the question, security balance versus access to capitol hill, and the statement from senator pat leahy, democrat from vermont. we must make sure that we're making smart investments in our security based on lessons learned. it is important to me that the capitol, a potent symbol of our democracy, remains open and accessible to the public and does not feel militarized. a call from california, good morning. go ahead with your comments. caller: my comment is this, when the elected officials that took our votes to require them to get where they are, have chose to walk away from any kind of, like, the neighborhood -- oh, you cannot police them, but they want protection for themselves at almost $2 billion, taking away from the american citizens. how does that weigh out? we pay the taxes, they do not. they are just trying to protect themselves because they failed america. they would not be having this problem if they had not just not listened to us. there is no town hall meetings. you cannot question them. black versus white. lori lightfoot. who in the world says i cannot recall from a reporte

he is not unaware that it's a 50/50 senate and something could happen to pat leahy and this could allr the senate, so he knows all this. and i think what he's saying is, and he's been saying this, by the way, for a very long time, please don't make me look like a partisan hack. the more you make me look like a partisan hack, the more i'm going to push back. and i think that i took that exchange to be kind of a version of he knows all this stuff, but please don't make him say it because that will make it harder for him to step down. >> yeah, it's interesting, right, the idea that you're doing this explicitly in a sort of partisan way. i wonder how much with the late justice ginsburg that was at play, irin. in 2013, everyone did the same actuarial math, she was a cancer survivor at that point. i think she was even summoned to the white house and talked with president obama, kind of like, where are we at on this? how do you think -- what are the lessons there of that episode? >> you know, some people thought that justice ginsburg didn't want to retire because she didn't want the court to

the question, security balance versus access to capitol hill, and the statement from senator pat leahydemocrat from vermont. we must make sure that we're making smart investments in our security based on lessons learned. it is important to me that the capitol, a potent symbol of our democracy, remains open and accessible to the public and does not feel militarized. a call from california, good morning. go ahead with your comments. caller: my comment is this, when the elected officials that took our votes to require them to get where they are, have chose to walk away from any kind of, like, the neighborhood -- oh, you cannot police them, but they want protection for themselves at almost $2 billion, taking away from the american citizens. how does that weigh out? we pay the taxes, they do not. they are just trying to protect themselves because they failed america. they would not be having this problem if they had not just not listened to us. there is no town hall meetings. you cannot question them. black versus white. lori lightfoot. who in the world says i cannot recall from a reporter