consent, the chair announces that when the two houses meet in joint meeting to hear an address by his excellency, isaac herzog, president of the state of israel, only the doors immediately opposite the speaker and those immediately to his left and right will be open. no one will be allowed on the floor of the house who does not have the privilege of the floor of the house. due to a large attendance that is anticipated. the rule regarding the privilege of the floor must be strictly enforced. children of the members is not allowed on the floor. the cooperation is requested. the practice of reserving seats prior to the joint meeting by the place card will not be allowed. members may reserve their seats by physical presence only following the security sweep of the chambers. pursuant to the order of the house of monday, july 17, 2023, the house stands in recess subject to the call of the chair.

tell us how that has affected your debates, your considerations in the appropriations process. guest: i think that underlies -- one thing underlies the whole process. that is the fact that we are currently at about eight $32 trillion debt -- at about a 32 dalian -- 32 trillion dollar debt, and that is unsustainable for the country to be in. we have to curb our spending. we have to be able to get a handle back on spending versus revenue, and be able to reduce overtime that debt.

it is unfairly putting a huge burden on top of our children, grandchildren, the future generations of this country. we particularly see that playing out with increasing interest on our debt is becoming a huge part of our spending. it is unsustainable. i think that is underneath all the conversations we are having in our appropriations process. we are looking for ways to be able to do exactly that, courbet spending. it does not come without some consternation and some debate and pushback. a lot of the things we have been funding over the last by enea are things people have wanted a lot. there are positive things we have been funding, but we have to be able to curb that federal

spending. that has been, i think, one of the biggest things i see as a positive thing of this appropriation process, that we are, for the first time in a long time, positioned to spend less this fiscal year than last fiscal year. host: with that fiscal responsibility act having passed, where do you see that potential sticking point in the appropriation process? guest: potential sticking points? host: in terms of agreement on spending levels. guest: there has been some debate about what those spending levels should be, obviously, whether they are a floor or a ceiling. we have taken the position that those agreements that were come to in that legislation, we can still find more savings and we should. i think the american people are expecting us to be as smart about our spending as possible, to utilize taxpayer dollars in

the most efficient way, and we should continue to be looking for ways that we can save. i think that is going to be a continued part of this process as we move forward. certainly, there's going to be collisions with that kind of approach. not only with our friends across the aisle, but i am assuming with the senate as they move forward. they are taking a little different tack. that is what this process is all about, being able to put our two positions on the table and work out our differences, and be able to move forward. host: congressman dan newhouse is our guest. we welcome your questions and comments at (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, and for independents and all others, it is (202) 748-8002. you are also on the select committee on the u.s. and china competition. what has that committee been up to lately? what has been its focus?

guest: let me just say it is a huge honor to be part of this select community -- committee, to look at these challenges facing the u.s. and the chinese party. it is a huge concern in the u.s. to recognize. if i might just say, i don't put myself in this, but most of us have been relatively ignorant as to the threat that china poses to this country. being able to be part of this committee, to see firsthand from many of the expert witnesses that have provided testimony what's happening in this relationship that we have with china and the communist chinese party, it has been eye-opening, it truly has. in fact, we just had a hearing last week on the risks of doing business in china for american companies. we are looking at some of the potential military threats that

china poses, particularly as it relates to taiwan and southeast asia, all of the countries on the pacific rim, and what that means to us as a nation, as well as the rest of the world. we are going to be working tomorrow -- looking tomorrow, in fact, ringing in some of the officials from the biden administration to really try to get an understanding of the strategy that the administration is working on and putting forward as it relates to our relationship with china, whether militarily, economically, many different ways. we are in a position with china, the two largest economies in the world. our economies are intertwined. we found it during the pandemic that in some areas, we are actually too reliant on china for some of the things that we need.

that was an eye-opening thing that we have learned as part of our supply chain issues. we are learning about some of the threats of the interest of china in controlling many of the natural resources and food production around the world we are seeing that impact here in the united states as well. there is a long list of things i think have been really important for us to look into and learn about, and also share with the american people. host: to your point about the two largest economies, the levels of trade between the u.s. and china in 2022, imports and exports between the two countries, totaling $691 billn. exports in china rose to $470 billion last year. the u.s. exports to china rose to $154 billion. i want to ask you about a lead editorial in the "new york times" this morning, headlined

that says america cannot build a green economy without china, pointing out that the u.s. cannot build a competitive renewable or electric vehicle industry from scratch. saying that the country of china, the nation of china, is the number one manufacturer of electric vehicle batteries, for example. guest: we have become dependent on them for many things. the lithium-ion batteries that go into electric vehicles is a great example. some things are better utilized, and the solar electricity generation area. many of those things originate from china. one of the things that became obvious, very apparent during the pandemic, is that we are becoming almost two dependent on foreign sources for many of these materials, but particularly on the country of china. that has led to many of us coming to the conclusion that we need to utilize our own

resources in this country, so that we can reduce our dependence on china for many of these things that are important to our economy and to our future. that is, again, one of the many important things and issues that we are uncovering in this effort in this select committee. host: did your committee look at the state of diplomatic relations between the two nations? guest: that's one of the things we will be looking at in depth tomorrow, when we bring in some of the officials from the biden administration to talk about some of the efforts that are going on in this administration toward their relationship. an interesting thing about china, and i think most people recognize this, it is probably due to our forms of government, which are much different. but they have a system that allows them to look far into the future.

they have strategies of 10, 20, 50, even 100 years. we, conversely in this country, take much shorter time segments, whether it is to the next election two years or four years from now. that has proven to be a disadvantage to us. they are truly building a fast lane to accomplish their objectives, where we are, at best, putting up guardrails to try to protect us as we bounce back and forth in those lanes. that is something i think would behoove us to try to think more long-term, to try to be more strategic. we will have to do that in order to be successful competitively with china. host: let's hear from callers. we will hear from shawn in st. petersburg, florida. morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. to the subjects, i worked with a

solar energy research and the government was working in opposition to them. that is not the reason for my caller -- per my call this morning. you have mr. trump going around stating that he has a right to the information that he had stored in a mar-a-lago. my question is, do his attorneys actually know what the presidential records act is? are they telling him? because it doesn't seem they are doing that. if you have any information on that, i would appreciate it. a pleasant morning, gentlemen. guest: thank you very much. i cannot tell you what the president's attorneys know or don't know. i think that he brings in very high quality representatives to help him through his legal battles, so i would assume that they have some knowledge of what it is you are speaking of, but i

could not tell you one way or the other, whether or not they have that information. for if they do, or that they share it with the president. host: a call from washington state on the independent line. mary, hello there. caller: good morning. guest: good morning, mary. caller: how are you doing? guest: good. caller: i am curious. i have been staying away from the news because it has been getting me too stressed. now, seriously, i'm not being smart. i have been hearing so much and i was wondering, because i know you are really popular here in washington state, are the chinese buying a lot of our state or is it mostly in the planes or in the midwest? and who do you think might become -- not the president, the

governor, because jay inslee is going to be moving on? guest: thank you for that question, airy, and good morning to you. there have been some instances of chinese purchases of farmland in the state of washington that is similar to around the country. we have, as you know, a very strong agricultural industry, which is attractive to a country like china, which has a huge task in front of it, providing enough food for its large population. the fact of the matter is that the overall number of acres that have been purchased by chinese concerns the united states as compared to the total number of farmland acres is not huge. however, the trend we are seeing over the last decade, those

purchases have increased by a factor of 10. and it is not just agricultural land either, it is property that could be situated near a military installation, infrastructure that is important to national security. so, this is a situation where we are trying to be proactive, so that we prevent what we see happening in other countries, or china has been so aggressive in controlling natural resources, huge infrastructure projects, agricultural land. even in our own hemisphere. we don't want to wake up one day 10 years from now and think, we should have done something about this. we want to be proactive on this and stop it before it becomes a huge problem. then, u.s. about our governor race in the state of washington. i think that after 12 years of oven or insulate, people in the

-- of governor in sleep, people are tired of the governor -- of the democrats being in control. we have not elected a republican since 1980, which i think is the longest in the nation of one-party control. we have record of dave reichert running for governor. i think that gives washingtonians a great alternative and a new direction for our state, which i think would be very positive. host: just adding to mary's question about china. jenny of california asks you, what threats does the chinese communist party actually pose? are we partners with them? guest: as it relates to agricultural land, do you think she is talking about? host: maybe, but we briefly looked at military threats. guest: wow. that is an area where the

chinese have been particularly aggressive. they have been putting a tremendous amount of effort into building their effort -- into building their military. i believe they have more naval ships than the united states does now. their presence throughout the pacific rim and the arctic area, for instance, is growing and much more prevalent. the threats that they pose, particularly with taiwan, is raising concerns for countries throughout the pacific rim. the rhetoric that we hear from china leads us to believe that this is something they are seriously considering doing, invading taiwan. that is a huge threat that should concern all of us. are we partners with china? we are certainly business partners. like we talked about, the two

largest economies in the world. we do a lot of trading back and forth. they buy a lot of agricultural products from the united states. we certainly by a lot of consumer products from china. but as we talked about before, what we have found over the last several years is that we have become too dependent on some of the things we need, particularly in a national emergency situation, as we found out during the pandemic. that all ties together, for instance, in the issue of farmland being controlled by china. we want to make sure that they don't have control for any length in the supply chain, as it relates to our food supply. that could put us in a very vulnerable position if, in fact, they do take action, whether it is is -- it is in the taiwan straits or other parts of the world. host: from cleveland, ohio,

jasper on the democrats line. caller: good morning to you. guest: good morning, jasper. caller: i just have a question about why people bringing up russian collusion. when trump met with two people in the oval office, there were by themselves. when trump met with mr. putin, they put everybody out and spoke a couple of hours by themselves. a lady before had asked them, what did you and mr. putin talk about? he turned around and looked them in the face and said, it's none of your business. i don't know if you are maga or what, do you know what they talked about? can you explain that? thank you, have a good day. guest: i think that meeting you are talking about was five years ago. obviously, i was not in the

room. just from the reports that i have heard, i cannot tell you specifically what those conversations were about, and i am not sure that i fall into either one of those categories right now, but i try to do the best i can to represent the people in central washington state. host: next up is steve on the republican line in maryland. hi, steve. guest: good morning. caller: yes, here's my question. what did you expect to happen when the legislative branch outsourced and offshore to all of our manufacturing in the united states of america? and in doing so, of course we became dependent and reliable on china for everything from our drug compounds to our masks. we can go down the list. it amazes me that covid is four years old, five years old, and

we are still behind the eight ball. it is too late now, is the problem. 28 plus years of outsourcing and off shoring our manufacturing base out of the country, of course we are going to be reliable and dependent upon china. that is not even a question anymore. now, it is about decoupling from china. you can't even do that. china has us over a barrel. i don't understand, whether it comes to farmland, cuba, south america, whatever happened to the doctrine where we are not supposed to have any communist parties in the territory of the western hemisphere? could you explain that to me? our grandchildren -- i am 60 years old and i have two grandchildren -- and all of our children and grandchildren are going to be uighurs for the chinese communist party. host: -- guest: you are

absolutely right. a lot of policies have caused our manufacturing to move overseas. we have made efforts over the last several years to bring those businesses back on shore, to make it more advantageous for companies to produce in the united states, to make it cost competitive, to provide incentives to bring those investments back to the united states. and we are starting to see that with the uncertainty with the whole dynamic in china, with the economy, the state of china. i think we are going to see more of that. and we need to look at more ways we can incentivize businesses to do what they do in the united states of america. you are absolutely right. so many different things, we found we have depended on china for. it should not be a surprise.

businesses responded exactly as we should have expected them to over the last couple of decades. so, we need to find more ways to bring those jobs back to the united states, bring that manufacturing back to the united states, and be more self-reliant as it relates to, whether it is all the things you have mentioned, even our energy production. we have to be able to rely on those things we can do best here in the united states. if we don't find ourselves in such a vulnerable position in the future -- host: i'm not sure if benton city, washington is in your district. guest: it absolutely is. host: susan from benton city rights us and asks, what is the fentanyl plan for the issues plaguing us? guest: that is maybe 30 miles from my home. it is good to hear from you, susan. thank you for bringing up the fentanyl crisis.

this is something plaguing communities drought the country, whether large urban areas or small urban areas like benton city. i put together a sentinel task force recently. cachet fentanyl task force recently. we are looking at different aspects of this issue, from treatment centers, law enforcement, the judicial side of things, from organizations that are working hard to keep young people from getting into illicit drugs. many different aspects of this. we are even looking to bring in -- and this was at the suggestion of a caller from one of the radio programs i was on recently -- bringing in a recovered addict from drug abuse. we are trying to find and bring all of these people together, to try to find solutions that we can utilize to bring an end to

this crisis that is plaguing so many communities. like i said, this is a problem in central washington state. i would say it is a problem throughout the country. i am hopeful that the work we can do, the solutions we come up with, can be used not only in our area, but throughout the country. thank you for bringing that up. one of the things i have been asking for is ideas from other people around the country. we don't want to reinvent any wheel here, we want to be able to take in information and ideas from people all over the country. host: what is the best way, if people have ideas that want to reach out to your office, and email address or phone number? what is the best way for people to reach your office, congressman? guest: we can certainly provide my congressional website. that is available for people to be able to contact me. i would be happy to take that kind of input. host: dan newhouse is

congressman fifth term from the fourth district in the state of washington. central washington. congressman, thanks for being on the program this morning. guest: i appreciate it. thank you for all you do through c-span to keep the american public informed about what's happening around the country. host: i appreciate that. still to come here on washington journal, we will open it up for your thoughts and comments on items in the news, things we have talked about already this morning or other political or national news items that you're looking at. the lines remain the same. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents and others, (202) 748-8002. ahead and start calling. we will get to your calls right after this. ♪ >> book tv features at leading authors discussing their latest

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stories you're following. (202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats. (202) 748-8001 is for republicans. for the independents and others, (202) 748-8002. i will start with the weather. everybody is talking about it. phoenix suffers in listerine heat. i don't know if you can see that but it is 111 degrees there. scorching phoenix at a record tuesday, 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 110 degrees in a summer of suffering echoing around much of the globe. despite the record heat, in the phoenix region it reached 116 by 2 p.m. pacific daylight, standing apart from major u.s. metropolitan areas. washingtontimes.com if you want to read more about that. trent, michigan, on open forum. good morning. caller: i had wanted to talk to your congressman.

let's begin with marjorie taylor greene. i just read that she wants us to withdraw from nato, claiming nato is an untrustworthy partner. i read the book "room where it happened," by john bolton, the trump national security advisor. he says in there that he had to explain to trump countless times by he needed to stay in nato. trump was always threatening to withdraw from nato. bolton also said recently in interviews that he believes that if trump is reelected, he will withdraw from nato. bolton was also asked what his opinion was of what putin thought of trump. this is bolton's words, not

mine. he said he believes putin thought trump was an idiot. trump claims he got the best people to work for him when he became president. but now he disparages all of them. tillerson, remember tillerson's opinion of trump? his words, "x would have more on -- expletive more on." john kelly was the chief of staff. calling trump the most broad person he'd ever met. james mattis said trump, matus got his spurs on the battlefield while trump got his in a draft deferment from a doctor. host: on to silver spring,

maryland, independent line. tyler. caller: thank you very much. i heard the senator talking and it brings to mind, where is the accountability with american businesses who after 40 plus years have been taking jobs overseas, selling property. what was it, rockefeller center? all of a sudden we wake up and are like wow, china has all of our manufacturing and everything it's like duh. what it comes down to is the psychotic capitalism of this country, of these businesses, looking to make a quick buck, underpay american workers, send jobs and industry overseas. now we are trying to get at china and show them who is boss. china owns us. it's a hard pill to swallow but we have nobody to blame except

ourselves. thank you very much. host: elizabeth, calling from pittsboro, north carolina. elizabeth, go ahead. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. two comments basically about the narrative of joe biden, who constantly says he doesn't care about wall street and he's only concerned with main street. i just want to educate democrats. the majority of trade that goes on on the street is what they call institutional trading. it's large pension funds. pensions in this country, mainly unionized people, doctors, nurses, police, firemen, teachers, etc., if they are not main street, i don't know who is . so when biden talks about not supporting wall street, people should wake up and realize he's not making any sense.

my second comment is about the supreme court. the average american knows very little about the united states constitution and they know even less about constitutional law. yet they seem to think they can go head to head with constitutional scholars, constitutional textual lists. the jurists, basically. i just find it odd, some of the comments that people make. they are so, so anti-supreme court. so judgmental of these credible jurists who have incredible knowledge. i think people ought to be a little more understanding of what they are talking about. host: elizabeth, do you think that people more these days view the supreme court through a political lens more than 10, 20, 30 years ago? caller: absolutely.

the left is using the supreme court to get what they want. absolutely. it's a shame. it's a real shame, the lack of respect for the institutions in this country. the fact that you connect sound -- insult a branch of government like the supreme court. where is the respect? talking about dignity and people being good. well he is no example at all. one more comment i want to mention about china. the stuff you had on, he didn't answer the question. alluding to the fact that china is buying up tons and tons of acres in this country. you have had people on who described this. i would like to know, i wanted to ask that particular representative, what are you doing about it? you guys in congress are you asleep at the switch? why is

china buying up tons of property in the united states? i recently heard that desantis passed a law in florida preventing china from buying property. how come the other senators and representatives are not doing anything about this? host: thank you for those points. let's go to jay in fort wayne, indiana. caller: thank you, c-span. love the show, listen to it every morning. for all the republicans calling in saying things were so much better during trump, i want to ask them a simple question. where's the health care plan that they were promised for four years? it was going to be unveiled in two weeks. we heard that for four years. where is the health care plan from the gop that they promised? they won a lot of elections on repealing and replacing obamacare. they haven't done it.

as usual, they are just the party that stands to the side and complains and yells and tweets performative patriotism that is not governing. that's what i keep going back to. the gop can't govern. host: what did you call it, performative patriotism? caller: performative patriotism, where they pretend like they are standing up for the united dates of america but really they are standing up for themselves and a twitter feed. no health care plan. host: news from the campaign trail, super pac lands a $40 million ad by backing senator tim scott. tuesday they said they were reserving $40 million in television and digital advertising from the fall through january. the largest sum booked so far for any presidential candidate in a blitz of ads that could

reshape the 2024 republican field. the group, called the trust in mission impact, said the ad by would cover iowa, new hampshire, and south alina, mr. scott's home state, the first three states that will vote in 2024 as well as national cable channels in september. to put the figure in perspective , that is more money than the super pac supporting donald j. trump and governor ron desantis of florida having spent so far combined on television in the first six months of 2023. in the beautiful white mountains of new hampshire, north conway, we say good morning to catherine on the independent line. good morning. caller: morning. i have a suggestion on how to maybe slow global warming. the entire world, all people, countries, governments, agencies and such, altogether

participating in a one day a week every week forever and ever to not travel by plane, bus, truck, train, car, boat. it would be ok to peddle your bike and walk. fire engines, emergency transportation and vehicles for the needs of the sick and for the hospitals. if it was done for all together one day each week, 52 weeks see year, and after that we could do it year after year and we might help to clean up our planet from co2, extreme heat, tornadoes, fires, animal extinctions and more. thank you. host: connecticut is next, joe is on the republican line.

joe, you are on the air. caller: good morning, bill. how are you? host: fine, thanks. caller: the gentleman who said that bolton said that putin said that trump was an idiot. i wonder what he thinks of the current president in the white house if trump was an idiot. putin never invaded ukraine when trump was president. that's about it, bill. that's about it. as long as they say that trump is racist hitler's, this and that, you let them ramble on forever, forever. this president is destroying this country in every direction. you know what the problem is? the media doesn't show anything. including you, bill. you don't show the crime, the border, anything. have a great day, bill. host: mark, tampa, florida, democrats line.

caller: you know, trump lied to his supporters over and over, telling them that the election was stolen. it's well documented that his own campaign staff told him repeatedly that he had lost the election. there's no question that he knew that. he lost all 60 court cases. all the states had certified results. he's still telling them though that the election was stolen. his incitement, it was telling them that the election is stolen and you have to fight for, you know, for me. he sent them down to the capital . his plan was to halt the counting of the votes, and was successful. he wanted mike pence to throw it back to the states and have his fake electors.

he had people forge electors certificates. his plan was to steal the election. anyone who supports that, i just can't, i can't, it's just unimaginable. and then he did nothing on january 6 on the day when he's watching on television the capital get attacked. he sat and he watched fox news television and did not call the national guard. didn't make any phone calls to get any assistance to the capitol police who work under attack. he left them there and did nothing. that's documented. that's also reported by white house counsel and his national security advisor or deputy national security advisor who was there. he is just a disgrace. host: mark, thanks for the call. live coverage today on c-span includes coming up this morning

at 11:00 eastern we hear from the u.s. congress in a joint meeting of congress in the house chamber from the israeli president, isaac herzog, coming up at 11:00 eastern. more committee coverage this afternoon. two irs whistleblowers and another witness whose identity remains confidential but may be revealed today according to news reports about the ongoing investigation into the biden family. that at 1 p.m. eastern on c-span three. it will also stream live at c-span.org and you can stream it anywhere on the go with the c-span now mobile app. john is in temple hills, independent line. good morning. john in temple hills. are you there? all right. how about shirley? georgia, democrats line. caller: hello? host: hello, surely.

you are on the air. caller: good morning. thanks for having me on the air. i'm calling, and i should know by now, i don't know why we live -- listen to the republicans who are spouting. some of that information that they give to their constituents. now we know that the election was stolen. they had to pay for their lies. to support donald trump. most of the people on fox news did not believe what they were saying but they pretend. it's really sad to know that after all the things we have seen with our former president, people are still saying that he was a victim. a victim of the deep state and things like that. i'm watching on my local

networks, donald trump with a plan, expanding presidential power in the government if voters return him to the white house. reshaping the structure of the executive branch. in his hands. think about who says this. everything he touches, all the people around him, they go to jail for his crimes, but they never go to jail. in his hands. can you imagine? our democracy would be unheard of in his hands. the man is always headed towards authoritarianism. he really likes authoritarian. the thing is, with putin, if donald trump had been in the administration, putin already knew that he had gotten rid of

ukraine. donald trump talked about it when he was in office, talking about how the nato countries, we need to get rid of them. it's what putin wanted. imagine how donald trump would allow putin would destroy europe. right now he probably would have been done. host: republican line is next. jerry in broadway, virginia. welcome. caller: first off i would like to say that if the -- they indict donald trump for january 6, they will be doing him a huge favor. it will give the attorneys the opportunity to subpoena nancy pelosi's phone records and emails in the weeks leading up to january 6. they will finally learn the

truth from nancy pelosi and the fbi. all the evidence i have seen points to nancy pelosi. host: it's about 10 more minutes left in the open forum segment here. trump not joining debate would be a mistake, according to rnc chairwoman. the rnc chair says that donald trump, front runner in the gop presidential race would be making a mistake if he opts out of the upcoming debate. "i think it is a mistake to not do the debate that is up to him and his campaign." politico saying trump threw cold water on the idea of taking the debate stage in milwaukee, citing his large lead in the polls over the other republican presidential candidates. helena, georgia. roy. roy is that helen or helena?

caller: i'm in helena, thanks. i will just say, on that first credit caller talking about health care, you know, being a true can promise. he just couldn't get it through because obamacare is so heavily corrupted into the insurance racket, the republicans couldn't get anything past. second thing i wanted to say was the judicial system should be regulated by the, you know, the best constitutionalists we can find instead of politicized like it is. trump, the whole trump thing, everything he has set so far,

he's been right. so we will see him again in 2024. host: all right. from the gambrills, valerie, democratic caller. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm also responding to that caller about gop health care where is it. i could stand corrected but i thought there was a package, a new health care plan and john mccain voted it down. and it can't be brought up again now because of the majority in control of the senate today. i hope that changes in the future so that it can be brought up again. it was a good plan. i get all my news from c-span. thank you very much. host: mike here on open forum from paducah, kentucky.

caller: calling wondering why everyone is so worried about donald trump. look at the country right now. see what kind of shape we are in and how everything is going, you know? i was watching cnn yesterday and they were following a special counsel to a subway shop and they called that significant news. i don't understand that. why is that significant news? the guy, the special counsel for the trump trial or you know depositions and everything, he's going to go eat a sub sandwich. how is that newsworthy? i don't understand. host: did they try to explain why it was newsworthy to follow him? john? did they say why it was newsworthy? we lost the caller there. charlotte, north carolina. democrats line. john is in charlotte. caller: it goes like this.

my grandpa's, [inaudible] u.s. marshals. you know? that's political espionage. [indiscernible] host: you are feeding back there a little bit. the republican line is next. john, florida, go ahead. caller: am i on? host: go ahead. caller: convoluted, there. all of these democratic callers think that donald trump is lying about a stolen election. the hunter biden laptop and the squelching of the information by the fbi and cia is election interference and it happened during the 2020 election, another example of how the election was stolen.

your callers are eating cnn reporting. c-span is mostly, all you guys are democrats. we can tell y'all liberals. note republicans or conservatives on the c-span team, is there? host: appreciate the call, john. this is from the associated press headline, trump letter suggesting the probe zeroing in. lost that, trying to bring back on the screen for you. next we go to florida to hear from fred on the democrats line. fred, hello. caller: thanks for letting me on. i'm scared to death to be a registered democrat if donald trump gets into office. i don't know why you guys are not letting it out. democracy is dead. trump is killing it. i don't know what planet these republicans are living on, calling in.

i watch this all the time. i have studied trump since 87. he's a grifter, always been a grifter. why he's allowed to walk around as a national security threat is beyond me. another thing i want to ask about, these listeners are not even paying attention. where is the $500 billion that he and steve mnuchin took during the cares act back in 2020? no one is asking about that. money is the only thing that will make someone like kevin mccarthy turn around the way that he did on trump's side. everything the republicans, and i watch every day from the house of representatives, how are they allowed to get up there and stoke propaganda and tell lies? host: here is a part of the associated press story on the investigation into january 6 the doj investigation. a target letter sent to donald

trump suggests the department in an effort to overturn the 2020 election, the zero in on him after a year of interviews with top a and state officials across the country, writing that federal prosecutors cast a wide net, asking listeners in recent months about a chaotic meeting that the -- included lawyers involved in a plan to block the transfer of power. they have discussed with witnesses schemes by trump associates to enlist fake electors in battleground states won by joe biden and interviewed campaignicials who faced a pressure campaign in the days before the riot. kingsport, tennessee is next. independent line, open forum. nick, go ahead. caller: what are the republicans going to do when it was brought

to light that the cocaine was blessed by a republican operative to make it all look bad. thank you. host: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, go ahead, kathy. caller: i just want to make a quick comment about all of the indictments. i'm just so tired of having them , as soon as something comes up, when he is in the polls, they get another indictment. it's starting to really cast a negative view of the democrats and i've been a democrat for like 60 years. that's just my common. i'm tired of these indictments. from russia, russia, russia, which proved to be nothing. the durham report. no one is talking about those reports and i feel as though it's starting to get to be too

much for me to be a democrat. thank you. host: that will about do it for calls on the program this morning. thanks for joining us. we are back tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern and we hope you are as well. until then, we hope you make the best of your day and enjoy it. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] ♪ >> a healthy democracy doesn't just look like this. it looks like this. where americans can see democracy at work. when citizens are truly informed, our republic thrives. get informed straight from the source on c-span. unfiltered, unbiased,

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