Information officer and chief Security Officer stepped down on september 14th. The company is based in atlanta. Hackers exploited unpatched flaw in their Website Software to get names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresss and other information about people. The president sending out several tweets concerning current state of puerto rico. He writes old electrical grid in terrible state devastated much of the island destroyed with billions of dollars. He goes on to write, banks must be dealt with, food, water and medical are Top Priorities and are doing well hashtag, fema. Also adding thanks to mayor of san juan, on kind words on femas work. It is open phones until 10 00. Terry in pennsylvania, democrats line. Terry, go ahead. Caller yes, i want to comment on what marcy is saying about representative from ohio. Nafta, more republicans were nafta than democrats and i know that for a fact already. What id like to know is wasnt bill clinton mandated to congress when he came into office from passing nafta during his term in office . Host alabama is next. Huntsville, alabama, hear from jerry. Independent line. Hi jerry. Caller how you doing pedro. Two quick comments. As retired army vet with 28 years under my service in uniform, i want to talk about the flag and National Anthem. Just because you wave a flag, hello. Host jerry, you are on, go ahead. Caller yes, sir, first, two quick points. Host we heard your first point pick up where you left off. Caller okay. Just because you have a flag doesnt mean you are patriotic, so many flags flying around this country, and all of that. Second point is everybody is talking about the National Anthem, if you poll three people, 10 people on the street, three people even know the National Anthem and less would know the pledge of allegiance. We call ourselves patriots. Thank you. Host jerry in huntsville talking about the flag. On the floor of the house yesterday, especially after what you heard and saw about n. F. L. Protest was Sheila Jackson lee, representative of texas, highlighting what was going on and making her own demonstration of sorts yesterday. Here is what she had to say. There is no regulation that says these young men cannot stand against the dishonoring of their mothers by you calling them fire the son of a b. You tell me which of those childrens mothers are a son of a b. That is racism. You cannot deny it. You cannot run for it. And i kneel in honor of them. I kneel. In front of the flag and on this floor. I kneel in honor of the first amendment. I kneel because the flag is symbol for freedom. I kneel because im going to stand against racism. I kneel because i will stand with those young men and i will stand with our soldiers and i will stand with america because i kneel. Expired. I yield back. Host wisconsin, republican line. James, hello. Caller yes. I would like to say that in regard to this kneeling at the football games. As a vet, they probably you know, they should be able to do what they want. I find it very ironic that you cant have a cartoon of mohammad, everybody get necessary uproar about that. I think shu have a right to do what they want. Thats all. Host michigan, steve, go ahead independent line. Caller it is honor to talk to you pedro thank you for cspan. I would like to correct the record on what representative mitchell said. She said obama was for debt. Bush was responsible, two unfunded wars not paid for and two tax cuts not paid for and that is where all of this comes from. All extra people in the v. A. , that is all because of george bush, thank you, republicans bye. Host President Trump highlighting via tweet Senate Runoff election in alabama between Luther Strange and roy moore. His tweet saying hes been shooting up in the alabama polls since my endorsement, finish the job, vote today for big luther. Joining us on the phone to highlight the status of the election the montgomery advisor State Government reporter. Thank you for joining us. Bring viewers up to date on what polling suggests might happen today . Guest the polling since the beginning of the runoff has generally suggested suggested that moore has a lead. The numbers have been all over the place, alabama is a difficult place to poll add special election and it makes things more uncertain. Generally like my district, more and more, has a very dedicated following among republican voters, but strange and his allies have spent heavily trying to drive up turnout. Host what is the closing arguments for both of men . Guest stranges argument has been the same as he made since may, he supports donald trump and will do anything he wants to advance the president s agenda. Moores argument is not dissimilar from arguments in every election hes run in alabama over the past 17 years. Hes a social conservative who is unafraid to speak out on his opposition to things like samesex marriage, religion in the public sphere and other things like that. If you had this race in june and were coming back to it today, you wouldnt see much difference in the arguments. Host when it comes to support we saw Vice President mike pence supporting strange, we saw steve bannon supporting roy moore. How has that played out amongst people there watching this race . Guest the plays into dynamics. I think Luther Strange really needs the donald trump endorsement more than like moore is it hurt him. Voters are voting for strange because trump gave strange his endorsement or voting against roy moore. People voting for strange because hes Luther Strange, relatively few hard to come by. I will say roy moore voters are supportive of the president s and they say his endorsement did not shake their support of him, but they are very strongly in favor of roy moore and there is a sense from voters they felt like the president should not have gotten involved in this primary. Host mr. Lyman, you talk about polling what is turnout going to be like . Guest office expect its to be low. They last week projecting about 12 to 15 , that could like that could change, estimate consist vary. But the turnout for the primary on august 15th was only 18 . Generally speaking, no one is expecting high turnout rate at this point but again, like well see where it takes us. Host does that benefit one man over the other . Guest higher turnout would benefit strange, who needs voters in jefferson or suburban birmingham. Turn out rates follow moore, whose followers show up for him no matter what the situation may be. Host so walk us through the events after today once this contest is settled. Guest once we have a nominee, we will advance to a general election on december 12th. The democrats nominated doug jones, who is probably most famous for helping prosecute and convict two of the people who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, which killed four little girls. This is whoever wins republican nomination will be the favorite going into the general election, but the democrats here are pretty enthats enthats enthusiastic. Both candidates have flaws, the g. O. P. Is the favorite in this race, but if democrats i dont think this is a race republicans can afford to be compla complacent about. Host brian, lyman, thanks for your time. Guest thank you. Have a good day. Host back to calls on open phone. Connecticut, marsha, democrats line thank you for waiting, go ahead. Caller thank you, juan. Comment on the gentleman who represented Manhattan Institute yesterday regarding health care. Question was asked of him, why cant americans have the same kind of health care that congress has . And he just deflected, did not respond. The answer is, is that unfortunately, our Congress Cares more or lets say doesnt care enough about us, the constituents to give us either the same health care or Comparable Health care and that is republicans and unfortunately democrats, and it is very, very sad. And i thank you for taking my call. Host youngstown, ohio, next from pat. Caller hello. Host hello youre on. Caller yes, i want to know what is the fuss about the American Flag that is made in china. With china material. I dont understand. It is not an American Flag. It is not even made in america thas nothing about the material came from america, so what is the fuss . People pledge allegiance to the flag and everything to a flag that is made in china. I bought a flag and it said made in china, ive never used it and i really dont care. What is the fuss about with our president . Host that is pat in ohio. Washington times writes about legislative effort when it comes to dreamers, saying the legislation comes from senators jim langford of ohio and tom till tillis, of North Carolina and appears to break with the president. The bill would allow dreamers, those brought to the u. S. As minors by their parents and apply for fiveyear legal immigrant status when they go to school serve in the workforce or work in the military. If they have a clean criminal record they can earn a second fiveyear status and at the end apply for full residence, green card and five years after that, could apply for citizenship that is washington times. There is a poll discussed in the Washington Post this morning a Washington Post abc poll and it records or sentiment on dreamers saying the survey finds 86 of those polled have support for dreamers who have been eligible for work permits under the deferred action put in place by barack obama. President trump announced it will end the program known as daca and begin to phase out work permits if lawmakers do not act. Libby, montana, here is clyde. Go ahead. Caller yes, yes. I would like to mention this pro football protest that the players are doing. What is going to happen when the owners start to lose money . Are players going to take a pay cut or what . And on healthcare, how will single payer work with 47 of the American People that dont pay any taxes . That is all i have to say. Thank you. Host from massachusetts kathy youre next up. Hi. Caller hi. How are you . Can you hear me . Host i can, go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I just have two things id like to say. This health care bill, i really hope it goes back to the Bipartisan HealthCare Community that senators alexander and murray were running, they have some really good ground and they got this is a very important subject for the American People it is republican or democratic win, it would be American People, our win, this thing with the flag and kneeling and catholics kneel, show respect by kneeling. On the campaign trail, when he was a candidate, trump ridiculed a gold star family and to me that showed great disrespect to the military. Nobody is talking about that. I just wanted to mention it, i felt that they needed to be brought up. They got disrespected, probably because they were muslim, which again, shows how he hates muslims, but he showed disrespect to the military then so all this flap hes going through now is nonsense, like the pot calling the kettle plaque. Thank you. Host wanda, next, chico, California Republican line. Caller okay, all these millionaires taking a knee, all they are doing is grandstanding like two year olds having a temper tantrum and media needs to ignore them and ignore antifa, and need to ignore the socalled dreamers marching around with their mexican flags. I dont think the need to ignore the media is helping anything when they get all these people publicity when they start having their temper tantrums trying to get on t. V. , that is what it is all about, they just want attention. Host do you think the president had a part in that, too, as far as making it an issue . Caller well, hes just responding to the media. The media starts the issue by showing them constantly 24 7. Host 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. And independents, 2027488002. The president sending out another tweet, taking a look at the n. F. L. Saying that it has all sorts of rules and regulations, the only way out for them, set a rule you cant kneel during the National Anthem. That is from the president s twitter address. From maryland, jim, democrats line. Go ahead. Caller yes. Id like to make a comment about the president s remarks about the Football Players kneeling when they have the National Anthem. I think hes being hypocritical. If you remember the interview he had with bill oreilly, bill mentioned something about russia and putin and how they were bad actors and putin a killer and President Trump made negative remarks about his own country during that interview. How can he complain about someone kneeling to the flag . That is all i have to say. Host in New York Times this morning, op ed by Nelson Dennis former assemblyman and author against a book, he writes about the law strangling puerto rico saying after world war i, america was worried about german boats, it sunk 5000 ships during the war. Congress enacted mat rein act of 1920, the jones act, to ensure the country maintained shipbuilding industry and sea faring labor force. Section 27 decreed only american ships could carry goods and passengers to one port to another. Every ship must be owned by american citizens. He goes on to write thanks to the law, the price of goods from the United States mainland is double in the neighboring island, including United States virgin islands, not covered by the jones act. Cost of living in puerto rico is 13 higher than urban areas elsewhere in the u. S. , per cap eight income is 18,000, close to half that of mississippi, the poorest of all 50 states. Continues to make his thoughts on pages of the New York Times. The law strangling puerto rico is the op ed title. Maryland is up mary in kentucky, republican line, go ahead. Hi. Caller i feel sorry for the people in puerto rico, but my main point, for all of us in the United States, please, lets try to get together on this infrastructure bill. I talked to noaa before the hurricane hit and if we had better infrastructure and spent our money on infrastructure to protect ourselves from these things we call Global Warming and flooding and things, we need better flooding, we need better water lines in the city so we dont get poisoned and of course we need better roads but infrastructure includes a lot of things doesnt just include roads, this is something id like to get across to people. Includes everything from building walls and, you know, flood walls to dams to Barrier Islands and things like that. Id like to get across to everyone listening that we need to focus and get our congressman to pass as much money for infrastructure as possible. Host got you. Democrats line, frank from new york, hello. Caller good morning. As a young child, im a bit old now. We were taught going down on one knee was a sign of respect as we entered our church and approached the alter. All the movies i ever saw about middle ages, knights were down on one knee, they got knighted. As a young child, a catholic, you approach the bishop or pulpit if you had that chance, you were down on one knee. One knee is a sign of respect i dont see that is a problem. Also these Confederate Flag carrying demonstrators that President Trump seems to be supportive of, arent they unpatriotic carrying a