[laughter] pretty good. Announcer host good morning, it is saturday, august 19. President joe biden met yesterday with the leaders of japan and south korea. They merged with Security Cooperation, threat from china and north korea, the war in ukraine, and immigration at the southern border are all issues that have jaw drawn the white house recent attention. Our attention for you this morning, what do you think is the top policy issues facing the United States. Republicans, we want you to call us at 202 7488001. Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Independents, we want you to dial a set 202 7488002. You can also send us a text message at 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you live. You can find us on facebook. Com cspan and on x and instagram cspanwj. Lets start off by hearing a little more from President Biden coming out again with the talks with leaders of japan and south korea. He announced a plan to deepen Security Cooperation between the three to counter north korea and other threats from the end of pacific. Host our world stands at an inflection point, a point where we are called to lead in new ways, to work together, to stand together, and today im proud to say our nations are answering that call. First, we are elevating our trilateral defense collaboration to deliver in the end of Pacific Region including launching annual maltese domain military exercises, bringing our trilateral defense cooperation to an unprecedented level, doubling down on immigration sharing, including on the dprk missile launches and cyber activity, strengthening our Ballistic Missile defense cooperation, and clinically critically, we committed to help each other for threats and any one of our countries occurs. That means we will have a hotline to coordinate responses whenever theres a crisis in the region or affecting any one of our countries. Today we reaffirmed our shared commitment to maintain peace and stability in the taiwan straight and addressing economic coercion. We will continue to counter threats from the cp rk including cryptocurrency money laundering, billions of dollars, potential arms transfer in support of russias brutal war against ukraine and we stand up for International Law and a peaceful resolution of disputes in the south china sea. Host that was President Biden from yesterday after his summit with the leaders of south korea and japan. He is some coverage of the summit from this mornings newspapers. I wonder start with the Washington Post. The headline, biden held new unity with japan and south korea. Its as President Biden sought to marking new era for one of the United States most highprofile trilateral partnerships friday using a first of its kind summit with his japanese and south Korean Counterparts at camp david. To announce new measures on defense, technology, education, and other key areas of cooperation. This is the first summit i have posted icam david and i cannot think of any more fitting location to begin the next era of cooperation. Biden said at a joint News Conference standing between japanese Prime MinisterFumio Kishida and south korean president the south korean president at his retreat in maryland. Saying the commitment that the leaders stand to for time. This mornings is the New York Times front page, its on the summit from yesterday at camp david but there is little more now analysis here about the trump effect of those talks. It says the new threeway security pack from President Biden and the leaders of japan and south korea at camp david on saturday friday with threats by china and north korea in mind but there was one other possible factor driving the diplomatic breakthrough. Donald j. Trump. The former president s name appeared nowhere in the principles the leaders issued at the president ial retreat. One of the subtext was the possibility he could return to power in next years election and disrupt ties with americas to close his allies in the end of Pacific Region, both japan and south korea struggled for four years as mr. Trump threatened to scale back longstanding u. S. Security and economic commitment while hosting china, russia, and others. Our question for you this morning, what do you think is the top Foreign Policy issue facing the unitestes . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. Lets start with jim in highland park, new jersey on the democratic line. Caller thank you very much for taking my phone call. Host go ahead. Caller the prime issue is what do we do with the three countries that are causing all the problems . And that is as was said in the New York Times, china, russia, and north korea. That is all i have to say. Host all right, jim. Speaking of russia, of course the war in ukraine is also on the top of mind. The wall street journal hn article, the headline u. S. Allows f16 deliveries to ukraine western officials say. I will read a little bit from that article, its as washington has clear the way to deliver f16 jets to ukraine, u. S. Authorities said friday, a potentially significant boost to the Countries Armed forces. Those to help in the current counteroffensive aimed at pushing back russian forces. That being said, lets hear more from National Security adviser Jake Sullivan. He was asked about the weapons transfer at a briefing yesterday with reporters at camp david. We are doing everything we can to support ukraine in at counteroffensive. We will not handicap the outcome, we will not predict what is going to happen because this war has been inherently unpredictable and that is all i can save today other than i believe and have confidence in the capacity and special brave erie of the ukrainian fighters to continue to make progress on the battlefield. [indiscernible] in g7 in hiroshima, President Biden indicated to his colleagues, his allies, and the world that he would support an effort to train ukrainian pilots on f16s. What we did this week is formalize, the letter from secretary blinken to his counterparts in your, that upon the completion of the training, the United States would be prepared in consultation with congress to approve thirdparty transfer of f16 aircraft to ukraine. That is a natural extension of what the president announced in hiroshima. There have, for reasons i fully dont understand, questions about whether we would do that. To put those questions to rest that infect the training would be followed by the transfer as we work with congress to effectuate that with our allies, we underlined underscore and put an exclamation point on that this week. Host that was National Security advisor Jake Sullivan yesterday in camp david. Lets go back to the phone lines. Greg in lancaster, texas, democratic line. What is the top Foreign Policy issue . Caller the top Foreign Policy issues china. China vowed they have one priority, and that is us, militarily and economically beating us. They are virtually invading us are now with buying up land all of the country. So there is no doubt. China is the wildfire out of control. Host lets go now to barrington, rhode island, richard on the republican line. Caller we might have a Little Common ground with the former democratic caller there, prior democratic caller. Certainly china is a large issue. But the primary at this point is russia just because we are in basically the two systems are in conflict and so that is the priority, but china is right behind them. Could we have absolutely Common Ground with the Democratic Party . Host sounds like it. Lets go to joseph. Joseph is in worcester, massachusetts, independent line. Caller good morning, cspan. How are you doing . Host good morning. What is the top Foreign Policy issue . Caller russia. Russia, russia, russia. Just like marsha, marsha, marsha. If we do not get a hold of it, russia is going to influence the whole african continent and, me as a black conscious minded person and i live in america and want to see america do good for africa continent, you have russia and miger niger. Russia in the democratic republic of condo congo. The races element in American Government seems to be taking over. I am at him supporter because i know a good man when i see a good man but the racist element is taking over, creating hatred among people of color, especially dark skinned black people. And africa, that is what African Leaders are talking about. So these countries give lip service about civil rights but you have people that cant be their kids. Then you have these multicorporations going in and giving lip service about educating on human rights. What do you expect when we can give a to hundred dollar micro loan to a single mother who lost her husband in the civil war . And you go in there and you give lip service. At 200 micro loan and she could do some selling, open the house to feed her kids. Obviously we are waking up and realizing how these politicians in america are. Dont care for black people. Connie west was right. Have a nice day. Host next caller, democratic line in virginia. Caller thank you for taking my call. As an african, im disappointed on the previous caller who does not know what is talking about. Telling the russians are helping africa. There giving weapons to other dictators so we can kill each other. The point is not the reason i call is the most dangerous countries now is china, russia, and saudi arabia. America needs to focus. What theyre doing in the middle east right now, emirates and south america, they start going after the United States to put them down, even though we stand every time theres a problem in the country and we help them and we have done everything for them and build their military but right now, this prince right now is doing everything. He is in coots with putin and china, inviting those leaders to the country so that our dollar will go down and destroy this country. The reason right now the gasoline prices are going up, because he knows donald trump is running for election soon and make americans difficult to buy oil. What the president did yesterday was unheard of. This president , he is solving the problem the previous president did. Theres a difference here, that someone who knows how to lead and someone who will try to stay out of jail. Russians want to see donald trump coming back so he can invite them in the white house and do whatever they want. Host all right, john. Our next caller is eddie on the republican line from millbury, massachusetts. Caller there is an african saying, speak softly and carry a big stick. The New York Times criticized trump for going over to russia and china and korea and speaking to them. Notice when trump was in, nothing happened. It was his prior, obama, who had trouble and annexation in ukraine. It was biden w h trouble, further troubles, withusa. So it is trump who speaks softly but he carries a big stick. He is for our defense departnt. Thank you. Host ll right, eddie. Next up is gordon, florida, republican line. Caller good morning. The reason why im calling is there are several people that talked about how great biden is. Im sorry, weeed to get rid of that man. Is floundering in the world, an embarrassment to the country, and i dont know what you are because he is a disaster. We need to get trump or somebody , maybe not trump, but somebody like trump back inhehite house to straighten themselves out. We were flying high and wide with trump in the white house and then we geth clown. Thats all it got to say, thank you. Host jim is calling from texas on the independent line. Caller it is tim. Host im sorry. Caller with a southern accent. Im a Small Business owner and it doesnt matter where we stand on i have to believe, in my heart and soul, that we have to start with democrat and republican, that is division. Im not going to use the r word, racism, that is ridiculous. It is about whoever is going to get the job done and going to get in there and do the right job. It is not about property. They could take money underneath there. We see this daily, seven days a week, i work 150 days straight, seven days a week, 14 hours a day. Write out in 107 agreed. All we want is the economy to go forward and that is all we want. Host all right, tim. Next is tom, illinois, democratic line. Your top Foreign Policy issue, tom . Caller i agree with the previous caller that china is probably our top issue as well as Vladimir Putin in russia. What i called about was to warn other callers. I dont like this asteria that keeps creeping up we have to cheat up. We have to treat china seriously, saudi arabia seriously, but we also have to trust our leadership, trust that we have things like the Intelligence Community that monitors what is going on with these countries all the time, we have allies in certain regions like a joe biden met with south korea and japan to keep some of those rogue nations in check. What i fear is we will wind up with some fulfilling prophecy where we get into it with some of these countries and it leads to world war iii or leads to something horrific, so i would caution, so i would caution leaders and fellow americans to help out a little bit. You need to be vigilant and another words i think joe biden has done a terrific job with Foreign Policy, reestablishing our nato alliance, going against putin in the ukraine which has been going well and other Foreign Policy issues i trust him policy issues. I trust him. We are coming up to tumultuous years in the presidency and what happened with trump and the riots, even in the Foreign Policy blunders. I think joe biden is a perfect man for the job right now. Stabilizing things. Host all right, tom. Lets go to the republican line now. Stanley is calling from el dorado, arkansas. Caller yes, maam. All im saying is if you remember why we are all why were all the votes deleted two days after the election, that is not a normal process. Just like yesterday, he could not remember who he was supposed to be introducing. He is crooked and he is dumb, and if we dont get him out, if he cheats in the next election like he did the other one, before his second term is up with, we will be a communist under democratic rule. There will not be a Republican Party. There will to be no more votes. It will be a dictatorship. This is what the democrats want. This is what it will be. Host all right. John is calling from hermitage, tennessee, democratic line. Caller the previous caller, come on, man. I grew up im 64 years old and from what ive seen, we take one step forward in two steps back. Talking about racial issues, were going to keep on talking about that. The main thing is are we doing good for the world . And yes we are compared to russia and china. The people know that. People are getting smarter now and this trump thing, the guy wasnt even supposed to be in office if he had not ran any part of our country, he never ran. So why these people backing him up . I do not know, i do not care. The bottom line is we are americans and it is going to work. We always take one step forward, two steps back. Just like the meeting with biden with japan and south korea. All of a sudden we have a fire in maui. Before that . Come on, man. Its a cycle thing. I grew up, you guys went to grade school, junior high school, and high school and you vote for trump bang. Trump. We pledge allegiance to the flag, do that. Host again we are talking today about the top Foreign Policy issue facing the United States. As a reminder, republicans, your line is 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. Before we go back to the phone lines, i want to read some of the responses we are receiving via text message and on social media. This one is from deb rogers on x. Its is the top Foreign Policy is the open border. The flood of fentanyl is killing hundreds of thousands of americans, 7 million migrants poured into cities with no housing or jobs, taxes pay for migrant food and hotels. Without a border, we do not have a country. Steve writes, today, the war in ukraine long turn china. If we dont stay supported in ukraine and support victory, the chinese will invade taiwan. China is watching, waiting, and learning. The next says oil wars were permanently mired in the middle east for exxon and they dont pay a penny for their own defense. This is a text message from joseph in fayetteville, north carolina. It says the development of International Gains of Drug Trafficking is the greatest threat to the u. S. Because these people can destroy government and states worldwide. Look at haiti and somalia and sudan and iran. I will do a couple more from facebook. Kevin good night rights joe biden and his lack of leadership in the world. Steve rothstein says defending ukraine is about the statement of the rule of law and democratic alliances to protect it. Autocrats and authoritarians are all watching to see what putin can get away with and will plan accordingly. The outcome will have a profound impact for the decades that follow where the rule of law and liberal for the rule of law and liberal democracy. That was some of the responses on social media and text messa