Their budget. 31,000 employees. In the meantime, we want to go through the newspapers and look at some of the news stories, including ukraine and the violence of there. The president budget is being previewed and the gop tax plan is being unveiled next week. Have a Public Policy discussion item that you would like to add to the table, we are going to put the numbers up on the screen. You can dial in. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Go to social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. In our participate conversation on the nih on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are some headlines on the ukraine. Ukraines bloodiest day. This picture is taking a most of the front page. Bodies of some of the protesters that were killed. Here is the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette. Their headline is ukraines president open to early elections. M politico, John Mccain White house on ukraine stunning. Sanctions on the ukraine and slammed the administration for its handling of the u. S. Relationship with russia. This is the most naive president in history, mccain said theres a. Mccain said on thursday. Here is the Financial Times this morning. Yanukovych will send in military. Fears grew that the army may inn be called into the fray a development that observers warned could have devastating repercussions for the nation. This came out from the boston globe. A deal ending crisis is to be in. To be inked. A deal has been negotiated and tended to end intended to and. He battle between protesters officent yanukovychs has said they have agreed to initial the deal reached after all my negotiations with the eu diplomats. One more paragraph from the story. European officials caution it is too early to declare a breakthrough in a standoff that has plunged ukraine into the deadliest violence it has seen since winning independence from the soviet union. Budget will not include Social Security changes. The white house said thursday that president obamas soon to be unveiled budget will not include his past offer to expect to accept lower increases ing Social Security and other benefits. In return for changing how a costofliving adjustment is calculated, obama had expected republicans to agree to some increases in tax revenue, which republicans balked at. Obama will drop chained cpi. Table if grandhe bargain talks with congress ever continue. Obamas budget will contain 56 billion in increased spending, 20 billion for domestic, 20 billion for defense. Defense andon for 28 billion for domestic. The new domestic initiatives obama will propose, the official said, are the creation of 45 manufacturing institutes across the country. Top initiative for Energy Efficiency to support states that implement policies to cut energy waste and modernize the grid, a Jobs Training Program that will expand apprenticeships and help connect students with employers, and funding towards obamas goal for universal prekindergarten. The budget is due out in the. Irst week of march finally, this from the Financial Times. Forblican to unveil plan sweeping overhaul of tax code. The top tax writer in congress will release a plan to revamp the entire u. S. Tax code in a move that will be closely scrutinized across corporate america. It prevents peril and promise for his party ahead of the november midterm elections. Of the house ways and Means Committee will release a draft tax reform plan that represents the most farreaching overhaul of the u. S. Tax code since 1986 under president ronald reagan. Tax rates for both individuals and corporations and pays for the effort by scrapping or limiting a wide range of popular tax breaks. Decision to release his tax plan clashes with an effort by Republican House leaders to remove issues from the partys agenda ahead of the november midterm elections. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Sydney, pollock, louisiana. Caller you had the ambassador to the ukraine on yesterday. He said what would our government do if we were marching on the white house, throwing rocks, throwing firearms and shooting the police. We are good about condemning other countries, but we forget what we do. We overthrew the reigning government in 1953 for the oil. If we hadnt overthrown them, maybe the ayatollahs would not have taken over the country. We have overthrown all kinds of governments in south america. Others for the same things we do. Thank you. Host thank you, sydney. Mortgage woes approach prerecession levels. Five years after the end of the u. S. Recession, the number of americans who are behind on their mortgages are finally narrowing to prerecession levels. The u. S. Mortgage to leak with to 6. 3 ninel percent of loans in the Fourth Quarter of 2013. That is down from 7. 09 a year ago. It is the lowest rate since the early months of the recession in the First Quarter of 2008, according to a report thursday by the organs bankers association. The wall street journal, this article. Cable deal. Ses oppositionvoiced his to comcasts proposed takeover of time warner cable. It would create unprecedented media concentration in one company. Deal announced last week has renewed speculation on wall street that directv and respectively could seek to merge to gain scale and remain competitive. Ergen has acknowledged benefits to a merger, but expressed uncertainty about whether regulators would bless the deal. The satellite giants attempted a merger more than a decade ago that was blocked by regulators. Fourthquarters reports on friday. White plains, new york, michael, youre on the air. Britain inare like 1945. We are nearly bankrupt, we should have done this 12 or 20 years ago. As far as the cable industry, unfortunately, we are losing control of our country. The american, the rich, the corporations, it is going to end in a disaster. Thank you. Bitcoin today atm. Bitcoin has come to texas. Organizers unveiled one of the first bitcoin atms at handlebar. Other bitcoin machines in boston and albuquerque only offer bitcoins for cash, not cash for bitcoins. The atms are being rolled out in austin in time for sxsw. Digital currency that is traded mostly online and persontoperson, rather than through banks. Chicago, ann, good morning. I want to talk about the president saying he is going to get schools for the young folks. Upchicago, the mayor closed 50 schools. They are going to be auctioned off. I have asked everybody that i know. I cannot get a letter to the president. Nothing gets accepted. Schools that were closed up need to be changed and turned into trade schools to teach these young folks how to build a house and how to plant a garden and do some things besides shoot each other. I want to see trade schools in chicago. I want to see urban gardens in chicago. The mayor also [indiscernible] a mother and a father that works out there has a 14yearold boy who was worried about how theyre going to pay their rent. The gangs are trying to recruit him. It is no wonder our young folks are in gangs. They have to join gangs so they can help pay the rent. N, in chicago. Sturmer makers led by stern ruger and smith wesson. Than a. 5 7 million guns were produced in 2012. From 2011. 31 vince, republican, oklahoma city. You gave your remark about the wall street journal about the Cable Television merger. Caveat ort make any journalistic type of statement thet the source of paychecks given to those who host these and where the money comes from who hosts cspan and where the money comes from. Comcast is the main supplier and main source of revenue for your payment and for the payment of your colleagues. Company is out of control. It is one of the most heavily lawyered and lobbyist filled company in the country. The journalistic integrity of cspan requires that you Say Something about comcast and the relationship that you have with the Cable Television providers who pay you and others for your reporting. Thank you. How do you get your cable tv . Caller internet. Host thank you for calling in this morning. Durham bill, new york. Listening to the caller from chicago and talking about what is going on there. It has been going on for a long time. It is a tragedy in this country. You look at what is going on in the ukraine right now. That is coming here. Long look at hard what these people are doing. Host who are these people . Have the police force shooting down their own people with sniper rifles they have lived this. They have lived under the oppression of the soviet union for decades. They do not want to go back. I dont know what is pushing them there, but it has a lot to do with the Financial System in this world. Do when you going to the sec is sitting next to you saying justify what you are putting on the tv . What you do. I will stand up and fight for you. Host are you talking about the announcement yesterday that the fcc is not going to going to newsrooms . Caller they want to ask why they and directors are doing what they are doing. Host if you want to get the that, there was an oped in the wall street journal on february 10. They said this was the case, that the fcc was going to going to newsrooms. Tom wheeler put out a statement saying it is not going to happen and i will be glad to read those next if you want to wait. If you lock like your doctor, you can keep your dr. , sir. Goodbye. Intent to muzzle press. The federal Communications Commissions is trying to reassure House Republicans and has no plans to restrict the freedom of the press. A letter was released yesterday. Tom wheeler told republican they have no intention otherulating political or speech of journalists and broadcasters. Asdefended new fcc research a step towards pinpointing market barriers that might affect the diversity of media voices. Republicans expressed concerns that the sec study was in it the f c c was an attempt to broadcasting. That is the hill this morni ts morning. Has be stirred the sleeping media to the threat to life as we know it. They want to embed government researchers on the newsroom floor to track on newspapers, radio and television stations select stories and cover the news. It will be on a hunt for bias. Concluded. It is bias is in the eyes of the beholder. Consumers are best and quick to judge which outlets serve their needs. It is none of the governments men and how Newspaper Television journalist do their jobs. The government can get the news when everybody else does. New hampshire, good morning. Good morning. Magazine, there is an article on the trillion il problem in norway. Arway has a surplus of trillion dollars. They drilled for oil, which they consider a national resource. From profits and so forth, they get 67 of the money. They use it for health care and education and other national needs. Interesting way of having money. I thank you. You, catherine. David, st. Joseph, missouri. You are on the washington journal. David . Helps if i push the right button. Hang on. David, you with us . I apologize. Caller thats ok. It happens. Article about the comments from the man from the fcc. First he says they are not doing it and then he says they are going to do it. It is more corruption from the administration. They do not this and the majority of the Democratic Party want to silence anybody that opposes them. That this president and his supporters do not want a dictatorship in this country, you have to be blind. All of his executive orders, fast and serious, the list goes on and on. It is like every dictator from sees , like the not the nazis and the communists. It is all the same. All want to destroy opposition and they want to have absolute control over everybody. That is all i have to say. Host david, st. Joseph, missouri. Quite a bit of reaction on twitter about the fcc story. , how can we trust anything from the white house . Trust or respect. The people have no representation. Potard and his leftist fccers think they can stick their nose in the newsrooms. Tweetsre a couple of the we received regarding that issue. Companies in minimum wage campaign. The white house is using its influence to portray gop legislators as hostile to the november voters who would gain from an increased minimum wage of 10. 10 per hour. President obama praised a wednesday decision by gap, inc. To raise wages to nine dollars an hour. Walmart, they have announced they remain neutral on the issue. Theyre looking at the impact of some of the proposals. , despiteuncement democrats hope of getting walmart on their side, the company has not asked its trade associations, such as the National Retail federation, to stop lobbying against popular proposal. 71 support for a 9 minimum wage. All morning long were going to be live. We will be at the National Institute of health. Or do 1 billion a year, average budget. 31 billion a year, average budget. 31,000 employees. We will be joined by story dr. Aland then guttmacher will join us. Dr. Steven katz is the director of the National Institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases. We will talk about what they do, where the money goes, and we will be taking your calls throughout the program. Sumter, South Carolina. Caller good morning. I was calling about what went on in the volkswagen plant in chattanooga. I was hoping that you guys might bring up some more coverage on the journal about what happened. It. E senator bob koger got heavily involved in a 1500 person vote norquist trying to influence the outcome. Is a chance for them to try new method of union labor and management relations using the german model. It could have been quite significant, especially considering the difference in the rich and the poor. I am asking you guys, maybe look into it a little bit more and do a show on a. Ost here is the front page South Carolina governor and other states say they do not want auto union jobs. It is open season on unions and the south. Antiunion groups have vowed to use the same game plan against the union in alabama, mississippi, South Carolina, and elsewhere. What you think about that . The republicans are the ones that are always screaming about noninterference from corporate america. Back off, let them do their thing. They are all over this. It is a complete contradiction to their general philosophy of business. Of private it is disturbing. I believe the south is selling themselves short and are being influenced by political systems. Host are you a member of the union in South Carolina . Caller no. I am retired military, a Small Business owner. I am definitely a union guy. There have been problems. Out is why i was excited about the that is why i was excited about the german model. They are more cooperative with the companies. Host we appreciate your time this morning. Being host fort a National Political convention. The may be embroiled in nations largest municipal bankruptcy in the u. S. History, but it is still exploring the possibilities of throwing its name into contention to host a National Political convention in the summer of 2016. It may be a long shot, considering the hurdles to be crossed. Detroit free press. Steve, high. Steve, hi. Caller i was wondering a couple of things. Arrestedter that was the reporter that was arrested at fox, why dont the other reporters back him up . The other thing is on srm. S. That is solar radiation management. What are they thinking . Theyre going to spray our skies and dim the sunlight . They will only kill 10 million more people from asthma like conditions. This is absurd. Keith needs to back up and people need to wake up and look up. Is going on above us. Host this is glenn, also from washington. Olympia, washington. Caller i wanted to make a to the about kiev, but people that listen to cspan, eventually, if you are conservative and they do not like her voice, they will censor you. I am writing a letter to the american cable association, 11 congressmen, 11 senators, about cspan because if i make a conservative comment. I have had to change my phone number four times in four months. You will know that you are being censored because when you call, it never gives you a busy signal and it endlessly rings. The people in the back room that make this judgment as to conservative voices, you need to hand them their lunch pail and tell them to go home. Host what is the point you want to make . Caller conservatives have a right to make a point on this channel. I guarantee you i will write this letter until i hear from the right people. You should not be able to ask us what our common is going to be. It never used to be that way. I have been watching you for 14 years. I know for a fact it never used to be that way. That is how they hear your message. They dont like your message, click. What is the message you want to get out to america . Caller you are censoring me right now. You do not want the message to come out of what i am saying. Host i dont . Caller it appears you like to censor conservatives. The man that calls from carolina, jim. He calls every other day from illinois and from South Carolina and you let cspan cspan lets him get on every day. What is the democratic policy want to criticize . Straighten up cspan. Hisll have to sacrifice phone number because i will be censored as soon as i get off the phone. Endless rain,n change her phone number. Thank you. Glenn, olympia, washington. Hope to hear from you again in 30 days. We are going to be live at the National Institutes of health, talking to several of the directors. First up is story landis. We will be right back. The National Governors association kicks off its winter meeting. They will have panels on homeland security, Early Education and drug abuse. The story of the allied forces tasked with recovering artifacts stolen by the not sees the nazis. 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