Message that you would send to hington dc, washington topics you d. C. , think washington needs to pay. Ttention to, urban voters only if you live in the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000 and if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. If you want to post on twitter do so, and you can also post on our facebook page. How do you define urban area . The folks of the senses department gives us some guidelines. Censuses Bureau Bureau gives us some guidelines. Least 2500 and at and 50,000 people. Frommessage to washington urban voters. Abc news took a look at exit polls and asked specifically urban areas about issues they are concerned about. Here is some of what they found from those preliminary exit interviews. About 20 say they were worse off financially than 2012. Those in the suburbs in comparison. 57 of urban voters say they rate the economy negatively compared to 63 of suburban voters. 5737respondents went percent for clinton and suburban respondents were 4449 . When it comes to the election and how people voted, when you get to those areas of larger from 280,000 to 48 of thosee, voting for clinton. If you get to the highest percent, 1. 5 million to 10 million, 64 of people supporting Hillary Clinton, 24 of those in urban areas supporting donald klein donald trump. If you want to let us know your thoughts on washington or message to washington, what you think those here in washington, d. C. , they should be doing, here is how you can let us know. If you live in the eastern or central time zone, 202 7488000. In the mountain or pacific time. One, 202 7488001 it was during the campaign that the president elect was talking about urban issues. He went to the state of North Carolina and talked about what he framed as a new deal for urban america. Mr. Trump it is great to be here in charlotte to discuss an issue that means so much to me. That is the issue of urban renewal, something you do not hear very much about, and the rebuilding of our inner cities. Today i want to talk about how to grow the africanamerican middleclass and to provide a new deal for black america. That deal is grounded in three promises. Safe communities, great education, and highpaying jobs. My vision rest on a principle that has defined this campaign right from the beginning, and you have seen where we have come from and where we are right now. It is called america first. Every africanamerican citizen in this country is entitled to a government that puts their jobs, wages, and security first. Host that is president elect donald trump on his thinking on urban efforts or plan for urban areas. We want you to tell our folks in washington, tc, the message washington, d c. In the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 in the mountain and pacific. Caller good morning. I do not have anything against good cops. I do have a grievance against these officers that called bloodedly murdered our cold bloodedly murder our urban black americans. I think washington should take a , from whatever authority there is to weed out these races. Uncaring police officers. Thattroubled by the fact you cannot reach a verdict in south carolina. You do not have one africanamerican on the jury duty and that prompted me to ask , are there any other africanamericans in that city . It should have been more africanamericans on that jury duty. I do think it should be investigated. I think that bad officers should be weeded out immediately because we are tired of losing our young urban americans. Host laurel, maryland, malcolm. Caller thank you for cspan. I just want to say that ben carson being name for urban development is just another form to gentrify the urban areas. I have seen urban areas in d. C. ,ore, washington, philadelphia, atlanta. I have traveled all around when i was in the navy, and i have seen these people being displaced from their homes. Most of those people are usually people of color. The issue i have is that once facelift on washington, d c and all the other major areas that have where are theies, people going to be displaced . They already do not have the best education and best jobs, so how are africanamerican community, how are they going to gain the better education, jobs, and security, and be able to stay when facelift is billions of dollars and money to live there. Next, urbann up voters, your message to washington. St. Louis, missouri. City, living in a major it is very sad what has happened to our cities. It is more sad at the conditions that the people have to live in. This election, no matter what anybody says, is still about jobs. I hope and i pray that somehow, workow somebody can bring into the inner city. Years ago we had factories, we had machine shops. We had all kinds of things for people. There is nothing there for these people. Right now, and the architecture. If anybody has been to urban areas, it is gorgeous. The homes are absolutely gorgeous. Sure, a lot of them are falling apart. We have got to conserve this and save these people within these areas. Washington,to innercity jobs. Innercity jobs. Host do you think this Current Administration has addressed those types of issues, jobs specifically in the urban areas . Caller not yet. I am hoping and praying that there is some common sense in washington to understand what people go through. You bring jobs into the innercity, i will guarantee you crime will drop by 50 . Sad to say, people have to provide. I am not going to judge anybody whether they sell gerrards sell drugs, i am not going to judge anybody. You give that to people, you give them an opportunity, i promise you this country will take off. Host that was stephen in st. Louis, azeri. Some people commenting on twitter, urban dweller says he lives in new york city and the Biggest Issue is Affordable Housing. We have an overabundance of luxury housing versus Affordable Housing. Citizens have too much to say on the governing of this country. Metropolitan areas should define policy. You may agree or disagree with those statements. Let us know. For the2 7488000 eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 four pacific and mountain. Salo, blacksburg, we have a lot of immigrant people. Roanoke, heayor in is not my mayor, but tried to have a lot of people come to my area. We are in the southwest virginia side. We are probably the largest city tour the westside of western virginia, not west virginia. Thank you to washington journal. The question i guess is not message we want to send to washington about donald trump picking ben carson. Ben carson i think will do a wonderful job. If he does take the position it will not be a position that he will keep forever, but a place he will come in and he may shake some things up. He is a good fit for this to start out. He would be good with the medical part and his Johns Hopkins background. This is a great place to start. Roanoke was just about to become a sanctuary city, and thank goodness we have a representative who stood up and kind of warned that that would not happen, and he would get the voters and people behind us. Ben carson is going to be a great fit, and it means that the problems and things we are divided kind of like on education. You have the white voters who have not been to college, and i was watching a preview show from yesterday and they were going on about the different bubbles of the news media, how they tag and direct opinion, and they are just astonished. You could tell people were not happy with donald trump and whether you give him a chance or not, change is coming, some for the better. He is going to put all americans back to work. The president is a cheerleader. Host that is steve in cloverdale, virginia. Urban voters only this morning. Classify more people urban areas. They also cite urban clusters around these areas. That is your guideline, if you give us a call. What is the message you want to send to washington . We have heard a couple of comments on housing and economics, jobs came up. The numbers, 202 7488000 for this easter central and eastern time zones and 202 7488001 for the pacific and western time zone. Journal, somereet policy experts who disputed of cities,inition surprising for the lack of experience. Professionalsne would be more demoralized by this announcement today, according to the former mayor of philadelphia. The New York Times adds, taking a look at ben carson that he is receiving counsel from the hud secretary under george w. Bush who has suggested that he rely heavily on the departments professional staff when he takes over the agency. We have discussed that over the last couple of weeks, jackson says in an interview. Executive Service People at hud are extremely intelligent and valuable to any secretary if he will listen to them. Frank in silver spring, maryland. Of the biggest problems we have been and cities has to do with crime, and we are losing a lot of young people to drug addiction, and a lot of young, black americans are being shot. We definitely have to get with the crime situation, drug related crimes. Host what do you think is the best approach in dealing with that crime situation . Of the drugrcement laws, it is very important. Also education. Situation. Y a hard i do not know that i have the answers to solve it, but whoever will be in charge of this department i think should deal with this problem. I do not have any answers, to be honest with you, but it is something we see in the newspapers every day, chicago, baltimore, and big cities where young people are losing their lives every day. If you do not deal with that, there are the things that we have to deal with. New york has done a better job over the last years, but cities like chicago and baltimore, it is worse in some areas than others. Host what about the situation in silver spring, or drugs a big problem . Caller it is, especially gun related drug dealers. It is not as bad as cities like i mentioned before like baltimore and chicago. I do not know about the west coast. We have to deal with it. Peoplere areas where see, friends of mine have seen drug deals in front of everybody. For that we need to also encourage the police department, police officers, and support them in order for them to do their job. It is a huge issue. Host lorna from hampton, georgia. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. I voted for trump. The move that he has made to put ben carson in place is business as usual. Ben carson will only be there to sign contracts. I have also worked in new york because of all of this discussion about no jobs. Mr. Trump has to understand, people like me who work, and educated black woman, the rent is astronomically high you cannot survive. So i grew up here in atlanta. Home. Ody came back you cannot move down here in atlanta. Everybody has moved here from all these various places. Every native atlantan has a sign saying, go back to where you come from. He brought the crime here. Let me explain about the crime and black folks getting killed. , every time aars major city comes black people elect a black mayor and white folks move. They take their resources with them. Then they have blacks. Ben carson cannot solve this. This is an american problem. This has to be solved by everyone. I do not think mr. Trump can help this. All i want for him to do for me and my parents and kids and grandkids, keep me working until i die. Aaron ints hear from chicago. Caller my message for ,ashington is for republicans to really Pay Attention to the things mr. Trump is saying. I think he is taking the Republican Party in different directions, maybe not a bad one. He is talking about in title. Inutes entitlements that is something that said by a lot of republicans, especially in washington. I do not know if he is still trying to appeal to voters or if these are his true intentions. He is taking the party into a different direction than ever before. You see articles like the National Review who are not seeing his positives, such as the carrier deal. We will see how this lays out as he has got to get his ideas through a Republican Congress that typically is not in line with the things he is saying. Deal waser the carrier signed, 11 1000 americans were pulled. Say it isty acceptable for the president and Vice President to offer tax keeps or incentives to companies in the u. S. While only 10 say it is inappropriate. Overall, a 58 majority of voters described keeping manufacturing jobs in the country as a top priority for trump and the 115th congress, eclipsed on the list of issues only by the Islamic State group. Discussedr deal to be with the Transition Team and its policy. Forn voters, 202 7488000 those in eastern and central ine zones and 202 7488001 the mountain and pacific time zones. Joining us on the phone right now to discuss action in the senate when it takes a look at medical issues, alex rogers with national journal, a staff correspondent. We are having you want to talk about something called the 21st century cures act. What is not and how would you explain it to people . Guest the 21st century cures act is a Major Health Care reform piece of legislation that funds a number of Top Priorities for the obama administration, providing 4. 8 billion dollars. , the canceritiative somehot, and it provides reforms of the fda expediting the development of new medical treatments and streamline the approval process, trying to bring some medicines to the market more quickly. Host what is the price tag for this legislation . Guest 6. 3 billion total overall. Democrats really like it and it brings regulatory reforms that republican support. Talking about a threeyear process, and the house passed it overwhelmingly and the senate is looking to consider and pass it within the next 24 hours. Host talk about the drug companies, what is their response . Do they benefit . Companiesrmaceutical are broadly in favor of it, and some advocacy groups like publicist and who oppose it Public Citizen who oppose it. They would say it you roads the standards of the fda. Lobbyists hundreds of have been working on this bill for years trying to get it passed. Just because of how they are including some things for democrats, when billion dollars for opioid funding, they have variety ofo marry a different issues to get this across on the lameduck. Host on the senate floor yesterday when this was being considered, talk about what was going on. Guest Vice President joe biden came yesterday. He is the presiding officer and chair. The Vice President was also a senator 36 years and talked to reporters about how this kind of felt like home to him. Senator Mitch Mcconnell, the up they leader, brought measure to rename parts of the 21st century cures act for the Vice President s son who died of brain cancer last year. The Vice President as he was considering a run for president , was clearly grieving over the loss of his son and was also extremely emotional yesterday in the presiding officers chair as cheeredtors clapped and as they renamed aspects of this bill for his son. Talking about the 21st century cures act, alex rogers talking with us. When questioned about the sendoff harry reid will receive this week. One question about the sendoff harry reid will receive this week. Guest he will have his last floor speech tomorrow and thursday evening there will be a number of different speeches. Enemy Mitch Mcconnell is expected to speak, Hillary Clinton, and joe biden. Host alex rogers, thank you for your time. Urban voters, your message to washington. Ken in princeton, new jersey. Caller hello. Isst thing i wanted to say right now this is supposed to be open to the urban voters. Live in a hud subsidized Housing Authority complex cued this is a small complex. This is a small to mediumsized town and people use hide vouchers to pay for their housing. All of these people should probably be invited to call in. The people are like myself, disabled. I know them through a social group. As for ben carson, it scares me only because of statements he has made. It is not specifically about housing, but social programs and getting people out into great opportunities, or better opportunities. The traditional code if not outright saying supporting themselves entirely. There will always be senior and disableds who do not have enough money, or people who do work but are at the low end of the wage scale and in the vate market, cannot get section eight vouchers cannot get in the private market and housing which would support them income which would support them for housing and travel. If they have kids, whatever they need for the kids. Maryland, baltimore, you are on. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. I am a firsttime caller and i could not be more ecstatic about being able to speak on this topic. I have been a resident of baltimore for roughly 10 years. I moved from san antonio, texas. I did not have a good understanding of cultural differences being from texas until i moved to baltimore city, and had the exposure that i had. My question that i could send to washington, from the time i lived in baltimore is that the majority of america does not really understand the heart and mind of the innercity. Existss a mentality that that is so overwhelming for young blacks that there is no opportunity, no education. It is a generational gap that can only be solved by making the right decisions now and see where it goes generations beyond that. Escape for a is an majority, whether selling it or using it to self medicate. Housing, there is no ownership, there is no appreciation, no education, no opportunity, there is nothing. And you grow up in that environment you have really know where to turn, and you turn to the darker side to try to see how other people are living and go and take something from them in order to get what you want. You. Is nothing there for i am a little nervous so i apologize for my voice. Host it is good. Lets hear from jim in newport news, virginia. In order to curb the gun [indiscernible] by providing more opportunities rehab, tryingdrug to provide them with jobs like keeping more jobs in the country. I appreciate donald trump doing that. Even if you have to negotiate in an unusual way to keep them from [indiscernible] i think we need more housing. I am a senior with a disability. We need more housing for disabled persons. We