. so that's why i didn't check it through. and then in t.s.a.'s defense i wrote them a scathing letter about them taking it from me. and it really ruined the trip. it was a ball that i wanted to use. and she apologized and said it's up to the local t.s.a. guys. they make a decision on something like that. but why would you give it back if you think it might be a bomb? that's just ridiculous. host: thanks for the call. the hill newspaper reporting on the f.a.a. debate. senate leaders ultimately decided to drop renewable energy tax breaks from the bill which democrats said were left out of last year's package but that drew the ire of conservative groups. more details available on line. vancouver, washington. your experiences. caller: one morning about nine months ago i was taking my mother to the portland international airport in oregon. she had forgotten in her purse a large butter knife about eight inches long. the top half being all metal the bottom half being metal and plastic. so she went through the checkout line there. and they put her -- since she's elderly put her through

learned in the 1960's when it yourself." and personal life, trust yourself. in politics, and don't. connecticut on our democrats line. what is the name of your town? connecticut.ic, i wanted to call and say that i called the debate. i don't think that there should be any more debates. i hate to see things deteriorate to the level of a gop side. i was very proud of her performance. i think senator sanders did very well also. i hate to see them hurt each primary.the i'm disappointed in senator sanders. i think that him running as a continues tohe criticize hillary to the extent, or each other, that it could hurt us in the long run in a general election. host: let's leave it there. rick shenkman, given that there was a debate last night, i don't know if you watched it but i know that you have watched some, how wod your book guest: let me tell you what i recommend in the book, which is when you are sitting and watching a political debate, basically you are in the same role as somebody who goes and attends a broadway show. what you wind up doing is evaluating the performance of the cand

that. "we have to look to new people because the old people don't know what they are doing." york,s up next in new good morning. caller: good morning. it seems that donald trump shares in common with the republican field a serious blindside about the relationship with america's best interest and climate change. even our own military leaders have made it pretty clear that climate change is a force. it is a conflict multiplier. it increases the likeliness of people coming across borders because of resource failure. it increases the likelihood of people fighting over resources. it increases the risk to our navy and military forces around the world as the conditions of the ocean change. whenhe ability to wage war necessary, it becomes more difficult and expensive. and that is only one of the many reasons why she is not a professional he needs to be. he has to be able to balance the necessities of the world against the apparent interest of america first and realize that we can't serve our own interest at all face theare ready to biggest problems facing everyone in the world. host: arthur

well @c-span wj. 's beenis a felon whoo' released from mississippi. good morning. caller: good morning. this is johnny thomas and thanks, c-span. was convicted. after being released, i was reelected to myaayor. what was disturbing to me when i was incarcerated on the state a felon.or and given i went to montgomery and at that system i was allowed to take all the training i want. i became a car salesman, a plumber, a paralegal. all of those things. a young man again, came to me with 12 years of a citizen.a felony, but he was released and somehow he had made it to employment with me in the town of glen dora. the town of glendora is the home of the murderers off -- and it is now 161 people. but i have been mayor since 1983. what is disturbing is that this young man was released and he does not know how to do anything. and i remember that i received four certificates leaving federal prison for those four months they gave me on the state misdemeanor. but they decided because of my progressiveness to give me federal time. knowyoung man -- he don't how to do anything. host: was it a cost reas

the share of income helping middle-class household has plunged. 1970's to 2014 the share of income held by middle-class families has declined from 62% to just 43%. that number is made up by the share of income help but upper-class households. that went from 29% in 1970 to 49%, nearly half of the nation's income helping upper-class households. lower income households held pretty steady. we want to start taking your phone calls and learn about your family's financial situation. how are you faring in this economy? we start with bernie from stockton, california on the democratic line -- not the democratic line. how are you faring today? caller: my name is benny. i'm faring real bad. i did not even see my graphic. i make less than $10,000 a year through social security. i am kind of at the bottom. i cannot pay my bills. i just was the president would increase those of social security to at least $1000. i'm not the only one that is catching hell trying to keep up with this economy. you just can't make it. e and your carpg 830 -- 800anted to thoroughly dollars -- $830 a month. host: is it

that follow specific. --s is how you write it break it and become less dependent. it comes down to mechanics as far as prison population. they are reinvigorating the private sector. that's one way. in terms of low income and things like that, that something that will be a study in mechanical issues. federal funding will always be flowing in for that. host: bob is next in oregon. i thinkgood morning shouldederal employee have to take a mandatory iq test along with the governor's and the president. i don't think you should have people turning down medicare dollars in turning -- hurting people in the state. important that we have smart leaders and not ideological leaning leaders. i think intelligence is the most important part of the job. that's just all i've got to say. host: thanks very much for the call. let's go to dan in ohio. .ood morning caller caller: the democratic states repeatedly voted in democratic mayors, talking about detroit and chicago. the rest of the nation is hailing them out. -- bailing them out. our present has increased federal spending so much. are a nonworking

here. minorities,s to blacks, 52% of women drop out. two, 36 or 37% of hispanics drop out. that's 17%e, quite, or 18% of white women drop out of high school. minimum wage. is women wage, most of the time, is paid into entry-level positions, such as the drive-by window of a mcdonald's. waitress in a small restaurant, a community restaurant or they work at the swimming pool, or any number of thousands of job positions that a teenager wanting to make money to pay for school fees and activities, and to have their first date. host: we will have to leave it there to make sure we bring in more colors. but sabrina schaeffer. guest: i appreciate your call. the issue of education is a very important one that we didn't address in this particular report. if you visit our website, we are strong advocates for educational freedom in giving all families of all races and all he can on the backgrounds more choice in where they are able to send their children to school, so the kids are not trapped in failing schools. i think we are on the same page in an agreement on that. in the same on the minimum wa

position out of mid-1990's, the split of yugoslavia, the u.s. did with nato, but europe was totally impotent in that situation. whether it was the times or the post, they reported on exercises in germany and this german unit -- tell me u.s. money is not subsidizing any type of nonmilitary issues in europe if you can have a military unit show up for exercises without even having the proper service rifle. that is all i have to say. the gentleman from falls church had it right. how weime to look at support nato. undera bit inequitable those two examples i mentioned. host: the wesley clark interview you talked about also available at www.c-span.org. that will do it for our first segment of "washington journal" today. olivia golden. later, patrick maclachlan joins us to explain the center's new study that ranks the 50 states by the affect that federal regulation has on each state's economy. ♪ >> book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some of the programs to watch for. saturday at 1:30 p.m. eastern, book tv is live at the 21st annual los angeles tim

placid, florida. an independent color. go ahead. caller: good morning. if you remember in the 1990's, started making deals and all of a sudden, billions of dollars started flowing out of .hina and somehow found its way into the clinton library fund. it seems like these politicians always find a way to get money from other countries. and also, saudi arabia donated $20 million to the clinton presidential library. it seems like you have a tom daschle -- he gets out of congress and retires at makes $2.5 million a year and then the irs started checking on him to find out what he had been up to and he was appointed to a , bution by president obama he had to turn it down because the irs was checking him. this goes on and on with the politicians. they find ways to hide money and they want everyone to think they are on the same salary as the average or high average worker but they have millions of dollars hidden away and he soon -- and as soon as they get out of politics, they become very rich. the clinton library fund has some are close to $500 million -- can you imagine that? just making th

, water, physical security. and it is using organizations like the u.n., obviously n.g.o.'s. we have to find the table where everybody can sit together and plan this. it is not as expensive as it looks. what is expensive is when you have to go through another iraq or afghanistan or libya without a complete toolkit that says you defeated -- we got security, now what? the now what is what has been missing. >> thank you, general. may the other members of the panel respond? i am beyond my time. what countries are in and out? >> i scrub with general jones said. in terms of the countries in and out, we have to do in a session -- an assessment of what countries matter in terms of our own interests and security and which are most likely to be willing to be partners and make the changes necessary. conditions you mentioned. we want to make sure, but we are trying to do is leverage our assistance in different ways. first, leverage its of countries in question that receive it actually make the changes we think are the right ones to make in terms of having sustainable outcomes in all the areas gener

and school. all through my 30's, i worked 100 hours a week. host: here is information from the irs on what we currently pay in federal taxes. ,he 2015 income tax bracket 10%, 15% going up to 39.6% for the highest earners. bracketo a higher tax does not mean that all your income will be taxed at a higher rate. only the money you earn within a particular tax bracket is subject to that particular tax rate. jerry from tennessee. think? you caller i am retired now. massachusetts, i think he was right on the money when -- have youg that read the communist manifesto? you should read it. it's quite interesting. ae of their deals is graduated income tax. another one it says here, the proletariat will use supremacy raise capital for the words -- sounds like bernie, doesn't it? if people want to tax the rich people more, ok. they are paying their fair share as we speak. called andy that said we ought to tax them more for luxury items, jimmy carter did that back in the 1970's. thousands of people lost their jobs building yachts, building nice motor homes, building really nice -- you name it. thes

be better off. underked in the 1990's the clinton administration, where we created 22 million new american jobs and americans at every level of the income scale ended up that are off. that has not worked as well since 2000. that formula is not as powerful today. you are seeing the impact of that in politics, both in the strong support for donald trump on the right and in the questioning of conventional economic wisdom in the democratic party by a lot of people who support bernie sanders. they are asking what are these free trade agreements about? why send jobs overseas? why has this income disparity emerged? look have to take another at the economics of the united states. of theroeconomic period past is not as powerful today. we need new thinking. that is a good thing in this election and is good to do now. but in the general election, we will talk more about national security. we are talking to retired general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander in europe. we are talking nato in the aftermath of the brussels attacks. from our republican line, we have tom from virgi

. that's sort of a side point. i am a 60's liberal. yesterday i found my gene mccarthy button. i have some credibility there. i think the visuals told the story. red-faced, waving his arms. constantly trying to interrupt. clinton was calm, detailed and presidential. this business of the speech transcripts were interjected by chuck todd way back when. he picked it up. i think that's a phony issue. i think there are a lot more important issues. i am for hillary. i was for obama last time around. some bad she had staffing. i think she is on a roll and she is great. charles krauthammer this morning in his column, clinton is him rest in peace. that is a little bit from charles krauthammer this morning. now a little bit from isabella in massachusetts. i wasn't able to watch the debate last night because basic cable doesn't have cnn. benow ccn -- c-span will broadcasting at some point. the debates should be available to every american. i heard a parts of it on radio and tv. i am glad that ernie is continuing to be relentlessly honest as he always is. he is talking about her allegiance to wall str

a supporter for clinton. the more i read into them, i 's areed clinton millionaires is supported by the millionaire class. change this to country. travel 35 miles every morning to washington, d.c. to go to work. sometimes come it takes me three hours to travel 34 miles. says we should spend trillions to build our infrastructure and put our people to work. why not? that's exactly correct. the lady who called just before -- america is no longer by, for and of the people. it is the billionaire class. that is the point of bernie's campaign. please read about bernie's campaign. bernie sanders was in wyoming last night because wyoming is holding its state democratic caucus this coming weekend. 18 delegates will be at stake on saturday when wyoming caucuses. he gave us comments about wisconsin, his victory in wisconsin from wyoming. here is a bit from that speech last night. [video clip] >> i'm headed to new york. [applause] about thea little bit office. i spent the first 18 years of my life in brooklyn, new york. [applause] >> please keep this a secret. do not tell secretary clinton, she

of acceptable in the late 1700's. or you think about women. no women at the signing of the eclaration of independence or constitutional convention. thebgtdz not own -- they could own property. they are like you have a woman as leading candidate for the emocratic nomination for presidency? what? she say elling me succeed a black american as president? -- they his would be would be totally unsure what is going on even as they are rock and know their creation has endured. the question becomes for them the america that you guys live in today? we know we created it but seems somebody affirmed our values but have reshaped this america. there?o did the book answers that question. eople ranging from milton friedman to ronald reagan and ed east -- meese but betly friedan who changed the vision marshall nd thurgood the lawyer who was first african-american supreme court who pushed against the idea of legal segregation specifically beginning in public with brown v board of on.ation and i could go the new york city police commissioner is one of my new of people who reshaped america but

of the constitution. 's usurpationation must be stopped. the act would's halt further executive orders for major rules until the day the president leaves office. that is introduced last week by the congressman from georgia. let's go to gary in fallon, missouri. on that line for all others. caller: good morning. i am totally in agreement with the lady from maryland to just spoke. she is a person that went to the system the proper way. we have laws on the books that have not been enforced to keep illegals at the country, we have laws on the books that keep ,mployers from hiring illegals it is illegal to get a drivers license, it's illegal to get benefits from the government, social security. this has been going on for a long time, mr. obama inherited this problem that's been going on for many years and as usual, slide,ntry lets the laws we don't enforce it and it becomes a big problem. and in the congress and senate and the administration find ways to circumvent enforcing the laws which caused the problem instead of taking care of the problem at beginning. it is an insult to the p

different ways. first, there is monetary policy. 1990's, we have had a policy to keep our dollar strong. one of the drawbacks is that it makes our exports less competitive. if we have a more competitively valued dollar, that would probably help. is our trade policy. we need to continue to try to open markets overseas because 95% of america's customers are outside of our borders. at the same time, we still have the richest consumer market in the world and we should make access to that conditioned on playing by the rules. we have a number of trade partners who don't necessarily play by the rules. china is one of those. finally, what can we do domestically to strengthen our competitiveness? we need to make sure that the tax code encourages jobs coming back to the united states. president obama has taken actions on in versions, but there are other things we can do. we need to make sure that our infrastructure is in good shape. that dramatically impacts the competitiveness of manufacturing. our infrastructure makes a terrible grade from the civil engineers who looked at it. inneed a stronger inve

it was a fond moment for me, but the politics,s in usually, a reagan had principles and stood for something and you knew what they were, but in this current environment and with their perspective, with some of my john kasich, there is mathematically no chance and he is hanging around and he and cruz are not for something but against something, kind of the non-trumpers. what happens when you're not fighting for something but against it? asense the motivation preserving old guard, they have their own axes to grind, so from your perspective, other than , maybe makevention a three pointer at the buzzer for kasich to pull something now, why are these guys even in their when mathematically, it is impossible? thank you and i look forward to your answer. guest: it is a fascinating dynamic what economists or political science is called the selected action problem in the gop, which is you have this large field and the a hot the sense that there was the last person to go against donald trump and that they had a very good chance in a head to head with them because that is what the polls were

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 world-class 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. there's an opportunity for the private sector to do that, for instance. we have a model that's been around for years. there's 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. there's other

says my health concern is cost. my insurance premiums which are deducted from my paycheck each s have gone up 800% obamacare. don ritchie writes i am about the water and air quality. the flood situation makes me worried that there are more similar problems elsewhere in this country. some of those folks are followers on twitter. tweet about this program. you can join in the conversation . sean in lakeland, florida. good morning. caller: good morning. is layered but it starts off with -- why is health care a for-profit business in the first place? that kind of is the reason why everyone is talking about my insurance went up, blame obamacare. where the countries health care is actually free, those countries -- health care nonprofits. once you make health care profit, -- if it was nonprofit we were not the biggest crooks in america, insurance companies. health insurance would not exist . when you talk about getting rid of the whole industry that makes billions of dollars a year. you see a big problem. some people are not going to like that. health care is for-profit. -- ife going to look

in her 40's or 50's and 60's, we are the products of that -- diversity, of absorbing everyone into one common language. trump does not talk about race. he talks about america. he wants to destroy hyphenated americanism which will destroy us, and that's what the democrats are about. host: finish your thought and then i have a question for you. people out white there, did you hear what he said a mother to -- a month or two ago. he said, "white people do not know what it is like to be poor. white people do not know what it is like to suffer." hillary got in trouble for saying colored people. then she gives a snarling speech, saying "white people have to be more humble." these people will sell us down the waiver. i don't know why you working class whites can't notice that. host: i lost my train of thoughts. we will leave your comments there. tim, an independent. good morning to you. caller: good morning. host: you are on the air, sir. caller: yes, my comment is about mr. trump. i think i just heard it, if i heard it correctly, they said that senator cruz is mathematically not able to b

children. my son is 50, my daughter is in her 40's. they will be retiring soon. their jobs are offering 401(k)s, and they are very expensive. i don't trust them. i don't understand why the companies they work for will no longer give them pensions for their jobs. companies are offering 401(k)s the isil cannot be trusted. did you work your company to receive the pension? two.r: i worked at i worked for 30 years. 15 at each company. host: thank you for calling. fromext caller is brooklyn, new york. go ahead, you are on the air. behind.i am falling i worked hard on my life, i could never save anything. i did not make that much money anyway. i did the most i made in one of two years with $11,000 when i worked as an hha, w taking care of patients. i'm wounded. i have spent a lot of money on over-the-counter things in special things, and it costs a lot of money sometimes. you say, i could have joined one of these, you know, companies like aarp, and then you get benefits for over-the-counter things, but they are a pain in the neck too. i agree with mr. sanders that everybody should be on medica

ask you but do you think should happen to these 56th 1880's have been deemed too dangerous to release? i think there are issues in terms of treating them as prisoners of war. to bring themason to the united states. i think gitmo is legal. i think the issue has stemmed out of this demonization from the left which has not been balanced i reported on the victims of terrorism or the fact that we are still in a war against terrorism. host: that snake calling in from new jersey. we have a lot of calls on this. we are calling in from ohio. a the you think they should be brought here? i believe gitmo should stay open. now, the detainees are not in solitary confinement. if we were to bring them here, we would have to put them in solitary confinement. i would like to think we have a refugee crisis with syria. is it gitmo a good place for that? instead of bringing them here, we could spend the money and house them in gitmo. we can send them back. host: let me ask you this question, do you think the security at maximum-security would be strong enough to hold? if it strong enough for dangerous why

are in their 20's and a teenager, they fully support bernie sanders. they are not feeling a lot of hope, as i felt growing up. host: that was kathy calling in from michigan, talking about young people and how they feel about america's future. today" showsusa that millennials are still optimistic about the american dream. worste growing up in the downturn since the great depression and coming of age during wage stagnation, more than two thirds of those in the nations rising generation predict there will be more success -- they will be more successful in their professional lives than their parents were. is calling inr from chicago. roger, you think the best days are ahead of us. caller: i feel like the best because ahead of us americans work hard and if you follow the rules and the game, you will go ahead. a lot of people that are calling and saying that this country is going down, i would like for them to go and live somewhere else and see the opportunities that they will be diminished. host: do you mind if i ask you who you are supporting for president and what you think about thei

morning -- what does bernie sanders want? --s is what they write his recent attacks on clinton have alarmed her supporters, they are now listening closely for a change in his rhetoric as there was in clinton's at .oughly the same point in 2008 steve in ohio. independent. good morning to you. caller: thank you for c-span. host: what do you think, energizing or dividing? caller: energizing. the 106 million people who did not vote in 2012 will come out and show how they really feel because they are angry and realized that they are letting somebody else to find them. -- define them. you the pundits have no idea what is going on in the minds of the american people and the candidates and the parties all think the american people are dumb. thatnk they will find out the american people are not so dumb. host: jerry in d.c. a democrat. caller: good morning. i think both parties have been energized. season's primary. the democrats cannot lose, whether it is with clinton or sanders. that iinly would hope would see a woman in the white house in my lifetime. i'm not sure that hillary is the one,

said in her speech, in the 1950's and the 1960's, the park service ran a public campaign inviting all americans to see the usa in their chevrolet, and they came in droves. it was basically the return of world war ii veterans and their kids. those kids are today boomers, the constituency of all parks and public lands. in order to change the paradigm, we needed a similar campaign now, as part of a centennial, and it is an invitation for all citizens to find their special place that is meaningful to them. that is not enough. there are other aspects we're doing to sort of diversified our base. one is youth programs. we're working with youth-serving organization, particularly those that work with youth of color. their great traditional organizations that serve young people and get them into the outdoors. the second piece of this is making sure the park service tells the story of america, so as we celebrated or commemorated the civil war, we shifted to civil rights, emphasizing the civil rights fight across the nation. selma, montgomery, tuskegee airmen, and we added new parks are just last

in my 60's. so i think we have a teacher forth that needs to move forward, let our young people come in who have been given, i think, kind of a different training, to come into the school with the intervention of technology and also we need to have an accountability on the federal funding. we fund our schools through property taxes. 40 p.c., 50% now of property tax. that cannot be sustainable. we as a country must decide if we're going to have paramount duty of public education for our children and therefore, the funding mechanism has to either come from a collective pot because fixed income when you retire, you can no longer continue to increase property taxes to fund the schools. so we have to as america decide how we're going to fund quality education and yes, families and parents have in fact the value to bring because children come from a home to the school. and therefore, they must have a value that comes tthe school for the teachers. so we've been blame union, we've been blaming teachers. so we collectively have to decide what is the value? host: ok, charlotte. we get your poi

the 1980's, and the success of rush limbaugh, the coming of fox news, where you did have these sources that were playing on a similar ideological page, and has had a huge impact. that all of america is looking at them, to say that is their only source of news, to say that the altar the public agenda, and legislative agendas all over the country, i think would be giving them more credit than they deserve. the poll from pew research this islier this year, the percentage of adults who responded to this poll by pew about where they learned about the 2016 present election. said television, including 57% said local news, 54% said cable news, 49% said national nightly network tv shows. 25% said they heard about it from late-night comedy shows. said radio. newspapers, local daily newspapers, 29% said they learned from it. 23% said they heard -- got the information in the past week before the survey. let's go then nina in florida, a republican. you are on. caller: i have a comment about the caller before mark that said donald trump was on tv all the time, and the media covered him. i re

years old. i am a baby boomer. i have children. back inember very well the 1970's and 1980's when off time vacation time was built into your employment package. andime has gone on corporate greed has accelerated, what corporations have done as a of the kicking out of the unions, or decreasing the unions, that has been in my opinion, a program to nickel and dime working people out of any perks that we automatically used to get in this country. i think it's a shame. i think it is a shame they even want to not allow women there leave. they want you to have your baby on monday and be back on the office on wednesday. they don't even want to allow parents to have the first 30 days to bond with their infant. i think that is an absolute shame. oft: teddy, what you make the earlier caller who ran a small construction company and said his project came to a screeching halt. there are situations in smaller businesses where there are only 25 or 50 employees. that does put a strain on the bigger picture of production situations. that is a different -- that is different from the major corporatio

to show support for reforming the country 's campaign spending laws. officially calling for an amendment to the constitution to overturn the supreme court's 2010 ruling and citizens united. that decision giving free rein to take spending. wisconsin united to amend, a grassroots organizations working to get anti-citizens united referendums on ballots. according to a volunteer for the organization, two communities have passed them so far. getting your thoughts this morning as we are talking about citizens united and money and politics, campaign finance reform. we want to hear your thoughts for reducing money's influence in politics. della in miami, florida, never made a contribution. good morning. simple i hope this is a solution to the problem. i would give the next -- network stax breaks for the candidates to appear at a specified time, the best time. and this way you eliminate all these tax -- they are going to do it on television. they don't have to travel around. they can do it where they live. and the networks would get the tax breaks. host: is this instead of campaign comm

rights. he was getting arrested in chicago protesting against housing discrimination in the 1960's. when hillary lived in illinois and she was campaigning for barry goldwater in 1964 elections. washingtonhed on with the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. the side of civil rights his entire career. colombia,ie, kentucky. you are supporting hillary clinton. why is that? caller: i like her. i think she is a good woman. i think she can do the job better than any of the rest of them can. the fish will make a good president. -- think she will make a good president. host: why not bernie sanders? caller: i just don't like him. host: what don't you like, donnie? caller: i just don't like him. he's too old. keys to be doing something else. -- he needs to be doing something else. he's too old. in my heart, i believe hillary clinton will make our best president. t.st: all righ we are asking all of you this morning, is hillary clinton a progressive? keep calling in with your thoughts about the wisconsin voters, you get to vote tuesday. what do you think? 202-748-8002 for you. this is been an b

. caller: i just want to say, i grew up during that time in new york city. in the 1990's, crack and gun control is out of control. i remember in los angeles, the gangs. you don't see that anymore and it's because of the crime bill. i recover the 1992 election. that was a democratic issue in the election, something being done about crime. host: when this was signed, did you view bill clinton more favorably? caller: everybody was happy that something was going to be done because crack was out of hand. it was out of control. especially myself being from harlem, crack looked all over the city. it was crazy. host: paul, now we are in a situation where heroin is been used, opioid addiction is very prevalent across the united is primarily being used by white people and the northeastern part of the country. do you think the same should happen? should there be a crackdown? caller: well, yes. but what i remembered was with the crime bill, we had rehab. the found out that 70% of the people in rehab where caucasian. none of them went to jail. the same thing is happening now. none of those peopl

are? s don't see how the r.n.c. camp step in and tell them to knock this stuff off. you don't run for an office by having somebody vote for somebody else. if you can't win it, get out. that's what i'm looking at. you know, ted cruz and john kasich, you're not strong enough to win the race on your own. get out. you're not good enough. host: don, you mentioned what the r.n.c. could continue to we're going to have the former chairman of the r.n.c., michael steele on in about 40 minutes here on the "washington journal" and we'll definitely ask him about this and his thoughts on what it means for their chances and whether this is a strategy that could work. paul is up next. addison, texas an independent. paul, good morning. paul, are you with us this morning? caller: oh, yeah, i'm here. host: go ahead. caller: i'm looking at this and i'm saying that these people, it could backfire on them big time. i mean, they could make trump people so angry at both of them that they vote for trump so they wouldn't have to vote for kasich or cruz. so it could be a big-time backfire on both of these c

: well, there's a july 15 deadline. i don't think it's a real hurdle but that's when the f.a.a.'s current authorization that's current authority for powers -- to use its powers and programs expires. so congress needs to do something by july 15th. but they could very easily just do a temporary extension for a few more months or a year. so it's not clear that something will happen in this congress. it could. but it's unsure at this point especially since members are going to be gone so much of the year because it's an election year and they have a very light schedule in both the house and the senate. host: let me ask you about another part of the debate. this is a headline. we've been seeing stories in recent weeks about the long lines. we're asking our viewers and listeners about their own experiences dealing with t.s.a. the headline summer fliers may simmer on long airport security lines. during the week of march 14 to march 20 nearly 6800 passengers missed their flight due to checkpoint delays. can you elaborate? guest: sure. there's a lot going on behind that. three years ago, t