Clinton and Bernie Sanders comes the same time this evening as the three remaining republican candidates will be speaking at a new york state Publican Party dinner in death rePublican Party ner in Downtown Manhattan new york state rePublican Party dinner in Downtown Manhattan. We are taking your calls. For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. If you are an independent, 2027488002. Online. Good thursday morning. Thank you for being with us. A lot to talk about. Front page of the Washington Times dealing with puerto rico. Debt relief for puerto rico is the latest hit for paul ryan. Yet another test for the House Speaker and early signs are not good. There is this story this morning inside the New York Times, a meeting that took place yesterday at cia headquarters in langley, virginia with the president and top cia officials. President obama saying wednesday while Islamic State could still inflict horrific violence on the innocent, the u. S. Has made substantial gains in combating the group, resisting its forces and squeezing its cash flow. A series of highlevel gatherings the president has convened outside the white house to take stock of the usled effort against the sunni Extremist Group also known as isil and to plot a strategy for the months ahead. Http twitter. Com cspanw[video] seendent obama as we have tragically, these depraved terrorists still have the ability to inflict horrific violence on innocent, to the repulsion of the entire world. Isilattacks like these, hopes to weaken our collective result and once again, they have failed. It only stiffens our unity and determination to wipe this violent organization off the face of the earth. Today, on the ground in syria , isil is on the defensive. We intend to keep that momentum. Of 11,500mpaign strike so far continues to pound isil targets. It is harder than ever for them to move and for their masses to for them to amass forces. When they try, we take them out. Has managed advances in some areas, but it has not had a single successful major offensive operation on the ground there since last summer. The president in langley, virginia yesterday as he met with cia officials. Time for you to tell us your thoughts. Jack in providence, rhode island. Democrats line. Good morning. Caller first of all, im one of the few remaining conservative democrats. Host what does that mean, jack . Caller i voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. Im giving you my age now. I voted for him with enthusiasm. Has beenratic party taken over by a group of International Financial elites. A party ofnger working men. The Democratic Party has evolved. Imerto rico bailout a Municipal Bond investor. I dont have any puerto rico bonds. They are trying to go through the back door on that one, this chapter nine situation. If that ever goes through, that chicago, etc. , etc. That bothers me a lot. They talk about new york values in the city of new york, the city council there had a vote praising Ethel Rosenberg, a dedicated communist, and they approved Something Like that . A scum like Ethel Rosenberg . Host jack, thank you for the call. 2027488001 if you are a republican. 2027488000 for democrats. This tweet from Edwin Christian sarah is reporting on the deadline tomorrow for that budget resolution. House republicans coming to a consensus on this budget built there will not be one. Voting on a budget at all this year is now unlikely. Faced with resistance from the right, Republican Leaders are now barreling forward on individual appropriations bill they hope to leapfrog the spending fight. From themorning hill newspaper. Tro. s troubled messe system. Turning the Transit Agency into one that can operate the worldclass subway system that has been found in other cities. The head of metro in a conversation with a commitment from florida congressman from florida he testified before congress yesterday. [video clip] , so we haveecord positive ideas, things that will probably improve. There are a number of things that i think we could do more efficiently by getting out of them. Does feed our system. We have 60,000 parking spaces. Not something we wake up every morning worried about. Theres an opportunity for the private sector to do that, for instance. We have a model thats been around for years. Theres opportunities to do that, to make sure we do not take anything away from our customers but give them alternatives that will be cheaper. Is 50 . Verage cost you are already identifying other ways with short trips where we could save money. Right now, you have to give 24 hour notice for your trip. Theres other alternatives. You can call and can happen very quickly. The Headquarters Building is another opportunity, i believe, just in terms of the number of people we have their. We have there. Do we need to that many people at a prime location . , thee maintenance side fair collection site, there is opportunities where it makes more sense to have other resources applied. Host the Board Chairman of the pointing out the d. C. Subway system is the second largest in the country, just outside of new york. 700,000 using the metro system in the Greater Washington area. At full hearing is available www. Cspan. Org. This is the story in usa today. Paul, who is heading up the convention for donald trump. This tweet from jody you can send us your tweet. Youll is joining us from indianapolis ewel is joining us from indianapolis. Republican line. Ive always been a democrat, but we dont need Hillary Clinton trying to take our guns and step away from us. Im going to vote for donald trump. Grabbedt reporter shes the one that started it. They showed the interview on tv. Shes the one that started it. Thats all ive got to say. We will have that news in just a moment. You want to share this picture inside the New York Times. Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday speaking in Washington Square park, a crowd estimated 27,000 people. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton will debate tonight at 9 00 eastern time on cnn. Bernie sanders receiving the endorsement of the transit workers union. [video clip] we will win here in new york state. N 7 out of the caucuses and primaries. We started this campaign 50 points behind Hillary Clinton. In the last two weeks, two National Polls have had us ahead. Your support today is enormously important to taking us a step further. Wheres larry . Hes the former head of the communication workers of america. As soon as we leave here, we are going right over to the picket line with the cwa. [applause] against the greed of verizon, who wants to take away Health Care Benefits and outsource jobs and is making billions of profits. That is the kind of corporate greed together we will take on. Sanders yesterday in new york city. The business section of the New York Times writing about that verizon strike. Bluecollar stress hitting the sidewalks. Its also Available Online on annytimes. Com. Donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich tonight at 7 45. This tweet from tj that is likely to come up in tonights debate, moderated by blitzer. Saying Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager will not be prosecuted for a physical alternate vision altercation with a female reporter working for breitbart at the time. Michelle fields is a former reporter. This tweet saying back to your calls. Manassas, virginia, republican line. Sam, good morning. Caller i want to say this. I live in virginia. Last governors race in virginia, we did not get to vote in an open primary. They went and picked cuccinelli. Terry mcauliffe went from state to state tried to get elected. Also got picked not in an open primary. That was it. These are the two people you had to choose from. Its how corrupt the system is. The population of this country 64 white. What states will she win in the south . Lets look at the midwest. Midwest will not vote for her. They are trying to steal the election with superdelegates. It is time to stop. Hillary clinton ran unopposed. She cannot even be a 74yearold socialist. Beat a 74yearold socialist. Host who are you going to vote for . Caller probably nobody. Im totally fed up. The virginia election, you did not have an open primary for republicans or democrats. Thats about as corrupt as you can get. The people of colorado should vote what is a caucus, anyhow . The people of this country have had enough. People are taking a good look at the election, this country is in serious trouble because of the election process with these two parties. Time to get rid of them. Host we welcome our listeners on cspan radio. This is also streamed on our website. Jean is joining us from wisconsin. Democrats line. Good morning. Caller what are you doing there . You are supposed to be on sunday. Host its not sunday . Caller i thought it was when i first turned on the tv. Host we move around a little bit. Caller thats good. Keep the blood flowing. I wanted to followup on the guy from virginia. I think that is ridiculous about colorado. The people, i always thought you were supposed to be able to vote in the primary and then the general. It is absolutely terrible, to get a bunch of delegates in there and they come in and choose who they want . They should have to abide by what the people of the state of colorado one, not what a bunch of delegates want. That is just terrible. I ainte dont win, going to vote. Hillary is so crooked, it is pathetic. I go along with the guy from virginia. It is absolutely terrible when the people of colorado cannot vote. Host thank you for the call. We will talk to you again on sunday. Laura has this point sang the rules committee has screwed ron paul and im sure they will do the same with donald trump. Hill newspaper following up on megyn kellys comments yesterday on her program last night on fox news. On her show that her meeting with her public in front runner donald trump allowed the two to clear the air. Mr. Trump was gracious enough to agree to it. They had a chance to clear the air. They discussed the possibility of an interview. The story Available Online at thehill. Com. Tell us what is on your mind. Barbara in evansville, indiana. Republican line. Caller good morning. Host you are on the air. Caller thank you and good morning. Listening,t started watching cspan, you did not ask allers what party they belong to. There people in this country that agree with me i happen to be a republican conservative. A columnist,nt out a woman i dont know where her information is published, but she is black and every single thing she said in this column i read the other day i believe mr. Obama does not like america. Trainede he really is it is not hope and change, it is tear down and change in the process. It. Rry a lot about i hate to see my country go to funk. T jim has this tweet share your thoughts. Front page of the New York Times dealing with the issue of big banks. Five banks are still too big to fail according to regulators. Audrey is joining us now in new hampshire. Democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Good to talk to you again. Bernie is getting a raw deal. I dont know if you happen to from the newse excuse how im talking to her to ive had a stroke. It is difficult for me. Please excuse how im talking. Ive had a stroke. It is difficult for me. My husband is yelling at me. Tell him not to yell at you. Caller look, steve, i would like to know if superdelegates are even constitutional. Because bernie is going to get a raw deal no matter what our news media reports. 20,000 people just went to a rally . They hardly even reported on it. They spend the rest of the time on trump. Party sets up the rules per whether you have a state primary, state caucus or state convention, that is dictated by each party in all 50 states. It is not a constitutional question, it is a question of what the party rules say. They can determine what they want based on their own set of rules. It is not run by the government and is not a constitutional issue, it is a party issue. Thats why there are superdelegates. They are in place by the 720 superdelegates on the democrat excited. The republicans have unbound delegates. Caller if bernie does not get the nomination host im still here. Caller thank you for the call. Good luck to you. This is the story this morning from the Washington Post. Nog the pontiff guarantee that he will meet with pope francis. Some of the latest ads on the air now in york. In new york. [video clip] new york. What makes it bolder . Justice that works for all. A middle class that must be saved. York. Forged in in new york. We are all in this together. Im Bernie Sanders and i approved this message. In this state, hillary made a difference for people when she was senator. Helped farmers and sell their products in big cities, stood up to china to protect our workers, helped create hightech manufacturing jobs, Clean Energy Jobs in rochester and biomedical jobs in buffalo. Hillary clinton made a difference in every corner of new york and that is what she will do in every corner of america. We will have live coverage of the candidate speeches and the results next tuesday beginning at 9 00 eastern time here on cspan. The polls close at 9 00 in new york and new york city. Wichita, kansas. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I would like to say that the political process is as fair as we allow it to be. That is based on getting oneself educated. Education does not mean listening to only those sources that reinforce ones own view, but opening up the mind to listen to all points and to buy the facts. Host thank you for the call. Robert has this tweet with regard to the New York Times story on too big to fail, a be were saying a viewer saying amalie from green bay, california. Republican line. Caller thank you for the show. Thank you for all the years of the good service to the American People. You have been there forever. Thank you. I am for ted cruz. I was for jeb bush. Im kind of surprised at the Latin Americans the black people, when they had their obama, they came out and voted for him. All over thens are place voting for trump. It is shocking. As far as Hillary Clinton is , under bill clinton, if you will recall, primetime abc had a show about the fact that bill clinton was responsible for the chinese to get ahe ability missile over the horizon. Which they gave to bernie and at t now, i hear from the big newspapers like the times and the post that bill clinton is responsible for getting 50 less of uranium because he managed to get a deal for the russians to get the uranium company. This scares me because it seems like these two came in hitting our country and spying on it. Hating our country and spying on it. This is a dangerous person to have as a candidate. Hear all the new yorkers saying we have to vote for her, it is so sad. I can understand that as a citizen of this country in when now the North Koreans are endangering us, wanting to kill us host thank you for your call. California is the last set of primaries june 11. The three republican candidates will be at the same venue in new york for a rePublican Party dinner. Karl rove this morning inside the wall street journal, vanity will be Donald Trumps undoing. Karl rove writing how difficult it will be. It donald trump was going to meet his goal, he would have to cut the federal budget in half every year over the eight years of his presidency. From is joining us connecticut. Independent line. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am for ted cruz. I believe in Less Government. Im dealing with tough times. Because of thet government being into everybodys business and life. Grain prices, ive been trying to run my farm. Grain prices are way down. Thats why i would like to have Less Government involved in everything. You see these Dairy Farmers getting free money. Im in one of the most corrupt states in the country dealing cuomo. Problem of thehe country. Host thank you for the call. Another viewers and breaking up the banks supports the free market system and reduces the likelihood of takeover of banks by the government. ,f you go to www. Cspan. Org were featuring an event yesterday. The New York Times has this story. One last beloved fair for young innovators as the president students showing off their work on the state floor of the white house. The president looked at what was on hand and spoke to them about innovation. Louisiana. Ll is from lauren, you are on the air. Caller how are you doing . Thank you for accepting my call. The protesters are taking the come expecting. 15 an hour will cause a lot of chaos committed you ask me. There will be a lot of chaos, if you ask me. I hope everything will turn out to be all right. Host thank you. From tom et want to share with you this story. Things getting worse for dennis hastert. His odds of staying out of prison seemed dim yesterday when a federal judge residing over his case asked some pointed questions about his alleged attempt to falsely make himself out to be a victim of extortion back in 2015. It became clear that he has