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♪ host: good morning and welcome to "washington journal" as the summer slowly shifts towards fall in the new school season begins, the national news cycle seems to be picking up in both the speed and intensity. in just a week, we had an an -- ex-president getting arrested. the speaker of the house talking impeachment proceedings against the current president, talk of a government shutdown, and much more. that is just in the continental united states. plenty of national and state level news for us to talk about today. our question for you is what was your top news story of the week? we will open up our regular

lines for conversations. that means republicans we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8001. democrats, your number is (202) 748-8000. independents, you can call (202) 748-8002. keep in mind you can always text us at (202) 748-8003 and we are always reading on social media on facebook and facebook.com/cspan, on x at x@cspanwj and you can follow us on instagram at x@cspanwj . it was a crazy week in the news and here are the top stories that we have been looking at this week. we want to hear what your top story is but here are some of top stories we have been looking at this week. the story everyone has been talking about is former president donald trump was arrested at the fulton county jail in georgia.

then of course you h the republican candidate from the gop nominationor president debating in milwaukeeithout former president trump being there. the wagner group leader for gosh was killed in a russian plane crash. a g ory from overseas. the south carolina highest court, supreme court upheld a six week board should ban. -- abortion ban. in the house speaker kevin mccarthy says the gop cou launch impeachment inquiries into current psident joe biden the next two months, and of course, the house freedom caucus rolls t e demands to avoid an upcoming government shutdown. but of course, the big story this week has been the arrest of former president trump and 18 of his allies in an atlanta courtroom.

the atlanta constitution journal has a story on this this morning and i will read the first couple of paragraphs you. it took more than 73 hours stretched across four days but by friday, all 19 defendants charged with trying to overflow -- overthrow the 2020 election in georgia have been booked and processed at the fulton county jail. some arrived under cover of darkness. others strolled out and spoke to reporters. only one touchdown in atlanta on a plane emblazoned with his own name was granted a police escort to the jail on rice street. it took authorities less than 30 minutes to book donald trump but what resulted was a mugshot bound for the history books, the first ever snapped of a former u.s. president. once again, that is coming from the atlantic constitution journal with president trump and 18 other of his allies surrendering to face charges of trying to affect the 2020

election in georgia. president trump himself actually came out and spoke to reporters at -- before leaving georgia on thursday night. we will bring you what former president trump said in his brief statement to reporters. here's what he said. mr. trump: thank you very much for being here. i really believe this is a very sad day for america and should have never happened. if you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election. i believe it was a rigged election, stolen election, and i should have every right to do that. you have many people give them watching over the years to do the same thing whether hillary clinton or stacey abrams or many others. when you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to otherwise you will have dishonest elections. what has taken place here is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong and everybody knows it's. i have never had such support and that goes for the other ones

too. what they are doing is election interference and trying to interfere with an election. there has never been anything like it in our country before. this is their way of campaigning. this is one instance but you have three other instances. it is election interference. so i wanted to thank you for being here. we did nothing wrong at all, and we have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest that we think is very dishonest. so thank you all very much and i will see you very soon. thank you very much. >> can you pardon yourself? host: let's go to the phone lines and start with marissa calling from lantana -- montana on the democrat line. caller: good morning c-span. i am so grateful for c-span and i watch you guys every morning. you are shining light in the darkness heading us towards democracy and a better union. i've got a question for all the republicans out there in the united states of america that

can vote. i have one question for you and i hope you answer it. would you leave donald trump alone in a room with your wife? would you leave him alone with your daughter, your sister, would you trust this man alone? please answer that question. i just want to know if you would leave him alone with a female member of your family. could you all please do similar reporting on animal-rights things. thank you. that's all i have. host: let's talk to robert calling from clearwater, florida on the republican line. robert, good morning. caller: i think i watch the debate and i think that ron descent is -- ron desantis and nikki haley will won the election. host: who was the second name? caller: ronnie santos would win the election because he is a military guy and we are at war

with putin and is the only one who can settle it. host: do you think that should be a ticket that they should be on together for those of the the last two standing when it comes time for republicans to choose? caller: yes i do think that. host: let's go to beth from washington state and independent line. good morning. caller: high there, one and all. i appreciate the c-span vehicle and am wondering if it might be useful for people to recognize that the top story being trump's arrest or whatever it was down there in atlanta, and this is what is unique about it is the fact that this is not a state d.a.. this is nothing but a county da

was prosecuting the president or the ex-president, however you want to put it. this is going to open up first prosecutions across the country by this president alone. i don't have any respect for willis. she is really looking for a start for her to move up into the justice department. by the department of justice and i am very disappointed in how this is being handled and how happy the democrats are because this is going to bite them i can assure you that there'd now every little prosecutor and d.a. can sue the ex-president. this is not going to go well and we need to recognize how unusual this is and i am very disappointed. host: all right, well, current

president joe biden actually came out yesterday and spoke briefly with reporters during his trip to lake tahoe about several of the issues in the news today. here's what president biden had to say. >> mr. president, are you concerned about a potential uaw strike, sir? mr. biden: obviously i am concerned. i think the jobs that are being displaced and be replaced with new jobs and they should go to the uaw members, and the salary should be commensurate. >> have you seen the mugshot yet? mr. biden: i did see it on television. >> what did you think?

mr. biden: handsome guy. >> what brought down the airplane of prigozhin? mr. biden: i'm not at liberty to speak to that but you and i talked about it as you know. i surprised by what happened. i don't have anything to say about that. >> can you say anything about [inaudible] ? mr. biden: i signed up this morning on a proposal to present to the congress a request for additional funding for new vaccines that are necessary and work. tentatively, it is recommended that everybody get it matter whether they got it before. host: once again, we want to

know what you think is the top story of the week and what did you think about the story? let's go back to the phone lines and talk about sandy from columbus ohio on the democrat line. caller: thank you for taking my call. the top story is the booking in atlanta. and afterwards. trump speaks on things that are still telling people that the election was stolen. it was not stolen. and his comments afterwards, it was not stolen because basically, what happened was his mouth and needs energize people to come out like they never did before. that was in 2020 and some people had never voted and some people had not voted in a long time. celebrities had not even voted but it was his mouth and what he did is why he lost the election.

it was never stolen, and i hear that on this, your station at least once or twice a week, and i just wanted to say that because he stood up there after being booked talked about telling the lie that he is allowed to challenge. will yeah, you challenge through the court. as to the previous lady talking about the prosecutor, she is only doing her job and she is supposed to do it because he did this in fulton county. and that is why she should prosecute. thank you and have a good day. host: let's talk to charlie who was calling from warren, massachusetts on the republican line. charlie, good morning. caller: good morning. biggest problem this week and for the past two years is joe biden. he is not up for the job. he is on vacation more than he

works, and to the ladies in montana, she does not trust trump with children. how about joe biden sniffing girls hairs, nibbling on that little girl there a couple of weeks ago? swimming naked in front of secret service women super -- secret service agents. the guy is a -- host: let's go to frank calling from martin, texas on the republican line. frank, good morning. caller: yes sir, i would like to say hillary clinton, she challenge the 2016 election, but that was a lie. she had a right to that. al gore, he challenged the 2001 election, he had a right to do that. stacey abrams, all these people

are democrats. stacey abrams, she challenge the election just a few years ago, and she had a right to do that. she did not do anything illegal. it was not anything illegal. that is her right to challenge it, but donald trump, if he challenges an election, he gets prosecuted by the corrupt department of justice by merrick garland democrats. he gets conservatives get prosecuted while democrats walk free. hillary clinton did not do anything illegal as far as challenging the election, she didn't. al gore did not do nothing illegal by challenging the election. stacey abrams didn't do anything illegal, and donald trump didn't do anything illegal by challenging an election. they all thought they won and he thinks he won. but yet, he gets prosecuted and

that's what strong -- what wrong, the reason the justice the sump is being weaponize. host: all right, what one of the other big topics that happened this week was the first republican presidential debate as several republicans came together and talk about what they would do if they became president and talked about why they were the best person to become president. politico has a story this morning about it, and i want to bring -- read a couple of paragraphs to you from the political story. fox news drew 12.8 one million viewers during the first republican presidential debate the network announce. the viewership number from wednesday night reflex interest in gop candidates other than the current front-runner, former president donald trump but do not outpace the first gop debate in august 2015 during trump's first run for the white house.

trump, who did not attend wednesday's debate, a on former fox news host tucker carlson show on x, the platform formerly known as twitter. trump on truth social called the interview a blockbuster. wednesday night's debate saw over 2.8 one million viewers in the 25-54 age bracket. the debate was also the highest rated nonsports cable telecast of the year in total viewers, overtaking paramount's yellowstone which had 8.2 one million viewers, according to fox news. now, during the debate, the candidates were asked if they would support former president donald trump as the parties nominee even if he was convicted of a crime and when asked, six of the eight candidates raise their hands with only chris christie and former arkansas governor also hutchison indicating they would not support the former president again. here's a bit of what chris

christie said afterwards. >> whether or not you believe that criminal charges are right or wrong, the right -- the conduct is beneath the office of president of the united states. and, you know, this is the great thing about this country. booing is allowed but it does not change the truth. it doesn't change the truth. host: let's see what some of our social media followers are saying was their top story of the week. here's one post that says my top story is governor mark healy abusing massachusetts right to shelter law to house when he 1000 illegal aliens specially when we cannot provide shelter to homeless veterans. greetings from the people's republic. here's a text that says instead

of trying to impeach president biden with no evidence, they should worry about shutting down the government. here's a post from facebook that says president trump refusing to give up the fight against the political establishment. it looks like he will only grow in strength and be the nominee for the working class. another facebook post that says more than 1100 people in hawaii are missing, over 150 dead. that is basically hurricane katrina level disaster and has received minuscule news coverage in comparison. in one last post, an ex-president rep -- weaponizing has mugshot is another abuse of power. locke who up now? we want to know what youto news story of the week was and we want to know what you thought about that new sto. l's go back to the phone lines and talk to bill was calling from pennsylvania on the democratic line. good morning. caller: i would just like to

make a statement the maga republicans cannot face up to thet that humpty dumpty trump the fell off the wall and had a great fall and the king has been dethroned. this is a democracy. not taking -- not a king. host: ok let's go to bonnie calling from prospect, connecticut on the republican line. good morning. caller: i just wanted to say that people are really mistaken if they believe that more people in this country voted for joe biden then president obama. i mean, i don't understand. this man has no pizzazz.

he is half dead, and i would trust trump in with my daughter or sister. i'm fine with that. joe biden swim naked took showers with his daughter. i mean come on. let's be realistic. let's talk the truth here. host: all right, let us go to georgia was calling from louisiana on the democratic line. the morning. caller: good morning. my top story was trump. for some reason, we have a problem with telling the truth. we have a problem with bad behavior, but we got to remember god is in control. we've got is happening around us that we need to take care of instead of worrying about this man who has caused all kinds of heartache for everyone.

all i'm saying is should not bear forwardness -- bear false witness against our neighbor. if you don't get yourself, you don't talk about it. just remember god is going to judge you personally. he is not going to judge donald trump. he is going to judge you for carrying that messages. host: all right, let us go to stephanie who is calling from montclair, new jersey on the democratic line. stephanie, good morning. caller: good morning jesse. i just want to say that i don't understand people who say that joe biden is weak and sleepy and does not. and this and that. the election was not stolen. if it were stolen, it was trump trying to steal it.

the people that they claim, ok, gore and clinton and abrams, they didn't go through all that we went through with trump as far as the election was concerned. i just don't get it. [laughter] it just really, trump is a liar. he admitted to people on his staff that joe biden won the election but he did not want anybody to know that. have a good day. host: let's talk to lori was calling from halifax, pennsylvania on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. so much to say and i want to sum it up. america is living a clown show

these last several years. biden is a clown, an actor and has a path prescription including his family. president trump was targeted since the very day he came down that escalator in 2016. it has been thing after thing with indictments being the latest attempting to bring down and in ruining his 2024 presidential run. this is politically motivated as president trump stated into is election interference. he takes it all graciously. anyone who does not understand that the 2020 election was rigged, you are going to be in for a rude awakening because this information will come to fruition, trust me. president trump is the best u.s. president we ever had to walk the face of this earth and he is the only one capable of stating america again. he did it once and he will do it again. in fact, he never walked away and the more the deep state comes after him the stronger he becomes in the higher his poll numbers become. it is time to wake up america.

host: let's go to susan who is calling from longmont colorado on the independent line. susan, good morning. caller: hello, how are you today? host: just fine. go ahead, susan. caller: ok i'm calling about a story that i think is brewing right now and could boil over and it concerns trump's claims were insinuations that it is his right to free speech that is being violated. but i think that is because the courts have ordered him to refrain from intimidating or threatening jurors or current prosecutors and judges. and he simply refuses to stop. so, when he finally is gagged or receives a gag order people will start streaming -- screaming that has first amendment rights are being violated. however what is going to happen

is he will be treated like a toddler who is given a timeout because he refuses to obey. and that's my comment this morning. thank you. host: well, while the republican presidential candidates were debating on stage, former president donald trump was doing an interview with former fox news host tucker carlson on x. some of the comments the president -- former resident trump made were about what is going on in ukraine where he says that he were still in office, the war between ukraine and russia would have never happened. here's what former president trump said on the issue of ukraine with tucker carlson on x. mr. trump: he is supposed to be getting us out of that horrible, horrible war that we are very much involved in with russia and ukraine. you can do that very easily. i don't believe he could do it

because he is just incompetent, but that is a war that should end immediately not because of one side or the other but because hundreds of thousands of people are being killed. can you imagine you are in an apartment house and rockets are going into that building and blowing it up and knocking it down? who can -- why should anything, why should anybody whether russian or ukrainian or whatever they are, it's got to be stopped. it can be stopped easily. it should have never started. if our president, it would never have started. host: once again, we want to know what your top news story of the week was. republicans you can call (202) 748-8001. democrats, your line is (202) 748-8000. independents can cl 02) 748-8002. are waiting to hear from you about your top news story of the week let's talko nda was calling from norwalk, california

on the democratic line. linda, good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: we can. go ahead, linda. caller: ok, i am sorry. i was just thinking that mugshot was good of him. he looks like the devil in disguise. host: all right. caller: that's all i wanted to say. host: let's go to crag who is calling from pleasant grove, alabama on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say that the false equivalency between gore and hillary by the maga people is ridiculous. none of them sent alternate electors to try to overturn the election. none of them intimidated coworkers. there was a woman that got a mugshot and she looked people the way she smiled.

she intimidated the poll workers in the header -- and they had to run to the precinct to talk to the lady. we had to understand the difference. 60 court judges said there was no fraud enough to overturn the election in 2020. why are we disrespecting our institutions? we have been through too much to come around now and disrespect our institutions when there republicans are supposed to be the party of law and order. where are you law and order the republican party? host: as we are talking about the news today, we want to remind all of you that today a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the march on washington will be held here in washington medici at the lincoln memorial -- washington, d.c. at the lincoln memorial. the family of martin luther king jr. will join activists and representatives from national organizations to celebrate the occasion. live coverage will begin at

10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span. you can also watch it on our free mobile app, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. let's go back to our phone lines and talk to rodney calling from georgia on the republican line. the morning. -- good morning. caller: i was wondering if president biden and pelosi and others are part of the build a bear group. they don't want people to have anything and they want to control people. they are the ones that have been putting all these viruses out. i just wanted to see if everybody knew that they are part of that group and they don't want anyone to have anything at all. host: all right. let's go to kathy who is calling from hanover, massachusetts on the democrats line. kathy, good morning. caller: good morning.

one of the things i heard this week and i only heard it once so i don't know if it is true but -- making moves to pardon federal level criminals. the has been said that trump cannot be pardoned if he is convicted georgia. i was curious if that was true. in terms of a story to follow as roger stone apparently invited people to film him as they were doing the fake electors scheme, and he specifically said this is why trump lost. trump thought out lawyers. if you find 99 lawyers who say you lost and look for the one who said that you won, i still think you lost. he told the court 63 times and he lost.

the other thing the caller did not mention is he did not threaten but he strongly encouraged the secretary of state in georgia to go find vote so he could win. trump did try to plead his case and lost 53 times. so that is what is on my mind this morning. host: let's go to rob calling from your screen new york on the independent line. what is your top story of the week? caller: it is the continued election interference. there was election interference in georgia and it was ruby freeman and her daughter and three others that kicked everyone out of that place, all the bells out from underneath the table and ran them over to the calculator. election was overturned by whoever it was that stop the count in the middle of the night for those i state. -- for those five states.

the people who are saying there were 63 court cases, none of them ever made it to court because they said donald trump did not have standing. it is not like a judge for the evidence. no judge has heard the evidence. you need to correct these people. as far as joe biden and his son, tony bumble in skate, devon archer and fbi whistleblowers, 200 50 think statement saying there is fraudulent activity and there is your proof democrats. i am an independent and both parties suck and c-span you are getting on my nerves because you don't cover both eyes. -- both sides. host: let's go to angela on the republican line. is it lancaster? caller: lancaster. host: go ahead, angela. caller: i want to say get biden out of there and we are going for trump all the way. host: all right, let us go to

ellen who was calling from woodridge, new york on the democrat line. good morning. caller: hello. i don't want to talk about trump anymore. i think they are making too much to occupy everybody's mind. the story that is important is a mountain fell in switzerland. the permafrost has affected mountains more will follow. i think it is the tallest mountain in switzerland. i'm not sure. i read the report and is very disturbing. i think these things are so important, and i think trump is not. so, let us stop talking about trump and let's are talking about the environment and how we are going to save ourselves. thank you. host: let's go to mike who was calling from sarasota, flori

on the independent line. mike, good morning. are you there? mike, are you there? all right let's go to and were calling from washington, d.c. on the indepde line. good morning. caller: good morning. i had two points. january 6 was a lynch mob. i want people to really look at it. they weren't just walking around. they brought a rope, a scaffold and they intended on hanging the vice president and the speaker. they were a lynch mob, and there is nothing lower than it lynch mobs in this country and i am an african-american man and i should know. the second point is donald trump would have remained president is

he was not responsible for the 700,000 deaths that occurred through covid. he cared more about wall street that he cared about the people, and when he found out he could no longer keep that lie going about not taking care of the people, he comes up with this fake warp speed. and he was unelected by republicans, democrats, and independents and it is amazing, not amazing but just sheer callous disregard for the human lives that were lost less than two years ago. no one seems to care about the one million deaths. no one seems to care about how he told people don't wear a mask , drink clorox, shine a light down your throat. people could not go to their funerals of their grandmothers, parents, children.

all this is on donald trump and those people, and the republicans don't bring up and neither do you, c-span, you don't bring up anything about those one million deaths. he is responsible for at least 700,000 when he came on tv and told the people from the washington post, yeah, i knew it was deadly but i did not want to tell anybody. but when he got it, he ran up there to walter reed and bethesda to make sure he got his shots. he had coming into the schools punching principals and teachers, airports fighting. all of this, donald trump is responsible for that. host: many different topics came up during the first republican presidential debate. one of the topics that came up was over russia where former south carolina governor nikki haley hammered by vivek ramaswamy in exchange over our relationship with that country as nikki haley defendant the

united states support for ukraine. here's a bit of the exchange from the republican debate. >> ukraine is the first line of defense for us. and the problem that the bank does not understand -- that vivek does not understand as he wants to hand ukraine to russia and let china eat taiwan and stop funding israel. you don't do that to friends. what you do instead is have the backs of your friends. crane -- ukraine is a front line of defense. putin has said once russia takes ukraine, poland and the baltics are next. we are trying to prevent war. look what putin did today. he killed prigozhin. when i was at the u.n., the russian ambassador suddenly died. this guy is a murderer and you are choosing a murderer over american country. >> are small, you have -- first of all, you have 30 seconds. >> congratulations on your

future career on the boards of lockheed and raytheon. >> you have been pushing that lie all week. >> you want to define israel. >> i'm glad you brought that up. >> you want to defund israel. >> you have no foreign policy experience and it shows. host: let's see what some of our social media followers are saying about their top news stories of the week. here is one post x that says fanni willis ruins the constitution by charging trump for freedom of speech. no one tried to overturn the election but give states a chance to remove illegal ballots. from facebook, top story, there were six people wednesday night who pledged their support of trump even if he was found guilty of multiple felonies.

how would anyone of them take the office have already they are against the constitution? how can trump take the office when he is broken is open to the constitution? -- his old the constitution. >> anyone who takes pride to what is happening in our country should be ashamed. sneaky things went on in past elections. 2020 was the first time i used mail-in voting and received three ballots. the mounting evidence of the biden crime family, emails exposed in 2015 from quid pro quo pinocchio joe. we want to know what is your top news story of the week what did you think about that story? let -- let's go to bubble up from memphis, tennessee on the republican line. caller: good morning.

the news story of the week was how embarrassing joe biden was in hawaii there trying to compare a little house fire he had to what those people went through over there, falling asleep, and getting to the debate, anybody on that republican stage is 100% better than joe biden, the corrupt resident we have in their. c-span, nbc, everybody is carrying the water for joe because they don't like trump. trump has been the best resident we ever had. covid come in and democrats started shutting down everything. so, we need trump back in to straighten this mess out that biden has gotten us into because we are not a safe country right now. these other countries are just sitting back laughing at us. host: let's go to michael who

was calling from greensboro, north carolina on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. my story is that congress or the lawmakers for trying to make the speed limit for commercial truck 60 miles per hour. in texas, the posted speed limit is 85 miles per hour on some interstates, and i just want to know is there anything you guys can do to talk more about it because if we've got to run 60 in the cars around us are running 75-80, it's going to be a mess. host: are you a truck driver? caller: yes, i am. host: you think the speed limits are appropriate for trunks and cars on the interstate now? caller: i think we all should be close to the same speed limits. when i go to california, the whole state of california for commercial truck's is 55 miles

per our. i've got to run 35 and the cars -- i've got to run 55 and the cars are running 80 or 100 miles per hour. it is too dangerous out there. i go to the d.c. advisory board meetings and you have a 20 member panel and four have commercial licenses. they are going to tell me how to drive a commercial truck. i don't see how they can do that. host: i spent a lot of time driving i-55 that goes through mississippi, and every year i drive i-40 mdc back to my hometown in mississippi. a lot of the trunks i see out there are not doing 60 or 70. they are doing 80 and 90. caller: that's what they're doing now but they want to make all commercial trunks to 60. -- trunks do 60.

when you have cars running 70 and 80 and i have to pass a truck, they are mad because we are not passing and getting out of the way. it causes a lot of road rage. host: let's talk to donald calling from jesup, georgia on the republican line. good morning. caller: hey, i sure liked that cheap gas when trump was president. i don't like that high gas now on whatever you call that thing in the white house. five. host: let's talk to alfreda coming from -- calling from democrat line. caller: good morning. my top news story of the week

was this past thursday. to see a former president be arrested for the fourth time, donald trump has four cases against him. 91 charges. our judicial system, no one is out to get him. these are things that he did himself. all of us, we heard him tell the secretary of state from georgia, all i need is 11,78 "matt lewis & the news" podcast votes -- 11,780 votes. i am grateful that our democratic system way of life has stood up because no one is above the law. you are not. it is sad that is a former president, but these are all things that he did for himself, and i will suggest to anyone look at the facts. no one is out to get him.

not a state only issue. it is a moral issue. as president of the united states, the american people will have a champion for life in the oval office. can't we have a minimum standard in every state in the nation that says when a baby is capable of feeling pain, an abortion cannot be allowed? the 15 week fan is -- ban supported by 70% of the american people. it will take leadership that stands on principle and compassion for women in crisis pregnancies. i will do that as president of the united states. >> first of all i will say it is in the hands of the people and that is where it should be but you're talking about a federal ban, be honest with the american people. we have not had 45 pro-life senators in over 100 years and so no republican president can ban abortions any more than a democrat president can ban all

those state laws. don't make women feel like they have to decide on this issue but we don't have 60 senate votes the house. host: let's talk to marilyn was calling from new jersey on the democrat line. the morning. good morning. caller: the republicans don't want to admit that when obama was present economy was great. he inherited a bad economy from the republicans. i'm talking about the bush family. when trump came into office, the economy was growing. gas was cheap when obama was present. the republicans don't want to admit this. why aren't we talking about the trump crime family? kushner took $2 million from the saudis but we are talking about biden's son. he is not running for president. this happened and it will go to court what have you but i don't

understand why republicans won't admit as far as what donald trump and his family have done. this is ridiculous. i say lock him up. thank you. host: let's go to caroline calling from nashville tennessee on the democrats line. good morning. caller: i want to express that donald trump is the dumbest president that we have ever had and the people who are supporting him are just as dumb as he are. most of them are just jealous and afraid that someone is going to come up and take their place and they want to keep everyone else down and as far as migrants are concerned, we need a lot of these people in this country to help with farming situation so that we will have food to eat because we are not willing as americans to get out there and work in these fields and try to work day and night to feed this

country. thank you, jesse. host: let's go to stephen calling from little rock, arkansas on the democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. my concern as i was diagnosed with cancer this year and after 37 treatments of radiation, chemotherapy, by the grace of god, i have been told i am in remission. when i was suffering with cancer in is very concerning and life matter. i am afraid that our country is going so far back there so much division. democrats, republicans, independents and all-americans and everybody with a microphone should try to spread love in this country pull us back together because life is important. we have a great country.

i am a veteran that served my country and i love the united states. to hear people put our country down is so painful because unless you have to put on the uniform and stood up for this country, you can't really appreciate the right to vote in the freedoms. i am also an african-american, and is so appalling to me that after living for 58 years under a supreme court of the 60's, i pray that this country would come to be a christian country and turn to god and ask him -- and tried to get right with theirs. so we can move forward. host: republicans are trying to

find their presidential candidate to go up against president joe biden. president joe biden himself is already running campaign ads for his possible reelection. he released a new ad on abortion this week and we will bring that to you. here's the new president biden campaign ad. >> reproductive health care decisions are among the most personal a woman will ever make and choices that should be made by you and your doctor in the last people who should be involved are these guys. >> i'm the one that got rid of roe v. wade. >> governor desantis signed and to law one the most restrictive abortion bands. >> you signed a six week portion ban in florida. >> i believe in a culture of life. >> i would literally sign some of the most conservative pro-life legislation that we can get through congress. >> do you believe in punishment or abortion? >> the answer is there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman?

>> yet, there has to be some portion -- former punishment. >> they will never allow a national abortion and to become law. decisions about your body it will be made by you and not by them. host: let's go back to our phone lines and talk to perry calling from south dakota on the republican line. good morning. caller: i would like to say that the people that's called in about c-span being this and that and the other, i think c-span is a real service to the people of the united states of america. it is a place where you can put across your message and i think c-span is doing a great job of doing that. it is a real service to the country and i want to put that across to the people who say

it's going this way and that way on c-span. i don't believe that. i think c-span is doing a great job and i want to put across that message this morning and thank you very much. host: thank you. let's go to robert calling from tampa, florida on the independents line. the morning. -- good morning. caller: yes, my theme for this week and i agree with the guy who just called about c-span. some people want you guys to be fox news or msnbc but anyway, my deal for the week as listening to the debate and they said that six of them including ron desantis would allow a convicted felon in the white house. i hope that whoever runs a debate next time will ask ron desantis since he is willing to let a convicted felon in the white house, what about all the people that he tried interested

here in florida -- tried interested in florida, one of then my cousin that did not know that she could not vote but he sent his goon squad after them to rest them. now will he let other people who are felons or will be crime to now vote, they don't ask people the right questions and they have them on the debate stage. ask all of them now i hope, whoever is listening, now that they said they would let a convicted, if he gets convicted, a felon into the white house that means everyone now who has been arrested has a crime or felon now can vote. host: before you run out of time, i want to bring you the information from the federal reserve chairman jerome powell. he discussed the economic outlook and monetary policy at the federal reserve bank of kansas cities economic policy

symposium in jackson hole, wyoming. he is talking about inflation and the possibility of more interest rate hikes. >> at last year's jackson hole symposium, i delivered a brief direct we will do so. we had tie-in policy significantly the past year. although inflation has moved down from its peak a welcome development, it remains too high. we are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate. we intend to hold policy at a restricted level. until we are confident inflation is moving down towards our objective. host: let's eat with our social media followers are saying about their top new story of the week.