We seem to be seeing more political debates online, often leading to insults and frustration.

So we decided to try something different.

We brought six political independents into our studio to talk face to face about the issues.

Three of them; Matt, Ethan and Mike voted for President Trump.

While John, Anne and Josh voted for Hillary Clinton.

Brian Allen: I want you to give me one word or phrase that in your estimation describes the president. And John lets begin with you.

John Hay: Immature.

Anne Weyer: Distraction.

Josh Wolters: I was going to say distraction also.

Mike Lewis; Overall decent job.

Ethan Fluit: Chaotic.

Matt Staab: Doing what he said he would do. Like Donald Trump or not he pretty much has been doing what he said he was going to do.

John Hay: He's being vocal and disruptive like we kind of said here. But is he actually affecting law? Changin law? Working the process? Getting things done that he said he was going to get done? I don't see that.

Mike Lewis: The guy is a great businessman. So he's doing exactly what he said he is going to do.

Brian Allen: Is that a good thing?

Mike Lewis: Yes.

Brian Allen: Josh?

Josh Wolters: I think he has had a hard time getting traction. I think that overall he has done a lot of what he said he was going to do.

Anne Weyer: I think he ran on a very aggressive economic platform. Being opposed to NAFTA and wanting jobs to stay in America. I don't see that happening. I don't see jobs coming back to coal country. I don't see him working with the people and the people in leadership to make that happen.

Brian Allen: By a show of hands, who here believes that President Trump is an honest man?

(Ethan Fluit raises his hand)

Ethan Fluit: I would say somewhat. I think he believes what he is saying. Doesnt necessarily means its true. He definitely believes that he didn't do anything wrong with the Russia thing for example. He definitely believes that. And he probably didn't. In my opinion.

Brian Allen: But out of six of you I get half a vote of confidence That the president is an honest man.

Matt Staab: Brian ask the question again just slightly different. Do you believe any politician? Raise your hand. This country wanted a change and we got a change and it was a huge change. If we had elected Hillary we would have had the same stuff Chapter two.

Brian Allen: Now the back row I want to ask a question so this is for Matt, Ethan and Mike. You voted for the President last November. Do you feel good about voting the way you did?

Matt Staab: I didn't feel good about voting for him in the first place. But I sure wouldn't have voted for Hillary. To do it all over again, Donald Trump hands down. Not even a second thought.

MIke Lewis: I believe it was a great decision and I would probably do it again. For the reasons we said earlier is that the guy's a great businessman. He's bringing that to The White House. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It's just unfortunate that the Congress is going against him.

Ethan Fluit: I definitely stand by my vote. I'd love to have a better candidate but I definitely stand by it through and through.

John Hay: I saw Donald Trump as a guy that just does not have the sensibility to be calm and rational at times and I think we see that over and over again displayed. In every Tweet he sends out. Every irrational change of plan that he comes up with .The way he can't unify his own party. He has total control of the government and can't get anything done.

Anne Weyer: Donald really embraced the populism that was going on in the nation similar to Bernie (Sanders) but more I think in a negative way. In a negative direction and so I felt Hillary was the safer choice to make on Election Day.

Josh Wolters; Part of the issue in our country is that we are only given two real choices.

Brian Allen: By a show of hands I want to ask you this question: Should we be investing time, money and resources in investigating if Russia had any influence in the last election? (John, Anne and Josh raise their hands).

Mike Lewis: They've been investiagting for the last year and a half. Haven't found a bit of evidence that Russia had been involved with the election.

Matt Staab: I have yet to talk to anybody that said 'Yes, I changed my vote because I was influenced by the Russians'. It just isn't happenig. It's not there.

John Hay: There should be investigations. Benghazi was investigated I don't know how many times. No charges were ever brought. End of story. The Russia thing will be investigated. Charges may be brough. Charges may not be brought.

Ethan Fluit: I don't go to Facebook and think 'Yes I saw an ad and I'm definitiely going to change my vote.' It's just not going to change my mind.

Brian Alen: If its proven that there was collusion either with the president directly or members of his campaign staff on his behalf, raise your hand if you think that is an impeachable offense.

(All raise their hands expect Josh Wolters)

Josh Wolters: i just don't think it does anyone any good to go back in time and to change things.

Brian Allen: Republicans control The White House. Republicans control both houses of Congress. Yet there is still continued gridlock. So who is to blame? Is it more on The White House? Is it more on Congress? Or do you just split the blame and say they are both to blame?

Mike Lewis: At one point you have Donald trump who should be able to get stuff done as president. But at the same time Congress...the House of Representatives...you know even though they have a Republican majority they....for whatever reason... they're just not getting the votes they need to pass laws.

John Hay: You kind of have at least two maybe three different parts of the Republican Party trying to decide what they want to do. So you truly don't have a united idea.

Brian Allen: Remember that video from a couple of weeks ago of Senator McCain walking into the Senate chambers showing his thumb down vote saying they he was going to vote against it and that killed the (health care) reform plan.

Matt Staab: He needs to go . I've just had it with him. You can throw Olympia Snowe in the bucket with him and throw them both out.

Ethan Fluit: I definitely respect Senator McCain as a person.I have been in the miltary 10 years and I can repsect where he is coming from on some positions. So as a politician I'm looking forward to him leaving. But as a person I have a good amount of respect for him.

Mike Lewis: He will be voted out the next eleciton for Arizona. He ran on certain stipulations and he just hasn't voted on them the way he said he was going to in the elections.

Brian Allen: So in May there was a NATO summit and there was that piece of video of the President pushing himself past the Prime Minister of Montenegro.

John Hay: That's the unqualified...what I saw in this guy that has no busines being president. He has no experience on how to handle himself in public.

Anne Weyer: When our president does something like that it tells other world leaders 'maybe he doesn't respect us'. Maybe this is an example of what Americans are and how they behave.

Matt Staab: He has said to the world we're the United States of America, like it or leave it. And for people like me it's about time. It was 8 long years of sitting around and being the doormat. we shold be the leader in every aspect.

Brian Allen: Walk me through that.

Matt Staab: We conservatives suffered through eight long years of no leadership. You know the bowing to the Saudi princes. Our President should never bow to another person.

Josh Wolters: I would rather be a leader in other ways. Through my actions and through my words rather than bullying people around.

Brian Allen: Ethan, is it ever OK to insult someone because of their political beliefs?

Ethan Fluit: I think it's pretty childish.

Brian Allen: But it happens.

Ethan Fluit: Obviously it happens. The internet is a breeding ground for people to say whatever they want anonymously. It's a cesspool.

John Hay: The internet is just a mess. I don't know how many people I've blocked and stopped following over the last year. You don't have the kinds of conversations we're having right here and have people speak like that to each other.

Brian Allen: The fact that we have all of you in the same room together talking about political ideals and political beliefs it seems that that is the rarity now. It seems like the norm is lets go on Facebook and lets go on Twitter.

Mike Lewis: Unfortunately it is truly unbelievable what you read on Facebook and what you read on Twitter.

Brian Allen: Have you ever taken part?

Mike Lewis: I have not. I have not.

Brian Allen: Have you ever been tempted?

Mike Lewis: I have. Plenty of times.

Brian Allen: What stopped you?

Mike Lewis: I don't want to get involved in anything like that .You know not that I don't want to get my beliefs out there and talk to other people about what they're thinking about but I just don't want to get involved.

Brian Allen: One word that describes media coverage of The White House.

Matt Staab: Lousy.

Ethan Fluit: Pathetic.

Mike Lewis: Dreadful.

Josh Wolters: Thwarted attempts.

Anne Weyer: Relentless.

John Hay: I don't think they're getting what they need to.

Matt Staab: I just saw something on the news the other day that the coverage of Trump is 95% negative.

Brian Allen: Just because it's negative doesn't necessarily mean that it is untrue.

Matt Staab: Can we not run a story of some successes? The lowering of the unemployment rate. People coming off the Welfare rolls. Some of us like the idea of building a wall. Can't we show some of the positive parts of that?

Mike Lewis: The one video that I think of is that time where he is throwing paper towels out there at the crowd. CNN went on and on about that story. Just making fun of him.

Anne Weyer: I think that the media has a responsibility to educate people. And we're not seeing that. We're seeing them feed into emotion.

Maat Staab: The liberals complain about Fox. Fox no longer is a conservative network. I dropped watching them like a year ago because of their liberal bias. The Drudge Report is my choice for news. For national news.

Brian Allen: But you said something there that's interesting. You don't watch Fox anymore because of its liberal bias.

Matt Staab: Correct.

Brian Allen: But you did watch Fox when there was a conservtive bias.

Matt Staab: Correct. OK the liberals have CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, and conservatives have Fox. And there's an overwhelming bias there? Come on. It doesn't even come close to being equal.

Brian Allen: How many of you support the way the President uses Twitter? (Anne and Mike raise their hands).

Mike Lewis: i love the fact that he puts his schedule out there. Everybody knows what he's doing that day. His thoughts. What's going through his mind as the President. Just the ability to get inside the Oval Office. Get inside not necessarily Donald Trump as a person but Donald Trump as the President.

Anne Weyer: I think there's transparency there that I'm sensing that he is communicating with the public regularly. He cares that the public knows what he's doing. Whether that's personal promotion or what we benefit from knowing what he's up to.

Matt Staab: Like they say about writing a nasty letter; you wait a day to send it. If he would wait two hours before he hits the send button on his Tweets I think his approval rating would be considerably higher than it is.

John Hay: It's careless. He's very careless with it.

Mike Lewis: I think that...not to interrupt you...but I think that's where the insight of the actual presidency comes from. It's the instant thought.

John Hay: It's very legitimate but it's not being sent just to his supporters. He's sending these things out to the entire world. Someday he just might say the wrong thing. Not saying we're gonna start the next world war over it but he can be pretty reckless with what he is saying.

Brian Allen: If you could give the President once piece of advice on anything what would you telll him?

Ethan Fluit: I would probably just quote another president...speak softly and carry a big stick.

Matt Staab: You have far more support than you probably think you do...but act more presidential.

John Hay: Words matter. That would be it.

Anne Weyer: I would encourage him to keep learning and keep trying to understand the world. and surround himself with people who know what they're doing.

Josh Wolters: Being the leader of the greatest country in the world means being the leader of the world and he needs to act like it.

Mike Lewis: I would say despite all his critics...continue what he's doing. I believe the country is going in the right direction. There's a lot of negativity out there saying he needs to stop Tweeting. Stop Facebooking. Continue what he's doing.