7488001. Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Independent and all others, 202 7488002. You can also send us a tweet at cspan wj and post comments and thoughts on our Facebook Page as well. We will start with an opinion piece by fred hiatt in Washington Post. The headline on that piece is the u. S. Steps back from the world stage and the consensus for leadership dissolves. He writes that the dire results of president obamas experiment in downsizing u. S. Leadership are obvious overseas but there is a consequence at home that gets less attention. The mistake builds on itself. It is the opposition of selfcorrecting. The United States withdraws from the world, in other words of the world grows messier and uglier and that only confirms for Many Americans that any involvement is foolish. This feedback loop fuels the kind of isolationism weve seen this year from donald trump and Bernie Sanders. It helped explain why there was little talk about Foreign Policy beyond chest bumping about defeating the Islamic State at the conventions. It will make Hillary Clintons job that much harder if she is elected and seeks support for a more traditional u. S. Leadership role. Im asking you this morning which candidate, donald trump or Hillary Clinton, will be better on National Security. Donald trump smoke about spoke about nato in colorado. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] said to wolf blitzer is obsolete. I got attacked. The blue study nato said trump is right. Theya lot of things are 20 and 30 and 40 years old. This is not a country from 40 years ago. Today we have a different threat , a terror threat. Isis is not even mentioned during the Democratic Convention and everyone is talking about it. On friday. D trump the question this morning, which candidate is best on National Security . Here is a political piece with the headline role reversal. Democrats become Security Policy abroad. Defection from trump has left america prosperous fema Majority Party claiming the hawk in chief mantle. Obama returnedck the favor on wednesday night suggesting that the republican nominee had no clue what he was talking about. Desk you dot at the not know what it is like to manager Global Crisis or send young people to war. That is president obamas speech last wednesday at the Democratic Convention. Its good or democratic line first and hear from joe in roanoke, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you cspan for everything you do. Like its time for an outsider. I believe the president elected will be trump or clinton but. Illary has more of the same i watched the whole Democratic Convention and i heard more of the same talking points obama has been making for years on Foreign Policy. I really think a new person in their would have advisers and. Abinet around them to do stuff the clip you just played with trump whatever you think of this guy he is onto something. We have to think about isis and the terrorist thing. My goodness. Host have you voted in the past for a republican president ial candidate . Caller i have voted every which way. The last time i voted i voted constitutional in virginia. One of 602 people in my city to vote for the constitutional party. Host in 2012 . Caller yes, sir. Host eric in white plains, maryland. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you very much for taking me. I want to say two things. Im an africanamerican and im voting for trump. , do have a Facebook PageAfrican Americans for trump. More than 5000 members and we are voting for trump. To answer your question on National Security, i want to say under obama, he has been leading from behind. I voted obama in the past. Im very disappointed with his foreignpolicy because you cannot lead from behind. Political correctness is not policy. In this world with radical islamism, going Public Relations will not solve the problem. We need a strong man. That is the only language terrorists understand. The labor to force not the language of reason. They dont reason. When it comes to force im sure the trump has the gut because he has shown it. Clinton is just an extension of obama. We have seen the National Security they have done in the past. Benghazi. Ke libya, an example of a failed foreignpolicy by clinton and obama. Im going with trump. Friends asas much possible to vote for him. Host in terms of specific skills or experience for dealing with National Security issues, what do you think donald trump rings to the table . Caller donald trump brings something we did not see in politics for a long. Honesty. The man will tell you the thing as he sees it. He will not tell you the way you want to listen to it. Its like the elephant in the room. Radical terrorists are killing people. In paris, here, all over the world. This administration does not want to acknowledge it and they want to bring more syrians when we know you cannot even vet them. Is it worth the life of one american . Thatedia saying it is not of course islam is not a religion of war but the problem is that those terrorists are using islam and we need to tell them forcefully. I would like to see muslims in this country denounced terrorism forcefully as they did denouncing trump. Host we will let you go. Thank you for your opinion. Lots of opinion from the Pew Research Company on americas place in the world in terms of Foreign Policy. Divided over americas place in the world. They talk about a couple of things. Should the u. S. Be spending more or less on defense . The uptick here for increasing spending on defense at 35 . Wanted to show you the poll in terms of majority republicans saying defense spending should be increased. Looking at the democrats view of that. In therican involvement world, pew research, in terms of solving World Problems that the u. S. Do too much too little or the right amount . Too little, toby 7 . Too much, 41 . Which candidate better on National Security, donald trump or Hillary Clinton . We play comments over the weekend from donald trump on nato. I wanted to play comments from kurt volker who was on this program on saturday. Heres what he had to say but the u. S. Role in nato. [video clip] i dont think its obsolete at all and that is where i would disagree fundamentally. Just because the soviet union has gone away does not mean threats to security of democracy in europe and the United States of one away. We have lots of threats. Nato is very important vehicle for bringing all of those countries together, coordinating efforts, and making ourselves stronger and how we respond just by the fact of working together. Of course we would like to see the load balanced out more, but we benefit. United states benefits tremendously from having secure democratic market economic space in europe. Countries that are willing to go , bosnia, afghanistan, when we see a need for u. S. Intervention in the world. The only countries that have been reliably willing to do that are those that have been our nato allies and they bring genuine military capability. Not as much as we would like but it is still substantial compared to anything else available. Host a question for you this morning about which president ial candidate, donald trump or Hillary Clinton, will be better on National Security issues. We have put the poll on twitter and we are at cspan wj. Heres a look at how things stand now. The waylose in terms of people are voting. James. Can line, that is good morning. Caller im a Ronald Reagan republican. Host you set a Ronald Reagan republican . Caller that is a big difference. Ronald reagan did not say anything when you are president you cant say anything. I dont care how angry you is, obama that the bill. He dont say anything. Im for hillary because hillary knows about the government. One more thing i would like to say. Bushesge bush, the two and john mccain were not there, they should let the other republicans know donald trump is not the one for our country. He is biased. Life. Er talks about black he is a person who devise this country. Who divides this country. Lie butknow why people trump is not the one for this country. He is a divider. He is a dictator too. This is how he talks. A dictator. Harrisburg,s pennsylvania. Republican line. Good morning to marry. Caller i think donald trump would have more strength and be a stronger president to take care of isis. Hillary has always followed and said she will always follow obamas terms. He has been so weak on defense. He wants to weaken the military and especially after benghazi. She could not take care of she really could not take care of one place in this world and i wonder how in the world she would ever be commanderinchief and take care of isis. I have not heard any good plans from hurt either. From her either. I think she will govern from a place of weakness in following obama pass policies. I think donald trump would be better on our defense. Much stronger. Host front page of the Washington Times this morning bit from Hillary Clinton plus email on fox news sunday. The headline, clinton repeats claims rebutted by the fbi on email. Hillary clinton is sticking to her story. They write the democratic president ial nominee repeated her claim that she never sent or received classified information on her private email s secretary of state. It contradicting what fbi director james comey said the agency found in its investigation. I was communicating with over 300 people in my emails. A did not believe and have no reason to believe what they were sendings classified, mrs. Clinton said on fox news sunday. I take class of acacia and seriously, she said, repeating her frequent assertion that she made a mistake in using a private email account hosted on a private server. Mr. Comey said what hundred 10 of mrs. Clintons emails contained information that was classified at the time. He also announced he would not recommend pursuing criminal butges against mrs. Clinton he said she and her staff were extremely careless in using the personal account. To sandra and attleborough, massachusetts. Our independent line. He,er dont you believe donald trump, has a mouth that never quits . He says so many bad things to so many people. Tyrants. Ers everybody it feels superior to everyone. That is going to be felt around. He world hes done nothing but hurt hurt hurt. Because maybe he is hurt inside himself [inaudible]. Searching for something. Was for him or her in the beginning. His mouth took me down the road i did not want to go. I dont want to follow in his pathway. He says so many things that are even if het did not mean them they are going to take our world apart because of stupidity. Thats all i can tell you. Host our question focusing on what donald trump is saying about National Security. Do inu feel they would the area of National Security and defense. Foreignpolicy issues like this. The front page of usa today talks about another issue. Trump might accept crimea seizure. Russia will not invade ukraine on his president ial watch donald trump said adding that he would consider recognizing russian president Vladimir Putin past seizure of crimea. Im going to take a look at it. The people of crimea, from what ive heard, would rather be with russia then where they were. Of peninsula have been part russia until 1944 when the soviet union moved it to ukraine. The soviet republic at the time. Trumps comments about crimea followed his claim that putin and russia are not going to ukraine, ok, just so you understand. Reminded of that, trump replied that putin is theyre in a certain way that im not there. You have obama there. Hillary Clintons Campaign mocked trumps responses especially his claim that there would not be any russian invasion of ukraine. Here is how the story played out on the front page this morning of the daily news. He is not going to he is not going into ukraine. You can market down. The daily news having some fun with a republican candidate. Democrat line, its cornell. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im supporting hillary because she is the only one qualified in the race to hold the office and can win. She was a senator, secretary of. Tate she has been working since a teenager for the betterment of mankind. Shes been in the spotlight for the last 30 years. Being in the spotlight she has been targeted, attacked, vilified. Ive never seen a male candidate be so vilified like Hillary Clinton. As far as donald trump is concerned, hes not qualified, does not know parliamentary procedure. Hes talking about leading for behind. He would be way behind because he does not even know the simple principles of how you need congress, you need the senate. You have to work with both sides. You just cant attack people anytime you dont something doesnt go your way. He has a lot of products with his name on it. Every product he has with his name on it is made overseas. He filed bankruptcy four times. I understand is a businessman if you want if your business is going under you file bankruptcy. That makes sense. Who did he hurt when he done that . Hammock people lost their for or pensions behind him how many people lost their 401 k s or their pensions behind him . How many contractors did not get paid because he filed bankruptcy . Host lets go to our republican line. Marquette, michigan. Doug, good morning. Not parthe ukraine is of nato. Most of the nato countries are not paying their fair share. I think trump is spot on to put the fear of god in those other countries that are getting a free ride with american military. We pay the lions share but is high time with our 19 trillion debt that the other countries of europe start pitching in their fair share. We should just get out. Host tony is on a democrat line in Ellicott City maryland. Heard you tell got flooded out the other day. Hope you are ok. Caller im fine. Trees on the ground and houses split in half. Crazy. Trump loves america. Im a hillary fan. He loves america just like george bush junior did or the second president bush. Its the knowledge. There electing someone to highest office in the land. I dont think trump is a traitor. You were born here, you love this country. He is not knowledgeable enough. Just like the president before obama. Bush the second. Once you get advisors around him all these people think hes hes going this to get advisors around him and they will run circles around him just like they did the second bush. I know bush was a good president but he did not have the knowledge. Thats why he did so many things to pass the Republican Party off. He knew they ran circles around him and that is what is going to happen to trump. At least hillary has the experience and the knowledge. She knows which decisions to make. Trump will be led around by his nose. ,he washington establishment the washington way will run around him into circles around him and that is how its going to be. Host appreciate that call. We are asking which candidate will be better on National Security. You can join us on the phone. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488002 for independent in all others. Take part in the poll that is happening on twitter. At cspan wj. Here is one tweet. Maybe obamas cia said nope to mrs. Clintons requests for classified briefings. This one says hillary, who had all this government experience should have known better than to use a private server. Why was she so careless . On the issue of the server and the deleted emails, donald trump making the offhand remark at his News Conference last week that perhaps the russians should look into those 30,000 emails and said later it was a sarcastic comment. Hillary clinton reacted to that in an interview yesterday with Chris Wallace on fox news sunday. [video clip] if you take his encouragement that the russians hack into american email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of russian wish list Foreign Policy positions, his effort to try to different to distance himself from that backlash which rightly came from democrats, National Security, republicans and intelligence experts, leads us to conclude he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief. Host we go to gym in new castle, delaware. Good morning. i think you have to look at the legacy of Hillary Clinton. The legacy of her husband. How he opened the door to muslim radicalism when he got involved in yugoslavia and sided with nonchristians. In the was instrumental arab spring which led to the growth of islamic fundamentalists. You see with our stories about the ben ghazi having to do with running guns to isis. She has shown bad judgment, bad policy throughout the Obama Administration. Bad policy and her husbands been policy are partly responsible for the turmoil we have seen in the last 40 years in this country. I think trump will be tempered in the way he deals with foreign leaders. He realizes he has to put a stamp on things and he has to create a situation that will allow his children to walk in the sunlight for the rest of their lives. I think its time for every center. Host what a