An employee pushed the wrong button. Charlie cook on the Midterm Elections and the threat we face from north korea. The gop and the 2018 Midterm Elections. Should republicans maintain control of congress . Join in on the conversation. Democrats 2027488000. Republicans 2027488001. Independents 2027488002. Good sunday morning. Front page of the Washington Post has this story from hawaii. Some harrowing 38 minutes as a missile scare engulfed the state of hawaii. A lag in correcting the erroneous alarm is the reason. This is what it sounded like yesterday morning hawaii time. The u. S. Pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. This is not a drill. If you are indoors stay indoors. If you are outdoors seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from windows. If youre driving safely to the side of a road or seek shelter in a building and lay on the floor. We will announce when the threat has ended. This is not a drill. Host of course it was not a real threat. This is the photograph from inside the New York Times. There is no threat. Reuters is reporting that the fcc on saturday launching a full investigation into the false Emergency Alert that a Ballistic Missile was heading for hawaii. The alert to cell phone users are urging residents to seek shelter immediately. The fcc does have jurisdiction over the Emergency Alert system and fcc chair ajit pai saying the fcc will vote later this month to enhance the effectiveness of wireless Emergency Alerts which have been in place since 2012. Yesterday twitter that the fcc was launching a full investigation. Lets turn to our opening question on this sunday morning. You thinkether or not republicans should maintain control of congress. Coming up on newsmakers is the House Democratic whip steny hoyer. He talks about 2018 politics in that conversation. Do i think we are going to take back the house . We see all over the country are real enthusiasm and energy in the democratic base. We see a Republican Party that i think in many respects expects to lose control of the house of representatives. I dont think any of them would say that. Private Congress Conversations with my republican colleagues and friends they say you guys are going to take back the house. We have excellent candidates throughout the country. Are 91 cook says there districts in play. When we had two retirements this week of republicans charlie cook who is one of the prognosticators very concerned about the rightness of his says that both of those districts that republicans are now retiring in are now going to lean democratic. We need to pick up 24 of those 91 seats. I think we will pick up more than that. Only members retiring and higher numbers on the republican side that we have seen in the past. We have also seen in those districts a tremendous interest by Democratic Candidates of running and that means they think their neighbors and friends in their districts are prepared to vote democratic and so they are enthusiastic about running. Will the full interview air at 10 00 on newsmakers. Our question should republicans maintain control of congress . We will begin on the line for independents. Lenny in washington, d. C. Caller good morning. Your question is excellent. Should they . An independent i can look at it a little independently not being in love with either party. If you look at what their job is to keep us safe and create jobs in the economy they have done a pretty decent job at that. On the other hand i dont think they should because there are certain things moral character, standing, professionalism that counted more than that. I dont think the ends justify the means. I think at their year end review if they had a job they would probably be rating pretty well. A lot of times public or Political Sentiment doesnt follow objective thinking. What are your thoughts . Host you express your point of view and we listened to hear from you. Well go to carmen in pennsylvania. Democrats line. To lay the town you aredemocrat tell me the town you are from . An affluent suburb right outside of philadelphia. Good morning. The house dems get back. To be perfectly honest i am kind of mystified by the democrats going to the wall with this thing. Daca who did we lose in pennsylvania in 2016 . We lost white workingclass voters in place of lake erie and meadville like theory and erie and meadville. What are we doing to get these white female voters back . The best herer but i dont understand the democrats strategy. Host in our interview late last week with paul ryan a very Quick Response to the comments by that the democrats will begin control of the house of representatives. Heres what the speaker said. I cant speak to that. Republicans dont tell me that. Host that whole interview available on our website. Guy short of the Fox News Channel has this opinion piece Available Online at foxnews. Com. He says the leftleaning Mainstream Media emboldened by rs have beenumpe eagerly waiting for republican collapse. Political experts dismiss President Trump at their own peril. The president and his party sit on many structural advantages mediahe liberal conveniently ignore. The first and perhaps most important advantage is fundraising. The republican fundraising edge suggesting a reinvigorated political base. Territory fory democratic incumbents who must compete in states carried by joeident trump next is joining us from georgia. Good morning. , youre thee greatest. I am a stockholder and have been for 50 years. I have never had things go better. I think trump is the best stock market the and Business Community in history and i disagree with the democrats. I think the republicans will not only maintain control i think they will add to it. Years andched you for you are a great encourager. You always lift up everybody whether they are democrat, republican independent. I think in politics we need to im a strong trump supporter. I think trump is the best in history. I dont think it is right for me to attack democrats personally. We should follow the guidelines of steve scully and be nice to everybody. We dont need to be calling them that. And things like we want to invite you. Weve got a plaque for you want to present to you. Youre the greatest, steve. Let me ask you this question. You are fond to talk about the stock market. What goes up must come down. Is the president putting himself political situation if the market comes down before 2020 . I have been a stock market investor for 50 years. Anytime it goes down it will always come back higher. If it goes down i will buy more bluechip stocks. Number one color the country thanks to steve scully. I am telling anybody to vote trump and vote republican because i have never seen a better economy. We want you to come because you are the greatest encourager and we love and appreciate you in georgia. Host joe and Betty Mccutchen came to the cspan studios year ago and youre always let me ase back here as well. He calls every month. We do ask that you wait for 30 days to get through. Lets go to david in middletown, new jersey. Good morning. Cspan the best channel on television. Good morning, steve. Host good morning, david. It is good to hear from you after 30 days. Caller i have been calling in but i havent been able to get through. What the gentleman just said, his name is steve . Host no. Joe mccutchen. Caller he is absolutely right. You are a great human being and you exemplify the american spirit. Sayi would like to concerning the election this coming november i think its time we need a new party. The democrats and the republicans regardless of what the names are they have three priorities. Do Everything Possible to get reelected, do Everything Possible for the party, do Everything Possible for the special interests. What we need is a thirdparty and a thirdparty should be called the first words of the preamble to the constitution. We the people. They represent the people. Not themselves and everything like that. We the people. So i would hope that this coming november the new party would come. We the people with a new reign 2018. Led of it stands for get rid of all of the incumbent politicians in november 2018. Always a pleasure to hear from you. You just turned 93 years old. Jim has this tweet. This from michael. If he were to say anything else he would get pushed out. Barone haswn this piece Available Online. In the other 12 off year elections the Opposition Party won a majority. In 1966 and 78s who could have lost 70 plus seats and still kept a majority republicans will lose if they lose a net of only 24 seats. On the line for republicans, keith is next in chicago. Good morning. Should your party maintain control of congress this year . Caller yes. Steve, it really is urgent because its no longer just about policy. Thats what midterms have been about historically. This is about our morals as a country. Who we are as a country. Seeing iswhat we are a highly the most im 58. The most unpopular firstterm president of my lifetime. With a base of 30 to 35 . Kicking off 70 and the entire world. In order to actually make america respected again and to regain our moral center we dont have an option but to clean house in congress. Particularly after this tax cut bill. Ryan to thed comments of last week, that sold us. Host another tweet, no antiabortion law. No repeal of the Affordable Care act. Just more tax cuts for the rich republicans. Same old same old. Send us a tweet. On the republican line, cynthia. Good morning. Caller good morning. The republicans should keep control of the house. To accomplish tax reform the first major tax reform in over accomplishment that merits republican reelection. Furthermore when you see all of the regulatory rollback that allows our economic engine to move forward, that allows all groups to have better jobs, higher pay, more jobs, more americans working merits the republican reelection in november. People in their everyday lives getting more money in their groupspockets to spend as theye rather than having the government take more of their merits republican reelection. I hope the nation sees it this way. From this weeks washington examiner, the cover story. The trump of electionyear agenda. Immigration clash. Maybe infrastructure cooperation. The president delivering his state of the Union Address on january 30. We will have live coverage. This is to symbolize a match with the character caricature of donald trump with his hair on fire. On the line for democrats from cleveland, tennessee. Robin. Good morning. Caller i havent called in in 16 years. Host y 16 years . Why the delay . Caller i used to call in all the time and i saw george bush evolved into a better person and i really didnt feel the need to call anymore. I used to always call in and talk to brian. I miss him a whole lot. Host he is still here. He does q a every sunday night. We now joke that he is semiretired so he is here six days a week instead of seven. He is very much part of this network. Caller i still watch every morning. It is very important that the republicans do get voted out. I was raised at the foot of star mountain. I had eight black people in my whole graduating class. Donald trump is a racist and its basically we are watching him destroy the Republican Party. I had a great aunt that was chairman the first black woman president of the Republican Party in macklin county. We are watching him destroying the Republican Party. Its important for the party because i do vote republican locally for them to vote them out. They dont have any courage. They are cowards. You cannot stand up to a knowinglythat is doing wrong and he is dividing the country. I am still friends with the people that i graduated high school with and we talk about it. It has never been this bad. He inherited a booming stock market. But people were so caught up in the fact that he was black and they didnt want to give him any credit. Now all of a sudden the stock market was good. It was good before. We made money before. I work at amazon. Its booming. So its important for the moral standing of our country because how many terrorists are we making . How many african countries the somalis they are terrorists. When you hear people putting down your country and where you come from and the republicans are silent, where are they at . They cant even come out and say he is wrong about something he is basically roundabout. Benchpress, referring to benches on the Supreme Court. Senate republicans steamrolling the process and the approval of federal judges at a record pace. This tweet from eric manning. My vote is coming november will say no. Good morning. Your thoughts on this question. Caller thank you for taking my call. The republicans should and will control of congress and they will overwhelmingly throw out the democrats because they programs. Utely no its just antidonald trump. We didnt elect a saint. We elected an agenda. Republicans who are in there now dont get on the agenda they will be replaced by other republicans to follow that agenda. The man has the right agenda. The results are his. And he followed the worst president in the history of this country. To sum it up with regard to the democrats the same people saying they are going to take it are the same people who said Hillary Clinton would be president of the United States. Florida,rry from democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Yes. The republicans do not need to maintain control of anything. November of this year. They will be totally out. Won the election by campaigning on pure racism. Every one of his supporters have the same ideological idea of racism. They do not care about anybody except for the rich. Their tax break is just a scam. And the poor people that actually allow them to pretend , they are in them a scam. They should not be in charge of anything. Host on of the best sites if you want to get a look at all of the different polling is available at real clear politics. Com. They take all the polls and they have the generic 2018 congressional vote. We are nine or 10 months away before the election. Another regular viewer and caller. Ithaca, new york. Good to hear from you again my friend. Steve, so good to hear you and see you again. Theyre very happy new year to not only yours but everyone thatdthescenes at cspan puts us on each and every day and all through the day. Its pastor Michael Vincent cr ea and i have pro bono pastored my own human rights ministry. Preface my remarks on the question today on the fact that i served in peace corps. My father had been in logistics in london and korea. Went back into germany during that time and then the berlin crisis my brother served in vietnam. I felt a duty to serve the country and i served in peace corps senegal. When our government screwed up i have been back three times. I was with the rwandan refugees after the genocide in the congo. One of the things that we have to really address is the outrageous reprehensible remarks of donald trump and like it or not he is the head of the Republican Party. That being said my remarks first of all would like to see the republicans have some moral spine and censor him when they get back because right now we are witnessing the latest bankruptcy of donald trump. The moral bankruptcy. And despite the man who is doing well in georgia i agree with monthwho i quoted just a or so ago and its good to hear david from new jersey. , we arehe said to you not divided. We are all in this together. We are polarized. And that being said we have to have balance and this is what the bottom line is not showing. Is that we are not balanced as a people. Theres some people at the top, the top 1 control most of everything we have. The other thing is i would like to refer people to john perkins. The confessions of an economic hitman. We have gone around and we have told elected leaders that if they did not go along with our they would be taken out one way or another. Host you brought up the president s comments. Can you stay on the line for the moment . This is from a weekend editorial in the New York Times. This peace talks about republican retirements raising the talk of democratic wave in november and the editorial by the Editorial Board of the New York Times says donald trump flushes away americas reputation. For a fleeting moment on tuesday President Trump seemed to signal that he would do the right thing on immigration. Alas it was a charade. Was back to days later with his notorious remark. Where to begin . The president of the United States is a racist. And the u. S. Has a long and ugly history of excluding immigrants based on race or national origin. Mr. Trump seems determined to undo efforts taken by president s of both parties in recent decades to overcome that history. He is not just ignorant, incompetent and undignified. He is also a liar. He is by no means americas first racist president. But he ran a campaign explicitly rooted in bigotry, exclusion and white resentment. Your reaction . Caller i first of all grew up in new york and i would agree with that completely. I call mr. Trump the paper moon president. Over aly a paper moon cardboard sea. Hustler does it because he cant even get off the street to take a pee. I put myself through school as a service employee. The likes of him, the people out in the hinterlands of iowa or ,klahoma wisconsin or elsewhere they dont know. He will smile at you and he will have you fired by 5 00. If there is just above their doorway. Hes out for himself. He has always been a charlatan and