host: bob ehrlich, our guest this morning.mer governor of maryland, work in that building behind me for several years, taking your calls. on the topic of criminal justice reform, heading into a weekend when democratic candidates and president will be speaking about this issue in south carolina. racy is up first from virginia. good morning, you are on with governor ehrlich. gracie, you have to turn your television down and listen through your phone. are you still there? caller: yes, yes. president trump, when he first stepped into office, he manipulated the system. left, obamaobama had run that bill up, the first step act. trump went in there, changed a to act likend tried he made the first step act, but he did not. i know it and half of the united states knew it. governor ehrlich, who should get credit for the first step act? both: lots of people in parties, but the bottom line is -- this president is a businessman, as you know. he is not a lawyer and has no great history with criminal justice reform. in fact, getting noncrimi

we need a central authority to protect us in a flee country. >> governor bob ehrlich. the group is right on crime. rightoncrime.com if you wanted to read more about that group that you work with. thanks so much for your time. do appreciate it. >>> and live on capitol hill, a house panel will be looking at the impact of immigration policy on military service members and veterans. the subcommittee will hear from a mexican-born u.s. army veteran. they're waiting a bit here. it's been several votes on the house floor. the hearing should get under way shortly, live here on c-span3. >>> it looks like a few minutes before this hearing gets under way. while we have a moment, we'll take you live to comments from senator chuck schumer and democratic leadership outside the senate chamber. >> al-baghdadi from the face of the earth. he's met his maker and the world is better off for it. his reign of terror, those who he led in isis, beheadings, rapes of women, terrorizing the region is well documented, and the world is better off because he is no longer with us. by the same token,

host: bob ehrlich of maryland. we are taking your calls.he phone lines are (202) 748-8000 if you live in the eastern or central time zone. (202) 748-8001 and the mountain or pacific time zones. the special phone line in the segment, if you have experience in the criminal justice system, it's (202) 748-8002. governor ehrlich with a group signatory of the principles of the right on crime. come back to that group and talk about what conservative criminal justice reform means. -- forthe motivations some the motivations here are socioeconomic. for some it is racial. it is fair to say for those of us in right on crime the motivation is justice. blind justice in fact. we know criminal justice systems can be broken. they can give us unfair results. injustice being the enemy of what government should be. particularly at the governors level, extraordinary power. constitutions give governors extraordinary power to correct wrong. we took that seriously. other governors have as well. on the most part we focused consequences, pardons and commutations. th