With a d. What are your infrastructure priorities . We have regional lines today, in the eastern and central time zones call 2027488000. Those in the mountain and pacific time zones call 2027488001. You can also reach us on social media on twitter at cspanwj. And on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at what the Washington Post said about this new report on the nations infrastructure. According to engineers, 1 trillion for infrastructure is not close to enough. It says the president promises to pop 1 trillion into improving the countrys crumbling infrastructure but a benchmark report says it will take almost 4. 6 trillion over the next eight years to bring the systems up to an acceptable standard. According to the assessment released thursday by the American Society of civil engineers, it gave u. S. Infrastructure and overall grade of d plus, the same great it got in 2013, suggesting only incremental progress was made over the last four years. Body president is onto something for rebuilding, ultimately congress and the American People have to pay for it. Lets look at what President Trump said about the nation infrastructure in his address to congress. Dwight d. Trump eisenhower initiated the last truly Great National infrastructure program, the building of the interstate highway system. The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding. [applause] President Trump america has spent approximately 6 trillion in the middle east, all the while our infrastructure at home is crumbling. With this 6 trillion, we could have rebuilt our country twice and maybe even three times if we had people who had the ability to negotiate. [laughter] [applause] President Trump two last to launch the national rebuilding, i will ask congress to approve legislation that produces a 1 trillion investment in if a structure of the United States financed through both public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs. [applause] President Trump this effort will be guided by your principles, buy american and hire american. sst more from the asce report card on the nations infrastructure. It breaks down categories of all the nations infrastructure and gives individual grades. Aviation gets a d according to the report. Bridges with a c plus. Drinking water a d. Enter energy a d plus. Inland waterways and levees d. The one bright spot is the railways which gets a b, the highest grade in the report. Minus according to the report of a total of more than 4. 5 trillion needed to make the necessary fixes. Matthew is calling from virginia beach, virginia. What are your priorities when it comes to infrastructure . Aller good morning, america i would like to see us invest in clean air and clean water. , we shouldtrains have highspeed trains that go from new york to florida, from virginia to california. Who would not love to get on a highspeed train to take a weekend down in florida from virginia . Country toross california on a highspeed train in a matter of two days or a day and a half . By doing that we are investing our country and will spur jobs and growth, the guy working on the electric grid can buy a home and a refrigerator. It would spur domestic growth. Why we are not focusing on that, i do not know. We would rather focus on bombs and destruction. Host would you be willing to pay more as a taxpayer to help fund it and put more money into the effort structure system infrastructure system . Caller everyone should not mind paying what it cost. Since you ask about taxes, the rich need to start paying their fair share. If this country goes to war and we lose, they stand to lose a hell of a lot more than anybody else. Just like donald trump said when he was running for president , i am a smart man, i do not pay any taxes. Those taxes pay for our schools, roads, infrastructure. The wealthy are sitting on sacks of money and when our children are asked to go to war to defend the country, those who say and keep the most save and keep the most did the least. It is pure greed. When it comes to health, they do nobody but about themselves. Health care should be notforprofit. We should have Good Health Care for everybody. Host matthew mentioned the railway system. A little bit more from that report which gave the rail system a b, the best of all the systems in the United States. , theore than 150 years rail network has been a critical component of the u. S. Transportation system and economy. It carries approximately one third of u. S. Exports and delivers 5 million tons of freight and approximately 85,000 passengers each day. It says it needs a significant capital of investment up 27. 1 billion to make sure the net to make sure good conditions and faces clear challenges, notably and passenger rails which faces a dual problem of aging infrastructure and insufficient funding. Jp is calling in from oak lawn, illinois. What is your priority when it comes to americas infrastructure . Caller i just want to reflect on the 1 trillion Infrastructure Spending from 2009. I noticed that not a lot of those grades changed much. I do not know how if we could not do it in 2009, we can do much now. Host what would you like to see people focus on . Would you like to see mostly focused on roads . Airports . Water systems . What are you most concerned about . Caller roads are definitely in need. Absolutely. Host how are the roads in illinois where you live . Caller brutal, terrible in illinois. Host more about the condition of the u. S. Roads according to this report. Andets u. S. Roads a d grade says americas roads are often crowded, frequently in poor condition, chronically underfunded, and becoming more dangerous. Five miles ofr urban interstates are congested and it cost 160 160 billion in wasted time and fuel in 2014. That was a little bit from the report. We are taking your calls on your priorities for infrastructure. In eastern and central time zones, call 2027488000. Those in the mountain and pacific regions, call 2027488001. Lets look at what senator tom carper, a Ranking Member of the environment and Public Works Committee said about the importance of building Publicprivate Partnerships in infrastructure. We have a lot of companies in this country, this is from the obama administration, last few years said the multinational of money receive tons and not bringing it back because they do not want to pay taxes. President obama proposed repatriation deal, bring the money back at a lower rate, 15 or so. He has money as a onetime. It is not like the base were utility industry, coal, nuclear, natural gas for providing electricity and utilities. We need it for funding transportation. The derepatriation which we like the problem, not baseload. It is one time. I can think of projects we could help fund or help use the money to leverage other money from state and locals and maybe the private sector which would be a good thing. Host mark calling from philadelphia. What is most important to you when it comes to the nations infrastructure . Caller i guess it would be fixing some of these roads around philadelphia. They are in pretty bad shape. The one thing i want to comment on which is sticking in my crawl , president obama wanted to do this eight years ago and the republicans blocked and blocked, would not do it and now all of a sudden, they are jumping on this infrastructure bandwagon. Because republicans are doing it . It was not good when the democratic president wanted to do it . Now it is good . How to fund this, repatriation of the profit from Corporate America overseas . Did my tax return last week and i cannot negotiate my tax rate. T is what it is let Corporate America pay the tax rate like everybody else. Host beverly is calling in from philadelphia. Good morning, beverly. Caller good morning, hello to all the wonderful cspan listeners. Host what is your priority when it comes to infrastructure . Caller mine is Water Systems. As a nurse, i understand how water is to pure every individuals health, they are the unborn, very susceptible to the toxins that are in our water. Huge affectere is a on the children. And for young people. The chlorine means that are in our water, particularly the fluoride that is being added. , lessld go to much safer for looting water less polluting water system treating. We would not need to use as many chemicals. Systems areur water crumbling. I have seen pictures of smaller Water Systems where the rest is so prevalent rust is so prevalent and i saw a Water Treatment personnel saying he goes to the church and praise that there is not a major breakdown. Host according to the report, it gives americans Drinking Water system a dgrade, saying it is delivered through one million miles of pipes across the country, many of those were late in the early to mid 20s century with a lifespan of 751 hundred years, the quality of Drinking Water in the United States reminds remains high but legacy and emerging contaminants require close attention our water consumption is down, still an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in the United States. Wasting over 2 trillion gallons of treated Drinking Water. Diana is calling in from livingston, new jersey. What are your infrastructure priorities . Caller i live in the northeast and there has been some of the derailment of the trains, they should look into that positive train control which would slow down the trains automatically if the conductors one case in hoboken, he fell asleep with sleep apnea. A lot of it is operator area. More than that, i wanted to discuss how they will fund it. Cuts ingive away tax our health care plan, he will give away 600 billion to the wealthy again and tax returns. When he does these infrastructure projects, he will do tax credits again, but it is to corporations. I believe that before he gives away this tax money, he needs to put in proposals how much the cost of everything will be . Not give all of the money away than tax us or use the repatriation money to pay for it , and then tell us they do not have money for entitlement programs. The giving the way money to the rich and do not have plans to tell us how much everything will cost. Then you will tell us that paul ryan, always after our entitlements and to change the whole structure of all the safety net programs, which i think, according to the reports, the income gap and inequality is widening in every country. There is a lot of corruption, the south korean president just resigned. All kinds of things in other countries. Finally, this president has so many building conflicts, this is his business. As soon as he signed in, he increased the application for mortgages. Industry, his donors, his people, the billionaires. This is a big hoax on the American People. Host she mentioned the president s budget plan which includes plans for infrastructure. A 1 trillion Infrastructure Investment over 10 years on roads, airports, pipelines, the electrical grid. Up to 137 billion dollars in income tax credits to entice private companies and their cash overseas to needed infrastructure projects. Totally self financing it with no cost to the government and taxing the wage of k2 construction workers, possibly collected by companies and the tax income balances. It says the tax income balances out to the revenue loss. Houseing to the white plan on infrastructure. Daytona beach, florida, good morning. Caller and that infrastructure plan, i remember you put up Donald Trumps plan about two months ago, in that plan was his idea to tax construction workers. To tax the workers. I know the corporations will get the tax breaks but i see that is missing. You had someone on your show sometime back, she is the environmental activist, they made a movie about her, she went to flint, michigan and travel all over the United States. She went to every state and the only channel i saw her on was the weather channel. She said that our infrastructure trillion, it is 1 that may not take care of flint, michigan. 20 something trillion dollars. Here is how they are all messed up, florida, we need sewage systems, we need pipes, our septic tanks are going into the ground. A do not talk about it, they move on and want to keep developing, all republicans, build, build, put up more condos. They want to work out the infrastructure, then they do not care. President obama had a plan seven years ago for an infrastructure bill and he wanted to tax the millionaires. Thats how they would pay for it but the government would put in the rest. They did not like the plan. Of course they did not like it. You have the Keystone Pipeline and the dakota pipeline. These will go underwater, many of them, through our breadbasket , in the middle of our country were our agriculture is. If any of the pipes break, there is a simple rule, do not drill and do not lay pipe where our precious food and Water Resources are. Host the interview with Erin Brockovich and other interviews can be seen on cspan. Org by searching by name. That is on the screen, catch that on cspan. Org. David calling from los angeles. What is top of the line when it comes to infrastructure where you live in that way live in l. A. . Caller we are supposed to have freeways but they are nothing but parking lots. If you know the city well enough, you get off the freeway streets,o take the then you run into potholes. Here is my thing. Your callers have been right on point. I would like for those who consider themselves conservative , especially this notion of privatepublic financing. , supposedly the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. And we have to have private partnerships to run our country. Big business. They talk about class warfare. The rich has one. Won. We have to go to these people who have literally suck the blood of this country so that we can get a road or freeway or train. These socalled conservatives you need to hear what we are saying this morning. The retarded, insane way in which we have been governing or allowing ourselves to be governed by the your lords and masters in Corporate Masters to which you bow down at the altar. This is a result of these crazy tax policies. Tax breaks to the rich. The whole structure is falling down around you and you still this is still your mantra. They say insanity is the doing the same thing and expecting different results. Look at the results of your insane thinking about how you think the world should run. Profit base motives insanity. This is what we get. Are you still with me . Host i hear you and lets look at what a republican wyoming senator who chairs the environment and Public Works Committee said about Publicprivate Partnerships to fund these repairs. Members of the committee who have a deep background in love and commitment to what we need in terms of highway, highway safety, and we knew what happened on a state level when the federal government came out with rules and regulations that made it harder for us to do the kind of infrastructure work we needed at home. We have a committee i think will work closely on these issues. Panoss ear from the wyoming department of transportation, the director, he was the first person to testify in the first hearing of the committee with me as chairman to talk about the fact that infrastructure that was the topic, not environmental issue, a public works issue. You were testifying because not just for wyoming but idaho, montana, five different states, the dakotas, to talk about the fact that onesizefitsall does not work. Publicprivate partnerships or many places. Works many places. It does not work or we have few people and many miles up roads. Host annemarie on the phone from north carolina. What is at the top of your list when it comes to infrastructure . Caller good morning, kimberly. I do not know where to start. The first caller from virginia mason, the man who talked about the rich getting away with not paying taxes. I am doing my taxes and between state and federal i paid almost 4000 in taxes and i live on 28,000 per year. The thing with these laws have been written to benefit the wealthy. Our representatives are just paying back all the people that gave them money so they write these laws that benefit the wealthy and that is why they do not pay taxes. This is the big con we have been fed for ever and ever. I never believed it. The woman from new jersey, i will go back online and watch and listen to what she said. She met so many wonderful points. I want to take notes from what she said because she hit everything on the head. The woman from florida, she made so many great points. Dry as farg sucked as the middle, working class, the poor. The wealthy are so proud of it, probably will not pay taxes. That is what is so incredible. They are just so proud they do not do it. Look at the president. Cory gardner, he can even say the word cannot even say the word trump, he says somebody has to spend x ask amount of money on health care. He can even say the guys name. I am beside myself, we destroy , rebuildingd cities them and blowing them up again and never have money for our own country. I do not know if youre still there. Host other headlines this morning, wall street journal reports that job numbers have cleared the way for a likely interest type at the fed hike at the fed, saying u. S. Economic expenses the third longest on record and shows no sign of letting up in february with robust hiring, falling unemployment, a firmer wage growth, opening the way for the Federal Reserve to raise shortterm interest rates. Total officials have signaled rate increasel will be highly likely in the policy meeting next week but a report from the Labor Department opera much to strengthen their resolve. Payrollsil nonfarm were seasonally adjusted to 235,000 from january, exceeding forecasters expectations and the Unemployment Rate got down to 4. 7 . California. Ton, what is your top infrastructure priority in california . Caller what i see the biggest problem is which is called the budget. I call the double budget solution. 2017. E a budget to set that aside and people 50 and above, we pay the debt off. 50 and below start their own budget. The problem is, you cannot put more debt on your children. We have this war debt. We, as america, cannot call ourselves dying and have nuclear bombs. Weaponst rid of nuclear , we can afford anything we want to. Our children can have health care, weekend do this, it is called the double budget solution, the elders pay the debt they created and the Younger Generation is able to have whatever they want. Stop playing. Slip the budget and give the elders, let them pay off the debt they created with all of this war and get rid of Nuclear Weapons and we can do whatever we want. You cannot have Nuclear Weapons in zion. Host indianapolis. What is the top of your list when it comes to infrastructure, daniel . Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I live in indianapolis and this is the crossroads of america. Infrastructure come through all the time with the roads. The roads in indianapolis horrible. Spends any money anywhere else, put a few dollars into flint, michigan. There were children there who still do not have clean Drinking Water and that is unbelievable in a country that calls itself, you know, the best country in the world. Billions on war. , lets focusplanet on our own people for a little bit, just a little while, and help people who really need help. I have a bachelors degree. I work in manual labor. See someike to productive things done. Rather than spending all of our money that we borrow from china everywhere else in the world. Host ok. One of our callers earlier mentioned sewer systems as a top priority in the infrastructure system. According to the report, it gets the nations wastewater system a nationsd says the 14,748 wasteWater Treatment plans are the most basic and Critical Infrastructure system for protecting Public Health and the environment. Use of Treatment Plant upgrades and more stringent federal regulations have significantly reduced untreated releases and improve Water Quality worldwide. It is expected that more than 56 million new users will be connected to centralized Treatment Systems over the next two decades, requiring at least 271 billion to meet current and future demands. Then he is going in from jamestown, South Carolina. Danny is calling in from jamestown, South Carolina. Fromr i heard a caller florida talking about septic systems and saying they know into the ground, that is the way they are designed for the water to go into the ground that city sewage, the flood of 2015 in South Carolina, you would have never dreamed of the amount of city sewage running out of the pipes, running out of the manholes and through the ditches and canals and into the rivers. A news stationer having it on the news in South Carolina. From what i have seen in the last 13 years, we do not need no new systems added into the city sewer systems, we need the old. Nes replaced or repaired and the Water Systems replaced or repaired. Not more new ones. And leave old ones in the ground. Host have you had problems with your wasteWater Systems in South Carolina . Caller when we have a flat, there was city sewage running out of the manholes and blowing them off the tops. They could not contain all the water and the waste. The septic systems, i am a septic pump or, i have pumped at0 since the flood of 2015 least and not found one septic tank where the waste came out of it and ran through the woods or the rivers. That is a witness, i have seen it to other people have seen it but no news agency has seen it. Host in some other headlines today President Trumps proposed new travel ban is facing some legal challenges. Winning somese is of them and losing some, according to politico, the revised travel ban has are ready suffered his first legal blow, the president s revised travel ban executive order suffered his first legal setback friday as a federal judge blocked the directive potential impact on the family of a syrian refugee visiting in wisconsin. The madisonbased u. S. District court judge William Conley issued a temporary restraining order at the request of a syrian man who is referred to as john doe in court filings. The judge, an appointee of barack obama said the new executive order cannot be used to delay the mans effort to bring his wife and threeyearold daughter from the wartorn country to the u. S. It is limited to the individual involved in that case. In another report, from the hill , a federal judge has refused to apply the previous travel ban to the new order. Ons a u. S. Federal court friday, it refused to apply the emergency state of halted the president s first travel ban with his revised executive order, according to reuters. Seattle u. S. District judge james robards, appointed by former president george w. Bush said lawyers from the state that opposed the measure need to file more extensive court papers. The new couple been applies to six countries as opposed to the new travel ban applies to six countries. , what youom indiana think about the nations infrastructure and what should the priorities be . Caller it is in terrible shape and should be one of the first priorities that President Trump should check into. Liste other items on my that i will like to mention, if you do not might. Guest go ahead host go ahead, charles. Caller i think there should be term limits and our country seems to be divided states instead of United States. I am not satisfied with the media, always bad news, i am sure there is good news. Isis should have been defeated years ago. I have never seen people so angry and all my 87 years. I think that is about it. Host ok. Looking at twitter comments, gordon with infrastructure priorities says all underground utilities and put the electric grid underground and rebuild public schools, roads, bridges is a start. Idaho. S on the line from priority whenop it comes to infrastructure . Caller they have been talking about the roads in boise. They is a main corridor keep rebuilding and rebuilding because of so much growth. In the area i am in in twin ofls, there has been a lot deaths on rose recently. Recently. In the last six months, more deaths on the road i chemical hearing in such rapid sequence. Any 1960s, you heard these statistics but not in modernday. What concerns me about this ire infrastructure thing construction jobs are temporary. They are not real economic activity. They are temporary. They create a boom and it goes away. Elaine chao, the secretary of transportation, was talking about Publicprivate Partnerships to fund this infrastructure. What she is saying with that is really bad they will bring in communist chinese money to fund part of the infrastructure. Of course then they put toll roads onto payback whoever the Publicprivate Partnership is. Sandra was the a Public Private partner in texas trying to bring in communist chinese money in boise five years ago and personally i do not like that. I do not want foreign money, i do not care who it comes from. If we cannot do it ourselves, i do not want it. Thank you. Host will is calling from michigan. What are your infrastructure priorities in michigan . Caller anybody familiar driving from indiana to ohio into michigan are aware we need roads. Speaking from a local perspective, i am a citizen of michigan, school and School Buildings are a problem with us. They need to be invested in as well as cities like detroit and my birth city of flint, michigan which is having a tough time with schools and of course the water issue that we are still struggling with which everybody seems to know about but so few doing anything about. Is the housingg stock, especially in black communities and primarily black communities. The ones i have resided in, done so little with them being so short. Things we should do is invest in while thecentury property guys are still struggling to recover in our community so weekend of these make because the living cheaper for people in those communities. Host patrick is calling in from florida. What do you think should be the number one focus when it comes to addressing an upper structure in our country infrastructure . In our country caller i am a truck driver who drive over the lower 48 states. I wanted to comment on the state of our nations interstate road system. You have a lot of callers that from cities call in from cities like los angeles, philadelphia, i feel like their view of the road system is central to her they are at. Death where they are at where they are at. Systemsook at the road in and around cities and municipalities, the financial burden falls on them. Calling abouter potholes in los angeles, i think your philadelphia caller said something similar. The financial burden is more heavily on the city and municipality. As far as the interstate road system, i have traveled pretty much every interstate in the lower 48. I do not see huge problem with those. They could use a maintenance but as far as massive infrastructure and dollars into the interstate, i do not think it is really necessary. That would be a huge waste of money. Theou are talking about city such as los angeles or washington, d. C. , or philadelphia, that is having problems with traffic and whatnot, simply widening the roads will push urban schools are further and that congestion will come right back to people and they will live further out from the city centers and more people will drive to work from further out, causing more congestion. What i would like to see, instead of repaving roads or widening roads, more innovative transportation. When you go back to the highway system and when it was put in by eisenhower, that was revolutionary. T we are talking about now if we are talking about repaving roads or widening them, that will not change transportation. Let me give you an example, i work for a paving company, when they wanted to give us a new truck,they painted the it looked pretty but it was the same old truck. If we want to invest in infrastructure, we need to invest in Better Technology and more innovative transportation. Host one of our earlier callers mentioned schools as a top very of concern. According to the asce, it gives schools in america a d plus. Every school day, nearly 50 Million Students and 6 million adults occupy close to 100,000 public School Buildings on an estimated 2 million acres of land. While state and local governments make significant investments in public k through , the schoolcture and best in School Facilities who underinvested in School Facilities, leaving an estimated 38 billion annual gap. Richard is calling you from washington, d. C. What is top on your infrastructure priority list . Caller first off, good morning. Host good morning. Caller you have to go with clean water and Water Treatment, number two is power. The way we pay for that is to reduce the salaries and benefits of city officials. State officials. And federal government and county officials. Because they are the ones that us in who put these our problems and did not fix roads and bridges answer systems and spend money on things that made them look good. Take their benefits away and put the money into making the country better. Host nelsons calling in from colorado springs, colorado. Good morning. Caller good morning. My concern is road construction. Hiring more people to repair these roads. Amazing, like with the jobs report, president obama had already passed all these bills to create the jobs but donald trump gets the credit. Nevertheless, it is a great day. It is all about politics. That is all i can say, it is all about politics. Host President Trump is backing the Health Care Proposal put forth by House Republicans as it is. The Washington Post reports white house and Republican House leaders came together friday behind the plan, now moving through congress to overhaul the Affordable Care act. Including a provision criticized by conservatives asking for a more aggressive attack on the law after President Trump met at the white house with Key House Committee chairman, the chief spokesman said the president fully supports the bills timeline for phasing out the expansion of medicaid under the aca which some on the right would like to accelerate. House leaders dismiss the idea earlier leading up the face of as they had done for several days. Right now, the date in the bill is what the president supports. Reporters, held said it is not a question of negotiation. Tom is going in from columbia, maryland. Calling in from columbia, maryland. Caller how are you doing . To blame about who is turning the infrastructure money to broadband. The spy thingturn [indiscernible] Companies One verizon and at t, and everybody. They are trying to turn broadband expansion into an infrastructure project. That is wrong. It should be about water and bridges and highways. And all of the things we really need. In this country. Not broadband expansion. Host ok. Lets look at what congressman peter defazio, the democrat from pennsylvania, Ranking Member of the House Transportation Committee and Infrastructure Committee set about funding and infrastructure plan. A lot of people are excited because the president added the word public to private financing. Big progress, then we are in trouble. [laughter] there is an internal struggle at the white house and in congress over whether or not we will do Something Real and there will be substantial federal investment. Paul ryan, 10 days ago, said it should be 401 private money. A totally absurd statement. Unless you are planning on holding the entire interstate system in order to do the repair of the 40 present the needs total rebuilding and planning on pulling 150,000 bridges that need repair or replacement and what will you do for transit because there will be no Transit System in the world that makes money, how will the investors get their money back . We will race fairs and ridership drops off, does not work. Be debts we need federal investment, there will be more rankandfile appetite for that in the first day of the meeting of the committee this year on infrastructure needs. I laid out a plan, simple, i could get us to about 60 billion with absolutely minimal taxpayers,itizens, nobody would lose their election over my proposal. Host that was congressman defazio, democrat from oregon talking about infrastructure. Rick on the line from sioux falls, south dakota. Good morning. Caller with the fixing of the roads, i think we need a tells us thet truth i quit lying. How can we trust what he says about fixing infrastructure when he lies about everything and he will not take back anything . Everybody else is wrong and the up toicans will not stand him because they are so worried about getting reelected and defending all the people, big money. Look at his health bill. 190,000 taxch credit and making us poor pay for it, it is wrong. How can we trust him when he lies . He is not a president and does not know anything about running our country. Thank you. Host lets look at the president s breakdown a breakdown of the president s infrastructure priority according to a report from forbes. Of his that a 44. 3 proposed Infrastructure Spending would go to railways. An additional 15 would be for highways and bridges. Can present for shipping 10 present for shipping and 10 for airport at a much smaller percentage for areas such as water and other areas. Another report breaks down the job creation that is expected from this plan. Approximately 240 jobs over the time of 10 years, most of those 20 he railway system, with coming from highways and bridges. 10 from energy and shipping. Before from four shows it will have the force report will show it has a Green Infrastructure priority, 16. 7 billion of the proposal would be spent on Renewable Energy projects. 13,000 jobs over 10 years. They would be created and Renewable Energy, according to the white house plan. Oregon, good morning. Caller good morning. I am calling from rainier, oregon, i have been a Union Construction worker for the better part of 25 years. When bill clinton was president , you could quit a job at a 00 in the morning and by a 05 you could have another job and the President Trump is saying he will put the money into infrastructure stuff that will help the economy and i am grateful for that but through all of this, i have been watching him on tv and every time somebody mentions the fact that he may have a mental problem, they cut the people completely off. That is the only thing im concerned with. Is his mental stability. Every time somebody talks about that, people cut him off and do not want to i worked at Trojan Nuclear plant and they testme take a simple mmpi when i went to work at a nuclear plant. Ust ap on a peon nobody has cover that. When somebody says he is diagnosable, everybody runs. It is laughable at this country. To be hiding the fact that he is diagnosable and everybody will bring about. Reneenewburgh, new york, is going. Calling. Caller i have been listening to people and i have to agree with everything they had to say. The one thing that has not been mentioned, i do not think, is what is the proverbial elephant in the room, what i mean by that i am back in the 1960s, old enough to have been working at ibm in the 1960s, one night on a second shift, all the lights went out and all the lights went out throughout the northeast. What caused it was a simple electrical switch had failed. Our problem, this is been mentioned over the years, our electrical grid is extreme of vulnerable, not only to hacking but to solar flares, the last one occurred in the 1800s. An electronic magnetic poles signal is a large bomb or exploded in the atmosphere. This would cause the electricity to go out there and what is it that you could do to write your day without electricity throughout your day without electricity, you cannot cook, drive your car, you cannot do anything. We would be thrown back into the horse and buggy days of yesteryear. That is what i want to bring up. Hopefully people with more knowledge on the subject will call in about it or perhaps you could have an expert come on sometime if you have not done so. And have them discuss this a little bit further more in depth. Thank you very much for your time. Host in other headlines, republican michigan congressman justin a mosh had a reaction after missing his first house vote since taking office. He has long boasted about not missing a single book since he arrived in Congress Vote since he arrived in congress and 2011, according to this report from politico. On friday, as he was railing against the gop obamacare replacement bill off the house floor, he failed to notice a rollcall had just closed. When he realized history had just ended, the one spoken congressman broke down in tears blunt spoken congressman broke down in tears. We have a tweet response from steve womack to that, it says 94th straight my 420 vote represented arkansass third district, the longest streak sitting by any u. S. Rep. Jerry is calling in from new jersey. What is your infrastructure priority . Caller i really do not have a complaint about that. I wanted to call about the callers that are bashing trump. I am hysterical. I have never seen anything like it in my life. It is a shame because they know they lost. They cannot get over it. Constantly bashing. Not worried about the country or the safety of the citizens of this country. Just bashing. You lost, get over it. It is horrible. I feel so sorry for you. Thank you. Host james is calling in from saint albans, west virginia. When it comes to infrastructure, what are you most concerned about . Caller here in west virginia, our roads are absolutely horrible. 500tate is facing a million budget crisis for the next fiscal year. The only thing our politicians can come up with is raise taxes. Raise taxes on food, gas, raise taxes here and there. I would think a good place to start would be to advise citizens of our state and may be the citizens around the country to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in our governments. If we could do that, we could probably find money to fix our roads, bridges, and so forth. Host some other headlines, the Washington Post reports that President Trump is nominated a physician with drug industry ties to have the fda. He announced late friday he will , ainate Scott Gottlieb conservative position and business men deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry to be commissioner for the fda. If confirmed, he would bring a strong proindustry the regulatory approach to an agency that trump has criticized as being overly restrictive. As someone viewed who would preserve the agencys basic function to ensure that drug approving proving to be safe and effective before allowed to be sold. Freddie is going from indianapolis. Good morning. Caller how is everyone today . Host good. What is undermined when it comes to infrastructure . Caller i agree with what most have been saying but they are not offering a solution to the problem. The solution, as far as thing for these projects. Myself, i feel i have a solution. It would be simple. Americans and middleclass white americans would decide to naturalize our oil and gas companies, we the people own the oil and gas. If we were to naturalize them and turn the money over solely for the people and the improvement of this country and the improvement of the highways, i think we could do it. Truly ando many who strongly believe so deeply in capitalism and they would rather go under today then feed their face tomorrow. Host joseph calling in from buffalo, new york. What do you think is most important when it comes to infrastructure . Caller and the city, we have so the old we used to have bethlehem steel environment, they need to dig up the dirt, dig up the ground and research to find out i love people died of cancer in this area. Thats a lot of people died of cancer in this area. These are the things i think they should really look at, especially in the great lakes area. Thank you very much. Host kathy is calling you from aurora, illinois. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. My daughter and i were going down the main street in our city, just outside of chicago, 50 miles. Tankerker truck cars on the rails are going right through the downtown of our city of aurora. Tanker trucks. On the other track was coal cars going the opposite direction. It is incredible and no one seems to do anything about it. 34se trains follow route plano, all of these tracks go right through downtown areas. It is incredible. No one does anything about it. Fortunately, we have not had derailments. In aurora, the tracks are held up on huge pedestals of concrete. You can just see how they are falling apart. They look like they could come down at any time. Thesere going underneath huge pedestals of concrete. Going right through the downtown city of aurora. It is incredible. Something will happen and when used to it. Will bepeople are so aurora is like from the 1800s. There is nobody even that does business hardly in the downtown area. All the businesses have gone out of business because of malls. But when something happens, it will be a major catastrophe. Host coming up, former republican chairman of the House Intelligence CommitteePeter Hoekstra joins us to talk about the fallout from this weeks wikileaks dump. And then joshua new will be here to talk about why certain Government Data is disappearing from the public. We will be right back. Your documentary is been selected as this years grand prize winner. Seventh a night great sisters from blacksburg, virginia. The grand Prize Winners of the studentcam video documentary competition. Their winning documentary is which discusses refugee and immigration policy. And refugee is someone who is been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence and cannot return safely. 70 people are desperate and without a home. Politicians are arguing over urging questions. Should United States let my refugees into the country . As the grand Prize Winners, they went 5,000. This year he asked High School Students to reduce documentaries telling us what is the most urgent issue for the new president an congress to address in 2017. Students competed for the chance to win one of 150 prizes. We received almost 3000 entries from 46 states, plus the district of columbia, england, germany, singapore and taiwan. And now we are happy to announce our first place winner. In the middle school category, the first Prize Winners are eight graders molly doherty, camden lewis and ava decker from west scranton intermediate school. Their documentary u. S. Gun violence, a complicated puzzle. The first place winner for the High School Use category is 11th inder Matthew Gannan washington, d. C. For his documentary entitled invisible, which deals with homelessness. Fanfarewon this years contest and won an additional 500. In High School Center category, 12 greater jerrod clark from royal oak sizable in royal oak, michigan for his piece enough is enough, dealing with pharmaceutical pricing. And the first prize winner for the High School West category is not greater erin nyer from laramie, wyoming for her piece making this years studentcam competition the success. The top 21 winning entries will air on cspan in april. You can watch all 150 winning documentaries online at studentcam. Org