Democrats. 2027488002 for independents. You can make a facebook comment or send an email. From Washington Times this morning. Lynch nomination clears committee with gop vote. Guaranteeing she will be confirmed in the full senate next month. Ms. Lynch was approved by the committee on 128 vote. Three republicans joining and backing her. Orrin hatch, Lindsey Graham and jeff flake of arizona. On politico this morning, gop leaders said to swerve dhs off the cliff. First, the good news. Congress appears to have found a way to avoid the shutdown of the department of Homeland Security for the next three weeks. Now, the bad the month is beginning to look grim for the new Republican Congress that has lost the expectations for legislating in 2015. Gop l leaders that will eat the house and senate three weeks to bridge the fundamental differences on funding the department and the longterm and blocking president Barack Obamas changes to the enforcement of immigration policy. Congress must update a allocated complicated medicare reimbursement gop leaders vow to avoid them, but legislative clips are back. The most immediate tripwire may be removed now that john boehner and House Republicans have convinced their rankandfile to fund the department for three weeks or risk having the senates bill jammed down their throats. House democrats are whipping against the bill, which means gop leadership must pass the bill with mostly its own members. 2027488001 ror republicans. 2027488000 for them across. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Welcome to the obamanet. The sec democrats promise for now to fcc democrats promise floyd in jonesville virginia. What is on your mind this morning . Caller good morning. Thank you for taking our call. I really think the christians in america need to wake up. Our brothers and sisters over there are being slain. Christians here in america are beginning to be persecuted they voted in thirtysomething states to do away with homosexuality and they took our votes and cast them in the trash can. Host you always talk about this issue. What is it about homosexuality that bothers you . Caller in the bible, it is called sodom and gomorrah. It was done for an example. Turning to the book right before revelations. It is in the new testament. What was done in sodom and gomorrah, it will happen again. These are being forced upon christian people we dont want sodom and gomorrah in america. It has been forced upon christian people by they cant run their business anymore. I want to thank god for one man a judge in alabama. He is taking a stand. All of us christians need to take a stand. Host this is mark in east haven, connecticut. Democrats line. Its on your mind this week . Caller that gentleman floyd sounds like he is deep in the closet and i hope you can get the courage he can get the courage to dig his way out of it. I want to make a point, this whole business with boehner and netanyahu, its another example of the way the House Republicans have been unwilling to work with obama and try to sabotage his presidency. If they were able to evaluate obama in an objective manner, they would note that he is one of the most hawkish democrats that have been president in the last 50 years. I dont understand why it is so difficult for them to work with him, particularly on foreignpolicy matters. It is unfortunate that this whole business with netanyahu and the speech is taking up so much time. Host from the National Journal this morning. Fcc and ask expensive Net Neutrality rules andenacts expensive Net Neutrality rules. What happens next . Caller the rules will be published in the federal register in 60 and a 60 days after that they become official. The next steps will be the efforts by the critics to try to roll back these regulations. In congress, republicans are working on their own legislation. Some of the republicans are more interested in the straight repeal of these new rules. Other republicans like john thune and fred upton are working on trying to find some kind of compromise with democrats so they can avoid this title to utility style regulation. That is happening on capitol hill. Providers like at t, verizon are probably going to challenge the new rules in court. You will have the challenge on capitol hill, the challenge and the court. Host what can happen on capitol hill . Host can the republicans legislate this away . Caller i dont think they can legislate Net Neutrality away because president obama would veto the bill. The real question is how far the republicans would be willing to compromise. They are working on a bill that would address many of the concerns that the advocates of Net Neutrality would want, like preventing writers from blocking websites or slowing down traffic. It would impose those kinds of rules while also stopping the fcc from using this broader utility style authority, making the internet into a telecommunications service. There is potentially some ground for copper mice, but we will see because a lot of democrats have been worried about limiting the fccs authority. Some ground for compromise. I think it will be it is a tough challenge. There are some leading democrats that have been interested in negotiating and talking about it. Some other democrats are perhaps less interested in they feel like they want to see this why try to undermine that. Host how much longer are they talking about the issue . Caller a long time, probably. It will take a long time to work through the court. A couple years for that. Then there is the question of enforcement. If there is some sort of violation or advocates claim there is a violation will the fcc crackdown. Also in congress, republicans want to rewrite the communications act, the foundational law for the fcc. That will reignite this whole fight over Net Neutrality. It will be an issue that continues to be something people argue about and find about for a long time. Host brandon sasso, thanks for your time this morning. Wed story in usa today. Lead story in usa today. In the money section, they have this picture from the fcc meeting. This is an Steve Wozniak cofounder of apple, plotting the fcc yesterday as they made their decision plotting the sec. Margaret in kansas. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I will be 65 next week. Host congratulations. Caller i made it. I had Breast Cancer and everything. I watch bbc, al jazeera, Cnn International and then i look at us and yesterday john boehner was making raspberries at the press and answering snarky people worried in public about homosexuality the freedom of the internet is what gave hope to some people around the world and their small revolutions against their government. So many things that are so good are barely hanging on by a thread. I know they cannot cooperate but could they at least put a mirror up sometime and remember they are saying all over the world seen all of the world and there are terrible problems and leadership. When our representatives and john boehner makes raspberries and people and they act like total racists in dealing with obama, like children, it is so embarrassing and it has put us back decades. Host margaret in kansas. Happy birthday to you. Kim in washington, pennsylvania. Caller i keep asking myself why is our congress fighting the Prime Minister of israel . Out of the whole middle east, israel is the only country we can truly trust. Host from the Washington Post. Betty mccollum, why i wont go2net and yahoo s speech why i wont go to netanyahus speech. Israelis need to base their vote on their own priorities. It is my hope that israelis will see netanyahus speech for what it is. A campaign rally. From the wall street journal this morning addressing israel lobby group. Cspan will carry netanyahus speech live on march 3, next tuesday next call from larry independent. Caller good morning. I want to address the human race. I want to thank the whole human race i paid attention, i was in science class. Not everybody is like. We could not exist as a human race if we were all the same. We are not the same. My attraction to blue haired blonde i women was a learned. I love every member of the human race just as equally. Once that nobody wants they are as normal and decent and as natural as i am. So there. Host where is saint stephen, minnesota . Redwood falls, minnesota. Kevin, republican. Caller how are you doing . I was watching all this gridlock in washington. He realized there is still people like bill clinton they gave us some prosperous years. I wish boehner and obama would take a lesson out of their playbook. There are so many things that can be done. It is frustrating to watch. Host thank you, kevin. You mentioned Newt Gingrich. Here is todays a schedule at the conservative Political Action committee being held 10 miles south of washington at the National Harbor. Newt gingrich is the first speaker. He speaks at 8 00 a. M. Jeb bush will speak at 1 20 p. M. This afternoon. That is all live on cspan3 today. Live on cspan am of the house of representatives what is the house and senate up to today . Caller they are on separate tracks, which will he was. You will see the Senate Passed a Homeland Security funding bill that would fund the department through september. That would be silent on the provision of blocking the president executive action. They will pass a clean funding bill through the rest of the fiscal year. The House Republicans want to go and pass a threeweek continuing resolution to keep the Department Funded at the current levels and then fight this again in three weeks. Im not sure what will be different in three weeks. They are not ready to accept the senates proposal. You will see these two chambers take opposite paths today. I assume the senate is going to pass the threeweek bill after the senate after the house approves its stopgap measure and then congress will live to fight this issue again in march. Host why is the house not eager to pass the senate bill . Caller conservatives in the house believe the senate is giving in to the demands of democrats. They essentially are because they dont have the votes Senate Republicans have a deep or votes and the need 60 to break a democratic filibuster. Democrats have blocked the Homeland Security bills and demanded the immigration provisions be dropped from that bill. You canit would still get vetoed by the president. It is an unwinnable fight right now to use the Homeland Security bill as leverage to override the president S Immigration actions. There are a number of house members who believe the senate is not pushing hard enough. They believe the president has taken an unconstitutional action on immigration. They believe the funding bill is the only way to do it. The house is not ready to bend to the demands of the white house because they believe there is more they can do. Host two big votes in the senate. One on stripping one on the executive order. And one on passing a bill a dhs funding bill through september. Over on the house side, one vote on a threeweek extension correct . Caller thats what we are looking at right now. There will be a vote on a separate executive action separate bill that would block the president s executive action on immigration. It is a standalone bill, not tied to the department of Homeland Security funding. It would block the president from Going Forward on the executive action. That measure that the senate will vote on today will fail on a procedural vote because democrats are insisting the department be fully funded before the debate. The democrats will have the votes to prevent that from Going Forward. That will complicate things in the house where republicans believe the funding process is a way to go after the president S Immigration action. Host if the house passes their threeweek extension, it goes back to the senate tonight . Caller it will. You will see the senate accepted because nobody wants to shut down and nobody wants the blame for a shutdown. Host from the Washington Times this morning. The obama administrations intelligence told congress that political instability and statesponsored mass killing are at their highest rate in decades and the u. S. Still faces ominous challenges from china, russia cyber terrorists and the continuing turmoil in the middle east. Here is a bit of director clapper from yesterday. [video clip] in 2013, just over 11,500 terrorist attacks worldwide killed approximately 22,000 people. Preliminary data reflects nearly 13,000 attacks which killed 31,000 people. When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year in the 45 years such data has been compiled. Half of all attacks and fatalities occurred in just three countries. Isi all conducted more attacks than any other terrorist group i sil conducted more attacks than any other terrorist group. Erin in seattle. Democrat. Caller ted cruz was born in canada. On socialized medicine. Hes an immigrant. President abraham lincoln, the emancipation proclamation, it was an executive order. Eisenhower integrated the military by executive order allowing blacks to fight. The japanese attacked america because of the treatment to blacks. During the revolutionary war the french try to help the blacks. We have been fighting against our own interests and used as a pawn to help the caucasian race keep us enslaved. The reason we are overseas is because of the guilty conscience we have for slavery. The americans are talking john mccain was against the freedom fighters. These people are racist and hateful. They are just like the taliban and isis because they want to impose these religious fundamental views against abortion and immigration. This is basically whats going on. We will stand up for our rights. This is what white people learned we were denied housing host this is lori in north carolina. Independent. Caller good morning. That was really stunning, the last caller. On a nonpolitical statement, i would like to say that Benjamin Netanyahu was educated here in the United States. He does hold dual citizenship with israel and the United States. He is a head of state in israel. His visit to the United States should not be that big of a deal since he holds dual citizenship. With regards to the department of Homeland Security, i really think that we really dont even need a department of Homeland Security. We have the whole alphabet soup of Government Agencies like the fbi and cia and nsa and all these other people. We had our military and we have our national guard. I dont see why we would even need a department of Homeland Security when we have all these other Government Agencies looking out for our best interests. That is all i would like to say. Have a good day. Host beth in mitchell, indiana. Democrats. Caller thank you. I would like to say about the Affordable Care act, i think there are some things people need to realize. The Affordable Care act will help people to get more training and get better pay. 7080 of paid care for elders is done by nurses aides and they need more training and better pay in order to provide that care. The Affordable Care act is also going to try to switch the focus of care from Nursing Homes to homebased care and community care, which would be a really good thing. We need to deal with endoflife issues. In regards to people on medicare , making informed decisions about what they want and what they dont want in regards to cpr, feeding tubes come antibiotics if they are in a state where they dont know whats going on. Host are you in the Health Care Industry . Caller i am. I have been a nurse for 23 years. Endoflife issues is what is killing medicare. It is not a pretty subject. It is hard to talk about. It is bankrupting our Health Care System. Host are you seeing a lot of money being spent in the last couple weeks of life . Caller there is more money spent in the last year of a patients life and in all the years leading up to it and its because we dont talk about endoflife issues. We have things we call dnr the family with the doctor get to choose. They make decisions like not having cpr but putting meds through their iv. If someone is in that position come if you are not doing cpr to circulate those meds, the mets are doing no good. We let this happen because it makes everybody feel a little bit better about not doing anything, which is really an ok thing to do. We need to get that through our heads. We need to start paying for Palliative Care for people who have congestive Heart Failure dont have to go into the hospital every month for drips and things like that that can be treated at home. Homebased care, thats what needs to happen. Hospitals will start getting not reimbursed if the patient is admitted to the hospital for the same diagnosis in one month twice. If they get readmitted within 30 days, the hospital does not get reimbursement for that second admission. How is that fair if the patient is 90 years old and has a heart that sucks but nobody has come to the decision that, hey, maybe we shouldnt do aggressive care of this patient . Host is mitchell in north indiana . Caller south indiana by kentucky. I work in a small i have worked in three local, small hospitals. I see the same thing over and over. We torture our elderly people because everybody is afraid to talk about it. There is also money being allocated for that talk, for doctors to get reimbursed who have that talk with patients about realistic goals for their disease processes. I cant tell you how many times i have seen 98yearold people be full code meaning we would do cpr on them if their heart stops and put them on a ventilator if they quit breathing. Yes, there are instances where that might be appropriate. I personally dont think so. They have to be informed. 30 of the average population that goes through a code it doesnt make it. That is not factoring in if they are ill or elderly the chances go way, way down. Host endoflife care might be a good topic for the washington journal sometime. He small group of highranking pentagon officials made a quite visit to Silicon Valley in december to solicit National Security ideas. There is a precedent for the initiative. President eisenhower created the advanced Research Project agency at the pentagon when sure that u. S. The u. S. Would not be blindsided by technological advances. John in minersville, pennsylvania. Republican line. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. I enjoy cspan. I think its a great source of information. Probably the best one we can get as far as the news in the country these days. When you get a caller iq had recently like you had recently who ranted and raved that is an insult to viewers intelligence and i think you should cut people off a little earlier. Host if that is his opinion why should we stop eric from voicing it . Caller a Statement Like that is just ridiculous. Its a waste of your time and anyone who is listening. Opinions are opinions, but that is ridiculous, it is isnt it . Host from Washington Post this morning darcy calling in from the troy to this morning on her independent line. Our independent line. Caller whats on my mind is the fact that when it comes to technology, we were the digits had to be pressed individually in order for the note to come out. A person would be better off but we never got to that coul. We dont even know how to use the equipment we are dealing with. There is no one to come around and share how to use these equipment to better ourselves as a society. I heard you all talk about americans, he said americans will be protected, who is americans . I dont know if you are talking about the average citizen or Police Politicians even those in the hierarchy dont know if they will be protected and secure if anything drastic was to happen to the country. Host yesterday on the house floor, there was a bit of a kerfuffle. What a thursday in the house. Boehner throws kisses to reporter. Here are the two leaders of the democrats and republicans on the house floor. [video clip] what can we expect to be on the floor tomorrow, mr. Leader . Mr. Whip, i expect we will deal with the current schedule we have before us, plus dealing with dhs. In the majority leader tell us what we might be considering with respect to keeping the department of home and security operating on a permanent basis . We dealt with this weeks ago. And sent over to the senate as i just listed before, we will provide that information after the rules Committee Hearing tonight. The rules committee is going to meet at 9 30 tonight . Yes. Somebody said in 00 over here. 8 00 over here. Where is our rules Committee Chair . In 00. 8 00. We have been six weeks leaving the department of home and security twisting in the wind. Homeland security twisting in the wind. I have been very clear about the schedule for tomorrow. We will end our work by tomorrow evening. We did our part and i yield back. Host a bit of an exchange between Kevin Mccarthy and steny hoyer. Grandville, michigan. Democrat. Caller thank you for taking my call. The fcc i would like to give a millennials perspective on that issue. I think it is great that the fcc has ruled for Net Neutrality. I cannot imagine an internet that does not have same speeds for everything. In order for freedom of speech to remain our most positive medium, it must remain open and free internet. The house took up debate on no child left behind. As a Current High School student who has also grown up being educated under the no child left behind reform, it is good cold that the government it is critical that the government make reform to these measures. We have grown up in an era of education in which we are trained to answer multiplechoice questions more than we are to critically think and act as a society. It is long past time that Congress Make reforms to the no child left behind law. Host do you go to Public School . Caller Public School. Host youre in what grade . 11th . Caller yes. I had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday. Host why do you care so much about that neutrality . Net neutrality . What kind of College Education are you looking forward to . Caller im looking forward to a public university. Host what do you want to study . Caller political sciences. I want to go into politics, either as a staffer probably as a staffer, im hoping. Host who is your favorite politician today . Caller despite being a democrat , i do appreciate justice i appreciate his openness and obvious care for the people he is representing even though i disagree with some of his ideals. Host hes pretty far that she is pretty conservative. He is pretty conservative. Caller he explains every single vote he makes on his facebook and twitter pages. He is a very open politician. He cares a lot and makes most of his decisions based on what people want and is very open to information of his constituents. Host thanks, logan. Good luck with your recovery. West virginia. Independent line. Caller if things were reversed and the democrats had the house and senate and republicans a republican was a president and he did an excited order to enforce the litigation immigration laws, is it any doubt that the democrats would be defunding Homeland Security and the news media and cspan and everybody else would be blaming the republican president for shutting down the government . The president today and the democrats had two years they working. Nobody could stop them. They could do anything they wanted. If they were so concerned about immigration, they should have done it, could have done it. Do you agree that they had two years that they could have done this . They are playing these political games. Host this is the wall street journal. The daily news, the seventh largest daily newspaper in the u. S. Exploring the possibility of a sale, its owner said. Jim is a republican in Fort Lauderdale. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to comment after that angry phone call with the rent about black people in the United States host are you talking about eric in seattle . Caller about the japanese bombing and all that. That is a slap in the face to white people who have fought for equal rights for everyone in this country. I would like to see more black people stepping up and say we needed to let go of all of this anger. Sure, terrible things have happened to black people in the past, but thats in the past. I would like to hear more black people saying we need to step up and increase our standards and view things with facts instead of reducing it, everything to race. There will be a white backlash with regard to these kinds of comments. Im worried about it. Im very worried about this. If you listen to some black leaders, you would think every white person in the United States after the revolutionary war owned a slave. Everybody was pretty much dirt poor. You want to talk about the top 1 , the top 1 of the 1 of the 1 owned slaves in the United States. The rest of the white people were to report just like everybody else. Dirt porches like everybody else. Slavery started in africa with black people. That is a fact. Host this is rick in muncie, indiana. Independent line. Caller the previous caller made some great points. Look up white slavery in america on youtube. The republicans need to step up and take a stand. I have a Youtube Channel with just over 1. 6 million viewers. They have all said republicans need to take a stand. I have a little over 3 million on twitter. Host take a stand on what . Caller not letting the democrats push them around. Host are you talking about any particular issue . Caller on immigration. We have laws in the country we have laws right . Bottom line is that we have laws and the delman before just said they had two years. They manipulated the system, they used the system to gain the people the republicans are well aware of whats going on. I dont think the average citizen understands what is really going on. Host what do you do in muncie . Caller im a student. Host at ball state . Caller correct. Political science. Host youve had 1. 2 unique views. Caller and over 3 million on twitter. Host if people want to follow you, where can they go . Host i cant saycaller i cant say it on tv. It is political ass. Host you can say that on cspan. It has been heard before. A student at ball state university. Monte tweets in that congress is a theater with neverending acts. From the New York Times this morning is this story. Missouri official dead in apparent suicide. Thomas white died on thursday after apparently shooting himself at his house in suburban st. Louis. The death stunned many in the state political establishment coming one month after he had announced he would run for governor. The police were called to his home at 9 48 a. M. On thursday. He was taken to a nearby hospital with what appeared to be a selfinflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead. That is from the New York Times this morning. Langley, kentucky. Democrats line. Whats on your mind this morning . Host thanks for taking my call caller thanks for taking my call. In a court of law, you are supposed to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The people are getting the truth, but not the whole truth. The upper class are the manufacturers. They set policy. The middle class would be the entrepreneurs, those people who sell what is produced. The lower class is anybody that draws a paycheck. If you dont get that paycheck for two months and it affects your economic standing, you are lower class. I grew up in maryland. My grandfather was 14 when they freed the slaves were he was. I heard family discussions when i was growing up about what was done to the slaves. What isis is doing, its no worse or no better than what was done to the slaves. My greatgrandfather was a native american and he was gathered up and shipped out and joined the cherokee. I know from experience im 82 now. Those would be my points. Host bill in langley kentucky. This weekend its going to be judiciary chair he will be our guest. Here is just a portion of him talking about home and security funding. Homeland security funding. [video clip] my number one concern is the president be stopped from taking actions be on his power. Beyond his power. It will depend upon what is proposed, how long this would be , whether its done in order to pass another measure that is sent back to the senate. They will need more time because of their arcane rules, but rules that take a long time to address registration legislation. If we send Something Back to them tomorrow, they may not get it done before the department of home and security gets shut down Homeland Security gets shut down. We want to use the spending power in an effective way. During the time the president is enjoying pursuing this program. A shortterm extension is something we need to have a careful discussion about how it would work. Host on our republican line is laura in theory, pennsylvania. Erie, pennsylvania. Caller i wish things would call down between the races. Callem down between the races. Last week, we were talking about pride williams and why he was suspended for lies. Brian williams. I dont know why cspan doesnt give someone to comment on why Hillary Clinton can say she was caught under cyber fire and she is running for the top position and nobody is asking her to step aside. My husband was shot at in vietnam. I served, but i was never under sniper fire and i would never say that i was. That is enough to disqualify her. I was listening to rush limbaugh. Why are people, especially the news folks saying the standard should be the same why are nt people . Hillary needs to bow out. She cannot be commanderinchief saying these lies. It takes away the honor of those people who risk their lives every day. Host danville, virginia up next. Independent line. Caller i have two things to talk about. The last caller said hillary should be called out for her lies. That caller just lied saying Hillary Clinton is running for office. My point is about how the gop in congress is abusing their power , try to force the free taxpaying citizens to pronounce the legalization of marijuana which the citizens voted for. I want to know if any of those gop congressman would have ran in this past midterm elections with the Campaign Promise that they were going to lock up local officials or state officials for enforcing the vote of the people when they accuse obama of disregarding the states the will of the states. Here is d. C. That wants to legalize marijuana when three other states have already done so and the only excuse they come up with is d. C. Is not a state. Does that make d. C. Less equal . Host what do you do in danville . Caller im a Computer Programmer and a parttime student. Host what are you studying . Caller im studying Business Management and computer networks. Host from usa today this morning marijuana use now legal in nations capital. This has joined an exclusive group that can now grow and consume marijuana in their homes. Some members of congress were threatening to intervene. The district has joined colorado, alaska, and Washington State in permitting the general public to use marijuana. While colorado and washington are reaping the tax benefits of a regulated industry with hundreds of retail stores, d. C. Residents must either grow their own or get it for free. Daniel in milwaukee. He is a democrat. Caller good morning. Two of your callers recently said that the democrats had a majority in the senate for two years. That is inaccurate. Al franken was not sworn in until july of 2009. They resisted his election in the 2008 voting. Shortly after that unfortunately, ted kennedy died. That 60 votes within the senate. Thank you. Host that was daniel in milwaukee and this is rick in South Carolina. He is on the republican line. Go ahead, rick. Caller good morning. Im calling about charlie wrangle and calling white people from the south crackers. His isolation was even more offensive than calling us crackers. I thought those people were proud of their heritage. I talked to my senator here in town and the representatives and they feel like i feel. They just dont say anything. I would appreciate if you would on your show have people call in and talk about black racism. Thank you for letting me have my say. Host this is way in South Carolina next. Wade, you are on the washington journal. Caller thank you for taking my call. Ive been calling and since 2008 about thiS Immigration stuff and i hope they stand their ground on it. Obama just got upset over the fact that the midterms and i think it is a temper tantrum on his part, playing politics. We do not need that in the country. We need the laws upheld. Thank you very much. Host since 9 a. M. This morning they have worked on dhs funding. Senate ended in this morning to work on dhs funding. It looks like, according to a reporter that we talk to earlier today, the house will pass a threeweek extension and that will go over to the senate and be passed by the senate. That funding continues for dhs. Cpac is meeting in National Harbor maryland, about 10 miles south of our location here. That is live all day long on cspan3. It begins at 7 30 a. M. Newt gingrich is scheduled to appear at 8 a. M. Tune in if you want to watch the cspan cpac all day long. You can turn over to cspan3. To ohio. Caller i like to talk about media and black america. Ive been watching cspan since 1997. I thought it was the greatest show i ever saw. Brian lamb what ever happened to him . Why dont he ever be on the show . He would never let somebody come on his show and tell a baldfaced lie. He would let them spend a little bit, but he would never let nobody just come out there and tell a baldfaced lie. I see some of your house host and they are just out right and they do not call them out on it. I watched cnn and fox news and i see the person asking the question, if use reading off the piece of paper, and the guy he is asking the question to reading off a piece of paper back to him. Our media is just all screwed up. As far as blacks, they are still hanging black people. They have been shooting them down like a dog in the street. They still are discriminated. Ate nothing changed. Aibnt nothing changed. People say that its changing, but they are still shooting people. This is the United States and things never change. Host what do you do . Caller im retired. Host from what . Caller a floor layer. Host what is that . Guest a floor layer. Host how old are you . Caller 65. Host where do you grow up . Caller in toledo. Host where do you get your news from . Caller i try to listen to it and read the lines and try to figure it out. Host richard in Fort Lauderdale. Richard is another republican calling in from Fort Lauderdale. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I would like to speak about the expansion of government. This news about the internet where does it end . We have the irs with tens of thousands of pages and each paragraph in each sentence is a way it affects our life with government. We have the Health Care System with 20,000 new pages. We have epa with tens of thousands of pages. Each page, paragraph and sentence has its own. Now, we turn on our computer and we have pages of government how we use our computer. Imagine a local town and driving around in your car in the local city enforcement has 300 new pages of how you drive your car. What bothers me, too is the way of the left in this country. They are kind of a corporation which creates jobs. A corporation could be something that makes ravioli or coffee pots or Something Like that. What is a corporation . They attack corporations, but they are happy with government intrusion. I really do not understand that. I had another, it. Host what do you do in Fort Lauderdale . Caller i am an electrical contractor. Host do you find that your business is full of regulations . Caller oh, absolutely. The state, the judge, the city. We have osha, workmens comp. , unemployment. The list goes on and on. We have to keep laws on all cuts so that kinds of that. It is overwhelming. It really is. Host we are going to leave it there. Richard, thanks for calling in. P Research Center poll 51 says the Republican Party can best handle the threat of terrorism. 31 of democrats. 48 says the gop can best handle Foreign Policy to 35 of democrats. 47 say the Republican Party can best handle tax issues. 36 cite the democratic party. 44 say the Republican Party can best handle the economy while 41 for the democrats. 43 say the gop can best handle immigration with 45 democrat. 40 republicans best for health care 47 for democrats. That is in the Washington Times this morning. Senator jim imhoff, republican from oklahoma, on the floor of the senate yesterday. [video clip] in case you have forgotten since 2014 has been the warmest year on record, this is a snowball. This is just from outside of here. It is very cold out and very unseasonal. I was surprised to catch this. We hear the perpetual headline that in 2014 it has been the warmest year on record. Now, it has flipped. It is important because we hear over and over again in the senate. Somehow, they are referring to the recent cold temperatures as the siberian express. This is today. This is reality. Others are printing pictures of the frozen Niagara Falls and 4700 square feet of ice frozen on the great lake. That is not happen before. Host that senator will be in at 9 30 a. M. This morning talking about Funding Department of Homeland Security as well as the house which begins at 9 a. M. This morning. Patricia is up and calling in from illinois on our independent line. Caller good morning. Im calling to express my disgust with the verdict of the young man who killed the socalled american sniper. The fact that this young man was brought to a shooting range when he had just gotten out of the hospital. He very clearly has and had and still does have ptsd. I am appalled that the judge allowed the jury to watch the oscars, which included a stirring speech by the star of american sniper. This is as well as a speech from his wife. It is a tragedy that the man was killed, but he should not people should know that a man who has gotten out of the hospital and has ptsd should not be taken to a shooting range. Shooting therapy, believe it or not, is routine for ptsd. And that is absolutely and utterly preposterous. Let me just say one other thing. Im a professional veteran advocate. I can assure you that when i worked with persons with ptsd that i do not encourage them to purchase or be around guns in any way, shape, or form. It is just ridiculous that this man was found guilty and that he has been he is now facing life imprisonment. It is absolutely ridiculous and let me just say one other thing. The fact that this man was discharged without appropriate care just very shortly before this killing, demonstrates the continued failing of the v. A. I am of the opinion that the v. A. Being negligent should be abolished. I have worked with and against this for the purpose of getting Veterans Health benefits for 20 some odd years. I do not see it has improved. As soon as the lights go off everything goes right back to where it was. Veterans are still not getting appropriate care. I would say one more thing. Host you know what patricia . We are going to leave it there. Republican line. Caller what i would like to suggest is that we put a tax on all of the oil coming in from saudi arabia. They are a big sponsor of terrorism all over the world. Especially us giving the money back if we put a tax on the oil our country can keep drilling and canada can keep drilling. I know the price of oil would go up for the consumer here. The other thing is i think we need to cut off all aid to israel. Here we have eczema netanyahu who wanted to come over here Benjamin Netanyahu who want to come over here to force us to do something to protect the country of israel and go to war with iraq or like iran they want us to do. That is what like we did with iraq foolishly. Let our president run our country. We have over 300 million. They have about 10 million there in israel. Im surprised that people do not stand up, even the jewish people in this country, and stand up for the rights of the americans. Host what is that mean . Jim, what does that mean . Stand up for the rights of americans . Caller here we are giving them 615 billion dollars a year. 6. 5 billion a year. We ask interest on and they never pay us back. Why should we support them and support eczema netanyahu and let him come over and criticize our president . He is not giving us anything back. He is not giving us any money. The same with saudi arabia. A sponsor terrorism and Benjamin Netanyahu wants us to go to war with iran. Host is that your opinion or has he said that out loud . Caller pardon me. Host is that your opinion or has he said that out loud . Caller said what out loud . Host that he wants us to go to war with iran. Caller sure. They cannot go to war with iran by themselves. It is same way with iraq. Host that was jim in evansville, indiana. Yesterday, ben carson spoke to c pa and he talked about the isis threatc. [video clip] the key thing is congress. If i were to run for the office of president , i would recognize that there is a role for commander in chief and his staff and that is to define the mission. What is the mission . The mission is recognizing that we have radical Islamic Terrorist Groups in the adolescent stage that was to destroy us. We have two choices we can wait and see what theyre going to do and react to it or we can destroy them first. The mission that i would give our military is to destroy them first. I would not tie their hands and let them get it done. Host ben carson yesterday. Now, live from cpac, Newt Gingrich is speaking. This is live coverage. If you like to watch this, go to cspan3. Shauna handle the Sean Hannity Foust to grill on, court education. He found to grill former governor jeb bush on his stances of, court and immigration in an interview at the cpac conference. When asked, he said absolutely. Im going to be fair to everybody. Im going to ask this to all the candidates. Bush has many grassroots conservative skeptical of his conservative record. Mr. Bush is scheduled to begin speaking at 1 20 this afternoon at his q a session. Mansfield, texas, democrat. What is on your mind this morning . Caller well, i have been a democrat all of my life and im just about ready to abandon the cause because im so upset over the flipflopping on the immigration business. Obama started out he was actually making runs on employers. They were rounding people up. And oh, we are separating families. It is real simple. The kids can go back to their mom. What are we going to do . Take them off to china or any third world country . People say they take jobs that no one wants but if you talk to any social worker privately, they will let you know real quick that it is racist country. Host have you seen the effects in mansfield, texas . How close to the border argue are you . Caller i am right between dallasfort worth and ive been seeing it forever. It is just the republicans were the first to give amnesty to them. There was a time when if you had somebody that was illegal working for you, you might have the authorities know you would have the authorities show up and remove them. Even on the farm. They came and they went home in the winter. They do not bring their families. Now, it is hey, come on. If you are going to the of people things, do not be surprised. I work with a woman who was hispanic and laughed about it. Anybody will tell you, she had uncles that bought a Station Wagon and they would come across the border into california and once a month, they would get all their benefits and buy the groceries and go back across the border. When we first got social services here a way to check addresses against qcif cases, bingo. One house in dallas had 40 families there. 40 different cases. Host thank you. Tony tweets in i really admire ben carson, but why do so many people try to get their first Public Service job is the most impertinent the world important in the world . Caller good morning. How are you . Host im good. Caller i often hear the conversation about black and white. We have so many people of different colors in just this will area that we know there are more than two words. First of all, it is a way to create division. Im a woman of color. I do not allow people to call me black because im not black. Im english, scottish, native american, and of course the ancestry from africa. Who am i . Why do people want to call me black when i have all those different at groups of people in my blood running through my veins . Why dont we stop calling people black and white and calling them for who they are . I am an american. I have about 10 generations of different countries. We need to stop using the term black and white. It is a way to create division among people. Host this is john in pennsylvania. He is on the republican line. Caller how are you doing today . I just great. Tomorrow, i believe, youre going to have a congressman on goodlatte, i believe is his name. Host the interview has taped and it will air at 10 a. M. On sunday morning. He is chairman of the house judiciary committee. Caller yesterday, he put out a letter on president obamas executive order. It is several days old i think it is 10. He is proposing to ban certain types of ar15 ammo under an old law because he claims that some of it can be used in a handgun. This is gotten very little press attention. Once we allow any type of ammo bands to occur then they can use that and slowly and incrementally fm js, full metal jackets, all kinds of ammo could be used for armor piercing. Special rounds are used in wild how hawk hunting. It is unlimited when you allow the federal government to say that this ammo isnt good and it is a way to around the executive memo. I would urge everyone to call their congressman and urge to fight president obamas people and unconstitutional order on banding banning some kinds of ammo. Host are you a hunter . Caller im am a hunter and a sportsman, yes, sir. There are 22 caliber cartridges that are not the lead in this ruling. Some are made out of copper. In some states the states have gotten around to banning lead ammo. They are harder projectiles. They can go through some types of body armor. If you use it too long and it in a handgun, it is made out of a projectile that could penetrate and it is not lead, they could ban that ammo also. What we need to do every person who really thinks that the Second Amendment is the backbone of our republic and keeps us safe from andaman enemies foreign and domestic need to stand up and say we will not allow the president to use the executive order to ban ammo. Host this is johnny and marilyn. In maryland. Democrat. Caller good morning. I want to thank cspan for letting me be able to speak out. What i would like to say is i want to know what ever happened to the 3 Million People from 2013 that was on unemployment and was cut off and they never receive their benefits . I lost my job through the sequestration. My employment was cut. Could you tell me what ever happened or will the issue ever be resolved . Host johnny, are you working today . Caller yes, i am. Im working today. I did find a job. At that time, i needed that money badly to keep my lights on. That really dealt a hard blow to my family. The next point i would like to make is i hear people talking about slavery. Like it wasnt a real event that didnt happen in this country and how many people were affected. God knows, 400 years or more of that, has affected our nation. It has affected society and it is still going on today. It is more of the scheme now to walk over it. It was ratified in the constitution and the constitution is a piece of paper. If people are going to enforce the rules of law there is always want to be that backlash. I would just like to say that for the people that was not affected by slavery, it may not be a problem for them. For the families that indoor the pain, it will always be an ongoing problem because theres going to be a history behind it. Host that is johnny in maryland. This is all lead on our republican line in rochester new york. Caller good morning. All i want to say is we need here everything with the help with the unemployment. What i want to say is we do not need more war. That is for all republicans and democrats to know that we do not need no more war. We have to stop this socalled terrorists like isis or what they are. Enough is enough. No more war. Host what is your solution to isis . Should the u. S. Not have a role . Caller no. They have to have a role, but they have to find a way to stop it. They are the ones staying in the power for the last six years all in the middle east. Those people they do not want to leave the power. They will come up in other names. Theyre just playing games. Host where are you from originally . Caller im originally from ethiopia. Host thank you for calling in this morning. Front page of the London Garden says the murder mohammed emqaziwazi has been known to intelligence agencies for five years before he publicly emerged in Islamic State propaganda. This was out of london. Christian is calling in from Oklahoma City on a democrat line. You are on the washington journal. The house comes in and about a half an hour. What is on your mind . Caller i would like to say that i agree with my brother from indiana about israel. When we went to war in afghanistan, where they with us . You guys say, oh, this is our number one ally. What have they done for us . They were there in afghanistan. They werent there in iraq. They werent in libya. When we went to egypt, they werent there. How do these people think that . They would rather send our young men and women into a war instead of sending their own. Also, we give them 3. 1 billion a year. Unbelievable. I mean i do not understand. Also, i do watch fox news because i want to see what my enemy thinks about me. Two days ago, laura ingram was on the low riley show. She said that her face was superior to any other religion. All these jewish people that think fox news is behind you they dont care about you. One more thing and i will get off the phone. I think that bill oreilly should be looked upon just like Brian Williams. We need to investigate him to see if he was in the fox hunt during the wartime. Absolutely night. Best not. We need to get on that. Host you said that three times. Four bytes at the apple. Thanks for calling in. That was christian in Oklahoma City, oklahoma. Up next is reverend in palm desert, california. Caller it is reverend green actually. I want to talk about the bogus war on isis. First, i have to mention the whole thing about slavery. I was born jewish. Every year during passover seder, we talk about being slaves in the land of egypt 4000 years ago. People want to complain about black people and complained they were slaves 200 years ago. Jewish people are still complaining 4000 years later. It is only been a couple of generations on that. To the isis situation, i decided to look into who isis really was. You google the name and go to wikipedia and you will find that is an offshoot of a group from al qaeda in iraq. It was proven to be a cia operation to give us a reason to be in iraq after all these years. The whole thing is that the whole war on isis is bogus. These people they might be a couple of hundred terrorists. That might be true. Beyond that, they are not threatening to take over the whole world. This is another cia operation to keep the military people involved in the middle east as long as they want to keep them there. Obama, give them credit. They try to get rid of people in the middle east, but they couldnt do it. They said, we got a be there, we got a be there. Google the term isis and go to wikipedia and then read about it being a cia creation to justify the war in iraq and use it to justify the occupation of iraq. If people use host can you tell us about yourself . Caller i am pretty famous. People know me. Im a pretty wellknown leftwinger. Ive advocated using marijuana. Im advocating being against the government and basically nonviolent revolution for about 30 years now. I was ahead of my times in the 80s talking about smoking weed and being antigovernment. Look at how popular it is now. Ive gotten bigger over the years. You can go to my youtube page. Reverend bud green. You can go to my website. You will see my theories. We need to know the truth people. Americans are the dumbest people the world usually because we are so fooled by the media and people and control. Wake up people on stopping stop being sheeple. Host do you make your money being reverend bud green . Caller i been doing it for years. I was a tv producer. I was a Jerry Springer producer and i was a guest on the show and they made me a producer for a number of years. Ive done a lot of things in the media and i know a lot about manipulation. When i worked at Jerry Springer, we went to the number of 20 talk show to the number one talk show because we had all the fights and the crazy stuff. I know how easy it is to manipulate the media and get people to watch tv. Trust me when i say that i know what im talking about. Host reverend bud green in palm desert, california. Just a reminder, we had a gentleman from muncie, indiana calling an earlier today. Spartanburg, South Carolina, this is bill on interpol in line. Caller im not addressing this to you. Im addressing this to the people on capitol hill, especially the democrats. They will have to grow marijuana to ask stupid. That is my comment. Host South Carolina. The lead story of the of course Washington Times the lead story of the Washington Times is criminal iris probe for learner emails. The iressa and specter general confirmed thursday is conducting a criminal investigation into how lois g learners emails disappeared, saying it only took weeks for an basket is to find hundreds of tapes to agencies two pencil congress were richer the legally destroyed. Investigators party scoured seven 744 backup tapes and gleam 32,007 74 unique emails, but just two weeks ago, they found an additional form and 24 tape second tape even more emails. Jennifer Deputy Inspector general timothy p canas told the House Oversight committee in a rare latenight hearing meant to look into the investigation. Murphy in north carolina. You are on the washington journal. Caller thank you, sir. The thing about isis i find it ironic with all the technology that we have now in these days how we cannot possibly see them on the ground with their flags frying flying and on the road and in the desert with no trees. It seems ironic to me to go there on foot and put our guys in jeopardy. They might be the next ones being beheaded if we go that route. I think we should just day in the air and bomb them from the air. Also on this Homeland Security i find it ironic that they want to put a bill on their to help out illegal people coming into this country on a bill were Homeland Security represents keeping our sovereignty. Those are two items that i just dont understand really. Host thank you, sir. If you are a regular watcher cspan we dont comment on nothing. We just listen. That is our job. We just listen. Thanks for calling in. Well you have to be under a rock yesterday if you are watching cspan at all. You will notice that the federal Communications Commission past Net Neutrality regulation in a threeto vote. Tom wheeler is the chair of the fcc. Here is a look at what he had to say. [video clip] cuts the the internet is the most powerful and persuasive asset on the planet. It is too important to be left without rules and a referee on the field. Think about it. The internet has replaced the function of the telephone and the post office. The internet has redefined commerce and entertainment. As the outpouring from 4 million americans has demonstrated, the internet is the ultimate vehicle for free expression. The internet is simply too important to allow broadband providers to be the ones making the rules. Host next call comes from jeff in california on a republican line. Jeff, you are on washington journal. Caller i nicely calling about the immigration reform. It is big issue over here in the western part of the United States. Im really distraught about it. I do not know what obama was talking about when he allowed all these Illegal Immigrants to come into california. I understand the fact that they need to have a better place and to start a better life themselves, but why do they have to come this way and why does he have to do the things that he does to make them come over here . It doesnt make any sense to me. Host how do you think illegal immigration has affected your life . Caller it takes away jobs from the hardworking american, as myself. That is in our own country. Host what kind of work do you do in gilroy . Caller as a matter of fact, i do construction and i worked at 7eleven. Im a normal american just look any other person. Just like any other person. I think we all deserve a chance to work. If these Illegal Immigrants are going to work here in america, i think they should come in a certain way that is legal for everybody. I do not think im sorry, go ahead. Host i will let you finish. Caller i am finished, but at the same time, i think that if they are going to come, they should come and do certain tasks to prove that they know some stuff about the American Public and this and that. You know it is distressing me very much. This is why our whole ethic work program is taken away by those people. Host that was just in gilroy california. Now on her facebook page, we have posted a couple of different areas of discussion. If you want to comment on the Net Neutrality regulations or if you want to comment on the department of Homeland Security funding and immigration issues, go to facebook. Com cspan. There are two areas to comment. We are just wide open this morning on calls and what we are talking about. We did not really post anything for this mornings discussion but if you want to talk about dhs and that neutrality, you can go over to facebook as well if you cannot get through on the phone lines. What is on your mind this morning . Caller i wanted to say that the republicans need to stop acting crazy and just pass the funding for our Homeland Security. This is a serious issue and immigration should be taken up in a separate bill. Fix the immigration situation. One of the things that i was most alarmed about was that yesterday, john boehner acted so silly and was blowing air kisses to somebody in the media like this isnt a serious problem. I almost look to him and thought , is he drunk or is he high . Why is he behaving like this . He is the worst leader of pop cans can have because nobody is using common sense. Republicans can have because nobody is using common sense. Immigration is a problem, but this is not the time and place to solve that problem. These shortterm threeweek solutions are crazy, too. The republicans are in charge. They need to compromise, compromise, compromise, and get something done for the good of the nation. Stop worrying about the next election. Thank you. Host that was winter park, florida. Next up is dawn and taxes. Republican lawn don in texas. Republican line. What is on your mind . Caller thank you for taking my call. I want to make a couple of comments on this Homeland Security budgeting bill. Ive listened to democrats for the last couple of weeks now saying how the republicans are wanting to starve people and not take security up. What they do not realize is that the republicans have put forth a couple of bills to budget the Homeland Security. The problem that they have, and i have the same problem i do not see where the president should be able to attack on to the Homeland Security build bill afterward. Yes, i think it is great that many months ago a lot of democrats said that he threw in an added thing that is going to cost the American Public. That is why it is in the funding bill. Why cant they just compromise and say, ok, we will take that out of there . I hear them say they are happy to debate the immigration part of it, but why dont they do that . Take it out then. Let us see what happens with that part of it. They wont even let it go to the senate floor. They keep filibustering it because they do not get their way. Host are you going to watch the senate or the house today . Caller i will probably watch the senate. Host that kicks off at 9 30 a. M. In the house kicks off at 9 a. M. Both working on those issues that don was talking about. Theres also cpac live on cspan3. Every weekend, cspan2 turns into book tv. 48 hours on nonfiction books. We are alive this week on sunday with author and law professor lonnie rainier. She will be our indepth Program Guest for three hours at noon eastern time on sunday, taking your calls tweets, emails, etc. And talking about some of her books. You may remember that she was nominated back in 1993 the assistant attorney general for civil rights. She was nominated in april 1993. By june of 1993, the president pulled her nomination because of\. We will be talking to her about that and we will be talking about some of her writings on the law as well. That is this weekend on book tv. The tv. Org is the website. Lonnie rainier live this weekend. Willy is in michigan on the independent line. You are on washington journal. Caller thank you and i appreciate you taking my call. I hope that the labia lady that i was listening to earlier is still listening and she was comparing Brian Williams job to it running for president. Ive been told that im more like a democrat even though i voted republican. It is so hard to make sense out of. That jobs Brian Williams had was not a political job. If mr. Bush not bush, Hillary Clinton wants to run for president , that would be a political job. That does not abstain her from being able to run to compare with what Brian Williams had done, he had argued been suspended. You have been suspended by a company in the private sector. It had nothing to do with no political arena. I hear some people call in and refer to it. Theyre supposed be so conservative. They are asking why blacks wont vote for republican candidates. We will vote for them. We had a candidate on there a few days ago that was republican and honest and everything. I would be happy to vote for him if maybe he was the type of candidate that was running for office because he was honest. He backed off on subjects that he perceived to be going on in iraq. If the gentleman wants to do that and come out and say that this lady comes on and talks about Hillary Clinton. I heard nobody comment on republicans with bush saying he lied about weapons of mass destruction and saying that he shouldnt be president or impeach him or anything else. Host let us leave it there and thank you for calling in for sharing your views. This is from the boston globe this morning the boston globe this morning. Mitt romney lost in their passion meeting with prominent Business People who are interested in supporting bostons olympic bid. This is for the summit thats summer olympics of 2024. Johnny of fort worth, texas. Johnny is a democrat. Caller i would like to say a little comment about the president. I do not understand how these republicans or whoever can say that he is not doing a good job. When he took over office, we were in turmoil. Banks were closing. Car plants were closing. We were going downhill. He came in and just took over and straighten everything out. It is not perfect, but he did do a lot. He straightened a lot of things out. When people complain about him not straightening this out people are making money. I do not understand why they just down him and say he is not doing a good job. I think he is doing an excellent job and i think they should be commended it for coming in when we were in the black and he put us in the green. I like to say thank you for cspan. Host sherry is calling in from baltimore. She is a democrat. You are on the air. Caller thank you. My concern is that i heard a gentle and talking about president obama trying to stop ammunition for different types of weapons. I am for that. Im for that law that is trying to pass if it is not party past. The reason is september of 2014 my brother was gunned down and murdered. Then, the man turned around i will call him a man and then he turned around and killed himself. This happened in scranton pennsylvania. My brother was 54 years old. Also, the issue about racism. It still exists today. I do not want to try to keep talking about the issue, but that was my brother was gunned down four. It all started from an altercation. Thomas camden which killed my brother said not nice words. He called him the nword. He went in the house and got a hunting rifle and done my brother down. He shot my brother three times. Im against guns and bullets. They dont make no sense. They do not have to lose their life because of Something Like that. That is all i have to say. Host that was sherry and baltimore. Up next, barbara in florida. Republican line. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, good morningcaller im really fuming over president obamas decision to allow 5 Million Immigrants into the country. Im a legal immigrant myself. I spent 28 years in military. Ive been a proud veteran for years. Im enough of being upset about this 5 million illegals coming into the country. Now, i anticipate that the boston new station said that president obama is considering allowing 7 million Syrian Refugees into this country and he has already purportedly allowed 500 into the country. How in the world do we have the necessary means to let 7 million syrians in . Host what station is that . 7 million . Caller the tickertape was on fox news. Host its at 7 million it said 7 million . Caller it said 7 million syrians. Obama was contemplating and federally welcome 7 million Syrian Refugees and 500 were already allowed into the country. We have no way of letting those people. The majority of them probably have ties to isis or other islamic with a i terrorists. Im terrified. I love this country with all my heart. America did not just give me a place to stay, she gave me a place that my heart can call home forever. Im so upset with all the illegal immigration. And now this thing with the syrians. Im just disgusted. Thanks cspan for letting me state my case. Host heres an article from fox news that we found. Obama policy to bring Syrian Refugees into u. S. Raises concern among republicans, intelligence community. I do not see the number of 7 million that barbara had to say. But the number 7 million is there. Nfl hires gop leadership. The nfl is hiring the aid as its chief republican lobbyists. They have long been in the market for a gop guru help navigate Public Policy matters following the midterms that left republicans controlled both houses of congress. The nfl will announce her hiring on friday. Frank is calling in from florida. Good morning to you, frank. Caller what i wanted to say is that ive been listening to cspan this morning and i do quite often. I always tell people that you can learn a lot about what is going on in this country. Yesterday, he you were just all over the place when it comes to im 62 years old. I kind of feel like a moderate. I like to believe some liberal ways. Some things, i lean towards the right. But i really feel we are in trouble. I was listening to your comments this morning. Im not here to say anyone is better than others. I really want to say that this is basically what account it comes down to. People really need to be educated on what is going on. You can see that people generally here what they hear and read what they want to read. Im a history major. Im a christian. Im just throwing these things out so people know where im coming from. I really and i hate to say this we are really in trouble. I want to make it light and make it a little bit of a joke. I told my wife that when we heard yesterday on tv that the kardashians are getting 100 million to do the show. I know who they are. I couldnt care less. What it is coming down to is seeing people this morning we need to get our act together people. That is all i have to say. Host frank, you tell clients to watch cspan. What kind of work do you do . Caller i do contracts and business. I tried to be politically correct, but i dont do a good job of it because i get frustrated. People can put me down for it. Ive never voted in my life and ive never voted not because im not educated, ive just never felt that there was anybody short enough that i like. I will say this dr. Ben carson has his act together. He is not a politician. He is educated. He comes from the ground up. If i was going to vote, i would vote for him. I do not think he will get the chance, but i am more like that. We need a nonpolitician running the country. Host that was frank. Then carson spoke at cpac yesterday. Live right now, shown sean hannity is interviewing marco rubio. If you want to watch that, you can go to cspan3. Phyllis is on our democrats line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Im a regular viewer of cspan and i love it. I think everyone in florida is watching this morning. I was just listening to several callers ago. The one from gilroy, california . I felt sorry for him that he is misunderstanding that employers are giving jobs to Illegal Immigrants. It is not democrats taking the jobs. I think we really need to clear that up because it is the employers who are really causing the disruption. My second point is with the weakening of unions, especially in the construction industry, the unions cap kept a real tight grip on keeping wages high. I know that illegals didnt participate in the unions. The weakening of the unions is really causing a disruption in our ability to get highpaying jobs. Host are you retired . Caller i am. I am a retired california teacher. Host how do you make your way to florida . Caller it was a progression. I went to the state of washington then to new mexico for a couple of years and then came to the state of florida. Ive been all over the map enjoying diverse areas. Host where in new mexico did you live . Caller [indiscernible] host why did you choose to live in mexico . Caller im from california and i love the mexican people and i love the culture. San miguel is just a historic downtown. Host isnt that an artists colony . Caller it is. Host i grew up a couple of hours from point poor the laurent vote. Thanks for taking us home today. We are done with washington journal. The house is coming into session and they are working on dhs issues. Theyre working on that and immigration will be an issue in the house and senate today. Enjoy the rest of your friday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] become, thank you for giving us another day. In these days our nation is faced with pressing issues, including once again a troubling impasse. Grant wisdom, knowledge and understanding to members of each party as well as an extra measure of charity that a workable solution can be reached to the benefit of all americans. Help us all to be patient yet resolute in the desire to do what is the right thing to do