our guest is josh kraushaar. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] host: good morning, this is forhington journal" september 24. the president heads to the united nations today to deliver a speech expected to address specific international concerns such as syria, iran, and the middle east and you can see it on c-span at 10:00 today. with the speech as background, several stories in the paper this morning, we want to give your opinion on the role of the united nations, especially as it plays out in international affairs. you can get your thoughts on the role of the u.n., especially in light of the president's speech today, in one of three lines this morning -- host: you can talk to us on one of our social media avenues as well. -- we have about 50 respondents on the facebook page. and you can also reach out to us @www.c-il j,ournal span.org. many of the stories reflecting specific issues on the president's beach. at the goal. look the presi

host: we're talking to josh kraushaar of "hotline." greg on the republican line. caller: yes, i am listening to this mr. kraushaar on television now on your c-span program, and i heard him state earlier that he said that the republicans need to get their act together. it is just remarks like that from the democrats to the republicans and from the republicans to the democrats that is creating this power struggle that we have got in washington now. we need to get in there and just completely restructure washington, get rid of about half of what's in there. they are all overpaid. they're getting paid way too much money. i'm on disability. i'm making $36,000 a year. i'm living comfortably because i know what i'm doing. these people that are up in washington, half of them don't know what they're doing. just like i said, they are overpaid. we could save a lot of money taking that money and pay them all about $75,000 a year. they are not worth any more than that. we could take all those savings and redo our bridges, our infrastructure -- host: greg, thank you so much for

our guest is josh kraushaar. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] host: good morning, this is forhington journal" september 24. the president heads to the united nations today to deliver a speech expected to address specific international concerns such as syria, iran, and the middle east and you can see it on c-span at 10:00 today. with the speech as background, several stories in the paper this morning, we want to give your opinion on the role of the united nations, especially as it plays out in international affairs. you can get your thoughts on the role of the u.n., especially in