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CSPAN Washington Journal September 30, 2014

Independents and all others, 202 5853882. You can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. Politico has this headline in the newspapers this morning about the midterm elections. Run as warves hawks. She is quoted as saying we need to get out of iraq in a responsible way. She declared in may of that year. Say that goes on to out of iraqng get in 2008, but she is now being more tough on this issue of serious saying that the coalition needs to come together issue of syria saying that the coalition needs to come together. More strongly supportive of airstrikes against the Islamic State of iraq. Host of Democratic Senate hopefuls will vote antiwar sentiment into office, running for reelection now. Which party do you trust on National Security . Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents and all others, 202 5853882. We want to get to your thoughts in this on this. The phone lines are open. We have ads to show you as well from the campaign. The republican speaker of the house and state legislature put out this ad on isis. President obama refers to the Islamic State as a jv team. Days later, the Armed Services committee hold a hearing on new global threats. While isisagan group, obama kept waiting and kay hagan cap quiet. Cap quiet. Kept quiet. We have to change our senator. Host that in north carolina. She responded through a spokesperson saying this thats how its playing out in north carolina. If you go to the polling place on november how are you going to vote . Which party are you going to trust with National Security issues . Brian in iowa. Independent caller. I dont trust any of the parties considering the fact, i believe we ourselves created these terrorists. Host are you going to vote, brian . We lost brian. We go to william in florida. Republican caller. I think the republicans would have been better. Not too long ago that john at one ofe a comment the hearings up there. All they were doing was sending 10 trucks to syria. He is the interventionist. It would have been good a couple of years earlier when we were seeing these terrible crimes. We could have been building up the moderates over there in syria. Betterey would really be when we need them. Democrats just kind of turned a blind eye. Look at germany. How many years we kept servicemen in germany. We should have kept at least 20,000 in iraq. Host do you think john mccain was right that we should have gone into syria earlier . Caller what i meant he criticized all we were sending was 10 trucks. Been sending a lot more arms to these people before these different militias gained power as time went on. Its gotten more corrupt and corrupt. Host danny in West Virginia. Democratic caller. Who do you trust . Caller i definitely trust the democrats more because they think before they leap. Isnt it interesting that every time there is election coming up , suddenly there is some kind of to send the we have troops somewhere and terrorists are going to come and murder us in our beds . We are getting suckered again. We have already spent 1 million. We will accomplish nothing over there. More people die from Car Accidents or get shot in chicago every day than have been killed in this stuff with isis. If muslims over there want to kill each other, i dont have a problem with that. Host what do you think the president s strategy on isis . Caller i think its a mistake. We dont know who to support over there. Friends one are our minute and our enemies 10 minutes later. We give them weaponshey turn around and kill americans. Host are you going to go to the polls . Are you going to vote against democrats because of this . Caller my own democrat democrats here in West Virginia have to act the conservative in order to get elected. Im going to be supporting democrats anyway. Host robert in alabama. Republican caller. Caller good morning. All this rhetoric about the congressional and Senate Staffers who have resented the strategy to fight the isis over there, the military is the ones whos going to fight isis. People in congress all need to wake up and support our military a lot more than they have been. Time, when the republicans stood up to terrorism back when george bush was in office, he may not have had the best plan, but he did something and was very active and it took that head on. Which is what obama is not doing today. Host who in the Republican Party do you trust on National Security issues . Trust the one i trust is gone. When irted harry cannon was in virginia. He was a good man for president and im surprised hes not running right now. Host look forward to 2016. Of the republicans we have said are running or looking at running, who do you think is best on National Security issues . Caller right now, i havent heard enough from any of them to make that call yet. Feettill trying to get my wet on the republican candidates because i havent seen any that stand out for me at. Host youve got rand paul, marco rubio talking about National Security issues. Caller either one of those two candidates, if thats the only thing we have right now, i would be willing to listen to either one of them because they both are being very vocal about their opinions on what to do to move the country forward. Isis, much just fighting but moving forward in a positive way and taking control of our world leadership. Host we take a look at cnns new poll that theyve been putting out over the last couple of days. U. S. Hawkish or dovish . This from the latest cnn poll. It also says that the trend between hawks and doves has remained markedly consistent over the years. The number of hawks range between 4440 5 with a number of hawks slightly higher. In recent years, hovering around the 50 mark. 50 of americans view themselves as doves, defined in the poll is someone who believes the u. S. Should rarely use military force. In memphis,estelle tennessee. Democratic caller. Caller independent caller. Host sorry about that. Caller thats ok. I dont know how this question could be. Its quite simple. We have a man in office that got bin laden. That wasn that party responsible did not know where he was. We have an administration that has rescued our people in the middle of the night. I feel like there is no comparison. I feel this administration is doing what needs to be done. I dont want to be a hawk. We have our own country to deal with. There is ank question. We need to deal with syria as best as we can. This is the best strategy. Say,hate it when people whats the president s plan . We have a lot of people across the board talking about what this man should and should not be doing. However, when someone needs to step up, he was the one that did it. I think we got what we voted for. Host john boehner on twitter had this to say referring to the 60 minutes interview the president did. Thats a headline on many of the front pages this morning, including the New York Times. This is an indepth piece this morning in the New York Times by peter baker and eric schmitt, looking at the many missteps in the assessment of the isis threat. The Washington Times also with the headline on this. Intel conflicts with obama narrative on the Islamic State. Despit we are talking about which party you trust on National Security issues. Ft here is what he had to say on twitter about whether or not congress should be coming back. Alexandria, virginia. Independent caller. Caller i trust neither of the parties. Neither one of them has done anything right for the past 2530 years over there. Themselvesst backing. For air force. Folks should not be going over there willynilly to do that to keep people elected. The people who are so hawkish are taking advantage of the killedar i veterans, when absolutely necessary. He said anyone who thinks war is glorious obviously never fought in one. I would like to see members of h parties host are you not going to vote in november . Caller of course im going to vote. Host is this tell me what youre going to do a november. In november. Caller im not simply going to vote for a republican or democrat. But i always vote. Host if there is a situation of war, which party do you think is better on that . On leading a war effort . Are you still there . Ralph in battle creek, michigan. Democratic caller. I dont think the republicans have any credibility whatsoever on war issues since the iraq war in 2003 eared why johnould be listening to mccain or Lindsey Graham who were costly crying for war. Every little problem, they want to send troops. Digare we listening to cheney who completely misrepresented the situation in iraq and manufactured this war . The republicans clamoring for war, you havent paid for the last two wars in afghanistan or iraq. We are 17 trillion in debt. , then raisent war taxes and reinstate the draft. We are certainly going to have to raise taxes for Major Military populations. I find they have zero credibility. Host for you, when you go to vote in november, what how big of an issue is war . This fight against isis for you . Thatr im not convinced isis is a direct threat to the United States. I think we are meddling. It looks like we are in nibbling around the edges. If somebody can make a case to me that isis is a major threat do theynited states, have a navy or air force . How many troops do they have . Case that can make a its a direct threat im not convinced we should be going in at all. , we are going to have to pay for it with taxes and a real commitment by the country. Congress should have an authorization of force. Congress should be in on it as well. If the country wants to go to American People have to be for it and we have to raise taxes to pay for it. Host we are going to be talking those members of congress two members of congress. We did this out about the threat of isis tweeted this out about the threat of isis. The members of the Intelligence Committee have known about this. Hreat of isis as well on this issue of what americans are going to support, the cnn poll says americans back airstrikes, but oppose the use of u. S. Troops in iraq and syria. This from the latest cnn poll issued yesterday. Ralph also mentioned the money. The Washington Post has some new numbers for us on how much this is costing to fight the Islamic State. It will cost billions of dollars. The nine states has been between 780 million and nine at 30 hasion the United States andt between 780 million 930 million. Completing 201 airstrikes in iraq since august 8 and 50 in sincethis september 23 september 23. Allen in atlanta, georgia. Republican caller. Trust on National Security issues . Caller good morning. Frankly, i do not trust either party. They are liars who say whatever is necessary to get reelected. Side is about to do what in the middle east is the only solution to isis, which is actually get behind the syrian army. They wont do that because its embarrassing to do that. On the groundarmy that can defeat isis and push them into iraq. Its allegedly called the iraqi army. They wont do it because its embarrassing to our government. We have a president who is just who got thecutout job as president. Ways trying to dance his out of the presidency and retire so somebody else will have to deal with this mess. Host can i ask you about the Senate Georgia race there . Do you plan to vote for david purdue . Caller im still looking into who is lying to me the least. Host could you Cross Party Lines . Caller sure. Republican, but i do recognize that im not a foot soldier in the republican army. I will vote for whoever will do the best job for georgia. Have is that both the democrats and the republicans have a lock on the election system. They put forward candidates and support candidates they want to limitedic is given choice. They are only allowed to vote for certain candidates who are preapproved by the republican and democratic parties. Ishave a system that corrupted over the years to the point the public does not have any choice whatsoever. They booked for two sides of the same coin. Is michelle nunns fathers legacy appealing to you . Caller im not that familiar with his legacy. Politicians if we were to eliminate their pensions if they stay after 10 years, they will quit. Host from the associated press, this headline. Pushes back against purdues low blow. Michel none pushes back inst purdues low blow unn pushes back against purdues low blow. This issue of terrorism also popping up in the Georgia Senate race. Jimmy in tampa, florida. Independent caller. Caller thank you for having me this morning. We have to take a look at what republicans led us to the first time. We havent found anything that would remotely bring us to a causation of war. I like the fact that the president is taking his time on the situation. We are not sending troops on the ground and Everything Else and we are looking at the situation before we leap. Im all for airstrikes. We have to remember come in the middle east, this has been going on for centuries. Unfortunately, we are caught in the middle of it because we are in the middle of a war that we walked into. At the same time, we have isis running around doing what they are doing. To back a partner, i would back the Democratic Party. Isis and theue of president s strategy is also one that is playing out new inires senate race New Hampshires senate race where scott brown is running in New Hampshire against anyone who turns on the tb these days knows we face challenges to our way of life. Radical islamic clerics are they seemg to cut confused about the nature of the threat. Not me. I want to secure the border, keep out the people who would do us wrong and restore americas leadership in the world. Im scott brown and i approved this message. Host scott brown running in New Hampshire now against the democrat there. This is what the senator said on september 23 when airstrikes began against isis in syria. Scott brown also making an issue of ms. Hearings by jeanne shaheen. Pieceas the Boston Herald that she did not show up for many of the hearings. Missed hearings by jeanne shaheen. Thats how its playing out in New Hampshire. We go to chris in texas. Independent caller. Which party do you trust . Caller im actually in independent caller. Independent because of the deficit of trust. Iny americans today staggering numbers do not trust their government, which is a politiccern in our body. In terms of our foreign, it doesnt seem it matters whether a republican or democrat or office. The same problems arise. The whole terrorism debacle is continuing on. Conducteday obama has his Foreign Policy has been soastrous because we lost much ground by pulling out prematurely. Now, weve created a vacuum and we have this isis group that has infiltrated iraq. To argue that iraq is a country anymore. We have russia and ukraine. And that whole region of the world on fire could hold middle east is in trouble that whole region of the world is on fire. The hold middle east is in trouble. , even greater than this foreign threat, is our domestic policy with the debt. We are spending a trillion dollars a year. A trillion dollars a year 8 trillion a year. We are concerned about an economic collapse. Im a 28yearold. Im trying to get a grasp and hold on these different new developments in the world today. It just seems there is so many issues, its hard to keep up with so many very important issues to our country into the world. We need strong leadership now. I really hope in 2016, we get a strong president and the white. Ouse in the white house we can remedy some of these issues. Host the debt that this it is a bigger issue for him. Cnns latest poll yesterday asked the question of which is more important. The economy or isis. Overwhelmingly, what people are saying, the economy. See how this issue of terrorism and isis is getting brought up and being debated in some of these Key Senate Races that really will determine control of the senate, whether democrats or republicans controlled the senate appeared up on capitol hill today, congress is not in washington, but there will be a congressional hearing on the house side at 10 00 a. M. This morning with the director of the secret service testifying before the House Government Reform Committee about the intruder a couple of weeks ago that was able to jump the fence of the white house and get to the east room. She will be answering questions recent reports that there were shots fired at the white house back in 2011. That is the headline in the Washington Post this morning. That from the Washington Post this morning. The editorial shattered security. They say the secret service lapses raise questions about competence. That in the Washington Post this morning. Also making the news is the situation in hong kong. Take a look at the front page of usa today with this picture. Umbra low revolution opens wide. Umbrella revolution opens wide. Work times editorial weighing in on this. Of china has established himself as an autocratic leader. There is no telling how far he. Ill go t they sayn beijing has backed students into facinger and is revolt. Which party do you trust . Don in michigan. Democratic caller. I dont have neither one. Whats going on with this money being spent how about the v. A. . You had these town halls on cspan. These people are being ignored and abused by the pa system the v. A. System. The last time cspan had

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