host: we are taking your phone calls, if you have a question or comment for daniel ikenson you can call us, democratic line 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independence, 202-748-8002. taking your tweets, our handle is @cspanwj. our first caller is john from rapid city, south dakota. go ahead. are you there? caller: yes, hello. host: go ahead. caller: i would like -- my question is -- i would like your ofst to speak to the voice ex-president eisenhower, when he left office, he asked the world not to escalate the military industrial complex. it seems no one listens. even john f. kennedy followed up with that. in -- how do you put it -- he was -- it was not a good thing this was destroyed. there has been a lot of chaos over the world. i would imagine that america armaments toot many places in the world. arabiawe helped saudi with airplanes, infrastructure, president makes an winter. i do not -- president there is investment coming into the united states from abroad, either in equity investment or foreign direct investment or corporate debt -- each of those forms of investment crea