--sday morning, jared polis jared polis joins us to discuss bathroom laws like the one side in north carolina, as well as efforts to elect more lgbt people to congress. the economist and author stephen moore who was reportedly asked by donald trump to review his tax proposal. he will be on to discuss the elements of mr. trump's plan as well as the plans offered by the other candidates. "washingtonh journal." in the washington post, a band of exasperated republicans actively plotting to draft in independent candidates who would keep donald trump from the white house. bill kristol is joining us here. thank you for being with us. how is your effort coming along? bill: there is a lot of support out there.

--sday morning, jared polis jared polis joins us to discuss bathroom laws like the one side in north carolina, as well as efforts to elect more lgbt people to congress. the economist and author stephen moore who was reportedly asked by donald trump to review his tax proposal. he will be on to discuss the elements of mr. trump's plan as well as the plans offered by the other candidates. "washingtonh journal." in the washington post, a band of exasperated republicans actively plotting to draft in independent candidates who would keep donald trump from the white house. bill kristol is joining us here. thank you for being with us. how is your effort coming along? bill: there is a lot of support out there. we should have a choice other than hillary clinton or donald trump. getting a serious, credible candidate to run every four years, it is not so easy to do. you have two parties who set a -- with a semi-monopoly situation. there are serious people engaged in real discussions and it is not too late. you can get on the ballot and you can raise money. it is a question of finding the right c

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coming up tuesday morning, colorado democratic congressman jared polis joins us to discuss the latest move by the obama administration to stop bathroom laws like the one signed in north carolina as well as efforts to elect more lgbt people to congress. then, economist and author stephen moore who reportedly was asked by donald trump to review his tax proposal, will be on to discuss the elements of mr. trump's plan as well as plans offered by the other candidates. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> joining us now to talk thebt state of roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the united states. the american society of civil engineers. good morning. can you talk about your organization and what role it plays? asce is a professional organization. it has been around since 1852. 150,000 members who work in the private sector, government, research and academia. it's mostly a technical organization but we moved out of our headquarters in new york city and came to washington to have more of a policy

host: our guest with us, representative jared polis joining us. if you want to ask them questions about the bathroom law -- him questions about the bathroom law -- 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 , 202-748-8003ople . i know you are in colorado. did you hear the results of this from your work as the cochair of the lgbt caucus? iest: many of the schools represent have had policy coinciding with this guidance for some time. whoad a transgender student transitions over the summer. there's other schools who aren't they might move, and if it is, they have a child in one district that was a boy, they transition to a girl, they might move to another district and present as a girl and for all intents and purposes, the school knows their girl. familyoftentimes, the will not even disclose that the child used to be a different gender. it is every school district of , servesgnificant size transgender kids whether they know it or not. whether you are black or white, whether you have a special need or you don'

representative jared polis. go ahead. >> good morning. i'm a little confused on this issue. i've always believed if a person is born as a male and they have surgering surgically been converted to a female, or the opposite, the way this law seems to say to me is, even though that male has been converted to a female surgically, that person is still required to use the men's bathroom? so could you clear me up on that? i'm confuse opd that. >> it is a pretty ridiculous law. and not to mention of course the almost 1% of people that have some degree of ambiguity with regard to that you are birth gender and we refer to them as inter-sex. so absolutely if there was a man who in transition from a women to a man through surgery and appear to be a woman and are through surgery, and to say they have to go to a men's bathroom, which is is what the law says. and you can imagine the threat for someone who is basically a woman in the men's bathroom. and it really makes no sense and shows a profound misunderstanding of what gender identity is. >> from greensboro, north carolina. jimmy. good