The tone of the 2016 campaign. What is your view in the way the candidates are engaging with each other. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. Cspanwj twitter. Com cspanwj. Journal cspan. Org. Ben carson sidestepping a clash with donald trump. A story out of South Carolina. Ben carson is quoted this way soundedomething that like i was questioning his face. I was not. I was talking about mine. It was said in an inappropriate way. Never my intention to impugn other people. His display comes after jeb bush, scott walker, and Lindsey Graham found themselves diminished after tussling with mr. Trump. Also, a frontpage story on donald trump. We can take a look. The headline says Donald Trumps oneman roadshow. Hostility. Id rival he says everybody who attackes e is doomed. Here is one attack. Donald trump is not a serious candidate. He is a narcissist. He believes in his himself. I want to say what everyone is thinking, but is afraid to say. Everybody knows this is true. The idea is great. The reality is absurd. He is nonserious. He is a carnival act. Host donald trump responded to bobby jindal in a tweet after those remarks. As you may recall, most of the recent dialogue in the news about it and the conflict came from this Rolling Stone piece. At one point in the conversation, they were watching a newscast. The anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction. Look at that face he cries would anyone vote for that . Can you imagine that, the face of our next president . She is a woman. Really, come on. Are we serious . Bobby jindal responded to that. [video clip] it is outrageous for him to appearance when it looks like he has a squirrel on his head. We look forward to your comments on the tone of the campaign. Phone calls, tweets, facebook postings, we will get to them in the next 45 minutes. We have more clips to show you. Against this comes backdrop. The Washington Post has put out a new poll. Are rising in voter esteem. This is according to a new Washington Postabc news poll. Hillary clinton has lost ground over the past two months, as she has struggled to manage the controversy over her use of a primary of a private email survey while secretary of state. It is the biggest decline coming against coming amongst white women. The survey underscored the degree of dissatisfaction. We have muriel on the line. Hello. Doing well. Here is what i think. And of the the tone of the campaign has been terrible. About how they are going to carry out their policies. I would like to focus on mr. Trump. Singlehandedly, he has all but destroyed the Republican Party. I have been a democrat and a liberal all my life. I will be voting for hillary. I cannot stand it when he takes the name of bush or any other candidate on the republican side and goes on with his rhetoric about how terrible they are. Do not want that kind of tone or substance in a president ial candidate. I am sorry. Care if you are democrat, republican, or up on the moon somewhere. I want someone able to carry on a conversation with a citizen from the United States or a foreign diplomat in s civil matter a civil manner. This is the way he comes across to me. He thinks he is jesus christ reincarnated. He thinks he is the only one who is going to do anything. How he comes across as terrible. Host thank you for calling in. Are you at are you offended by the tone or the truth being told . Democrats, call this number if you want to talk about the tone. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Outside the u. S. , 202 7488003. Is Carly Fiorina. [video clip] comments speak for themselves. The voters are helping me climb in the polls, they are serious. What do you take that to mean . I have no idea. Honestly, not going to spend a single cycle wondering what donald trump means. More of your comments. David, thank you for waiting. Caller i have one comment. Bobby jindal should not throw stones. He is not eligible to run for president. Host whys that . Caller his parents were over here on a green card when he was born. Citizen, butbby a he is not natural born. To be natural born according to the constitution, to be elected president or vice president. Host what do you make of the tone overall . It is getting messy, like grade school, where they are pulling pranks and calling each other names. I do not like it from any of them. What is the way to move to a different place, a place you would want them to be . Caller that will not happen until the debates start. Maybe everything will be settled down. We will see what happens this week. Michael, fayette, alabama. Hello. Thank you for allowing me to pose this question. I wonder if anybody else around the country has thought about this and i usually do not talk about, call cspan, or right the newspapers about , because horse races of how silly and mindless they are. Have beenur callers correct about that. To consider what if we have another economic fiscal recession during the term of the next president . They all come in cycles of eight years to 15 years, however long. I am, i, though probably could not vote for hillary. I do not want a democrat in office. I remember how terribly the. Ublic treated john mccain the liberal, mother jones, had say untilthings to recently. Elizabeth worn and ralph nader would run in 2020. Mythat causes me to lose christian salvation and burn in hades, so be it. Haveder if your callers thought about Economic Trends to sittingey do president s, governors, and congressman. Thank you for allowing us. Lets hear from paul, kentucky. I think the established politicians, jeb bush, mike huckabee, they are expected to be rude or bombastic. Fiorina,ump and mrs. They are not considered established candidates. Mr. Trump has been the most rude, disrespectful person seeking office that has ever ran for office. Seent know how anyone can hope with him coming to office with his temperament. Can you imagine him talking that way to the leader of north korea . Do you think he could blow up everybody . America has not the money nor the military might to exert her threat all over the world. He seems to throw out rhetoric and brag about his financial wealth. Good for the masses of the people. The tone of the presidency, the campaign, is more rhetoric and fearsppealing to people and hatred, rather than coming youith plans and programs want to get america out of the she is in. No one is speaking on racism, afraidy, dr. Carson is to meet with people who can make a difference in the black community, but he browsed down to the jewish community. That is not how you are going to get america moving. The rock ran on a campaign of change. Barack ran on a campaign of change. Host who are these people saying trump is a clown . He created more wealth than a day than most of these critics have in a lifetime. Here is a little on Jimmy Fallons show. [video clip] i think she is a nice woman. I do not know her. She is a very nice woman. I think she is going to have a hard time. She is a very fine woman. Stageould be on the main at the debate, and she is going to be. To point your attention to this piece written in forbes by a contributor. The dirtiest president ial campaign ever . Not even close. And thomas jefferson, each a pivotal player in the creation of our nation, squared off in a race to the white house that created negative campaigning that would cause ers to blush. Ignrt for jefferson to become , we would see our wives and daughters become big ofs to become victims prostitution. Aduer, robbery, rape and ltery will openly be taught and practiced. Think everybody is taking on donald trump. He would not push back so hard if people would not pick on him. Get the respect of north korea, russia, and everybody else. They know he plays hardball. He is not going to be pushed around like the other wimps. Tony, fort worth, texas. I think hillary should withdraw her name from the contingent for president. She is unelectable. She has too many problems too many scandals. To be aanted there republican in the white house, she should stay in the race. If she wants a democratic president , she should get out and let ace areas candidate get in it. A serious candidate get in it. Host what do you think about the tone . Caller they think hillary can win. I do not think she can win. Too many scandals. They should get somebody new. Has beenistration dividing the country so bad, that anybody associating with the administration is going to be perceived as president obama. They need a fresh candidate that has nothing to do with the Obama Administration. Host thank you for calling. The election of 1800, attacks on thomas jefferson. Jefferson had his own narratives, one attack came by a journalist, whose pamphlets were funded by jefferson and who had an ax to grind for having been prosecuted and in minutes prosecuted and imprisoned by the Adams Administration for violating the sedition act. Rageful,that adams was lying, who behaved neither like a man, nor a woman, but like a aldeous hermaphroditic ora character. Caller the tone of this campaign is what i thought it was going to be. Not good. Does that mean to the campaign . The dialogue on issues, how to make the proper choice at the ballot box . I have to second with the previous caller said. If there was nothing to hide on now they are saying she did not wipe it clean. We find this out three months before the primary . Why didnt she turned it over six months ago . She is selfdestructing. You need two out of three states. Pa, ohio, and florida. Biden is from scranton, so he has pa. Hillarys goose is cooked. James, columbia, mississippi. Caller good morning. I told the screener that was pushing,from he had his whenever mr. Trump was pushing, he had his , everything he was saying and doing was ok. Now that he is running whatlican and saying republican policy is, that they cannot say out loud, they do not want it to be said. That was james, columbia, mississippi. A look at the campaign trail. We will have an event with Bernie Sanders, 10 30 eastern time. On thishave that live network. We will take phone calls after the event. He will replay at 8 00 tonight. One reporter following senator sanders is nicole. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host thank you for joining us. The headline to your piece says campaign tors takes christian school. Why liberty and why now . The school invites every candidate who is running for reticular office. Bernie accepted the invitation. He is the first from the democratic side to accept the invitation. He has told me he does not on his stance on gay marriage or abortion rights, but people might agree to doim on the need something about childhood poverty, or his actions against nutrition programs, Social Security, his fight against income inequality. He sees that as not only economic issues, but moral issues. He said he wants to begin a dialogue on what morality means, particularly at a bible school, and see if he can find common ground. Host how may students are you expecting today . Guest i am not sure. The students are required to attend. Not sure. Several thousand, at least. Travelinghave been with the senator. What has the most recent part of his trip and like . How are the crowds . What is he message, gaining from this . He did three stops. I was with him for a couple of stops in South Carolina on saturday. That will be a key state. The First Southern primary state. The first state he is going to face a largely africanamerican electorate. That was saturday. He was in greensboro, north carolina, yesterday. With ated off saturday historically black university, benedict college. A smaller crowd there. He took questions. The other event i attended was in rock hill, South Carolina. About 3000. People were really enthusiastic there. About income inequality, the need to do something about Racial Justice issues, criminal justice, and continuing his economic populist message, taking on the billionaire class. People were responding to it. Florence, South Carolina, held that town hall leading meeting. Sanders and his outreach to the africanamerican community. Guest what they say is they are just getting started. They are just starting to branch out. They realize they have a lot of work to do. This is the state Hillary Clinton came in second in the primary in 2008. She and bill clinton has strong support in the africanamerican community. Bernie sanders is largely unknown. A are taking their message across the state. They are starting with the grassroots campaign. They are knocking on doors, signing up volunteers, trying to harness this enthusiasm and move it forward. I think the meeting with black and elected officials, that was something they planned to keep doing. They plan to keep having someone with influential people in the community that can help spread their message. Nicole reporting. You can read her piece today. Thank you for the preview of the event at liberty. Appreciate it. Guest thank you for having me. 10 30 eastern time is the time for the Bernie Sanders event, live. Take more calls. Bernie sanders will replay at 8 00 tonight. There wasvent an event for Carly Fiorina earlier. We will pair it with that. Showsws poll released sanders leads clinton by 10 Percentage Points in iowa. 22 in New Hampshire. 23 of South Carolina supporting sanders compared with 46 of clinton. 22 for joe biden. A little bit more from Bernie Sanders. He was featured in the Washington Post. Bernvirginians feel the or give the Cold Shoulder . Snickersrance brought from republicans. It is like Pat Robertson going to a nudist colony, and not going to get the results they hope for. Back to your calls on the tone of the campaign so far. Tucson, arizona, independent. Say i i called in to believe the tone so far, the will reverberate through society, magnify itself through society, and will allow everybody to express their worst sides. It is going to be a big issue. We will see the United States become more upset, to the point people are actually acting out. Larry, okeechobee, republican, florida. Caller i just wanted to say i think america is where it should be and the tone reflects most people do not really get involved so early and we do not have as many candidates with so many white views as we have this year. Wide views as we have this year. As far as donald trump is concerned, he could run as a democrat and could have as much controversy. I think america is exactly where it needs to be at this time as far as the tone of the campaign. Thank you very much. Host thank you for calling. Johnny rights, the tone of politics is as usual. Political talking points about things that want to improve the quality of life of the citizens. And a lot of folks telling folks what they want to hear. Have a lot of folks afraid to offend anyone so they offer the same empty Campaign Speeches we have election after election. We have one man who is telling it like he sees it, donald j trump. To fix the problems we have, the first step is to admit there is a problem. Thehe establishments about democrats and republicans are afraid to admit we have a problem. Is his calling in anne calling in. Caller im an africanamerican. I would like them to police pleaset the world think about the ruptured. World. I dont think these democrats or republicans are thinking about america. What is this question that we do not trust her . What has she done . What her husband did she did not do it. I do not understand the question. I certainly do not hear the answer. So no, hillary is the best person for america. Host thank you for calling. I point your attention to a recent Washington Post piece of the campaign on the democrat side. Clinton and sanders will not speak ill of each other. Its a story of New Hampshire where Hillary Clinton hit a variety of subjects at a sunsplashed campaign rally. But not once in her 30 minutes of speaking did she utter these words Bernie Sanders. Campaigning 1200 miles away in sanderspids, iowa, was interrupted for applause 77 times, but not a single line in the senders nearly hourlong stump speech referred to clinton or any other democratic primary opponent. Race is being dictated by how the 17 candidates, led by donald trump, attack one another from policy disagreements to nasty personal barbs. The democratic race stands in stark contrast. Theite tightening polls, two leading candidates refuse to draw sharp contrast, let alone criticize each other, leaving voters to discern the differences in their agendas and priors priorities largely on them. In. Is calling caller id like to frame the tone of the campaign on the republican side as the political dark ages. They are about using fear and hate to divide and conquer. They are using the Benghazi Committee like an inquisition. I mean, Hillary Clinton is the most qualified. She is probably the main reason we have got cooperation in what has happened d asran through her perio secretary of state. She has always fought for women. She has always fought for children. She initiated health care. My god, that woman has done all of that her entire political career. The republicans beer her greatly and will do anything to ensure that she is not who they have to face in a debate. She would just tear donald trump, who knows nothing of any of this stuff or has any real ideas on how to fix things. I cannot believe the democrats are even saying things like she should get out of the race. Runary clinton is going to and she is going to win and that is what i really believe. Host thanks. Writes on twitter, the 2016 Campaign Tone is like twitter lots of inflammatory