washington ponder the implications. why would the supreme leader hitherto so inflexible suddenly supports such a move? i think there were people in the von system that had come to the conclusion that the small steps had not led to anything. and that the only way to break the deadlock was to do something big. comprehensive, had been spending a lot of time thinking about what that would be had floated. those ideas had created some political readiness in toronto, fort but at the state department, where the collaboration with iran on afghanistan had been established. nobody was prepared to take the documents submitted by the swiss diplomat seriously after its exclusion from the madrid conference and the discourse on the axis of evil for turan. this new refusal to engage in dialogue was proof that washington was still bent on effecting regime change in iran. so in order to protect the islamic republic, ayatollah homei made a radical decision. he decided to intensify and press ahead with the uranium enrichment program. and in

to honor slain washington, post journalist jamal, to show jude. now the organizers here say they're doing it now and large part to raise awareness of the fact that you as president joe biden, will soon be heading to saudi arabia. basically felt betrayed. i think the promise that he gave us gave the general public about protection of saudi distance . the also the promise of making the saudi government, the prior. they are active to say they want the american people to remember that on the campaign trail, joe biden promised to make saudi arabia a pariah state. they say that's obviously a promise. now broken, the british government is refusing to rule out abandoning a european human rights. offered judge blocked it from deporting asylum seekers or a wanda last minute intervention by the european court of human rights force, the 1st flight to be cancelled on tuesday. a course not related to the european union which the u. k. and after 2020 u. m. secretary party patel says the government won't be deterred and that more flights of plans. well, this deci

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come to washington. donald trump was his way to do something different from the law firm retire from there and do something totally different and then he changed his mind about donald trump and i can't just have ruin my kids. we just left. well, he's a member the federalist society remember i'm pretty sure and was in his blackmail mega person. yes. he's in his black maga hat on election night crying saying she did it. she did it about his wife and donna i couldn't, you know people i write in the book people say without kellyanne conway his campaign manager. donald trump could not have won in 2016 that's debatable, but what we'll never be in doubt, is that without george conway encouraging? need to take my shot as hamilton and eminem tell us all to do. to take my shot in 2016 and say yes to that campaign manager manager offer and position that donald trump offered that gave me. i could not have been campaign manager that level because george said i'll help more with the kids you have to do this. he can ac

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and washington was wanting to get more heavily involved in ukraine. well, enjoy plausible deniability. well, it certainly seems that drones would be the way to go. other nato countries are also helping their supplies to kia with german chancellor sure. pledging short range or 2 or a missile systems known as iris t, which berlin has admitted it currently doesn't have any stocks of itself in london is negotiating with the united states on the supply of american rocket launcher system. former pentagon security, unless michael maloof believe is being put under us pressure. the u. s. has pushed the nato countries into this predicament and and they are, and the european countries really are now their own backs against the wall. they weren't prepared for this. they weren't prepared for the, the escalation of this crisis to the point that it is right now. and it's rely and once again on the west to try and, and, and now back back fill as we call it. clearly there, they were under us pressure to do something and you get to see the, the defense minister and the

i'm joined by my guess, michael maloof in washington. he's a for a pentagon senior security policy analyst in corpus chris. we have michael flannigan, he is president planning and consulting in a former congressman and here in moscow we have maxine swartzkoff. he is the director of the institute of international studies at moscow state institute of international relations. i, gentleman cross our rules and the fact that means you can jump in any time you want and i always appreciate it. right, michael, i'm in washington. d. c. let me go 1st. i want to ask all 3 of you the same question. do we have any reversible split with in russia? west relations? go ahead. michael martin? yeah. yeah, period, i think we do. i and i think it is something that the united states brought on itself in the west for that matter. but at the urging and pushing of the united states, typically the by the minute administration and the near, near conservative sewer in like victoria new lynch. this is effort and a purposeful effort by them to contain and ultimately h

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who paid for them to come to washington? who paid for their signs? are they getting some kind of stipend for being there? they show up at all of these things, on buses, they fly into washington, who is paying for all of that? is it george -- , is other left-wingers of a type who support these district attorneys around the country that offer lower no bail, they let criminals out of prison and never sudden there in the first place? there's a lot of questions that need to be ask. this is when i met earlier. i get back to the idea of the other side, where people cross examine some of these people. there is a lot of stuff that is not being asked. a lot of answers that are not being generated as a result. >> cal thomas, syndicated columnist. available online at cal thomas .com. on twitter at cal thomas. do always appreciate your time, sir. thank you so much. >> always my pleasure, john. thank you. we welcome back to the program, william barber, joining us ahead of the poor peoples campaign whirl march on washington. taking place this saturday here in d.c..

in the darkness of washington. quite beautiful. host: if daniel chester french is somebody you're intrigued by, monument man, the author of the book is carol holzer. up next, good morning. caller: good morning. two points, my wife who died a while ago, used to work for the department of interior and i know they use to -- i don't know if they still do -- give tours into the monument underground, to other recesses but typically would not be apparent and the other point just last week i was listening to testimony by deb haaland about the atrocities that have happened to the indigenous people here and it should be duly noted and recognized that it was under lincoln that i think the largest mass execution of people were done, so we just have to be able to tell all of the history. guest: i agree. i would love to talk about both of those things. first, i think the caller is referring to what people call the under croft of the lincoln memorial. the memorial itself is 99 feet high. the undergirding, the basement, call it the under croft, is

in the darkness of washington. quite beautiful. host: if daniel chester french is somebody you're intrigued by, monument man, the author of the book is carol holzer. up next, good morning. caller: good morning. two points, my wife who died a while ago, used to work for the department of interior and i know they use to -- i don't know if they still do -- give tours into the monument underground, to other recesses but typically would not be apparent and the other point just last week i was listening to testimony by deb haaland about the atrocities that have happened to the indigenous people here and it should be duly noted and recognized that it was under lincoln that i think the largest mass execution of people were done, so we just have to be able to tell all of the history. guest: i agree. i would love to talk about both of those things. first, i think the caller is referring to what people call the under croft of the lincoln memorial. the memorial itself is 99 feet high. the undergirding, the basement, call it the under croft, is

[applause] the next one will make me less popular in washington. i think we ought to have turbulence. [cheering] but not just for politicians, for government bureaucrats. [applause] stop this elitist working class -- ruling class. part of government thinks that our government belongs to them. next one is really controversial. men are men and women are women. there are two genders. signs -- science confirms that unborn babies are human beings. [cheering] the plan calls for a complete and a voter fraud and protecting the integrity of our elections. democrats know they cannot win with their crazy ideas so they want to rake elections and institutionalized voter fraud we are not going to allow it. [applause] we will stop all these soft on crime ideas that are destroying our cities and killing innocent americans. erase prosecutors that do not want to prosecute, they will be fired. [applause] teach our kids to respect the police because they are the good guys. criminals are the bad guys. [applause] finally, secure borders, build the wall. when we do we wi

s. won't end up flying into russian territory doubts despite washington, claiming it has commitments from ukraine against a british citizen faces extradition to the us after allegedly violating american functions on north korea. shared his fears with rti about the global impacts of such a minute. i think it's raising some very, very war in consensus to the international community to which though, as we should or shouldn't china islam the us for its growth deep rooted, a gemini mindset america once again to cry, staging, growing influence in the news revenue catching the program from today, welcome to moscow onto the news our in our t international. i mean, and the ukraine has fired its human rights commissioner in part for spreading on verified information about atrocity. she'll edge were committed by russian troops in the country. her removal comes after her claims were widely covered by western media, are senior corresponding morocco. dia picks up the story from their day a nice week sod end month after month. the world over was barraged with stories horrific stories of rape and un

who is the longtime editor in chief of the washington monthly publication? mr. glastris, where did you come up with the idea of creating a an award for book reviews well my wife of 31 years kukula glass dress passed away in august of 2017. she had been for 14 years the books editor of the washington monthly review, you know editing book reviews primarily on nonfiction subjects and it was actually her former boss ralph nader who suggested when he found out she'd passed away that i create some kind of. award or fund or something for a subject she cared about and so i thought that was a great idea. i talked to my children adam and hope they thought it was something we should do and it occurred to me that there we oughta created an award for book reviewing there are very few journalism awards for book reviewing none really for nonfiction public affairs based books, which which was the coolest passion. and so it took us a little while to pull ourselves together and you know mourn her her loss but a lot of friends and family across the country pitched in to provide th

you couldn't buy the washington post in new york for a period only in washington. you could get it inrockville, you could get hundreds of copies in rockville . >> it's still sitting there. >> none in new york. so that sense of that cbs validated and sally again was telling the story about the cvs people were saying where are the documents and said documents, we don't have any documents. there are no documents. we are counting on the trust of our sources and reporters. >> and are too young reporters. so that's october. a month later nixon wins in a landslide and the story kind of, the trail goes cold for you guys. not just for a few days but for a couple of months you guys are scraping and you're under a lot of pressure talk about this aspect of it which is you had this story. you kept italive and suddenly there's nothing there to keep moving forward . what's the pressure you're feeling and overall, what were the pressures you felt about the need for absolute accuracy whenever possible and to keep the story moving to demonstrate that wasn't going to go away? >> it w

this however, does not stop washington from reportedly warning african countries against buying russian supplies amid the food is stuck with the crew. fines, documents and thing ukrainian, neo nazi battalion fighters were mining civilian areas in the don bass and 2016 with the ofc aware of this information are corresponded to the evidence from south right sector militants. again, one of the most notorious, neo nazi formations in ukraine, they shed this building with the members of the always see mission. we found their insignia on the floor just above us. and of the to late in presidente slammed a u. s. move to exclude countries from a regional meeting as a mistake, after washington provoked massive backlash among the latin american leaders by not inviting some key states with broadcasting from our studios in moscow. this is our international and john thomas certainly glad to have you. with right now, an act of food, terrorism, against its own people. moscow claims ukrainian troops set a large grain warehouse ablaze in mar, you polls, seaport, as they left the city, leaving more than 50

of the headline from the washington post. as the

washington posts reporting. in the next hour will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist journalist myth of watergate took hold. and why it is so tenacious. but also discuss what some of the principles of the washington post? principles that the post at the time of the watergate scandal have had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and will consider why it matters we'll consider the so what question. why debunking this myth? matters along the way we'll have some time for q&a. here are a few names that will encounter. during our class today. bob woodward and carl bernstein these are these were reporters for the washington post the lead reporters on the watergate scandal for the post. and they teamed up in 1972 and were together through the scandal in 1974. together they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name that will encounter she was the posts publisher. during the watergate period the post then was a family-owned newspaper. and she was publisher from 1969

then, also, could you please most importantly address how the washington metro, the strength of the washington metro coverage influenced how the story unfolded. was it true that mr. woodward and mr. bernstein had pretty much locked up the critical sources before the other national publications really became interested. there was a lot of things going on in the environment, there was unprecedented spying by the government against vietnam war protesters and there was the growth of executive privilege. i don't want to get too broad with these questions but watergate did not totally come out of the blue. >> while the story is you probably will want to add more to this. i will briefly say that it was clear that the president reacted with great horror to the pentagon papers, he tried to stop their publication he went to the supreme court, that played a role at the beginning of the stone running down the hill. in terms of robin carl, they did not lock up any sources they went around knocking on doors and making phone calls and doing things that no other reporter were doing because they did not see an

and now, this is the lead from the "washington post" today. in terms of what to watch out for in donations in the next cycle. this, linked in founder reid hoffman, one of the nation's top political donors, gathered more than a dozen billionaires or their representatives over zoom on friday, to sound an alarm about the coming elections. hoffman was pitching some of the nation's wealthiest people on a domesday idea that has become a growing obsession. one slide of the power point presentation that hoffman gave to the group that quote maga, make america great gain leaders intend to use the 2022 midterm to install trump in 2024, regardless of the vote. a second slide, titled how maga midterms can install trump laid out a step by step doomsday hypothetical scenario. republicans win statewide offices in key battleground states, this year, in 2022, and then they change state laws in 2023 to give legislators control over presidential electors. this new group of billionaires for democracy is called investing in u.s., the "washington post" points out th

david: please join us for other washington post live programming. go to washington post -- >> on wednesday the agriculture secretary will talk about u.s. food production at georgetown university and washington, d.c. watch live at 11:30 a.m. eastern on c-span or anytime online at c-span.org. the secretary of the army, christine wormuth talked about u.s. national defense strategy and the army's top three priorities during remarks at the atlantic council. she also noted

as a mistake, after washington provoked matthew backlash among latin american leaders by not inviting some key states with broadcast more direct from our studios in moscow. this is our see international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now an act of food terrorism against its own people. that's how moscow slammed the seemingly deliberate destruction of more than 50000 tons of grain by ukrainian troops as they left multiple mid a raging global food crisis. this crime against humanity demonstrates to the entire world community, the true face of the kiev regime, which in fact uses the methods of food terrorism against its own people. all this is happening with the full support of countries of the so called, civilized west and amid the ongoing hysteria based on false accusations that the russian federation is creating a global food crisis. moscow has warned that the situation could get even worse as the supply problem has not stopped give deploying troops and armored vehicles at several grain stores in hark of, and sumi along with areas in the done yet people's re

all of you will go back to your state, a capital i went to washington. i was curious. political hate is outside. the supreme court took us through this ruling petty this is a seismic shift when it comes to women's rights in the united states. as you said, almost 50 years, roe v wade has been a constitutional protection. women just had a constitutional rights to get an abortion within the 1st trimester. at the 2nd trimester, there could be some restrictions. but these 6, conservative justices have simply thrown out roe v wade st. this decision was simply the wrong decision to make. and it's important to note that at least 2 of the conservative justices who were able to swing the court, testified under oath in their hearings that they believed. roe v. wade was settled law that it was precedent and the court doesn't usually overrule precedent. it really is an incredibly unusual decision from this supreme court, but what does it actually mean? well, in 13 states, as soon as the decision was made, they had so called trigger laws in place where when the court

done in washington. and so we're going to kind of have some fun. telling our -- army stories. there's probably in this rum deck at least 15 or 20 people who work for you at one time or another and i i say in addition to all of the great. contributions you made directly to policy one of your great contributions was the incredible number of successful people who you mentored including myself. i'm and so my little story about -- army is that i work for -- on the joint economic committee in 1990. 3 and 1994 and i remember that that when that when i was on the committee, and i i decided by the summer of 19 of 1994 that i was going to leave the committee because i just had it, you know if you were a minority remember if you were working for a minority member in the house you might as well have not been there. i mean the democrats were so arrogant at that time after what 40 years of rule, you know, there was like republicans weren't even there. and so i remember i went to -- and i said look, i love working for

here in state of washington. >> reporter: a promise by governor jay inslee cheered on by supporters on state captain top steps to make washington a safe haven for abortion along with partner states california and oregon >> i will be issuing an executive order to the washington state patrol not to cooperate in investigation of other states who violate the roe versus wade decision >> reporter: insley called on lawmakers to extend that directive to local law enforcement. he's also asking them to prevent hospital mergers that reduce abortion access. and to pass a constitutional amend codifying the right to choice in the state of washington >> keep it off my body >> reporter: the senate minority leader john braun believes missed the mark. >> while a very important issue, no question about that, when i talk to people around the state. they're much more focused on the cost of living in our great state. >> reporter: lawmakers who do support the actions of the governor sharing their own experiences. >> this is hard on all of us >> reporter: and pledging to take action where possible >> in his d

he uses washington's horse to escape and washington is killed. and i think this is the day september 13th 1861. this is the day that the war really first hit home for lee. of course, you know, he'd been at war for several months now he lost his home. well several homes roman coke is going to fall the union forces pretty shortly and white house at rooney's plantation is also soon going to be occupied by the federal, but he's been forced out of arlington lost most of his possessions, but i think washington's death is when the war really hit home for lee and he writes several letters. he writes to washington's daughter. he writes to their a common cousin of washington and lee fellow by the name of turner and edward turner lived up in order to virginia, but these letters and he also writes a letter to to his wife as well but these letters of leaves talking about washington's death there's a range of emotion present in these letters that you don't see anywhere else. he goes from obvious sense of loss and despair to in the next sentence just out and ou

in washington, rachel blevins, r. c. ukraine's president pledges to create a database of russian forces accused of war crimes, even though key of is still to provide any solid evidence of that. but while the world continues to focus on the alleged russian atrocities, memories of crimes committed by ukraine forces in the 8 year long war in the dawn bass remain. we visited the city of zu kress in the on the escrow public which is still struggling to cope with a tragedy of the for when showing killed at least 15 people watches from on kosovo reports. it was a very hot day here, back in august of fits whence you 14 and local residents flocked to this beach right here to cool down all of a sudden in the early afternoon, artillery struck the center of the town. all in all 15 people were killed including 3 children. a lot of people were wounded neevadolla with a sure she knew you dear. no one could really believe something like this would happen despite the fact that had already been fighting in places like shock to ask and

in washington, this is secret. who is this guy? for a secret in washington to have been intact for as long as this is quite remarkable. it's quite something. the throat barred its name from a couple of sources. he met woodward on what he called deep -- the throw would give him some information but he couldn't quote the source, it was all supposedly on the background. at the time, or just before, a controversial pornographic film came out with the title the throat. anyway, the name deep throat, the source, the identity, was a fascinating topic in washington. over the years, a variety of sources, a variety of names were offered up as two potential candidates. who is deep throat? take a look at this list. henry kissinger, the u.s. secretary of state. l patrick gray, the former acting director of the fbi. diane sewer, who worked for a while before going to network television in the nixon white house. john dean, who was nixon's counsel. pat buchanan, and nixon aide who later ran for president three times. he sought and failed to win the

and washington has a history of hiding conveniently behind allies to target folks. so in washington was wanting to get more heavily involved in ukraine while enjoy plausible deniability. well, it certainly seems that drums would be the way to go. and other nato countries are also offering their supplies to kids with german chancellor schultz pledging a short range or to where the file system is iris t, which berlin has admitted that currently doesn't have any stocks of itself in london is negotiating with the united states and the supply of american rocket launcher units for pentagon security analysts, michael miller, believes european countries are being put under u. s. pressure. the u. s. has pushed the nato countries into this predicament. and, and they are, and the european countries really are now their own backs against the wall. they weren't prepared for this. they weren't prepared for the, the escalation of this crisis to the point that it is right now. and it's rely and once again on the west to try and, and back fill as we call it. clearly there, they were

and washington has a history of hiding conveniently behind allies to target folks. so in washington was wanting to get more heavily involved in ukraine while enjoy plausible deniability. well, it certainly seems, it drums would be the way to go. and other nato countries are also offering their supplies to kids with german chancellor schultz pledging a short range or to where the file systems known as iris t, which berlin has admitted that currently doesn't have any stocks of itself in london is negotiating with the united states and the supply of american rocket launcher units for pentagon security analysts, michael miller, believes european countries are being put under u. s. pressure. the u. s. has pushed the nato countries into this predicament. and, and they are, and the european countries really are now their own backs against the wall. they weren't prepared for this. they weren't prepared for the, the escalation of this crisis to the point that it is right now. and it's rely and once again on the west to try and, and back fill as we call it. clearly there, the

and now countries that have been shunned by washington have an alternative. this is what china had to say about the upcoming summit. i want to stress again that latin america is not some front yard or backyard of the united states. the summit of the americas is not the summit of the united states of america. the u. s. as the host of the upcoming summit needs to stop going its own way or forcing its will and others over the past 2 centuries since the monroe doctrine came into being the united states has conducted more than 30 military interventions in latin american countries. forcibly exported the united states style democracy to regional countries implemented predatory cannot make policies and even instigated regime subversion. mike, bon pale, who served as secretary of state under donald trump seemed to be raising the alarm about the rising influence of the 2 year asian superpowers on the american hemisphere. here is what he predicted china, russia, they're showing up with the doorstep. but once they enter the house, we know the dead traps, though they will

to honor lane, washington post journal, jamal showed you. now the organizers here say they're doing it now and large part to raise awareness of the fact that us president joe biden will soon be heading to saudi arabia. basically feel betrayed. i think the promises that he gave us gave the general public about protection of saudi distance. the also the promise of making the saudi government, the a prior. they are activist, say they want the american people to remember that on the campaign trail, joe biden promised to make saudi arabia a pariah state. they say that obviously a promise now broken cupid 19 vaccines are expected in the arms of children on the 5 in the u. s. as soon as next week, experts convened by regulators have unanimously recommended the shots be approved during deliberations. doctors said that although most american children have been infected by now, high rates of hospitalizations among infants and toddlers underscore the need for vaccination. now the british government is refusing to rule out abandoning european human righ

that was the washington post, again, first on the story. they've been updating the story all day, as this is been developing. we've been learning more about these federal subpoenas across the country. the new york times and cnn have since matched and expanded on the post reporting. what's coming into focus from all these different new -- agencies is that in georgia, pennsylvania and in michigan, at least, fbi agents, today, serves subpoenas on multiple people who appear to have been involved in the fake elector scheme. people who served, themselves, as fake electors. people who helped organize the fickle lectures effort for the trump campaign. also, at least one subpoena was deliberately crump campaign staffer edison virginia. he appears to have worked for the trump campaign in arizona and new mexico. so that means the federal investigation implicate the fickle lectures in those states to. even the republican party state chairman in georgia. who reportedly played a major role in organizing the illegal, fickle actors plot in georgia. he appa

i wonder, as i was reading, i wonder, why didn't kirbo didn't go to washington? what would you say is the influence that he continued to have, even when carter was in the white house? >> that is a great question. kirbo refused to go to washington. he was offered by carter the position of chief of staff. he was the only person offered that position. and when kirbo said no, i want to remain in atlanta -- i can't afford to move to washington was his line, which was a little suspicious, he was fairly well off, powerful atlanta lawyer. >> although that was very true of burt lance, burt lance shouldn't have moved to washington. >> well exactly. later on, kirbo said, burt lance would have been better off if he followed my advice and not move to washington. kirbo it was interesting to me, the surprising thing was he helped to explain to me carter's political orientation. you know, carter is sort of an enigma as a politician and president. liberals can't figure him out, conservatives can't figure him out, he has different positions, and he is hard to categorize. but kirbo

here the evening of june 4th had been warm and clear in washington the president retired just before midnight to the family living quarters in the white house after the state reception for a visiting guest but his rest that night was cut short by a message from presidential assistant walt rostow. at 3:30 am the president was awakened with the news that senator robert kennedy in the midst of victory in the california presidential primary had been shot and critically. wounded by an assassin the president's reaction to this shocking event was immediate. he ordered secret service protection for the major presidential candidates dispatched a plane with special medical assistance to los angeles and later in the day went on nationwide television to announce the appointment of a commission to study the climate of violence and extremism in america. 200 million americans did not strike down robert kennedy last night. anymore than they struck down president john f kennedy in 1963 or dr. martin luther king and april of this year. but those awful events. give us ample warning. that in a climate o

but we are marching tomorrow in washington d. c. at the washington monument. and we are marching in over 450 cities across the country and the world. as democrats, as republicans, as gun owners and non gun owners, recognizing that, as a country, we do have our differences. we do have things we disagree on. but that's part of democracy. that's part of our representative system of government. but let's focus on what we can agree on. and get any action so that we can even just stop one part of parkland them from happening or one chain from happening. again, no law is perfect. but here's the reality, lawrence. the shooter at my high school -- he was a criminal, obviously. but he was not a mastermind. he was 19 year old able to go out and buy, legally obtained, an ar-15. the same way that the 18 -year-old was in texas and the one in buffalo as well. these are not masterminds. they are barely adults, with hatred in their hearts. they aren't mentally ill. they are racist, self-described fascists, like the one in buffalo. hatred and racism are not mental illnesses. >>

that was the washington post. the irony of all of this is the people who are supposed to be offended they don't care. >> the progressive left know what history is. they will tell the liberal community that minorities -- honey, i know what's better for you. you're gonna be called this. this is how you should vote. this is what you need. this is exactly what they do, shove it down the threat. instead of listening to them, they tell them how to vote, feel and think. >> what is the act of this? how do you stop the taking down of statues, the cancel of history? my goodness, know your words, know your history before you start to cancel it. >> couple things. we are seeing some natural push back. i think san francisco, that school board voted to take all those presidential names including lincoln off schools. they ended up pushing back and getting rid of the two board members who did it. you saw what's happening now. people rallied around to make sure president douglas' statue didn't come down in washington. they're now p

washington journal is next with your calls and tweets on the news of the day. ♪ host: this is "washington journal" for june 11. one of the themes for the midterm election is crime. san francisco's district attorney was outed because he was liberal and others are showing they are tough on crime. we want to get your thoughts on what party you trust when it comes to fighting crime overall. here is how you can let us know. (202)-748-8001 for republicans, (202)-748-8000 four democrats, an independents (202)-748-8002. if you are in law enforcement and you want to give your thoughts, (202)-748-8003 is how you can do that. you can use that same number to text us your thoughts. you can post on facebook and twitter and follow the show on instagram. "the washington post" looks at how democrats running for reelection are facing this crime . in this article it goes to san francisco and the primary that took place this week. it fears democrats losing ground or compounded by the primary, in which it included the recall of san francisco district attorney, whom voters saw as overly lenient toward criminal