you are on with john bellinger. caller: i was just going to sit that i think that john bellinger is a very intelligent man. guest: thank you. caller: i think you are very correct about the tea party conservatives shutting down the government. let's not mention the nuts on the news. the second, and i would like to make is about president obama. racism is alive and well in this country. everything that president obama attempts to do, the republican somehow organize it into a crisis. yet,nk he hasn't said that but i think you will see that in the history books later on. host: denise from florida. richard is from texas on our line for independents. you are on with mr. bellinger. caller: yes, i -- host: turn down your tv and go ahead with your caller question. caller: ok, how are you doing? host: go ahead, we are here. caller: can you hear me? host: keep talking, turn on your tv. caller: i am on disability. i make $710 a month. after my bills are paid, i might have $26 left. but to keep an incident like or any other inci

host: twentynine palms in california -- tammy, you are on with john bellinger. caller: good morning could i want to say thank you to the national security for all the work that they do. my husband works for the department of defense, and i realize how important national security is. it does keep us out of war. i hear people say that we need to get out of war and all the stuff but national security is a big part of that. i want to know why there is not program set up for the national security, an important agency like the department of defense and things like that, so that when there is a shutdown of the government, those agencies still continue to be able to do their jobs and take care of the business of the security of the nation. host: before you go, was her husband furloughed? caller: yes. he went back on monday because they determined that his job was absolutely imperative an important. my husband works with the readiness and training programs, and he prepares all the weapons. host: john bellinger, if you want to talk about the planning for the shutdown. gue

course that would be too easy too messy too hard rather number one of bush's drone architects john bellinger said earlier this year to a think tank in d.c. that the reason why obama has ramped up drones so much is to avoid the bad get now let that sink in for a second this is the stark reality that we're living in right now assassinating people at will to distract from what many see as america's darkest stain and that's from the drone architects mouth and of course on the home front americans are told that blanket unconstitutional spine is necessary to catch terrorists all over the world but grayson says he has virtually zero trust in the intelligence community to properly oversee an already out of control surveillance state. what we've seen from the congressional from these congressional oversight committees regarding our so-called intelligence community is not the they're performing oversight rather overlooking and systematically doing so i think that they become apologists for the spying industrial complex and have literally never seen them do anything other than rationalize these in some

to be joggers and i'm holding in my hand the united states district violation, 392-8431 from john bellinger gave me permission to raise this issue with you. he was fined $100 for jogging in the park. i'm asking you, you've identified yourself as having significant prostitute discretion and am asking you right now, this has nothing to do -- these are the people being called in, mr. bell and others like to take time off of work, they'll have to hire attorneys, they'll have -- you have to have your people go to court and spend hours sitting in the third district court in philadelphia miles away center to enforce a $100 of citation. you have discretion. i'm asking whether you will remove these citations, the $100 fines from the 20 joggers who use valley forge park? >> i'm not in the position or have the authority to change a ticket that has been issued. that's up to the court system. now, what i will say -- >> well, let's go through the record and. because i want to establish on the record that you have allowed this enforcement to take place. so it's your position that they're obligated to pay

host: john bellinger is a former legal adviser to the national security council in the budget administration, served from 2001 to 2005. thanks for joining us this money. guest: nice to be with you. host: we will take you live to the house floor and we will see you tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. for "washington journal." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] l be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., october 10, 2013. i hereby appoint the honorable kerry l. bentivolio to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority