lou barletta: president obama served two years in the senate.now, i think of a look at qualifications. what makes a person qualified? i think what makes a person qualified is somebody who knows to put the right people around the table to solve an issue. i can relate to that, being in the business world. if i was going to hire somebody to run my company and they sat across the desk from the and said, i know how to fix this problem and, this is what i'm going to do, that is by politician would say. it politician would tell people, i know all the answers. i am going to fix every problem that we have. but people are wondering why we haven't. a businessman would say, i am going to sit down and put the brightest and best people around me. we are going to look at the problem and talk this through. that is the way you do it in the gulwreal world. but in washington, why haven't we fixed social security or these problems if it is so easy? a business person sits around the table and says, now let's figure this out. host: you are on the air. caller: good po

and then pennsylvania congressman lou barletta talks about the 2016 presidential campaign and his endorsementf donald trump. anna palmer joins us to talk about primary day in new york and the latest on the campaign trail, including a look at how campaigns on both sides are wooing delegates and a superdelegates ahead of the summer's political conventions. ♪ thisod morning everyone on tuesday, april 19. it is primary day in new york. 30ald trump is shown with a point lead in the republican primary. the is beating bernie sanders 54% to 42%. we will cover the candidates tonight and have coverage of their speeches, starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. tune in to coverage here on c-span. we will begin this morning with one of the core issues of the democratic primary. that is the 1994 crime

republican congressman lou barletta was at the meeting.e joins us now to tell us what topics were focused on the meeting. what were was the main focus, congressman. >> transition of the trump campaign into the next phase, that is outreach to the congressional members who have endorsed donald trump and to begin a dialogue between between what campaign is doing and what is happening in washington. david: congressman, how many democrats who don't like trump now are never trump people, say they sit out the election and advise other people to do the same? >> i look at pennsylvania, what i'm seeing on the ground and what is real is that almost 100,000 democrats in pennsylvania have switched parties to republican to vote for donald trump. people have come up to me who haven't voted in 10, 20 years and told me they're coming out to vote for donald trump. i haven't even energy like that in a long time. david: there is a lot of energy out there in the hinterlands, but inside the beltway there is a lot of fear as well because what donald trump says h

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pennsylvania two of my good colleagues there in pennsylvania are on the ground helping out tom and lou barlettaht now. that's how hard they are working. these are the things i'm learning in these meetings. >> how many members of congress are in these meetings. >> i will tell you a handful. >> five to six? >> five to six members. it does vary because obviously our schedules are just so that some come and some haven't. this was a good meeting this morning. >> yeah. >> you have officially endorsed donald trump? >> i didn't officially endorsed donald trump. i actually voted for him in the north carolinag(n6 primary. so, by voting for him and actually having the conversation that i did, that was the endorsement. and i think what you are going to ask-to-see from here on out. i don't know how many more endorsements you will see. we are beyond that point now. is he doing well. set presumptive nominee for us. and i think that's the place that we need to go. we need to keep that in mind. >> who comes from the trump campaign to these meetings or is it just members of congress? >> basically members of cong

martha: pennsylvania congressman lou barletta is a trump supporter and he joins us now.ng, martha. good to be here. martha: thanks for coming. what do you think of this new deal struck between ted cruz and john kasich, what is your opinion? >> i have never seen anything like it where the establishment and candidates are ganging up on a front-runner who is up by millions of votes. never have i ever saw anything like this, rather than rally behind the front-runner so that we're united, this party could be divided and hand the election over to hillary clinton along with the supreme court picks. that is what is at stake here. again, i have never seen a front-runner being attacked by its own so close to the nomination. martha: well, you know, john kasich spoke about that last night. look, we have had 10 contested conventions in the republican party. this is not something that is highly unusual or unseen. that there aren't, the majority is sort of split at this point and that donald trump hasn't been able to secure a majority although everyone can see clearly he is on the path

infrastructure committee on emergency management, which is chaired by pennsylvania congressman lou barletta. >> the committee will come to order. today we are holding a hearing to explore a critical and timely topic. there have been numerous congressional hearings on cybersecurity and how to stop the bad guys. what has not been discussed in in great detail is what the consequence will be from a massive cyberattack that brings down, for example, a large portion of the electrical grid for an extended period of time. the purpose of today's hearing is to answer an important question. with respect to cyberthreats to the electrical power system, what consequences should the federal government tell states and local governments to prepare for? in other words, for how many people and for how long should states plan on being without power? the federal government does this now for almost every significant hazard that we face, whether it's a category 5 hurricane hitting miami or an 8.0 earthquake in los angeles. the federal government has realistic estimates or scenarios for states and cities to plan.

lou: congressman louis barletta barletta -- louis barletta it's always nice to talk to you.st in st. mark's taking a picture that he will never forget. the man snapping photos and he ducked just in the nick of time. that was an airplane flying within inches of his head at the st. mark's airport. i mean that is unbelievable. the plane did grays river tigris hand and it left a bruise. i mean that is one of the luckiest fellows you will ever see and if you're wondering how the shot came out, take a look here. right before the moment of impact. was it worth the risk? well, he got away with it and nobody was hurt. i'm sure he would not take the same odds ever again. up next to russian jet fighters pose a navy destroyer in the baltic sea. how will the defense department have, how will the navy reacted how will the commander-in-chief react? former u.n. ambassador will react here next. stay with us. it's true what they say. technology moves faster than ever. the all-new audi a4, with apple carplay integration. my school could be bad.ing fast. could be a blast. can't find a single th