Host send us a tweet, [video clip] send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. This is a cover story of time magazine, out this past week, marking the death of former first lady, nancy reagan, and Ronald Reagan at the 1996 convention. 1986 convention. Ted cruz taking delegates in wyoming. Marco winning the caucuses in washington, d. C. We will get your calls and comments in just a moment, the party of reagan, do you think its still alive . Heres more with donald trump as he talked about the socalled establishment on saturday. Trump i dont even [video clip] trunk i dont even know with the leadership is. There is a big disconnect between the socalled leadership and the people. But the people to me are much more important. Thats why they are doing the voting. What are they not understanding . Whats the disconnect . Republican party lost its way. That should have won the last election easily. That should have been an easy victory. In my opinion much easier than the one that we have coming up. And they lost. The Republican Party lost its way. Something has happened. Call it a miracle, call it whatever you want, but they are talking about it all over. Its one of the biggest stories and all of politics. The millions and millions of people pouring into the Republican Party. These are people that were disenfranchised. People that havent had a pay increase in 20 years. People that have seen their jobs go to china, to mexico, japan, vietnam, and every other country in the world but us. Its all going to end. Host donald trump at a News Conference on friday. There was the violence that took place in chicago that we were live with. , with thepolitics , trump pins rally chaos on sanderss supporters. The front runner blamed moveon. Org and supporters of Bernie Sanders for the chaos while defending his own, harassed supporters. As is the case every day he is showing the American People that he is a pathological liar. That is a quote from the sanders statement. Saying that his hate filled rhetoric was the catalyst. Let me go back to the cover story in the words of higuain center for ethics here in washington, d. C. , former advisor to george w. Bush. At some point along the way it became fashionable in some quarters of the Republican Party to replace reason with rage and deny science when it was at odds mindlesslogy and cheer stunts like shutting down the federal government rather than responsibly managing and read limiting it. ,oters are complicit as well many of them have come to confuse cruelty, vulgarity, and luster with strength and straight talk. Republican lawmakers compounded a problem that promised to solve, promoting rather than ending corporate welfare and crony capitalism. Would you think . Republican line, california, good morning. What do you think . Republican line, california, good morning. Its something that is always under the surface of the Republican Party. Up it bubbles up from time to time. Isdid with reagan, now it doing it with trump, the true spirit of the Republican Party. Right now you have a bunch of phonies in charge and a bunch of phonies running against trump. I can give you an example why. This thing that happened to trump in chicago was an organized terrorist attack on his rally by moveon. Org. They brag about it. They telegraphed to us that they would do it and after they get it, they brag about it. Three on the polished unapologetic conservatives, socalled, stand with moveon. Org in shutting down Donald TrumpsFirst Amendment rights. Its very blatant and in your face who is the real defender of the Republican Party. Who really stands for the constitution. The call fromor california. Karen says host next up is judy, republican line, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. Thank you for taking my call. I dont think the party is dead yet. We can revive it. Reagan isthe party of in intensive care and donald trump is in the graveyard with his shovel, digging. You know, unfortunately what is getting ignored, in light of the oftest last night, in light the assailant earlier yesterday, but particularly the protest last night, the use of tear gas on these poor people, who did not seem that rowdy outside. We are missing the most specialist, bizarre, silliest moment and political history. Donald trump, he recited the woman and the snake. We all has to ask we all have to ask trump, trump, are you warning us snakeou are the the that you are the snake . Facebook om we arehe question asking, is the party of reagan still alive . We are asking that because it is the cover story of time time magazine. The party will lose huge gains this fall, reagan would Never Campaign like this. My hope for the gop these days is that it shatters and dissolves. Good morning, democratic line. Caller good morning. I think that the party of reagan started dissolving when we had george w. Bush assuming office. Clinton left us with a surplus. F cash in our federal budget bush immediately started spending it. Bush and his cronies, i should say. Take took us into a disastrous war for which there was no reason for us to go and no benefit to the country. They had no reason to think that there would be some benefit. Medicare part d with no way to pay for it. They turned it over to the Drug Companies by removing the competitive bids. They gave a big tax break to the upper class. ,hen they handed that to obama he had a 1. 4 trillion deficit. Is when the Republican Party sold its soul, acting like big spenders, giving away the store. They are reaping what they sowed. Thank you for the call from michigan. This is the headline from the washington post. Vitriol follows trump on the campaign trail. Will the trump protest help or hurt . One of the problems with the location in chicago is that it was a tinderbox for the demonstrations that the lace, watching on. Le carl, republican line, good morning. Caller you bet. The party of reagan is still alive. With donald agree trump, but you folks in the media are enablers. Let me tell you something, when officelican runs for they are running uphill the whole way. 90 of the professors and teachers telling our kids that socialism is the way to go. When Louis Farrakhan calls is all white devils in a speech in chicago, not a word in the media. You democrats, you are digging your own grave. This 20 trillion debt is coming home and you will be crying about how to pay for it. Your prison babies, three or four days before they are supposed to be born, taking prayer out of the schools. I cant understand whats going on in this world. Say, the media is enabling all of this. Thank you. Thank you very much for the call. This is the headline from the ted cruz times. Presses hard to pick up delegates in overshadowed continue oure will live coverage of the events today. Cruz is in concord, we will have that midafternoon. Just outsides orlando, florida tonight. Senator sanders and Hillary Clinton are in columbus, ohio, for Democratic Party dinner. We will have that later in the evening as part of our road to the white house coverage with more tomorrow as we catch up with john kasich, crisscrossing the buckeye state, hoping to pick up the winner take all, and thats important thing to keep in mind for the republicans, starting tuesday its winner take all and it remains proportional for the democrats. Will joins us next, good morning from tulsa, oklahoma. Independent line, good morning. Turned on the volume on your set, we will hear you a lot better. Caller yes, good morning. Can you hear me . Host sure can. Go ahead. Caller the big question here is that the American People, the people that live in illinois should be ashamed of themselves. Our freedom of speech was stopped. No matter what a person has to stop the freedom of speech you destroy whatever the meaning of the constitution is. To me, im an illinois resident and im just ashamed that no one from the administration came out and said no matter what a person has to say as long as it is not going to harm or hurt people, you cannot shut down the freedom of speech. Thats what i have to say. Host thanks for the call. On the other viewers saying gop chickens have come home to roost. Byebye, gop. Trumps heated words were destined to stir violence, opponents host thats this morning, from inside of the New York Times. Frederick, good morning. Good morning, frederick . Stephen. Ll move on to good morning to you, from everett, massachusetts. Stephen, good morning . Caller thank you, yes. Hello. Thank you very much for taking my phone call. I have just one question, if you guys could answer this forming, or if the media could. I watched the donald trump rallies and protesters. They come out with donald trump theacist, this and that, whole nine yards. Ive been watching politics for the last 16 years, ok . How come no one is bringing up remember president obama back in 2008 . No one is saying a thing about the black panthers, when they intimidated the white people going to vote. They had batons. They had fatigues on. It personally. Come no one did anything about that, the left . How come no one protested about that . So, thats all id like to say. At least i got it out. People heard this on tv. I appreciate that. Thank you very much for listening to me. Host we are glad to hear from you. Another viewer saying is the party of reagan gone . They forgot to take reaganomics with them, gop candidates are still running on it. Good morning, mike. Caller thank you for taking my call. Please dont hang up. Let me have some time to say. Im a Senior Citizen. Ive been in the second war. Im 90 years old. The government never gave me nothing, took nothing away from me, gave me nothing. However, im a democrat. If thetion is this people werent so afraid of donald trump, why are they protesting against him . Why are they threatening his life and so forth . The man is a human being. Are you there . Ure am. Me. Er its not costing he said that when he goes into the white house, he was going to come in with one suitcase. Now, we all know that they have these people in the white house and also the people who come in and they promise this and that. Trump, if you talk to all the people on the golf course, the people in new york, florida, and ohio, hes a wellliked man. But he does play off the handbook quite a bit. I understand that. But i will tell you this, i have certainly changed my mind from being a democrat to being a donald trump encouragement. Thats all i got to say. I hope the donald trump does make it. We are going to see if we can trust him or not. I thank you very much for the call. You for the call. Today in the washington post, the opinion section. How should the Republican Party respond to donald trump . From newtf responses gingrich, bill kristol, artie fleischer, and congressman eric cantor. Responses to donald trump, now the front runner in the campaign. William, independent line, good morning. Reagan was ank mess himself. He took the tax rate from these bigmoney people to 80 , 27 . Now hes getting all this money back. Thats why i say the party of big money. No, they still alive, they still alive. They just greedy, greedy people. Host thanks for the call. Newspaper, they have called on both parties to help calm the tensions. Rants previous reince saying violence only begets more violence. Onlow candidates have called trump to take action in reducing the clashes between the fans and protesters. That is this morning from the hill. Com. It on friday evening as it unfolded, david joins us from indianapolis. Republican line, good morning. It is the party of reagan because it is still the party of lincoln. We have to remember that lincoln was one of the second republicans, candidate for president , and he was an outsider. Remember that we are a party of outsiders, a party that can come in to try to clean things up. In from the Entertainment Industry and did pretty well. I think that trunk and do well, we are a party of outsiders. He could do very well because he and hes gotr experience and hes got the gift of mighty deeds that i think that we need now. I think he could set a new precedent for the 21st century. You know, like doing one term, i think thats what we need. A one term president precedent for a new century, which you could do in six months, which you used to do in seven or eight years. Think he could do very well he probably wouldnt take the job, but do very well, take one term and start a new precedent for the new century. Ok, david, thanks for the call. Other viewers saying that protests are free speech. If you are just tuning in, the potus channel simulcasts this program, or cspan radio, we are asking you if the party of reagan is still alive. Thats been a question as it is the cover story from time magazine. Kathleen parker has this essay from inside of the washington post. Donald. Se up on the from that this morning Kathleen Parker from her essay in the washington post. Anna joins us on the republican line from asbury park, new jersey. Good morning. Go ahead, anna. Well try one more time. Asbury park . Its going on to tim, joining us from michigan. Good morning. Good morning. I think that that last piece you read from was an apt description. I think if he had any character a microphoneld put where the stage begins so that the protesters could say four or five sentences and then he could respond to their criticisms. Character in more that regard. I thank you for taking my call. We appreciate it. The clown prince, donald trump, the 2016 race. From the weekly standard, what would hamilton do . Good morning. Good morning . All right, lets go to california. Good morning. Good morning. Its nice, even though its raining. Host how are you . Im just fine. I remember Ronald Reagan when he was our governor. He closed all of our medical institutions for the mentally larger predominantly a amount of them. I think that they are still out there in the street. Fall and united we stand, the people need to get back together. We should discuss the issues of the day, such as education, jobs, etc. , and quit giving all of the messaging to the rabblerousers. You guys have a good day and i hope the floods go away for the people back east. Host thanks ray much for the call. Front page of the new york bid began inp 2016 effort to gain stature. At the white house Correspondents Dinner he was the target of a number of jokes by president barack obama. Let me just share part of what they write this morning in the New York Times. John, ray,up is joining us from dartmouth, massachusetts. Caller good morning, how are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller good, good. I have a few things to say. Wasnt it trump that have ever had everyone raise the right hand and swear allegiance to him . Wasnt that hitler that did that back in world war ii . In fairness to donald trump, he responded to that saying caller secondly, i think the donald trump is the antichrist. If hes if these socalled christians stop and think about it, hes dividing this country where its going to be falling apart and when it does, it will be on them. So, come around and think about it. Think about it real, real hard. Host thank you. N ginsberg ben ginsberg thank you. Heres the headline from ben ginsberg. The gop is set for a quagmire in cleveland. Build as a make or break for the republican candidates Still Holding out hope that they can topple donald trump, these contests are also a make or break for trump and the Republican Party. They will determine whether there is chaos or coronation. Up is john, from hawaii. You are a very early. Yes, very, very early. I do not think that the party of reagan is still alive. I think it went with Ronald Reagan when he passed away. Our government now you cant tell the difference between the republicans and the debt got and the democrats. They are all the same. I think that what we need in this country is a new party. Maybe a good, conservative party that will be working for the American People and america. The republicans and the democrats, what they have done , ir the last eight years could say maybe 20 years, they country. Ruining this i just cant figure it out. These people are supposed to be working for us. But i can see that they are mostly working for themselves. They will say anything to get a promise everything, promised the moon and then when they get in office, they do nothing but just sit there and talk. Thats all i have to say. Thank you for cspan. Host thank you, calling us from hawaii. Read antitrump articles on the air, however callers are all pro trump. Democratic line, good morning. Caller i think that when you talk about reagan or whatever, i remember as a young teenager we had reaganomics. It wasnt good for anybody. , when just as many people he was the president , you know, the poor people still didnt have anything. You probably couldnt even get gas back then. You know, he gave all the tax breaks to his buddies and, you know, cspan, you know, it seems , it of, this is for yall that when af funny democrat gets on their and talks with good faith, you all hang up. But being when a crazy get on there, you all give them more hatred. Speak they like the man talking about the black panthers . It was the clue clucks clan before it was the black panthers. People got tired of being hung, their kids rate, stuff like that. Thank you for taking my call. Host thank you. Speaking of the clue clucks clan , this is a photo from the washington post. The kkk marching down washington avenue. Meanwhile, this story from the cleveland plain dealer, telling supporters to vote for john kasich. In ohio he is neck and neck with donald trump. Some of the rubio supporters are urging, as he is forthright now in ohare in ohio, to support governor kasich, in attempt to for rubionominations ted cruz. Good morning, independent line. Caller i work for a republican congressman. Hes very active in the Republican Party. Reagan knew how to get things done in congress. What has happened is we no longer have a Republican Party such as reagan believed in. He worked with tip o