With open phones. He can call in now on any Public Policy issue. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents and all others, 202 5853882. Oin us on social media twitter, facebook and email. Front page of the Washington Post this morning is that the uscsadministration risk in iraq hqi airstrikes. A Bombing Campaign would be fraught with complications and that iraqs political divisions need to be addressed first. Obama told them he was still reviewing his options but that he was primarily considering ways to bolster assistance for iraqs security forces. Same time, obama told them he would not seek congresss formal approval should he decided that military force is necessary. Military leaders were up on capitol hill yesterday. Chuck hagel and general dempsey testifying over on the senate side. Askedr coats from indiana the defense secretary if it was too late for the u. S. To regain what has been lost in iraq. You think its too late . We lost blood and treasure and people lost limbs and died to save the cities. Weve already lost it. Its like crimea. We did not lose anything. The Iraqi Government in the national interest, we lost something. We turned a pretty tonificant situation over the iraqi people when we faced out of our military involvement in iraq. We have done everything we could to help them. Its up to them. They wanted to manage and govern their own country. I dont think we should assign the blame to the United States for this. We go back to who is responsible for this. This current government in iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to bring a gether. Overnment to th we have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to help them do that. We cant dictate to them. Host chuck hagel up on capitol hill yesterday. Take a look at the front page of the wall street journal. Malikis signaling iraqs should go. The u. S. Administration is indicating it wants iraqs Political Parties to form a new ikiernment without mr. Mal as he tries to assemble a Ruling Coalition following elections this past april. The story continues on the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee, diane feinstein, told a congressional hearing yesterday that the miliki government has to go maliki government has to go. What are your thoughts . Bertha in florida. Democratic caller. Caller good morning. Republicansts and understand what happens in this country is going to affect everybody. We know that the problem is that bush started this war and they have the prejudice to blame the president instead of admitting what we should have never gone there. This is a tribal country. We will never solve their problems. Our air, landtect and sea. Host in your opinion, we should do nothing . Caller we should protect our American People in baghdad. Veterans thatany are out of work. Of not make them part Homeland Security to protect our air, land and sea . We dont need to be in another country to protect this country. We have spent too much money, too many lives. We need to come home and protect our country. Take a look at the reaction up on capitol hill on twitter yesterday. Theator rand paul president is wrong and i will oppose him. He needs to come to congress. Menendez we must consider our National Security interests in deciding how we s. Nter isi Bernie Sanders as someone who voted against military action in iraq and the first place, i remain opposed to sending u. S. Troops back into iraq. Come talking about the bush officials who have been in the press recently. The only thing i want to hear from iraq war architects is an apology. John boehner said both congress and the pentagon have warned the president for months about the worsening situation in iraq. And water, maryland. Independent caller. Its like the hypocrisy of politicians when the Social Security crisis in the middle east and the arab springs happened and all of these dictators fell and people rebels needed to arm the the government of syria is fighting terrorists, too. Here we are with these terrorists running wild after we topple iraq and the whole middle east is divided this way and t way and everybody keeps if we would have gotten involved again, it would probably be worse. Syria, whose to say that wouldnt have been just as bad as iraq, if not worse . Host what do you think should be done . I dont have a whole lot of ideas about it. To take care of our own house in stopping so hypocritical about every little thing. If it doesnt conform to what we think we need to start looking at ourselves and stop looking around the world and take care of our own house first. Go to tina in mississippi. Republican caller. I would just like to remind all the democrats out i am so sick and tired of hearing them blame everything on bush. I would like to remind them that the congress, the Democratic Congress at that time okd and passed the bill for us to go to war. You are president just goes ahead and does whatever he wants without the congresss approval. It is getting old. You are making your own president look inept because you when are you going to get over this love of the president . He is just a man. It is sickening to hear you keep fault. S bushs a president has to be responsible when he is in office no matter what took place in the past. Come on, people. Grow up. On your point about the president seeking Congressional Authority, here is usa today. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell met with the president yesterday told reporters that obama said that he did not feel he had any need for Congressional Authority for steps he might take. A few paragraphs down, Administration Officials will conduct closeddoor briefings on iraq today with senators on the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Administration officials were up on capitol hill yesterday with house Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. Raising iraqs disaster designation to top level. The emergency distinction, which is rarely assigned, underscores how critical the crisis has become. That from the Washington Post this morning. Unicef has raised their disaster designation to its toplevel. Democratic caller. Go ahead. Im calling in response to the young lady from mississippi. This is george bushs debacle. Im a retired rain. Im a retired rain. We never should have gotten involved in iraq in the first place. Retired marine. Congress never would cooperate with obama. Host general petraeus has speech. London giving a the telegraph as this video of what he had to say on the situation in iraq. [video clip] there has to be a huge idea here and it has to be, if there is to be support for iraq, it has to be support for a government of iraq. A government of all the people and is representative of and responsive to all elements of iraq. President obama has been quite clear on this. This cannot be the United States being the air force for shia arabias or a shia on sunni fight. Has to be a fight of all of iraq against extremists who happened to be sunni arabs. Extremists that are wreaking havoc on a country that really had an enormous opportunity back in 2011. Has made progress in certain areas, but has certainly not capitalized on that enormous opportunity in the way we hoped. There has to be this outreach. There has to be a government that is trusted by all elements of society. , itmerica is to support would be in support of a governor against extremists. Host David Petraeus in london yesterday. Counterinsurgency strategy for the United States back in 2007 during the search. Some thoughts on twitter this morning. We need an investigation into the motives for Mass Immigration that never came from our majority or now under threat. Ratingsss favorability at 7 . Shame. Who says, all of this could have happened before isis hit the border. Who are we to tell them how to run their country . Ethan in alabama. Democratic caller. I want torst of all, tell you that i am a vietnam veteran. When president obama first e in office, the ba was already messed up. As soon as they got on the right track to catch up, the republicans shut down the government. When the government was shut work. The v. A. Did not they went back to work and they work for one year and it was about to catch up again and the republicans shut down the government again. When they shut the government down the second time, that put the v. A. Back in trouble again. As soon as they do all this and get the v. A. All messed up, then you try to put it on president obama when the republicans were the ones who caused the v. A. To have such a big backlog. Twitter the debate is still raging on in congress over what to do about this captured benghazi suspect who is on a u. S. Ship on his way to the United States from libya. The terrorist who led the killed fourack that americans belongs in gitmo. Adam schiff who serves on the Intelligence Committee saying, the west criminal courts have proven far more successful in prosecuting terrorism suspects than the military tribunals at gitmo. Story, it says the fbi interrogators probably acting in part under a Public Safety exception have not yet informed him of his miranda rights to silence and an attorney. This stems from a 1984 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Law Enforcement can engage limited unwarranted interrogation. A little background for you about this debate. About abu khattala. Taking place on the opinion page of usa today. Puts thehazi suspect focus where it belongs. This is what they say about punishment. Republicans are already attacking the ministration for the administration for to try him as a criminal in a civilian court. Ed royce, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee writes the opposing view. He says im dont grant legal rights to abu khattala. We go to charles in huntington wes, west virginia. We should not have been in iraq in the first place. We have to get every american out of their. How can we protect the country when we cant even protect our own borders here in the United States with all the illegals coming across . I just believe weve got too many problems at home. Host so do nothing about the situation there . Caller should pull every american out of there. If they want freedom, they will fight for it. Host rick in iowa. Republican caller. Caller good morning. A look at history and what we can learn from that. If we forget history, we will repeat it. Remember back why we were in iraq or afghanistan. We had two planes that flew into our building here on American Peopleilling 3000 of our. They were all americans. Like all you people calling in saying i served in the military. If we serve in the military, we serve the United States of america. That means all the way from minnesota down to texas. Lets not forget history and why we are there. We cant allow people to fly airplanes into our buildings, killing innocent people. The people who flew into our buildings, they are not here. We have to go over there and let them know that you are not going to continue to fly into our buildings. Lets learn from history and not let it repeat itself and not continue what we are doing right now. To be ignorant. Lets be an educated people and make educated decisions and do not repeat history. Host what do you think should be done . One, uphold the constitution. Number two, all procedures have been put in place by our forefathers to make sure that we are not making critical mistakes in our government. Number three, become united. United we stand. Divided we will fall. If we dont get things straightened out, we will become a third world nation. That was rick in iowa. Republican caller. Latermestic side this afternoon, on capitol hill, the republican conference will be meeting behind closed doors to elect their number two. To replacey leader eric cantor after he lost the primary race. And their number three, the majority whip. This is the Washington Times with the headline that the majority leader long shot looks to shake things up. The number twoor spot signals unrest in gop. Labradorpicture of rob. He was Building Momentum as vote watchers say he does not stand a chance against Kevin Mccarthy. He is seeking the promotion to the number two post. We will talk about this race and secret ballot coming up here in 10 minutes or so. To find out how this all happens and what you should be watching for. Also on capitol hill, yesterday, this is the money section of usa today gms ceo was back up their. Congress told her that gm is not fixed yet. The General Motors aceto the General Motors that they haded to handle a complex safety issue. It looks like a lot more than 15 people should have been terminated. We covered that hearing. If you missed it, go to our website, www. Cspan. Org. The Detroit Free Press out of michigan, gms headquarters, reporte the headline, ignitions doubted. Another story that many of you have probably heard about. A panel here in washington has canceled the trademark for the redskins name. Impaction, which would six different trademarks, does not have any immediate effect cormorant nor does it barred the team from using the name. It allows federal court review of the t decision. Declined to comment on the development after wednesdays meeting. The trademark attorney for the team said that they would appeal the decision. Even with the team were to lose an appeal, the loss of the federal trademark is more a symbolic blow that a fatal one. The redskins trademarks would still be protected under common law and the team will be able to pursue legal action against anyone who used the logo or name without permission. The Washington Times does go on teamsthis if the inability to protect the trademark and logo were to result in a revenue loss, the effects would be felt across the entire league thanks to profitsharing agreements. L theirms poo merchandising revenue and then divide it. Might feels compelled to pressure mr. Snyder to address the situation. In new york. Democratic caller. Sound like ae to broken democrat record, but i believe bush, cheney and rumsfeld are to blame for the downfall of iraq. Broke iraq. Ons they broke it. Murderer, ain, a tyrant, no question, but he kept order in that country. Asset. He was a u. S. Perhaps this even applies to the president of syria. Host why do you say he was a u. S. Asset . Caller he kept order in a are we could not bring we spent 1 trillion and, in a matter of on ford f1ch of bugs 50 pickup trucks with machine guns mounted rolled in and we spent trillions and they had a couple of used trucks with machine guns mounted and took over city after city. After 9 11, the democrats got behind george bush. Look at the way the republicans have beaten down obama since the beginning of his presidency. You what me show Speaker John Boehner had to say yesterday in the capital. [video clip] the government of iraq clearly is not the most effective government. In terms ofnges understanding how a free society having saidt that, it is nothing new. The president has been watching what we have been watching for over a year. The situation in iraq continues to be undermined. Yet, nothing has happened to try to reverse it. Host the speaker of the house before he met with the president. The white house yesterday afternoon where the president said he was still weighing his options about what to do in iraq. The Chicago Tribune this morning as a piece about obamas thinking on iraq. Below the fold in the newspaper. Kathleen hennessey reports a little bit in the Chicago Tribune. Thinking going on in the white house over iraq. Meanwhile, the Financial Times isorting that maliki fighting to survive. His rivals are seeking to topple him. Onstruck a defiant tone state television comic using foreign powers of colluding with members of the late Saddam Husseins party to take control of the secondlargest city and unge the country into civil war. It would only push them even closer to iran. William in north carolina. Independent caller. Caller hello. Good morning to you. Say, as itwanting to was written and as it was separation you whileve devolved following false knowledge. When god almighty sends his death angels to extract the living spirit from all of these false worshipers, these ministries, these governments and these religions, then come willose of us were left replenish what you all have destroyed in the last 150 years. Host jim from south carolina. Republican caller. Caller good morning. For the democratic callers, you should lay on your screen somewhere a running clock that shows how long george bush has been out of office. They would help them out. When it comes to the v. A. Problems, the democrats give obama a free pass. He has been beefing up government bureaucracy for five years, making it harder to fire them and were doing everything he is making it worse. Obama is trying to make everything harder to address what is lacking in the government worker system. Yet, the democrats want to act like he has not been in power for five years. What is it he does in the white house . , we shoulds to iraq not have gone in, but you cant say he took the job five years ago knowing it was a mess. He has to be held responsible for how he is