Fears of lasting damage. Our phone lines are open at 2027488001 for republicans and 2027488000 for democrats. Youre an independent, 2027488002. Send us a tweet. Well read it cspanwj or join in on the conversation. Many already have at facebook. Com cspan. And good sunday. Thanks very much for being with us on a very busy sunday morning. We want to begin with the front page story of the Washington Post and the reporting of develin barren and phillip instructor. Rucker. It has repeatedly come under fire for abuses of fire, privacy or civil rights, writes the Washington Post from red scares to recording and threatening to expose the private conduct of it Martin Luther king jr. Goes on to write the bureau is under fire not from those on the left, but rather conservatives who have long been the agencys biggest supporters as well as the president s and his handpicked leaders of the f. B. I. Theres been another amtrack derailment and two people dead and more than 70 injured. The amtrak train
Foreign policy, what would it include . Guest there is an informal and formal one. The formal one, America First but not america alone. The informal one i used was, well, it is not an accident we marines in the administration. Three of them, the chairman, the chief of staff of the president , and the actual secretary of defense, they are marines from the same Marine Corps Division and they have a motto, which is no better friend, no worse enemy. I think that is pretty good. If you want to Bumper Sticker for Foreign Policy on the trump administration, it is a reassertion of American Leadership, not isolationism. He is not an interventionist in the bushmold or an isolationist in the rand paul mode. There are threats a thousand miles away that can hurt us here, but he does not see intervention in terms of invasion and occupation as a way to solve those. It is a happy middle ground return what we have seen in the last few years. Host our alliances with our closest neighbors to canada, grea
Live. Are we going to end up in ohmless shelters homeless shelters . As far as obamacare goes, i understand it was a law passed, and i understand and i stand behind that. However, i do not like the fact that the president can change things at will. Were so worried about what the republicans want to do, its obama who made the first move. Hes the one that started giving all these exemptions. If thats good enough for me, why is it not good enough for them . If we had the british system, we would dissolve congress as they would dissolve parliament or some entity that theyre got getting the dollars. My greatest concern is theres no discussion of ways to increase revenue into the federal government. In all my years of balancing a budget, ive always had to look at increasing work time, working overtime, getting a second job. All my children have worked two and three jobs to be able to get through school. I feel that the, all the congressmen need to consider the opportunities of revenue increa
We will see you here tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. For tomorrows washington journal. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] it is day 14 of the Government Shutdown and both chambers of congress are in session later today after a rare week meeting for both bodies. No agreement has been reached to reopen the government and raise the debt limit. The House Chamber will gaveling at noon eastern for morning hour, 2 00 legislative work. The house continuing their approach to take a shortterm funding bills to reopen parts of the federal government. This afternoon, they deal with one dealing with indian affairs. Lawmakers will continue to debate on a measure in the senate to lift the debt ceiling until 2014. According to treasury secretary jack lew, nations Borrowing Limit will be met this thursday. For an update on the current shutdown talks, we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. For more on the talks goin
Rush limbaugh said the other day that he felt we were living in a dying country. I love rush, but i would disagree to a certain extent. I believe we are living in a country that is being killed. Not just dying. Whether it is our culture, our values, our faith, our history, all are under attack from the radical left. Day by day, stepbystep, america as we have known it is being pulled out by its roots from the rich soil, the nurturing earth of Judeo Christian civilization. The moral code of Judeo Christian civilization everywhere it has gone has brought decency and tolerance with it. It inspired our founders, it taught us that liberty comes from god. It protected the week. Because of judeochristian civilization the slaves were liberated. That civilization teaches wherever it is that all human beings, whether it is a new born with down syndrome were a 90 yearold sinking into dementia at all human beings regardless of the color of their skin has dignity and value and worth because they wer