Writes about the accountability on the nsa spying issue. Heres peter bakers headline. Post, bye washington scott wilson, controversies show how obamas inattention to detail may hurt his president ial legacy. We want to get your thoughts on this. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Tweet, cspanwj. You can also post your comments on facebook or email us. On both fronts on the nsa and the Health Care Law, president obamas down to this i did not know. No president can be aware of everything going on in a sprawling government that he theoretically manage. Theoretically manages. This constant questions about how much in charge he really is. Days, the president s health and Human Services secretary said that the that despite internal concerns in a mr. Obama wasn, not told about Serious Problems with the new row grahams website until it was rolled out this month. Said theicials president was not aware that the National Security agency was tapping the phone of agngela merkel. Opposition lawmakers and pundits have seized on the white house explanations to accuse mr. Obama of being a bystander president. Some democrats are scratching their heads at the seeming detachment from significant matter. Msnbc ran a montage of clips showing mr. Obama or his aides disclaiming president ial knowledge of various issues. What do you think . What do you think about the president s accountability on these issues and others. Michigan, republican, dave am a what do you think . Becausei am calling people like me are rarely represented in the media in the discussion about the Affordable Health care. You will find us in the gems , the health food stores, running, jogging, doing the tour there are millions of us devoted to our health, narcissistic to a point. That is only because we are devoted to our health. He has. Obama nerve to tell me how to stay healthy. I have Catastrophic Health care and that is all i need. I do not plan on getting all of these diseases that are acquired by not taking myself. Commentt me ask you to on our topic. The accountability of the president i find that frightening. I feel a president should know details of everything. Seems to be constantly saying i didnt know about it. Here is a facebook message know everything . Ceos dont know everything in their corporations and they are smaller than what president obama has to deal with. This war against them is a distraction. I am tired of the gop. How can he know everything . Caller i think that is incorrect when they say ceos dont know everything about their business. If they dont know, they get fired. Host rick, independent caller, louisville ohio. Caller the Banking Industry they know exactly what is going on and they never got fired. Is ahole obamacare smokescreen. This guy got elected and he got elected to change trade policy, to change the insane tax policy, to change the policy dealing with antitrust. For the past five years, what you people have been able to do whichus on this obamacare has very little to do with the ,verall economy versus the wars the insane trade policies or insane tax policies. All of this is a smokescreen. It is almost like weapons of mass destruction. If youre going to say here and the 15,000 when you have 20,000 on unemployment. 100 Million People are living in poverty this is all this is. This is just politics to of peoples issue being critical of the president . We are at the point of this country where the whole thing is completely collapsed. After they at obama, had three years of borscht, the system needed the opposite. You people in the media created barack obama. And said of him coming in addressing the policies instead of him coming in addressing the policies, now you can talk about obamacare. I grew up in detroit. I wrotegreat book it. Belt. G back the rust host i think we got your point. Scott, texas, republican caller. Caller obama told us the fundamental change that he was going to bring to this country what he was talking about was socialism. He was not remotely all five for this job. None of his background qualified him for the presidency. He would not be qualified to sit on your school board or your local city council. He is a joke. Point, do you think that is what has led to his explanations and this issue of accountability that we are reading about in the papers . Caller it is extreme narcissism. He is never going to be blamed for anything. Up to this point, the Mainstream Press has gone along with it because he was the one. All you have to do is look at his background and you know he was never remotely qualified. He is not even a patriot. He detests this country. Is capitalist economics. On our Facebook Page posts this nothing is obamas fault. You last saw this behavior from little johnnie, i didnt do it. Alyssa, democratic caller. Caller this is teresa. Host sorry about that. Go ahead. The twoi agree with gentlemen that just spoke. He is totally out of the loop. He is the president , he should man up. He should know what is going on in this country. Of what is going on. It is always i do not know. He lames everybody else. It is always the republicans and now the democrats. Host did you vote for him . Caller i did not. Him the first for time, the second time i did not vote for him because i did not feel he was all i. Because i did not feel he was qualified. Us i feelrming like were living in russia. Host we are going to keep getting your thoughts on president obamas accountability when it comes to the nsa spying stories, the rollout of the Affordable Care act. A bystander, scott wilson also writing about this in the Washington Post. Keep dialing in. You temperature comments on our twitter page or on our Facebook Page. You can keep putting comments on our twitter page or on our Facebook Page. Billy house is with us. Lets begin with Kathleen Sebelius. She is up before the energy and Commerce Committee. Would you expect your . We expect her to assure members of congress and the nation that the healthcare. Gov website is improving and improving quickly. That is going to be hard to do because last night we learned the federal hauled federal hub crashed again for the second time in three days. Hoe. As a tough row to what about the news stories that came out yesterday nbc has stories showing the white house knew people were going to start losing their Insurance Coverage despite ,romises from the president dating back to 2009, that if you like your dr. You can keep them. Think the president might speak to that a little bit today in boston. On administrations spin that is that it is the Insurance Companies who have overreacted or changed their plans so that more people are beaten are being given these notices then should be than should be. Wereknew that some people going to be dropped. They did not think it was going to be at this extent. Host where are democrats on their confidence levels with secretary sibelius and what they want to see from the president on the Affordable Care act . Are nervous. F them some of them are very supportive. We saw that in the hearing yesterday. They want this fixed. They have been getting private briefings from groups like kaiser trying to assure them that this thing can be resolved. As we know, republicans are inzing on this, not so much and allowed way, but letting it play out and do the speaking for them. This is done more for their benefit than 60 days of government shutdown. We are asking viewers to weigh in on president obamas accountability and the nsa spying. Hett wilson has noted that did not know some of the details of these two issues. We have heard that before from the president. What are you hearing up on just fromll, not republicans, but from democrats as well . Concern, almost a kneejerk reaction that he did not know. Concern about the he is at a fault, a very loyal guy. He is not the type of president who simply fires people, even if the political heat gets turned up. There is concern that these issues are going to fester. We will see how that plays out. Host theres no indication from the white house that somebodys head is going to roll over the Affordable Care act or the nsa . Guest not yet. Sibelius and her testimony will blame some of the Computer Companies that are running the site. Marilyn tavener said apologize for the administration. The administration will go back and start blaming some of the Computer Companies they hired. Host you have the first formal meeting between house and Senate Budget negotiators. This Conference Committee put together by the most recent deal to open up the government and raise the debt ceiling. What you expect out of todays meeting . Cochairman of this ryanrence committee, paul has made it clear this is not going to be a grand bargain, so we should not pretend it will be. They go in as a budget Conference Committee with the democrats controlling me senate and the house controlled by republicans. Last time they were able to reach an agreement was 1986. Pi was the popular show back then. We are not going to have a grand bargain. Perhaps trading off of the real we soften some of these acrosstheboard cuts known as the sequester and offset them with some new revenue. The devil is in the details of what revenue is. Republicans dont want to raise taxes. Todaythere are stories that the white house is open to not raising revenues and any deal they come up with and they are eyeing cuts to farm subsidies. Ground. Ld be common guest that is correct. Theres also the opening session of the longawaited arm bill farm bill. This is the sort of thing that conference two committees can mesh their answers on and come up with answers for both. Viewersve the background on this legislation. Why has it not passed . Guest this year was the first it is ait was due fiveyear authorization bill. It was due to years ago. A bill passed the senate last year. Not put his did bill on the floor last year. He put a bill on the floor this to defeatt went down and only when he separated it empathy and removed the food stamp portion didnt pass. What we have now going into conference is one bill that cuts 4 billion in food stamps and 39her one that cuts billion in food stamps funding. We have a huge gap of their. A huge gap there. House with national journal. We appreciate your time. We are going to have our cameras on capitol hill covering a lot of these events that billy house was just talking about. The hearing before energy and Commerce Committee with Kathleen Sebelius will be live on cspan3 at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. It will reair again this evening at 8 00 p. M. On cspan. At budget Conference Begins 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. We will have coverage on c span. Org. The farm bill negotiations begin this afternoon at around tooth p. M. Eastern0 time. When president obama travels to boston later today, we will have coverage of that. All of this on our website, c span. Org. Accountabilitys on the nsa and the Health Care Law. Peter baker and scott wilson writing in their respective papers about president obama saying i did not know on those two issues. Teresa, democratic color, what do you think . Lets go to tom. I think this is an overarching problem of leadership. In leadership, you should have a goal in your self to be held accountable for what happens under your leadership. This is a problem of not getting the correct information it is aidsduty to remove the that are not doing their jobs. This is a problem of people not working together. Host a communication problem within the white house . Caller yes. Host what you do about that . Caller you have to figure out why he was not informed about these problems. He is a busy person and you ides that figure relevantthis is a topic that needs to be brought to his attention. Someone should have the foresight to alert the president. Leadership is about being able to see the consequences of your actions before everyone around you. Tracy, mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, republican caller. What do you think . Caller as a 65yearold, obama will be held accountable. He alone shut down the government trying to cram obamacare down americas throat. Who areike myself retiring, we do not want to. Good ando make america that is why she is great. She is not great for any other reason except that she is good. She is not good because she is great. Mess isthis whole insane. People it away has taken away peoples rights to buy health care the way they want to. Jim, what do you think about the president and not knowing the details on the Health Care Rollout and the nsa Surveillance Programs . Caller i think he has the wrong team around him. He should have been made aware of it. Care, so manyth states have made Auto Insurance and in todays environment, one in seven people are driving without insurance. Focus onhey going to people keeping their insurance or are they going to walk in and take one months worth of insurance and stopped paying on it . There are too many unanswered questions. The bottom line as far as the white house everyone in there should be fired if he truly was not made aware of what was going on. Host on that point aides dismiss suggestions that obama did not Pay Attention on either of these areas. I said the president was deeply nations on the surveillance practices, but was focused on those areas that constituted the major threats to the United States. He had no reason to suspect that of merkel or other leaders close allies were being cap. On health care, aides said that mr. Obama had been fixated on details of the laws carrying out and that advisers did not withhold information but were likewise surprised by the scope of the problem. , are you still there . What do you think . Jober if i did not do my right, i would not still have a job. We are going to go to gym in chicago jim in chicago. Barack obama is incompetent or a pathological liar. I cannot believe he did not know what was going on. What doesnt help is that the media continues to cover for this guy. They are making excuses for him. They made him, they liked him, and theyre going to to going to continue protect them. If this were george bush, the media would have a field day. Host how is the media protecting the president . Hardr by not asking the questions. They always ask soft questions or questions that have nothing to do with Current Events in america today. Host tommy, republican caller. What you think about our topic . Caller whenever president obama ran for election, he made all of the promises about the government. Everyone is going to be held responsible. The good old boy system was going to stop and i dont see where he has accomplished anything. It seems like it is more deception and lies than there ever was. Host what you think the impact will be on his legacy . Caller truth be told, it is going to make of it. Host that is the premise of Scott Wilsons piece. He says president obama has yet to master the management of his administration. Of information within his administration. Obama, who like many president s had no executive experience before taking office has never pretended to care much about the details of governing. He prefers the big speech to congressional armtwisting, the big reform to incremental change and the big Foreign Policy ambition to cultivating head of state relationships. It means that obama has appeared to be caught unaware as controversies envelop his administration. The west wing that he runs seems more like liabilities than benefits, raising questions about how much information obama wants and how he receives it. This president doesnt seem to be as relentlessly curious about the process of government. From Peter Baker Peter Baker writes, those cases underscore the difficult choices in what to tell a president. Aides determined that it would be inappropriate for the president to have advanced knowledge of the irs investigation. Beresident should not involved in such investigations or lawenforcement cases because it could politicize them. John tuck said he was not bothered asnot as other republicans about mr. Obamas not knowing about the problems with the Healthcare System in advance. I would never put the finger on somebody saying they should have known or might have known. What difference does it make if he knew or he didnt know . Good story, you brought it to the white house. If you had a bad story, you put it out to the department that was responsible for it. David, texas, democratic caller. What do you think . Caller this is all about president obama was legacy. These people president obamas legacy. These people dont care. They thought they were going to beat him, but they did not beat him. He won two times in the election. They are always talking about the American People. OldAmerican People voted on on president obama. The number one job is to get this man out of here. They are not trying to help him. To tarnish or erase everything, even his name out about white house. Rich, jacksonville, florida. How didm curious the Affordable Care act that romney had changed to the obama bill. . The tea party is doing a good job of destroying everything that man could put out there. That is what they ran on. That is what they are going to do. Host this is political for you . Caller it is very political. With ted cruz and his family heritage, they have strange parties. Host let me ask you about the president saying i did not know about the website or the nsa spying. Does that raise concerns with you . From attentionr deficit disorder. I