beginning at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span two. >> sunday night on c-span's q&a, newsmax chief white's house -- chief white house correspondent max rosen, author of the books glia, talks about antonin scalia . >> he recoiled from the excesses of the student antiwar movement of the late 1960's. all that shaped him in ways that made him a better judge and justice. you cannot understand how he got to be justice scalia without understanding his academic career. >> james rosen with his book scalia on c-span's q&a.

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into the biden family and military aid deployed to help with wildfire response. those are a few top stories this week. what is your top story of the week? you to share your thoughts on our phone lines. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. you can text us at 202-748-8003. include your first name and city, state. we are on social media, facebook.com/c-span. welcome to "washington journal" where we start with the wildfires and tragedy unfolding in hawaii. here is the associated press. authorities update death toll working to identify bodies. it says that maui county confirmed thursday night the number of deaths increase to 55.

hawaii democratic senator was in hawaii and spoke about the damage done by the fires and is asking for federal assistance. [video clip] >> this is truly a all hands on deck situation and our people here who have not slept at all as they watch what is happening on maui. the lieutenant governor has mentioned and i thank her early leadership bringing all of us together and the governor who will land in hawaii couple of hours. we are all pulling together and 21st because i got this morning was from secretary mayorkas who assured me that they stand ready to do whatever they can to provide support. i reach out to the sba administrator because the businesses that have been devastated by these fires, i

hope many of them will want to come back and get back to business and they will need the sba to provide the loans and other support. i have been getting phone calls from supporters from both the u.s. house and senate including chuck schumer, our majority leader, who has said to our entire delegation we stand ready. please note every effort will be made to bring the federal resources. host: that was the senator of hawaii. you can see at the end of that portion images of the devastation. here is the front page of usa today with a picture, the headline says national treasure, then ruin. it was that quick. as the picture of a 200 year old church in lahaina, hawaii.

that congregation celebrated their 200 anniversary three months ago. in washington post, at the syllable and fire scorched rally. the article says wildfire spanned by wind has toys toying communities for a second time in five years. dozens are dead in this fire. the historic town has been all but leveled. activists say that those of factors heightened fire risk and can trigger more disasters of action is not taken. factors include spread of flammable not native grasses and a failure to manage the vegetation and harden communities against fire. in addition, changes in climate feeling stronger anger change that may contribute to conditions in hawaii. president biden discussed efforts to assist those in maui. [video clip]

>> we just approved a major declaration for hawaii which will get aid into the hands of people desperate who need the help now. they have lost, and will has lost a a loved one, whose home is been destroyed will get help immediately and i direct that research -- the emergency personnel working at risking their lives. i just got off the phone with the governor this morning. i let him know i will make sure the state has everything it needs for federal government to recover. the fema administrator will be in maui tomorrow and i directed her to streamline any process with request for help and survivors which therefore federal assistant without delay. fema is assisting disaster

personnel and they will help survivors to get access to federal assistance. anybody who wants to know out there were to go, this is televised, they can go to disaster assistance.gov. disaster assistance.gov. to learn if you're eligible for assistance. i've ordered all federal assets on the island including u.s. coast guard, navy third fleet and u.s. army to assist local emergency response crews along with the hawaiian national guard. we are working as possible to fight the fires and evacuate the residents and tourists. host: we are taking your calls on the top story of the week, what you thought was the top story, and regarding public policy -- the hawaii fire here's the washington examiner. by this is military aid to help

with response. since the 34 hours, president biden ordered military aid to be sent to hawaii. white house issued a statement saying all available federal assets are being deployed to help quench the fire, conduct search and rescue, and evacuate hawaiian citizens. in other news, i want to share with you, "politico" and the headline is this, special council proposes january 2, 2020 for trial for trump on election charges. the aggressive timeline to put the alleged interference case first on trumped lists of upcoming criminal trials. the article says this, special council jackson is seeking to put donald trump on trial january 2, 2024 less than five months away on charges related to his bed to subvert the come to an election. the timeline will put the trial

first on trumps crowded calendar of criminal proceedings and guaranteed excessive airing of the e allegations against him just before republican primary voters head to the polls. also from "politico" is this news, james comer rolled out a new memo detailing foreign payments to the biden family members as part of a sprawling investigation. but the white house accuse the kentucky republican of moving the goalpost over the lack of direct payments to joe biden. it says the kentucky republican release a memo wednesday outlining the findings and so far on payments made from foreign entities or individuals in russia, ukraine, and pakistan to biden family members and in total according to the memo house identified -- has identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources

or their associates. it says -- from the memo, president biden defenders report a weak defense by setting the committee must show payments directly to the president to show corruption. it says this is a hollow claim, no other market will be afforded if the federal member accepted foreign payments or bribes. it says this, the disclosure immediately caught the intention of the white house and house democrats who accuse the kentucky republican a movie the goalposts for investigation republicans characterize -- moving the goalposts of investigation republicans characterize about joe biden. democrat says committee republicans release information on financial transaction that did not involve the president.

if you would likeif you would lt memo i would encourage you to do that. it is at oversight. house. above. -- oversight.house.gov. regarding the memo i have a portion of what james comer said oh newsmax. [video clip] host: i think we have that available? >> it confirms the president of the united states has been lying to the american people for years about involvement and family shady business dealings. we believe every person who wired the by this money for services we have no idea what they were for that joe biden in some form or fashion with every single one them even sitting down for lengthy dinners with the people. all of these people who sent the brightest millions of dollars are people who are in trouble is

he some country around the world , usually their own country. they are all bad people. they are bad actors. all bad people. they are bad actors. and they are from adversarial countries from u.s. they all it needed something from the federal government. it is becoming more clear every day. the president's son was out front but jill biden was working behind the scenes communicating with every single one of these shady characters. >> you look at the money trail and i wonder what some of these people from foreign countries, why were they paying the biden grandchildren? >> i think that is more a part of the money laundering scheme per unit six different banks, major banks in america accuse the bidens of money laundering. look at the payments we disclose, these payments would

always go through one or two shell companies first. look at the money that went to hunter biden for the car, the exact amount wired from the oligarch to a shell company at the shell company purchased the car. never received the money directly. they always put it through a shell company first. that is called money laundering. we set up shell companies for sole purpose of money laundering, that is racketeering. number of crimes the family has committed continues to grow on the weekly basis but the one thing that is most important to us is that jill biden knew who his family -- joe biden knew who his family was receiving millions of dollars from. host: we would like to hear what you think is the top story of this week. inflation numbers came out yesterday. here is the wall street journal.

kula july inflation of this storage of fed pause on race. price pressure continue pulling. fresh inflation figures show that leaders hearing the federal reserve from -- deterring the federal reserve from raising rates in september. a similar price index, measure of goods and services and prices across the economy, rose a mild 0.2% in july, the same as in june. core prices which excludes volatile food and energy categories also increase just 0.2 percent in both months, extending a broader slow down in price pressures. the figures led to 3.2 percent annual inflation in july, up 53% in june. annual core inflation down to four point 7% in july from june's 4.8%. this is an interview on the new cpi numbers with san francisco fed president.

she discussed the work if it has to do in stabilizing the economy. [video clip] >> i do know that there's a lot more information coming in between now and our next meeting and certainly between now and the year and i use the word information as to the data because -- i had an early part of your program that assessment with the fed looks only at headline whether that is inflation or labor market or housing prices, we are actually looking deeply within the data and asking questions like what our new rents doing, what would people feel when they released their first property, what do my contacts say if they will hire workers next year or cooling-off, how much price pressure to people feel when they are out in the marketplace. those are all the information sets we have and to being data depend as of fed me you take that information in and to use it to project what you think will happen.

as i look at that, i see slowing in the economy, but not there yet. that's what my contacts across the district tell me whether i am in alaska, hawaii, california, arizona. i hear the same thing. yes, the economy slowing down. it feels less frantic but it is still hard to find workers. if you are a worker, it is still hard to afford things. it is not really quite in balance and that is the work we continue to do as a fed. how we do that whether we raise another time or held rates steady, those are yet to be determined. it would be premature to project what i think would happen because there's a lot of information coming in between now and our next meeting. host: we go to your films now. kamil in montana, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. my story of the week is climate

change. what happen in mably, my birth giver was there -- in maui, my birth giver it was in the town and they're experiencing drought they have all that moisture created but they are drought. it should be a book of call that climate change is real. we should realize climate change is bad. it is not up to us as normal people to it, it is the corporations. they like to say we the people should have to do it read should be the corporations first and then as. then there banana republics, they have banana -- there killing bananas and we are losing species of fruit and vegetables. climate change will affect everything and call me, and this if you have to, but i think this radical stuff they could do. we have boomers who are just going to die off so they do not

care about what is going to happen because they're not going to have to experience that. we have people who fell in the hospital or had to go to a hospital. host: how old are you? caller: i am 33. anyone who is around my age, run for office because we have the boomers in there they're not doing anything. we have good people like bernie sanders but he is getting up there and we do not have a lot of young people to help and we need more young people to get out there and run for office because that is where the change will happen. we get our ideas out there because i'm tired of seeing the order people not understanding we have to do this. they do not care about our future. host: chris in maine, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to go back to the james comer investigation of the biden crime family. every time a republican because

in i would love for you to ask them what crime was committed and ask them, a bunch of money went to members of the family, what policy did jill biden enact , do or engage in as a result of money going to the family members. i would love for you to ask them this, voucher discussion it was in the white house working on the middle east he received $1 billion loan from cutter at a time cutter was under blockade by other middle eastern nations oddly just coincidently i am certain blockade was lifted just before kushner got $1 billion to bail out his his property which was completely dying. he only had about 50% of the money needed to cover the loans. six months after leaving the white house where he was an official working for the people, got $2 billion from the saudi arabians. then this year in march he got another few hundred million from

cutter and uae. republicans are worried about a few million that went to some biden family members? biden has been in politics his entire life so it is no big surprises his family will play off of his name. i would love for you to ask those questions. whenever someone says biden family, -- biden crime family, please tell us what crime that was committed and what policies changed from money that went not to him but his family. host: james in virginia. caller: the pact act. refuse treatment after age 18. the gentleman that just the fbi just killed, they do in the check to see if you might be

involved with the pact act? being screwed over? it would be something to check on. host: did you apply for benefits? james is gone. john in detroit, independent. good morning. caller: hello. top story to me is this military coup in niger. i guess they are trying to kick out the french military. they got rid of their old president and one of our own diplomats victoria nuland, deputy secretary of state acting, think joe biden promoted her but she visited niger and she met with the military people who overthrew their president last week and i guess they did

not really give her a warm reception and our country which are aid but now we are -- withdrew aid but now secretary blinken approves invasion by other west african country so that is what i'm looking at. host: here is the associated press on that situation in niger. the headline is western officials, want date killed the post president of any military intervention. it says they told top u.s. diplomat that they would show the post president if neighboring countries attempted any military intervention to restore his role. they spoke to the ap shortly before the western blot said it had directed the deployment of a standby force to restore democracy. zach is next.

harrisburg, pennsylvania. mcgrath. -- democrat. caller: thank you for taking my call. when it comes to the crime family, we got to -- a supreme court justice who has been running around for 30 years taken money. my thing is biden's plans through congress is what we should be talking about. we should talk about the fact that most of the money of these bills will go to red states because they are the poorest. as a reason why they are the poorest. there politician skim and lie to them. while we do not extend medicare and you're in texas or alabama? but you got close to 4 million people living in poverty.

then when biden put these policies in place, he's thinking about these people. i am old enough to remember that what got dr. king killed was not that -- was when he decided he was going to get to mississippi and deal with the poor white people. he was going to bring hope to them also. that is what got king killed. to this day, these people living in obscurity. most of them do not have teeth and how social security say government this coming government that did not take away my social security not even knowing social security is from the government or food programs for children in the morning who may be their only mill of the morning. yet they are supposed to learn, go through a whole day of school on one meal. get off the biden crime crap

because everybody knows trump's family has made more money in than anyone else. host: zach mentioned the supporting -- supreme court about the justices. the public at with this report fast thomases vacations, other billionaires who has treated the supreme court justice to luxury travel. denise in indiana. caller: good morning. i have two points. i do not understand why a republican -- he is not a nominee but he is running for the republican nomination, asa hutchinson, has not beginning a lot of time on air. i think he has a lot of energy. his wife is very good speaker. she is eloquent in getting

points across but the policies -- about what their policies would be. i for the both democrat and republican. i did not understand how republicans can stand behind donald trump when -- i admit i have never liked him but i did get him a chance and he proved everyone right. he said barack obama in the past should visit the families of the two people that died of a bollard. what about the million people -- two people that died of ebola. what about the million people who died from covid during his watch? that the evidence come out and read the constitution. do they not know how to read,

comprehend? it is not about being republican or democrat. it is not patriotic to the country and knowing with the constitution says and honoring it. host: speak at the former president, here is newsweek that headline this, trump pieces debate announcement. says former president donald trump says he has made a decision regarding his precipitation dust dissipation in the debate and will announce it next week. the debate happens in about two weeks he could take a look. the interview with newsmax he mentions that. >> i put a poll up on twitter that at least two thirds of the people do not want you to do the debate because they feel it could be a set up. are you concerned? >> when you're at 75, 80% and other guys at 0%, 1%. you do say what is the upside?

will i go up one point but they could go up, they are not dumb people. there senators. there are governors. i think you are good people. i have a problem with the debate. i would not sign a pledge. there are people on there i would not have had somebody i would endorse so they want you to sign a pledge but i can name three or four people i would not support for president. there is a problem. >> can i ask? >> no, i do not want to do that, but there are people there, a lot of people would not endorse. they're not going to go anywhere. they're not going to get it. >> it is one of the requirements so you will not sign it? >> i have three or four people -- who would put these people as president -- europe at these

people as president? -- did you ever put these people as president? she is terrific. she has been a fantastic job. -- are you going to run, she said no. because nobody can beat trump. she said it. she is saying i hope the truth. why would i run because no one can beat trump. no -- these people are wasting their time. host: here are some of the things we covered this week. the audio issue one vote and abortion politics. inflation numbers came out yesterday. there are 3.2% since last july. house oversight committee releases memo on payments to the biden family and the ongoing fires in maui that i to be contained.

elaine from texas, democrat. hi, elaine. caller: i've been watching since 1979 and i wonder why is that biden is always the topic of the conversation. why not ivanka and jarrett with the money they made and was not qualified to be in white house? if there have been obama's growth they would have run them out. -- obama's girls, they would have run them out. host: dawn is a republican in california. caller: good morning. i love your show. what is so good about you guys, you that them speak their opinions even though their opinions can be full of -- especially this information.

i've been a long time republican. my parents, my family big republicans but i am tired -- i do not vote for trump in 2020 because i'm tired of the lies and someone out there who admits he is a pathological liar but the big think i am tired of us republican saying where the party of lincoln. we look at history, this office always been democrats. -- the south has always been the democrats. people ronald reagan started switching. the whole south democrat and now they claim the republicans but they are not. as far as -- the media keeps promoting donald trump whether he is a credible or not.

you have stations like newsmax who -- they said they believe the election was the land they do not believe i didn't was the true president. this is supposed to be -- they said they believed election was stolen and they do not believe i didn't the true president. this supposed to be a new site. the media -- host: you are a republican? caller: yes. host: did you vote for trump the last election? caller: no. i cannot vote for someone who is committed to a criminal. he was charged as a slumlord. he is just not a -- i followed him since the 1970's. host: will you support in the

next presidential election? caller: the one i would like to see is kissinger. he was only -- on the january 6 committee. i really like that guy. i wish he was running. chris christie is the only one i really support because he is standing up and speaking the truth and republicans chose do not want to look at the truth. i am really sorry that my party has gone the deep rabbit hole with the liar with it. host: donald trump is set to attend the iowa state fair saturday with an entourage of guests simply meant to get under the skin and the former president's top rival in gop

primary. the nine photo republicans who snubbed desantis by endorsingru for president. starting monday we will have a coverage of this year's iowa state fair gop presidentia candidates the governor of north dakota and miami mayor speak while one with the state's governor kim reynolds about their campaigns and policy platforms that is coming up monday starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, and online at c-span. or we will hear from other candat in prime time throughout the week. including mike pence, nikki haley, and ron desantis. david is next. in georgia, good morning. caller: i never call it where you are on and i want to welcome you to the new c-span family.

host: thank you. caller: the first discussion is about affirmative action and the discussion that it opened up white privilege like the legacy people. i appreciate the people like the asians and hispanics and indian people who mostly benefited from it who are being honest about it. the think about that discussion is ages are looking at themselves that -- bringing up the i appreciate them being honest about like the family structure. this other think with the water front a brawl in alabama. also of discussion about white privilege. how whites are starting to tell you we are sick and hard of the stop.

you have white people all over it now turn in their guns and getting folding chairs now. last one let's do a discussion on c-span about what happened with kari irving. that was a very good topic to talk about. god's people, indigenous, black people of africa and middle east . there was no one else so that i sleep pick let's talk about that -- there was no one else to pick so let's talk about that. host: dennis in ohio, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. my number one issue was just that she one that failed -- was just that, issue one that

failed. the majority of the vote came from the no vote, northeast ohio and it is a big deal because that's the other think happy to hear in november because we have an abortion issue they'll be on the ballot and secondly, recreational marijuana. i'm not too concerned about that. i am concerned about giving woman their bodily autonomy back. i was raised catholic. i am against abortions. i'm also against the idea of forcing my opinion on a woman and whatever choice she needs to make for her life. that is the number one thing. host: let's take a look at senator sharon brown who was on msnbc and talked about that ohio issue. [video clip] >> this is four times the turnout the secretary of state predicted and the race was overwhelming.

it was clearly about a rejection of the power grab politicians in columbus were making and voters -- it was about a portion and about the corruption in columbus and power grab by state officials with a huge turnout in compelling 14 point margin. >> explain what you think happened. we are in the middle of august. it is a special election. it is a large chunk of ohio's population that came out to vote. what did democrats do to get the message out? i would think it will always be confused as to what it was about. >> they scheduled the special election august after getting rid of august special elections earlier. but they thought nobody was going to turn out.

when abortion rights was that the power grab for the future whether labor rights or voting rights or abortion rights, statehouse politicians one stick away with the power grab, the voters were also saying work together in the pack act, fentanyl, infrastructure which is what we have been doing in congress. i think voter spoke about that. you have to work together. no more one-party rule. no more power grabs and that is what i've been trying to do through my career and i think voters are saying let's work that way instead of making one political party more and more powerful. >> can you throw this forward to next year's election? what the vote on issue one might press in ohio, state training more red? >> i'm looking forward to a

couple of things, doing what we need to do, fighting again against -- fighting to keep wall street executives accountable, fighting to get infrastructure and looking to november, working with abortion rights advocates to make sure we pass in november and then we go to next year. host: we have a tweet from senator lindsey graham from last week on the subject. he said the republican approach of supporting reasonable limitations banning late-term abortions is the right approach. democrats position allowing abortion on demand to the moment of birth is extreme and will put our country in the same category as china and north korea. their pursuit this to us, more good news on the bidenomics. more devastation from climate change. what does the republican party have to offer except the chance

to saying things about people? rests, top story of the week, gouging inflation, get create gas out of control. america is suffering no matter what you hear. from susan b. anthony director for public america says this, there are many pressing legislative issues for congress that does not have the votes at the moment but that is not a reason for a strong leader to back away from the fight. this is where presidential leadership matters most. karen calling from arkansas, republican. hi, karen. caller: hi. thank you for having me. on asa hutchinson come up with you dream it was in he put all those buses and mobile homes out there but we wasted money -- on asa hutchinson, when katrina was in, he put all this buses and

mobile homes out there and we wasted money. they have not that the brains to run the country. host: jay in illinois, independent. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm not big on politics. i think most of the politicians are paid. it looks to me like donald trump luke's -- is running away with things. i travel for a living and i can tell you from going to the restaurants and stops, 90% of people i talked to are so upset with the government, they feel trump was cheated with the corruption in d.c. it seems like we are getting closer to civil war.

there are so many hot buttons out there you do not want to go into some of the places and talk about politics or politicians. it is a heated topic in the country. the only way we change this is if we put term limits on politicians first. maximum of 12 years no matter what they do. no pensions. you want to come and serve, serve, but that you do not get a pension to go back home. i think they'll be the way to do it. i know in illinois, we have a governor who is off of the rose. -- rails. we are the abortion capital of the u.s.. 22 is said we did over 2.3 million abortions. our government gives a people away like crazy. i'm not against ukrainian people but we need to put this stuff at

ballot measures. do you want to get $1 billion to this group? you want to give $1 billion to that group? it should be up to the taxpayers because there are no government-funded programs. every program the government uses as funded on the backs of the taxpayer. but they do not want to tell the truth about it. there were to say -- if we had all humanitarian needs touch, we would not have rapid drug use. we would not have homeless stats and people in this country will be taken care of first instead of sending all the money to foreigners. i think the thing that would really help the u.s. is if we had torn limits on politicians. -- term limits on all the politicians. host: earlier this week talking

about former president donald trump january 6 related indictments. it was his attorney who attended the clarify trump's request of vice president trump on january 6. >> we spoke with former president mike pence and asked about the assertions made this last week to all the president did was ask him to pause certification on january 6, 2021. he told me quote that is not what happened. your response. >> that is not what i said but that is ok. >> what is it you believe happened between the president and vice president? do you have fear of the vice president being called as a witness in the case? >> know, the vice president will be our best witness. i said the ultimate ask of vice president pence was to pause the count and allowed the states to weigh in. what i've said is consistent

with what vice president pence is saying. reason why vice president pence would be so important to the defense is the following, he agrees that john eastman who give legal advice to president trump was an esteemed legal scholar. he agrees there were election irregularities, fraud, unlawful actions at the state level. all of that will eviscerate any allegations of criminal intent on the part of president trump. but bryce -- vice president believes these issues needed to be debated on january 6. he openly called for all of these issues to be debated and objected to in january 6 proceeding. president trump believed following the advice of john eastman who is the legal scholar, these issues needed to be debated at the state level, not the federal level. there was a constitutional disagreement between vice

president pence and president trump at the bottom line is never in our country's history has those disagreements been prosecuted criminally. it is unheard of. host: marie in mississippi, democrat. caller: i want to speak on climate change but a different direction. i was listening to the gentleman from montana about a heat drought there. this has been festering in my heart for 18 years. this month 18 years ago was we saw one of the worst disasters in this country, hurricane katrina. i remember watching when they went through. those people were marked -- mocked by a lot of people around this country while they were going through what they were going through.

there were mocked by the president of this country. if it was not for the general who was there, you had military people who had ar-15's on families and children was going to shoot them if he had not stop them. sean hannity brought general manager of the walmart in the city at that time on fox news and interviewed him trying to convince that man how he needed to press charges on those people that were getting bread and food on the water. he need to press charges. the man said why would we do that, there all customers. they do anything in the stores. his people had water past their chest. i did not come of the show with the religion but the bible say god is not mocked. a man called in and said -- on

c-span and said he contacted the federal government said he had a vote at his house and said i can go and help for you to transport some of the people out there. he said they told him to state where we are and we will come to you. the men said they gave him $25,000 for his boat and it never left his house to help the people. during that time i say god is not pleased with this and every time i hereby disasters around this country that is going on, the floods, hurricanes, i think back to that because i knew in my spirit god is not pleased. george bush needs to repent to god first. host: earlier this week president biden talked about what he is calling the existential threat of climate change and what his is doing to combat it. [video clip] >> we have seen historic floods. more intense droughts,

wildfires, spreading smoking haze. thousands of miles. record temperatures affecting more than 100 million americans this summer, over 110 in phoenix for 31 straight days. extreme heat is america's number one weather-related killer. extreme heat kills more people than floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. it is threatening suit -- the farms, forests, and fisheries that so many families depend on to make a living but none of this need to be inevitable. from i started by administration, who taken an unprecedented action to combat climate crisis. last year, i saying largest climate bill in history not only in u.s., but visually the history of the world.

the biggest investment in common conservation and department of justice ever, anywhere -- climate conservation and environmental justice anywhere in the world. it is many parts. it will say working families thousands of dollars a year if they start rooftop solar and also conserve energy. it includes record $720 million for native communities to ease impact of droughts, rising sea levels, burning clean electricity to tribal homes. these measures put us on track to cut emissions in half by 2030. we are well on our way. host: that was president biden tuesday create can't sent us this. he says malley tried proves the world is on fire and we are on the verge of environmental

collapse and conservatives continue to deny and/or pretend the environment is not an issue. this is richard who says i wrote in mitch daniels in 2016 and 2020 as i could not make myself fill in the circle was auxiliary, trump, or biden. i would welcome a third choice. this is from jimmy who says the lack of concern about our national security based on open border policy by compromise president taking bribes for his family members think accounts. -- bank accounts. host: sharon in delaware. caller: good morning. i was appalled when i heard your democrat callers say trump should be shot. i don't know the fbi's listening and taking notes on this because i am quite sure there's a way to get in touch with that lady but that was really an awful thing.

as far as our country is concerned, without all the gun violence going on and family members -- with all of the gun violence going on and there be shot dead at the day and she has the nerve to talk about and hope that happens to somebody. that is horrible. we are all gods children create for her to do that is really appalling. as far as our president goes, president biden, the climate change i'm sure is one of the nine wonders he was talking about the other day. as far as he is concerned, i believe he had to drop out twice for running for president in the past because of lies he tells. we are not in a good situation here in the country and we have to keep our eyes on china, russia, and ukraine. thank you.

host: marty in washington dc, independent. caller: good morning. i talked to a number of my friends. this week the incident that occurred in alabama is one that has to be examined a little closer. for a number of black people across this country, it has been a source of pride because it goes against the narrative that for much of this country's history that black people have accepted the racism that is been thrown against them. as we saw in this incident, there were a number of folks who came to the aid of a black man who was being attacked physically by a number of white people. for a lot of us, we took a look at the incident and especially seeing the comments and things on social media, this is an incident that needs to be studied much further.

it goes against the narrative that has always in the history of the country there's always been resistance by black people to the racism we have had to endure. this is one the latest incidents and it really does it could be examined host: host: a lot further. -- it could be examined a lot further. host: from the washington post's the judge ho's hearing in trump election case. the u.s. judge overseeing prosecution for allegedly cruelly conspiring to overturn biden's election victory is set to preside in the first hearing were prosecutors and former president's this morning in d.c. trump is not excited to attend the proceeding. it has been called to resolve an early battle over limiting the former president and his defense

can potentially reveal about government evidence in the case. the dispute over proposed protective orders threatens to delay the prosecution handover of materials and the setting of a trial date with special council jack smith team as proposed for january 2. host: ben from south carolina, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i am very grateful that c-span is doing an outstanding job that they are doing. i think the dummy and down of america -- dummy inc down -- that down of america, this is what you get. this issue reminds me of the do not cause cancer argument. you have a lawyers and doctors that are being paid by the cigarette industry to promote the lie.

fossil fuel companies supports democrats and republicans so when the supreme court ushered in citizens united, corporation, that their money into the race. it is a shame. in my mind, we need to get back to primary education. it is ok to lie. it is acceptable you have a president that tells 40,000 lies for a period over four year term. we need to get back to teaching civics so we can have an informed electorate. right now we do not. i find ironic the colors of the two parties, red and blue, reminds me of the bloods and the crips and that's what we got, gang warfare. if you are a republican, you

have to say biden is not doing a good job. we need to get back to education . host: we got it. ray, a republican in kentucky. good morning. caller: good morning. i hear everyone calling. this president talking about climate change and global warming. has any people listen to look up the news about the volcanoes last january they erupted under the water and the ocean? they said it would change the climate temperature for the next five years at least. i've not heard anybody mention that at all. where do you get your news