The nuclear discussions are wednesday from imposed deadline. And in South Carolina, the debate continues about the Confederate Flag and its presence on the state grounds. Here is how to join the conversation. Democrats call 202748 8000 republicans call 202 748 8001. Post your thoughts on twitter and facebook. We will get to your calls shortly. The front page today is filled with flags. The American Flag and the Confederate Flag there. The Confederate Flags last stand at the South Carolina statehouse. Whether or not that flag will remain on state ground, and on the front page of the museum the museum as the u. S. Womens soccer team won against japan. Another flag is being waived prominently in greece as a defeat of the european financial package. Greek voters rejected a bailout deal, that is the headline. The next steps are unclear as people gathered to celebrate 61 of the voters had said no to a deal that would have imposed greater austerity measures. The no votes carried virtually every district in the country handing a sweeping victory to the prime minister. He called the measures and injustice and economically selfdefeating. So 61 of the people have rejected that deal. The finance minister has resigned. We are one day away from the second deadline on the Iranian Nuclear negotiations. This is the front page of the bbc. John kerry says very hard choices are needed. He spoke to reporters yesterday in geneva. Here is what he had to say. Whether or not we are able to close an agreement in many ways this negotiation has been going on for a number of years. Over the past few days, we have made genuine progress. But i want to be absolutely clear with everyone, we are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues. The truth is, that while i completely agree with prime ministers a that we have never been closer, at this point, the negotiation could go either way. If hard choices get made in the next couple of days, and made quickly, we could get an agreement this week. But if they are not made, we will not. So our teams are going to go as hard as we can we are not going to be negotiating in the press. We will be negotiating privately and quietly. When the time is right, we will have more to say. Host secretary john kerry yesterday, the headline of usa today says Irans Nuclear windfall alarms lawmakers. We are managing privilege and managing proliferation. Right now we have the issues of whether we are going to have any time. Will he know what their past military dimensions were . It is very important. Everyone who is coming to testify has talked about the ones of that. They are required to declare that iran has a Civil Program not a military program. So there are a number of issues, it has been going on a negative trend for quite some time. It is not congress that is pushing to have all the documents by july 9. It is the six major countries less iran countries plus iran that wants them to only have 30 days to review the steel instead of 60. This has been going on for almost two years. It is amazing to me that as we come to the end, the biggest concern is that congress would only have 30 days and not 60 days to review the deal. I urged kerry to take the time, make sure that the last remaining lines do not get crossed. Dont make it worse than what it already is. Host that was the senator on the nuclear negations Nuclear Negotiations in iran that end tomorrow. Your thoughts. 202748 8004 democrats, 202748 8001 four republicans for republicans. Caller i would like to make a comment on the greek situation. I think we have to take a look at the worlds Financial System more so than to just greece. You have spain italy, ireland isnt doing good. To me, if it was one or two countries, i could say it. When you have a multiple amount of countries that are in trouble, less theres so much debt in the world, you even hear them talk about cutting Social Security benefits. I think the worlds present Financial System has to be on the table. Host ok, bill. Comments from Stephen Moore in the Washington Times this morning. Let it go. Bankruptcy is the only way that greece can fashion a new beginning. All the conventional solutions sidestep the root cause of the greek situation. The greek citizens are simply living way beyond their means. This is a nation with an average retirement age of 60. One in four adults are unemployed. Half of its young people are out of work. Are they going to pay more taxes to provide lavish benefits . Probably not. Host caller good morning. I would like to see more indepth reporting on the train to rome and in tennessee, and the evacuation. They were moving Hazardous Wastes, and i would like to know who was shipping it. How was it produced . Where did it come from . How often is it shipped . What would be the result of exposure to it . When we had the gulf of mexico oil spill, we heard how many gallons were spilled. How it affected the birds and wildlife. There has been very little said on what is happening in tennessee, other than that there is an evacuation because of Hazardous Waste materials. Host it sounds like an issue you have taken some interest in before. Caller it is interesting because unless we know indepth we cant prevent it. So that has my comments. I think you. Have a nice morning. Host i appreciate that. We will be talking with the former head of the National Transportation safety board Deborah Hersman she is now the head of the National Safety council. Catherine was calling from New Hampshire. Usa today was talking about the bush history in New Hampshire. Family history in New Hampshire , not insurmountable. Now, jeb bush is in political purgatory. The successes and failures of his father and brother hang over the former Florida Governor as he faces what might be a must win in the primary. Call our phone lines at 2027488000 if you are democrats, 202748 8001 if you are republican. Caller good morning. I wanted to comment on what is ironic with what mr. Trump said about illegal aliens. It was not delegate, not the best choice of words. Although he did throw in a qualifier that said he wasnt referring to all. But we had a murder in San Francisco i and illegal alien. He had been deported five times. He was a violent, criminal illegal alien. He had warrants out for his arrest. He shouldnt have been walking the streets of america, and yet San Francisco is called a sanctuary city. I am from denver, colorado. These are cities in the United States that do not enforce or cooperate with finding people like this person who murdered this woman. So that comes to mr. Trumps point. They are not all bad, that there is a large section of them that are. And because we have a border that is out of control it isnt that we have a broken immigration system. We have laws that we dont enforce. That will dovetail into the second part of my comment. That is what happened in chicago over the weekend. I think we had 80 people shot. A sevenyearold boy killed because they were trying to kill his father, a gang member. Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in america. Strict guncontrol laws, and yet the chief of police, they say it is because they do not enforce the gun law violations. The getting bankers who buy guns outside the state, and are not prosecuted for that. This is what we are reaping. That is my comment. Host mike, i appreciate your comment. California murder suspect is deported five times. They writes that the man accused of gunning down a woman along the waterfront is a convicted felon who had been deported several times. Francisco sanchez, who was arrested in connection with the apparent random slaying of while she walked along the citys. He was last supported in 2014. On the front page of the Washington Times this morning, they say trump drives wedge further along the gop. Businesses are distancing themselves from Donald Trumps comments. At an Independence Day parade in New Hampshire governor jeb bush says that he doesnt represent the Republican Party or its values. Rick perry also put out that question on Donald Trumps comments. Everybody gets to pick and choose who they want to be four. But i said that donald trump does not represent the replicant party. Hispanics in america and in texas from the alamo to afghanistan, have been extraordinary people, citizens of our country and our state. They have served nobly. To paint with that brought of a brush as donald trump, he is going to have to defend those remarks. I never will. I will stand up and say they were offensive. Host rick perry, former Florida Governor on abc. Here on washington journal. The u. S. Womens team won the world cup 52. President obama said what a win for team usa. Your country is so proud of you all. Also, a tweet for another issue on the open phones, they spend money they dont have and repeatedly expect others to bail them out over and over again. In peachtree city, georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. All of the issues that you have mentioned for today, there is such a tendency for people to use examples that are deviations from the norm. To try to imply that they represent the norm. Since i am kind of liberal, it seems to be that people on the right doing it more than people on the left. It is so destructive because it distorts the argument so much. The issue is, what is the norm . The question is not what is the exception . Host what particular story are you talking about . Caller earlier, they were talking about the murder of the lady in l. A. , i think, by an illegal alien. But that is an exceptional situation. It does not represent the norm. For people to use those unusual examples to imply that they represent the average is just destructive. It distorts the issue that it is almost impossible to have a decent discussion about what the real issue is. Host lets hear from chicago next, andnna is on the democrat line. Caller good morning. I wanted to say that seven people died. Host thank you. The fight against Isis Coalition airstrikes hit Islamic State in raqqa. Here. We go to leo in washington d. C. Caller good morning cspan. I want to comment on the immigrants. This country was built with immigrants. The immigrants that you are talking about are the immigrants, the brown skinned immigrants. Once again, this country was built upon immigrants. Host independent line, barry in vermont. Caller i wanted to have a comment on Donald Trumps thing with the hispanics. Donald trump is not doing politics as usual. He is being straight up and honest. His opinion may not be buttered up so that the democrats or republicans can understand him. What he is saying is that there is an issue here and we need to address it. I dont agree with saying that all hispanics, but he didnt say all hispanics. He said that we have the ones who jumped the border. If they came in and paid taxes and took care of all the bills that the rest of us had to take care of, that would be something different. But they need to come through the same way everybody else has. Host who do you think has the best message of the president ial candidates . On immigration . Caller right now, i think donald trump does. He is straight up. He is not buttering it up. He is just saying a fact. Politicians nowadays would state the facts, and tell us how to take care of it, and let the people make the decision. But no, they want to fight one another. Trying to downplay mr. Trump or the others. I am so sick of politicians as a whole. I want to just hear the truth. You dont have to butter it up. Host i appreciate your comments. 2027488000, democrats. 202748 8001, republicans. Any issue in the news or public policy. In the South Carolina legislature, in the New York Times, debate over Confederate Flag is set to move inside South Carolinas capital. Discussions are expected to take up today over the battle flag. Theyre responding to demands that it be removed after the massacre at the church in charleston. The state senate is scheduled to consider a bipartisan proposal to move the battle flag, long viewed as a defined tribute to the segregationist past to the relic room in the museum. If the measure is approved, it will shift to the house. Again, this is in South Carolina. Republicans control both chambers. A newspaper in charleston found last month that there was enough support in the legislature to approve the plan. Just to read a little bit about what prompted Governor Haley to remove the flag. This is in the Washington Times. They write, the surfacing of a website with mr. Roof holding Confederate Flags deepened her resolve. I could not have been more disgusted, she said. Lets honor every person in South Carolina so that nobody drives by the state house and feels pain. But she has said nothing publicly for several more days. Lets hear now from virginia on the independent line. Caller good morning. The last caller said everything i was ready to say. I want to add that we are starting to be a society where we have to put everything into words where it doesnt offend somebody. On a case like that this morning, 78 murders in chicago werent committed by gangsters, they were committed by guns. I think we need to put it in perspective. We are getting where we cant called a Certain Group by what they really are. In other words, we used to call gangsters, but now we have groups that say we cant call them what they are. At the end of the day, i guess the guns are committing the violence, and not the real perpetrators. Host a couple of tweets here. Monty tweets about the Iranian Nuclear negotiations. No agreement could have nonnuclear consequences. A tweet about greece races a corrupt nation whose citizens horribly cheat on the payment of taxes. Congress will return on tuesday the act race sprint to the august recess. Joining us is kevins cirilli. What is the deal with the highway funding . Guest before the august recess they have to have a highway transportation bill. This is something that both sides have indicated that there is bipartisan agreement on. Or else the funding bill will run out. Most expect that there will be an amendment attached to extend the reauthorization of the exportimport banks. In the house, there has been a lot of finagling over whether or not to reauthorize that. The bottom line is that weve seen a situation play out where there is a less controversial bill, and then the does attach. Tea Party Members are worried about the export import banks. Other members say it helps to sustain jobs. Host so there authorization ran out as Congress Went to the july 4 recess . Guest absolutely. It has temporarily expired. That means that the Bank Officials cannot vote to have more projects. This is federally backed and is supported by the Business Community. A bank can still make good on the commitments that it has already made. With that being said, this is one of the most contentious sites right now. Outside of congress you have every major toptier president ial candidate in the republican field coming out against it. While democrats supported, and so do moderate republicans. Host give us an idea of where Congress Stands on the annual spending bill. It seems like theyre halfway through. What is left to do . Guest a great question. The house is in front of the senate on this. The house is taking a much more peaceful approach. The senate likes more of a juxtaposed position. We are heading into the fall. I would not expect there to be major spending bills going on before the august recess. We are adding it to the fall and that comes around the time of another debt limit, and it also comes when we could see another fiscal situation for the holidays. In the fall and winter, around december, it is going to be another example of whether or not congress can get something done in terms of a budget. The background to this is that we saw this to an extent last year i expect the ramifications to be more heightened this year because we are heading into another president ial cycle. I think that the debt limit is surrounding all of the budget fighting, and it could heighten things. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Host we talked about the highway bill. The usa today headline says that congress will tackle highways and education. The no child left behind law is coming up. What does that look like . Guest no child left behind is something from the Bush Administration. It is tough to talk about these and not talk about what is happening on a president ial scale. When you talk about no child left behind, you have leading republican lawmakers in the senate like ted cruz and marco rubio, rand paul, Lindsey Graham all of these people are going to bring up the debate. I think that on the flipside, democrats have also attacked no child left behind. So were going to have an education debate. And i wouldnt really expec