Me about this campaign is the truth. We need to work on gun violence appeared we need to work on health care. Need to work on college education. We have a lot of things to work on. When the senate votes openly and against the truth in a partisan manner, it is time for us to return to our roots, faced facts and listen to witnesses. It is time to face the truth and move forward. And we cannot do that if we do not open our eyes and pay attention. One of most important issues to me in the 2020 election is education, including the current cost of education. For postgraduate and graduate work. Of concerning legislation coming out of the Trump Administration in regard secondary and k12. Divorce has not done a lot of good for teachers. Betsy devos has not done a lot of good for teachers. Education is number one and that is why i am voting. Voices from the road on cspan. Monday, president s day, on the tv. Discussions on the u. S. China relations. Reforming journalism, and startups in San Francisco. Starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, former secretary state Condoleezza Rice this cusses u. S. China relations and that when he first century. There were those who believed that by the integration of china into the International Economy we would begin to see the liberalization of chinese politics. You said earlier the expectation had been cooperation with china. I think the expectation was integration with china. And now you see frustration with that. At 4 00 p. M. Eastern, marvin lasky on his book, reforming journalism. We do not want to make ourselves the center of attention and action or the apparent font of wisdom. We like to go out and report. And reporting is has fallen into rare circumstances. Theres so much opinion journalism. There is very little reporting, people listening, paying attention, watching, describing. At 6 45 p. M. , Technology Reporter anna weiner looks at San Francisco startups in her book, uncanny valley. Uberheard people say that could not exist if it did not have this crazy culture. My question is should it exist . And if that culture should not exist and if you do not have that culture and the company does not happen, maybe that is fine. Watch book tv, president s day, on cspan2. We want to welcome back dr. Sebastian gorka, former Deputy Assistant to President Trump and now heard on the Program America first. Thank you for having me, steve. I want to begin with this piece from Arthur Brooks at the National Program crist this month. He talked about why the National Prayer breakfast. He disagreed and said publicly he said why he disagrees with the president and says publicly insulting others crazy terrible National Discourse in this country, something that needs to stop her he is taking aim directly at President Trump. I think we have a problem with public discourse. But it was not the president who began it. We have people publicly stating that if you see a member of the trump cabinet in public, publicly harassed them. This is what happened to Sarah Huckabee sanders, who was abused in a restaurant with her family because of this kind of family. You have obamas attorney general sang when you when they are down, you do not help them. This started a long time ago. Remember when president obama was president , he said at the thanksgiving cable test table, get in their face if they are on the wrong side of the political argument. So the idea that donald trump started a negative public discourse, he is responding to the attacks against him, his family, his administration. Steve, we have, a media that discusses the president s wife for wearing the wrong shoes. Donald trump was elected in 2016 because he is standing up to the abusive left and the mainstream media, and a lot of people applaud him for it, as do i. Does that not degrade the presidency . , its justthink so celebrity politics. Politics changed reversibly with bill clinton when he played saxophone. Member that . From that point on National Politics became as much about celebrity is about policies and platforms. Obama was a manufactured celebrity candidate. Trump had a 14 season reality tv show, one of the most successful ever. This art of labeling your opponents effectively in the age of twitter and facebook and the rest is part and parcel the content which we live in. You need to be able to brand, and my old boss President Trump is the master. Is a story this morning inside the Washington Post getting a lot of attention. The president of germany is saying, our closest ally, under the current administration, rejects the very concept of the international community. Guest what we reject him a what the administration rejects, is not the international system. Globalization. If you look at mike pompeo speech, it was about western values and Standing Shoulder to todier with any shoulder shoulder with any nation that shares those values. The warsaw speech that he gave at the side of the warsaw uprising her he said we are proud to stand for judeochristian values, and whether its poland, israel, or anybody else, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you. Globalization would require us sovereignty,our thats got to stop. Wass why donald trump elected, to reassert those values. Weve had enough of the narrative that america is the source of all evil. The only nation founded on the principles of individual liberty which derive from the fact that the what President Trump stands for and thats why he was elected. Michael bloomberg is leading in some states including florida. Hisd Hillary Clinton be potential running mate . Could we get so lucky . That she is going to be his running mate, that is christmas coming very early. But Mike Bloomberg doesnt have a chance to win the presidency. Such as the superdelegate fiasco a man who has as much charisma as an old shoe, he might be rich, but he can spend all his 54 billion and he will never become president. You have toething applaud, is just the fact that politics has become celebrity bound. You cant buy charisma, and Mike Bloomberg doesnt have an ounce of it. How often do you talk to the president . We had a chat last sunday to talk about issues to do with personnel and the vindman case, that was a week ago. Next he tell you in advance about his decision . I wanted to give him some advice about what to do next, and thats what we discussed. What your matter issue is as a conservative, policy,its for school it really doesnt matter. If the president is reelected in november, number one, above all else, is personal policy. Than 4000 political appointments under the i told the president personnel is priority number one. Host how long will the chief of staff stay in his position . Guest being chief of staff is tough, its one of the toughest jobs in the u. S. Government. Excited about the noises about mark meadows coming on board. You really have to have someone who knows how capitol hill functions. So we shall see. About the attorney general, bill barr . Ofst he is exactly the kind person you need at doj. With her choosing the irs to organizations, the doj above all else was the most corrupt department. Having bill barr there is splinted. According to reports, he told the president probably to stop tweeting and then publicly. Whats behind it . Guest im not going to comment on whether or not that happen. Im not sure i agree with him because he is the president of the United States but he also has First Amendment rights. And what happened to roger stone, im not a fan of roger stone for various reasons, but what happened roger stone should be an outrage to republicans, democrats, and independence. A man in his 60s whose wife is hard of hearing, has a morning raid on his house with swat , where are the dawn raids brennan,comey and john who perjure themselves in front of congress . It is the privacy of justice and the president called them out, and he has every right to do so. Did you talk to the president at all about your . Decision regarding the recommendations . Never. Did anybody from the white house call to try to influence you . No. Is one of the things that surprised me the most at the white house. Spent onon exoneration. When our raise the issue once with the president , i was so surprised by his attitude, that he was completely handsoff. Yet he will tweet about issues, but the idea is going to reach no,nd rattle cages, he said let it collapse by itself, and thats what hes doing with roger stone. News, the fact that hes chosen another attorney to review the flynn case, another egregious abuse of power is also great news and im sure President Trump had nothing to do with it. That is attorney general barr doing his job. Salem radio, how many stations . Ourt we just started second year and we are very happy. Host in your latest book, you were featured on indepth tv. Guest it was to discuss my third book. We are in a culture war for this republic. We have failed as conservatives to understand what was going on the last 80 years. We have had a left that is becoming increasingly radicalized, that normalizes violence, if you look at footage of the recent attack against a 15yearold trump supporter, and we have to unashamedly stand up for the values that our Founding Fathers built this nation on and understand what Andrew Breitbart said, that politics truly is downstream from culture and if you have been issue you want to solve and the political sphere, it doesnt matter what it is, you have to have influence socially first. The understand the connection. Its time for conservatives to wake up and understand it to. My parents past 15 years ago. Im an only child. I have distant relatives left in hungry. Watch. S thats not true. I had a meeting with thatdent trump and he said previous years, it was so ukraine, i was very open with him. I told him that we fight ,orruption, we fight each day but to say that ukraine is corrupt, its not true. We want to change his image. In light of everything thats happening with regard to the impeachment, what is the state of relationship the state of relations . Guest i think it is still robust, because remember who this person is. He is not a politician. Hes a person who came from entertainment. Ticket all respect to the president , ukraine is the third most corrupt country in the world, by independent metrics. The idea that he solve that is less than intuitive, but ukraine has a problem. This man hopefully will be able to drain his swamp as well as our president. Our guest is dr. Sebastian gorka. Message,end us a text be sure to telus your first name and where you are texting from. Waiting,hank you for you are on the air with dr. Gorka. I have three points to make. First of all, it was not the democrats that started attacking President Trump. With the birth tourism thing against president obama. Thats number one. Youre saying donald trump has never done anything wrong. Two years ago he went to court. He was found guilty of running a faked university for five years, cheating people out of 75 million. He had to pay a 25 million fine. If that werent enough, he has the money for the veterans. He put it in his foundation and he and his children spent that money for themselves. Thank you very much. Sent sandra, thank you with call from michigan. The birther story was actually linked out of a christian campaign. The idea that donald trump is a bad guy because of the birther all from Hillary Clintons campaign from when she wanted to take down president obama. 19 minutes after President Trump was sworn in on january 20, 2017, the Washington Post said the impeachment of donald trump begins now. 19 minutes. If youre looking for who started the fight, it is very clear. I know who is going to end it but it is clear who started it. It was not my old boss. Host john in chicago, good morning. Caller hello. Host good morning. Caller they want to be dictators. Why wont trump show his taxes . He is a walking, talking swamp. This guy sounds like a trump sycophants. Get off your knees and be a man. Guest i dont need anybody to tell me to be a man, my friend. The president is a wannabe dictator . Seriously . This is so, so disturbing that we have people who do not know the facts and are victims to fake news. Donald trump hasnt put anybody in prison has not prosecuted , anybody for political purposes. His predecessor, obama, created or signed off on the first ever interagency fbi, cia operation against day president ial campaign. That is unheard of. That is what you expect in venezuela or north korea. Likewise, here is a little statistic that you can check at your Hearts Delight president obama prosecuted more journalists in jail more journalist sources under the espionage act than all previous 43 president s combined. If you are looking for authoritarian, dictators, check out president barack obama. Host we will go on the republican line to marshall in clearwater, florida. Caller good morning. Guest hello. Caller i was hoping it would not happen but i knew it would not be long. It is said with a man said you about get off your knees. I want to say thank you for speaking truth to power. Guest thank you, marshal. When they have no argument they go ad hominem. I was in the white house and in the first few months i had 42 hit pieces written on me by one journalist. They attacked my wife, my dead mother and one journalist a delightful individual wrote about my 18yearold son using door traitor in the headline. The left is out of control. They have totally internalized the arguments and make politics about personal attack. I want to talk policy, i want to talk substance, the left wants to do ad hominem and that tells you about who they are. Host marshal, you want to follow up . Caller in the last segment somebody said trump was trying to do away with minorities and i think he is but he is tried to do away with them by helping them find better jobs. I know you know the stats, if you could hit on that a little bit i would be grateful. One other thing, i know you have the facts, tried to go in a little bit of the bias concerning the left when it comes to being charged. Host thank you for the call. Guest i like the philosophical approach. He is not trying to do away with minorities but the idea we are defined based on our skin color and do away with the lefts favorite topic of victimhood. If you look at the statistics, it is incredible what has happened in the last 3. 5 years. With the lowest unemployment since 1969 but the lowest unemployment on record for minorities. We have the highest employment rate for women. When those statistics were read out, for the record, by the president what happened . The democrats sat down. Did not clap. They are against women employed. They are against the nineyearold girl getting to choose which school she goes to. They could not clap for that 103yearold Tuskegee Airmen who had been made a brigadier general. That is unamerican. When it comes to getting justice in the courts there is an issue with getting justice. In 2016, 90. 9 of washington, d. C. Voted for hillary. The idea that somebody who worked for the president , like myself, or support of the great make America Great again could get justice in d. C. When the pool is more than 90 democrat this is a significant problem. Host when the speaker tore up the state of the Union Address your reaction was what . Guest this is a woman who is telling us she is the adult and donald trump is the child. This is churlish, its disgusting, but you know it the most appalling part of the story is . People found the video of her prepreparing the papers to tear them up. To know what part she was doing that at . I did a check. She was doing that childish thing under the table when the president was saying we are committed as a nation to make sure that children do not suffer from cancer. That we beat Childhood Cancer and we finally find a cure for aids. How could you not support that . I dont care who you vote for. Were talking about children with cancer and defeating aids. What does nancy pelosi do . She is a childish stunt under her desk. That is to the democrats have become. Where the jfks . People who are prolife . Strong on National Security . It has become a party of extremists. Host they did say he was he put hypocritical when it can to preexisting conditions since he got rid of the Affordable Care act. Guest but what has he said . Preexisting conditions will be covered. The issue with the Affordable Care act was that it was unconstitutional. The idea the chief justice said it is not a penalty to tax. Since when does the Supreme Court get to legislate and redefine u. S. Law . They say whether it is constitutional or not. I know the president this is important preexisting conditions is vital. Host we welcome all colors. Callers. Come all if you are listening and cannot recognize the accent, it is dr. Sebastian gorka. His book is out in january and you can check it up. Trump allies handing out cash to black voters. Here are some of the details. Allies of donald trump have begun Holding Events in black communities were organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees. The first took place in cleveland, ohio where recipient who Winning Tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled in virginia has been postponed. More are said to be in the works. Politico says the events are run by the book and int