host: in spokane, washington on the oppose line. caller: good, pedro. my belief is, the u.s. supreme court did not ban any abortions anywhere for any woman for any reason. all they did would put it back in the hands of the american people, the states, to work with their elected officials to decide which laws or rules should go with abortion. that would be giving all people a right to decide. where the democrats get everybody is they get so extreme. abortion on demand, blah, blah, blah, give us money, money, money. pregnancy is very, very preventable, yet they are not concentrating on that. instead, they want to get money for abortion. there is no abortion being banned. people will have the right to make the choice for themselves and not be dictated to. host: florida, on our support line, go ahead. caller: hello? host: irving in florida, hello. caller: yes, hello. good morning. i will be synced into the point. -- will be succient and to the point. abortion should be a woman's choice. no man, unfortunately we make up most of the supreme court in state governments, should be dec

the only effective we have were if we were going to go to a wedding in spokane, washington, in june but the airline tickets are $2,000 from tampa to spokane. so that's off of our schedule. but in essence, we've adjusted and improvised and we're not going to be a victim. we have a solution. thank you. host: ok. cindy up next. in norwalk, connecticut. go ahead. caller: i think that has definitively affected us as far as travel. car rental, whatever, airline flights. but i have to say for us older people who where a little more established, it's a little easier but i really see affecting young families. it's really hard to -- these days. connecticut is number two and baby formula shortages. and the prices have increased 20%. and they're limiting supplies, what people can buy. so, who do you think that affects the most? the equity is not for you. it's for the government. thank you. host: more comments on twitter. steve says alternative methods of transportation like bike riding has increased for me. walking is quite healthy as well. i must say i'm 65 and excellent health. i try a guard an g

host: all right, dan and spokane, washington. larry in milford, michigan, text message, no more virtue signaling. common masks have been proven to do little to impede the virus. we have our phone lines open or you can send a text message or make a comment on social media. we will put up those sites so you can see how to get a hold of us. if you send a text message, please include your first name and city. the reason we are asking this question this morning is because it was two years ago that the cdc recommends americans consider wearing cloth face coverings in public. this is an article from npr, april 3, 2020. and this is yesterday's newspaper, string of covid cases hits d.c. as nationwide rice looms. that is in the hill newspaper. and this is from the daily mail in lender this morning, the national health service chiefs call for a return of masks and limits on indoor mixing, as they accuse the british government of abandoning on covid and one of a brutal easter as infections hit record levels. aaron, alexandria, virginia. woul

host: laura, spokane, washington, republican line. caller: hello. i am calling because i feel betrayed by biden and the democratic party regarding the border. the ukrainians are refugees. the others are coming here and it is causing the suffering, death. we have human trafficking of children and fentanyl. we have laws. congress makes the laws. biden is supposed to enforce them. he is not. i consider that treason. this people have a country. we send them money. we are not a coldhearted nation. i really am not happy. rep. correa: you on 4 or 5 issues we could talk about for days, but let me say that we have laws. article 42 is being applied. ukrainians are refugees, but so are syrians, of kenny's. they are not getting the same treatment. central america, if you have an ak-47 to your head, it does not matter if it is a russian soldier or a drug cartel soldier. you are a refugee, but what we need to do is make sure that this responsibility of refugee help is not just america. it is other nations working with us. right now, mexico is working with us in a

the first call, let's go to rick in spokane, washington. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. my housekeeper is a ukrainian woman. 29, with three children here. and her sister with seven children is trapped behind the lines in russia. the atrocities she is telling the about, weeping in my home when she comes to work for me, really speaks loudly to what is happening there. and the republicans that i listen, calling in and blaming president biden for this atrocity is really disturbing. i really wish that fox news and sinclair broadcasting would hold back their level of propaganda. host: what, in particular, bothers you about the coverage and what they are saying about the administration's response? caller: i listen to 590 a.m. which is the local fox affiliate in spokane which broadcasts to a circumference of about 150 miles. and they are calling the president mentally incompetent. they use terminology that he is a traitor. and the vitriol is so over-the-top, this is our local station. it is reinforced by the talking heads and the conservative media sites. t

josh in spokane, washington. give us your assessment of the state of the union and the president's response. >> i just want to say that he reiterated trump's state of the union address years ago where he said he was going to build back at her for america, bring jobs back to america. build the border wall and make america strong and from what i am seeing, i don't see everything he has done. he cut off the coal miners in pennsylvania and shut down the pipeline. he gives russia the pipeline availability to get oil to germany which germany has bought into. everything he is saying he has taken from trump and has tried to make himself look like he was the one that did it all. my other comment is the cdc came out on friday and said they were going to reduce mask mandates and when all of a sudden almost every state in the union is removing the mask mandates. i find it very funny that it happens before the state of the union address. >> that was josh in spokane washington. >> thank you for taking my call. i just want to s

i think about a 23-year-old young man from spokane, washington, carson, who lost his life. he had his entire life ahead of him. his mom, molly, told me all he wanted to do was make this a better place. when a dad passed away it was carson who helped maintain their home he lent a hand to those in need and did not expect anything in return. the day after thanksgiving, he took one pill from a drug dealer on snapchat that told him it was xanax but it was laced with ill list fentanyl and killed him instantly. his mom, molly, is pleading with us to stop fentanyl. stop these weapons-grade poisons so that other parent, other people, other family members all across the country do not have to feel her grief and pain she deserves justice. let's help end this crisis. save lives. and pass the halt fentanyl act. mr. johnson: so well said, such a tragic story. our prayers go out to carter's family. there are losses like that all over the country. fentanyl is weapons grade as mrs. mcmorris rodgers said. it's a weapon of mass destruction. madam speaker, as i yield next to the gentleman from

host: let's talk to craig, who is calling from spokane, washington, on the independent line. craig, good morning. caller: how you doing? well, i have something i would like to say in case a lot of people don't really remember this or know about this. when this happened in ukraine there were a lot of active neo-nazis and white supremacists that were basically dominating the streets and the united states government met with and be -- and armed and allowed to basically run be amuck all over the country. other people, other civilians. even trade union workers. i watched a bunch of neo-nazis laying siege it a trade union building. a woman was strangled with a phone cord, a pregnant woman. you know, like, i think a lot of people have totally forgot how the united states helped overthrow the people's republic of afghanistan by aiding in the rise of the mujahedin. host: let's talk to earnstine on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment about manchin and sinema. they are republicans posing as democrats. get them out of there. thank you. host: le

host: let's talk to craig, who is calling from spokane, washington, on the independent line. craig, good morning. caller: how you doing? well, i have something i would like to say in case a lot of people don't really remember this or know about this. when this happened in ukraine there were a lot of active neo-nazis and white supremacists that were basically dominating the streets and the united states government met with and be -- and armed and allowed to basically run be amuck all over the country. other people, other civilians. even trade union workers. i watched a bunch of neo-nazis laying siege it a trade union building. a woman was strangled with a phone cord, a pregnant woman. you know, like, i think a lot of people have totally forgot how the united states helped overthrow the people's republic of afghanistan by aiding in the rise of the mujahedin. host: let's talk to earnstine on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment about manchin and sinema. they are republicans posing as democrats. get them out of there. thank you. host: le

host: dave in spokane, washington, independent. go ahead. caller: good morning, greta. i have an image for congressman sherman. thinking about russian propaganda, just visualize a great big poster of uncle sam wants you to protect the biden business interests, the family business interests in the ukraine. that will come out at some point in time, and how are we going to respond? thank you very much. guest: i would say the entire congress and all of those involved in foreign policy for the last three decades have been in favor of an independent ukraine, a democratic ukraine, and that biden is no more in favor of an independent ukraine than his predecessors, including his immediate predecessor, and no more in favor of an independent ukraine than the consensus in both the house and the senate, not only this decade, but last decade, and the decade before that. so to ascribe this to business interests that i don't exist, and seem to be invented by those looking for a conspiracy, it does not explain why, for 30 years, america has had pretty much the same interests in the same

and around the whole country there has been abroad geographic effort from washington state with the spokane tribe down to the seminole tribe in florida and everywhere in between, a very robust diversification of renewable energy projects at the smaller scale level. that is because everybody can do smaller scale renewable energy projects. that has been radical. we see lots of new tribes come out with energy economy opportunities for job training and putting tribal members to work in installing solar panels and doing energy efficiency. we have two operate and maintain the systems. these are sustainable jobs. this is not just 600 people building a big solar project. or three guys and a bottle of windex taking care of it later. >> chairman baker highlighted this utility scale solar reduced their dependence on fossil fuels. chairman baker, why did you make the decision to diversify your energy resources? chairman, i have run out of time. we will be sure to come back to you. we will give you some time to think about your answers on that. i will have to go to ranking member graves for five minutes

next is mike in spokane, washington. what do you remember about january 6 and what do you think its effect is on the country? caller: thank you for taking my call. i was very concerned with what's happening before january 6. i have to tell you i'm an iranian, a refugee. i left iran close to 37 years ago, through the mountains. the reason i left iran, it was not because the economy or any economical gain or loss. i left because of freedom. i found freedom here in america. so january 6, it is a very important -- it has a very important meaning to me. i'm sure to millions of immigrants and refugees that have come to the united states over the years. i kind of expected this to happen, because of what i was hearing from president donald trump. i mean, his words like, if i'm not elected, this election is rigged. i hope the republicans that listened and followed him and listen to those keywords, see why they -- he used to those keywords back a few years. if you go back to 2016 or when he was running for the first time, there we

this is laura in spokane, washington for those who are unvaccinated. hello. caller: i just wanted to say that the reason why i have unvaccinated -- i am unvaccinated is because of the conflicting directions they give out with no -- i cannot hear you. host: i am not talking. you are watching me on television. that is why you think i am talking. finish your thought. caller: ok. host: when you said conflicting information, what do you mean by that? caller: because it started out that the original virus, corona, would affect people, older people and people with compromised immune systems. you have a nice smile, pedro. and now all of a sudden we have these variants and these variants are always weaker because corona needs to survive so it keeps changing a characteristic. what i hear from biden and all these other stuff, if you are not vaccinated, you are killing everybody and all this other stuff. i get outraged. i have not been vaccinated. i am not planning on it because i live in an area that is my own. i want to say that all of this hatred and wishing people we

host: here is spokane, washington, up next lore is on the republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning and my response to the lady before is that president trump did everything that put this country on the right track. it has been devastated by this current administration and its disregard for any kind of constitutional responsibility and look at our borders. that is terrifying. we have 60,000 people going to be walking through our border and we know have -- we don't have any idea who they are. and the constant division of our country and people and our whatever. the hate that comes from the democratic party and now they are trying to write up a bill, trillions of dollars worth of bill, and most of the time before it it has never gone to where it is supposed to go, it gets funnels off -- funneled off into somewhere. obama had $1 trillion to fix the infrastructure. did not do a darn thing. president trump tried to. pelosi stood in the way. i want our nation united. i want to be a free american. that is who i am. to see this administration do something so -- i don't

host: laura in spokane, washington, republican. caller: good morning. pleasure to talk to you. my concern is the amount -- the government gathers 3.6 trillion dollars every year in taxes and i want to know why that is not enough? [laughs] it is a lot of money but here we have this big bill that does nothing for the country. it does something for somebody's agenda but nothing for the country or american people. when president trump went in he got the money he needed to build up the military, people could stay in business because those did not just go to the rich. they went straight to the employees and that helped families, it helped businesses, they could get business equipment, get employees. it was going really well. but to add this $3.5 trillion and another $1.5 trillion, i don't believe we have the right kind of people that can handle that kind of money responsibly. host: congressman? guest: i think she hit the nail on the head. i think this young lady is correct. it does not matter if it is $3.76 trillion or $1 trillion. if you cannot control what you spend, it does not ma

host: dan calling from spokane, washington on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to request all training americans for our nation for civility and reason to rule the day. all ascendant cultures and nations reach a point where they start to implode and decline because of their own lack of moral character and decency and honesty. they never realize they are in decline until it is too late and i feel america has been in decline for quite some time. it is going to take prayer and it is going to take people to stand up and tell the truth and not get involved in this bitterness and anger and hatred which is tearing us apart. we have more in common, all people. i just pray to god that we come to our senses and not go the route of all nations that have gone to the level of ascendancy we have gone to. host: let's go to carol calling from massachusetts on the republican line. good morning. caller: am i on? host: you are on. good morning, carol. caller: thank you. i think we are under attack. we have met the enemy and the enemy is us. the w

host: dan calling from spokane, washington on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to request all training americans for our nation for civility and reason to rule the day. all ascendant cultures and nations reach a point where they start to implode and decline because of their own lack of moral character and decency and honesty. they never realize they are in decline until it is too late and i feel america has been in decline for quite some time. it is going to take prayer and it is going to take people to stand up and tell the truth and not get involved in this bitterness and anger and hatred which is tearing us apart. we have more in common, all people. i just pray to god that we come to our senses and not go the route of all nations that have gone to the level of ascendancy we have gone to. host: let's go to carol calling from massachusetts on the republican line. good morning. caller: am i on? host: you are on. good morning, carol. caller: thank you. i think we are under attack. we have met the enemy and the enemy is us. the w

to ken in spokane, washington. caller: i just wanted to ask nan a question. she said in her opening statement that this texas abortion law would chill women. i would like her to give me five examples how this law is going to kill women. guest: the most important example is that after six weeks, a woman will not be able to get an abortion in the state of texas. i think that really says it all. and if she does attempt to go elsewhere, there will be bounty hunters, vigilantes, watching everyone's moves, the abortion clinics, doctors, people who help women pay for abortion. it's going to turn our state, our counties, our country into a very chilling space. if that is not chilling enough, i really don't know what is. the fact that other states are going to pick up on the same thing and enact similar laws -- we will be encouraging people to take the law into their own hands. that is a phenomenon in this country that to me is incredibly dangerous. host: charles donovan, some thoughts from you? guest: look, we hear about the role of men. i think legal abortion until

to ken in spokane, washington. caller: i just wanted to ask nan a question. she said in her opening statement that this texas abortion law would chill women. i would like her to give me five examples how this law is going to kill women. guest: the most important example is that after six weeks, a woman will not be able to get an abortion in the state of texas. i think that really says it all. and if she does attempt to go elsewhere, there will be bounty hunters, vigilantes, watching everyone's moves, the abortion clinics, doctors, people who help women pay for abortion. it's going to turn our state, our counties, our country into a very chilling space. if that is not chilling enough, i really don't know what is. the fact that other states are going to pick up on the same thing and enact similar laws -- we will be encouraging people to take the law into their own hands. that is a phenomenon in this country that to me is incredibly dangerous. host: charles donovan, some thoughts from you? guest: look, we hear about the role of men. i think legal abortion until

host: let's hear from shane in spokane, washington. on the independent line. not shane, alexander. caller: first, a quick comment. i was thrilled with your show yesterday. it was so professional, better than the networks. thank you. i think can burns -- ken burns -- host: the documentarian? caller: yes, an excellent one. he summed it up best on the vietnam war. we did not learn those lessons, a lot of it around the hubris of americans come upright or whatever. i was struck when we went into afghanistan, the looks on the people's faces, the fear. it reminded me of the aftermath of my life. you look in the faces of the kids and see the terror. i saw a degree of that in afghanistan. that was a clue. i just thought i would mention that. host: thanks for calling in this is the dallas morning news and their opinion on the withdrawal. their focus is on those left behind. the cost of vets -- to vets leaving afghan partners behind. in the past two weeks, we have seen reports about the harm of america's withdrawal from afghanistan for women, journalists, and allies, but one group has not rec

host: let's hear from shane in spokane, washington. on the independent line. not shane, alexander. caller: first, a quick comment. i was thrilled with your show yesterday. it was so professional, better than the networks. thank you. i think can burns -- ken burns -- host: the documentarian? caller: yes, an excellent one. he summed it up best on the vietnam war. we did not learn those lessons, a lot of it around the hubris of americans come upright or whatever. i was struck when we went into afghanistan, the looks on the people's faces, the fear. it reminded me of the aftermath of my life. you look in the faces of the kids and see the terror. i saw a degree of that in afghanistan. that was a clue. i just thought i would mention that. host: thanks for calling in this is the dallas morning news and their opinion on the withdrawal. their focus is on those left behind. the cost of vets -- to vets leaving afghan partners behind. in the past two weeks, we have seen reports about the harm of america's withdrawal from afghanistan for women, journalists, and allies, but one group has not rec

host: let's go to rick from spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for this interesting topic. as someone focused on therapeutic applications and working with our medical school to design a pain management study that would allow individuals who are suffering from ptsd or long-term care, pain related issues, to use cannabis and reduce the levels of opiates, this is the critical importance of legalizing cannabis and removing several draconian laws that still exist. it opens the door for healing, it opens the door for economic drivers, it allows marginalized individuals to have employment and be successful. all one has to do is look at washington state's 502.com, which will show you all the statistics and the data from our cannabis experiment, which went from medical to adult use. host: do you have any sympathy for the illegal dealers? we just have someone on air that's at the legalization of marijuana is putting him out of business because he has been selling it illegally. do you have any sympathy for anyone like that? caller: that gentleman,

host: let's go to rick from spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for this interesting topic. as someone focused on therapeutic applications and working with our medical school to design a pain management study that would allow individuals who are suffering from ptsd or long-term care, pain related issues, to use cannabis and reduce the levels of opiates, this is the critical importance of legalizing cannabis and removing several draconian laws that still exist. it opens the door for healing, it opens the door for economic drivers, it allows marginalized individuals to have employment and be successful. all one has to do is look at washington state's 502.com, which will show you all the statistics and the data from our cannabis experiment, which went from medical to adult use. host: do you have any sympathy for the illegal dealers? we just have someone on air that's at the legalization of marijuana is putting him out of business because he has been selling it illegally. do you have any sympathy for anyone like that? caller: that gentleman,

host: this is from rick in spokane, washington. axius.com, the headline is nancy pelosi appoints liz cheney. nancy pelosi announcing that liz cheney of wyoming is one of eight members she selected to serve on the select committee that will investigate the deadly january 6 capital insurrection, why it matters. the former gop chair was ousted from her committee assignment and is the only republican handpicked by closing to serve on the 13 member committee. they will consolidate several house investigations formed after republicans blocked a bill that would've established a bipartisan 9/11 style commission to probe the attack. the remaining five members will be picked in consultation with the house republican leader kevin mccarthy though he has not yet indicated whether other republicans intend to participate. in a closed-door meeting with freshman republicans wednesday, mccarthy warned they would be stripped from their committee assignments if they accepted a position on that select committee with pelosi. that was from axios.com. we

host: laura is next out of spokane, washington. go ahead. caller: hi, the reason i objected to the bill is i find it to be unconstitutional when you read the bill. i read parts of it, studied other parts. that bill was only to give the states rights to the federal government and then to let anybody who wanted to vote vote wherever they wanted to vote when they wanted to vote. so, that was my issue with that. there are so many bills coming out of the democratic already that are so anti-constitutional, so un-american. they hate people, you know? they are not doing for the american people. they are not doing for this country. they are doing for whatever agenda they have going. the same is true for the media. the bill was not constitutional. it shouldn't have even been on the floor. it does not fall within the boundaries of the u.s. constitution. host: and you think that by debating that, in your view by bringing the bill to the floor, including the compromise legislation that had been proposed, that would have been exposed, senators could have

host: alexandra is calling from spokane, washington. caller: good morning. i'm calling to say i think this is a very significant that they passed this recognition of juneteenth as a holiday because it has created all the conversation we are having about it. it is part of the bringing awareness to people who chose to be ignorant of the damage that we have done to african-americans through slavery and through all the other forms of insidious slavery. hence, the emancipation proclamation. and i do believe a lot of the people in this country would just put themselves in african-american's shoes and think about if it was their great-grandparents who were owned by white people, if it was their parents who grew up hearing the stories of what they went through as children, hearing the stories of what their grandparents went through, that we would feel a lot different about it. we wouldn't be so resentful. we would actually gain an understanding of why this still needs to be talked about. host: let's go to mike calling from laguna woods, california. caller: good morn

host: let's talk to laura from spokane, washington. caller: i see something different. i know that hamas is a terrorist organization sworn to kill all of the jews, as many as they can. they want to commit genocide like they did the christians in the middle east. what i have seen in some films is that often times israel warns when they are going to bomb a building. hamas will force the palestinian people to stay inside the building so they get armed and -- bombed so they can come back to the media and state what the jews did. the jews up in their first 4000 years. the whole thing behind this is hamas, hezbollah and isis. they did genocide on the christians in the middle east. it was horrible. the middle east was drenched in blood. now we have our own terrorists here, aoc, omar, all organizing what i consider terrorist attacks against jewish people in america. what i want to know is why is that not being brought up? hamas is the one that is promoting all of this. host: go ahead and respond martin. guest: let me just say those have some things that not accurate. let's be c

host: let's talk to laura from spokane, washington. caller: i see something different. i know that hamas is a terrorist organization sworn to kill all of the jews, as many as they can. they want to commit genocide like they did the christians in the middle east. what i have seen in some films is that often times israel warns when they are going to bomb a building. hamas will force the palestinian people to stay inside the building so they get armed and -- bombed so they can come back to the media and state what the jews did. the jews up in their first 4000 years. the whole thing behind this is hamas, hezbollah and isis. they did genocide on the christians in the middle east. it was horrible. the middle east was drenched in blood. now we have our own terrorists here, aoc, omar, all organizing what i consider terrorist attacks against jewish people in america. what i want to know is why is that not being brought up? hamas is the one that is promoting all of this. host: go ahead and respond martin. guest: let me just say those have some things that not accurate. let's be c

darrell in spokane, washington texted us to say that he has done a good job on covid but the government spending and debt make it to the point the u.s. dollar will not be the safeguards of the world. when that happens the value of the dollar will go down. joseph in fremont, california, republican. caller: i give him a c plus. we have a good economy even though we had a pandemic. it went up this year, there is no reason for all of this money to be spent like we are. we are going to go so far into debt. it is sad. the pandemic, he did not have to do anything. on the border i give him a f. this is ridiculous. we had it fixed, now it is a mess. host: tina in pennsylvania, she said her grade would be a solid f. immigration is out of control. energy, it seems like he would like to make his family roots. menthol cigarette, he would rather have americans high, we are no longer free, we are being ruled. penny in north carolina, democrat caller. caller: thank you for c-span, the only thing i would improve this fact checking on both sides. on the immigration, even the democrats will not tell you t

host: it's got a call from spokane, washington. caller: my question is this, when mr. obama, or whatever he is, left, hitmen biden had the middle east. there was the genocide of the christians, there was fire and blood and human suffering everywhere in the middle east because of them and their policies. how can you say now that trump costs ideas do not work when there was peace and prosperity over there? and now you are going to be financing a bunch of people who don't like humanity. it makes biden look ridiculous and weak. my concern is, are you willing to take responsibility for the suffering you're going to cause over there to not only israel -- you hate israel and i don't know why -- but the whole region. were talking humanity, not whether this garbage about a deal. that is what your deal, the biden deal is allowing to happen. host: thank you we understand the point. guest: under jcpoa, iran -- new militias, it prevents aid to the who sees, it did all these things under a moderate president. it killed press -- it killed protesters in its own country. under the mode

in a three-year period, from 2013 to 2016, the suicide rate more than doubled in spokane county. in the last six months, one high school lost three teens. right now suicide is the second leading cause of death in the entire state of washington for teens 15 to 19 years old. as i mentioned, it's led to many painful conversations. trying to find some healing for broken families and communities. and together, we've been asking, what's left our kids with a deep sense of brokenness? why do children, including kids we've lost in middle school, feel so empty at such a young, vulnerable age? some studies are confirming what parents in my community already know. too much time on screens and social media is leading to loneliness and despair. and it seems to be an accepted truth in the tech industry. because what we're hearing today, making money is more important. bill gates put a cap on screen time for his daughter. steve jobs once said in a quote, we limit how much technology our kids use at home. mr. zuckerberg, you've also said you don't want your kids sitting in front of screens passiv

i represent difficult to serve counties in eastern washington. will this bill close the digital divide between urban and rural areas? mr. o'rielly: i would think it would widen just in terms of my previous experience. i happen to have visited your district because my sister lives there. i have seen the territory in the mountainous regions. i believe it is just going to get harder to serve those communities that don't have broadband today. rep. rogers: what would be the best way to close the digital divide once and for all? mr. o'rielly: i would target the money towards those programs that are already operating and focus on those 14 to 20 million americans that the commission has been working hard for. the program would be beneficial to getting all of the things in line to be addressed. rep. rogers: brought up the important work of the maps and updating the maps. what is the status of getting the maps updated? it has been over a year since the bill was signed into law. mr. o'rielly: i don't have a great answer. there was talk of doing the maps in

host: spokane, washington, ken, republican. caller: i wanted to ask her, being a feminist and everything i was wondering how she feels with the transgender women competing against real women in athletics? i feel like there is a violence thing in this because it is a transgender man saying he is a woman competing with a woman in contact in athletics, i think that's violence against women and i would like to know how she feels against this transgender thing in athletics. eleanor: i'm opposed to discrimination, flat out, and transgender, how should i say this? you can't just look at a binary of a man and a woman in a way that is not realistic in the experience of the human race, it's more of a continuum. we believe that a person should be able to self identify and sexual orientation should be covered in discrimination laws so there is not discrimination against trans people. in the long run it would benefit everybody. women, for example have been cut out of sports for years, for decades, for centuries. we are nowhere near treated

rick is in spokane, washington. . how is it going in your area? caller: first, i would like to say thank you for all that you do at c-span in keeping us informed. the rollout here has been exceptional. i have coordinated with my primary physician. they set up the appointment times. it was set up at the health care facility. it took 15 minutes and it was done. i have received my second shot last week. and now, now we have to sit and wait and see what the future holds. in response to that woman who just called you prior, i would advise her to reach out to one of the there are programs that are designed to transport people in her condition, that works through her local department of health and human services, the one in her county. that is where she should really focus her efforts. it is unfortunate, but one of the realities of getting older is the simple tests can be challenging. host: let's hear from glenn in wisconsin already vaccinated. caller: good morning. i want to give a shout out to the people at fsm in wisconsin. a most excellent operation.

passage of the spokane settlement bill. to see a native american woman standing there on the house floor helping us get something passed that took such a long time. and i would venture to say that if you had been interior secretary during that time period we might have actually gotten this done sooner. so, mark me down as one who very much appreciates the fact that the secretary interior being native american will give us an extra advantage on bia issues that are so important to indian country overall. so, thank you for that. and so glad you mentioned the great american outdoors act. i almost feel like your nomination is this proxy fight about the future of fossil fuels. you've already stated very clearly here you are going to carry out president biden's agenda. so, we very much appreciate the fact that you're doing that. and that's what i think a president deserves, his nominee. so, i think with the great american outdoors act, we saw the value of public lands. in fact we saw that the voofl creating more outdoor recreation

i want to thank and welcome tracy who is from spokane, washington and she's immunity oriented and is one of our witnesses today and here's some of the insight on a range of scams and that she sees and worked protect and serve washington. education is the best prevention and i know your dedication to that in your cooperation with law-enforcement is getting results for victims. i also want to thank our allies at the federal trade commission and they are the front lines and educating our communities about the risks of scams and holding bad actors accountable and just as i said during our work on privacy protection we need a strong national standard and not regulator who is empowered to enforce that standard. the ftc has long relied on section 13b of the ftc act to obtain and enforce a range of remedies against certain illegal conduct but i understand that authority is currently being challenged in the courts. specifically the third and seventh circuits have ruled recently that the fcc cannot obtain monetary relief under section 13b. the third circuit decided that the ftc misused section

spokane, washington, james, independent line. >> i think that the -- caller: i think that the elephant in the room is demographics. it's pretty simple. there's more people, less jobs. people getting diff -- getting disenfranchised. credit cards going up, house payments going up. there's more people and the more people that are disenfranchised, that's the unrest. it's, you know, a lack of ability, lack of upward mobility driving these people to do what they do. they can believe whatever they want to believe but if you get down to the root of the problem it's that people are being disenfranchised. there's no economic security. they are looking, wanting, needing more and there is no outlet for them and that's going to have gigantic spinoffs and until that gets fixed, until the social structure gets fixed, and there's a -- i don't know what you want to call it, a respect courtesy, it's not going to get any better. in all honesty, i'm not an anti-trumper, but he's been a disaster, you know. just fomenting violence, you know, anti-civil discourse is horrible. host: appreciate that, james. th

spokane, washington, james, independent line. >> i think that the -- caller: i think that the elephant in the room is demographics. it's pretty simple. there's more people, less jobs. people getting diff -- getting disenfranchised. credit cards going up, house payments going up. there's more people and the more people that are disenfranchised, that's the unrest. it's, you know, a lack of ability, lack of upward mobility driving these people to do what they do. they can believe whatever they want to believe but if you get down to the root of the problem it's that people are being disenfranchised. there's no economic security. they are looking, wanting, needing more and there is no outlet for them and that's going to have gigantic spinoffs and until that gets fixed, until the social structure gets fixed, and there's a -- i don't know what you want to call it, a respect courtesy, it's not going to get any better. in all honesty, i'm not an anti-trumper, but he's been a disaster, you know. just fomenting violence, you know, anti-civil discourse is horrible. host: appreciate that, james. th

host: let's go to spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. attentionwant to draw to something that is not really being addressed. what causes huge numbers of persons from all facets of society, who have previously not behaved in such a way, to get to this stage? it is because of the real problems for which they are so frustrated are not being addressed and they are at the end of their rope. i have seen people calling in saying they are starving, and yet congress sits there, arguing for months over whether to give people $2000. and yet they give away to all these other countries nothing in relation to our current problems. as to the addressing of the physical or mental state, i can see the frustration which may over a period of time, lead to physical damage, not only to their body, lives and brains, that is where the mental illness is. it is not mental, it is physical. when a case to the point where it is damaging your body. r addressinga docto this aspect, which the pharmaceutical companies keep in the background. host: go ahead and respond.

host: let's go to spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. attentionwant to draw to something that is not really being addressed. what causes huge numbers of persons from all facets of society, who have previously not behaved in such a way, to get to this stage? it is because of the real problems for which they are so frustrated are not being addressed and they are at the end of their rope. i have seen people calling in saying they are starving, and yet congress sits there, arguing for months over whether to give people $2000. and yet they give away to all these other countries nothing in relation to our current problems. as to the addressing of the physical or mental state, i can see the frustration which may over a period of time, lead to physical damage, not only to their body, lives and brains, that is where the mental illness is. it is not mental, it is physical. when a case to the point where it is damaging your body. r addressinga docto this aspect, which the pharmaceutical companies keep in the background. host: go ahead and respond.

host: let's go to spokane, washington. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. attentionwant to draw to something that is not really being addressed. what causes huge numbers of persons from all facets of society, who have previously not behaved in such a way, to get to this stage? it is because of the real problems for which they are so frustrated are not being addressed and they are at the end of their rope. i have seen people calling in saying they are starving, and yet congress sits there, arguing for months over whether to give people $2000. and yet they give away to all these other countries nothing in relation to our current problems. as to the addressing of the physical or mental state, i can see the frustration which may over a period of time, lead to physical damage, not only to their body, lives and brains, that is where the mental illness is. it is not mental, it is physical. when a case to the point where it is damaging your body. r addressinga docto this aspect, which the pharmaceutical companies keep in the background. host: go ahead and respond.

host: laura in spokane, washington. many of you calling about the court this morning, the seating of the congress. we will continue with this effort until noon when we will take you to coverage of both the house and the senate. we had the opportunity to speak with several numbers of congress. joining us now is tom emmerich, republic and a been a soda. republican from minnesota. good morning. guest: good morning. the national republican congressional committee as the campaign arm for house republicans. 423 of 435idates in seats in the last two years. likest all odds, it looks we have picked up 14 seats. we stand to pick up a 15th depending on what happens in upstate new york. goingwhat does that mean forward, particularly for the republican caucus? guest: it gives us strength. it is important for the american people. thes be clear, for republican caucus, we elected the most diverse group of republicans that have ever joined house republican caucus in our history. we are going to have a record number of women, over 30 wom

let's start with rick from spokane, washington on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. guestd like to hear your comment on the republican party going into a modern-day apartheid government. approach this,em an openld trump is racist. i think that is the uniting factor that drives the trump told. in emboldened something into a cultlike jonestown. go ahead and respond, jim. held: that is a widely liberal view. there are certainly events from charlottesville to children in cages at the border to support that account. factor the complicating ,s a purely electoral phenomena theever you think about president's rhetoric or his policies, the biggest political change is the loss of suburban white voters. , inroads maderess with hispanic voters and not really just in texas. it was particularly in places like florida. so i do understand the critique. i understand it is a deeply held the view and there are things that the president may have to anson for -- answer for. how he has behaved on certain issues. if you look at which peop

let's start with rick from spokane, washington on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. guestd like to hear your comment on the republican party going into a modern-day apartheid government. approach this,em an openld trump is racist. i think that is the uniting factor that drives the trump told. in emboldened something into a cultlike jonestown. go ahead and respond, jim. held: that is a widely liberal view. there are certainly events from charlottesville to children in cages at the border to support that account. factor the complicating ,s a purely electoral phenomena theever you think about president's rhetoric or his policies, the biggest political change is the loss of suburban white voters. , inroads maderess with hispanic voters and not really just in texas. it was particularly in places like florida. so i do understand the critique. i understand it is a deeply held the view and there are things that the president may have to anson for -- answer for. how he has behaved on certain issues. if you look at which peop

let's start with rick from spokane, washington on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. guestd like to hear your comment on the republican party going into a modern-day apartheid government. approach this,em an openld trump is racist. i think that is the uniting factor that drives the trump told. in emboldened something into a cultlike jonestown. go ahead and respond, jim. held: that is a widely liberal view. there are certainly events from charlottesville to children in cages at the border to support that account. factor the complicating ,s a purely electoral phenomena theever you think about president's rhetoric or his policies, the biggest political change is the loss of suburban white voters. , inroads maderess with hispanic voters and not really just in texas. it was particularly in places like florida. so i do understand the critique. i understand it is a deeply held the view and there are things that the president may have to anson for -- answer for. how he has behaved on certain issues. if you look at which peop