Announce his decision about the Iran Nuclear Deal. We begin in open phones. Let us know your thoughts on any of the Public Policy issues. 202 ican callin at 7848001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independence 202 7488002. You can also catch us on social media. Good right a morning to you. Our lead story this morning involves puerto rico, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and headline. We have frontpage stories. On the Iran Nuclear Deal, President Trump will announce his policy toward a iran. P. M. T is happening at 1245 the president is acted to address the value voters summit. 10 30s happening around a. M. The president is acted to have his address. The big news out of the lighthouse was the health care front and politico broke the story. The posted the story about subsidies any plan changes. Is going to cut off subsidy payments in his most aggressive move yet to undermine the Health Care Law or it law. 7 subsidies are worth billion this year. They are paid out in monthly installments. They may stop immediately. That is some of the reporting from the politico story. Phone lines are open in the first hour. Publicans are 202 7848001. Democrats are 202 7488000. And dependent voters are 202 7488002. The president is already up and tweeting, talking about the order will care act. Plenty of democrats with lots to say about president s action, in putting a senator from hawaii. He tweeted out. Then there is bob casey of pennsylvania. That is just some of the reaction this morning. We are talking about all of the major stories out of washington. The lines are your. Mike is on the line for democrats or it. Caller i just want to ask those people in kentucky and places of aca,nature that have the how do they feel about what their president has done for them . Host how do you feel . Caller its going to be terrible. Have twounate not to deal with that. I can imagine a single parent with kids who need that care and dont know which way to turn. Its not going to be good and. Host where do you get through insurance . Caller through my employer. Host charlie, go ahead. Isler the Health Care Issue an important issue. I dont think some people have mentioned this will take years for changes to be made. I would like to question one states saidited there with drawing from unesco. That might be because of their antivirus against israel. There is a lot of money going to israel. Is hidden money that goes to military use. It is beyond belief. There is nott represent all the believes of the israeli citizens. Does it make a difference to you that the United States has withheld funds . Important ofis an information. The fact they are using no differently than people who were goodsting and overturned going to israel, it seems that israel has too much influence lobby inic biggest United States is a pack. The state department is talking about departing. We want to hear your thoughts. We have lots of talk about. Ben is in state college, pennsylvania. Caller good morning. Just a shame that the two parties cant work together. We saw a couple of weeks ago when they tried to work together. We saw how that worked out. Nobody liked it. I got the feeling maybe they were trying to alienate him from the base. If they do something with health care, i benefit from obamacare. I am a college student. There are things in obamacare that are beneficial. If they could reach across the aisle, that would be the ultimate solution. Host that is not the only change they are looking to make in the Affordable Care act. That came after the president announced a new executive order the white house on the other changes he is looking to make. This is the president explain it. We aim to allow more small as this is to form associations to buy health insurance. This would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. I am also directing the secretary to expand these associations and these Health Care Plans a ross state lines. Remain create lowerition and change prices for millions of americans. Insurance companies will be fighting to get every Single Person signed up here in you will be negotiating. Such low prices for such great care. It should have been done a long time ago it. Host that was President Trump at the white house yesterday. If you want to watch that ceremony, you can go to our website www. Cspan. Org. 30th anniversary of the cspan video library. It happened yesterday or 30 years ago, you can check out we are talking more about health care. By a going to be joined Health Care Reporter. We will talk about the negative order and the Health Care Subsidies. The around for that. In the meantime, the phones are yours in we want to hear your thoughts. Lets go to robert in oklahoma. Caller i dont think its unusual. Doesnt turn in his income tax, he talks about locker room stuff. He doesnt show his business is. We should treat him like what he is President Trumps businesses are in the Washington Post. These orking about teams of played in Trump Properties. Teams lose an affinity for trump hotels. Majorall all of the four leagues. Are winding out if we are staying at trump owned hotels, if that has changed in recent years. Teams havethat 17 stayed at Trump Properties in recent years. 16 of them are no longer customers. All 123ched out to teams. 106 responded. No one would confirm. Susan is in arizona. Go ahead and. Caller good morning. Speech. The they were talking about medicare. , he worked at a company for 17 years. We have one insurance and we can take anything we wanted. We never had problems. Then i got hurt at my work. I am disabled now. He lost his job. He had to take this insurance. Paid 1000 a month. E has to pay the for myary, i had to pay prescriptions. Take three dollars to get my shots. Dr. , thats 30. To see another doctor to help me with my. Host you think President Trump can ask this . Are you confident that republicans can fix the cost problems . Caller he is out there talking to different people. If the democrats and republicans would work together, fix it. Drop myng to have to cable bill. Use 130. I still havent paid for my medicine. I am on medicaid. I got thrown from my forklift. Soon you need help . Our for a had to sell one. It has been so hard on us. I am not going to see everything on tv or read. Turnare getting ready to the cable law. Host james is in north carolina. Go ahead. I want to say good morning. Heart to call in and republicans went out and voted for donald trump. Precisely whatg they voted for. He is going to turn our lives upside down. The ownerslayers, if make them stand for the national leadersthose black should walk off the field. Lets see if the nfl can survive without the black players. No one is going to pay to see 22 white guys play foot all. They have more power than they think and they should utilize that power. Boycott seven universities and see if they can make it that way as well. Host we are going to be talking more about speech issues. We will be joined by floyd abrams. He is a noted constitutional attorney. Stick around for that. The president s tweets yesterday on puerto rico with the subject of a lot of discussion. This is a reminder of what those tweets said. This was the president yesterday morning. There was a lot of that clash on capitol hill when it comes to the president we did this is nancy closely. Morningresident we this , its hard rating. Lacking knowledge. Its lacks knowledge about the role of fema in times of natural disasters. The responsibility as the government is to the people of our country. The people of the Virgin Islands rico are american citizens. They fight in our wars. We are all americans and we owe them what they need. Its about what they need. This is only part of it. Let me thank you for that question. Were talking about emergency relief. There is going to have to be recovery and thats another budget. Host that was nancy pelosi yesterday. John kelly was asked about this at the White House Press briefing. First responders. When you go somewhere as a first responder, you are trying very hard to work yourself out of a job. There will be a time in which we hope the u. S. Military and fema can withdraw. The government and the people of order rico are recovering sufficiently. I just dont the phone with the governor of puerto rico. President deals with them periodically. We saw him when we were down there last week. Our country will stand with those american citizens until the job is done. The tweet about fema and dod is exactly accurate. We are not going to be there forever. Transition too the rebuilding process. Host we will be showing more of that press briefing and the unusual appearance by the chief of staff taking a lot of questions yesterday. Host in our first segment. This. E all of go ahead. Caller thank you. What i want to bring the point to is President Trump. He is the White Privilege president. Psychology on people. I want to see his transcript and his birth certificate. Get to the United States . What is her background . Trump. Alk about are you interested in the tax returns . Caller these people have got to go. Why did they keep the government open . Comp would have nothing. The republicans have to get together. It was stupid. They should not be doing any of the stuff they are doing. Black people are the base of the Democratic Party. Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer are going to do anything donald trump wants and he still not going to sign daca. He is a buffoon. Host michael is in illinois. I am on the phone here. , she acteder right like the lien of government. At least the president is trying to do something. There are some counties you cant get insurance. Some people dont make enough money. I am a middleclass person. I am also on disability. I pay 323. At least i have insurance. Some people cant even afford insurance. They are going to get stuck with this major bill. Believe people are talking about this. If they should be happy that we are going to do something different. One other story we are keeping track of a midst many stories today is the elect oral future of Susan Collins in maine. Electoral future of Susan Collins. And theoised to up governors race. Us on theepherd joins phone. He is on his way to an event. She is expected to announce her planet. At this point, explain where we are western mark. Not let much slip. Either run for governor in 2018, the primary is june. She could stay in her senate seat. In 2020. Rned out that would be the end of her worth term. And the racelly up if she gets in. The governors race is happening because the governor is term limited out. Explain the state of the race right now. Guest its unsettled. She has voted twice against republican proposals to repeal act. Herdable care standing in the party may not he is high as in the past. In the past, she wouldve had a earshot to run governor area the there are two state legislators in the race. I think the republicans smell blood in the water. I think she would be hard to beat in the primary. See hers do not want to in november next year. Key no votes was a in the repeal and replace effort of the Affordable Care act. What does Republican Leadership want . Would they want to see her go western mark go . Guest i think they would like to keep the seat. In a statewide election, anybody can get elected. We have an independent senator who caucuses with democrats. We have senator collins. The governor is very conservative. Republicans, i think it would like to see her stay. Host how Much Movement are you seeing in maine . Who are the names should know about . Guest i dont think thats set up yet. A lot of people are jumping in, similar to our senator when he decided to retire in 2012. There was a huge group of people who jumped in. That scared some people away. They are not really plotting a return. Its too early to say. Host how long do we have to wait until we find out . Guest she is on stage at a Chamber Commerce breakfast scheduled at 8 00. There is media availability. Im not sure whether she is going to announce on the stage or afterward. Its not much longer. We will let our viewers know at 10 00 today. Phones here onen washington journal. Today, we want to hear what on your line. Go ahead. I would like to have a shout out to the mayor. I used to play guitars with him. Wake up. When they passed the gun laws, the crime rate doubled. Its ridiculous. Me and said ls why dont the police want to know the truth . 30,000 a year up to 60,000 year to keep them in prison. What is better for our people . Host that is a caller in indiana on the issue of gun laws in this country and what is and is not happening on capitol hill. The Editorial Board of the New York Times takes up this issue under the headline the gun carnage as time goes by. They write the laws biggest shooter was one of the hardcore arsenal owners and he stockpiled las vegas shooter was one of the hardcore arsenal owners. The government should be asking how he was able to do this and how it could have been preventing. In the nations continuing sorrow, its clear little can be expected of the president and congressional leaders as time go by and the next mass shooting grows near. On the line for independents, go ahead. Caller im really not even independent, i am a nonvoter host you are a what voter . Caller the last time i voted was for jimmy carter and that really got to me, the way we were embarrassed. It was terrible. Can i ask what it would take for you to vote again . Aller i dont know it so difficult, i cant tell who is telling the truth. Can i say what i am going to say . Host go for it. Upler the california fires there in california. The epa and california regulatory people made sure they would not burn down these trees even though they were suggested to do this and now we have these massive, massive fires and 31 people are killed. Thats really heartbreaking. I dont know why they didnt have a controlled burn. Number two, this has to do with the nfl. Dissent and i won the lottery in 1970 and got to go to vietnam and defend my country so when i see this nfl thing and i go to my local market and see some of these people seeing these nfl shirts, i get very hurt. Even though i didnt want to go, i served my country and i dont like to see people taking knees. I just want to let people know stick up for this country and i want california to know you have reasons we have these fires. We couldve prevented that and 31 people i think died because our governor and our people our state representatives have not done their job correctly. Got your point on the issue of fire control forest service. We will talk about that as an entire segment on Mondays Program devoted to that to that topic. Virginia, d richmond, virginia, line for republicans. Go ahead. Caller with regards to the president and his executive economici can see the principles on which he is working here and i think they will work, but i am concerned about whether or not the things thechanged permissions that were granted to the Insurance Companies here were things that were forbidden by the Affordable Care act. If that is the case, then the president is doing the same thing that obama did, which is changing the law by executive order. I would appreciate if we could get a Little Information about whether these things he changed by executive order are things that are outside the president s purview with records regards to the Affordable Care act. Host mike, appreciate the question, i will ask Caitlin Owens about it joining us in our 9 00 hour. I do appreciate it, thanks for that question. The president tweeting again this morning about the Health Care Law saying obamacare is a broken mess, piece by piece we will begin the process of giving america the Great Health Care that it deserves. We will keep track of the president s tweets this morning and see what else he has to say about it. Ryan is on the line for democrats in illinois, go ahead. Caller good morning, john. Thank you for cspan. Host go ahead. Caller all these people are talking about the nfl players kneeling for the national anthem. I want to know where that outrage is for President Trump when yesterday or the day before he was on sean hannity on a National Guard airbase in pennsylvania and while he was doing the interview, retreat started going off colors. At the end of the day if you are on a military base in the military, you are required to stand and salute toward the direction of the flag. Where is the outrage for the disrespect of the flag and the troops when it goes off and you can see trump doesnt even know what it is . He asks sean hannity what it is and assumes they are playing it for him or he makes a joke they are playing it for hannitys rating. I think that is disgusting. As a veteran, i think that is a much bigger disrespect than any player silently kneeling. I think people should wake up and see thats all just a smokescreen for racism and it has nothing to do with the troops and disrespecting the flag or anything like that. Host that story you are talking about is getting attention from the Washington Examiner today. Here is the headline, trump sits the flagong lowering amid nfl anthem controversy. They also have the link to the video of that happening. Caller i would like to address. Y comments to