host: our conversation with daryl kimball. these are the numbers to call -- here is what the president said just last week when he spoke to reporters. get along with russia, that's a positive thing. we have a very talented man, rex tillerson, who will meet with them shortly. said politically is probably not good for me. the greatest thing i can do is to shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. everyone in the country will say that so great. it's not great. that's not great. i would love to be able to get along with russia. presidentsd a lot of that haven't taken that -- that have taken that tactic and look where we are now. i love to negotiate things. i do it really well, all that stuff. won't bepossible i able to get along with vladimir putin. maybe. thefalse reporting by media, by you people, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with russia. saidrobably vladimir putin , he's sitting behind his desk and saying you know, i see what's going on in the united states and i

daryl kimball is with the arms control association and later lauren right is out with a book on behalf of the president and will be joining us from san francisco. you're watching and listening "washington journal." we are back in a moment. >> in case you missed it, here are some clips of c-span's programming last week. senator rand paul spoke at the republican house care news conference about the gop plan to replace the if portal care act. >> he's going to legalize the sale of inexpensive insurance. it's going to expand health savings accounts so people can save to by their insurance and use it for their deductible or their premium, for vitamins, weight loss, you name it, exercise. it also allows individuals to join an association so that they are now -- they are not left out in the cold to buy insurance and a small insurance pool. actor ashton kutcher shared his views on modern slavery. >> i have been on fbi raids were i have seen things that no person should ever see. content -- the a of a child being raped by an american man who was a sex tourist in cambodia and this child was so co

and later, daryl kimball on dealing with north korea, russia and iran and the trump administration on nuclear policy. the washington journal continues in a moment. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> so which presidents were america's greatest leaders. c-span asked historians to rate our 43 presidents in 10 areas of leadership. top billing went to the president who preserved the union, abraham lincoln. he's held the top spot for all three c-span historian surveys. three other top vote getters, george washington, franklin roosevelt and theodore roosevelt. dwight eisenhower makes his first appearance in the c-span top five this year. now rounding out the historians' top 10 choice, harry truman, thomas jefferson, john f. kennedy and ronald reagan. lyndon johnson jumps up one spot to return to the top 10. but james buchanon is ranked dead last in all three c-span surveys. and there's bad news for andrew jackson as well. our seven

then, daryl kimball, executive director of the arms control association looks at u.s. nuclear policy in the trump administration. and later, author and political scientist lauren wright discusses the role of political spouses in her book "on behalf of the president: presidential spouses and white house communication strategy today." we will take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. washington journal is next. host: good morning on this president's day. donald trump returns from mar-a-lago this evening on february 20, marking one month into the trunk presidency. nextess in recess until monday but a busy week for nation governors here in tc. a conference taking place in the national harbor in maryland. and the democratic national committee meeting this weekend to vote on a new party chair. we begin with another c-span cities tour. ranking america's presidents g