and higher prices. a lot of them have the wherewithal to buy and could step back in. host: what role did investors play in the market leading up to

where we are now? i'm talking about wall street chasing money and buying of homes. guest: there are several large firms. you see article saying wall street has bought up all the entry-level, lower-priced homes. first time buyers cannot get in because wall street bought them up. that caused prices to go sky high. wall street has bought a lot of homes but it is literally less than 2% of the market. the big firms. there are investors that have 10, 20, 30 homes that have turned them into rentals. the rental market is exploding because you have a lot of rental demand because people cannot afford to buy. that single-family rental market in the build permit market, builders who were opening up entire single-family rental communities, that's a hot market right now. host: are the builders building the right kinds of homes?

guest: it depends what you mean. host: condos versus single-family? guest: single-family is in most demand right now. condos are not in much demand. they are building homes, mostly in the south and west. they are starting to do a lot more in rental because they are seeing strong demand. these are communities where they have amenities. you have your lawn cut for you. you don't have to worry about maintenance. you'd have to worry about if something happens because you are a renter. you still have a three-bedroom house in a nice neighborhood with a cul-de-sac and all the things you would get. host: they are building to rent because there is more money there/ -- there? guest: they are getting it returns. summer partnering with investors. you have builders like american homes for rent, a large single-family rental. did not used to be a construction company. now they are starting to build. host: diane in california,

independent. good morning to you. your question or comment? caller: yes. i would like to address the investors. not being able to compete with the investors purchasing homes. i'm in the los angeles area. i have a property i am an administrator of. and, i get calls constantly from investors just out of trying to keep americans being gable to purchase -- being able to purchase homes. single families are not interested. i'm not interested in selling to them. it is being downplayed.

no one everyone's dimension it. a local channel did a story on a young attorney and his wife who were trying to rent a house. they could not afford to buy. the cheapest they could find in a decent area was like $4000 a month. this area -- i know that area. it is not a great area. $4000 a month. this is the reality of where we are in los angeles. i hope -- host: i will have diana olick jump in. guest: first of all there are certain markets, los angeles is a competitive market. there are investors there. there are investors in areas like charlotte that are heavy in southern areas with a lot of demand. there is competition for lower-priced homes.

i don't think people aren't talking about it. rent everywhere is skyrocketing. if you look across the nation, rents are up 10% from a year ago. multifamily apartment really shot up in major cities. especially in the sunbelt where you have demand. it is not so much investors are -- the rental market is so expensive because there is so much demand and so little supply. if the investors who own these properties could not get that rent, they would lower it. it is supply and demand and that is how it works in the market. host: is inflation a factor in raising rent? guest: absolutely. you could turn that around and look at new york. new york city. some rents are moderating a little bit because overall inflation has made it so renters cannot afford higher rent. landlords don't have that pricing power anymore and they

will put the brakes on it. there is so much demand. i go back to the little supply. you will see prices go up in rent. host: paul in germantown, maryland. caller: am i on? thank you for taking my call. the problem in the housing market -- i'm a builder. i build smaller homes. i see builders building massive homes. if you build it so big, it will cost a lot. i had a question about up zoning and how that could affect the housing prices. if you can fit more houses on smaller lots and so forth. she said it is not as desirable maybe. i will take my answer off the air. guest: i would say i'm not sure buildings are building larger houses. if you look at the data, the average size has dropped nationwide.

millennials want to, more environmentally friendly, efficient homes. maybe some of that in the larger homes in some places because of this new work from home and the fear we might be stuck in our homes again at some point. everyone wants to have enough space. i tend to see outdoor building. people building out. they have those tiny homes. i would say that the pencil with market you are in. when you talk about density, it is a controversial issue. while i cover real estate, i also cover climate. there's a great argument to say if we have a housing deficit and the more people in the cities or certain areas that are in great demand, you want to build more density. you want to allow more high-rise apartments or put houses closer together. it allows for people to live closer together so there is less commuting, more jobs closer. it takes some of that carbon

footprint out of the housing market. not a lot. it is happening in my neighborhood in washington. there is an argument over building high-rises on connecticut avenue and the houses just off connecticut have their own plots are upset about that. if you going to have more affordable housing and really focus on climate and how we structure our cities, you need more density. host: interesting you have the combined title. what is the thinking there? are you always coming from that lens of climate? guest: i do now. i guess about four years ago i launched a series on cnbc that looked at the risks from climate change to real estate. there is such an overlap. real estate applies for -- accounts for 40% of global greenhouse emissions. you are real building and --

rebuilding and taking buildings down. we broadened it to everything. for a while during a different initiation there was not a lot of focus on climate. now there is, thankfully, and we are seeing progress. we have broadened our coverage of climate, which i'm thrilled about. so much of it overlaps with real estate. there is so much going on with cities and start up companies. i have another series that looks at the start ups in the climate space looking to electrify buildings, looking to change how we do urban planning. a lot of that density issue comes into climate. host: this is a headline in the washington post. rising seas could swallow billions of u.s. acres within decades. -- millions of u.s. acres within decades. tens of thousands of -- if these homes are lost into the sea, there are other ramifications. property taxes.

guest: what's amazing is people continue to move into these areas that are most at risk of fire, at risk of flooding. that is where everybody wants to live. on the coast and it is alarming. i did a story about how the government is finding the rebuilding of these disasters. what they need to do is stop funding the rebuilding and start funding the moving away, that migration we call climate migration away from the riskiest areas, even though they may be the most beautiful areas. go visit for the day but dump at a house on the edge of the ocean or in california and a fire zone where we will have to clean it up. it is a danger to everyone. billions of dollars being spent because of these climate disasters. it is rising every year. we see another record level of how much that disaster is costing.

you need to see more climate migration, which we are seeing in some areas like mississippi and louisiana, the river areas. you are not seeing that away from the coast. we are going to be forced to do it at some point very soon. host: 2050 is the your mentioned in the washington post article. john in georgetown, texas. democratic call. caller: how are you? i have a couple of different things. in georgetown where i live they are building entire housing communities unsold. with expectations they will sell. georgetown is a suburb of austin. everybody from tesla, facebook, they are all moving here. there is a lot of need for housing. they are not even waiting for the houses to be sold. right next to me in the

subdivision, huge subdivision in texas, they are building an entire community. probably about 200 homes in the community. they are not even sold yet. that is the first thing i want to say. the second thing, i heard in the last year -- i was born and raised in washington, d.c. i inherited a home in washington five blocks from howard university. i was going to have the house renovated and use it as a rental property for an investment property. something's happened. plus, the distance i'm away and the ability to keep up with it, i decided to sell it. it is right there one block off the u street corridor. a prosperous area where people are trying to move.

it is for sale now. it was put up on the first of september. i anticipate this house, which my grandfather bought in 1955 for $17,000, and is listed for $645,000. the house next door sold for $930,000 in june. i am looking forward to that, selling it. i guess the d.c. area is a totally different area. you cannot just go out and buy five acres and build like you can in taxes. guest: diana olick? guest: i'm guessing that house in howard university area will sell really fast, even if it does need to be gutted. that is a very hot area. good luck with that. you were talking about the austin area. i was there last week giving a story about a massive community, 7000 homes on a geothermal grid.

it was the whole climate and be listed convergence. i'm surprised when you say none of those houses are sold. whisper valley was sold out. they had contracts on homes not built yet. you are right next to the tesla giga factory, which i had never seen a building that large of my life. we kept driving and driving and driving and there are thousands of workers. not to mention austin has been pulling and tech workers for the last several years from all over the country, especially california. the housing demand in austin and the outer area where you see massive communities built, that will sell. i will not be concerned they are building spec homes that sit here and not sell. they will because the demand is just that strong. the supply is very low. that is why prices jumped so dramatically. all real estate is local. the house in will sell and a nanoseconds.

the houses in austin will do well as well. host: the geothermal grid. guest: this was so cool. they built the grid before any of these homes are built, and when it is done in 10 years they will be 7000 single-family and multifamily homes. what the grid does is it uses the temperature of the water underground, which is always stable. 30 feet underground you have basically 72 degrees. by drilling down into that and pumping water into it, you pull the temperature up. if you circulate it to this piping in every home. they have a drill spot in front of it, even the plots that have not been built yet. they pull the water up into the homes. it heated and cools it. you need electricity to pump it up at every house has solar. you are heating -- your heating bills is next to nothing.

a woman said she doesn't have an energy bill at all. the pump and the house was the hot water heater or a furnace. very small. it cuts back massively on greenhouse gas emissions. it uses so much less energy. it cost the homeowners nothing to heat and cool their homes. more importantly, the electric grid should go down like we saw in texas with that ice storm, without heat and water, this community will not be affected. even if they lose electricity to run the water up, it's only at night. when the sun comes up, solar panels will run the geothermal energy. it's amazing. most homes had tesla battery backups outside the house so they would not lose power at all. they were not off the grid but they could go off the grid. host: carol, republican. caller: yeah.

i have been listening to the program. the one thing i'm not hearing being addressed at all is the 2 million afghanistans we brought to our country. they needed to find housing. also, the daily people that are crossing the border that are probably now minted 2 million if not 4 million people in the last couple of years that have crossed over. they all are obviously trying to find someplace to live. all this -- she's talking about supply and demand. i'm not hearing anything about the influx of the people that have crossed the border, and its in the hundreds of thousands. host: migration contributed to this housing shortage? guest: i'm not an expert in that area specifically.

i would say they are looking for low income, affordable housing. they are not buying homes. most don't have the income to do that. we do have a very, very real shortage of affordable housing and affordable multifamily housing. if you talk to builders, they say you cannot pencil that. the cost of the builders are so high because of inflation, because of supply chain issues and labor issues. land, labor, materials. the price of lumber, etc., it is off the charts. to pencil a large apartment building they need to charge a certain rent so they can pay back what they took it in debt to build the building, etc. they can't do it on the affordable level. now you need government grants and hud to find that. we are seeing that more but is not nearly enough to get as much affordable housing built. it takes a long time to build a

multifamily apartment building. it is a time and supply issue. host: what about the ready-made houses that are done in factories and the tiny homes? guest: tiny homes are kind of a fad. i would not say they will solve the problem. we are seeing adu's, accessory dwelling units. different places have different zoning laws but some people say those should be used to solve the affordable housing issues. solve the homeless issue. you are seeing more construction of prefab homes built in factories and even garden apartments built in factories. that is part of the climate issue. it is much, much more climate friendly to built in a factory and take that apartment building or whatever, the mobile units, piece them together on the property and do that. you are seeing some of that. not nearly enough of that.

we are giving a story about the first company that will be building large-scale 10 to 33 apartment buildings in a factory in units that they will bring to the site and clipped together. you need investors. they do have investors but they are just getting off the ground now. it is coming but it is not there yet. we need more affordable housing. host: janice in colorado, democratic caller. janice, are you there? one last call for janice. he mentioned this at the top. let's go through it again, what people should be watching for in the weeks and months to come especially if they are thinking of buying or selling a home. guest: watch mortgage rates, and if you see an average mortgage rate of 6%, it is not everybody. talk to your lender.

there are programs for low income borrowers. bank of america announced a program specifically for low income neighborhoods of color with no down payment and no mortgage insurance required. you have to show an income but they are trying to help more low income borrowers get in. other banks are doing that as well. what i would watch his home prices specifically -- is home prices specifically. you don't want to start over bidding. bidding wars were rampant during the pandemic, lines outside of the house, 4050 people waiting to go in. -- 40, 50 people waiting to go in. then you start to see escalation of people bidding $300,000 over asking price. don't do that. it is just not necessary in

today's housing market. it is not a sellers market as it used to be. sellers have to bring their sites down and see how the market has changed because when you go from a 3% mortgage rate to 6%, on a $400,000 home your monthly payment is $700 more per month than it would've been. host: you can find diana on cnbc , watch her reporting there. also go to cnbc.com. fresh start and rising risk. guest: rising risk and clean start. host: we appreciate you talking to our viewers. when we come back, congressman brad sherman the democrat of california will be back to talk about the democrat agenda with the fall election just around the corner. ♪ >> sunday on cue and day, a look

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public floor and it is hard to identify other public leaders. host: we are learning king charles iii will be proclaimed king tomorrow. what do you know of him, and any thoughts as he prepares to take over the monarchy? guest: he's got big shoes to fill. there's obviously controversy with his first marriage and all that. he stepped in with less a reservoir of popularity then his mother did, and we will see. even if he was as good at doing the job as she was, starting in the 1950's gave her a tremendous leg up that he won't have. host: let's bring it back to the domestic front and your home state of california. energy prices there, energy issues there, i want to play the

leader of the republican in the senate, which mcconnell, blaming democrats for california's energy crisis. [video clip] >> democrats have made california's electrical grid into an experiment to try all of their misunderstandings about energy policy. it is not going well. with hot weather demand surging, california authorities are sweating political shortfalls of up to 5000 megawatts. california's love affair with fickle, unreliable green energy could force its residents to put up with growing blackouts chose to -- wealthy liberals preferences. the government had to send out an emergency message egging citizens to ration power, ironically after announcing a ban on gas powered automobiles. they are begging folks not to

charge their cars to avoid crashing the grid. they don't want you putting gas in your car. they don't want you to plug in your car either. that's exactly where their war on energy would leave the american people, going nowhere fast. host: congressman, your thoughts? guest: texas had a major electric problem just a few months ago. i didn't see the gentleman from kentucky going to the floor and trying to make a partisan issue out of that. to turn to a state that's just faced the greatest heatwave any of us can remember and say, do nothing about global warming, fan global warming, burn as much carbon as you possibly can, shows almost a nihilistic approach, burn the country down and enjoy doing it approach. the fact is that electric

vehicles charge can be 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. that is not when we will have a blackout. that is when other demand is down. electric vehicles can and will and some do already, put power back into the grid at key times and use their batteries to pull the power out of the grid at 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. less than 1% of our electricity currently goes to electric vehicles. but where is mitch mcconnell's answer to global warming? except burn it all down. he was born into an america that was a great country and he seems to be intent on doing nothing about global warming. host: california announced recently regulations to bring california's -- war on energy.

talk about what happened and what is the state doing that the rest of the country is not doing, even other countries? guest: the recent announcement is that in roughly a decade, we will not be selling gasoline powered vehicles. it will take a decade or more after that until all the gas powered vehicles are down to a small percentage of those on the 405 freeway, but we see prices of electric vehicles coming down. we see the tax credits that congress just adopted and the president signed. and we are going to see american energy produced in america, running our vehicles and if we produce oil, we will be able to export it to countries that would otherwise be dependent upon russia and iran. this is a huge step forward for our national security.

flecked on this, if democrats hadn't pushed for a higher fuel standards for decades, i'd be driving a car getting what my first car got, eight miles per gallon. american demand for gasoline would be double or triple what it is. prices would be way through the roof and we would be filling our tanks every day. thank god democrats pushed through fuel economy standards, because imagine a country in which the average car was getting eight miles a gallon. host: talk about where that pushed began and where we are now. guest: we are to a much higher standard, going to a higher standard. i don't have memorized the numbers. i do know my first plymouth was nine miles to the gallon. maybe i could have driven a little better and gotten 10. miles per gallon will become

irrelevant driving electric vehicles. host: let's turn our attention to what is coming up in the house agenda. what pieces of legislation, what will the debate be like in the house before voters go to vote in november? guest: the debates will be highly partisan. you are an observer, and we will have calls coming in so we can get a taste of that. the actual action as far as passing legislation will keep the government open with a continuing resolution. there will be a vote on same-sex manage, -- marriage, in the senate. i doubt it will get 60 votes but it will put people on record. we will be passing a resolution about the capacities of the queen. this is not a time in which you expect a congress which has not

been not functional -- and we live in a nonfunctional time. 20, 30 years ago congress was much more proper. host: what are your concerns about president biden's approval rating? we have seen a little bit of an uptick but a lot of voters talking about the economy and giving him low ratings. what are your concerns about prospects of holding onto the house? guest: you talk about the low ratings. everything gets low ratings today with the exception of chocolate fudge sundaes. every institution, every politician, it used to be if you had 50% approval in your district, that was terrible. why only 50%? now you go on the floor and brag about it. second, we dealt with covid. we didn't deal with that perfectly but as a society, and no society in the world knew what to do with it, and the

effect on our economy was that we kept people's incomes hi. i don't hear republicans contradicting that. they couldn't go to bars and restaurants and sporting events so they bought everything on amazon. that pushed up the price of goods and is still having an effect. of course they will try to blame biden for the fact that factories in china are shut down. if factories in china are shut down, it's going to be hard to supply american stores. so i think the wrap on biden from the inflation is misplaced. that being the case, presidents always get more credit and blame for the economy than they deserve, but gas prices are coming down. i think that combined with this decision which was horrendous on the abortion issue, that may be

enough to get democrats to continue to control the house. host: we are talking with congressman brad sherman, democrat of california. he will take your questions or comments. the phone is divided by democrats, republicans, independents. i want to get your reaction to axios, kevin mccarthy will unveil a commitment to america if republicans when the majority . here's what axios is reporting. the document will be smaller and seems to give the republicans a unified message in the final stretch before november. focusing on inflation, high gas prices, and crime and immigration, and the section headers include making sure every kid in every neighborhood can succeed, better health care

outcomes, and a government that is accountable. that is what they are promising. your reaction? guest: he says "dedicated to freedom" and yet he is there to take away a woman's right to choose. so many of the republicans in tough districts have signed onto legislation that says the fetus is protected from the moment of conception, not even implantation. that outlaws birth control so his idea of freedom is to outlaw birth control and take away a woman's right to choose. he's opposed every effort to make sure americans have health care insurance. he's opposed every effort to bring down the price of pharmaceuticals. they passed a law that would bring down the price of 50 leaving pharmaceuticals -- leading pharmaceuticals and

would cap insulin prices. as long as you don't have insurance and prices are sky high. host: larry in galesburg, illinois, republican. caller: i just had a couple questions. one is, is the representative going to take an electric plane from california to washington? this is a lifetime politician. number two, i'm sorry but back in the 1950's, i had a car that was getting 14, 16 miles per gallon, paying $.75 or $.50 per gallon. guest: $.75 then is well over four dollars now. maybe i should have consulted you before i bought a car in the 1970's because mine only got nine or 10. maybe i should have gotten the model that you got. as to an electric plane, no, i will not be using an electric

plane. we will not completely ban the use of fossil fuels. the goal is to be at net zero but if we can simply bring our carbon emissions down, i think we can turn the corner on global warming. so this idea that there will not be any use of carbon fuels starting my next plane back to los angeles is obviously false. host: tennessee, bob, a republican. caller: yes, i want to know, do you think we will be moving off of paper money and coins? another thing, you must not believe in the bible. homosexuality is a sin and you are expecting us to accept that. guest: you know, if you read the bible, eating a cheeseburger is a sin because it mixes meat and milk -- at least my bible.

i don't think we should put people in jail for a cheeseburger and i don't think we should discriminate against people because of who they love. as the paper money, we've mostly gone away from it. it continues to be used to some degree and i think you will see a continuation of those trends. host: john in lake geneva, wisconsin, independent. caller: thanks for taking my call. i wanted to ask the representative pertaining to electric vehicles, with the mining. not in my backyard typically. all the materials for the batteries or 90% of them probably are coming from other countries, where slave labor is used and strip mine the earth which is contradictory to your claim. i'm wondering how you are straddling the fence on that

situation. guest: you are not going to be having a perfect world, not the next decade or the decade after. there is going to be mining. mining, as you point out, is not pristine all the time but it doesn't -- it is not a major source of global warming if it is done right. as to slave labor, we've got to make sure the material coming to our country is not produced by slave labor which is why i work extensively to bring in a product -- the idea because democrats want to improve the environment that there is going to be some perfect world with no mining and no jet fuel is just absurd. let's do better. host: new jersey, anthony, democratic caller. caller: thanks for taking my call. thank you, congressman.

i'm a registered democrat my whole life. lately i feel like i've been lied to a lot. i wanted you to comment on three things of legislation that i would like to see past -- pass ed or the majority of people support. all of these talking points are just wrong. i'm going to give you three talking points and i want to ask for legislation. guest: i hope we get some other people in as well. caller: i know you don't want to hear my voice. guest: give me your best idea and give some other people a chance to talk. caller: one point, reclaiming my time. so here is the thing about -- i know we have a victimless crime of the overdoses. it is not a victimless crime, i wish we would stop saying that. but on abortion, the majority of people are for abortion but they

want a limit on it. now that bills like you guys just tried to past that is all the way up to the full term, why are we saying that all the republicans, everybody is against abortion? i am pro-life and i would never have an abortion -- i can't get pregnant -- but i would never have an abortion. host: let's take the point. guest: democrats in the house of representatives support restoring the roe v. wade standard. that is a standard that allows states to provide some regulation in the second trimester and much more severe regulation in the third trimester. democrats are not for abortion in the ninth month for trivial reasons. to say that a bill that's going

to restore roe v. wade is somehow going to change our society from what it was when roe v. wade was the law is simply wrong. host: los angeles, michelle, republican caller. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm curious on fuel efficiency. the electric battery will have a problem with once they are spent, and storing them. what do you think of the future of hydrogen fuel for cars as opposed to electric batteries? guest: i'm not an engineer and i can't tell you whether a hydrogen car is better than an electric car for the purposes we are trying to achieve. it is up to consumers, the private market, and engineers to see what products consumers want to buy. i am agnostic as to which version of a zero emission we go

with -- emission vehicle we go with. you need electricity to generate the hydrogen and hydrogen to generate the electricity. it is not perfect. host: allen in illinois, democratic caller. caller: thank you for taking my call. my call is about electric vehicles and i happen to own a hybrid and i got about 49 miles per gallon. a lot of states will use the gasoline taxes to pay for roads and bridges, etc. i know that the republicans would have a no to every question people come up with, but i live in a rural area and there is concern farmers would have to travel more distance wise. if you have electric vehicles, based on mileage, they are kind of scared. guest: if you drive hundreds of miles a week you pay a higher

gas tax now. i don't know what system we will have to finance our roads. one is the user fee, charging people based how much they drive or how much gasoline they use, which has been roughly correlated, or whether we will use general revenue funds as we do for some of the road programs such as the one we just passed. we will have to decide whether it is a user fee or general revenues. if it is a user fee, people who use the roads more will as they do now pay more. host: ohio, bernice, independent. bernice, good morning and wooldridge, ohio. caller: hello. host: go ahead. caller: they have the name wrong . it is supposed to be bernie. -- bernie. -- ernie.

this whole thing around donald trump, there is enough here with what he did with the georgia phone call, when he did at the capitol, when he did in mar-a-lago, this guy is nothing more than a con man in my opinion. i read his book when he was running and i'm glad i didn't vote for this guy. he don't care about nobody but himself. all these people that worked with him from roger stone to flynn and everybody, some have got to go to jail and this and that, but he sits at mar-a-lago living the life of riley. people can't see this guy wants to be a dictator. he looks up to putin and hit lurk, looks up to dictators because -- prudent and hitler's -- donald trump is a very dangerous man. he needs to go to jail. if you don't go to jail and stay at mar-a-lago, do whatever the

hell he wants. guest: i think he was clear. i was the first to file articles of impeachment against donald trump in the first year of his presidency. i think he will go down as one of our worst presidents and i'm hoping that his grip on the republican party is released. host: what about the search of the mar-a-lago home and florida and what you have read about what they found, are you getting any, as a member of congress, foreign affairs committee, are you getting any read? guest: i am just amazed as to why he put the material and did -- took the material and didn't return it. it is almost as if he wanted the search take place. there is no purpose he could not have achieved honest, if there was an honest purpose, or nefarious, that required him. he could have copied those documents or read them while he was still in the white house.

he could have returned them in the first month at mar-a-lago. he was almost taunting the justice department. it has worked to his political advantage and disadvantage. his grip on the republican party has intensified as he forced the search on the justice department. whether he did so deliberately because he wanted that sympathy in the republican party or whether he kept the documents because he is just obstinate and pigheaded and arrogant, we will find out. host: amherst, massachusetts, rachel, independent caller. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'd like to address representative sherman as my foreign affairs committee member, one of them. i have a question regarding -- i am sort of on a fact-finding mission about haiti. i need something.

have a friend. he's a first responder and i think he's been doing that for like a quarter of a century. he's still a young man but has dedicated his life to first response and climate disasters. he's been in haiti since the earthquake, for 12 years now. he's in a very desperate situation. the springwater they get water from, his community, has dried up. they are food and water insecure. there are guns in the streets, guns on the roads. he can't take his child to the embassy because the embassy is in the capital which is besieged by gun carrying gangs of people who will kidnap an american child, who will shoot people on buses going to the city. it's a very desperate situation. he's not alone. i'm sure there are many

thousands of other families, american families in haiti who are petitioning their embassy for the paperwork they need. the documents they need. host: i'm going to jump in. your reaction? guest: i don't know her friend's situation. our embassy has to serve the american citizens there in haiti . if there is some reason they cannot get to port-au-prince, we have to do things electronically if that is available, or by phone. i don't know if this individual is in need of an evacuation. the caller was describing the situation that i am unaware of. all over the world we take care of american citizens. host: we will leave it there. thank you for your time this morning. programming out for our viewers, king charles iii is expected to address the nation at 6:00 your