That was the total cost of their care. Even if they were only two weeks pregnant. That was the cost they only have to pay. Then to the doctor up to six week old age of the child, that was only 500. These immigrants could have a child which it cost a person in the United States at that time without insurance far more. Host all that said, whats a solution in your view . Caller we need to keep legal immigration. We just need to until we get the revised version or whatever they want. We need to enforce it. Im sorry about these kids coming in. I really am. My heart went out to taking care of them. But also, we have to understand when we have a responsibility to ourselves. Host how big a political issue is this to you . Could your vote be swayed by this issue . Caller no. My vote wont be swayed. Because it has been used as a political issue. Host thank you maam. Dennis, minnesota, independent line. Dennis, your on the washington journal this morning. Caller good morning. I wish i would have been on with zoe. She didnt mention there was already 400,000 person backlog on this immigration hearings. Theyre talking anywhere from seven to ten years before they can get a hearing. Meanwhile, these kids all have been dispersed across the United States already. She said the backlog was taken care of in the texas area. I guess im a little mad at the congress. Were sitting on a ship thats sinking. Congress is rearranging the chairs. Have a good day. Host donald, clarksville, virginia on our democrats line. Donald good morning youre on the washington journal on this friday july 25th. Caller good morning. You know, im just getting sick and tired of seeing the politicians make this a political issue instead of an issue dealing with young children. I was looking on cspan the other day, looking at ted cruz do his normal i guess performance on trying to pretend like he care for the kids. But yet still, you know, hes willing to shut down the government or hes willing to just want to send the kids back. We need to start electing politicians who are going to do their job instead of trying to play political games with the American Public. Host donald, where is clarksville, virginia . Caller its on the southern part of virginia. Its about ten minutes from the North Carolina border. Host what do you do down there . Caller i am a retired high school teacher. Host what did you teach . Caller i was a businesseth teacher and a football coach. I did quite a few immigrant kids from south america and africa. Host donald how did immigrant kids from south america and africa end up in clarksville, virginia . Caller im really originally from North Carolina. I taught in the Charlotte School district. But, most of the african kids im assuming that, you have a large African Community there. Im assuming that a lot of those kids came in through regular immigrational procedures. For the south American Kids, we probably had some that were undocumented but, i still say that most of those kids probably fall under obamas dream act where their parents came in probably illegally. These kids probably started school from the kindergarten on up to the high school level. Host you miss teaching . Caller no, do i not. Host why . Caller im enjoying my retirement. The thing of it is is that, you have so many restrictions being placed on teachers now where teachers cannot be innovative. Teachers were came up with ideas how to educate the kids. Now everyone wanting to put so much emphasis on testing. I dont think thats such a good idea due to the fact that most teachers they are so concerned about their students teaching scores until they are teaching to the test instead of teaching kids how to be analytical thinker. Host thank you sir. When the house comes in at 10 00 a. M. One of the things they will be working on is a privileged resolution. This is jim mcgovern a democrat from massachusetts, privileged resolution. It would prohibit the president from deploying or maintaining u. S. Armed forces in a sustained combat role in iraq unless authorized by congress. Thats one of the debate issues that theyre going to have at 10 00 a. M. This morning. As always, we will be live and as always every weekend on cspan 2 is book tv. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors for serious readers. This weekend, you can get the schedule at booktv. Org and see some of the things that book tv is covering. American history tv is every weekend at well on cspan 3, 48 hours of american history. Now, next week is book tvs monthly indepth program which one author his or her body of work. Next month it is author ron paul and he will be joining us on sunday august 3rd from noon to 3 00 p. M. For a three hour live call in. Looking at some of congressman pauls books. Alicia, harrisburg pa on republican line. Caller good morning to you. Zoe lofgren was on talking. She tell us to go back to our religious heritage. Well, im there. At the same time, government is saying, im going to take your money to pay for Birth Control and im going to take your money to pay for abortions. Which i dont believe in. What would the American People really think of . Number one, think of us first. Us first. This government is such a cesspool, i went from democrat to republican and now i dont know where to go. Because there is no way to go. I dont even i think i dont even i think will vote anymore. Host this is barbara in st. Charlestown, indiana. Up next. Caller good morning thank you for cspan. I think people are disgusted with politics because there seems to be no common sense. Why is it that we dont have military bases along our border. Were paying for men to train. Its desert conditions. I dont believe that the cost will be so severe that we couldnt protect ourselves. Who has a home, a business, even our government that has a revolving door. Take the doors down. If youre so for letting anybody and everybody in here. Its almost like we have a house and senate that should be called step for representatives. They all sound the same. They all have the same language but just different faces. Host barbara, wheres st. Charlestown, indiana. Why does immigration affect you on a personal level . Caller it has in the past. I think both democrats and republicans are responsible for saying that first theyll secure the border. I have nothing against immigrants. We are a nation of immigrants but were also a nation of laws. If honduras and south america is having these refugee crisis, wheres the u. N. . Were paying everybody and were not getting anything in return for it. Host barbara in charlestown, indiana. New poll, senator mark warner has a 25 lead currently over ed gillespie in the Virginia Senate race. Jim in melrose, massachusetts. Welcome to the journal. Caller thank you. Good morning. I appreciate the program very much because they educate. My comment is coincidence. I was sorting my little paper pads and low and behold as it were, what is the header with whoever welcomes one of those little children in my name welcomes me. Thats mark 9 37. Obviously theres much to be said on both sides. I thought i might contribute that. Host rick, louisville, republican lane. Caller yes. Host were listening. Caller i want to thank you for cspan. But also want an answer to, how can we ever solve any problem when we cannot come to any agreement on anything and either party . And so much political influence comes from not the common man but from the corporations . The people who do not trust this congress, it is going to take a group of both democrats and republicans to go against the grain and to challenge the corporations and those with influence, to start representing the common man with common sense once again. Theres no way the American People will ever trust either party again and nothing will ever be resolved until they can show they can Work Together again. Host rick, you got a pretty Big Senate Race coming up there in kentucky. Mcconnell and ms. Grames. Whats your take on that . Caller my take is weve seen enough of mitch mcconnell. Weve seen enough of who he represents. He does not represent us. Host what about his opponent . Caller grimes . Well lets just hope that she has the gumption and the gall to go against her own party and gets up there and doesnt become tainted and represent us as americans. Whether you be from kentucky or whether you be from virginia or florida. Lets hope thats what the outcome will be. Host from politico this morning, the three options for meet the press. David gregory is toast probably both emily smith of New York Post and lloyd grove of the daily beast say he will likely be pushed out following the november midterms. All of the sunday shows have lost considerable influence. The programs no longer set the weeks political agenda more often than not, they serve as a venue for the promotion of stale talking points and conventional wisdom. Mr. Byers goes on to suggest some replacements. Number one Cynthia Mcfadden or Savannah Guthrie or chuck todd. Gary is calling in from maryland, independent line. Caller i think representative zoe, i think she epitomize what most of the democrats in the house enhance the republicans have in mind for the illegals coming across the border. They want to change the fabric of the voters in this country to mostly democratic votes. Thats the bottom line. They have the chamber of commerce on their side. If the republicans dont go along with that, that type of voting, they dont get the chamber of commerce money. What happened in virginia with the representative down there, he got kicked out. I think theres the bottom lin. You just follow the money. They want to be able to rule the country. This is womb of one of the ways to do it. Thats my opinion. Host Washington Post, obamas fundraising touch helps the dnc. President obamas hectic fundraising schedule landed him in the backyard of Television Producer shonda rhymes. Maybe most dazzling result of is the degree to which he has helped restore the Democratic Party to financial health, the dnc has reduced its debt. The Democratic National committee has raised 116 million this cycle through the end of june. Whittling down its debt to 3 million. At the beginning of this year, the party was mired in 15. 9 million in debt according to the federal election commission. Fundraising in the past several months helped the party to pay its outstanding bills. Since then the committee averaged 9 million a month in donations compared with an average of 5. 8 million her month during the same period last year. Democrats outraised republicans in june but the rnc has 14. 4 million in the bank. Dayton, ohio, whats on the issue this morning. Caller long to everybody talk about immigration issues and the children on the border. I think its too often we muddle those two things. When were talking about immigration policy, were talking about a much broader scope. It doesnt just address coming across the southern border. It talk about people coming from all walks of life across the globe. When were looking at this children, i want to remind some of the callers saying democrats wants these folks to come over for votes. Were talking and babies. Theyre not coming up here just to try to sneak across the border. Theyre trying to escape some really horrific things. Its shocking to me and saddens to me that we have so many this country that are seething with bigotry and hate. But they cant see the need to take care of these refugee children. Theyre looking at death, sex trafficking, sex trade. Lot of these people have seen Family Members die right there in front of them. We need to take a look at that. We do need to address the refugee situation in a way that we can help these people. To hear people say were being over run and were being invaded by these folks. Thats silly. Were a nation of over 3 Million People. This is a huge nation. We have the although to take care ability to take care of these kids. We have the capacity to do both. We should do both. We need to start with more compassion unless just straight up anger before you understand the situation at hand. Host tell us about yourself. Caller ive been in dayton all my life and i work for the lexus nexus a data company here. Ive worked with government agencies. I worked with Law Enforcement. Ive worked with a broad scope of industries and have a pretty good idea of whats happening. I follow politics pretty closely. Host thank you maam. Fairfax, virginia, republican line. Hi andy. Caller i just want to briefly talk about my own family history. Im irish and my great grandparents are ireland. Two brothers married two sisters. One couple came to america. One couple remained in ireland all of those people who came here and european immigration were risk takingers. Who raised their children to be risk takingers. There was nothing here at that time there was nothing but an opportunity. Regarding the southern border, i cant believe the narrative that these are poor children escaping the vince of drug gangs and what not. But their parents have money to ship them all across mexico. Then theyre going to come here and maybe they have relatives and maybe they dont. They will be host fairfax, this is mo in auburn, alabama. Hi mo. Caller i was wondering, i was listening yesterday, he was wondering where the Illegal Immigrants got their money from. I dont think the i. R. S. Brought the child credit back. I think the loss of that money to get the children to mexico. I see it from Illegal Immigrants point of view, we have to promise not to be a burden to this country. My tax money are being paid to send these children all over the United States. We should go after the illegal aliens of Family Members that are accepting these children to have to pay back the expenses that the children have incurred when they have come to this country. Also, School Systems in some places are over run. There arent any room anymore. We have children who do not know the language. Host mo, from where and when did you come to the u. S. . Caller i came in the 1950s. From scandinavia. I had to go through the regular thing. I have lived here a long time. But now we have there are people just come across border. Look what happened to the philippines during the second world war. They were allowed to take one Family Member with them when they came to the United States. From the philippines, [indiscernible]. I have to be fair to the children. I have to be fair to the ones trying to do it legally. Host were going to leave your comment there. Washington times, obama urges congress to tighten up tax loopholes such as minimum wage increase stalled. President obama turned his attention to corporate taxes thursday and said u. S. Businesses should be concerned not just with profits but also with being good corporate citizens. Mr. Obama dent single out any specific company but said the hole of Corporate America cannot focus on the capitalist pursuit of higher profits. Heres some other headlines from earlier in morning. Heres the detroit free press, local article obviously, gm expects to pay between 400 and 600 million to the victims of the car incidents that theyve had. From the Arizona Republic, the caution down there that took a couple of of hours, department. Corrections director said thursday, that the two hour long execution of death row prisoner Joseph Woodson was not premature. While wood was snorting and dying on the execution gurney, corrections director charles ryan was on the phone with the Arizona Attorney generals office. Thats a little bit from the Arizona Republic this morning. As we continue to talk about some of the Public Policy issues currently being discussed in washington and around the country. Mark is in orlando, florida. Democrat. Caller good morning. I have several things to say. First on nbc news, ive been so disappointed with them and their reporting on the war in gaza. They took out the reporter that spoke arabic and covered gaza for years who reported on the four kids days on the beach. They took him out the country and only return to him when the msnbc fired a woman and has not renewed her contract, she was reporting on that war for years. She objected to the way host did you see the tweet she sent out . Caller no. Host she called a group of israeli scum. Do you think thats probably good idea for a reporter to opine on anything like that . Caller par choice of words poor choice of words, i agree. The p. R. Battle over this war was outlined they wrote a book on it years ago. Host what was the book, mark . Caller it was p. R. Crossing points how to handle questions. Host who wrote this book, mark . Caller i can find out for you. It wasnt aipac host next time you call in, you have the name that book. I want to see if we covered it on back tv or whether or not its something a legitimate author has that we can cover on book tv. I want to share that oped with you. This is michael warren. Sorry about that to our director, i changed opeds here. This is michael. He was israels ambassador to the u. S. From 2009 to 2013. Hes at the Atlantic Council center now. Let israel crush hamas in the interest of peace. He writes the world must allow to this war to happen. Operation protect edge enters its third week responsible World Leaders can give israel the time and leverage it needs to alter hamass calculus. They can make it pay a prohibitive cost for its attacks. They can create an outcome in which the Organization Even if it remains in gaza is defanged and deprived of heavy arm. Of course hamas will resist militarization. By ending the cycle, thousands of innocent lives will be saved. Life in gaza is miserable now. If is