bobby from pennsylvania. bobby, hello. caller: i want to know how they can use chivalry in the clintons, and the kennedys. does it have anything to do with setting up for women? hillaryaw a report of in 2008, she was not even -- she would not even fire someone on her campaign that was molesting women. then they had her at the grammys reading that book. get up democrats women and applaud for her. that is a double standard. realu go back to the enabler, hillary, when her husband was in the oval office with a 19-year-old intern getting oral sex and nobody in the democrat party cared about it. but now they care about everything that is going on in washington. what a double standard. you have heard and seen stories about the sexual abuse of gymnasts, they passed legislation yesterday to force athletic organizations to swiftly report sexual abuse and establish preventative policies. partiess of both overwhelmingly supported the bill in a 400 623 vote. 406 to three vote. to 175was sentenced years in prison. it goes on to quote that signals , the author of the original house version of the bill that passed last year, adding that the nasser sentencing comes to a close and the olympic games approach. we are reminded of the safety and well-being of our athletes. from the floor of the house yesterday, here is susan brooks talking about this event and the legislation that was passed. this legislation mandates training, increases requirements for reporting abuse, and reforms a broken system that has failed to many victims. too many victims. athletes to report suspected child abuse, including sexual abuse within 24 hours. if they fail to do so, they be held accountable by the . to prevent future emotional and physical sexual abuse. this bill designates -- to implement policies, procedures, and mandatory training. center will ensure that when reports of abuse are made, they are investigated. it protects those who report abuse. common sense would dictate that it requires until the investigation is closed, and from is prohibited interacting with minors. as the sentencings come to a close -- as the sentencings come to a close we are reminded of the importance of protecting the safety and well-being of all of our athletes. today we are strengthening protections for victims to ensure transparency and accountability. and putting the safety and health of our athletes, and every young athlete who has ever dreamed of the ludwig stage, first. -- of the olympic stage. during -- dealing with its own version of the me too. me too movement spills across the border and intensifies. according to the new york times. state-by-state, how legislators are dealing with this legally. lawmakers are warned of harassment. you can read that story in the wall street journal. jackie is our last call on the topic. she is in crystal river, florida. caller: good morning. it has been quite interesting listening to your callers. i just have some quick things to say. -- of the gentleman they say that of course, women are liars. none of these same judgments or pre-judgments were made when the --dusky boys came out sandusky voice came out after years of being silent. abuse victims the from the catholic church finally came forward. nobody judged them. nobody doubted them. there wasn't this huge backlash. they listened to them. something was done, justice was done. now, when women come forward all of a sudden men are feeling threatened and i heard one of your callers say that he would not even hire a girl in this environment. that in ourt is -- try, we have legally has people that are women, two thirds of the human beings, because they only two thirds for their labor. just because it is not written into law does not mean that the -- that these prejudices are not thoroughly woven into our society. movement and the women's movement is trying to make everything equal. written into our constitution in florida, and women are florida. the sky did not fall. nothing happened. nobody noticed. in our constitution, women are equal. why can't that happen in the entire united states of america? host: that is jackie coming upcoming guests joining us through the morning. we will be joined first by reid wilson with a closer look at the socioeconomic and political impacts of skyrocketing housing costs across the united states, particularly in american cities. we will be joined by representative bill foster talking about science and the trump administration. tour our 50 capitals continues this morning. atlanta being featured. the lieutenant governor will be aboard the c-span bus at 9:30 eastern this morning. 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"in depth fiction edition" sunday live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 on book tv. c-span's history series "landmark cases" returns next month with a look at 12 new supreme court cases. experts join us to discuss constitutional issues and personal stories behind the significance of green court decisions. we begin monday, february 26. to help you better understand each case, we have a companion guide witton by tony mauro, "landmark cases: volume 2." to get your copy, visit c-span.org/landmarkcases. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this is reid wilson, the national correspondent for "the .com. at thehill a new story taking a look at city economies and what it does for the middle class. guest: how are you? host: thank you. what interests you? guest: this is part of a larger story that is driving the evolving shape of american society and american politics. we are seeing a fundamental shift in the way the american economy operates and we have been seeing that for a long time and after the recession, there have been some fascinating economic and population shifts that all play together. last week, the u.s. conference of mayors was in washington and in talking to a lot of mayors from leading cities around the country, we heard the same concerns. that the rising cost of housing inside their cities is effectively pushing the middle class out. i come from seattle, the city dominated by the tech industry amazon has a massive footprint in the downtown core of the city and what has happened is effectively rent has gone up, housing prices have gone up, people who have lived in the city since the boeing boom of the 1960's and 1970's are finding they cannot afford to live in seattle anymore. we have seen this across the country as urban cores developed postrecession, they are doing great, their economies are booming, the suburbs have done ok but not as well, rural america has been suffering for the better part of two decades, the recession did not start in rural america in 2007, it started around 2000. all of this has conspired to create a churn in how the population is moving around and a lot of major cities are worried that if they lose the middle class, they lose the nature of who they are. host: 119% growth in housing prices in the washington, arlington, d c area. several cities in california. then you go to bismarck, north dakota, one hundred 65% rise. guest: north dakota is a fascinating story. that was one state that never really felt the recession. at the same time as the recession, there was the fracking boom. you had people moving to bismarck and much more rural areas to participate in this great economy and get the fantastic jobs, while at the same time the rates at the local motel are going for $250 a night or higher. there is not a lot of housing in north dakota. as people flooded into take advantage of the fracking boom, they really struggled to build a number of units that they needed to house the workers. host: is this about the numbers of houses and units specifically or the price tag? guest: in a lot of the big cities, it is both. this is what fascinated me about this story. talking to groups, what they were saying is that the housing is a cyclical cycle. just like the economy. when the economy is doing well, people build houses at a faster rate, and that has not really happened in this particular cycle. the demand for housing is rising , but they cannot keep up. take a look around washington dc. camera and athe different way, you can see 18 cranes building amazing amounts of new units. there are new units down by anacostia, down by the wharf and the waterfront, they are building these as fast as possible, but the demand is outpacing the supply. one of the things we heard from a lot of the mayors, i talked to the mayor of san diego, who told me they are trying to get rid of regulations as much as possible and speed the permitting process to build housing. it is not just fancy new condos, it is middle income, single-family homes in parts of the city that maybe have not had those yet or need to be updated. boston is facing the same thing. san francisco. basically any city where you have a geographic feature that limits its growth like san francisco and the bay or seattle and puget sound, they are struggling with this density challenge. they need to build more homes in a smaller area to keep up with rising demand. host: reid wilson joining us talking about housing prices in u.s. cities. if you want to talk to him about it, different lines this morning. for those of you in . --(202) 748-8000. for those of you in suburbs, (202) 748-8001. rural areas, (202) 748-8002. there was a phenomenon that once you started making money once, you wanted to move out to the suburbs and that trend is reversing. is that what you are saying? guest: in six of the last seven years, we have seen cities grow faster than suburbs and that is a sea change in the last half-century. as they move farther outcome of a traded longer commute for more space, what is different now is that we have a new generation that is growing in the workforce, the millennial generation is the largest generation in the workforce and it will soon be the largest generation in the electorate and those millennials are getting married later, having kids later, and they are delaying a lot of the benchmarks that would lead them to move out to the suburbs. years, we have seen a lot more of these high earning millennials starting to center in cities instead of moving out to the suburbs. this trend may be reversing. we of the last seven years have had cities growing faster than suburbs. last year, we had the suburbs grow faster. maybe this is reversing in the short run, but over the last few years, we have seen a remarkable change in the way americans tend to act about housing. host: let's hear from one of the mayors, the denver mayor, michael hancock, at the conference of mayors talking about the issue of housing and the impact on means for decision-makers. [video clip] >> the issues are opportunities around the quality. thatought to be values every mayor, no matter what city they live in, must consider when making policy decisions. i think sometimes we forget that and i have to admit that as i was working to bring our city out of the recession and return it to economic stability, those are values that we should never forget and yet we did. impact doe, what certain development decisions have on minority communities? or communities that are struggling along the economic margins? communities that have been perennially overlooked and neglected? if we decide to place a company there, bring rec centers, those have not only great amenities, but they have implications and we must measure those implications in terms of working to improve the neighborhoods. what does it mean in terms of the desirability of people wanting to move into those neighborhoods and prices rising and people being priced out? we have seen that in denver, we are seeing it in the country. we call it gentrification, whatever you call it, it hurts full durable populations -- vulnerable populations. host: reid wilson, talk about denver's experience. guest: michael hancock was one of the mayor's we talked to while the conference of mayors was here and he was one of the ones who was sounding the alarm, that if denver continues to grow as it is, obviously you want to economic growth, but you have to manage it. managing growth means smart planning and smart building. building different types of housing. if you don't do that, costs go up across the board and you see the middle-class being squeezed out. when you think about minority communities come he think about washington dc, it is a plurality african-american city and the majority is non-african american because a lot of parts of the city have become unaffordable for the african-american working-class that grew up around this town for the last century. we have seen suburban flight out of the city into places like prince george's county, montgomery county, and that has changed the complexion of what was once a majority african-american city. "the reid wilson from hill" joining us. our first call is from eric in washington. caller: good morning, gentlemen. born and raised in d.c. you know, there is no other way to call it. , whateverrification you want to call it. when these mayors say one thing out of one side of their face and the other, the mayor we have in our city, she is a bigger part of the problem. you turn around and look at these cranes and it tells you a lot. , we are theommunity most welcoming people there are, but when you get in there and it all changes, it is ridiculous. that thesethe story young ladies, nonblack ladies are complaining about kids at the convention center playing drums, this is crazy. host: thank you, eric. we appreciate that. guest: it is interesting. we have seen unrest with change. people being uncomfortable with motivator, political if you will, and a lot of communities. the uncomfortable, people who are uncomfortable with the changing face of america are beenof the people who have most vocal and most active over the last few years and have effectively led to president trump, you could argue. people who are uncomfortable with change in the cities is a new phenomenon and that is because of the changing face of washington dc, a city like denver, it has minority communities that are being squeezed out because that is the area becoming gentrified, i should add that a lot of these cities have a lot in common. they are all finalist for the amazon hq 2 project. this project fascinates me. i've seen what it has done to a part of downtown seattle that used to be abandoned warehouses and is now a vibrant community, but with it has come and a lot of new faces. they are spending a lot more for housing and pushing of housing prices all around. that in the metro areas in the country, the cost of the average rent has gone up by $400 over the last 10 years or so. that is remarkable. i think it is since 2011 it has gone up. a 20% increase in your housing costs if you are renting a standard one-bedroom apartment. the average medium home prices have gone up 36% across the inntry since the recession january 2012. it has gone up a great deal more in the cities. the cost per square foot is about 53% higher than it was at the bottom of the market. getting a lotare more expensive, we are not keeping up with the demand, that is changing the face of american cities. host: a caller from the suburbs from newton, massachusetts. colleen. caller: good morning. your topic this morning really hits home with me in newton, mass. rapidly,economy grows there is a tremendous pressure put on the surrounding suburbs to increase their housing. of course, it is driving up the costs. another thing it is doing, it is causing great division within these communities. i live in a part of newton that has a small village and they want to add thousands of new apartments. the government, the local government is trying to change all the zoning laws and it is causing the owners of the small businesses to be pushed out, the people that rely on those small businesses will not have their services and the residential housingies around this is being, i don't know, crowded out by the housing and it increases traffic, it increases taxes. i could go on, but there is a start for you. host: thanks, colleen. guest: i talked to marty walsh, the mayor of boston, and he said -- i don't mean to make this sound dismissive, but there are nimby concerns, "not in my back yard." there are a lot of people who live in a single-family home for a long time and they don't want a 400-unit apartment building in their backyard. it changes housing values, it changes a community. colleen brings up traffic. this is something that you pointed to san antonio, one of the fastest-growing housing markets in the country, the corridor between san antonio and austin is booming incredibly. -- well, the counties around both of them are becoming the fastest growing counties in the country. what that does is it effectively forces the traffic out from the urban cores and into the suburbs. in a lot of cases, there are cities like massachusetts they cannot build the capacity fast enough to deal not only with the housing, but with the cars, just the additional cars on the road. so you get traffic jams and the commutes that people once sacrificed for to move to the suburbs are getting longer and longer. we have seen traffic commuting times go up. the census bureau tracks that stuff. i love the census bureau. they tracked the average number of minutes it takes for americans to get to work and that number is going up. includes story also that median rent in san francisco and san jose is $3500 per month. , includingcities sacrament of california, the median rent is north of $2000. host: i had a friend who moved --guest: i had a friend who moved when congressman hobby or got named attorney general of california. -- hobby or becerra got named -- hobby or becerra -- xavier becerra got named attorney general of california, the prices are getting so high that oakland is being affected, over the mountains is being affected, sacramento itself is becoming part of the bay area. these urban areas are expanding massively and they are doing well economically, they are absolutely booming, about a quarter of american gdp comes from just the six largest metro areas in the country. another quarter comes from metro areas seven through 25. half of our domestic product come from 25 areas. that is creating these cross pressures in which people in rural america are moving to urban america and driving up prices for everybody. host: of the 100 largest counties in america over the last five years, 97 of them have gained population. the only ones that haven't our toledo, detroit, and somewhere in connecticut. of the 1500 counties in america where their population is less than 25,000, two thirds of them have lost population. are bleedingunties population into the larger counties. how can that not raise home prices? host: tennessee, where richard is. caller: good morning. this gentleman mr. wilson is dead on on what he is saying. i'm pretty much retired and i have traveled this whole nation. i've lived in nashville, tennessee was a liberal mayor spending a lot of money, but i live in a conservative state. that conservative state is booming. i went to my doctor's office on the west side of nashville and i'm waiting on him to come in and i was looking out over the skyline of nashville --when i moved to nashville 40 years ago, there were two skyscrapers. there are 10 under construction right now. they have already built about 10 outlying areas. nashville, tennessee is the capital of tennessee. you have 20,000 people that come into the downtown area every day for work. you had the hundreds of thousands moving to nashville, they say in nashville there is over 100 people moving to nashville per day. 25 years ago, i bought my three-bedroom, one bath, brick column in a nice little neighborhood, not a great area, not a bad area, i bought it for $64,000 on an fha loan for 30 years. i lived in a 12 years, refinanced it on a 15-year loan at 7.5% and got it down to 5.6%. i paid for it two years ago. my first year of property taxes was $1000 on it. i get it this year and it went up to $1200. we have a 9.25% sales tax. the high cost, you can't buy anything under half $1 million in nashville. guest: richard is going to get a nice little return on that house, i think. boom ins up this skyscraper construction. there are actually some cities that are managing their growth well. smart growth is the new trend. one of them is right here, the washington dc area. not just the city proper, but they are having a decent metro system. we are growing in places like montgomery county all the way out to dulles airport. each of those metro stops is becoming its own little business community. that is a good way to grow. so not everybody is commuting to the same place. if people are commuting to the same place, things are not going to go well. dallas is another example. it does not have just one downtown business core. they have multiple business districts where there might be skyscrapers in multiple parts of the city. that is a good way to grow again. people can live close to work and people can commute in various different ways so that people can actually grow intelligently. host: judy in north carolina joining us from the suburbs for reid wilson. caller: yes, sir. this is like another housing bubble from what i'm seeing. these housing prices are ridiculous. i live in western north carolina, my son lives in myrtle beach. it has been going on here about three years. the real estate agent says there are not enough houses to be bought, especially under the $200,000 mark. what is going to happen to these people overpaying for all of these houses and these high about whatust happened to the people with the foreclosures after the bubble burst? they had to have a place to live, so everybody that had rentals went up on the rent and people could not afford to buy the rents. we are in the same bubble we were in in 2005 and 2006. guest: i don't know a lot about the mortgage market. there are people a lot smarter than i am who died into that stuff. you are absolutely right. housing prices are going up. we talked about housing prices rising in urban areas by about 15% per square foot. in rural areas, they are rising too. crisis is coming to suburban america, it is coming to rural america. the fact is, we are growing. we are a nation of 330 million. those people have to live somewhere. one of the things that some of these mayors were telling me is that the tech jobs that are attracting so many people are attracting people not only from out-of-state, but out of the country. i don't want to get into a whole immigration debate, we are going to hear a lot about it at the state of the union, but we are importing a lot of people to program our computers or that do whatever they do in the tech industry and that is just adding people to the core. that in turn raises housing prices. host: one of those viewers in rural areas, lake elsinore, california. this is steve. caller: hi. he's absolutely correct so far. but there is a couple of issues. empire,e in the inland i know that they create a lot of jobs and you are seeing it, but the problem is they are $10 an the wage isd stagnant. in california, $10 per hour cannot support you. so people get out here and they want to buy a home and you can't do it. you can't buy a home on $10 an hour. the other question i do have for you, every time that screen comes up, i see a plus 120 something percent on your screen for san bernardino area. what does that mean? guest: that is the rise in housing prices in that particular area, rise in the median single-family home price between 2000 and 2017 -- 2016, i think it is. this is data from the national association of realtors. they say that in that area, prices have risen 126%. more than doubled just since 2000. by the way, these are the nicest c-span callers i've ever had. the notion ofp low-paying jobs. they talked about the coming shock to the economic system. we just don't know if we are planning for it well enough. that is the notion of automation. there are more and more businesses that are automating, replacing workers with computers. just fast food workers and kiosks, it is automated vehicles. autonomous vehicles. it is accountants, lawyers. it is increasingly service based jobs that are being done by machines, not by people. what happens when we get a fully autonomous vehicle and all of a sudden there are 2 million truckers out of work? we know the shock is coming. we just aren't necessarily planning for it in time. it is a lot of something a lot of mayors are worried about. in seattle, i keep going back to my hometown, in seattle last week, amazon opened a grocery store that has no clerks. it is a fully autonomous store. aside from the people stocking their shelves. door, youp the front never have to interact with a human. there are human jobs that are gone. how do we replace those jobs with something that is better than a 10 dollar an hour job in the inland empire? host: is there a role for housing and urban development? , yes, theregency is, and a lot of mayors are concerned that housing and urban development has not been doing enough to build some of these low income, middle income, even sort of workforce homes. this is not a partisan concern. those mayors are just angry at the trump administration, they were angry at the obama administration and the bush administration. host: let's hear from gary in dayton, ohio. caller: hello? can you hear me? host: you are on. street my house is on a or eight,even possibly 12 vacant houses on it all boarded up, no one is doing any repairs to them. really bad.s like just had the reevaluation done on the house. from $43,000 to $41,000. which is great because i pay , but theerty taxes other thing am want you to why -- the city of dayton does not have any major shopping or grocery stores. we have to walk, i see people , theng down the streets beer and the cigarette place where you get your lottery, they are walking back home with their sacks of groceries and they are paying top dollar for that kind of stuff in the nearest grocery store is outside of the city. deserts are aod big concern. that is something that michelle obama worked a lot on when she was first lady and this is an every industry right now is being disrupted. we have even the grocery industry with an autonomous store. how many more will there be in a few years? this is something that people have to plan for as they are smart growthese strategies, how do you attractive business like a safeway or albertsons or something like that? same company, i guess, but one of those grocery stores, how do you attract them to an urban core or even a suburban court when margins are so tiny? storyreid wilson, whose you can find on "the hill" website, thanks for joining us. coming up, we are going to talk with democratic congressman bill foster of illinois. he joins us as a member of the house science committee and he concerns about the trump administration's science policy. we will also be aboard the c-span bus and 9:30 a.m. eastern coming up. >> the president of the united states. >> tonight president donald trump gives his first state of the union address to congress and the nation. then the state of the union speech live at 9:00 p.m. following the speech, the democratic response from congressman joe kennedy. we will also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. president trump's state of the union address tonight live on c-span. listen live on the free c-span radio app and available live or on-demand on your desktop, phone, or tablet at c-span.org. for nearly 20 years, "in-depth" has featured the nation's best-known nonfiction writers for life conversations about 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"in-depth: fiction edition" sunday live noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: representative bill foster, democrat from illinois, a member of the science, space, and technology committee here to talk about top administration science policy. guest: that's right. i'm also a member of the financial services committee and was fascinated by the segment you just ran. it turns out that policies to fight housing bubbles are something i have been involved with for a long time. if you look at the archives of the american enterprise institute, they had a workshop on an idea i had in 2010 after the last housing crisis that simply was a requirement that you should not issue mortgages if the mortgagee will be underwater as housing prices go back to where they were two years ago. so that if housing prices have doubled suddenly, then you should put in an extreme case 50% down so you won't be underwater and that is simple principle which can be adopted on a city by city basis depending on whether you have a bubble going, it is a very powerful feedback mechanism. anyway. host: you are a man of ideas, physicist by training. guest: that's right. i represent 100% of the strategic reserve of physicists in the u.s. congress. i'm the only phd senate and the senate or the u.s. house. -- scientist in the senate or the u.s. house. host: what is your largest concern about the trump administration's approach to science? guest: mostly its disinterest and science and its disinterest in applying science and logical potentials --to policy decisions. its failure to fill the scientific appointments that it is supposed to be filling. the office of science and technology policy is an office which has about 135 people in it during the obama administration and is down to a skeleton crew without a leader with a real scientific background. ift is a risk to the country there is going to be a big crisis that has a strong technological edge, an environmental problem, nuclear , then theou name it president will need close at hand trusted advisors on scientific principles and they don't seem to be in evidence. either in the white house or at the top level of appointments. host: why do you think those positions have not been filled? guest: i think it is a tough recruiting problem for the white house. that is part of it. because the president has narrowly focused on rational debate, frankly. that a lot of scientists are kind of turned off by that. as a result, the appointments that we have seen from the trump administration have been people with political backgrounds or financial backgrounds rather than real scientific backgrounds. host: you addressed this in a letter to the administration. what has been the response? guest: zero. you know, the lack of a functioning osgp is a real danger. we are having a hearing today on the science committee where we will have the closest we have come to would use to be a tradition on the science committee, which is to have the secretary of energy come in and discuss science policy because the department of energy plays a very crucial role in science policy and research. have seen in the trump administration is no secretary of energy in front of us. we have two undersecretaries, neither of which have advanced degrees in science and they are going to be presenting whatever it is that the trump administration expects to accomplish. the invite to governor perry not returned? guest: the invite comes from the republican chair of the committee and for whatever reason they have decided -- secretary perry and i spent a wonderful day together. i represent the western suburbs of chicago which have two great national labs and i accompanied secretary perry all day as he toured those laboratories, the national accelerator lab, and argonne national lab in my district which does a huge variety of applied research. i was delighted that secretary perry had enthusiasm for the science and his ability and desire to be really an advocate for it. but in the science committee, we have to see someone in front of us that can describe the scientific priorities and i hope to see some of that in today's hearing, but we will see. host: those topics and more with ouro science guest representative bill foster, democrat from illinois, member of that committee that is having a hearing. give us a call. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. climate change. what do you think about this administration's approach to it? guest: again, it has not been science-based. he put in charge of the epa, the agency that really has to make on crucial scientific calls what levels of environmental contamination are safe and what are not and things like that, and it has been completely politicized, frankly. the department of energy, same thing. tore was a proposal restructure the payment system for electrical generation that was so frankly pro-coal that even trump's appointments to ferc rejected it. so what you are seeing is an approach which is not based on facts, but based on his perception of politics. ant: the president did interview with piers morgan for a british broadcast and he was asked about climate change and his personal thinking on it. we have a bit of that interview. [video clip] president trump: there is a cooling and a heating, it used to be global warming, that was not working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. the ice caps were going to melt, but now they are setting records, ok? they were so many things happening, i will tell you what i believe in, i believe in clean air, i believe in crystal-clear, beautiful water. i believe in just having good cleanliness. host: to be fair, that is just a small portion of the interview. it is obviously not science-based. the hottest years on record have been in reese and years. i don't know where he got that talking point from. the question of i believe in clean air. everyone believes in clean air. the tough calls that the epa has to make is how much do we spend to clean up the air from this contaminant or that contaminant. it is a complicated thing that should be science-based. just melting platitudes of clean air is good does not really acknowledge the tough science that has to be behind these important decisions. host: one of the criticisms when it comes to climate change that even if the united states took a position, what about these other countries like china, india, they would also be problems and could just the u.s. fix everything else? is one of, will that these arguments like it does not matter that i personally letter because that is only a small fraction of the total litter in the world. it makes no sense. the u.s. can and should be a leader in all of this. the amount of carbon that we put into the atmosphere per person is in the very top of developed countries. i think only australia really comes close. every person in the united states has a responsibility for this and i think the top of that because we lead the world in many technologies, like in my district, our national lab is developing batteries that will have many times the performance of current batteries and will be transformational to the performance of electric cars. on the other hand, president trump has put in charge of generating the federal budget, mick mulvaney, was served with for many years on the financial hasices committee -- he sort of become famous in the scientific community for questioning the need for any federally funded research at all. and you saw that in the trump budget proposal. in saw a 17% cut to research the department of energy, for example. the total elimination of the breakthrough energy research operation that was set up under president obama and it is a good thing, frankly, that these budget proposals have been ignored. it is remarkable that we are more than a year into the trump administration and we are still operating the federal government with a budget negotiated with president obama. all of the work that has been proposed and done in the appropriations committee, and congress has been ignored. the trump budgets were dead on arrival and ignored even by the republican led committees in congress. so, you see these very right-wing proposals being ignored even by republicans. so, it must be hard to maintain morale in the agencies when they are asked to participate and generate budgets which they can see on the face of them will be rejected even by republicans. host: first call comes from john in virginia, independent line. you are on with representative bill foster. caller: thanks for taking my call. is being addressed to the right person in congress right now. that has to do with our failure to harden our electric grid. some countries are doing it regularly, yet we don't pay any attention to it and we need to look at who owns the predominant shares in all of our electric sources, power sources because somehow we are totally avoiding discussion of the hardening of our grid, which is far greater danger than nature's problems. thank you. guest: thank you. you are correct. it has to be hardened in several ways. it has to be hardened against what are called epm attacks, which the leader of north korea has threatened us with. it is a scientific fact known for a while that if you detonate a nuclear weapon at a certain altitude above the atmosphere, it creates an enormous electromagnetic holes. -- pulse. during nuclear tests back in the 1950's, they damaged the hawaiian electric grid thousands of miles away. this is a huge danger and a vulnerability against nuclear attacks. we have huge boulder abilities against cyber attacks. many of the control systems that are being used in our electric grid today have computer systems which are obsolete and have proven to have enormous cyber vulnerability. there is a big risk there. there is a risk and just making the mix of energy sources and our ability to throttle back the demand when something goes off-line that has to be thought out and the control systems and the information has to be secure and hardened. you are correct. it is a huge problem. it is a set of complex, ethical problem that congress is not doing too good a job thinking about these days. as the only phd scientist in congress and the only member of congress who has designed and built a super galactic power feelmission line, i really alone sometimes because there are a large number of technical issues like hardening the grid that we are not paying attention to as we chase the news cycle each day. host: shreveport, louisiana, democrats line. mike is next. caller: thank you for having me. biologist. i have a question for dr. foster concerning entanglement. entanglement deals with a very complex physical process used in hasuters and this process been developed by the chinese such that they are now carrying computer.um quantum computers can very quickly determine your code and yet i hear nothing about what the united states is doing with quantum computers. i will take my answer off-line. thank you. guest: you are referring to quantum entanglement, which is one of the strategies used to distribute keys securely so that you can have secure digital communication after you have delivered that key. the chinese recently used satellites to deploy that key. that becausert in of the vulnerability of communications, much of it is heavily classified. so i can't talk about the full range of things that we do. money onpent a lot of this. including some of the top physicists. that if there is a large-scale functional quantum computer, if we don't transition to using what are called quantum resistance encryption methods, then there is a danger that all of the encrypted communications that we think are secure today actually can be broken by a quantum computer. another example of an issue congress should be worried about, but we don't have the mental bandwidth to handle it. host: there was a story that broke yesterday about this idea about the nation controlling a 5g network. any thoughts on that? guest: the government certainly has a hand in controlling communication standards in the policies, things like net neutrality, that really effect where investment is made in communication systems. that is another very complex discussion that is being had at a very superficial level by the u.s. congress. we could have a whole half-hour segment on that. guest'songst our accomplishments, he was a high-energy physicist at the national etc. later laboratory and at the age of 19, he and his younger brother started a business. guest: in our basement with $500 we started the company that now makes about 70% of all of the theater lighting equipment in the united states. we are probably 90% of the lights on broadway, 50% of touring rock 'n roll equipment, 70% of churches, schools, community theaters. the company just went over 1000 people. i no longer own a piece of the company. when i decided to enter politics, i had my partners by me out because i simply did not want to take votes that were affecting my net worth. big problem in politics. we see that the very top of our government right now. the conflicts of interest when you are making billion-dollar , it is something that has always been recognized to the threat of democracy. caller: how are you today? host: go ahead. caller: listen, i'm calling about climate change, which used to be global warming, i don't know what it is going to be next, but i saw a tweet that sheldon whitehouse, the senator from rhode island, threw out from some article claiming that climate change is causing freezing weather, droughts, hot .eather, rains, mudslides i don't understand. oxygen toually the plants and it produces oxygen to us. why in the world are you claiming climate change is so drastically needed with the military and everything else? it is just nonsense, it is a way to make money for yourselves. it attacks of the nations through the paris accords to get trillions of dollars to make money for themselves. it is just a government-run ola fromcal crap crap the democrats. , i run into comments fairly often, thanks to even the science committee. let's just address carbon dioxide. the basic method is fundamental physics can be verified in the laboratory. the absorption of infrared. if you have ever gone out after a hot day and got onto a field or a parking lot and just hold your arms out, you can feel the heat being re-radiated back and most of that gets radiated back into space. carbon dioxide and methane and other so-called greenhouse gases a lot that heat from escaping and reflecting back to the earth. ok? when the concentrations of those gases go up, more heat is not allowed to escape the earth at night. what happens over time is heat builds up. there is scientific uncertainty as to how quickly the temperature will rise. for example, if the heat is distributed uniformly on the ocean, it takes quite a while for the heat to raise the temperature. if it stays on the surface, then the earth will warm up rapidly. that is the uncertainty in how quickly this problem will bite us, which is perhaps a factor of two, whether it is going to bite us in 30 years or 60 years in 90 years is a subject of legitimate scientific debate. but there is no question of the fundamental physics that adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms up the are. and we are seeing that in the measured temperature rise of the earth. texas is where bob is on the independent line. caller: yes, good morning. i just tweeted some of this. back in the 1970's, i worked with the father of global .arming at columbia university at the time, he was the preeminent scientist on co2 absorption in the oceans corals and sediments. there is a history channel video that i tweeted to you and his question is if man is causing this global warming over the geologic record, which is millions of years, who caused those? co2 is a fact is trailing indicator of global warming and not a predictor of it. anyway, i would like to hear the answer. sure, i've already gone through the fundamental physics that indicates that an increase in co2 will increase the temperature of the earth. then there is also the question of the timescale. there are very large and very slow excursions of the earth's temperature in the geological record. those are nowhere near as fast as the temperature rise we are seeing today and the fact that we have had historically very fast excursion of co2 concentrations and that has been matched by a very large excursion with the temperature thatally the smoking gun climate change is real. host: our guest serves the 11th district of illinois, representative bill foster. "the wall street journal" reports that on the senate side there is a struggle over the to be the jim brydon head of nasa. what do you think about this potential appointment? guest: i think it is very important. people have had aerospace and science backgrounds and this is a break from that, if i remember right. as a pilot,kground rather than an aerospace engineer. because nasa has to make very complicated technical decisions on incredibly complicated systems, you really need some technical judgment at the very top, as well as a lot of experience in managing very large and expensive contracts and design efforts. i think there is a real merit to having someone with a different set of skills in that particular position. that has been the case in the past. from a republican line, pennsylvania, we will hear from george. caller: good morning, gentlemen to read a couple things before i get to my question. one, i would like to hear dr. foster, professor foster talk about why we need a government science space, he's talking about all these positions that have to be filled, when we've got numerous land-grant colleges, lots of expertise, a lot of these universities and places like that. secondly, i concur with him that it really bothers me that we've got a bunch of lawyers making decisions, medical decisions, whatever else about environmental issues that have no clue about any basic science. most lawyers don't have any science backgrounds period. i've often thought that if you look at it hard for a billion, what is that, one second in 33 years? does that make a difference? sometimes it does, but i'm not partse convinced that two per billion speaks to 100% higher than it should be. whatever. you understand some of these numbers, it is a finite kind of a thing. anyway, if he could comment, i would appreciate it. guest: when you talk about parts per billion, the chemical you are talking about matters a lot. if it is a part per billion of table salt, probably not much of a health risk. if it is a part per billion of lsd, than probably people would be concerned about having that in the drinking water. in between that, you have compounds like lead, where there are a poor decisions that will cost billions of dollars to fix and that have to be made in the places where they do the most good for human health. it is not just the number, it is the nature of the chemical. every chemical has different health effects. it has different health effects on people with different genetic makeup. the system is very complicated. the perfect example of why you need to have really good scientists. you mentioned university professors. that has traditionally been a real source of expertise, that , an you have a scientific area where scientific advice is necessary for the government, then they have traditionally appointed the real experts, many of them university professors to advisory committees. for example, the epa, they have dismissed the university professors mainly who are on and, in fact, are setting in place rules that say if you are receiving a federal grant, you are not allowed to serve on those committees. so, what happens, is you have committees staffed with people from industry rather than the experts from the colleges that really have thought about these things in an unbiased and academic manner their whole career and this is another area where we are going off the rails, i think, in science policies. host: this is susan in fort myers, florida on the independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm not really a science-based person other than nine a retired withut i'm pretty fed up science that is politically feasible. mr. trump seems to lean in that direction. i would like to point out chinese global television network last week indicated that they are starting an arctic silk because of the melting on the glaciers in the ice and they will be able to use this as a transportation area. , their belt and road initiative that no one is talking about and as far as the ,lobal warming, climate change i think it was in the mid-1950's already, the government science was concerned about the ozone layer and look how long ago that was and nobody is paying any attention. host: thanks. for thatll, the reason is that government regulations fixed the ozone problem. that we saw the ozone problem, recognized scientifically that it was being caused by cfc's and related compounds, the things being used and stop venting other kinds of things damaging layer, the government regulations have made, i think in the last few years, for the time, no visible hole in the ozone layer at all. that is a perfect example of government, you know, fixing a problem that would have been very severe. ozone, thet have the ultraviollet comes straight through the atmosphere and guess skin cancer. host: will you attend the state of the union tonight? guest: i will. you bring a guest? guest: i am. dreamer, she is my guest, a wonderful girl. castillo, is her name, came here as a young child, did spectacular in school, is a leader in her community and her way through college, the kind of person you would society ave a place in and a path to citizenship. i thought when president trump the crowd, one of the faces he should see, the of someone whose life hangs in the balance. host: of the things you want to trump, what sident is atop the list, immigration or things? guest: immigration, would be nice to see a return to science, facts and logic in there. any members of congress are making various statements with what they're wearing and this sort of thing. a button ie wearing, got from the science march last year that asks for evidence, think, the principle we should apply, not only to the ce policy, but to discussions we're having over russian interference in the else, ns and everything that when people hear a madement they think may be for political reason, before accepting it as true or ejecting it because of who is saying it, they should simply ask for evidence. adopted that principle, i think it would cause a lot of debate to calm return to fact-based basis. host: bill foster of illinois, time.s for your we have open phones for a half-hour before the next guest, want to comment, 202-748-8000 for democrats. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. 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[applause] >> tonight president donald state of s his first the union address to congress and the nation, join us on c-span for a preview of the starting 8 p.m. eastern. then the state of the union peech, live at 9 p.m., following this speech, the democratic response from ongressman joe kennedy, we'll also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. trump's state of the union address tonight live on c-span. free c-span n the radio app, and available live or desktop, phoneour or tablet at c-span.org. >> c-span's history series landmark cases returns next look at 12 new supreme court cases. each week historians and experts us to discuss the institutional issues and personal stories behind significant supreme court decisions. beginning monday, february 26th, eastern, to help you better understand each case, by mpanion guide written supreme court journalist tony morrow, landmark cases volume the book costs $8.95, plus to ing and handling go c-span.org/landmark cases. >> "washington journal" continues. can open phones, you comment on the twitter feed at c-span wj. our continuing conversation on facebook.com/c-span. our coverage of state of the union starts 8:00 tonight, the president's speech start at 9:00 from 8 to 9, find out the speech, bout plus phone calls, as well. c-span.org pan at app.our c-span radio president trump is seeking to parlay his address by offering chance to see their name flashed on the screen the speech.cast of he offered those willing to pay $35, the opportunity to see displayed during the live streaming of the address on his campaign website. movement, the station says, it isn't about just one of is about all of us, which is why your name deserves to be tuesday night's speech. the web page offers donor contribute as much as $2700, the maximum amount allowed per election. was asked about preparations for tonight's peech and what themes he plans to cover, here is what he has to say. on our great success to the markets and with it is a big and speech, important speech, covering immigration and for years they have been talking immigration and never got anything done. we're going to get something done, we hope it will be bipartisan because the republicans really don't have get it done any other way, it has to be bipartisan, hopefully the us or enoughl join of them, to really do something for with daca and immigration generally. budget will be a very important trade. on the world has taken advantage of us on trade for many years and you probably know, we're stopping that and stopping it have to have reciprocal trade, it is not a one-way deal anymore. we have a lot to sduz and we'll be discussing them and i hope it. enjoy host: senate minority leader chuck schumer in the pages of op ed to on post" has what he's listening for tonight, promised president investment on the campaign trail, but since taking the oath office, congress hasn't heard about the plan, what we have heard isn't promising. investment ucture and more recently proposals from the administration to rely on or state to nies put up lion share of the money entities charge local taxpayers or raise taxes the her fees to pay for infrastructure. again, that is chuck schumer, on the president's speech tonight. democrat's lorida, line. tom is first on open phones. ahead.orning, go caller: hi, good morning. ell, i whole-heartedly agree with your previous guest's a good tent in repairi from ing, but far completing that. reduction of csc's is helping a refrigerant gases, not just in your refrigerator and with friendly em gases, they are still damaging, just not as damaging. in everything from your car, air conditioning, all all onditioning systems, refrigerants and freezers, refrigerators, millions of globe. around the they're still being released, quantities, aller people who install these are supposed to be recovering the people's systems when they prepare them and replace them and things like that. sherry in portsmith, virginia, independent line. yes.r: thank you for taking my call. i feel like this evening's state be metunion message will by resistance that is grow nothing terms of understanding the o deal with trump in presidency. it is basically changing country ally what the is all about, in terms of democracy, versus capitalism. see across the country and in this area, where we are nderstanding we have to be proactive in terms of how we want to manage our lives and it on a local level and i think that will happen around the country. each other g to face-to-face, whether you are supporter of trump or not oesn't really matter in terms of local issues of being able to make sure that you have housing food and good education for your citizens of your local area. we do that, then i think this country will be okay and i feel happening.at is i was encouraged by the ongressman you had on a few minutes ago. we need to know there are people in the congress and the who understand the frustration that we feel and putting an does by people who are working on air them, that hear from gives us hope because we know to work eed to be able this thing through because trump is not going to lead us out of this. virginia.rry in evert in grant junction, colorado, republican line. much.r: thank you very i was listening to your previous caller and even though i'm a science and love so anyway, one thing that i any of those ear people that are counting the they warming situation, don't mention carbon dioxide and monoxide are heavier than air gases. nasa has a, basically a works ic converter that when it is cold, as well as when it is hot. cadda littic converters on cars, they only operating hey are temperatures extremely hot. the '80s are 60 to to cleaner than those prior that. and i never hear anybody mention the other thing, the sun, nasa, the sun is warming up all the time. yeah, we have gases on the eventually it will turn into a red giant billions of years down the road and won't make any difference what we do. host: evert in colorado. "new york times" highlights speech, particularly looking at the president's supporters. headline, president supporters fear he will go too soft at union.of the the hard-line nationalist wing of mr. trump's coalition is go soft tos about to reach for bipartisanship instead of purity and talk about cooperation with democrats and should be attacking corruption of washington, especially on battle brewing in congress. newt gingrich, former republican mr. trump er advised the president was shifting gears, eager to promote the enactment of tax plan without combative language that could muddy the message. from trump the fighter to trump the winner, mr. gingrich said monday. i'm president of the united states, i don't need to pick a fight. advisors strife tone, if not in substance, in addition to steven miller, with vince haley and rob orter, the staff secretary, coordinated input from other parts of the government. obert is next, tuscaloosa, alabama. caller: good morning, mr. pedro, talked to you in a long time. i was born and raised in the state of alabama, i don't call red state, i don't know where you get that from. talking about sexual harassment, a president who said, alleged he sexually harassed a females. at least they were women of weren't descent, they african american. sexual efferson, harassment is in this country. kids by women in slavery. so that has been done and in light skinned guy, e call half white, was born in this state 60 years ago, white men did that to black women, no of black men getting babies by so-called white women. harassment is indemmic in this country, now begun, the uropean or white women, you call them, have begun to come out f. black people, black women american women had this problem with white men in power since we were brought here. north kor ost: nate in baltimore, maryland, independent line. caller: i wanted to get on with the previous guest. all, my credentials. 10 years, director of science and technology for navy. as global warming, the is global warming, anthropogenic, man-caused. there seems to be some correlation. s far as climate change, climate change has always happened. we've had three physical , geo observatorys that indicate there climate change.physical observatorys that indicate there is no man-caused climate changee is no man-caused climate chan . is no man-caused climate change is no man-caused climate changee is no man-caused climate chans there is no man-caused climate change. the thing that made it political of the opening in the hole the ozone layer, the closing was natural. every scientist knows it was because there is no difference in the amount of chloro-chemicals released. you.: got dan in youngwood, pennsylvania. republican line. caller: yes, sir, thank you for taking my call. great show. some very good comments out there. going to say on another worked at one ad time in accounting and finance uditing and industrial engineering and what i found was that when you get to scientists financial folks together, there is barriers, walls, things move slow and they move slow like in industry, but in government, it is like an elephant. failure really possibly would be they don't understand or they don't want to understand trump's motives, in other words, he's a negotiator, out inessman, he's going there and having people perform for them. in other words, india and china abused, if we talk about the atmosphere, they continue to for reasonste a bit that are controllable or not controllable yet because of technology that they can afford. the point is, trump has got them moving out there and cutting as goes and making some type of to ress and getting people perform. i think that is very important. now if scientist wanted to make as far as here framing their proposition with rump, and the congress that supports him on these issues, they might do it without barriers and possibly since concerned with the youth, that would be the country.f our maybe making money available in studyy of citizenship and opportunitys and bring our smart people to the forefront to work women.ese great men and host: okay. dan in pennsylvania. thank you. rockport, tennessee, republican is richard. caller: good morning. rockport, texas. ahead.'m sorry, go caller: not a problem. good morning, pedro. looking forward to the president's speech tonight and what would make things really exciting would be if he read the memo, that would really stir things up. thank you. ost: the memo is topic of at least the memo when it comes to front-page story of the "new york times," from esterday, republicans on the health intelligence committee disregarded justice department arnings their actions would be reckless, voted to release memorandum sent to accuse the f.b.i. of and misusing authority to obtain secret surveillance order on campaign associate. the vote, made along party on conflict of the investigation into russia brazen meddling in the election, on the republican side, garnered reaction on the democratic side, as well. a ranking member on the intelligence committee spoke after that vote. we had votes today to concerns to the committee and to the house and selectively release to the public only majority distorted facts.thout the full very sad day, i think in the this committee, as i said to my committee colleagues hearing, sadly we can fully expect that the president of the united states the national interest over his own personal nterest, but it is a sad day, indeed, when that is also true of our own committee because to y this committee voted put the president's personal interest, perhaps their own above the nterest, national interest in denying themselves, even the ability to hear from the department and the f.b.i. and that is, i think, a deeply affairs, e state of but it does show how in my view, ou have a deeply flawed person in the oval office, that flaw an infect the whole of government and today tragically committee.r host: next to loraine, in democrat's alabama, line. caller: hello. hello, we say we are one nation god, we know nothing about god, right? just the opposite. book of revelation says power to the beast and watch the beast to see and that is what is happening right now in the government, united states congress and the president of the united states, and hrown our government siding with the russians, simple as that. we're siding with the russians, must happen for prophecy to be fulfilled because this is written. host: okay. to aaron in alexandria, independent line. morning, thank you, c-span. i'm a professional in my area of expertise and i was wondering difficulties that he science community faces in explaining science to those who are not professionals in science nd also, how do you sway someone who does not believe in scientific fact who deny climate warm , deny global something it just seems a lot of time is being wasted trying to someone's mindge who is not a scientist, who doesn't have a background in in nce or believes what is the paper, i had that comment for scientists out there, what are the challenges they face or think about just abandoning rationalizing things to those irrationale. host: tommy next, akron, ohio. sorry gto ray in tennessee. ray, hello, go ahead. caller: good morning. yes, thank you. things i wanted to comment on, certain that there warming, we're in a warming trend, natural trends millions of years, but also air pollution and various things have brought warming and you can see that in the more intensive sea levels rise, they'll be more flooding, of areas of texas and louisiana and all over the world. also, i'm a student of german a lot and was struck by of things that president trump reminiscent.m i went back and read the book my struggle," by adolf hitler and many things hitler wrote in this book that he would do once chancellor in germany in the '20s is actually very similar to what donald trump does, the big lie, the dividing eople, the undermining the judicial branch, blaming everyone who doesn't agree with him. things are e reminiscent of hitler and to i erstand president trump, think it helps for somebody to maybe read that book. to tommy inlet's go akron, ohio, democrat's line. aller: good morning, pedro, good to talk to you again. i have two quick predictions bout the state of the union tonight. first of all, if you remember had representative wilson his moment with president obama over obamacare, i predict there multiple you lies, you tinks different things from both sides of the aisle, not just democrats. second of all, sergeant that when the of arms introduces president rump, that members of the congressional black caucus and others, will take a knee. i think these two things, if either happen, will rattle the president so much that we'll see the true president speak at the podium. if i'm right on any of these, a coffee mug?e host: how about this, cuwatch of us ith the rest tonight on our state of the union coverage. gain, that starts at 8:00 on our main network, c-span, you can go to c-span.org and our app, see if the viewer is right or not. 8, e coverage available at speech at 9 with our coverage leading up to that, including calls on capitol hill. hello, w york, noel, republican line. caller: how you doing, pedro? a comment ed to make abo about -- go ahead, you're on. noel, are you still there? i think he's dropped. i apologize for that. ralph in michigan, independent ralph, you are next. in, er: yeah, i'm calling nobody says anything about billions and billions of trees dying. in the paper, le this is a couple years ago, i don't believe it, though, drinks 2300 gallons of water per day that, is a oak tree. i went on the phone and it says it drinks 45 gallons a day. mean, if you got billions, this is all over the country, dies, where will the water go? ost: that is ralph from michigan. aaron greg reports on "washington post" about security there for and backlog the page of the "washington post." e says the backlog reached 700,000 so great last week the government accountability office highly unusual step of adding effort to high-risk the process ifying is in need of concerted action to prevent waste, fraud abuse mismanagement, office of management and administration charged with doing background checks is without permanent director a into president trump's tenure. he gao failed to set long-time fwoel to address the backlog, renewd and strong leadership needed to solve the problem. processing background checks has been a challenge for federal investigators weigh clearing workers quickly to prepare critical work against who might do harm. he issue flared up after 2013, when former agency contractor snowden leaves classified nformation despite being cleared. later that year, mass shooting by government employee in the further raised question about whether candidates were being vetted properly. california, republican line. hi there. caller: hi there. first of all, this has been a wonderful year. impressed with president trump having so much done in one year. voted for him because he was a very litician and i'm happy. host: what is the top of those things you're happy with, what top of the list? caller: what is the top of the all, i have rst of never seen so much forward-movement for the united states. he's for the american people. and it just a horrible media coverage. i never realize how the media us.des he's for the american people and immigrationart that policy done, i believe it is fair, balanced, i'm very happy. host: washington times looks at former president, president for presidential center in chicago. chicago richardson says and droves venting displeasure with the planned library calling "ugly waste of taxpayer resources," and dangerous public t for historic parkland. recent letters to the editor panneded in the tribune, the presidential center, which will consume 20 acres from jackson park and cost taxpayers $100 million in renovation to surrounding area. published january 26, john deal called the gg-shaped main tower and surrounding buildings "garish monstrositys that ruin aesthetics of the park land stolen from the taxpayer think " does anyone else the artist rendering of the mr. deal asked? it goes on from there, there is picture of the planned sketches of the presidential center, planned for illinois. times in the washington this morning. arl, from berkeley springs, west virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. disappointed when i turned on the t.v. this morning on "washington journal" and othing about the corruption in the f.b.i. or the doj. this will end up biting the democrats. seems to me they are the people that use tack ticks ones used in the kgb in russia to try to keep being elected and you, you i'm telling talk to the media, all you are up.g to do is cover it host: we dealt with it in an extended phone and read stories memo per don't have a se, wait a minute, wait a minute, we don't have a memo per comes out, we'll deal with that. i want to let you know, we did deal with it. read a few articles, that is all you have done. host: that is all we have to fulloff, we don't have the memo yet. caller: why don't you do a they m to ask people what think of it. host: we will, we will. michigan is next, this is al, line.ndent hi. caller: yes. ahead.i, al, go caller: can you hear me? host: you're on. caller: i was going to say something about global warming, hey, you know, i'm a separationist and i think at million blacks, take uld just go over and over liberia, you know, dealing everybody hereve of all colors, but i'm not going to live here and we got a and i've been saying this for year, just go, man. we don't care if they want us or not, united states supposed to give us that land, or deal with us over there we push them out. that is my theory, nothing against white, black, no color. man in the united states need to get up out of here. -- we'll go bobbyo rheanvalrico, florida, line.endent hi. caller: hi, good morning, how are you? host: well, thank you, go ahead. caller: i am so excited for tonight for the state of the union. to -- have a oing uplifting, ive, on-point message when he gives speech. i also think there will be some twists and turns, why you notice adam schiff is panicking, nancy panicking anicking, over this. original fisapage the courts om yesterday, it is on the office director of national website.nce major drop, state of the union. host: again, we'll see as it plays out, again, you're welcome coverage at 8:00 to see if that is the case. the "wall street journal" takes by the first hts lady over the last short period saying that the first lady took 21 flight necessary a three-month period on air $675,000 s at cost before she moved into the white accordingune of 2017, to military records. air force jets flew mrs. trump new york city, florida and washington under arrangement unlike any other first lady because she was l
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