App. Washington journal continues. Host we are back in open phones until the and of todays washington journal, getting your thoughts on the policy and political debates happening in this country. We will begin with President Trumps latest speech on a conversation we were having earlier this morning about confederate monuments. See theed out, said to history of our great country being ripped apart the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You cannot change history, you can learn from it. Robert e. Lee, Stonewall Jackson who is next . So foolish. Also, the beauty being taken out of our cities and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced. That is the president on twitter this morning. You are welcome to call in. Lets go to jack, an independent. Caller i was calling about the past host about nafta . Caller yes. Why not just put a tax on the country manufacturing things so america, andthan we can make some money and maybe bring some Companies Back into the United States, if they are going to have to pay the terrorist attacks to equal the wage they would have to pay in america . Tax to to pay the tariff equal the wage they would have to pay in america . Caller i am calling regarding a certain issue i think our country should really think about. That,have a president prudent expelled all these guys. We had a president who could not respond back and say we will expel the russians that are here. It is just like it is really on to me that when the thing heed in charlotte, he was at a point where he would equate that because there is a few people that could be rogue at a peaceful demonstration, to trying to put the country together, or a people where the , byntion is totally themselves it is a totally different idea. I remember an interview he did years ago. Cnn has to be the adult in the room. Wrong withny things the way the president thinks. It is not about democrat or republicans. The guy had an idea that putin would the biggest threat we are is that other countries involved in our election, and that does not seem to be a concern to him. Host eugene in massachusetts. Eugene talking about the president s remarks on charlottesville. Some of the Republican Party senators have been critical of , saying there is no moral equivalency between these groups. Breitbart, which steve bannon used to run, has this headline on the front page mccain, romney, and rubio join the republicans for antifa club. That is their take on what is happening to the president s response in charlottesville. Ceos not want to be part of the president s counsel stash the wall street journal says that on a Conference Call tomorrow morning, the strategic and he organized the Conference Call, call the white house, and spoke with jared kushner, soninlaw and president ial advisor, to give him the news. Around, time manufacturing also had a call and decided to disband. Within minutes, mr. Trump posted on twitter that he had dissolved the council, rather than putting pressure on the Business People of the strategy and policy forum. Tony, in georgia, a republican. What is on your mind . Caller i am a republican and a trump supporter, and i dont appreciate the way that the press is treating our president. I think it is despicable. I think you ought to stick to the truth and quit bloviating. Thank you. In florida, a democrat. Caller good morning. Can i go back to nafta . Host you bet. We are in open phones. Caller i guess two things regarding nafta. Sense, we areral reaping the rewards of not taking care of our own people first, at least in connection. Everybody knows what nafta has done in terms of shifting jobs abroad and reducing wages here. For those people who are concerned about trump i do not want to get into that aspect. Failingrectly caused by to take care of our own people economically. Example is the rust belt area. Put trump area that over the top in terms of the president ial election. They have legitimate grievances for several decades that have been ignored. Hurting,economically and Neither Party has done anything about it, except to pay help toice with no regain their economy. Host what do you do for a living, stephen . Caller i am retired. I was a physicist. One other thing i would like to say about nafta there was a vision, and investor state the initials host its ok. Explain. , the wayhe provision thising used appeared in a number of previous trade treaties as well. The way this has evolved, it is democraticg from our elected officials at all levels, local, state, and national, to decisions by multinationals, effectively. Host what is the acronym . Caller i am not going to go to the specifics of how we got there. Host what is the acronym . Caller osds. Host i will leave it to viewers to do more research on that. In the New York Times, a code writer could blow the whistle on russian hacking. Andrew kramer and Andrew Higgins report that the hacker known aly by his online alias kept low profile. He wrote code alone in an apartment, and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the dark web. Last winter, he went dark entirely. His posts, already accessible only to a small band of fellow hackers looking for software january, days in after american intelligence agencies publicly identified a program he had written as one tool used in russian hacking in the United States. American intelligence agencies have determined Russian Hackers were behind electronic breakins at the Democratic National committee. Vanished,online donna a person has emerged, a fearful man the Ukrainian Police said turned himself in early this year and has become a witness for the fbi. Happen,know what will he wrote in one of his last sentences posted on a. Estrictedaccess website it wont be pleasant, but i am still alive. You can read that piece in the New York Times this morning. An independent. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Is theshington journal best programming on television, period. Now, my comment. I am retired. My retired friends and i get together and obviously we are talking about the events over the past weekend. There were some that were donald Trump Supporters and some that were hillary supporters. One of the donald Trump Supporters said, how can this Administration Support illegals like this . We used a nascar analogy, because we are all nascar fans. The way i put it was, you get this guy that wins everything. Now, he wants to win the daytona 500. He has no experience. She has never driven a speed stock car on the local track, but he is going to win a daytona 500. He gets driven to the track in his chauffeurdriven limousine. He gets out, puts on a fire suit, a helmet. He is on pole position. He has 42 experienced professionals around him and behind him. What do you think is going to happen when he goes into the first turn on the first lap . It is not going to be pretty. We elected someone with absolutely zero experience. That causes me quite a bit of alarm. That we can get to this point where we do not value public service, nor do we value public we have come to a time when we are hiring people that are totally inexperienced. In no industry would that happen. That is my comment, and i want to thank you very much. Joann, in connecticut, a republican. What is on your mind . Caller my comment is first of all i dont think anyone would have known anything about what was going on with the statue in charlottesville, virginia without the press covering this. What i really think is, i have heard that a lot of these antiprotesters were actually busted down from washington, d. C. Who is behind that . Is that warren and schumer . We would never have known any of this. I thought you would be covering the big march by the immigrants att was expected on the 15th washington, d. C. , and i have not heard a word about it. I just wanted to comment that host you think the press should not have covered what happened in charlottesville . Caller i think if they had local coverage i would never have known, in connecticut, that a statue was being removed in charlottesville, if it was not for the media, because i heard nothing about it. All i heard about all week was that there was going to be a march in front of in washington, d. C. , concerning illegal immigrants. I have not heard a word about that march since. Host in utah, a democrat. Caller i would like to say that in the western states, our u. S. Reps and senators are in the pockets of the Extraction Industries and ranching industry. Ranchers graze cows on taxpayerowned lands for about two cents on the dollar of what they would have to pay if they grazed on their only and. The cows are destroying public land. That are onses these lands are being crowded out. Pay to, which taxpayers round up these forces, take us to big stock pens in the u. S. , and there are up to 90,000 horses. The senate is soon going to vote to slaughter these horses, and it is all wrong. Our lands are being destroyed. Our ranchers are getting away with not paying their own way. The wild horses that are the icon of america are being brutally slaughtered, also we can subsidize ranchers. I would think every american should call their senator now and tell them that they want ranchers to have to pay their own way, and taxpayers should not be subsidizing them, and to vote against the bill that is currently going to congress. This bill has already been approved in the house of representatives, both the Agriculture Committee and the Appropriations Committee it has to go through in the senate before it is unstoppable. Every american citizen should call up and fight this bill. Host in utah, on our line for democrats. The usa today front page attacks on netflix could be coming to you. Your monthly bill for netflix, amazon, hulu, and other streaming services should go up as soon as states like illinois tied to find ways to offset declining sales taxes and other revenue shortfalls. Florida pennsylvania, have already passed a netflix tax. Cities like pasadena, florida have broached the issue as well. There is more on the upcoming weekend in the New York Times. Vice president pence cut short a trip in south america as his eighth announced he would return bely, and the topic would south asia. He declined to defend mr. s comments in trump tower on tuesday that both sides in charlottesville were to blame. On wednesday night, mr. Trump urged supporters to join him and a Campaign Rally scheduled for august 22 in phoenix. The phoenix mayor said in his own tweet that he was disappointed the president would hold a Campaign Event while the nation is still healing from events in charlottesville. The top advisers are stunned, despondent, and gnome. Several said they were unable to see how mr. Trumps presidency would recover. This shocked his allies and draws rebuke. An independent. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have lived now for 82 years, and i have listened to your program all morning, and i am in total disbelief of what i am hearing. Trump, President Trump he will never become president of the United States because the democrats and their cronies got blown out of the water so bad, and they are so full of animosity, they will never let trump do what he needs to do. Charlottesville is taking down all the statues. What is happening to our history . I do not know what is coming, but down the road, i feel sorry for all the young people, because you are really going to be sorry for all that is happening in the United States, and this is no longer the United States of america. Is really getting bad. I thank you for your time. I will be leaving now. Host have a good day. We will go to ron in dutchess county, new york. You are on the air. You for cspan. It just occurred to me that this is not about statues necessarily. This is about a hate group, neonazis, who are marching, and using the statues as an excuse to march. I have an uncle who passed away who was a republican who fought in world war ii, and he liberated concentration camps, and he is 20 years retired in the military, army major, and he stayed on in germany and became a denazification specialist. The germans who did not believe that they thought it was a trick the war was over. He was part of what they called the denazification. And when he retired after 20 years in the military, he went to every neonazi rally around the country, in defense, to protest back against the nazis, the murderers, who are now marching with a permit. Our president loves to point out they had a permit. The nazi party, back in world war ii, were not thugs. They were a system of murdering millions of people. And now we have people in this country who are marching, and they are coming off like they have some legitimacy. When there is a quotation, when people stand up my uncle got clobbered in the head well into his 60s and his 70s. He would go and protest the marches. And he was a republican. He was a retired major from the military. Our president is playing politics. He thinks he has a base of supporters. What he is doing is absolutely disgusting. Never forget. Never forget what the nazis were. They are talking about now that they march with permits, as if they are legitimate. They are not legitimate. Ok. in new mexico, joan, a republican. Caller how are you today . Phones this in open morning for about eight more minutes, until the top of the hour. What is on your mind . Caller i just am so grateful to cspan. I do not have all i have is nbc and the local news channels. If i want to know what is going on, i listen to cspan, and i can actually hear what the president says, and hear what is going on in the house of representatives and the senate. And when i do hear the news, they misconstrue everything, and they are so full of hate. They are the one that is dividing this country. They are so full of hate. About health care. I really, really am worried about that. I care about tax reform and immigration reform. These things are important to me. I would like to hear discussion about that in the news media. Instead, they keep harping on what happened last summer. The democrats were hacked. You know, most of the people i know do not care a diddley about the russians and what happened. N the last elections have the cia and fbi make sure it does not happen again, but golly, give it a rest already. The election is over. Host some other headlines. This is from the washington had secretary ben carsons home was vandalized with antitrump rhetoric. The newspaper reporting on their website that the housing and urban Development Secretary ben carson said his Virginia Home was recently vandalized with antitrump rhetoric encouraging to learn people to learn to get together. Carson wrote on facebook saying he and his wife for outoftown. He said embarrassed neighbors cleaned up their house before they had returned. That is in the washington examiner. Here is a story from the hill newspaper about President Trumps lawyer. It has been making news. Racism anddenounces posts photos of himself with black people. That is the hill newspaper. Its go to chris in tennessee, independent. Caller thank you for having me. Think one of my points i am originally from chattanooga, tennessee. There are many monuments and statues all over. But anyway, a lot of these statues, i believe, were put up to help heal the divides between the north and south after the war. Now is them down reopening wounds that do not need to be reopened. Thank you very much. West virginia, a republican. Caller i am so sick of everything trump does, they have to make a big issue out of it. You, i never heard of such stuff. As far as those monuments, i passed them many times. I do not really know who they are. I am over 80, and i never paid any attention to them. I do know during the civil war were familiesat fought each other, even, in the civil war, the cousin one believed one way and one believed the other. Also, black people over here had slaves. And the people where they got the slaves were sold to them by black people. Ago i dobeen so long not even think about it. I just feel like it is terrible, what they are doing to trump. The man is trying to do good for the country. It is a shame that we have to put up with this stuff. My heart goes out to him, i tell you. Even the republicans i have looked up, and those people are rich. How did they get rich . I mean millionaires. It is a shame. Host tim, murfreesboro, illinois, a democrat. You are on the air. About my comments doctors coming to america from other countries they get 100 of the medical pay and all their bills paid. That is why there are so many foreign doctors. Host and that is a bad thing, in your opinion . Caller no, that is not all. Move on to edward, in asheville, north carolina, independent. Good morning. Caller i would like to address a little hypocrisy. I do not know of anybody in the south that killed 40 million people. Host ok. Edward in nashville, north carolina. In open phones here. Caller i want to make comments. As far as the statues and all that stuff, if they are going to take them down, you might as well get rid of in detroit, they have Martin Luther king street and all that stuff. Although signs, they need to take him down. If you are taking them down, take them all down. I am sick and tired of hearing this stuff. These people are communist, is what they are in the first place. Host the Washington Post move tohouse democrats censure trump over charlottesville, and there are plans to introduce a House Resolution censuring his remarks, including saying tuesday that very fine people were among those who participated in the racist unite the right march and that both were to blame for the violence that killed a charlottesville woman and injured many others. That is in the Washington Post. The usa today Editorial Board said that republicans should join the effort. They say, republicans, put your votes where your tweets are, noting that republican senators have been tweeting critical comments about the president , but are saying they should join , sayingnsure efforts when things happen in the United States and the president blames both sides, more formal condemnation is necessary. This is a moment of reckoning for members of the party of lincoln. Do they want to stand up for American Values or keep enabling a president whose understanding of rights and wrong has slipped dangerously off the rails . An alabama republican, good morning to you. Caller good morning. They want to tear down these monuments, you know. That is part of our history. I wonder what they would do if we start seeing Martin Luther king and them on the same basis. Host ok, jackson, columbus, ohio, independent. You are the last call. Caller i needed to speak to a couple of issues. On the one hand, i understand statuesrotesting the and committing violence but they also want to remember for a black person, what their ancestors had to go through. That might be offensive. I think there is a need for people to understand where the 2 sides are coming from. There can never be any justification for neonazism. There can never be any justification for advocating for as someh of jews, for of the protesters set at the same time. I firmly believe that there are some statues that need to be removed, but saying that, i do that it might be removing the history. I do understand that. Thathey need to recognize the existence of the statues offends fellow americans host ok, all right, jackson, heard your point. That does it for todays washington journal. We will wait back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Enjoy the rest of your day and your weekend. 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