Our phones to just republican callers to hear your thoughts on the primary process. If you like the calendar changes , if you prefer a longer primary. Rocess if you are a republican in the eastern or Central United states, our phone lines are 20 25853880. If you are in the pacific or 3881. Ain region, 202585 you can tweet us or go on her Facebook Page. You can also email us at journal cspan. Org. That the rncweets tweeted yesterday playing out in the papers. Here is a story from the New York Times it na central called central called it i want to read you a bit from the piece from politico this morning the reporter for politico joins us now. You mentioned a six significant rule changes that were implemented. Take us through what happened. Fort the most significant the purposes of electing the we are probably not going to have the first states vote until february. They have created a penalty so states like florida do not move up and try to leapfrog other states. New hampshire, iowa, south carolina, and nevada are allowed to vote before march 1. Now all Florida States now florida will go in february. The next key thing is mitt romney was really frustrated in 2012 because he had to kind of keep going. Delegates have enough. Every primary in march and april had to be proportional to the you would only end up getting half the delegates. Newt gingrich and Rick Santorum would get the rest. The Romney Campaign pushed to make the primaries winner take all. A lot of people were really would meant that they reschedule the primary on march 1. Then you would have this tidal there was this super tuesday were a lot of people with momentum and the money to afford Television Ads could wrap march 1. Mination on the compromise that everyone reached is that any state that goes within the first two weeks has to award its delegates proportionally. After march 15 everyone can go winter take all. March 1 happens to be a tuesday. A bunch of states wont schedule private wont schedule primaries on that tuesday. A lot of states are going winner take all. You probably see the nomination wrapped up by mid to late march as opposed to the end of april or early may. 14 primaries in february and probably wrapping this up with as many primaries from mid to late march. And the calendar in may for the rest of the primaries will happen . There was some contention with these meetings. There are still more republicans in california than any other state. Their primary has to be on june 6 by law. It is controlled by democrats. There is no indication that could change. They created some waivers for states like california, which arent going to be able to move up. Everyone else is going to have conventions and primaries earlier to meet that new threshold. The chairman of the committee possible is to get a commission as early as june. Careful aboute scheduling around july 4. Either they will do it before july 4 or two weeks after july 4. Did these rule changes do anything to the number of debates that candidates will have to move in . Guest they did not but theyll will have to take their next meeting in may. The committee will fight very hard on that. There is a lot more division over this. There were 20 primary debates in 2012. Totablishment types the establishment types that is far too many. That damaged a lot of the candidates. Rick perry killed himself in the debates. E made the candidacy of michele bachmann. It would look like the rnc sanctioning debates and threatening to punish any candidates who participates in nonsanctioned debates. The other thing at the rnc wants will be any it official debate. Chuck shaw that chuck todd commentating. Some conservatives like it but some of the Establishment Republicans are worried that it will end up creating a race to the right. You also talked about the town, the importance of tone when candidates are on the campaign trail. I want to play with he had to say and then come back to you. [video clip] matters. Ample i said many times before that the policies and principles of this party are sound. However, as we look to grow the ranks of our party, we all must be very conscious of tone and choice of words when we can communicate those when we communicate those policies. We should set the standard for and also set an example for other republicans. Man of politico is here to join us. What has been the context is Mike Huckabee made some comments the day before in that exact same and womensemocrats. Ibido and contraception the rnc had scheduled a bunch of conferences and meetings. Hall showcase rising republican stars, young women who are really impressive minority candidates who were winning state legislative branches in red states. They had all these things to set up things set up to showcase. There is a Republican NationalCommittee Member that posted on his Facebook Page that were antigay and antimuslim. Yesterday afternoon, previous yesterday afternoon he was called to resign and step down. Two negativeese stories that emerged from the meeting. This is shown the World Without wildly condemning them that he hopes for the better. Actions are speaking louder than words. Host we talk about the winter. Eeting of the rnc thank you so much for joining us on washington journal. Our viewersng to about these changes that the rnc announced. We want to hear your thoughts on the primary process, what you think about these changes and how helpful the primary process is for you as you try to pick your candidate. We are talking to just republicans. If you are republican in eastern and central time zones bob is calling in from indiana. Winky for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Caller i think the electoral process should be shortened to no more than a year. It is just a waste of money and puts money in the pockets of the media. Are you guys partnering with politico echo it seems like when with politico . Seems that whenever we talk about politico you talk with the leftwing politico group. Host they were covering the rnc meeting. Youre just helpful enough to help us this morning. They were just helpful enough to help us this morning. Aboutuld you go candidates not holding Campaign Events until a year before the election . Does it take to decide who we want . Another thing on this healthcare thing, i wish you would have patty mccoy on. We know 85 of the journalists will left wingers journalists are left wingers so we know what kind of slander you are getting. We are talking to republicans about some of the changes that were announced yesterday by the rnc to the primary calendar. One story this week from National Journal talks about some of the concerns that have been brought up about those changes. Josh kraushaar writes melissa is up in cincinnati ohio. Caller the way i see it, no matter what the republicans do, everythingrk because is already planned ahead of time. Hillary is going to run. Im sick and tired of people getting on tv and going, we dont know if shes going to run. Of course she is going to run. They are going to give it to her on a silver platter. Host on the republican primary do you think theres a frontrunner or do you think it is artie planned out on the republican side of the aisle you go it is already planned out on the republican side of the aisle yo . The democrats are mean, they are meanspirited. The irs is going to keep going after the republicans and tea parties. He should be locked up for talking like that. The democrats are going to get it on the platter. Just give it to them. Guest who is your candidate on the republican side . Caller mike lee or ted cruz. They are conservative. Theyre not just republican they are conservative. There is a big difference. Republican is just the same old same old. Conservative, that is a big difference. Just look at what boehner did on the tonight show. He is such a wimp erie a wimp. Morning we are talking about changes to the primary process. The headline of the story brian is up next for california, calling in. What are your thoughts on this condensed primary calendar . The primaries definitely matter. I think a short primary schedule would work as you look to 2012 erie 22012. To tony 12. Ok to 2012. I think cspan is left as well. They are complicated. We try to show both sides on washington journal. We are talking to just republicans now to the changes to the primary calendar. Months open up our phone to everyone as we follow different stories going on around the country. Go to fill in indiana this morning. We are talking about the shakeup of the republican primary calendar. What do you think . I think cspan is pretty fair, actually. Part of the problem with the Republican Party is the kind of rejected the libertarian people. Watching the primary process, it was like that. They need to find a Better Process to incorporate new than just be gop insiders running the whole show. There are a lot of frustrated young republicans wanting to vote toward their nominee as part of the process. We are getting completely shut out. Host how do you go about finding those folks that are the insiders that are already running . People are already established in the party. There are some variances in the ideas erie if their candidates wins that is fine. If you have to bend the rules to get your nominee, the candidates are not allowed to go things of that nature. If they actually do want to nominate a candidate that can win, they need to encompass the younger crowd that respects the constitution, stanza for civil liberties, and bring those republicans into the party. They are really going nowhere. We are talking about the changes to the republican primary calendar, efforts to shrink that calendar in the 2016 election 2016 president ial election. And the politico unit has a story about this as well, talking about the advantages and disadvantages to the change of the calendar. In 20 12 mitt romney, despite raising a tremendous amount of campaign money, was unable to tap into his general election cash until after the late august convention. A convention in june or july would give the eventual republican nominee faster access to that cash. On to note the possible cons of doing this on their list of possible drawbacks to shortening the calendar. There are unintentional consequences one other issue it brings up is the possible move by democrats in response to this. We want to get republican thoughts this morning on the nominating process. What do you think these changes will mean for 2016 . David is up in new york. I am in favor of moving the convention to an caller i am in favor of moving the convention to an earlier month. As far as what was said at the , i am kind ofting like a disgruntled republican because i know what they are going to do and they are going to bring in karl rove and one of the guys like jeb bush. That will totally send me over the edge. Returning my contributions with notes saying you guys arent putting up conservative candidates than i will start sending you my conservative ideals. Host why isnt in earlier convention better in your mind . A beta we have convention than other states. Iowa and New Hampshire go early. Thinking about getting the action better before all is said. Nd done being from new york, it is a blue state and we have Chuck Schumer locked in there. We have our emperor telling us how we should live in new york state. Make room for us in texas because we might me moving out. Think about the number of debates in the republican primary . Would you like to see more or less . Caller i say the more the merrier. I would like to see more headtohead competition and i do think these numbers these the number of debates in the actual president ial race is about right. Mitt romney got the ball rolling by taking but in that first debate. By kicking bots in that first debate. In that firsttt debate. These republicans that they put we have to get people with backbones and not these wimpy noodles. Talk about changes to the republican 2016 primary calendar. We will take also from republicans for just the next when he minutes or so. I want to point out some other news around the country. Heres the front page of the wall street journal talking about the republican agenda. The jump page on that story talks about president obamas expected mention of immigration and in his state of state of the Union Address on tuesday. He will call on lawmakers to pass an overall of democrats and overhaul of laws here you can see speech viewership and president obamas viewership of his state of the Union Following each year. Story on the state of the union. Coming out from roll call on capitol hill, the white houses briefing the democratic chief of staff on what the president is going to say. That briefing happened yesterday. Reporters talked to democratic leadership aides about what was said in that meeting and what the president is expected to say. Plenty of state of the union happening on cspan this coming week. We are talking to republicans about these changes to the republican president ial primary calendar. Lets go to floyd in virgin you. In virginia. I think they should shorten the amount of debates they have. They have way too many. Would bringh cspan the mayor in new york, what he said about getting christians and conservatives out and the womanty for governor in texas lied about said whatabee Mike Huckabee said, he was bragging for women. He was bringing woman up. He was doing a good job talking about women. You never see the stories on washington journal. You have several people. Said, whaty clinton does it matter if three people or five people got killed over there in benghazi . That should be brought up on cspan and washington journal should be able to comment on that. We are talking about the president ial primary changes that were announced and voted on yesterday at the rnc winter meeting. Those changes have caused some criticism among republicans. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of those changes. Chairman of the rnc writes about some of the criticism the party has taken, including from friends in the party. I want to play what he had to say from his comments yesterday. [video clip] what we are doing is a big deal. It is frustrating sometimes people try to attack our work or try to create the appearance of dissent. Every once in a while you hear attack inown friends the rnc. It reminds me we need to tell people more about what the rnc does. For thebuilds and pays infrastructure our candidates need to be successful. We ares previous host talking about some of the primary rule changes that were voted on yesterday. We are talking with just republicans this morning. Gina is calling in from mississippi. Good morning. Caller i dont see how republicans stand a chance until we get as many conservative venues, like tv stations and radio stations, as we have liberals. It is so unfair because it doesnt matter how great our candidate is, the liberal branches going to crucify him. I want to congratulate you because i think you are one of the most fair commentators that cspan has. Commentators are fair except greta. She is so obviously biased. She cuts off all conservative people as soon as they start talking. Thank you for being pair. Being fair. Comments from folks all over the country, we want to hear from everybody every day. Thank you for calling. Lets go to john in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. These changeson that were voted on yesterday to the republican primary season. I think they are a good step forward but they are not enough. There are some builtin features that hurt the republicans in this process. Especially this early caucus in iowa, those folks are really issue based on either a religious right sort of thing or energy from grain and so on. It skews the early process. How would you fix the process you go fix the process . I dont know how you would fix it, i just dont like this caucus. It gives a benefits to the religious right part of the party. People seem to cave on the ethanol issue. It is quite a mess. We have a bunch of really great governors, republican governors that will be fine for this office. None of those people would make it past the iowa caucus. They are not that far to the religious right. Host do you think it would be helpful for those folks to have a longer process rather than a condensed process here . Does this condensed process make that caucus even more important . Caller i think the condensed process is better having watched all those debates. They were all flailing at each other way too long. ,hey need six or seven debates that is much better than 17. It was definitely destructive. John from pittsburgh pennsylvania. A few comments from twitter. Goings off some of the comments the rnc chairman said. Lets go to jack waiting in florida. Your thoughts on these primary calendar changes. Story, inquick back 2008 i was an organizer for senator obama. I was a paid field organizer. I got a trip to the inaugural youth ball. I came back and started researching more and getting more into politics. There was this person named wrong paul named ron paul. This is the earliest since 1946 . I believe i read that. I remember during the 2012 , the ronn convention paul people were silent. In florida, what happened was the delegates in 2008 were strict because they were too early. Hillary clinton would have been the nominee. I dont understand what is going. N with the republicans grassroot preservice grassroot conservatives do not have enough time and money. Me andindboggling to what i believe is this is so they can unify around one person as quickly as they can. 10 to write soon on twitter kent writes in on twitter we will take your comments and questions on this subject. We have five to 10 more minutes talking about the shortened republican president ial primary season. Some news coming out of the obama white house. Yesterday president obama decided to bring politics back into the white house. Three years ago obama closed the longstanding office of Political Affairs at the white house and send if you want to read more on the office of Political Affairs command packet the white house, that is in the New York Times today. Also relating to this white house, Senate Republicans are pressing obama to make a decision quickly on that controversy oh keystone xl pipeline. A letter sent to president obama on friday lays out the history of the project, stating that obama had more than enough time to review the pipeline. You should not f