host: steve russell is our guest. randall's in texas. independent line. , how are you guys? guest: good morning. caller: what i want to address, mr. russell, is we have an issue in america that is never discussed and it needs to be discussed. let's get it out there. guest: ok. caller: the issue is all politicians. the issue is not social security. bernie sanders from vermont, who is happening to run for president, says let's raise the cap. there is a reason for that. we hear about china all the time because that concerns wall street. you actually owe since 1969 since richard nixon put it in the general fund. that is how much you always. -- you always. let's get you guys meals on wheels five days a week at your desk. host: randall, you got a lot on the table. i think we have your theme. congressman russell? guest: i think if there is any notion that on either side of file that we're going to let social security fail, i think that is a false notion. this is something that is part of our american fabric. it is something that we do care about on both sides of

host: steve russell is our guest. randall's in texas. independent line. caller: hi, how are you guys? guest: good morning. caller: what i want to address, mr. russell, is we have an issue in america that is never discussed and it needs to be discussed. let's get it out there. guest: ok. caller: the issue is all politicians. the issue is not social security. bernie sanders from vermont, who is happening to run for president, says let's raise the cap. there is a reason for that. we hear about china all the time because that concerns wall street. you actually owe since 1969 since richard nixon put it in the general fund. that is how much you always. -- you always. let's get you guys meals on wheels five days a week at your desk. host: randall, you got a lot on the table. i think we have your theme. congressman russell? guest: i think if there is any notion that on either side of file that we're going to let social security fail, i think that is a false notion. this is something that is part of our american fabric. it is something that we do care about on both

and oklahoma representative steve russell talks about government waste tax reform and the national defense authorization act. we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on cspan. >>> here are some of the featured programs for this weekend on the networks. saturday morning, 10:00 eastern, we're at the internet and television expo in chicago for what consumers can expect for the future in innovation. speakers include comcast chairman and ceo, cara swisher and fcc chairman. president obama is at georgetown university discussing ideas on how to alleviate poverty in the united states. saturday morning beginning at 10:00 eastern we're live from city hall in maryland for the book festival with former u.s. representatives tom davis and martin frost. and sunday evening at 9:00, president of the american constitution society on the impact of labor and employment laws on working women and their families. and on american history tv, saturday afternoon at 2:00 eastern, on oral histories remembering the liberation of nazi

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bill gates, oprah winfrey, steve jobs mark zuckerberg russell simmons. that's an impressive group. >> all a college degree proves is you can get up out of bed every day and attend class. it doesn't have real-world significance. i feel like he's appealing to the average in this among americans. it's not as though he dropped out of college and started up a software company, he's a politician. >> average, i wouldn't call bill gates, oprah winfrey or steve jobs average, would you? >> no but i think gates and winfrey would never say to young people hey, it's okay to drop out of college, which is making scott walker's most redeeming quality up there the fact he's a packer fan. >> well i don't think he's saying that a college degree is useless, he's just saying there may be some things that trump it. >> i think some people are cut out for college, some people aren't. then there are people like me who went but shouldn't have. but i'm here anyway. >> is it worth it in the end? >> i would rather have someone dropping out, earning money for their family than piling

a man in colonel, steve russell, you were the man who got -- was on the mission to get hussein and got him. what a career you've had. congressman, where are we at today? for example, with al qaeda? >> i think we see al qaeda on the wane but they're just going to new banners with isis and boko haram. we have an ideology issue we have to face as a nation. >> worse today? >> i think it is. arab spring transforming to a nuclear winter. i've never seen the middle east having so many countries involved with some type of conflict. >> do you like the trend towards the arabs coming up with their own arab army almost a sunni army? >> i think it's important that we see responsible nations like jordan like saudi arabia, others that have good leaders and good capacity to take this security issues in hand. >> all right. so let's move on to the other topic, and it's outrageous if i could just go to the lead and it's the release of a gitmo guy, worse of the worse, bin laden's aids, over to canada, and a judge is going to release him. your reaction? >> i think it's the wrong call. if there is an appeal

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. >> can you give steve some fuel to this cease-fire the fact that the russell starting to break down. we talked with tim yesterday. 120-ish the big support broke there today. the transports have been an under performer since november-ich when they topped out. i like t 1r50i6789 doesn't seem to want to go higher. if those things continue to break down, i don't know how the s&p continue to follow. >> bk, long time listener, first time caller. i got a question for you. you are on the floor all day what's the sentiment you get? to me the stockmarket looks scary, because there are so many different things going on. what itself sentiment that you get from guys that you talk to all day? >> overwhelmingly negative. few look at this chart, everyone has been negative since there. so you are betting against the house basically in their eyes. the other thing to keep it as a point of reference is, even if we go down an test this level again, we are only seeing a 3% sell-off. what you really want to see is that 10% sell-off. >> that brings you dun to 1,900. >> that will scoop a lot of peel. most p

steve, thank you. >>> the stars and production team behind a beautiful mind are mourning the loss of john nash today. actor russellrowe who portrayed nash tweeted stunned. my heart goes out to john and alicia and family. an amazing partnership. beautiful mind, beautiful heart. director ron howard also shared his grief in a tweet. rip brilliant nobel prize winning john nash and his remarkable wife al leash shaft it was an honor telling part of their story. >>> and producer brian grazer reflector on nash's life. john nash gave a world a window into humanity. how the disabled may think and feel inside. >>> this accident that killed john nash was within a mile of the crash that injured comedian tracy morgan and left another comedian dead. morgan was traveling northbound near cranbury township last june when his limo van was hit by a wal-mart truck. morgan suffered a traumatic brain injury and several broken bones. he has filed a lawsuit against wal-mart. the truck driver, kevin roper has been charged in the accident. >>> stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the death of john nash and his wife alicia.

steve patterson, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> well the stars and production team behind beautiful mind are mourning the loss of john nash. actor russellrow who portrayed nash tweeted this -- stunned my heart goes out to john and alicia and family. amazing partnership beautiful mind beautiful heart. >>> director ron howard also shared his grief in a tweet. rip brilliant mow nel buys winning john nash and his remarkable wife a lee shaft it was an honor telling part of their story. producer reflected as well... >>> this accident that killed john nash was also win a mile of the crash that injured comedian tracy morgan and left another comedian dead. morgan was traveling northbound on the new jersey turnpike near cranbury township last june when his limo van was hit by a wal*mart truck. morgan suffered a traumatic brain injury and several broken bones. he has filed a lawsuit against wal*mart. the truck driver kevin roper has been charged in that accident. >>> of course stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the death of john nash and his wife alicia. you can find updates any time on our website cbsphilly.com. >>> what a nig

this russell, this transport continues to break down at a certain point, it has to drag down the broader market the s&p. >> steve i think you still want to keep your eye on the prize, so to speak in the sense that you have to ask yourself the question. do you want a strengthening economy that means some fed rate hikes or a weakening economy and the fed on hold? i will take the strengthening economy any time. if you're going to tell me the consumer will spend some of that gas savings which is out there, some of the extra income he or she has because of the increase in jobs if you tell me that the housing market means better home values, more wealth in people's pockets, more confidence all of these things make me buyers of stock. it might be a reprieve from a death sentence. i don't want that at all. >> here's the ceo basically saying they just had one of their best weeks -- the best week ever in their charlotte park for a three-day weekend. they can't find all the workers they need. they're trying to hire out there. that's not a picture of an economy that is in trouble. >> it doesn't feel like the economy is in t