2027488000 for democrats 2027 488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. You can also send an email. First story is from the hill, boehner shortterm bill likely to shut down to avoid shutdown. Lawmakers are expected to leave washington midweek for the monthlong august recess, will not return until the tuesday after labor day. That leaves a limited number of days for congress to avoid a Government Shutdown on october 1. It is clear given the number of days we will have in september that we are going to have to do a continuing resolution of some sort, but no decision has been made about that. We will deal with it in september when we come back. Said Speaker Boehner, in the house, lawmakers have passed six out of 12 annual funding measures, and considering the remaining bill is currently stalled due to controversy over display of the confederate flag. That is in the hill. The front page of the Washington Times, the house voted thursday to punish sanctuary cities that shield Illegal Immigrants from deportation, moving swiftly to crack down on San Francisco after 32yearold catherine steinles killing this month saying victims deserved justice and so that victims overcoming objections who defended sanctuary policies as good policing who accuse and accuse republicans of exploiting tragedy. The white house vowed to veto the bill. The bill is the brainchild of duncan hunter, california republican, and it was it will withhold federal grant money for jurisdictions that refuse to abide by the federal law that requires them to provide information to immigration agents. That is from the Washington Times. Republican and Democratic Leaders in the house have come to a rare agreement. The senate highway bill is looking to be a nonstarter in the lower chamber. House lawmakers in both parties had their shares of gripes with the senate bill thursday, both in terms of content and how it came together, and with days left before funding for highway projects runs dry, they upped the pressure in the senate to take a house passed short Term Extension and continue the debate after the august recess. Nancy pelosi pushed the senate to pass the fivemonth extension of highway funding, arguing that the chamber pots efforts to push through a sixyear bill are running out of time. With a week left until the deadline, lawmakers are looking at a dwindling set of options. There is a slim likelihood the house takes up the senate bill two chambers could work out a shorter compromise perhaps until the end of september, to buy time for a longer fix after the august recess, or the senate could take up the house bill with a chance it will allow reauthorization of the export bank. A little bit on the highway bill. The first call is lawrence in st. Paul minnesota, on our independent line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Always enjoy hearing you. There was another tragedy in louisiana yesterday, and typically what people jump toward is more legislation to ban guns. I recall a show that ted koppel did that talked about the illegal gun trade, or the gun trade globally, where 80 of the gun trade in the world is illegal. Rather than calling for a band, i would like to see people come up with something innovative such as in middle schools or high schools, partnering with Law Enforcement agencies, the nra, to educate people on gun safety, the legal requirements for owning a gun. For those who want to learn about using guns, to go to gun ranges. Strictly voluntary, because i think we need to recognize the fact that banning things is not working. But preparing people, taking away the a lower taking away the allure may be beneficial to our society. Host are you a gun owner . Caller yes, i and. Yes i am. I went through concealed carry training. Host why is it important to you to be concealed carry . Caller i think in part for personal family protection. I have family members who were part of the military where guns are just part of a family tradition, just something, a tradition passed on from grandfather to a goal to myself and to my family. Host beverly is a republican in montana. Beverly, you are on the washington journal. Caller hi. I want to say about the sanctuary cities the federal government already gives them tons of money to work with them and hold the illegal status of convicted violent offenders. If they are not doing it, i do not think they should get the money. The people that want to vote for sanctuary cities, let them support the illegal violent criminals they are letting out of jail. Why should the rest of america have to pay and then worry about getting robbed or shot or something . It is horrible that you have to worry now about walking down the street. Me and my husband do not even go out after dark. Host beverly, thank you for calling in. Josh is in seaside california, on our democrats line. Caller good morning. The reason i am calling is donald trump was really, really after president obama about his birth certificate. You have ted cruz, we know who was not born here in the United States. Why isnt as much hell being raised about him as there was about president obama . Host all right, we will leave that question and go to lena in kentucky, on our democrats line. Caller good morning. The reason i am calling this morning is about the epa. When all the arguments was going on about the carbon in the air and what is causing the global warming, when they was making their arguments, they left two subject out. One, the rocket ships causing the holes in the ozone layer and two, the airplanes mixing it making it toxic in the air like that. Thank you. Host lena, are you connected in any way with the coal industry . Caller yes, i am in the heart of coal country. My children have lost both of their jobs because of the epa. Host thank you, maam. Front page of the wall street journal, turkey agreed to allow the u. S. To use airbases to launch strikes against Islamic State forces in neighboring syria, a major shift longsought by washington hours before a deadly crap a deadly lash stephen is an independent in ohio. What is on your mind . Caller i think the president should send a message. I think he should send a stiff message to vladimir putin. Host what is that stiff message, stephen . Caller because we are too close to the border, i think it is time for us to do a flyby over st. Petersburg. Host eric is in cedartown, georgia, on our democrats line. Caller i feel like the top story this week is africanamericans pushing back. The gays have gotten things, which i have nothing against. The immigrants have pushed and have gotten things. We have to support these issues otherwise they would not have these issues. All this comes back all this comes on the back of the civil rights act, which was put in place to protect blacks from what is still going on today. We are terrorized during this time by the same people. I want to finish this about john mccain. People are so quick to jump to the rescue of john mccain. But john mccain voted against Martin Luther kings birthday as a holiday. We are always talking about Freedom Fighters, but these were the true Freedom Fighters in the United States. Africanamericans fought for our freedom. The United States does not want to recognize this. We were fighting directly against them, and the laws of the United States. Thank you. Host front page, lead story, New York Times, a broad division over race in u. S. Is found in poll. Host that is the New York Times lead story this morning. Jason from texas, what is on your mind . Republican line. Caller just a few comments about the cities and in legislation. Those of us that have lived in or near cities such as houston, texas, those of you who have not been in or near a city like this nearby, the news stories about Violent Crimes are almost a daily thing. I think mr. Trump is speaking on an issue that People Living near the cities are familiar with. Texas alone in the last year or so, since president Obama Took Office 600,000 or so people who were convicted of a crime were released into the general public, on the street and victimizing people. Host where is marlon, texas . Do you see an increase in immigration in your area . Caller just in general in texas, yes. It is a daily thing on the news about drunk driving especially, and other crimes, and studying how they do not want to mention that they use the politically correct terms like illegal aliens, when violence is flooding the border. Host keith, what kind of work do you do in marlon . Caller i would rather not say, if you do not mind. Host that is fine. The center for Immigration Studies has put out a map of socalled sanctuary cities and counties. The counties are marked in yellow, and the cities are marked in red. Houston is not marked, which is something we put out which is something we discussed this morning. Houston is not officially a sanctuary city, but there is a push for it. You can see a lot of iowa counties and a lot of oregon counties consider themselves to be sanctuary areas. A couple cities on the eastern seaboard. This is an issue we will talk about with greg chen of the American ImmigrationAssociation Later on the show. Steve in lafayette, where the shooting took place yesterday. Republican line. Caller i have spoken to you before in the past, and i will up this morning with the issue in our city. I am very against them going. I know right now in this country , the people are in danger. Maybe they do not realize it, but they are. The reason i say that is because we have the economy 90 of the economy is based on oil. What i know from overseas, the oil is going to fluctuate and people will lose their jobs quite a bit. It happened in 1982. The city went bankrupt, and everybody had to leave the city. All these people that lose their job, they lose everything. They lose their kids, everything, and they have nothing to live for. So they have a tendency to pick up the gun, and they go to Public Places and shoot and kill people. Regardless of race i am not saying black or white or whatever right now maybe the movie theaters, it happened in colorado and it happened over here, too. It is not only movie theaters. They had malls. The places where people gather the people do not realize. Host steve, what would you like to see done, if anything have to if anything . Caller i would like to see something done about the danger going on in this country with isis and all that. The white people can be as dangerous or more dangerous than muslim people. If the people can carry guns in a restaurant, they can protect them. Because a person who wants to do terror is not going to come with a machine gun. The machine gun can shoot 50 people in no time. I do not want to come to the day with a restaurant, somebody comes walking in with a machine gun and kills people. That can happen very easily. Host we will go on to willie, from michigan, independent line. Caller good morning to you. I want to talk about searches thing i want to talk about certain things such as discipline. That is the problem in america and maybe around the world. There is a lack of personal discipline and objectives discipline. We have soldiers who are disciplined. That is what they go through. I heard earlier this week soldiers calling in saying that these guys at these Recruitment Centers did not need guns because they might go shooting. Those guys are disciplined. That is why they are soldiers. They are disciplined. I went to i was not in there but i visited a medical facility on a military base. It would not make sense for doctors and nurses to have weapons. But those guys are supposed to be disciplined in how they handle or carry weapons, the same as policemen. I think the military people go through more discipline than a Police Officer, because a Police Officer goes through discipline for training. Military guys go through discipline for training, but it is continuously, continuously. Why do we have to do these things over and over again . It is not just for punishment, it is for discipline. Host are you a gun owner today echo caller . Caller no, i am not. But i am not against gun ownership. I am tempted a lot of times to go get one because of certain things that happen in this country. But i am disciplined in terms of restricting myself from doing that, but i think people who create or do things, i am one of those people that do not believe in this people i mean, if you go get a gun, that is a thing that is not believed in personal this guy that when in a theater down that went in a theater down there and jumped up and started shooting if you are disciplined you would not do those things. Host this is jeff on twitter. People keep asking why these mass killings keep happening. Three words guns, guns, guns. And gwb says, repeal the second amendment, stop the mass killings in america. Jason, independent, good morning. Caller i would just like to talk about things that we agree on, and the one thing i would like to talk about, for example is immigration. I have lived in mexico, arizona and california, and one of my sons i is up mexico, and i speak spanish. One of the biggest problems that we have that we all can agree on is how you people become citizens. We have had so many friends that it has taken them 12, 13, 14, 15 years to become citizens. It should not take that long. It should be the same for everybody to do a through d, you become a citizen unit how long it takes, how much money it takes. You need to get a green card to be able to work. Lets Work Together and do the things that we know how to do and we agree on instead of nitpicking on this or that, instead of coming together as a country, letting this country turn around again. The economy is turning people. The Labor Participation rate is the worst it has been since the great depression. It is absolutely ludicrous. But there are so many things with energy, oil, natural gas. We can get people here or from mexico or thailand or vietnam or wherever to Work Together. But it is just so sad. I talked to a friend today, and she has been trying to become a citizen for 11 years. Three or four years ago there was an offensive lineman from our Pro Football Team here who got his citizenship in three months. That is just not fair. It is not right. Host jason, we have to leave it there bank. Thank you for sharing your own experience with us. We will return to open funds and you will have a chance to voice your opinion. At the end of the show, we will have another segment of top news stories and open funds. Over in West Virginia is the greenbrier resort, and that is where the nations governors are meeting. Gary herbert is the governor of utah and is the incoming chair of the National Governors association. He joins us from West Virginia. Governor herbert, what is the point of all the governors getting together . What are you going to learn . Gary it is the opportunity for others in the association to network, to share best actresses. The concert to share best practices. Some of the challenges that we face in learning from each other and seeing if we cannot collectively come up with better ideas and solve some of the problems for the people and make their lives better. Host one of the issues being debated in washington is the highway bill. How does that affect utah . What would you like to see done . Guest well, the transportation reauthorization is in fact an issue that is high on the list for the National GovernorsAssociation Since the eisenhower days. We have had a federal component in part for our interstates and highways across this great country, and that seems to be kind of hung up right now. I think most states would like flexibility with the money that comes back so they have the ability to do with fewer strings and less process, red tape, to get their transportation issues taking care of. Clearly the infrastructure of america is in need of maintenance. If not expansion for capacity, as we have growth in our country. I know in utah we are about the third fastestgrowing state in america, and having a Transportation System that works and functions without having a lot of gridlock is significantly important to our economy as well as our quality of life. We hope that washington can get that worked out and we can give back to capacity and maintaining the existing that we have with maximum flexibility to the states. Host when you see the house passing a fivemonth extension and the sense and the Senate Working on a sixyear bill, do you have a preference . Guest it would be nice to have some longterm stability and predictability. We put in we put in, in utah, a five year Transportation Plan in place. If funds run out in six months, it is hard to have longterm planning. We do a lot of transportation expansion and maintenance with existing dollars. The federal component is a smaller part. We all put in our gasoline tax money, and then there is a portion back out to the states that will help us in longterm planning. We have to think five years out in advance to make sure that we have the Transportation Capacity we need to have, in particularly a fastgrowing state like utah. Host numbers are on the screen, and we have divided them by our usual political affiliation, but we set aside a fourth line this morning for utah residents 2027488003. Another issue that has played out for several years now, the Affordable Care act. What has utah done, and how has that affected you at the state level . Guest