Pbs documentary about the Trump Administration crackdown. And at 9 00 a. M. , the 50 capitals tour is an arkansas for a conversation with ava hutchison. Good morning, it is tuesday, february 13. The Senate Reconvenes this morning and the house begins its work week at noon. We are you for the next three hours on washington journal and after a busy day on capitol hill, including the budget request to congress and the kickoff to the long awaited immigration debate, we begin with open phones. What are the Public Policy issues on your mind around the country this morning . Give us a call. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter at cspanwj. And on facebook. And a very good Tuesday Morning to you. We begin with the first halfhour. And as you are calling, we will take you to the fiscal budget request making headlines this morning. Proposal,ion budget as usa today puts it, included a massive military buildup. The story noting that Donald Trumps 716 billion request for defense would represent a 7 increase over last year. The greatest buildup since Ronald Reagan was president , adding 29,000 soldiers, airmen and marines to the force of 1. 3 million, building 10 warships, and increasing production of f35s and other warplanes. It notes, in all, the budget would add more than 7 trillion in debt by the end of the next decade. It notes one of the centerpieces of the budget is the president s longawaited Infrastructure Spending program, which President Trump would be matched with public and private funds to provide 1. 5 trillion in investment. That program on the president s mind this morning. He is tweeting. Our infrastructure plan had been put forward and is receiving great reviews by everyone, except the democrats. After many years we have taken care of our military and now we have to fix our roads, bridges airports and more. Bipartisan, make a deal, dems . That was not the only issue on his mind. The immigration debate began must night in the senate. Here is what the president had to say about that on twitter. The negotiations on daca have begun. Wouldnt it be great if we could finally after so many years solve this puzzle. This will be our last chance. There will never be another opportunity. He noted the date in which he said the daca program will come to an end. One of the headlines taking place in the senate from the washington times, the democrats like a plan to protect rumors as the debate began, republicans struggling to find a deal for donald trump, noting that the senate voted 97want to head off the chance of a filibuster and start the debate on immigration, setting up action today on a variety of proposals. We can talk more about that this morning. In the first half hour it is open phones. We want to hear what is on your mind this morning around the country. Gary is up first, republican, good morning. Caller good morning. I am an eisenhower republican, so what i want to do is talk to my prolife friends and family. And i find that they are complacent in child trafficking. And i say that, it is a serious charge, and i say that because back in the late 1980s governor george allen and governor gilmore and mcdonald, who they had this ban on talking about abortion for our social workers, so if they had an underage girl, immature, no prospects, uneducated, addicted to drugs or alcohol, you know, that would equal a trip to the clinic. But no, anyway fastforward 15 years and i go into a section 8 housing unit, 16 unit, and three women offered to let me spend time alone with their children. I was god smacked. The place was a playground for pedophiles. That was host that was gary. A caller in florida. What is on your mind . It is open phones. Caller what bugs me is why do soldiers have uh, to protect the country that is. Oing opium sarahy cant we have sign the dateers dat [indiscernible] host ok. Tim is in alabama, line for democrats. Go ahead. Caller yes, i was thinking about the daca and donald trump wants 25 million for the wall. Nancydo not know why pelosi or anybody else has not told him, if he wants 25 billion for the wall, let mexico pay for it like he promised during his campaign. What is there to negotiate . Let him negotiate with mexico. The other thing about the military buildup, who needs all of these warships and all of these planes . Buildup for what . We are not at war with anybody. The lastnot know why, thing, i do not know why they passed this budget that they passed. Chuck schumer, he needs to be gone. He is talking about he will negotiate, now he has nothing to negotiate with. He passed the budget. What will you negotiate for daca now . Nothing. They will get all this money and he was going to pay for all this money that is going to be money . That is going to be the people. They are going to cut into your Social Security program, medicaid, medicare, and after 2020, and everybody will be crying about paying for all of this money that donald trump has buried the American People in. Host the president requesting 18 billion in his fiscal 2019 budget request. Some other funding requests included, 2. 7 billion to detain undocumented immigrants, 782 million to hire over 2000 customs and immigration agents. You mentioned Chuck Schumer in your comments. Here is Chuck Schumer from the floor of the senate last night at the beginning of the immigration debate. [video clip] the key is to find a consensus bill, largely acceptable to a significant number of members from both parties. The purpose is not to make a point as the republican leader just did, that is easy, the purpose is to get something done. Ist is hard, but it really so important. It will not be easy, but it is achievable. The democrats are committed to protecting dreamers and we have long supported effective border security. Many republicans are in the same boat. The only enemy is overreach. Now is not the time to place, now is not the time nor the place to reform the entire Legal Immigration system. Rather, this is the moment for a narrow bill. And every ounce of our energy is going into finding one that can pass. From the Senate Floor Debate last night as the immigration debate gets underway. We will be following it all this but on washington journal we want to hear your thoughts now with open phones. 2027488001 if you are a republican. 2027488000 if you are a democrat. 2027488002 if you are an independent. Joann from michigan, go ahead. Caller yes, this is joann. We need that wall. And we need term limits. Yes,cans need protection, they need protection from the dreamers. So term limits. I wish we could have term limits. Thank you. Host how long is too long . What would the limit be for the term limits if you had the choice . Caller i would think 8 years. That is all good to me. Host total service in the house and senate . Or 8 years each . Caller yes. That would be easy for me to remember that. Host patricia, long island, new york. Republican, go ahead. Caller i was going to speak about the infrastructure budget, but since you are going to be talking about the dreamers, i would rather Say Something in reference to that. Which is, we need immigration. You need to around of these bad people and ship them out. We need a wall. We do not need people coming in and taking over and at that is what they are going to do. They are going to walk in your front door and say this is my house, get out. Anthony, new york, line for democrats. Go ahead. Caller thank you so very much, robert. You do an outstanding job, as well as the other cspan producers. That last woman threw me off with what i was going to say. It is very sad we have come to that type of hatred and it is so unamerican, it really is sad. The only thing, we do not need a wall, we need to hold accountable the people hiring illegals, those skirting the rules that have always existed and it no longer apply. What i wanted to say was i do believe that we have walked into socialism from the top of the food chain and unfortunately the bailouts for the banks was an example of that situation, when you have the predatory lenders and bankers, and the mortgage hucksters. There is an irony that the president comes from that. They got bailouts, but they still want to throw people out of their homes because they cannot pay the high taxes, which facilitates this enormous governance of military Industrial Complex that is destroying the rolled over world over. I wish you all a great day and i appreciate cspan. Host illinois, independent, go ahead. Caller good morning, my name is thomas from aurora, illinois. I want to talk a little bit about yesterdays trump announcement that he bragged about that he was to proliferate Nuclear Activity for all of his nuclear contractor buddies profit margin. But first, i want to voice opposition to the person who called in a couple of minutes ago talking about term limits. I want to voice my opposition to term limits, because it is nothing other than a scam to deny people voters rights. To deny a person to be able to get into an elected office that we finally trust and keep them. We need to be able to exercise term limits with the borders ballot. That is enough for us to vote them in or out for as long as we want to them. But regarding donald trump rehabbing the Nuclear System, that goes beyond military expansion. Att takes us into putting us a National Security risk of terrorism against the United States and against the people of the world, because there is an accepted reality of what goes around, comes around. Or we reap what we sow. For many call it karma. And and many call it,. And with it karma. Decided to rehab our Nuclear System instead of downsizing and eliminating Nuclear Activity in the world, obama puts us at risk of that Nuclear Activity coming back at us in a form of a hot bomb. Host that was thomas in illinois. 15 minutes left in open phones this morning, Public Policy issue that you want to talk about. Later in the program, our cspan 50 isitalsource is tour continuing and we will be in little rock, stop number 19 on our trek across the country. The Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson will join us. Stick around for that later this morning. About 7 30 a. M. , it is open phones and we are hearing from you on the about the issues that are on your mind. Shelton in louisiana, go ahead. Caller first of all, i want to say to the lady that came in, that was talking about people that are immigrants here in the United States and booting them out. Werenly real people that here were the Indigenous People and who has the right to say who can be here and who cannot be here . That is racist. Border is with candidate and nothing is being said about putting a barrier up in canada, but you want to scapegoat the brown people coming from mexico. And also i want to quickly say callersg about what the have been saying about the Nuclear Arms Race that we are about to get into, and you look at what happened in hawaii when the false alarm took place. People, there is nothing, no protection, no plan of how to take care of the people in terms of a nuclear attack. People were scattering and running all over everywhere and calling relatives and a saying goodbye and everything else. Ratchet down this military warfare that we have in the world. And we should be looking at people in other countries as our brothers and sisters and to about how we can make the world better. Vets, takinging care of vets, stopping all of these wars, that is my comment. Host you started by talking about immigration. We showed Chuck Schumer on the floor of the senate last night. Here is the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell talking about immigration and the debate ahead. [video clip] a number of my colleagues, langford, cotton and ernst, will introduce a proposal to meet these requirements. I support the president s proposal into my colleagues l egislation. The secure and to succeed act is fair, it addresses the most pressing concerns, and forms to the conditions of the president. It offers a compassionate resolution for 1. 8 million Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as children. And in exchange, the solution delivers funding for President Trumpss promise to secure the border. The reforms to migration and reallocates the visa lottery into a more sensible meritbased system. This legislation is a fair compromise that it dresses the state of priorities addresses the state of priorities. It is our best chance to producing a solution that could resolve these matters, which requires a bill that will pass the senate, past the house, and earn the president s signature. Host and that immigration debate expected to continue today. Thisenate coming in morning at 10 00 a. M. We will have live coverage on cspan2, as always. This morning, open phones. The Public Policy issues on your mind. Fran in jacksonville, florida. Go ahead. Caller this is what i called for, i want to make a comment about Mitch Mcconnells declaration a moment ago. All i could think of is he needs to thank his lucky stars and god that they were not doing the meritbased immigration when his ancestors came to america. What i really called about was president hat the now, that he is giving all of these tax breaks to the wealthy, he is trying to find money, which we knew he was going to do, to Fund Everything else, and he is following kim jonguns playbook, which is put all the money in the military, all the money into weapons, and starve your people, which is what is happening in north korea. That is what donald trump is trying to do in america. Host you think that is what the president wants to do, starve the American People . Caller apparently he has no concern for them. Somebody else talked about the old people, changing the rules in the Nursing Homes and they are taking money from medicaid, which is the Nursing Homes probably get the most of their income from, and these are old and sick people. Everything he wants to do is coming from the poor people who did not benefit from the tax breaks, so now they are going to get sucked into the military budget, whatever would have gone to them will go to make more bombs and go to his friends in the military industry, making the bombs, more money, even though they have their tax breaks. Host it was a 4. 4 trillion Budget Proposal that the president released yesterday for fiscal year 2019, that is for both mandatory and discretionary spending. Towardllion would go defense spending, although as the New York Times puts it today in the wrapup of the Budget Proposal, the blueprint is largely a political statement and is unlikely to influence lawmakers who control the federal purse, and who just passed a bill that the president signed, raising spending caps over the next two years. That deal, which briefly forced a government shutdown, increases military spending over the next two years and increases nondefense spending by 131 billion over that time. Budget proposal calls for a different approach and says congress should not spend all of those nondefense dollars. The proposal calls for spending 57 billion less than the new defense caps for 2019. Tim is in rochester, new york. An independent. Go ahead. Waser i was wondering, i going to comment on the miller investigations mueller investigations. It is my understanding that when james comey was under review, he stated he only took notes under donald trump. He also stated he only had two meetings with obama in the timeframe that he was the fbi director. Out there was a special meeting on january 5, where james comey and a bunch of other people were involved in a meeting at the white house. Rice that from susan 15, thatted on 12 everything was being done by the book, which she was not even employed by the government at that time. Her employment ended at noon. Host is it youre feeling that the investigation your feeling that the investigation is to politically tainted . Will you trust what comes from it . Caller they needed to they to do an investigation on the prior administration. The fact that the previous president knew about the russian interference and didnt do anything about it and some of those people involved in the fbi and doj held the information for 30 days in regards to the copious notes, and along with that the emails held for 30 days prior to being released in october. There is a myriad of things that are going on here. Rice, the on susan hill with their story, two republicans questioning susan rice about an unusual message she sent it to herself on january 20, 2017 on President Trumps inauguration day. Chuck grassley and it senator Lindsey Graham question her why she sent a note detailing a conversation she observed between james comey and then president barack obama. That ines us that odd the final moments of the final day of the administration you would feel the need to send yourself an unusual imo president menting obama and his interaction with the fbi regarding the russian investigation. They said in a message at noted how obama emphasized during the meeting on Russian Election hacking, that they want every aspect of the issue handled by the book. The story is in the hill newspaper. Grassley and graham said despite obama stretching the need for a proper investigation, questions have arisen about whether officials at the fbi and the stat