Daily. In negativity nine, cspan was andted as a Public Service is brought to you today by your. Able or satellite provider we want to welcome bruce lavelle. It is a lot of fun. Thanks for having me. It is good to be on the number one show in the world. It is to give you some back this started back in 2015 and it was basically for the other false narrative on tenet trump has a time when we notice there were a lot of groups around the country and thought where is all this coming from . We have this in your man announced for president who has been in the public eye for four years. Theres like watching in 1989 ghostbusters video. Shows, contact with hundreds of thousands of people and not one person with tom to validate he said this about me. We aredoition one million plus followers here since 2015 and we represent asianamericans, africanamericans commit vietnameseamerican through the the list goes on. Is it was a great experience to meet people to denounce that false narrative. Republicans who will not vote on the bill. Will it come one tuesday . Guest im very hopeful. Businessf 28 million owners in atlanta georgia. I understand what i went through from paying a premium of a hundred dollars a month. Ownersmany business suffering from the astronomical premiums. Im very optimistic. You have to remember that the , thatt state right now being funded by special interests and some unfortunate to help them to tumor they are, so theres still a lot of favors that they are beholden to. A lot of opinions on this subject than i think people forget about the current state of who we have an office now. Even if he has been criticized from a barack obama was out campaigning. Weve not seen that from President Trump. I think he has. Since its inception, we are a 40 person increase in our premiums. Creators, we feel the 20 increase in the last two years of premiums and it is unfortunate. One thing that is interesting, i remember during the campaign, President Trump said as soon as i get elected, i was about the gay and immediately attack this instead of letting it just tie and say i told you so. He was passionate to come out immediately. Said, it is ang work in progress. Host heart guest will be with us in five minutes. Lets talk sports. The nfl in the nba in the president s comments. One . which host when the present possessor the nfl players to take in the. Lebron james called him a bum. The statement from the old say warriors. We now have a new debate on what the president is saying and how the nfl and india have responded. Guest lets start with the young man from san francisco. The president has always been very passionate in terms of how he feels about his veterans. Campaign heg his raised 5 million for veterans. He is very passionate. This is the way i look at it. I happen to know quite a few nfl players. And whensome dialogue you work for someone or take a job, you read the terms and conditions. Advocateirst amendment. I love the fact that we can go out and disagree or agree in this country. Someone or sayor im going to go play for the when a falcons, every time we walk on the field come you do these are the things we do. Areefore, you enter you an employee to the employer. I think it is unfair for one whoon out of the majority want to honor the flog, the flag represents all believers and nonbelievers. That is what makes the flag so awesome and im a little biased. My father was a to tour vietnam vet. Seven of my go back to world war i. I have a rich history of our military and with the flexing for. And is very passionate about that. Just because you are president or governor or whatever your, your passion flows wherever you are. It was unfortunate that this man used his employee as a platform for his disagreement. Do that,are going to write your own check. Find out what the issue is and bring it to the table for discussion. I think it is unfair to put it on national tv on another employers dime. Host heres what the president said. When someone disrespects our flag and says get that son of a [expletive] off the field. What you said earlier, i look at it as just passion. I think this is something ive noticed. President trump came down the escalator in 2015. I think people thought that they would on a different hat. Everything is consistent which is what candidate trump said all time. Obviously, everyone articulates their passion differently. Because for example, i dont just go to church on sunday and leave out on monday and put on a different hat. Am. S who i i think that is why me among millions of people who support the president is why we dont want his twitter to go anywhere because this is authentic for us. Lifeline on him speaking. That is our direct line of transparency. He is a graduate from Central Texas college and harvard. Lets go to your phone calls. Thank you for waiting. The diversity thing. Guest thanks for the question. Im sorry, i could barely hear you. In terms of the diversity of the Actual Campaign coalition . Period. No, guest lets take it from a campaign perspective. When it was formed, when you look at the numbers and the minority vote for President Trump, you got that is the largest voting block sincerepublican candidate Richard Nixon and climbing so i working and iis speak on behalf of the republican party. Go to chris in cleveland ohio. I just wanted to, but the whole mess about the flag and whether we have freedom to neil, this is really a distraction in the tourist sense of the word. I know this word is volatile. The president is really a fascist and it is the marrying of government with business. The president by and large is with a businessman. This is a distraction and tweeting about Colin Kaepernick or any of this stuff is a distraction from the real issues. On the parent of two children in in theduty service things that the president is doing to distract the American People by talking about the nba and nfl, it is a distraction. It is a shell game. It is about business in the almighty dollar. It is always about business and i think we need to wake up. Thank you for taking my call. Thanks for the question. Involved in the party and i volunteered for ronald reagan. It is a very interesting in terms of social media and how we are electing our officials and what resources we have. Interesting because i respectfully disagree in terms of not being distracted. At the end of the day, he is speaking like regular american citizens who tweet about the issues. He is part of the conversation and i think he is really trying you can take a traditional playbook and put it to President Trump. He is wanting to communicate just like everyone else. I know in terms of him being ionate, as well as got inctions that we getting china and russia on board put a tremendous amount of pressure, those a very big achievements. Saying think he is just something to call it a distraction. Ishink he is being who he and where nine or 10 months into. Is presidency host this is from sfr, saying our president loves the country. Wouldrom james, who said anyone be allowed to continue the call after after calling president obama a fascist . I think it is correct on that. Deeply passionate about this country and you saw how he has been tremendous in terms of leadership in helping some of the veterans. Were still dealing with a lot soldiers. Om our weve been at war for 15 plus years. I think at the end of the day, intoxicatings so and passionate that he really wants to make america safe so we can have a great democracy. People have yet to wrap their arms around it and what you see is what you get and i would say from day one, it is for better or worse and we will take all of them, but at least we know that it is extremely and that is what the base admires. Will my not agree, but at least it was direct about it. Good morning. Im a very old man and ive been a republican very long time. Im so disgusted with the republican party. Is disappointing to bring these guys online. He is not given a direct answer. Here in lies the problem. They are all just in it for the cached. Cash. To present that President Trump. S some great leader im sorry you have to put yourself through this for a paycheck, but that is what you chose. Thanks so much for cspan3 host we will get a response. Have goodtana, you moose meat. First of all, i dont work for the administration. Im not paid by the Trump Campaign manager anything like that. Im one of 28 million Business Owners who are tired of high overreach. Overnment i scarce it in 2008. Our private sector banks force the list goes on. In terms of the republican party, im very optimistic. Of the gop chairman for five years in georgia. Right now, he saw what happened in west virginia. The other thing, we had 80 million. The second part is the democrat debt is 3. 4 million in some more optimistic about the gop. What you see in terms of leadership is what President Trump has been saying all along and even Bernie Sanders with saying special Interest GroupsPresident Trump pushback and is not a set of money from lobbyists and announced because clearw he wanted to the and not to any special Interest Groups. Im more optimistic because of that simple thing. When you speak against special interests and should i say pay to play groups that want to influence candidates, i think what is going to happen is it will involve to resurrect maybe people like yourself in montana in takewant to serve the same type of attitude and tosion to set it on going run for this see, but im not going to take any money from any special Interest Groups so they think they can have some kind of favor for something i want. I think that is a very important thing to think about and i hope the conversation gets back more on the table. What you see on both sides of people you have for example, for democrats to and the years combined themtunate part is most of were birthed through the special lobbying companies who put them in office. Optimistics is very and my prayer is that other will doross the country the will. I just want to say couple things. He tookings you arerom the talking about the Affordable Care act. Job i waslost my taking coverage. Coverage was 1300, 1400 a month. Was 900 one month. After obamacare, [indiscernible] medication six dollars. Host you are breaking up a but the essences you were able to get better care. Guest my condolences. My mother passed from diabetes. This is the way i look at it. I remember a lot of times, i usually try to articulate life experiences. Remember in the 90s when i would bring people on board i would play out the Health Care Coverage plans. Heart ilways felt in my felt the private market should always try the cost of health coverage, that made it so competitive where it is not astronomical to where the highest tax increase in the country in the world has been obamacare. I believe if we push back and make it more in willrivate sector, it drive prices down based on competition, but the more we regulate, the more the Insurance Companies find different loopholes to avoid which creates more astronomical premiums. Day at the end of the it is a proactive solution. Unfortunately, the way it is set increase. 40 eventually, it is going to explode. There has to be an alternative solution that will help all americans, but mainly put more back into the capitalist market and get the private sector driving the boat. Good morning. Iss caller i am of be an embedded rim and i am listening to people talk about donald trump, though he says things, but half of this thetry has to understand other have made this that me made the statement november 8. Did that,chamberland he brought back the paper, he was waving it and saying it was going to make a deal. These people over in these countries building these weapons are the same as hibbler. They do not have our same as hitler. They do not have her interest at heart. You keep on, buddy. You have the right idea in the right perspective. This country has got to understand and get back to where we are supposed to be. Host thank you. That may take the comment and turn it into a question. What is your role with regard to trump 2020 . Guest i am going to keep fighting. Im going to keep advocating for the left, small tax burden on Business Owners. I am one of 28 million Small Businesses that are being crucified out there. Up for reelection in 2020 . Will you be part of it . Guest absolutely. I will help in any capacity to pushed his agenda further. 1000 . [laughter] host will tax reform happened this year . At previous guest said no. Guest i am very optimistic. I speak and articulate to you based on my personal life experience, not what i read or what some blog but what i felt, but, taste and smelled. Im very optimistic. Host bruce levell, executive director of the trunk National Diversity coalition and Advisory Board for trump 2020. Guest thank you for letting me be on the number one show. Host you are welcome back anytime. We went to turn our attention to north korea and china. Joining us in a moment is david rank, and we will talk about Climate Change and other issues. The final hour of washington journal. Newsmakers coming up at 10 00 eastern time. We are back in the moment. Monday on the communicators, comcast Senior ExecutiveVice President talks about tell Information Development telik Commission Development and fcc regulations. He is interviewed by a senior editor. What is your take on the Trump Administration and competition . Compelled toeel say this and it was pointed out at the Goldman Sachs conference last week, we love our company. And nbct acquisition, universal acquisition, review ourselves as centrally strategically complete. We are not out there saying, oh, my god, we have to find Something Else to buy to survive. On the other hand, we have never viewed ourselves as being on deals. It has to be the right deal, the and oneof the company, that has shareholder value. I think it is no secret that overall, this president and administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth or even vertical growth in the telecoms space and elsewhere. Communicators, monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Washington journal continues. Host we want to welcome david rank, former Career Civil Service at the career department. A lot to talk about. Lets begin with north korea. How concerned are you with the situation today . Guest i have been