Republicans, 2027488001. Ndependents, 2027488002 you can also send us a tweet http twitter. Com cspanwj or on. Acebook the Washington Post front page this morning. Writes obama has been making the case for months that a strategy to defeat Islamic State and protect americans at home is slowly working. President obama in cuba yesterday in his address to the people of that country began his remarks talking about brussels. [video clip] president obama the thoughts and prayers of the American People are with the people of belgium. We stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks against innocent people. We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally, belgium come in bringing to justice those who are responsible and this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. We can and we will defeat those who prey upon the insecurity of those around the world. There topivoted from his address to the people and, as you know, president obama went on to argentina as he continues his travels to south america. How should the u. S. Respond . Rick in florida. A democrat. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. I think we should respond by giving brussels all the support we can and not overreacting on our end. Bitoes not surprise me one that it did not take any time at all for the republicans to start blaming our president and Start Talking about torture and closing of our borders. We should leave our politics out of it and let them handle their problem on their and and still be diligent on hours. Host rick mentions the republican president ial candidates. Lets listen to donald trump. He was on fox news yesterday. Abouts what he had to say the attacks in brussels and how the u. S. Should respond. [video clip] donald trump this is just the beginning. It will get worse and worse because we are lax and we are foolish. We cannot allow these people at this point we cannot allow these people to come into the country. We are allowing thousands and thousands of people to come into our country and we dont even know where they come from or who they are. Wehave to be very careful to are not babies. We cannot do this anymore. We cannot have these attacks anymore. We cannot have World Trade Centers anymore. And planes flying into the pentagon. It is time to be smart and time to look carefully. Host Homeland Security department tweeting this out yesterday that coming from the Homeland Security secretary. Front page of usa today. Could it happen here . Major cities scramble to harden their security nets. Transit stations are easy and attractive targets. Like many nationwide, and yorks Transit System is vulnerable. The five boroughs of boy system which in 2014 carried more than 1. 7 5 billion writers or 5. 6 million each day features more than 1000 entrances and exits. From peter king, republican of new york. Should the United States put more security around our airports and commuter trains . Amtrak is just steps from where we are in washington. A couple blocks from the u. S. Capital. Bill in alabama. Republican. Good morning. Caller yes. I agree with trump. Over in europe, they have let billions of people from the middle east over there into their country. Rather than make america a police state where you are running around trying to shore up the airports and everything else, we should know who is coming into the country. Host what do you make of this usa today editorial view of this . Enlist muslims, do not smear them. This is what they write about the neighborhood where they found that alleged terrorist who was responsible for the terrorist attacks. The neighborhood in brussels looks like a simple but blematic what do you think, bill . Caner over there in london mother is 88 areas where youve london,ia law in there is 88 areas where youve got sharia law. Islam is a wacky religion. Dont think they are out to assimilate as well as many others from other areas. We ought to watch is coming in the country. In orchard park, new york. A democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. We spend roughly 70 billion a year for our intelligence programs and we do things like we try to intercept all electronic transmissions around the world to give us intelligence. We did not have a clue about the paris terrorism. That did not generate a clue about what happened in brussels, did not generate a clue about what happened in San Bernardino. In my opinion, what our intelligence people should be doing here and in other countries is come up with a good infiltrateactually all these organizations, all of these neighborhoods with reliable people that can get word back to us, what the mood to me,t the plans are that would be the best way to attack this, rather than spend additional billions now to staff airports, train stations, subway stations, blah, blah, blah. In full tray, infiltrate come infiltrate. Host have a more bust more robust spying apparatus . Infiltrate, infiltrate come , infiltrate. Caller we should almost start our topatch, change intelligence officials and their way of thinking and advise new means because what we have now is not working. With our sharper people out there, we can come up with arab people that can identify and speak the language and paid them whatever they are worth to work their way into the organization and getthey be trusted the word back out, what kind of plans they have. Host you might be interested in the column this morning in the Washington Post. The failure of the usled to contain the jihadists has left a fragile europe exposed to terrorism and social upheaval. This is what david calls for now. Tommy and tennessee. In tennessee. Independent caller. Caller good morning to you and good morning to america. Use weed to do is know where the capital of isis is. Power of the the americanepublic stationed in ahrain to bu knock out rocca and turn it into nuclear sand. We will see if sand glows in the dark or not. We have to down these governments who fund terrorism. That is the main source of evil in the world. Fund terrorism. You take these governments down and i guarantee you the other governments will round them up and hand them to us on a silver platter. All right,. Lets take a look at the reaction on twitter from the president ial candidates. Ommy. L right, tim statement, ted cruz said the u. S. Should be securing muslim neighborhoods. Go beyond what he has said in the past. John kasich sing the president must return home immediately to get to work with our allies to respond with strength against. He enemies of the west you heard what donald trump had to say on fox. Hillary clinton tweeting out Bernie Sanders saying Hillary Clinton will be going to Stanford University today where she will be giving a National Security speech. That is live at 2 15 p. M. Eastern time on cspan2. We will have coverage ever National Security speech. You can go to www. Cspan. Org for more details on that. Tommy in new york. Republican. What do you think the u. S. Response should be here . Caller we have to get a republican president. Merkel, socialist cameron, those leaders are too weak. People like hillary and Bernie Sanders are trying to push us toward socialism. It is ridiculous. You heard Bernie Sanderss response. Its like he doesnt even care. Hillary clinton doesnt want to hurt anyones feelings p peoples lives are at stake. We have to get a republican way. Host that was tommy, a republican. We are taking your calls this morning about how the west should respond domestically and in the fight against isis overseas. What should be the response from the United States . Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Back to new york. Bob, a democrat. Caller i am a democrat. I dont want you do not think that is true, but i think it may be time for boots on the ground. The work advance that am bush taking us into iraq was a huge mistake, blunder, the worst decision of all time. I think bush was right about taking the fight to them over so that we dont have to fight them over here. I think it is time to send in the troops. It is time for boots on the ground. We are late to the game because they are already here come already in europe. We will have to fight them here as well now. To be aggressive and put them on tofensive over there take the fight to them over there. I do also want to say that i think trump beats hillary in the election, but i think hillary will be ted cruz beats ted cruz. Democrats in idaho voted and there were contests for both parties in utah and arizona yesterday. We will get those results coming up shortly. Bob waso get to what saying about radical islamists in the u. S. Versus those in europe. To get look at the Washington Times this morning. Belgiums 11 million citizens have become Islamic State more than 450 f belgiums 11 million citizens have become Islamic State fighters. So, that is in europe. Specifically in belgium. This is from the Washington Post this morning. Not impervious, but a similar attack is less likely here. American muslims, like some communities in europe, are well integrated and in many cases to offthe authorities tip the authorities. Lisa in massachusetts. A republican. Welcome to the conversation. Go ahead. Caller good morning. There are so many places to start. I want to say one thing. I know they keep coming down on donald trump. The thing i resent is the president , no matter where he goes and troubles in the world, hes always apologizing. In the world, hes always apologizing. I dont know what American People he is speaking about. People im an immigrant, myself. You assimilate. I understand this is america. I learned to speak english. There were no special privileges for myself. I learned on my own. I went to public school. My dad did not get help, my dad worked. Whereent people hillary is saying, we have to give them legal this and free that. He did not get anything for free. Its not right. We have paid our dues. Grateful. Nkful and how grateful are these people when she is giving everything away . Outpresident is on his way i could go into the Supreme Court thing. I can remember the filibuster with obama host washington, d. C. Independent caller. What should the response be to the attacks in brussels . Caller i think the response is exactly what president obama is doing. I want to refer back to a couple of colors ago when he says the middle east needs a republican president. A republican president got us into this situation in the first place. We took to over we took over iraq. The more you bomb, the more you kill, the more people will become terrorists. And then you have to kill a whole religion for this to stop happening . We have to get a coalition of the middle Eastern Countries to get together and make sure they can take care of this. We go back in and kill all these people, we have to stay there, spend more money to make sure they are safe and there is no vacuum. Called that just president obama is not perfect, but he is doing something right. The country is a lot better now he for were when started. Bernie sanders. I dont think you will get the nomination. If john kasich gets the nomination, i will look for john a vote for john kasich. I listen to everyone, including donald trump. The media does not need to twist and turn his words. He says it on live television. I dont know how these people are ignoring what comes out of his mouth. Host Hillary Clinton respond to the brussel terrorist brussels terrorist attacks saying she would continue what president obama is doing. Who do you think would do a better job when it comes to the two democrats on handling isis . Caller i think Hillary Clinton and Bernie SandersHillary Clinton has the better Foreign Policy. Thing same time, the only i dont like about her is that she has ties to wall street. I think she would do a better job than Bernie Sanders. President s have advisors and people helping them. If bernie gets the right advisor s, things will happen. Bernie sanders talking about domestic more issues more important to him. Look at the wall street journal poll recently. The attacks in belgium could reverberate in the u. S. President ial campaigns, but priorities diverge sharply by party. 55 of republicans and said National Security and terrorism is top. 32 of democrats said job creation and economic growth. That tops their list. The results from yesterdays primary and caucus is in arizona. At the with the democrats. Hillary clinton winning that state. Sanders. over bernie the vermont senator when on to win others. To win others. Donald trump winning with 47 over 25 for ted cruz. Democratic caucus results in idaho. Bernie sanders winning convincingly in idaho. He also gets the delegates from utah, which had caucuses, but those two states combined are still less than the delegates Hillary Clinton picked up in arizona. Senator ted cruz gets 69 of the vote in utah. That means ted cruz gets off 40 delegates from the state of utah. You take a look at the delegate count for republicans, this is where it stands right now. Donald trump with 739. Ted cruz with 465. John kasich with 143. For the democrats, hillary delegates. Has 1681 Bernie Sanders needs as 927. Superdelegates and 901 pledged. Stand aftere things the primary contests yesterday. This morning, we are expecting later today that the former Florida Governor jeb bush will be endorsing ted cruz for the presidency. Really roy in california. A democrat. How the u. S. Should react to the brussels attacks. Caller i think the president is doing the right thing right now. The young man that just called a few seconds ago stated he is on the right track. Im really concerned about these people whove been calling in everybody has a suggestion. Thats why youre not president. They are not smart enough and they are reacting from anger. Iraq or iraner to thaterever and bomb people are going to slither back into the population. Im a veteran, 20 years in the military. I know, i have friends that have been killed they got blown up by people trying to help. All these people commenting on what people should do and go in and do, theyve never even served. They have no idea. That is my statement. Host thomas in atlanta, georgia. Publican. What do you have to say on this . Republican. Caller i dont think america americato police stop blaming obama first thing that happens. I heard a guy call a while ago saying something about boots on the ground. We dont need boots on the ground. If people knew the terrorism ideology, its not a place where you can attack them on the ground, it is not that type of war. You cannot fight them with boots on the ground. It is a religious ideology. They are all over the world. You cannot fight a conventional war. I dont know why people take keep saying boots on the ground. Host what should we do in the u. S. . Should we be left security on metro stations and subways and security onbeef up metro stations and subways and airports . Caller thats ok. Its not carpet bombing these people you will cause more bloodshed and lose american lives with boots on the ground. Host maryland. Erwin is an independent. America has a very shortterm memory. Up sending1, we end troops all over the middle east. Over here, what should we do . Continue living our lives. I understand you want to beef up security these policies have been going on for ages. The started way back in the 1960s and we are trying to change ideology of an entire a cultright now an entire right now. We need to help the middle eastern people in their fight. The muslim religion is trying to fight this cult as well. They have a poll because of the internet. It should be a concerted effort between multiple nations. Fight,to be a physical unfortunately. Walls andt building adding this extra security, it doesnt really change anything. People already live here. If they are going to be radicalized, it is going to happen a matter what. No matter what. , theon your point Washington Times says the port system is compromised complicated by the division of response abilities. Responsibilities. Avivsraels airport in tel , all cars are stopped on the way in. Lets go to john in district heights, maryland. Democrat. Go ahead. Caller good morning to you. There is so much going on, so many ways to start with this issue. Im listening to all the other people. The young man who called before, he was on the money. You look at the president ial candidates, i would not trust none of them to do anything. Really one who seems like he had concern about the American People truly was Bernie Sanders. Donald trump, i dont understand this man willnk turn on his billionaire class to help them. Its not going to happen. Hillary, i would not trust her. When she was secretary of state, nothing changed under. Under her. I dont understand how is it that a palestinian baby does not have the same value as an israeli baby. I dont understand how a black child in america does not have the same value as a white child in america. This is where we have to start. This nation needs jobs. People need to go to work. Just howmazing to me ignorant the American People are about our own Foreign Policy. The Foreign Policy of europe and that whole part of the world over there. Watched fox yesterday a bunch of lies. I turn to cnn, a bunch of lies. The only place i can get some information is this show and another show called democracy now. Host let me move on to some news coming out of brussels