Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the crowd tuesday at the annual convention of the National Association for the advancement of colored people where the president spoke in philadelphia next to that is a picture of the president. In oklahoma. And from political this morning Congress Balks on obamas u. N. Move on iran. President obama has a new hurdle selling his iran deal. Bipartisan opposition for his submission to congress before congress boats. It is a little bit of what is going on in the news this morning. We want to hear from you and what is on your mind. Bob in duluth, minnesota democrat. Go ahead. Caller thanks for taking my call. I think the democrats need to focus on immigration issue right now. I agree with the president. And his wanting to grant citizenship to the people that are already here, but it is not going to work unless you make it at least a felony to hire an undocumented worker and if you did that, you would take away the incentive for people that want to come across the border. It would be a whole lot easier to protect the borders, and we would not have as much problem with the hospitals in the border towns being flooded with undocumented people. Host you are calling a democrats line but when you hear donald trump go on about immigration, what do you think about what he has to say . Caller well, i know he is striking a chord with a lot of republican voters. And immigration is really a bad problem. I think that if the democrats could push the issue of punishing the people that enable the, or hire undocumented workers, if they did that, you would not have to worry about people coming across the border because it would not be an incentive. And also they would be paying into social security. They would be paying into the medical system. And they would be paying taxes. And the people that are hiring the undocumented workers, they are stealing tax dollars out of our pockets. That is the way i feel. I do not think that it is really going to do any good u nless you punish the people that hire the undocumented workers. If you did that, you would take care of the problem, but you also need to grant citizenship to the people that are already here, except for the criminals. And it would be easier to keep track of the criminals after that, because host in duluth you could not be further from the border, though. Caller i have been down in texas. Ive seen what it is like to try to get into the Emergency Rooms in the hospitals in texas. Host that is bob in duluth minnesota. We showed you this at the beginning. The front page of the Chattanooga Times free press paper this morning. Representative Chuck Fleischmann is a republican from tennessee and represents the city of chattanooga. What is your take on what happened yesterday . Constant fleischman it was tragic congressman fleischman i was on the floor voting in washington and one of my colleagues said there had been a shooting in chattanooga. Then within a few minutes, i realize that this was a horrible horrible act of terrorism where four marines were killed. It was a very sad day. I flew back immediately and yesterday, there was sadness. All over our great city. And just a horrible day for chattanooga. And a very sad day for america sir. Host you call the terrorism. Conversely fleischman congressman fleischman when someone takes a rifle and actually goes and assaults on military recruiting center where men and women who serve our great nation in uniform and where other men and women who want to do that, they opened fire there, and then he drives to a Naval Reserve station and shoots people in cold blood i think that is terrorism. It cannot be tolerated. It is an outrage. And some of the posts that are out there on the shooting, including his high school your book post, show that this is just a horrible, horrible person who would do something that in our wonderful city of chattanooga, tennessee. Host so, what have we learned about Mohammed Abdulazeez . Congressman fleischmann so far we have learned that he went to school locally, attended a local university. One of my middle sons graduated from that school. It is a Wonderful School in the university of tennessee system. He grew up in hixson, tennessee which is a suburb of chattanooga where my wife grew up. And the saddest part about all this is this person was on nobodys watchlist. Apparently he was arrested a while back for d. U. I. , which some of the pictures that were up there, but the reality, the reality is so far we hear that he is on no ones watchlist and that is the scariest thing about this. We cannot allow, and we do not want this to happen anywhere else. The sick feeling i feel today and felt yesterday because of this tragic spree of killings, i do not want to see that anywhere else in our great United States. And the fact that there are people out there like this horrible person who did this yesterday really concerns me. Host so, what is your schedule today, congressman . You say you want to prevent this from happening again. How is that done . Congressman fleischmann well, the first thing. There has been tremendous cooperation on the part of federal, state, and local Law Enforcement. They are in an information gathering stage. I was briefed about what they are doing and how they are doing it. Resources properly so are pouring into chattanooga so we can find out what happened. The fbi has been very handson. Ive spoken with them. They are doing a very good job. Hopefully, they will be able to piece this tragedy together to find out how it happened, why it happened so that we can all take actions to prevent this again. Were in a difficult time in america right now. This is not the america i grew up in. Im 52 years old. I grew up in america where i felt safe domestically. The events of yesterday and some of the things we have seen lead me to believe that we have major, major Security Problems in this nation. Think of it, the fact that a gun man could do that and in addition to the four marines killed, there were other people injured. This is a National Tragedy. This is not just chattanoogas tranny. Tragedy. This is americas tragedy. Host thank you for being on the washington journal this morning. Usa today, in their article. Chattanooga shooter straddled two worlds. How he went to school in the area and grew up in the area. It includes the article this way he maintained an islam focused blog that explored the sacrifices muslim should make in the name of their religion. Three days before the shooting, abuladzeez published post that life is short and bitter next call, david in nebraska. Republican line. What is on your might . Your mind . Caller i would like to say that im really just discussed it with what obama has done with iran. How he tries to arm terrorist nations, and then he tries to disarm true americans. Bill clinton, he is the one that disarmed our military people on bases. I just do not think we can take another four years of obama or clinton. Thank uyyou. Host brenda on the line. A democrat in houston. Caller hi peter. My god. The man that just got off the phone. Einstein, what else did the president do . Did he not listen to the options . Do you remember what horrible president bush was . What does he think about bushs administration . To my point. The duluth, guy that called in, i agree with him but i want all in legal sent back. Not just the mexicans. To my point i want to make about the president oh, my goodness. What a man, what a man, what a man. I mean he never stops. Look how he fielding the questions from reporters the other day. In regards to the iran deal. How they, after he exhausted their questions, he even had his own to shut down the ones like the nebraska caller we just had. I could go on but i know you have to talk to others. Thanks for taking my call. Have a great day. Host front page of the New York Times. Here is a picture of the president. They had cleared out this area of the el reno correctional facility for the president to take his tour and handpicked a group of nonviolent inmates for him to talk to. You can see him walking through the. This is a photo by doug mills. The president spoke about the issue of criminal Justice System reform earlier this week in philadelphia at the naacp. President obama around one million fathers are behind bars. 1 in 9 africanamerican kids have a parent in prison. What is that doing to our communities . Whats that doing to those children . Our nation is being robbed of men and women who could be workers and taxpayers. Could be more actively involved in their childrens lives. Could be role models, community leaders. And right now they are locked up for a nonviolent offense. So our criminal Justice System is not as smart as it should be. Its not keeping us as safe as it should be. It is not as fair as it should be. Mass incarceration makes our country worse off. And we need to do something about it. Host and we are going to discuss that issue later in this washington journal with paul b utler of Georgetown University. We will talk about criminal Justice Reform with him. Ken, thanks for holding. Lancaster, south carolina, independent line. Caller you give mea a little time now president obama wants to talk about the issues that concern blacks. The black caucus, the first time they did not give him a pass about talking about black issues. But i am going to talk about donald trump talking about immigration. Immigration is killing the black community and the white community. Manufacturing jobs. The companys keep hiring. [indiscernible] in 1986, they have amnesty now we back in 2015. What are we going to do in 2025, iwith those that snuck across the border and demand citizenship . If we do not control the border, one race of people to have the majority. Blacks its whites, hispanics whites hispanics blacks and others. Black people you keep going for immigration. Your kids will not have no jobs. All you can blame is yourself. Thank you. Host clarksburg, West Virginia democrat. Caller an Excellent Program as always. Im a little concerned about the dumbing down of our news. 24 hour news they want to run clips that have special shows. Im concerned we are not getting the issues on time. It seems that no quirks decide on friday that everybody does the weekend off. Thank god for cspan and have a great weekend. Host from the washington post, blackwater garst centers for 2007 shooting. A judge sentenced a former blackwater Security Guard who helped secured longterm prison sentences for four colleagues sentenced him to four months and a day in prison this week Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced his intentions to run for president. Governor walker let me tell you what i am for. [cheering] im for reform, growth, safety. Im for transferring power from washington into the hands of hardworking taxpayers. That is really for. Real reform. Im for building a better economy that allows everyone to live there piece of the American Dream. That is programmed. That is progrowth. Im for protecting our children and our grandchildren from radical islamic terrorism and all other threats in the world. That is true safety. [cheering] my record shows that i know how to fight and win. Now more than ever, America Needs a president who will fight and win for america. [cheering] host 202 is the area code talk about the Public Policy issues of the week and the day. Jmeasames is a democrat. You are on washington journal. James. Were going to move on caller yes. Host please go ahead. Caller i think that everything that has been talked about up until this point is excellent and timely. But were forgetting about the elephant in the living room. If iran gets an atomic bomb and purchases an icbm, then they can reach the United States. They can reach paris, they can reach rome. And they can certainly reach israel. And were talking about literally the end of our species. And its going to happen if we do not use military force immediately. You cant bargain with these people. They are, i mean, look at the things they have done. I mean thats all i have to say. Host james on the democrats line in indiana. Up next is phil in venice florida, on the independent line. What is on your mind . Caller hi. I would like to make a comment regarding the criminal Justice System in the country. The fact that we put behind bars as many people as we do its made complex but it is it. What it is about is theres no victim, there is no crime. Approximately 40 of the people in prison today there is no. Victim. And that is totally unjust. We went through this before with prohibition of alcohol. And it was done the right way then. We had a constitutional amendment against the sale and consumption of alcohol, but we have not done that with drugs. So unless we correct that one, and go by what we should via the constitution, things will not change. Host usa today lead editorial, the crack trade fradesades but prisons still bulge. They agreed it is time to rethink americas penchant for doling out harsh mandatory sentences even for nonViolent Crimes the conclusion of the editorial is something has to give. Members of congress and both parties have joined to sponsor measures that would give judges more discretion in sentencing for lowlevel nonviolent offenders as always, usa today puts in an opposing view by steve cook, the president of the National Association of assistant u. S. Attorneys. He says that these do not represent those of the department of justice. Drug laws keep our nation safe. Those promoting the weakening of federal sentencing describe drug traffickers as nonviolent drug offenders. Those further up the chain have a need to use violence to protect their stock mr. Cook writes. Cornell, democrat, new jersey, good morning. Caller good morning. Wonderful show as always. I called to speak about the iran deal. Havent we learned a lesson through iraq vietnam . How many lives have to be lost behind fear mongering, because even with israel, israel is our strongest ally. We give more aid to israel than probably all of the other aid combined, but we are a friend ot to the israel people but the Israeli Government didnt we learned the lesson when netanyahu preach the same thing about iraq . They keep blaming it on president obama. The only reason why president obama is present is because he was against the iraq war. If he was not against the iraq war, he would not be president today. And for us and for israel to say that were not bound by the deal we made, when was the last time israel was bound by any deal . The amount of u. N. Resolutions against israel for decades. Every time they charge israel with in the un. N. , israel tells them where to go they are not bound by anything host this is brad in michigan on our republican line. Caller talking about issues in societys. Sociteties. Obama, he wants to move lowcost housing out of where it is now way out in the middle of the suburbs. That is not going to be tolerated. I live in warren. Ive watched it change. We now have a lot of crime, a lot of drugs. People cannot who can afford to move out of the city want to get away from it. Now obama wants to move in the middle of them . It is not going to work. As far sas obama, hes weak, hes inept. Our enemies do not fear us. He has all of the honesty of jimmy carter. Goodbye. Host randy in michigan on her democrats line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I would like to start by thanking you in all the fine folks behind the scenes we do i just got back from vacation and i have not watched tv. My first thought when to the families of the four marine. My prayers go out to them. I could not believe that. The only thing i had as i turned that on right when your representative was on. It is a tragedy for those for families. A National Tragedy, i do not agree with them on that statement. It is a real tragedy to the four families. To go for a National Tragedy that is what the republicans have done with medicare and Medicaid Expansion in the state denying millions of americans. That is a National Tragedy in my opinion. What a week. I am glad i was on vacation. Host eric is in lakeland florida on our independent line. Caller how are you doing . Im a veteran and i want to talk about the president. The way i feel, it is not his fault. We live in america. There is so much hate in america. The guy that killed the four marines gets to come over here, go to school for free. I cannot go to school for free. I think this country is screwed up and there is too much hate in america. There are too many people talking about they do not like the president and they are supposed to be showing love. There is so much hate in america it is going to happen again. You have too many people in our country do not like israeli americans, kuwaiti americans they will never be american but they come over her