owings mills, maryland, angel is a democrat. caller: good morning. because -- in regards to the education question we were talking about. i am a veteran, 30 years old. i graduated with honors. i was educated through the for free,tes army essentially, and was given a degree for going through that course from george washington university. , even in the united states army, only half of the people and into that program graduate? some of the high school students i went to high school with could been successful through that program. how can we extend something like that into the high school education system? the caller referring to ,he gao report we talked about increasing segregation financial and racial segregation in k-12 schools. i was not familiar with the previous discussion. i not sure she is talking about, -- i don't have any comment on that right now. that was the head democrat on the education committee. he is with us for the next 20 minutes or so. andy is up next. good morning. back to puerto rico's restructuring. i watched while they were tryin

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he is the police chief of montgomery county, maryland. rise in theng the homicide rates in dozens of cities. tell us a little bit about this report. the findings it had. guest: the most important thing for folks to understand, it we are an association of the largest police jurisdictions in the u.s. and canada. it is the largest and cities and counties, so this is representative of the more large urban jurisdictions around the country. one of the issues we dealt with for many years was the fact that we did not really have statistics that were up-to-date. we would always be months behind in terms of knowing crime trends and crime numbers, especially if we were experiencing something in our particular jurisdiction, we wanted to see come is this happening all over the country or just here? we started keeping these violent crime statistics of our member agencies. fromwe saw last year 2014-2015 was an increase in violent crime across the country. also just came out with the first-quarter numbers of 2016. unfortunately, we are still seeing an in

maryland. republican line. caller: good morning. i'm watching c-span. supreme court is justices should have terms like every one else. from what's been going on for so long, they cannot agree on anything. for ay are in there lifetime, our government cannot move toward anyway. i do believe in limited terms. , wehey cannot play together need to have terms where people to people who will not be so deadlocked with blinders on. our future nominations a concern for you as you vote in november? caller: yes. because, i've seen so much corruption in how the government is handling companies -- we cannot even have control over what we buy in our foods, labeling on foods, that is a big concern in our family. we were all of a sudden getting lactose intolerance just from drinking milk. they are saying there's no difference between the two chemicals and yet, 23 countries have banned the same chemicals that are in every dairy product we get. host: sam in rome, new york. democrats line. caller: good morning. ho

christopher in fulton, maryland, your next. what do you think? about the freddie gray case or the justice system? host: both. caller: it is a terrible situation for america to be in but for the most part, the american justice system is not justice for minorities, i would like to say. it is focused on keeping the american status quo, which is money at the top and the poor people at the bottom, confused and upset. host: richard, lake placid, florida. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. the system has some serious problems. if a person is charged with a crime it goes to court. without a lawyer he is going to receive a more harsher sentence than someone who has a lawyer, and that is because congress is made up of 50% lawyers. another reason is because the incarceration system is their private enterprise. they need to make money so they do that by getting more and more inmates. of course, the local politicians are more than happy to send people to jail for very minor crimes. we have some serious problems. .ere is another point it depend

maryland. e from caller: the last man was right. the federal government has their nose in everything and they're not getting anything done. and to me, this -- letting people -- i'm 72. this is not generational. i do not want a grown man to go in the bathroom with my 13-year-old granddaughter. and think about it. do you want bruce jenner to go in from the waste up, he likes men, from the waste down, he still likes women? this is what we've got. it's one day, they like men and the next day, they like women. you go into a bathroom and you can see in the stalls. these men are going to be looking at our grandchildren and it shouldn't be like that. and for the government to threaten to take money away from north carolina because they won't let these grown men go in and peek at my granddaughter, they should be ashamed. all the people should be ashamed. these people we're teaching our kids, one day you can be a man and the next day, you can be a woman. what's that teaching our children? it's sad. thank you. host: bonnie from street, marylan

from baltimore, marion -- maryland, independent line. caller: i think that rather than focus on personalities of the candidates or tactics and strategies, one of the things that trump supporters are attracted to him is because they are so dissatisfied with many of the departments of the federal government. day outheir day in, function. the tsa is the latest, but also to irs scandal's goes back several years. leaving to them cdc and going to the nih sent a big message to me. the department of justice, everybody is wondering what they are going to do next. the fbi seems independent, but who knows? host: this all goes back to the candidates involved, that's what you are saying? all those issues go back to the candidates involved in this contest? caller: yes, because clinton is literally supporting every department. she has been asked about the v.a. many times, and won't even speak to the issue. i'm a veteran, trump is going to get every veteran vote in the country. not because they like them, they like him, then even think he is dangerous o

host: thank you for the caller from maryland. next up is dorothy from cleveland, ohio where the republicans will gather in the convention in july. good morning, dorothy. caller: happy mother's day to all the mothers out there. city is left in one piece in the trump campaign comes here. let me talk about hillary clinton. i will be voting for her in november. i am so sick and tired of people talking about benghazi. i am just benghazi- out. she was in washington d.c. in the war roman numeral the fire broke out, or riot or where ever it was broke out in the ghazi, -- broke out in benghazi, they act like she was right there on the ground. we havef all, is that to come out of somebody else's airport and think about how long it takes for a house to burn down. that is in a matter of seconds. bush, people drowned on rooftops, swimming in water. if they could not get help to those people in the united states. thinks something to about, but they are always tried to put her down by talking about benghazi. that is not something that could be

gary in the week, maryland -- gary in bowie, maryland. independent. with this flint, michigan situation here, the president made it clear yesterday this is not man-made. bad -- aposition, a decision, a bad decision made by officials. the governor and his team of decisionade a horrible and it cost the citizens of michigan. when it comes to populated areas where there are poor people, no one ever fact checks anything? they don't give a damn about the people. this is what transpired. the governor did not care about those people. had he cared about those citizens in michigan, he would have fact checked everything and not gone to some polluted area that gm and all those manufacturers were dumping crap into the waters there for years. host: this piece in the washington times from yesterday. theunited nations saying flint water crisis may trigger racism investigations. the white house was not aware of the development. katie in athens, georgia. a democrat. caller: somebody mentioned earlier, bernie sanders has been talking about infrastructure for decades. ea

host: jacob is waiting, baltimore, maryland. good morning. who would you trust the most when it comes to this decision? caller: good morning, thank you, c-span. the sitting president should be the person who chooses the nomination and then the senate should advise and content. if they wanted for the people to have a say and the supreme court choices, then they would have written that into the constitution. and it's not -- it's been like that for a very good reason. host: the "washington examiner" noted that donald trump is going to debut a list of 10 to 12 supreme court nominees very soon quoting donald trump's appearance on fox news's "hannity" program. he said i'm going to name 10 or 12 judges that i would name to put on the supreme court and i'm only going to take the judges out of that pool of judges because i want people to understand that -- understand that i want the values in terms of the republican party and conservatives. we're asking this morning who would you trust the most? is it a current president? is it a potential future pres

maryland, rone, good morning. fiver: this happened about or six years ago and i basically went maybe three different years where i was a contractor and had not filed. when i finally was trying to get this together and work with an accountant and the irs to settle , it toldt filings about 50,000 dollars, after all the penalty and interest and because it took so long, it ballooned to do what are thousand dollars. it was insane. to $2000 --ned $200,000. i had two full-time jobs and i was proactively making these payments to the irs. i think i was paying $3000 a month proactively. once i started with a caseworker with the irs, i had put together a complete binder of all my expenses to work out a payment plan to show them this is what i could pay. they really does kind of threw that out and they totally took into account what i was making because i have the two jobs and i had all these travel expenses because i was working in i.t. and i had to travel and pay extra expenses. they did not care about that. they said that

host: that is liz calling in from maryland. is not just public officials who give political speeches. let's take a look at a speech that spike lee made at johns commencementrsity about building bridges with love versus walls of hate. [video clip] >> the matter how one might wish it to be otherwise, we are not making america great by going back to eisenhower and leave it to beaver. [applause] not having it. dayis the time to seize the , take advantage of this unique moment in history, and build bridges amongst us. we are talking about gender, race, religion, nations on the not walls. let us build bridges of love versus walls of hate. [applause] sidebar number one. here, i'm amongst some of the greatest minds in the world here at john hopkins university. people who are a lot smarter asked can someone please educate me -- me, someone from the public education, in the republic of brooklyn, new york. can someone please explain to me how you can tell mexico to build a 25 foot wall on the borders on top of that, and have the audacity

host: we would hear from a democrat in maryland. good morning to you. caller: good morning. how you doing? thank you for c-span. i believe that the republicans -- they deserve exactly what they are getting, simply because they should have -- they should have stood up. even though their politics are different than obama, they should not have cheapened the office. they allowed the tea party to say whatever, do whatever. i blame them. they never stood up. "you lie." they never challenged the extreme part of their party. they never stood up and were adults to obama. host: we hear your point. tom defrank, do you want to take that? guest: i don't know exactly what to say about that. i don't have a rational comment on that one. host: we will see what republicans have the say about coming together and how donald trump will strategize going forward as he is the presumptive rep. kline: -- presumptive republican nominee. the media is still gathered outside of the national committee headquarters here in washington. after this, he will be meeting with the rest of the house republican lea

david in oxenhill, maryland, independent. good morning. >> caller: good morning. thanks for c-span. thanks for taking my call. i think it depends on, you know, your perspective. i think if you're well off, i think maybe you would tend to think that things are going well. i guess my question or comment that i wanted you to maybe try to address is when bernie sanders talks about the income gab where all the wealth is going to the top 1%, how does that affect -- i don't seem to see how that affects, you know, the daily lives of i guess most middle-class americans. because i mean, when we're talking about income wealth, are we talking about owning a home or just -- >> dave, i think we know your point. is the middle class losing ground? >> well, again, i've written on this, and you can google my name. i have papers on this. in terms of home ownership, home ownership is not at its highest rate ever. that is, it obviously peaked in 2007 when there was a lot of speculation. but we are at historically high levels. so people are owning homes at the same level, number one. number two, there's

omar of maryland, hello. caller: i think you legacy was, it was a huge mistake. we have this narrative in america that these soldiers go and defend our freedom, but the reality of the situation in vietnam was we had this domino. that we had to do and against communism in every corner of the earth. most people had never heard of vietnam before we fought that war and because the people of had a political system that was unfavorable to another country all the way us the world, we went over there and we terrorized for vietnamese people, and dropped agent orange on them and they were never a threat to us. i think it was a huge mistake and i think a more honorable thing would be for a soldier to have not fought in the war, something like mohammed ali did when he did not fight, that was more honorable to me and i think it was a huge mistake. host: can i ask how old you are? caller: i am 20. host: what do you think the war means for your generation in america? weler: it is something that as a lot of people -- we don't give a lineal credit for, we look this stuff up, it i

authorities say the pair took a cab fairfax to ta truck stop in jess up maryland and were last spotted there may 1 2. they will handout flyers at the truck stop. they believe the teens left willie and are together. the family is concerned because she's in need of medication she did not take wither her. >> arlington county police are in need of a man whop raped a woman. she was asleep edgewood street when the attack happened. the victim is 25-year-old woma woman. she says she saw someone parked in a car near her home and believes that same person is her attacker and broke into her home. >> today defense attorneys are scheduled to resume presenting their case in the second freddie gray trial. officer nero is face aggravated assault charges >> he said officer nero helped load gray into the van. >> if you ride metro get ready for a slow commute. >> original m and blue and silver lines are ordered to slow down part of ert to resdaws the arching electrical insulators and smoke incident playing system. each train will travel at maximum speed of 45 miles an hour. metro engineers believe by slo

host: edward in maryland. republican line. caller: how are you doing? i'm listening to you talking about food and stuff -- i have one question. is there sugar in bananas? guest: i have no idea how much sugar is in bananas. debbie up next from west chester, ohio. republican line. guest: good morning. i am a retired scientist, worked in manufacturing my entire career. very little in food, mostly in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. my question is about the food we have a bill in the house right now regarding the country of origin's labeling on beef and chicken. consumers -- it originale off the m manufacturing label. everything would have to say "made in the u.s." i've seen noncompliance throughout the industry, especially in things like cosmetics and other products wherein said of saying country of origin, it was a distributed by. instead of saying country of origin, it says distributed by. from a labeling point of view, i am concerned about this. can you comment on this? guest: i understand your concern. we are getting more more of our food from overseas.

host: anthony, thank you for the call from hyattsville, maryland. a couple of your comments from our facebook or twitter pages, from one viewer saying, in wiping out real estate and jobs, the bush economy devastated middle class black america. and there's this comment from jim, who says as long as black america thinks government is the solution instead of personal responsibility, nothing will change. let's go to sissy joining us from baltimore, maryland. good morning to you. caller: and good morning to you. you are my favorite, favorite program at 7:00 in the morning. host: well, we are glad to be with you. thank you for joining us. caller: i think the problem with african-americans is going to be the constant -- let me see, how can i put it, the destruction of the public education system. seems to me to be looming large, and unless we as rican-americans devote a significant amount of time to the education of our young children, younger children, we are going to fail. we have to put all of our attention just about on educating our people. if you do

now, those are illegal ineg maryland and many places p because of the destructione they can cause. if you recognize the vandaofls a please give police a call.al >> more violence impacting metro. last night a teenager was shotao near the anacostia metrostiaet station in southeast. police say the girl was slotas s in the leg near the station's sn bus area. she is still expected to beto b okay. the shooter is still out there t this morning. mng this incidents remains undernd investigation. >> d.c. police are investigating anstigating officer-involved shooting thatot happened over the weekend ine e northeast d.c.ast d. police say an officer shot an armed shoplifter on sundayhoifte along the h street corridor. cri police say they saw him takingak several items from a business. b when they appa shoplifter you pulled out aer ye gun. that's when the officer firedof his weapon.s wean. the incident is under investigation. >> what would memorial day weekend be without somed baseball and today the natsbe ad are on the road in philly. phill yesterday they were homey thereh against the cards.ds

edward, maryland, good morning. curious about the -- and mosquito, plans an event of a total annihilation on a specie killer, that you can reintroduce that species back into the environment? guest: good question. and there is. it's an open question about whether this technology would extinguish the species completely, or remain in pockets in nature. you can take some of these mosquitoes and maintain them about lab. you would go to try to treat the -- withn malaria malaria and one set was cleared up there would be no human reservoir. you could put them back into nature after that. you could restore things to the way they were. host: brendan in maryland. caller: thank you. i'm curious about some of the , like the teske determined, how certain things were tried on the population companies anybody talking about the ethical problems of dealing s?th this caller western scientists will say use his technology, it will help you. we don't know exactly what will happen. the bill and melinda gates foundation, they have a ground

alicia from colombia, maryland is our next caller. good morning to you. morning. you wonderful to talk with guest: thank you caller: and i want to thank you and all the people who are military and those who have served, god bless all of you. to make a comment. familiar ow if you're with native americans who have navajo's per capita, they in all the ghest forces. armed is so far ealthcare in between as far as having to travel so far. from my reservation, they have to -- if they're going to good care at all, they hours to about six phoenix and then another is in tucson.e and that's another two hours six hours.e new hen those who live in albuquerque.ravel make hope that when you your reports, you would bring these things out. where the people who are out in the rural areas. would on't think necessarily be just the indians. you know, other military people in the rural areas eally don't get -- that really don't have the availability to, healthcare. and also i would like to ask you john mccaine support you, and how much does the military in any way help the families who

in maryland, you're on the phone. caller: good morning. i have a few comments. one of the primary contest. i need you to choose one comment. caller: ok one comment on the primary system, the close primary system disenfranchises millions of independent people. that the democratic party says these are the rules. i read an article in slate, specifically saying that they are meant to be undemocratic because their controlled by the party. the party should be representative of the american people, and not solely a democratic system. isenfranchising people un-american. host: let's hear from ted. caller: hello. when i see what is wrong with the democratic party. you are not being totally honest about what is going on. they try to stack things against bernie sanders from the beginning. you did not want to have these debates. isseems like the leadership leaning towards hillary clinton, like she is the moderator. you're not listening to the people. if you do not fight for your rights, who will fight for you? i just want you to respond to that. bernie sanders supporters are

host: harry is next in edgewater, maryland. that iti just think seems like the black culture glorifies this word in records and comedy all the time. it seems like it's almost like they are little embarrassed that it was used and an appropriate time as far as the president. if you're going to glorify it one minute, you can't condone it the next. host: one more call on this topic. david in los angeles, california. good morning. caller: i'm like the brother before. my time one to use dealing with something as silly as this. it's pretty much been said. host: why do you think it is silly? liker: it is silly because what you effectively done with this one -- they been talking around all this morning. redefinedfectively what this word means. i'm out here in a, california -- in los angeles, california. i can walk up and down the street and see asians from korea, from japanese descendents , hispanics from all different types of hispanic descent. turn around and see who is talking to you, using this term, my nigger, my nigger , my nigger

t >> in maryland a 39-year-old a man is dead after he was hitr hh by an amtrak train inra in rockville. police say the victim was hit va near nicholson lane around 4:30 yesterday afternoon butft behind a target store on bow avenue.en his identity has not been released the the train wasrain w heading from d.c. to chicago.ca no one on board was hurt.ur >>> over to the district, the man accused of highjacking a metrobus and callingli pedestrian in northeast isan i being held without bond. bon keith loving made his firstir court appearance yesterday.e y he admitted to being high on k2 and pcp when he took control of the bus plowing it through a gas station parkingsta lot striking and killingling anthony pain. pain. losinloving is charged with sece degree murder. murr. >> sentencing day for a prince i george's county man who killednd his stepfather. he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter ingh the death of joseph newell. james shot newell more than a dozen times back in 2013 in 20 following an argument overover yard work. w james was acquitted of firstf rs and second degree murder a

host: maryland, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. my question is about zika. the rockefellers have owned the patent system 1940's. why are we now just starting at emergency time? it is suspicious to me. if we have known about it since the 1940's, that is an awful long time to not have a vaccine, to have testing, to make sure it does not spread. privy to thatt information. i did not know we had seek a, it has been in other countries for a long time, but it has not been on the level we are seeing it now. so i do not know if somebody has a patent on it or not. if you think about it, from the 1940's, we do not have antibiotics until the middle of world war ii and later. i took my polio sugar pill in the 1950's to make sure we take care of polio. vaccines are the cheapest dollar we spend for medical care, orther it be visa -- zika children's vaccinations, shingles, whether a flu vaccine, so developing vaccinations for those illnesses is the cheapest way to deal with them. cindy is a democrat watching there. good morning. caller: good morning. my concern is i have b

next, joe from rawlings, maryland on the full timeline. geo, go ahead. i would likerwin to mention that my father is in his 60's. he said you don't trust the guy counting the beans. that is where america falls right now. guest: but the caller is suggesting is that if you don't trust the government, you should not trust the data. there are plenty of private sector sources giving out the same stuff. the company did their own employment report based on their client hiring hundreds and thousands of workers. there are different private .ector surveys they are all pointing in the same direction. they are saying the economy is expanding. maybe not as fast as we would like, but it is growing. statisticsent's collections -- there are always conspiracy theories. long -- the white house gets the numbers before everyone else, but only -- it is not situation where they are telling us what to do. it is an independent agency. if you don't trust it, i respect that. a lot of private sector sources are showing the same numbers. host: our last caller will be wrong from pen

i will move on to towson, maryland and hannah. welcome. county worker here in baltimore and i make under $50,000 and i do pull over time and they will not give me, time -- they will not give me comp time because they base it on salary. will this affect us? guest: how much is your salary right now. you say you are under $50,000, is that right? are you under $47,000? caller: i am probably right at that threshold. guest: just a quick question, we have not talked about comp time. anyone who is considered eligible for overtime would fit into this category once the rule goes into -- under the new rule. anyone eligible for overtime cannot be given compensatory time off for overtime. employers are not allowed to do that. that would excite why they are time.ving you comp a lot of people would prefer that, they would like to have extra time off rather than get paid extra. the law prohibits that from happening. there have been efforts in congress to change that, particularly organized labor is really concerned as they do not want employers to back ou

host: we have time for a few more callers rebuts get and sue from maryland. good morning. .aller: good morning, tom i just wanted to make a couple of quick comments. number one, i don't know if people understand the importance of foia. you cannot foia a private individual. can is why hillary clinton be because she was part of the executive branch. i do not think people get the and how important it is. i also want to make the point that government transparency is not a partisan issue. if it was not for judicial watch, there is an amazing amount of information that the not have.blic would if you are thinking of writing a judicialde it to the watch. you are doing great work. keep it up. guest: that is an essential point. the freedom of information act is somewhat limited. i cannot get president obama's phone messages, at least not yet. the freedom of information act is not apply to congress. it does not apply to the federal judiciary. it is somewhat limited. it is remarkable, given the limitations, what we are able to do. a little bit of work can go a long way.

mark is calling from maryland. a republican. thank you for waiting. caller: the gentleman that called in and complained that have halfats may only a love put the republicans don't have any. i would like to point out that the republicans expect you to earn your loaf instead of getting a handout. and secondly, the comment is the mentioned that democrats and republicans attending the correspondents dinner but i point out that the they house press corps, are all democrats. i don't know how to that is. but i would not be surprised to learn that it is true. that is all i've got. host: you can get a later at 9:00. alan is calling on the republican line. your view of the dinner? what do you think? guest: i think it is a wonderful thing. many of those people were not in the beltway before they became correspondents and journalists and what have you. the other thing i want to point the washington hilton is an incredible place. i stayed there and there is a lower level going into the ballroom called the presidential walkway. and anyone in washington should go an

maryland. what do you think? caller: of course it is impeachable. since day one, it's been blame bush and attack republicans. these families have been affected, they've been ruined, businesses have been ruined. he's used the power of the irs to go after his political foes. like it'sers act nothing, these are violations that would put anyone in prison. regime destroys i never would have thought 20 years ago that this would be allowed to happen, ever. let alone be able to get away with it by people turning their heads and just saying it is the mean republicans. you and i would be held accountable if we did anything like that. let's listen to the top ranking democrat on the judiciary committee bid he argued the resolution to impeach the commissioner was without merit and would likely not pass the senate. [video clip] resolution -- every measure i have learned in the maine of hearings in this vein overears -- the years. it arises from the worst partisan instincts. it is not based in the facts and it is virtually no chance of success, in my view, in the