host: there is a radio host in washington, d.c.amed larry connor, had a chance to interview the president at the white house about the release of the report. here is a portion of that interview. [video clip] >> you will see a lot of strong things come out tomorrow. attorney general barr will be giving a press conference. maybe i will do one after that, we will see. he has been a fantastic attorney general, he grabbed it by the horn. what has happened is unthinkable ok and page and comey and mccabe and all these characters and brandon and klapper. you look at what comey did as the director of the fbi, it is a disgrace, it is a disgrace to our country and i hope i am going to be able to put this down as one of my great achievements. host: that was the president in an interview with the white house. 10:30esident will talk at addressing another event, he might address the mueller report. later, he will head to mar-a-lago for the easter holiday weekend. of the report at 9:30 or later this morning at 11:00 to congress and 9:30, a press c

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host: good. caller: i am curious how the founding fathers established the bill of rights, first and second amendment, freedom of religion, press, right to bear arms, and politicianss later, think they can start messing with that concept? host: would you agree with the fact that the second amendment hasn't always been read the way it is being read now? caller: not necessarily. i think the founding fathers set washington up to be gridlock, to where, you have the states, the different branches of government, that we sit down and discuss different issues in order to make resolutions. i think washington, the founding fathers were smart enough to set washington up to be total gridlock. host: so what do you mean by that? what does that have to do with how the second amendment has been read over the years? caller: it is not a tyranny, making a decision. it is not one person deciding everything. we as a governing body have to get together, elect our duly elected politicians and majority rules. host: you s

host: go ahead.aller: i think the general public has made a miscalculation as far as the charges against donald trump. the president may not be guilty of high crimes but he is certainly guilty of misdemeanors. he has been nothing but a nuisance to the government. he has alienated countries and people are trying to get along with each other in this country. host: are you saying that the molar -- mueller: report highlights instances that would rise to the case of a misdemeanor? and if so, give me an example. i have not read the report. he is supposedly the present of the united states and he is supposed to bring our country together and he has done the complete opposite. that makes him a nuisance. host: that is tom and maryland calling us this morning. has a piece on the new york times this morning taking a look at the report. mueller's damming report. under the headline, he writes congress is well-equipped to make determinations that the special counsel decided were beyond its purview because congress

host: good morning.r: i just wanted to say that both my husband and i were on the aca and to us, it was awful. we never even got to use it. because it was over $1400 a month and we both moved on to medicare, but the deductible was like $8,000, we never used it. we just paid $1400 a month, we didn't get any deductions. so in my opinion, the only way the aca works is if a person makes a low income and gets subsidized by the government. those people are happy. i think that first color you had on their best the first caller -- i think the first caller that you had on their the has been on it since turned 14, i think that is what they on. host: so what are you on now? caller: on medicare. we pay a basic fee. you still pay when you are on medicare. we are getting sold a bill of goods if you think it will be free, it is not, you are still paying for medicare. host: ok, bobbie in nevada, that. for 202-748-8000 is a number to call if you are in the eastern and central time zones, 202-748-8001 if you are in the mo

host: got it.st: i did not really get the question, but i appreciate the call. , andnk it was about hydro certainly hydro is one of the cleanest forms of energy around. good news is that we are seeing a lot of new tech knology arounds -- technology around small hydro so we do not have to dam up our rivers to produce electricity with the technology that is emerging now. we will be able to do small-scale hydro that does not impact the environment. host: we are taking viewer comments and questions, and one comment was about getting solar from china. china,getting solar from there president last year put a tariff on imported solar panels. was that there was basically one sector of the clean energy economy where we saw jobs decrease, the solar industry. that is because most of the jobs in solar are in installation and service and management, et cetera. it is not dissimilar to electronics. you can imagine what would happen if we put a tariff on parts that go into cell phones or computers. it would not ki

host: ok. increasing federal funding for technology research is something that has wide bipartisan support. all of the democratic residential candidates have said something about that. republicans in congress usually go on board with that with increasing research funding. it has had a lot of very concrete results in terms of reducing emissions and improving the environment. for example, hydraulic fracking for natural gas had a lot of help from the federal government at one point. the cost of solar power has reduced a lot in the last 10 to theargely been investments from the federal government. that can have real results. host: jerry, texas, republican. you are on the air. caller: i would like to say that i think it would be great for the nation if they start burning more natural gas and propane gas in cars. gas puts out almost zero hydrocarbons as fuel. assetk that would be an to this country. we have just about an unlimited supply of natural gas in this country. host: zack colman. guest: he is

host: either one of you? jake: it was reported he said it was a domestic political issue he used in his campaign but it , given whatorrect we know of the last two years to suggest the president did not want this border wall on the border with mexico, so yes it might have been a domestic political issue but the government was shut down for 35 peoplempacting a lot of for this wall, so -- anna: it is going to impact trade as well. it obviously impacts the border but also billions of dollars of trade happening with mexico as we try to rewrite nafta. behindhat was happening the scenes during this government shutdown, during that 35 day period? jake: government funding was running out and the president was angry that there was no legislation that paul ryan or mitch mcconnell was putting through and paul ryan tried to explain shutting down the government is not going to bring you closer to getting this wall. the president did not believe that paul ryan and mitch mcconnell had his best interests at heart and stuck wi

host: he is an encyclopedia. matthew: sometimes when we look for information, we can't find it on the internet. the best place is to write an email to bill. chances are he knows or he knows where to look. bill, i have been at the association for two and a half years, and bill has been a great these are thes of places you should start looking and these are the things he should start reading. i have tried to take that up and impressed that on lindsay. lindsay: for new people when they come on, the first thing handed to them is his master work on white house history, which is right now in two volumes on we are coming up with a third volume. working through that is so much information already in such a great place to start. he is always our starting point for learning about the history. host: do you find it slightly ronic that as historians, your specialists in george washington, and he was the only president not to live in the white house? lindsay: yes. matthew: it is ironic. we have to make a joke about it or else

host: ok.ichard also says yes in massachusetts. caller: i agree. it should be on. out whether they are citizens or not. so they get the money and stuff like that. saying i amhem from a citizen today? you know what i'm saying? how do you prove it? that is my -- that is what my wife was just saying. i will say i'm a citizen. how can you prove not? thank you for taking my call. host: the washington post editorial board describes this as wilbur ross's con job on the senses. the supreme court should disallow adding a citizenship question. the trump administration contends the justice department one of the question included in order to gather data on the voting eligible population. mr. ross decided the only way to gather the information the justice department wanted was to ask for a census form. this flies in the face of common sense. testimony in trial court and analysis from the census bureau's own expert. the justice department would get more accurate data if congress -- rather than poisoning the

host: go ahead. caller: i was calling to find out when mueller knew about the report or no collusion. host: meaning what? caller: well, did he know before midterms? that might have changed the outcome of midterms. how long have they actually known that there was no collusion and continued to spout their nonsense? host: so you are talking about the timing of the release report ? caller: exactly. host: why do you think it is important? caller: i think it might have changed the outcomes of the midterms. had we known that there was no collusion, they have been spouting this for so long, believe they were on the defense. from the very beginning. host: ok. that is kathy in oregon. let's try chris in wisconsin. caller: that's the word, collusion. he states that collusion is not , it's conspiracy. -- there is a term no collusion. he clearly states that is not a prosecutable term. course not. he says there is no such thing as collusion. it's not even prosecutable. it's not a prosecutable thing. it's not even

host: you are on.aller: why doesn't they talking about on the border, you have ,ussia, they have 100 troops going through our airspace, that was last week. they said the people is coming up. acting like they dictators on the cuban border. not even the president or the .ews networks talking about it host: anthony is next in maryland. my story is the firing of kristen nielsen and the i feel badice -- that they were fighting in the beginning. all through the obama administration, as you can see now with trumps properties he is trying to rid the properties of all the illegal immigrants he hired during the obama administration. he caused this problem. he said he would get those latino votes and he promised them jobs. now that they are coming, he wants to know why. he promised all this. he caused the problem. does that relate to the firing of the homeland security secretary and the secret service chief? service, i secret think that was an embarrassment with the chinese lady in mar-a-lago. nielsen, the firing

. >> host: how did they do that? >> guest: martin luther had a great advantage. when he attacked his 95 theses to the church door they were able to from there to this new technology and be disseminated across - luther's ideas were not unique, were not unusual. multiple clergyman making those arguments previously but the reach of their message was limited to the reach of their voice and suddenly martin luther, the printing press made him the first mass media evangelist and it took off. >> host: mark zuckerberg had a similar situation. mark zuckerberg continued to evolve as we move from the wired internet to the wireless internet and there was a point in the history of facebook where there were serious concerns as to whether they were keeping up with the fact the world was going around and he made a pivot and succeeded. both of them were enabled by new network technology. >> host: in your new book "from gutenberg to google: the history of our future" you talk about it is not necessarily the inventors who know how to use this technology, people like martin luther an

host: either one of you?ake: it was reported he said it was a domestic political issue he used in his campaign but it , given whatorrect we know of the last two years to suggest the president did not want this border wall on the border with mexico, so yes it might have been a domestic political issue but the government was shut down for 35 peoplempacting a lot of for this wall, so -- anna: it is going to impact trade as well. it obviously impacts the border but also billions of dollars of trade happening with mexico as we try to rewrite nafta. behindhat was happening the scenes during this government shutdown, during that 35 day period? jake: government funding was running out and the president was angry that there was no legislation that paul ryan or mitch mcconnell was putting through and paul ryan tried to explain shutting down the government is not going to bring you closer to getting this wall. the president did not believe that paul ryan and mitch mcconnell had his best interests at heart and stuck with

host: thank you.uest: i think it is a little candidateay what granit would be great to run against donald trump, but he had said he would have had a harder time hillaryld it been clinton, so i am not sure where donald trump stands on a face-off with bernie sanders right now, but i think it is a little early to predict how democrats might fare not just in their primary but also even farther down the road against donald trump. host: there is a story online at politico.com. the headline "here is a trump campaign strategy that democrats are eager to embrace." " president trump left many in washington scratching their heads when he put the 2016 campaign digital chief in front of the entire efforts. now democrats are embracing that, among the white house campaign digital folks. it is from raising breathtaking email. money via today in a low-price politico, the stakes are even higher, early success online can entirely framed the candidacy, and a misfire can doom a nascent bid. democrats see a war that instan

host: mr.oniz, what about her view and other views that you've heard that this is overblown, this is alarmist? she points to this video. how do you respond to that? guest: first of all, let me say, i can only apositively giles for the length of my response, and if it taxes the attention span of certain viewers. but i don't wish to be offensive, but i'm afraid that the statement about the swindle is simply completely unsupported by science. i don't mean complicated science. very, very simple. global warming is a measured fact. and the idea that it is caused by human behavior, burning of fossil fuels mainly, is essentially a fact as well. there are many who argue correctly that way, way back in the earliest history, we had even higher co2 concentrations, and that is true. but we're talking not about geological time frames. we're talking about decades in which the carbon emissions and the carbon concentration in the atmosphere are simply measured and are happening much, much faster, completely tra

host: okay. the vice president gives a washington, d.c. 11:15 ill be at is 1: -- this morning, if you want to see c-span.o i'm not sure of the comments he will make. he might address -- [audio drop] 11:15 this morning on c-span. this ont page shows how is. [audio drop] [ joe, well come back, video in which the former vice president addressed his history of whom al comment some of have come forward in recent weeks that made them uncomfortable. video in hands appears on his cartoonish d then a image of mr. biden's head comes the back of the vice president's head. again, that is president trump's twitter. he president is going to california today. democrats vice president's hea. terry is up next. hi. caller: hi. on, go ahead. heard.: my voice be almost rently paying of a $2,000 a t anthem blue or cross and in california it takes of the rest of my premium for anthem blue cross. here ere are five doctors that will not see me with that insurance. i believe in medicare for all. nose up an turn their and

host: thank you. do love newspapers, going all the way back to working on my high school paper in the 80's. hoops. .- oops i live in the northern michigan rural community and we have two pretty excellent papers that do excellent regional coverage. the traverse city record eagle and the cadillac evening news. cadillac is a city with a population of about 2000. it's a small paper, it's family-run. i have known some of the family members, the publishers. they do a really good job. the smaller ones do seem to -- they go with a lot of ap stories and they're pretty heavily edited to. you don't always get the full length of what the story might have been. the traverse city record eagle, however, does excellent local news coverage with a particular focus on local government and they are probably reaching seven counties? their papers are available to buy in the stores. , you are papers available know, out-of-town papers that you can get. you can get them at some of the supermarkets. i would encourage anyone to

host: so do you put in farm hours? ms. garcia: i often get up at 5:00 in the morning to read otes, to pe pair for meetings, -- to prepare for meetings. i'm up anyway. it's hard for me to sleep late. but i'm a good napper. host: how would you describe your work style or work ethic? ms. garcia: it's usually nonstop. for me the only thing that's different from previous positions, it's not the hours but the intensity. for me, in the state senate there were periods where we were like really, really busy. here it's that way every single day. but the hours are the same. the weather is different. but other than that it's just, you know, again, just working to make things better for working families. host: anything that surprised you about washington? s. garcia: not really. it's just another tool if you will, for me, in trying to make a difference. if there's anything surprise, it's just the change of weather. it seems to be so fickle. you know. it can be snowing one day and raining the next, sleet the next and it's really wreaking

host: mr.andick, what do you think? yes, please, go ahead. guest: and i agree what kim said and in fact, one useful way to think about this is according to barr's letter, the mueller report team obtained hundreds of search warrants. for a search warrant, you need to be able to show a judge that there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that evidence of that crime is in a particular place or e-mail account. maybe not enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and so a good prosecutor wouldn't charge a case unless they were convinced there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt but it's clear -- so what people want to find out what, the public wants to find out what is the underlying evidence is, not just the characterizations of it by the attorney general. and although there are some rules that restrict the types of information that can be shared, grand jury secret circumstances classified information, there still should be considerable room for the attorney general to re

host: thank you.uest: i think to deny the science, the concept of climate change, is really not going to get us where we need to be. whether you believe in climate as a crisis or not, it is so air,cult to imagine better cleaner air that we breathe, safer water that we drink. these are good concepts. but i will go with the 97% of the scientist community. by law, agencies are required to do routine assessments of where we are with climate change. our own federal agencies reporting to the executive, the executive branch was informing the ceo of that executive branch, the president, that they and their assessment, their latest assessment a few months ago, indicated the problem is deeper than thought and more urgent than imagined. so for that science to be invoked here without latest assessment, have it be handed to the president and have him say, "i don't believe it tom: that is not a scientific response --, "i don't believe it," that is not a scientific response. this needs to be done in an evidence-base

host: ok.r: but my question is -- why can't we go to a 10% national sales tax and do away with all these stupid regulations from the irs? host: so a tax policy question there, elizabeth zach. is that something you want to take? guest: that is a little beyond the scope of my article, but i do sympathize, in a sense. average american to understand the tax code, to understand changes that have been made in the last year. you are penalized if you are unaware of these changes. it is an awful lot to ask, and again, i sympathize with the caller in that sense. host: you write in your piece about this entity called the free file alliance. they struck a deal with the irs in 2002 to offer the company's on thee software i condition that the free file alliance would help. they said -- guest: i spoke with professor bankman about this, and his point of view is this is payers'ely a tax the rights issue. when they show you the form, what numbers they have, don't you want to know what they have when you are payi

host: we did.ell us why you think the value added tax, tell us about that, and why you think it would be a better system. caller: this is placed on the improvement in the value of the product as it goes through the system. and the advantage of that is there's a large amount of black market money that never gets taxed today. and it would be through the value added approach. also, for example, all the landscapers in my area are paid in cash. nd people do not pay any other taxes, nor income tax. host: the value added tax. guest: i'm a fan of the value added tax because it taxes consumption. would we want a tax? you basically want a tax that you want less of. i would love more work, more savings, more investment, and the income tax. i'd rather shift more to a consumption tax and reduce the income tax. i'd railroad reduce the income tax and push more burden on assumption and tales tax, and the caller is right f. there are people out there who have high incomes and can afford lawyers and attorneys and fi

host: who asked you? rep. dean: the local area democratic committee leader asked me to run for township. my response was, oh no, when i get in i am going to get in in a big way. he said i know you said no, but will you please think about it. with all regions this -- graciousness, it is not i am asking you to run because i think you are fabulous, but we are desperate. i said i would think about it. it happened to be that weekend, january of 2011 that gabby giffords was shot. i was away in the pocono's with my kids. my kids and said this is your door. you have been looking for a chance to serve. i told him yes. iran and i won. i was serving not very long when the attorney general josh. made the move for county government. i moved quickly to fill his unexpired term. i was in the pennsylvania house where i served for six and a half years. governor wealth reinvigorated the pennsylvania commission for women. i was asked by the governor to be the one and only legislator on that commission of 20 women. i was so please

host: ok. mike in new york, democrat. where does this issue fall for republican voters? we heard from carlos, republic in florida saying, gop millennial voters are asking for legislation action to combat climate change. >> it is stratified by age at this point. younger voters in both parties demand some sort of response to climate change. but you are not seeing that across the republican party as a whole. it is near the bottom of issues care about.cans it is not adequate them more it justdoes democrat -- does not register in the same way for a lot of republicans. host: are there any potential challengers to president trump that believe, or would put climate change on their agenda? >> bill well, the former governor of massachusetts just entered the race last week as a primary challenger against president trump. he is widely considered to be a longshot candidate. has a highrump popularity in the republican party. he is very vocal about caring about climate change. he says he even wants to keep th

host: ok.ll let our guest respond. i absolutely agree. you made the point that these terms like white supremacist, white nationalists, racist. it's almost like they're used so much that i almost start to mean nothing anymore. when you have somebody like me or candace owens or charlie cook or any of these people who are really just conservative thinkers, when you have people throw out that kind of language. number one, the language is offensive and incendiary, but the language is meant to shut down conversation. the language is meant to shut down opposing viewpoints. and i think you are absolutely right that there's a lot of fear mongering that goes on. too much fear mongering goes on on both sides. i always advocate for more conversation, not less. more ideas, not fewer. more discussion. i think that is the only way we going to move forward from this really specific point in history that we are at right now. host: in texas, republican line. tony, go ahead. caller: first of all i have to congrat

host: how so?aller: it impacts them because now you are taking in people who are methodist and how they believe in christ and god. you are taking in baptists and how they believe. have their own belief or support of their politics. their politicians have to pander to their whims. this tweet.with religion has provided the opportunity for some megalomaniacs who manipulate mines made week by absolutism to be victimized criminally and for perpetrators of genocide like hitler to commit atrocities. from the new york times, some of , leading theers list is a book by former first lady michelle obama titled becoming. pageatriarch by susan recently on c-span's q&a program. the book on barbara bush. four ben shapiro at number with the right side of history. number six is maybe you should talk to somebody. commander-in-chief by rick riley is number seven. number nine is the unwinding of the miracle. some of the top 10 books from the new york times'sunday magazine. bobby and a tyler, texas, good morning to you.

host: we can.aller: i definitely support ,ongress start the process questioning for impeachment because we have to go down that in order to uphold the rules of the constitution. weird that the republicans, after bill clinton, they said it was all about the constitution. we are going to start each session quoting from the constitution and now when it comes down to following it, they trump hasle it and got to be held accountable toause those are the rules run the government, to run our country. if we don't follow the constitution, we will be like some other third country out here and that is what trump wants, he is tearing down everything, we have to stop it. pedro echevarria with details about today's meeting between president trump and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer in the senate. host: that meeting taking place at the white house to talk about infrastructure and possibly some type of agreement that could come between the parties to make that happen. when it comes to the lead up to that meeting, po

host: will you charge for the final product? guest: yes. host: how much? guest: $9.99. host: some people say they have paid for this product via taxes already, why should i pay for a book version? guest: they should pay for the book expenses. book as aing the mass-market, the classic american development of the sick -- of the 50's and the size that was developed so that books can be priced less expensively and get to more people, especially young people, that was an idea in the 1940's and i think it is relevant in this case. i will not be able to convince the printers to print this -- -- for free for us but it will , be a minimal cost available to more people who want it. they will not be able to get it without some expense. host: the final product that you make will be just what is released in the report? they will not be additional material added? guest: we feel very strongly -- some of our competitors, there will be several publishers making this book. it is a good thing. everybody has a different idea of how to package it. one of the competing issues is going to inc

host: good. caller: presenting this venue for regular folks to talk about these issues, it is a great catharsis. i'mthing that strikes me, kind of disturbed by a caller earlier who said she was tired of hearing all the mueller stuff on the news. i got to say i swore an oath to the constitution right across the river in arlington about 38 years ago, and i was thinking about all my ancestors and all the folks now that swore an oath to the constitution to defend it. and i think the rule of law is truly important. it is what separates us from many other countries. all you got to do is look at most of their news channels. fortunately, you guys do a really good job presenting a mirror image reflection of what is actually happening in leading folks like myself to call in and talk. i will not go into my feeling about the president. i just think that eventually the mueller report will come out unredacted. it may take as long as still try to get the facts about the kennedy assassination, but in time, truth

>>host: but you weren't quick. >> no.as i stated in my book i was meeting with prime ministers and foreign ministers and defense ministers of these countries at the time. at 25 years old i was meeting one-on-one with foreign ministers talking about my ideas. meeting with the german one - - junior commercial attachÉ added embassy in london. through my time at the hudson institute on the ben carson campaign, donald trump campaig campaign, readers will understand i was not the obscure random person in the media falsely characterized me better person with deep rooted connections to previous administration and those that i have explained foreign minister ministers, and of course, when you are promoting an idea that began add a conservative think tank like the hudson institute, institute, when in a democratic sitting administration of course, people will look at you when you compound dealing in a sensitive part of the world with the new field and industries such as energy discovered for the first time offshore israel of course,

host: are not? -- why not? guest: there are different ways that you can organize nonprofit organizations. i organized as a c4. some people have a preference for privacy in donation. when it comes to these issues, it is unfortunate that there are some primarily on the left, ngo organizations, that will go after people because they support endeavors like mine. so, people have prioritized privacy to ensure they are not the subject of sometimes needless and sometimes personal and harmful attacks. host: would like you to respond to reverend mitch epcot. he was at an event for the new democrat coalition. here is what he had to say about the trump administration energy policy. >> we have to work to build a national policy, whether we believe in some type of market-based system. whether -- i mean we can talk , forever about the various proposals. we like market-based systems because we want the market to work. but i think that'll has to be bedo up -- that all has to teed up, and hopefully in 2020 when we will have new

host: go ahead. caller: i am just calling to state the case that democrats -- right now they are saying barr should retract his statement about spying on the trump campaign, but i don't hear any of the democrats retracting any of the inflammatory statements they made themselves. host: which ones should democrats retract, kathy? caller: they should retract things like trump was a russian spy, that he is a traitor, that sort of thing. they have done nothing but make the trump administration hisrable since before administration started. i pray for trump every day that we can get back on an even keel and people will understand the truth of what is going on. host: this is kathy in alabama. this is margaret, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. comment is about president wasp being told when he candidate trump about the russians interfering his -- infiltrating his campaign and he said he did not believe it because russian intelligence did not say it. that being said, all the chatter over the air

host: go ahead.r: what do you want me to do? host: we want to hear your thoughts. caller: i support the idea of the nuclear option because that appears to be the only way to get anything done in this congress. is to use the nuclear option libs aretherwise the going to sit around and do nothing. we don't need a 30 hour debate on one person, one judge. we can do it in two or three hours. it is getting ridiculous. our whole government is out of control. you're all getting ridiculous. host: how concerned are you about what happens down the road if the next time democrats are in charge of the senate and a democratic president is making his or her appointments? caller: then they will probably do the same thing. they will have the option to do the same thing. thever, i don't believe conservatives are as hardheaded as the liberals are about stuff like that. host: why not? caller: they just are not. the liberals have gone crazy. host: here is more from the senate floor yesterday. republican senator lamar alex

host: are you there? caller: i am here. host: go ahead caller:.appy holidays to everyone. -- go ahead. caller: happy holidays to everyone. congratulations on your book. you are going to do a great justice for the history of our youth to read and learn. i am 44 years old, and i grew up in a hollywood family. what is great about this country, i believe, is that it gives the right to game programmers, film and television producers and directors, to media free media, free for people to watch. youths,e the adolescents, and young adults, their brains are not quite developed yet, and when you put this media, this form of violent media, games, television, and films, and they watch it over ancontributed a lot to this unfortunate violence in schools. they just cannot help themselves. they believe they are in a game. they believe they are in the tv show. they believe they are in the film. i just wanted to know what you thought about that. that is what is great about this country and the constitution. developed enough.ths are not for that.nks that was one of

those. >> host: would you teach? >> guest: at perdue i teach creative writing and workshop in fiction and creative nonfiction. >> host: i hate to do this but i'm going to ask anyway. you have a favorite or a story that really grabs you? >> guest: i do have a couple of favorites read ways to be a girl. i thought it was really good because it shows that things on the milder end of the spectrum that every woman deals with. these places that our bodies are not our own and we are part of the public discourse whether we want to be w or not. either hersh was also good with the opening essay. miriam wrote an excellent essay about loving a woman who has been rates even though she hasn't had that experience herself that i love doll 29 essays about something so difficult but of course there a are highlights. >> host: would you consider what happened to her sexual assault? >> guest: i think ittss misconduct and it's tricky with these words. that was inappropriate and i think it's important to define language when talking about i

host: go ahead. caller: hello? host: we have to have what?urer: we have to have paycheck -- every paycheck from the first one we get, money gets taken out for medicare and we are not even allowed to use that insurance until we are 65. that's a pretty good billing process. the second thing i am going to comment on is closing the border . yes, we need to close the border and we need to change that when you are arrested, you get sent back to the country you are from. we need to investigate who is sponsoring the trucks bringing these people up and how many of these people are vaccinated? it's not a coincidence we have a measles outbreak with people who may be coming up without measles vaccinations. host: a lot of discussion the past couple of days has been the closing theact of border. does that concern you? are moreafety concerns important. we have a group of people working very hard and we have a oncework ethic and i think we get this mess cleaned up of this silent invasion is what i call it, we can get back to doing what we do best, creating j

host: go ahead, sir.aller: i support it mainly because of the factor of the military -- people that have to deal with someone who is different. i understand the freedom that we should be having in this country, but it could mean life and death on the battlefield and i feel that we need to talk this issue out more before we continue onward. i do feel that we have a very unhinged president of this country and something has to be done about him but i don't know if i'd feel safe -- i don't understand that particular part of their decision and i am also a christian and i feel that -- i'm not sure the bible supports it. might change may happen later but i need to listen to what all you folks have to say. host: before you go, why don't you think you would feel safe serving with the transgender member of the military? caller: it's the way they make a decision. if you have to fight on the if they don't know would fear being in battle because of their change -- i don't understand the transgender and so i justde fee

host: do you agree? >> he should've framed his findings differently for many of the reasons that the dean mentioned. barb probably -- bar could've used a pr consultant. at the same time, i will say this. i do think that some of the criticism i was hearing today was a little bit displaced. some people were saying it was a detour when he was talking about why the president was agitated or why he was frustrated. a lot of that was directly relevant to the question of intent. i think with the attorney general was trying to do, he could've done it differently. he was trying to explain to the american people why he reached the judgment he did about the president's lack of corrupt intent. that's what he was going out. he probably could've read the leaves better. let's take a few calls before we move on to other areas in this recordation -- investigation. william, you are on c-span. caller: thank you. the investigation has been against president trump. why wasn't there any investigations against hillary with her

host: mr. sandick, what do you think? yes, please, go ahead. guest: and i agree what kim said and in fact, one useful way to think about this is according to barr's letter, the mueller report team obtained hundreds of search warrants. for a search warrant, you need to be able to show a judge that there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that evidence of that crime is in a particular place or e-mail account. maybe not enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and so a good prosecutor wouldn't charge a case unless they were convinced there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt but it's clear -- so what people want to find out what, the public wants to find out what is the underlying evidence is, not just the characterizations of it by the attorney general. and although there are some rules that restrict the types of information that can be shared, grand jury secret circumstances classified information, there still should be considerable room for the attorney general to

you, as a host, only host one day a week. the other 6 days are hosted by men. i would love to see more diversity in terms of the hosts for c-span. moving on to the new class, i think hopefully they will do and promote legislation regarding the rightist existential threat to our country, which is climate change. 68 of thesee to see new representatives are christians and i hope they will look at it from a christian perspective of stewarding what god has given us and to promote legislation that gives us 100% renewable energy, gets us away from importing oil primarily from countries run by dictators with the exception of canada. i look forward to the promotion of legislation regarding health care so that those that are -- so thatlth care they protect the affordable care act which has been decimated or tried to be decimated by the republican party. host: is health care one of the reasons why you voted in 2018 and part of your decision-making of who you voted for? caller: absolutely. that and climate change. looking at climate change, if you think we have an immigrat

host: we did. and tell us why you think the value added tax, tell us about that, and why you think it would be a better system. caller: this is placed on the improvement in the value of the product as it goes through the system. and the advantage of that is there's a large amount of black market money that never gets taxed today. and it would be through the value added approach. also, for example, all the landscapers in my area are paid in cash. nd people do not pay any other taxes, nor income tax. host: the value added tax. guest: i'm a fan of the value added tax because it taxes consumption. would we want a tax? you basically want a tax that you want less of. i would love more work, more savings, more investment, and the income tax. i'd rather shift more to a consumption tax and reduce the income tax. i'd railroad reduce the income tax and push more burden on assumption and tales tax, and the caller is right f. there are people out there who have high incomes and can afford lawyers and attorneys

host: thank you. guest: i have heard that before, three mile island -- it had a host of names prior to this honestly. she raises a good issue. one of the things i would encourage people to do is go to the tmi survivors facebook. there are members that discuss the health effects they had. we did surveys. -- surveys were done marriott is born, newbury -- newberry township. were still doing surveys. you can get them online at tmia.com. study that indicated an increase in thyroid cancer for folks living in three mile island. they will expand that study, continue to look at it. unfortunately, three mile island does not have a cancer registry for its workers unlike the department of defense. the commonwealth of pennsylvania no longer treks the incident. it's kind of up to the citizens. i encourage people to go to facebook or the webpage. you mentioned the film "the china syndrome" which was released a couple weeks before the accident. here's a trailer from the 1979 movie. > [video clip] syndrome.""the china

it continues. >> host: is smoking a preexisting condition? if you're a smoker - >> guest: in some states, not in every state. it is a preexisting condition, personal choice but also addictive and can be hard to quit. >> host: on the issue of costs, prescription drugs came up before a house hearing. the washington post page went to cunningham writing about it, house leaders buying a vote for lowering the high cost of prescription drugs as democrats and republicans alike try to prove they are serious about taking on troubling issues this year, the potential a debate package withdrawn from a slate of bills recently passed by the ways and means committee and the energy and commerce committee, the top two congressional panels, with healthcare jurisdiction, how could congress legislate prescription drug prices? >> guest: there are a number of things they're looking at like transparency. getting inside that black box to see how much of various players in the healthcare system are paying for these drugs and how much is left for the patient to pay, we

you, as a host, only host one day a week. the other 6 days are hosted by men. would love to see more diversity in terms of the hosts for c-span. moving on to the new class, i think hopefully they will do and promote legislation regarding the rightist existential threat to our country, which is climate change. 68 of thesee to see new representatives are christians and i hope they will look at it from a christian perspective of stewarding what god has given us and to promote legislation that gives us 100% renewable energy, gets us away from importing oil primarily from countries run by dictators with the exception of canada. i look forward to the promotion of legislation regarding health care so that those that are -- so thatlth care they protect the affordable care act which has been decimated or tried to be decimated by the republican party. host: is health care one of the reasons why you voted in 2018 and part of your decision-making of who you voted for? caller: absolutely. that and climate change. looking at climate change, if you think we have an immigratio

guest: when we are dealing with host: -- host: -- host: dean medford, do you want to go first questionk -- first? thet: when dealing with community we have a responsibility to communicate what we hold sacred but at the same time the community has the responsibility to respond to what that history is. so, i am hopeful that once we aboutxpressed how we feel the yard, as we call it, being made into a dog park, people will understand that that may not be the ideal place to walk their dog. but i also would like to express what i heard from our president recently. his comment was that we should be equally concerned about what's happening with young people, especially young people of color, especially, in the city who are dying every day. we need to keep in perspective what is happening while there is much concern about our green space. we are very much concerned about the concerns around the lives of black men and women. guest: if only we could put him on route -- mount rushmore, we could that should put him there fdr is number three in our poll of scholars. a well-deserved top three preside