For republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. You can also find us online. Sadness a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj. You can also email us at journal cspan. Org. This story is from bloomberg news. Host looking at one of the executive orders that he assigned that he signed an tuesday, it relates to Cyber Security and cyber issues. The president issued an executive order designed to strengthen the Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructure last week, which some say could get the ball rolling for a renewed legislative push in congress. It contains some provisions of the bill in the sharing and protection act that failed past. The president is waging an Endless Campaign. President obama will never again be an election candidate, but for now he has the look and sound of the man on the campaign trail. He met with a rally style event in decatur, ga. It was preceded by a similar stop in asheville, north carolina. There were two major speeches that were notable for their vigorous liberal tone. What you think about the idea of the white house using executive orders and other means to work around congress . Here is a story about immigration in the New York Times this morning. 11 million Illegal Immigrants given pathways to citizenship along with the principles the president laid out in las vegas. The president revealed last month that his administration already drafted an agreement of the legislation but that he refer preferred a Bipartisan Coalition of lawmakers. We are already getting some comments from our Facebook Page of folks weighing in. Host edward has a different opinion. Host you can join the conversation by finding our Facebook Page. Taking a look at another issue this morning, guns. This is from last months the New York Times. Host lets go to our next call from judy in louisiana. Caller good morning. How are you . Host good, how are you doing . Caller i am all right. Host what do you think of the president using executive orders in this way . Caller i am appalled. If you look back in history, it does not happen like this. This definition is like a imperial ruler, like this are aczars. People on one side have representatives, people on the other side should have representatives. Rather than going to them to find out what the people want, he literally goes to these czars. This bit about republicans not wanting to talk . That is ridiculous, no one will talk to them. He says that if you do not do it my way, i won the election. The 49 of us that do not want these changes the best example in chicago. Chicago with guns, they have the worst record for guns. They literally pass laws that are not legal according to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court went through years of reviewing this. They made a decision. What did the mayor of san what did the mayor of chicago say . Fine. They use executive orders and they used the courts, i guess, if they do not get what they want, to tie it up and wear down everyone. Literally circumventing what i think is the constitution. Host you mentioned the constitution. Here is a poll that says by a 37 to 41 margin the American Voters trust president obama more than republicans in congress on the economy. 42 to 48 on health care, with 45 trust and the president on gun policy more of 43 trust republicans with gun policy. On the issue of the environment, 55 trust president obama more. Foreign policy, it is 51 to 37 . Theresa, nevada. Caller regarding president obama using executive orders to go around the republicans in the house, i am all for it. I am aware that this is a two Party Democracy and we need republicans to be reasonable working party, but they have not been. The president has no choice but to go around them. John boehner has walked away. I am frustrated and the country is frustrated, other democrats are frustrated and scared. I am scared of the things theyre willing to do to our country. He is doing what he has to do. I am all for his proposals, all for clean energy and comprehensive immigration, i am for gun legislation. I am for all of them. I am centerleft, that is progressive. I think the country is definitely going progressive. I do not understand where the republicans want to obstruct and go with their small mindedness and small government proposals that they think that they can push through on the American People that i do not think are very popular. Host we have a different opinion from twitter. Host David Wrights in on twitter and says host dan is up next in california, republican. Caller hello. I would like to reiterate what was just said. I am a retired federal employees. Executive orders used to come few and far between. This president is misusing them to an extreme degree. As the lady put it a little bit ago, executive orders are not meant for executive fiat of anything the president dreams. He is going to ruin the balance of power in this country if he keeps it up. I think he should be impeached for what he has done. Host what you think of the callers who have spoken up and said that congress is not moving and someone has to get something done . Caller that may be the case, but will we do is get Congress Moving by building a fire under them by making phone calls to them. This government is not set up to be in a balance. When the president tries to make executive fiat for everything that comes down the pike . That is what we have three branches for. Host raymond, clinton, pennsylvania, independent caller, welcome. Caller i agree with some of your callers that this is exactly what he is doing, trying to go around the congress. To his supporters, i say this, if that is what you believe will not do away with congress and let this guy be a star for the next 30 years . Ask your callers this between the terms for presidency, would they support the without congress or the states obtaining it . Getting ready for the banking on those appointments with the National Labor relations board, he has defined the court. He is going against a lot. It is a dangerous precedent, because one day the people are going to say the we are no longer going to obey the law. Were you going to do, come down with the troops . I do not think so. Host bloomberg reported last week that the president will still need to work with congress to deal with the nations biggest concerns, including tax and spending issues and comprehensive changes to the immigration system. She points out that the use of this power is not new, that second term president s have been more willing to flex their authorities. This shift to a more a sort of use assertive use of power market changed from president obama, who had accused president bush of flouting congress. After spending two years deep in negotiations with congress and battling with much of the republican controlled house, president obama enters his second term prepared to move forward alone. In houston they said that he may be true sea change in thinking about executive orders. Host lets hear from our next caller. Dennis in maryland, democratic line, hello. Caller go caller first of all, thank you for the opportunity. I think i think that it is a good thing that the president has this power. Because if not, a small group of right wing nuts in that congress up their that has been described as the worst do Nothing Congress almost in American History if the president did not have the power, we would never get anything done. They know it and we know it. They are already going to let this country go into another recession if it goes into sequestration. The man got us out of the first one and theyre trying to get this country into another one. If it is clear that they are acting like children and the president is the grown up in the room. That is about all i want to say. Thank you. Host more from bloomberg he is expected to emphasize clean energy and at and education, pushing lawmakers on immigration, gun control, and climate change. Last month he initiated the 23 executive actions on gun control as part of a legislative package after the december killing in a new town elementary school. Allen, republicans lined. Caller thank you for cspan. Host good morning. Caller i have three things i want to talk about. The constitution, the rule law, and cyberattacks. In terms of the lady who called and said that she was leftwing progressive . What you had said this morning in terms of the polling, i do not care what amount of pulling someone takes, we are either a country under the rule of law and we abide by the constitution, especially the Second Amendment right of speech, like we are doing today in talking to you it baffles me, because as she tries to make it so elegant, the president needing to do an executive order because of a do Nothing Congress i say that it is very simple, if they are going to do nothing, they get no pay. Especially in the senate. The gentleman from maryland, i agree with him that there is a do Nothing Congress, but it is the senate, harry reid who is the do nothing. They have passed legislation for the last two years in the house of representatives, since the republicans had control. What happens . Nothing. The senate sits on it and does nothing. Second i want to want to talk about fiber. There is Technology Available today where each individual home could be selfsufficient selfsufficient with its own energy sell. What is amazing is if we have 500 years of natural gas, there it is. Nobody can attack us if every household has energy. We eliminate the grid because everyone has the wrong grade. There is a company in california that is powering e day using methane gas. That company is blue energy of california. Host the president signed an executive order last week regarding Cyber Security. Some news about that, they intended to improve information sharing to establish a framework of Cyber Security best practices. The white house spent the last several months crafting the order after congress failed to pass Cyber Security legislation last year. Last year. We will talk more about this executive order at 8 30 with Larry Clinton, president and ceo of the Internet Security alliance. Next, gil, missouri, democratic line. Caller it does not surprise me , an executive order once a month on something. In 1913 they passed a 17th amendment. The senate is bought by the wealthy along with the house of representatives, meaning we do not have a senate, we have two houses now. Since they have done that, they can do what they want. Insidertrading, vote on visa cards and make money doing it. They do not enforce the monopoly laws. The laws that are important for the people. It is what they can make money on. We need to repeal the 17th amendment and we should take a good look at everything they have passed ever since the 17th amendment. I have a copy of the constitution sitting right here and it says most states there were three or fourth stage that did not consent to the 17th amendment. Host all right, dale, missouri. Lets look of a story that looks at this from the bill, the president s Endless Campaign taking the message to the road. For the moment two of his major priorities are Immigration Reform and guncontrol, neither of which will be an easy left easy lift. Host the president gave his weekly address yesterday. Lets take a listen to what he had to say about the middle class. [video clip] every day we should be asking ourselves good questions. How do we get good jobs coming to america and how do we may sure your hard work making america a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing. Our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three years. What we need to do now is simple, accelerate that trend into Global Centers of hightech manufacturing. We need to make the tax breaks take the tax breaks away from companies that send jobs overseas. We need to invest in the research in technology that will allow us to put more people back to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. These steps will help us to expand and create new jobs, providing every american with skilled training that they need to fill those jobs. Lets start in the early years by offering highquality preschool to every child in america. Lets redesign our high schools so that the students graduate with skills that employers are looking for right now. Because taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring costs of higher education, i have called on congress to take affordability into account when determining which colleges need certain kinds of federal aid. Host that is the president s weekly address. Jan rights this on twitter host what do you think about the president s use of executive orders as a way to achieve his goals of working around congress . Our next caller comes from pennsylvania, rose, republican line. Caller, how are you . Host good, how are you. Caller code nervous, in a first time caller. Host welcome. Caller thank you. I think that obama is trying to turn this country into a dictatorship. Everyone that does not agree with his policies, that is why i recently became a republican. Host is there anything in particular that the president is doing that makes you feel that way . Caller he is so involved with social issues rather than trying to get jobs for the country. Employment should be a priority instead of all these social issues. Host if the president signed an executive order to spur growth in jobs and manufacturing, would you have a problem with that . Caller well, i agree with people coming together, republicans and democrats. Everything cannot just go the way of democrats. Host everyone working together. Caller exactly. Host thank you for calling. This is robert from twitter host democratic line, illinois. Good morning. Caller first of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on this issue. We have a congress that is not doing anything. For the first four years the president was in office, he tried to work with congress on the gop side and they just refuse to work with him. I know that these situations required changes. I think that the president can use executive orders to promote these changes, they are good for the country as a whole. The president should not be concerned about dysfunction issues in this country, but i believe these social issues that we have our what this country is based on and if you cannot get help from the gop, yes, implement executive orders. Immigration is important, gun control is important. I do believe the president can and should use executive orders for the benefit of the country, and that is what is doing. Host the response to the president s address this week was delivered by a congresswoman from alabama. Lets take a listen to her, she is talking about the sequester, which noah was just speaking of. [video clip] this is a smarter way to hurt smarter way to deal with the budget than hurting national spending. The president s sequester is going to be replaced with targeted spending cuts. Unfortunately, the democratic lead senate never acted on either goal. As the clock ticks toward its sequester, the president failed to put forward a plan. Why . President obama and Senate Democrats see the sequester as an opportunity to push through another tax increase. If you are feeling another sense of deja vu, you are not alone. The ink has barely dried on the tax cuts that were pushed through in january. No one in washington should be talking about raising your taxes when the federal government is still spending billions by giving people free cell phones. It is a shame that our commanderinchief is using the military he leads as leverage for a ideological crusade for higher taxes. These games have to stop. Our goal in washington every day should be coming together on issues like creating jobs for hard working american families, reining in our out of control that, making sure that america can maintain a Strong National defense. We can come together now to replace the president s sequestered. Not with more tax increases, but with better spending cuts that put our budget on a path to balance in just 10 years. Host the republican response to the weekly president ial address. This from twitter host john, new hampshire, good morning. Caller i have a question for the people calling up saying that barack obama should have the right for executive powers to be used that will. Do they realize that we threw off a king in 1776 . Do they want another one . The agreement is a you and i and everyone else can govern ourselves. It is amazing to disregard the agreement and saying that he should use executive orders. The people of this country when it was formed formed it for us so that we would govern our own destiny. The people formed the states, the states formed the federal government. I would like to read something briefly, if i could, from madison federalstate 45, saying that the powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those that remain to the State Government are numerous and indefinite. In the 10th amendment, the powers delegated by the constitution were prohibited to the states and are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. People that are calling up supporting executive orders, would they like it if there was a hard right wing person jamming their ideas down their throat . Host would you feel differently if we were talking about president george w. Bush . Caller i do not care what party they are in, they should not be using executive orders the way they are. Host here is the New York Timeseditorial page. They showed the real cost of shrinking government. The sequester will set back American Life and hundreds of painful ways. It looks at the range of areas that will be hit by the cuts. 2100 fewer food safety inspections will be conducted. 4