How the president and Incoming Congress can Work Together. Where do you see areas of compromise in which leaders are best positioned to find Common Ground . Our phone lines are open. Host and if you are outside the u. S. You can also catch up with us on your favorite social media pages twitter, facebook, and cspan. Org. Takes on the press conferences that have happened in the last couple days to on the Republican Press conferences, this is from the editorialy board. It was good news to hear Mitch Mcconnell say there would be no more government shutdowns and no more default on the national debt. There are ominous signs that the acrimony and still made that have marred most of the past six years will continue for divorce or get worse. Conflict looms over the need to fix the broken immigration system. The other flashpoint is the gop declaration that they remain committed to repealing obamacare rather than working to improve it. The question is whether they will let material from those disagreements contaminate everything else. On the president s recent press conference this week, former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich writes in his piece in cnn that president obamas press conference was almost two different events. One was utilitarian and suggested to voters that i hear you. The other was confrontational analyst hostile in stating that he will do what he wants through executive action if republicans dont give him what he wants and legislation. He faces a choice between 2 paths forward, one productive, the other destructive. How can the president and the incoming gop Congress Work together . We want your take on who could lead to compromise and where those areas of compromise are. The conversation is also happening on facebook and twitter as well. A few comments on facebook that have already come in this morning as the conversation happens. That republicans have to get over the temper tantrum they have had the past six years. Kevin writes below that that president obama could resign. Has no interest in working with republicans. He has said that he wants legislation from congress that he can sign. Me what i wantve or i will send anything. no, it Means Congress needs to compromise and put forward bills that actually work for all the American People, not corporations. We start with mike from marietta, georgia, on our line for democrats. Republicans dont have to work with democrats now because democrats just roll over and give republicans whatever they want anyway. Goes, as president obama i would sign on the executive orders i could and play golf or two years. Thank you very much. Host that is my from marietta, georgia. We go to our republican line where jim is waiting in the new castle, delaware. Caller good morning. The first thing that has to be done is restore the American Peoples confidence in the whole concept of congress. There was an article by senator thelee in the federalist other day which was quite interesting which recommended that that be the first step. I believe that restoring regular order to congress would help come even though it would be awful fair to the democrats after what harry reid try for the last couple years, to just turn it into a firewall or rubberstamp of the administration. It has to go back to being a deliberative body. They also have to find enough democrats to dismantle a lot of the unfortunate actions that the president has taken, see if they obamacare,parts of if they can do something on immigration, and they have to have some sort of audit of the fed to figure out what the heck is going on there because all they have been doing is just giving money to the 1 pe rcenters and not doing anything for the middle class. Host jim, you say republicans should reach out to democrats. Who should they reach out to . A lot of moderate democrats lost elections on tuesday. Caller well, they got a find somebody out there. Maybe joe manchin and angus king. Hopefully those guys will caucus with the republicans. That has to be some sensible, nonbolshevik democrats in the senate that will see that all they are doing is destroying the country by promoting the policies. All were doing is propping up the 1 that has the money to give to these crazy groups, like george soros and people like that. Host jim, are you optimistic that gridlock can be overcome . Caller well i dont know if gridlock is actually a bad thing. It is still doing something, gridlock. But what i think the american iting rushted 4 c limbaugh, they voted to stop obama. The people who didnt vote didnt care and the people who with howwere fed up this country is in a deep trouble. We are seeing record stock market levels and it is sort of a false economy that the government and stock market quotes right now. Host a few suggestions on areas of compromise from twitter. They can Work Together to repeal all the bad law. One area of agreement between the gop and dems, they agreed that they intensely dislike each other. Here is the Washington Times today. Eyes gopouse cooperation after landslide. News usacanada editor, he says president obama says he is prepared to sit down and drink bourbon with kentuckys Mitch Mcconnell and is prepared to allow leader of the house john boehner to win at golf again. But you just have to listen to the two sides and can only come away with one conclusion, antipathy and hostility far outweigh a sense of trust. This is not about politics, it is about what is doing by for the country, john boehner said with absolute sincerity. Barack obama with equal sincerity and passions that the exact same thing. No amount of bourbon or round of golf will solve that. Mike is on our line for republicans. Good morning. How can the president and the incoming republican Congress Work together . Caller good morning, how are you . Host im good, make. Caller i dont know if they can. I obviously identified myself as a republican, i am a conservative. I firmly believe that president obama, with all due respect, he has never worked with republicans, and im not saying that to be meanspirited. Im saying that because where he came from come out of the illinois legislature, what he has done as a Community Activist , and i dont say that in the disparagingly in a comeraging way, he did not from a governorship, put in a position where he had to work with both sides of the aisle could he has no experience here. He has no experience of politically working with diverse groups and no experience lyrically. An example of a deal, and im not a politician heres a deal they could probably cut fairly easily. President obama and the democrats want a large infrastructure built for roads, highways, bridges. That phrase has been beat to death. They also want to take away the 4 billion a year approximately in tax breaks not subsidies, tax breaks from the will industry. Do the right want and what to 65 of americans want . They want the keystone xl pipeline. There is a deal right there. Host so what is preventing that you from happening . Caller what is preventing that deal from happening, in my humble conservative opinion, is the ideology of president obama and his far left supporters. Host you think that is coming out of the white house . Caller i firmly believe that. You guys do your polling could what is the pulling for support on the keystone xl pipeline . I think it is 65 host i will get one for you, but keep going. Caller ok, so that is a deal right there. Even the all copies are willing to give up 4 billion a year in tax breaks. They put together some type of Infrastructure Spending bill and tied approval of the Keystone Pipeline in, and maybe there is some other trinkets on the christmas tree, whenever. But there is a deal, there is a real easy deal to do, in my humble opinion. But the left will go absolutely thatyou know what crazy [laughter] because they oppose carbon energy, they think it is dirty and stinky and we got to use windmills, and that is fine. But politics is about compromise and there is an example of a compromise good the other example thanks for all the time is there is this whole thing about this lunch today, once again shows president obama and his penchant for politics. He is inviting people up and its a photo up. Politicians are not going to admit to anything in front of their opposition in front of the cameras. If president obama was serious, he would have invited Mitch Mcconnell and Speaker Boehner up for a closeddoor private dinner and not even told the media. That is how Lyndon Johnson got things done, that is how president reagan and speaker tip oneill got things done. Host all right, mike on the pulling question you had, 61 favored the keystone xl pipeline. You bring up president obamas meeting today at the white house. If you stories about who is going to be there. Leader harryty reid, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, soontobe majority leader, nancy pelosi will be there. Others expected to attend is House Majority leader kevin mccarthy, new york senator chuck schumer, south dakota senator john thune, House Minority whip steny hoyer. One story out of louisiana noting that the House Majority is noteve scalise expected to attend the white house meeting today. More details on that later in the show when we talk to a reporter aboutl the agenda items and what needs to happen at that meeting. Right now we are taking your taking that question, how can the president and republican Congress Work together . Samantha in akron, ohio good morning. Caller i was thinking that the newly elected candidates as well as the president s staff, or the Democratic Party and the Republican Party committees, could take a survey of the most urgent needs that people have expressed, and really get behind it and find out what the people of america want from them, see as important, and not pander to the wealthy or to the business interests, but really get to what the people want host something the on those polls that we see of the issues that are most important to you, the gallup polls, where the Economic Issues caller well yeah, all those were good, especially, you know, like fracking and the pipeline and all that, but now they are in. This was preelection. They could temper how to run their campaign who do pander to, what interests to pander to. Now they are in their. What do we want them to do now that they are in there . How can they address the needs of their constituencies . Thats it. Host samantha in akron, ohio. On our line for democrats, carol out of kansas city, missouri. Good morning. Caller yes, i voted republican this time even though i am a moderate democrat. Im tired of the bickering, im tired of the stalemate, of not getting anything passed, and just putting the bills and harry reids desk and leaving them, and that angered me as a democrat. I voted republican this time. I urged my family to vote republican this time, because i want to see something done. Am tired of politics it is sickening. And the president could be also more accommodating. He is also adding to the political gridlock. A little bit. Nd he needs to give a little bit. Host and carol, what does that mean . Does he need to spend more time socially with members caller no host on policy issues . Caller nec needs to take a playbook from bill clintons book, and get along with congress,meet with talk to congress, be up there with Congress Like bill clinton was. Bill clinton became a part of the solution when he went up to congress and he talked to the members. He visited members. He listened. Also madengs and he giving as part of his policy. Its my wayt say or the highway and if you dont like it i will use my pen. He gave. He had to give a little bit. Congress agreed to give a little bit. That is what this president needs to do. Host one thing the president said he is not willing to give us more time on some sort of action on immigration. The president said he is prepared to move forward with an executive action on immigration. He was the front page of todays arizona republic. Republican leaders warn against unilateral action. Speaker john baer talked about this issue yesterday in his press conference, warning that unilateral action by the president could poison the well for any kind of Immigration Reform in this congress. Here is a bit of what he had to say yesterday. [video clip] me say starting to years ago yesterday that our immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed, but i made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for Immigration Reform moving in this congress. It is as simple as that. Host Immigration Reform is also the topic of todays New York Times lead editorial. Decision time on immigration. The editorial noting president obama said he would act on his own by the end of the year to improve the immigration system, theng perhaps millions of countrys unauthorized immigrants temporary protection from deportation and permission to work. He has said this before, only to back off in deference to electionyear politics. Now the election is over and the only thing to say the president is do it. Take executive action. Make it big. That is the editorial of the New York Times today. We are asking how the president and the gop congress can Work Together and who do you think is positioned best to lead the compromise . Joe has been waiting in georgia on our line for republicans. Good morning, joe. Caller john, ive been calling your Great Network for 35 years and ive never been so fired up in my life. I was on the air and mcgrady show last night in atlanta and david perdue was just elected, and these champions, and both of them want to come to washington to their Main Objective is reduce the 18 trillion debt that all of us oh, so i really fired up about that, and i tell you what, they are going to be superstars in the house and senate, and im really fired up, and john, ive got a project to paul revere people not to vote for career politicians because career politicians, john, have given us the 18 trillion debt, but you keep your eye on david perdue and very loud or filtered they will be two of the greatest taxpayer champions in American History. Host you trust career politicians, longtime politicians, the leaders of both parties on capitol hill right now, to be able to make these deals, or do you think they will just go back and entrenched in their own two sides . Caller john and Mitch Mcconnell are five people but theyve been there too long. Mcconnell has been there since 1976, john boehner since 1990. We needed new leaders and i say ted cruz would be a great leader in the senate and trey gowdy in the house. Im telling you, people like perdue that have business backgrounds, they will be the future champions in washington. Host that is joe in georgia, a longtime viewer and often caller on the show. Lets go to june in wisconsin on our line for independents. Caller good morning. Well, republicans are finally in the position where they want to be in, and the president in the same position he has always been in. But could Work Together, the congress has to accept the fact that first of all, the dresident has compromise o already so much with republicans. Remember obamacare, the public option . He took it off the table because the republicans didnt want it. People are always like do like bill clinton, blah blah blah. The republicans started long time ago planning the destruction of obama, and as a result of that, no matter what obama wants to do or says he has going to do, there will be Republican Opposition because it is in their dna. Why . Not because of his policies, lets face it. He is a black man could actually come he is only half black. Host you think it is not the policy positions that he has taken that they fundamentally disagree with . , i dont,ll, no because his policies have gotten the stock market way, way high. All the people who claim that the president is against, you know, people doing well, rich people the only people who are doing well thanks to president obama are those who have money in the stock market. It is higher than it has ever been. He gets no credit for that. The people who finally have some kind of Health Insurance, he is getting no credit for that. They still beating over the head about obamacare is so horrible. Ask the people who are benefiting from obamacare. As far as the Keystone Pipeline on obamacarecut in there, too, because that is a topic that Speaker Boehner also brought up in his press conference yesterday. Heres what he said about republican plans when it comes to obamacare. [video clip] obamacare is hurting our economy, it is hurting middleclass families, and it is hurting the ability for employers to create more jobs. And so the house, im sure, some point next year will move to repeal obama care because it should be replaced with commonsense reforms that respect the doctorpatient relationship. Now, whether that can pass the senate, i dont know, but i know in the house it will pass. But we are going to pass that. That doesnt mean we shouldnt do other things. There are bipartisan bills that have passed the house, sitting in the senate, that would in fact make changes to obamacare