Former president obama tapped his phones. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. All others, 2027488002. We welcome your comments on twitter. You can also post on facebook. We mentionederway, that was about 24 hours ago from President Trump. He is tweeting this morning. We look into those as we are able. The series of tweets that followed the first one that we just read, here is a look at the three that followed. That is from President Trump yesterday. The headlines this morning on the new site and newspapers are about that story. Front page this morning of the Washington Post, the headline saying trump claims obama tapped his new york offices. Ruckercoster and phil writing this. A look inside the New York Times reporting on how this came about. This is the New York Times. Two people close to President Trump refers to a Breitbart News article that had passed around among his advisers. A conservative radio host embraced the theory recently. Stephe let us hear from you. We go to stephen in South Carolina on our democrats line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. This is of course not the first time President Trump has said something he heard or heard about from breitbart or the fox news channel. He stood in front of a crowd of people during his campaign and talked about a plane landing that was carrying money to take to a facility. Turns out of course that was not the plane. He saw that on the fox channel and six with that. This is something he tends to do. Host what do you think the obligation is from President Trump to come for with proof or evidence of this wiretapping, the selected wiretapping . Wiretapping . Ed caller if he has it, he should come forward with it. I dont think he does, but he should come forward with it immediately. You cannot say that without some sort of proof because if we continue to do that, you are really undermining our democracy. He is the president. When he was a reality show host, that was ok. But now, he is the president. You cannot continue to do that without damaging our country. He has to have of it. He has to come out with it. Host lets hear from our republican line. Janice in michigan. Caller thank you. Good morning. Host good morning. Caller you know, there are more sources than just breitbart to ascertain what really happened. Anytime anyone says breitbart, it is automatically dismissed. It as a right wing website. Well, if you look at what has been going on even before trump was inaugurated, but especially since then, all these leak coming out of the fbi or cia and they are always directed at two times, the new york and Washington Post because they know these obama holdovers in these intelligence communities that the New York Times and Washington Post will run with this kind of stuff. Barack obama is the first president in 238 years to stay in the city of washington and miles from thee white house. What he has done, he has turned organizing for action and indivisible, which is another far leftwing site, into an army. This is what is happening at these republican town halls. These people are given a manual on how to act and what to say and what to do at the town hall. This is the reason i think for Donald Trumps paranoia. It may just be paranoia. I dont know. This deserves a closer look. Lovee, please, even if you him, do not dismiss the fact that barack obama and his people still that are the holdovers cannot dismiss that he has something to do with this or his people did. Host here is the response from the president s spokesperson that came out yesterday. Here is part of what he said in reaction to the claims by President Trump. He said Cardinal Rule of the Obama Administration was no white house official ever interfere with any independent Investigation Department of justice. Getting your thoughts this morning on Donald Trumps tweets yesterday that president obama had his phones tapped. We talked about the breitbart article. This is the article from friday about mentioning some of the things mark was talking about. That radioon friday radio host use his show to outline the steps taken by Barack Obamas administration in his last month to undermine Donald Trumps president ial campaign and his new administration. You can read all of that story at breitbart. Com. Tweeting about president obama and russia this morning. We will show that to you in just a moment. Here it is now. Donald trump tweeting half an hour ago. Lansing, north carolina, on our democrat line. Good morning. Caller yes, is that all donald trump is going to do while he is president . Tweet somebody about something . I think hitlers is his daddy while you do a dna test akin too see if he was heather because he is acting like he did. Host let us hear from sue also on our democrats line. Caller yes, hi. Thanks for taking my call. The first thing i want to say is that actions speak louder than tweets. Last time i checked, u. S. Citizens have the right to live wherever they want to within the United States. Is diverging attention from a need independent evaluation from in therence of russians u. S. Election. We need an independent investigation. We need evidence of claims. This president does not want the evidence against him. Ts this with unfounded claims and does not provide his tax records. This man is undermining freedom of speech. He is trying to, and his republican cronies by the way, are trying to end separation of church and state. They do not believe in the u. S. Constitution. They are trying to use the ,residency for financial deals which hisly family has ignored hundreds of years of ethics. I really dont understand why they ar there are not calls for impeachment. This is very serious and dangerous for our country. By the way host do you think a president s accusatory tweets, is that what you are saying . Those rise to the level of impeachment . I think hisknow, executive actions rise to the level of impeachment. Also, the nature of his appointments. All of his actions before and since the election. By the way, i just want to say rather than leaks, i would call a whistleblowing it whistleblowing. Negate theying to limited protection for federal employees for whistleblowing for serious infractions of the law and our constitution. Host appreciate that. President trump expected to sign additional executive orders next week. He returns from maralago later today. Vermont, good morning to peter on our republican line. Caller good morning. Host thank you. Caller good morning. Hisresident trump claims former residents, trump tower, has been wiretapped, then one must assume that the white house has also been bugged. Thank you. Host that is peter in vermont. Asking your thoughts this morning about the accusations from President Trump that president obama had his phones tapped. 2027488000 for democrats. Republicans, 2027488001. All others, 2027488002. In particular, what obligation does President Trump have to come forth with some evidence on that . Lots of comments on twitter. Back to call. Independent line, kerry good morning. Caller good morning. I have 58 years old. I dont get my news from the internet or anything like that. I watch tv and read our local paper. I just think i am an independent because i am not sure of either party, but i think we need an independent investigation into both matters. Mr. Trump says that he was wiretapped. Prove it. Ok . All this other stuff coming out about him is pretty scary. It makes you wonder that the man has a very close pension for putin. Very easy on russia, apparently. Very scary what is going on in this country. Congress and the senate ought to start hurting their money and start working earning their money and start working together on these problems before they worry about anything else, affordable care. That ought to be what they concentrate on, finding out the truth once and for all, antiAmerican People can finally decide to come together and get american and the people can finally decide to come together and get on with our lives. Is driving me crazy listening to is telling the truth. I have no idea. I can tell you that is the truth. These people ought to be fired and start brandnew. Host thanks for your call. Lots of comments on the phone and from members of congress. We hear from lindsey graham, who had a townhall yesterday in South Carolina and was asked about the allegations and the tweets from President Trump. [video clip] apparently this morning, President Trump tweeted out that he believes president obama ordered wiretapping of his campaign. [laughter] it. And that would be i dont know what happened, but i can only tell you the summary of the tweet. The president of the United States is claiming the former president of the United States ordered wiretapping of his Campaign Last year. I dont know if it is true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. Side of the story just be quiet. If the former president of the United States was able to obtain a warrant lawfully to monitor Trumps Campaign for violating law, that would be the biggest scandal since watergate. Here is the deal. As we get ready to talk to each other, i am very worried. I am very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally. I would be very worried if in fact the Obama Administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully about Trump Campaign activity. So, it is my job as the United States senator to get to the bottom of this. Host senator graham touched on this a little bit on what it takes to get a warrant for wiretapping. Washington post writes about it this morning. Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. If you are a candidate for president , it is even harder. An fbi agent, would need to show a federal judge there is probable cause that the target is an agent of a foreign power. That requires more than just talking to the russian ambassador. We will go to gladstone, virginia, on our democrats line. Thanks for waiting. Caller first of all, i would like to say that once again, donald trump has tried to diverge the American Public from the real issue at hand, which is interference of the russian government in our democratic election process. Again very upset once with congress that seems to be complacent and allowing him to do all of these things that he almost virtualin silence on their part as far as what they intend to do or even being behind a bipartisan independent investigation of all of the facts that are coming forth about who was talking to whom in russia. Once again, it is a distraction away from the real issue at hand, which is the interference of the russian government in our democratic process. Whether he feels that it election orhe legitimizes his not, everybody should demand some facts to come from the government as to what actually was involved in this whole russian interference with our election. Host donna agrees with you on twitter, saying this. Lets go to our republican line. Caller yes, i would just like to say this morning that people need to go back to november to see what the American People said. They elected donald j. Trump to be our leader, to take this country into a different direction. That is what we are doing. Now, president obama needs to do what president bush did. Go home. Leave it alone. Let him govern. Lets get off of this phony media. Lets go back to the congress. Lets change the aca. Lets get tax reform. Lets take care of the American People. Lets do what the man said he was going to do. Ets get off this cra thank you very much. Have a great day. Host mansfield, pennsylvania. Caller to answer your first point, should President Trump have to provide tru proof of his allegations, yes he should. It is interesting that he wants to sue people for slander. If you can provide proof, it is not a case of slander. My larger point is that the Trump Supporters who keep calling in to say let trump do doing trump d left trump let trump do his presidency, the problem is he has no political experience. He seems to have no idea what the presidency involves. He has only appointed Something Like three dozen of almost 1000 appointments that need to be made to keep his government running. With sayingproblem his presidency should be allowed to play itself out is there is no presidency. He is substituting tweets, distractions for any actual president ial actions. That is my point. Host allen in kings park, new york. Good morning to frank. Go ahead, frank. Caller i love the piece that you just showed with lindsey graham. I totally agree with him. With the last caller, the democrats are holding up all of President Trumps cabinet picks. We need some action to get his staff in order so maybe he could govern a little better. Host i think on that, frank, they have moved most of them. There is sonny purdue, the agriculture secretary. He has not come before the senate yet because the paperwork had not come over from the white house, but back to your point. Point, ok, but on that it seems like as soon as one is confirmed, they attacked him from the democratic side. Right now, there is a lot of smoke out there with the russians, the russians, the russians. Not much proof has been shown from the democratic side also. I want the president to be able to govern. I am not sure this whole thing now with obama a kind of scares me because if there was a wiretap ordered, that could be proven. I dont know. Right now, i think we have to come together better. Stop pointing all these fingers. Lets try to have him govern. Host philadelphia, next we hear from mark on our independent line. Your thoughts on president haves tweets, and does he an obligation to offer evidence . Caller yes, i think he does. I hate to say it, but president movieis reminding me of a played by humphrey bogart. He seems a little paranoid to be honest with you. All i want to say is, is this all we are going to happen the next four years . This is scary stuff. Of the worldest thinking about this democracy, the allegedly the greatest in the world . Host we talked about the reference in a couple news reports this morning. The president may have been on a radioeporting show and later in breitbart. Here is a following article on that from friday. That headline about that their headline about that. Radio hostf the spent most of this evening discussing the allegedly i scandal surrounding jeff a silent coup by the former Obama Administration against President Trump. That is the radio host. Florida on our independent line. Hello there. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I love you guys. People, listen up. President , former they know everything that goes on. Everything in this country. Dont let them fool you. Ok . I can guarantee you president. Rump does have proof continue on tweeting, trump. Let the people know that the Mainstream Media is lying to us about everything. Always said people can fool people, but they cannot fool god. Is like toe media everybody, you are saying the president has an obligation to come forward with evidence . Caller to all the American People, yes. President trump does. God is good. God is great. It will always come out. You do nasty, you will get nasty. Host jo in San Franciscoe joe in San Francisco. Caller good morning. Absolutely, i definitely believe the president has to show proof of his accusations towards the former president obama. This president , i am really getting sick of every time they are questioning him about something, he always seems to have a guy version tactic to get away from what they are initially talking about. If it is true out that Jeff Sessions perjured himself in the conversations he had with the russian diplomats, violating his duty as attorney general. , his trust, ip question his trust. It seems like he has a way of almost misdirecting people as much as people bring. I hate to call him a liar, but good gracious. It is always something with this man. He definitely has to prove these accusations against president. Bama there is always some kind of excuse. He is always blaming somebody else. It is a pattern he has been exhibiting ever since he has been running for office. Host joe in San Francisco here on washington journal this morning. Starting the program asking you about a series of tweets donald trump issued yesterday about 24 hours ago on president obama allegedly tapping his phones. Here is how it started out. President trump saying terrible, just found out i had tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Spokespersonmas replied to that a bit later in the day. We will show you that in a moment. We are asking you your thoughts on that series of tweets. Does President Trump have a responsibility to come forth with evidence. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. All others, 2027488002. This was the response from former president obamas spokesperson. That is from kevin lewis, spokesman for former president obama. Jerry is next in naples, florida. Good morning on our democrats line. Caller thanks for taking my call. Host sure, jerry. Go ahead. Caller and us start out with donald trump has a mental let us start out with donald trump has a mental disorder starting with the further movement. You have over 500 psychiatrists who have signed statements, sent them in, they are easily available for everybody to see, that he has a serious mental problem. Narcissistic disorder, you get to a second disorder that is even worse. Everything that it says is what trump does. Everything. If you want to know which new to,ation to listen find out which one will debate in public. If we had debate in public like they do in canada and england on one subject one subject, that of these people at fox would show up none of these people at fox would show up. As far as russia, we have a known person in the state, the head of our commerce department, who is the expresident of the bank of cyprus. Every Law Enforcement agency in the world knows that cyprus, the bank of cyprus is the russian moneylaundering bank. Dont say there is no russian connection. Host president obamas former Senior Adviser ben rhodes reacting to the store yesterday, tweeting this. No president could order a wiretap. This is reporting this morning in the dallas morning news. They write that though trump did not offer support to his claim lets hear from jeff in california. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller yes, i am tired of republicans complaining about, how come the democrats cannot give trump a chance . When obama was elected into office, the first thing republicans said is we will make him a one term president. Eight years later, obstruction from republicans up until he left office. All you republicans out there who say give trump a chance, as a democrat host lost you, jeff. Elliott on the republican line. Caller hello. My name is elliott. I live in South Carolina. I have a message for jeff. The Democratic Party has always been close to russia. Ever since the destruction of the communist party in the 1960s. You have tell him whoas secret government are not paid with money, but paid through psychic payment to try to undermine our government. We are in very good danger. Host another response from a former obama advisor tweeting yesterday about reaction to donald trump. Nuts. Seems and the to suspicion need for full public reckoning. Aboutashington post trust in institutions, in particular government. A piece by bill bishop. Americans are losing faith in institutions for a long time, and we may not find it again. I will sho at institutions losing trust from the public at large, starting with the president. Going back to 1973, a downward 95end from 72 in 1994, 19 down to 36 in 2016. If you take a look at the media, the medias trust and one point of tv and era newspapers in the 1970s down to 20 here. Read a little bit more from this, but we will go back to your calls. This is an article about trusting government, larger institutions all the way from big business and the economy to big banks, churches, public schools. We will read some more. We hear first from amari in georgia. Caller yes, i believe all of our Electronic Devices are tapped. Anytime you go to a site, you know, youre getting a lot of personal information saying we think you are interested in this. We as a people are fighting for the same thing. We want our liberty. We want our free thought. We want our opinions. We want to live the american dream, which is ultimate happiness. I put the emphasis on ultimate happiness. We have the best food in the world. We have the best devices and transportation in the world. We have the best opportunities and capabilities in the world. Now, we as a people also feel as though we have been sold out by the government and industry when it comes to our jobs, when it on both sidesotes because the republicans feel as though their votes are being tampered with, the democrats feel as though our votes are being tampered with. You have lobbyists that go against the general publics goals, which is the pursuit of happiness and privacy. We as a people in america always. Under the cloud that we are under no, and i am not saying trump is the only thunderstorm we are going through. There have been problems with obama, clinton, etc. It has been a long time since we had a great president. Since we are under the same cloud, i think we should come together and just keep each other as americans. Now, those that want foreigners kicked out, dont just look south of the border. There are foreigners from other countries running mafias to have people terrified over here. Host on your point, you talk about being under a cloud. Do you think the media makes too much of this and this is just President Trump, this is what he does and we are focusing on the wrong things . Caller well, the media always focuses on sensationalism. Yes, i think some of the things that have been focused on with trump is a little too farfetched, but when it comes to people getting caught for breaking the law and government, they are not too big to fail, just like big business. Host thanks for joining us this morning. We go to robin in old ford, pennsylvania, republican caller. Caller i am really getting aggravated with all these people. I have been watching and following this whole thing with donald trump from the very beginning. All i am going to say is as far as the wiretapping goes, we all know the president cannot issue that. We already know he has tried to get one the first time. They wereut fisa, rejected. Then they did another one, and it was accepted. All i am saying is what is going on with obama is he is behind this. All those classified things so they could be declassified. That is why this stuff is coming out, being leaked out. Come on, people. Get a grip. Thank you. Host here is linda in new albany, ohio, independent caller. What is Donald Trumps obligation to come forth with evidence or proof . Caller well, my question is, who confessed any evidence . The government has gotten so political. The news media is so interested in every detail of slander that we have come to a place where we cannot trust anyone anymore. Every look back, institution of government has been smeared over the past eight years and probably going back further than that. The fbi sold guns to the mexicans. The irs targeted conservatives. The recent report that came out that the fbi had to slash funds. The epa has been interfering with private lands. The Justice Department had Loretta Lynch meeting with bill clinton. We have the cia in 2014 admitting they were spying on the Senate Intelligence committee. We have senators outraged over these meetings with russian ambassadors, and now we know they all did it. I dont know who we can trust anymore. It would not be a shock if we found out that senators and even president ial candidates were being spied on. As far as with a president can order it, there is a lot of ways to get around whether he actually ordered it. We know they can skirt the law, just walk on the edge of it, and still get away with these things. I am very disturbed about the lack of ability to trust any institution anymore. Host thank you for your call. You bring us back to the priest w the piece we mentioned earlier. Trust is long gone. Dont expect it to come back. They are writing about trust from across all areas of our lives. Bill bishop writing that everything about modern life works against community and trust. Our economy rewards initiative over conformity so that the weight of convention and tradition does not squelch the latest gizmo from coming to the attention of the next bill gates. The shift in outlook has been allencompassing. It has changed the purpose of marriage, was a practical arrangement, now a means of personal fulfillment. The broader issue is trust in also some issues. That could be another full segment here on washington journal, but we are asking you about the president s tweets yesterday on president obama allegedly tapping his phone lines. This happened yesterday. Around the country, a series of preplanned rallies in support of President Trump in locations, including from tower trump towe. North carolina, independent line, it is carol. Good morning. Caller good morning. Yes, i do believe that obama and hillary are behind the wiretapping. When hillary gave her acceptance she wasat the very end, bending over talking to someone. We have some things planned or in mind, Something Like that. All you have to do is review that tape. I did not quote her exactly, but i thought uh oh. President trump was not supposed to win. When he did, there is an uproar because this new world order had their agenda. Trump upset that order. , im going tog is bring something up about the wall. Why is obama building a wall around his house less than a few miles from the white house . Also, i understand that Valerie Jarrett has moved into his house or mention. What are they up to now . I am saying investigate obama. Investigate hillary. Soe them something to do that donald trump can govern for the people of the United States. Not become elected, god help us. God bless trump. Host i cannot confirm a wall or your allegation about Valerie Jarrett, the former president is living in washington. His youngest daughter is finishing her last year in high school next year. He is building his president ial library in chicago. What happens after she graduates, who knows . On twitter, lots of comments. People responding to our question this morning. I guess the subtext to our question is asking you what obligation President Trump might have to come forward with evidence of wiretapping. Debbie is in gainesville, florida, on our democrats line. Welcome. Caller morning. Thank you for taking my call. That caller or you that just said if the president has every right to live in washington. His daughters are still going to school there. Everything that is happening to me is just one big distraction. I hate it when previous president s it does not seem like previous president s get involved in a new president s administration. It seems like president obama all the election was too much of a cheerleader for hillary. Sanders, who pretty much had the same ideas that President Trump has on putting an end to all of the rigged trade deals. That we are having is a big distraction from the globalists. That includes the media. They want to continue this rigged Training System that is hurting the American People, which is what bernie wanted to put an end to, which is what donald trump wants to put an end to. This goes back to exactly what you were just showing with your Washington Post article about trust. Trust started eroding one corporate lobbyists started quadrupling, when we started building up the country throughout the world while neglecting hours. Thatwe have a president actually got elected to take on the establishment, whether it be Bernie Sanders or donald trump, and now, i am in fear of their life because they are taking on the world banks. They are taking on these globalists, which include the media. The media, they are not reporters. They are not making 100,000 a year. They are making millions. They are entertainers. They are not reporting news. Our elected officials, they are just prostitutes because they get elected by the donors. Host our question, on your point, that the president s tweets, these in particular, do they distract from what he is trying to do . Do this in the media off on another chase, so to speak . Caller it all distracts. When we have what i call organized protesters, i protested against the vietnam war, and i can tell you these people are not grassroots protesters. They are organized by the globalists that want to distract our president from fixing our country. Our country is going down because we dont have the jobs. We have these rigged trade deals when china with, we lose, mexico wins, we lose. It is constantly, lets build up everybody else at the expense of our American People. Our senators and congresspeople allow it to happen because they get their donations for their campaigns from wall street and other corporations that make a fortune off of slave wages. Host we will let you go there, debbie. From jacksonville, florida, david. Good morning. Caller yes. The white house spokesman did not deny wiretapping. He made a statement our policies cannot interfere with Justice Departments independent investigations. The statement seems carefully parsed to say the white house the no order wiretapping, but it appears somehow the Justice Department independently initiated. The question is, how did they did use the word independent. The varmintce initiated the investigation, was it independently done with no influence by president obama . If it was not influenced by the white house, do they have legal grounds to meet the top criteria . Tough criteria . Host on your point, just to go back to what the law is, this is the reporting of the Washington Post writing that under the law that governs for Intelligence Surveillance inside the United States, an fbi agent would be to show a federal judge there is probable cause. That requires more than just talking to the russian ambassador. The process cannot be necessarily ordered at least by law from the white house. Go ahead with your comments. Caller yes. It appears wiretapping took place, but what is the Obama Administration prevent through the fbi and ending up with the Justice Department, which is what was in the statement of the white house spokesman, the independent investigation by the Justice Department . What do they present . Orit skewed or exaggerated presented in a way that really does not represent the truth, but slate the Justice Department swayed Justice Department to the fbi . That false orhown misleading information was provided to end of justifying wiretapping, lets look at it all and see how it came about because it appears this did take place. They did not deny wiretapping. Host that is david in jacksonville, florida. President trump spending a beach at maralago in palm beach. One of the National Security stories praising President Trump reporting york times on the front page this morning that trump inhibits a cyber war on north korea. Three years ago, president obama ordered pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic stripes against north koreas Missile Program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in the opening seconds. Michigan, good morning to barbara, independent line. Caller yes, good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, i do believe that it is possible that president Obama WiretappedPresident Trump because we have seen that in the past. They have wiretapped Angela Merkel of germany. They wiretapped the french. They are interfering in every other country in the world thinking they are helping, but really, they are not helping anybody. Look at what is happening here. We are supposed to have the best democracy. We voted for President Trump on november 8. The democrats will not accept this. They need to step away. If they cant help trump with anything, stay away. Let him do his job. We got a president , finally, that wants to help the people of america. He knows more about business. So far, he is doing the right thing. Should come and see how it is in michigan and ohio and indiana. There is so many people out of jobs. We dont realize how many jobs have left the country. Is not just manufacturing. There is also any time you call anybody about a phone or anything, you can barely understand them. I come from a different country. I cant even understand the people and i am talking to them about my phone, my cable, anything. They are in the philippines, nicaragua, here, there, everywhere. Host barbara in michigan. President trump in maralago. Vice president pence state in washington over the weekend because he was part of an annual tradition, the gridiron dinner, an annual bipartisan dinner. Cspan cameras caught some of the arrivals in washington last night. The Vice President and tenant. Senator joni ernst walking by. Later in the spring, the white house correspondents dinner, with President Trump said he will not attended this year. It was a privilege to address the gridiron dinner, he said. We must focus on what unites us. Inocrats like, we go to joe brandywine, maryland. Caller yes, good morning. , they come on, they dont have information, and they are spewing all of these lies and things about what obama did and what trump is not doing. Trump is a liar. It is proven he is a liar. And a could just come on and Say Something and all of a sudden it becomes a truth without someone checking it out. We have to check into ourselves. People from the midwest, weather manufacturing was going good, you are eating steaks and chicken and all that. And you were not worried about the rest of the country. Now manufacturing has gone, you have to reeducate yourself because it is not coming back. Host thank you, joe. Back to our story from the news website, the headline about the story behind this. Exquisite fbi greater fisa warrant. They write that two separate sources have confirmed that the fbi sought and was granted this in october, giving them the ability to mitigate donald Trump Campaigns with ties to russia. Contrary to early reporting in New York Times in tampa, florida, republican line, joe. Welcome. Caller our you . Host i am doing fine. Caller interesting conversation. I think based on the analysis you have provided and all the news articles, it appears this is a distraction from last weeks conversation obviously leading to the address to the joint sessions of congress. That speech was lauded. Last night, cnn said one of the reasons why President Trump was basically frustrated was because his Communication Team did not coordinate the themes and conversations with attorney general when he refused himself from issues connected with russia. I think those spilled over to the tweets. If you look at the time on, it was really early in the morning. Obviously, i dont know where this story came up, but i think it was just a distraction. 1 the New York Times host the New York Times says incensed. Rump was they write that in the Oval Office Friday morning, trump pms at his senior staff and told them he disagreed. Your calls and comments on that. We move on here. Coming up next, we are going to hear from robert bixby and stand colander who write on fiscal issues. Later on, they look at new technology. M. I. T. Technology review editor in chief, jason ponton discusses 10 Breakthrough Technologies and their extended impact. First, on newsmakers, we. Nterview nan aron she talks about why liberals are fighting to defeat neil gorsuch. We are in this to win. I think we will win. Number two, there is no lock on this seat to find a scalia clone as neil gorsuch has been described. As i recall, the seat should have been filled by merrick a stellar candidate that enjoyed support from democrats and republicans. In fact, it was are in hatch than republican that recommended gorsuch. This is the most important fight and we should not be looking who mightoad at who vacate their seat. His is a fight at the moment neil gorsuch is not the right judge for this seat given his background and weve only talked about his record. What we have not talked about really is the hearing itself. He is not being considered for , he a cabinet appointment is being considered for a fourime appointment in the and therefore the bar will have to be much higher than it cabinetfor other officials heard he will have to answer questions and tell the committee perhaps how he might have ruled on some of these cases and i also think the bar will be set a lot higher because of what happened with Jeff Sessions. Those hearings were very short, very superficial and i think now people realize we are not just considering a nominee for attorney general, but one for the highest court in the land. 10 00smakers today at eastern on cspan and cspan radio. She is, generalist interviewed by michael steele. When does you become into bookand out of this provides descriptions for turning that important corner to recognize how important unity is . This book is a refresher of civics, but i wrote it in a way that we need help. America is a great country, but we are a little confused and i think that is what we are wrestling with. This easily peace, we have to break this down. That halfms we saw is the country feels one way and another feels another. Washington journal continues. Host the budget is on the way from President Trump and the new budget and here to talk about we are joined by dr. 60. And also stand colander. Gentlemen, thanks for joining us this morning. I just want to show a chart to start off. This is a rural spending in 2017 and the amount of mandatory spending in terms of trillions