It is sunday, january 10, and we are going to begin with your calls and comments and stories important to you. Open phones for the first half hour of todays washington journal. Then, we turn our attention to the Iowa Caucuses three weeks away and the New Hampshire primary just a month away. Four democrats, 2027488001 for republicans. Or independents, 2027488002 cspanwjd us a tweet or redoes on facebook. Jonathan martin is writing this morning, front page of the New York Times. I story about splits among classes in the Republican Party. It begins with these words. The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity as its once powerful establishment grapples with an option of class tension, ethnic resentment and mistrust among working class conservatives who are demanding a president ial nominee who represent their interests. Are expressing a groan. Of the coming election could be shattering for the party or reshape it in ways that are unrecogniz
Tomorrow, republican president ial candidates are scheduled to be in south carolina. They will be questioned by paul ryan and tim scott, part of the him forum on expanding opportunity. Coverage begins at 10 20 a. M. Eastern. Book tv has books and authors every weekend on cspan2, and here programs to watch this weekend. Saturday at 7 00 eastern, book tv is at the university of wisconsin to discuss the book the march on washington. This is a Movement Really going to the core of many peoples beliefs about what this nation should be. It should change a lot of mines, but it also shows peoples commitment to any quality. Words, a then, after look at the life and former political career of Vice President dick cheney with the book cheney oneonone. On the right has attracted more vitriol from the left, more intense vitriol from the left, then dick cheney, with the possible exception of the man he served in the white house, george w. Bush or richard nixon. Mollycer on sunday, crabapple talks abou
This is the president of the Corvair Society of america. [applause] and on your other side, the executive secretary. [applause] you may sit down. You do not have to stand the whole night. We are pleased to have you. We have never had this kind of news media coverage. We are trying to figure how to get coverage and you solved our problem for us. [laughter] a little background. We had members in wisconsin go to a presentation that ralph nader gave and a couple of members talk to him and said that the convention was going to be in your backyard next year would you be interested in coming . We cant officially invite you but i am sure that you can come and we can get you in contact with them. Ralph nader graciously said, i would be pleased to, and we have been working on this for the past few months and we finally got our ask acts together and it was determined this would be the time. Ralph is here to give a talk on safety and he will talk for about a half hour in we will open up to questio
Rights were targeted . Not that im aware of. Do you know if they were transcribed . I do not. And you dont know if john was interviewed . I do not. You think you should have been interviewed, the guy presiding over the Internal Revenue service, your agency, and he is the commissioner when 420 two backup cases are destroyed, containing emails . Do you think it would be maybe a good thing to do in an investigation . Tie did a thorough investigation. For the people who were targeted notified . That im aware of. Do you know Catherine Engelbrecht . I am familiar. The lady who was audited both personally and your business by the irs, visited by the epa, atf, osha, all law she was trying to clean up voter registration. The full weight of the government came down on her. She was contacted before you decided . I dont know. People were interviewed in the context of the investigation. One last question, sir. You are going to talk to us in a few weeks with a briefing. Next week. When you think we
Balance the budget. He was unconventional, theres no question about it. But he was able to get people to do things they didnt think they themselves could do. He believed in the importance of leaving Something Better for our children and grandchildren than what we found. And thats what led him to lead the drive to balance the budget for the first time in a generation, in 1997. We cut taxes, we balanced that budget. We reformed entitlements. We left no stone unturned. And there wasnt a single special interest that had anything to say about it. We did it, he led the effort, because he knew it was the right thing for the country and of course for the people of ohio that he represented. He left congress, worked in the private sector, was a Great Television star on fox, as hell tell you. [laughter] john big, big. And then he knew he had more work to do. He went back to ohio, he ran for governor, and as governor in ohio, he has done the same thing. Provide the kind of tough, conservative lead