mary, you're on with jonathan rauch. mary: well, i think the american political system when awry when the public namely the tea party has let trump get judgment. you know they thought it was really funny when the tea party was attacking president obama and the democrats saying, you know, obama is going to kill grandma. you know, the traditional republicans sat back and laughed. this lays squarely on the g.o.p. i think they need to vote out all tea party members. jonathan: i spent a lot of time looking at the tea party back in 2010 and 2011. it's a really interesting movement. it's a principled movement. it is against immigration for smaller government. but it is ideological. what's happened now to the republican party is different. partly introduced by factors the tea party did. they targeted anyone who compromised and they targetted professional politician but then along comes do and in trump and he blows away the tea party. he is not a small government person. he is anti-immigration. but there's an article just today i

tina, you're on with jonathan rauch. tina: yes, my question is you say that donald trump is a psycho path and i am an independent. but i have a lot of problems with hillary clinton because everything that you say about donald trump i feel that hillary has those problems and more. and what i fear is that donald trump at least is out there and honest about what he's saying while hillary is kind of like clothing. in sheeps' the f.b.i. has said she's lied. then she went on the sunday morning talk shows and lied again saying the same thing but yet you stood up there and you're ok with that as a journalist but yets you have problems with donald trump and the last lady who called in said we need civil tism and the other person who said no, you lied. we didn't get to keep our doctor he said. ings and they aren't true. i don't get to keep my own doctor. these things that the democrats were going to do for us didn't happen. >> ok. tina. let's let jonathan respond. jonathan: yeah, so is hillary clinton the same kind of thing as don

host: we're talking with jonathan rauch from "the atlantic" talking about his piece on why american politicssane. we have laura calling in from yuri, pennsylvania. caller: good morning, c-span. hi, jonathan. i want to agree with you about the insanity part. a lot of it is issue by issue. a lot of people would say the debt is insane. you cannot even comprehend what we own an interest every day and it continues to pile up. how will we ever get paid off? the biggest thing for me is that i just heard hillary and her running mate, mr. tim kaine, who is a catholic, is going to overturn the hyde amendment. they already said they are going to do it. that prevented taxpayer dollars to be used to kill unborn babies in abortion. i cannot believe that we are not talking about it. we have heard all these other issues, but to me, rush limbaugh, sean hannity, especially because he is catholic, should be having these topics of front and center. these are the positions of the candidates. this is what they are going to be doing on this issue and this issue, but especially abortion. ihave a charity where pay w

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so, jonathan rauch who talks about his work, how american politics went insane. he'll talk about the division between the white house and congress. be sure to watch friday morning at 7:00 eastern. >> now we hear from dr. americaner zahn of the cent for on set exs and gynecology on the zika rye vuss. this is just over an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to t >> goodhe afternoon, everyone, welcome i want to thank each and every one of you for joining us for a timely discussion about the zika virus. and women's health. in recent months we have seen zika transmission escalate in parts of the developing world and here in the united states. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, the mosquito-borne virus has infected over 6000 people in the united states and territories including more than 800 pregnant women. the pentagon has reported that at least 33 american servicemembers have contracted seek a overseas. -- zika overseas. just last week, the florida health authorities reported the first likely cases of mosquito transmission in the cont

. >> host: we are talking to jonathan rauch of the atlantic about how american politics went insane. our callers can join us. taking a look at one part in the piecpeace where you are talking about the incident the politics, you write -- what did you mean? >> guest: i started thinking about this problem way back in 2013. do you remember speaker john boehner, paul ryan's predecessor? remember he went on the leno show. the u.s. government shut down, even though republicans didn't want it to shut down and democrats did wanted to shut down. they could keep it open because the republican party in congress couldn't keep itself organized enough to overcome this small faction within itself. so there's john boehner on the live show and asked why the government shutdown and he says, a leader without followers is just a man taking a walk. so that's the position that he and paul ryan are in now. they have very little ability to influence their own members. all these people are directly collected. we have taken away some of the tools that figures like porkbarrel spending, for example, and secret n

host: we are talking to jonathan rauch of the atlantic, about his piece on how american politics went insane. you can call us. democrats, republicans, independents. so, taking a look at one part in the piece where you are talking about the insanity of politics, you write, "the very term, party anders, has become in anachronism. although capitol hill and of the campaign trail are miles apart, the breakdown in order in both places reflects the underlying reality that there no longer is any such thing as a party leader, there are only individual actors pursuing their own interests, willy-nilly, like excited gas molecules in an overheated balloon." what do you mean by that? thinking aboutd this problem in 2013. do you remember john boehner, remember he went on the lam. and the u.s. government shutdown. even though the republicans and democrats did not want to shut down, but they cannot keep it open because the republican party could not keep itself organized enough to overcome the small faction within itself. so there is john boehner on john lennon -- on jay leno and he asked about it and