We are going to begin with that question as the president meets with the pope to talk about a number of issues, including poverty, immigration, and climate change. You can join in on the conversation, the phone lines many of you weighing in on facebook. Com. Send us a tweet. Good morning, lets begin with the front page of the New York Times, which is focusing on Community Organizer barack obama, his early years in chicago. The headline is that is the front page of the New York Times. Theres this headline from the l street journal here co. From the wall street journal. David is not a more up of the Washington Post has a piece on the beating that took place piece inamura has a the Washington Post. With that background he is joining us live on the phone from the Washington Post. Lets begin on the immigration issue because that is likely to be front and center when the president meets with pope francis on thursday. What can we expect . Pope may have a more social agenda than previous leaders of the church probably had. The white house is kind of trying to capitalize on that or build a bridge there. The president recognizes some of thengs the pope did pope was talking about are things the white house was talking about. Take a moret could humane approach to his immigration policies and deportation. This has been a big issue and a tough position for the white house. The president has been talking about the comprehensive Immigration Reform and providing citizenship for these illegal immigrants. His administration has deported more people than any previous administration. Pointrying to make the that republicans are enforcing the law. People wanted to go further. Agenda with on the income inequality and other social issues the pope has been talking about as well. I think the president will use the opportunity to talk about that more in top publicly about it. And to talk publicly about it. It was an hourlong session between the president and leaders. What do you think transpired . They made their case very strongly and very plainly to the president. That thet a surprise president had his senior the president told him we are going to take a deeper look at our policies, we are going to do a review. He didnt put a timetable or a scope on it but he promised them soon to a review to make the law more humane. He did not promise to vastly expand his deferral policy for deportation. We want you to press congress. Maybe have a unified front and still get this more comprehensive legislation through. Thisnly way to fix longterm is legislatively. Activists understood that they did not like that message because they thought the president certainly he has been doing a lot. I think him for that they say time is running out. They thank him for that but they say time is running out. Are leaving families here. They say they will work with dhs on this review. I have talked to several of them. They dont necessarily have a great deal of hope it will be a dramatic shift. At is what they are looking for. Athink you are looking another potential confrontation in another him and another couple of months. Host that topic is one of the items the president will focus on this week. Hthe president previously met with pope and eight in 2009. Our phone lines with Pope Benedict in 2009. Let me follow up with the reporting of carol lee. The president arrives in the netherlands tomorrow morning. As she points out in her piece, this week will give the president a chance to meet with european allies face to face in what she is describing as a fundamental reassessment of u. S. Russian relations. Can you reelect can you elaborate . They met at the white house to give a layout of the goal. It was an ambitious agenda. The situation with ukraine and russia will be the overriding storyline, especially in the first few days when the president is going to go to two different summits. One is a Nuclear Summits in the netherlands and the next one is the european u. S. Summit in belgium. I think the white house is saying the overriding goal is to andy u. S. Allies in europe perhaps maybe put more pressure on russia with more economic sanctions. They are going to start off in the netherlands on the sidelines with the nuclear summit, something the president launched a couple of years back. It requires cooperation with russia. The president made clear they are going to start off with a separate meeting of what they is theling the g7, which seven largest economies without russia. They make the point to russia that they will be left out of these important conversations and more economic sanctions will be put on president put on president clinton to encrypt president putin to increase pressure. Visitlso going to flanders field on the 100th anniversary of world war i. It is an interesting time to do that. Statement to make a about the allies and major conflicts. A visual statement, as well. Theyre going to be doing a couple of other things. Him they will talk they will talk about some of the conflicts going on. He will go to saudi arabia and talk about the middle east. Numbing bring this back to your headline on Washington Post. Com on washingtonpos t. Com. The piece begins by pointing out it look it will focus on the australia us on the israelipalestinian peace process. Guest certainly the public statements are political but it puts the pressure on other world leaders. It will be interesting to see what kind of public statements they make together, independently of each other. The president , on other parts of the conference you will have a huge media contingents traveling with the president. Or they will certainly use the opportunity to talk to the pope to talk about these difficult issues. And im sure they will bring that message forward when the president talks to his own media contingents. Theres no question it will be a for anl moment africanamerican president visiting pope francis. I think there will be substantive issues talked about. The pope has talked about things similar to what the president has talked about. The president from his state of said raisingress the minimum wage and econometric and economic actions can help. He is on the white house feed for the Washington Post. His work is online. We appreciate you being with us this sunday morning. We are getting your comments on facebook and twitter. You can join in on facebook. Com cspan. Hael ahas this tweet the National Catholic reporter has this piece on line secretary of state john kerry went to the vatican earlier this year. According to officials it gives another taste of the president s upcoming visit. Both sides describing that meeting on positive terms. You can get more fat online. Brad is joining us from moran, michigan. Good morning to you. Obama he has been humiliated by putin. Obamacare is falling apart. His own party is running away from him. He doesnt make the laws, he has to enforce them. Limitedonly a very amount of things he can do. The immigration, its a thorny issue. These are meaningless dont thinkt i even the hispanics believe he has their best interest at heart. Hes a politician and just trying to keep face. That is my opinion. Host joe has this on our Facebook Page robert is joining us from louisiana. Welcome to the conversation. Caller good morning. [indiscernible] i would like to find out what the president talked to the floor about. Maybe reducing the size of the church. I dont want to to stabilize the market. If they could sell the art they have they could get rid of some of this property they have been hoarding. Maybe they can make this a better place. The italian churches are immensely willfully. They could do more personally. Next from iowa, david is on the phone. As the president prepares to leave for europe, including thursdays meeting with pope francis, good morning. Caller i just hope when president obama meets with pope francis, instead of worrying about Immigration Reform he might ask the president about where ourndate, catholic bishops are in lawsuits with the u. S. Government. Host thank you for the call. Jill lewis has this point huffington post, a preview of this meeting on thursday on tuesday, just a few days meeting,e vatican the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the contraception debate that has sparked high controversy. Focus onit is going to collaboration much more than conflict. TheSupreme Court heirs audio from those arguments and we will have them on friday on cspan radio. You can check it online any time areww. Cspan. Org. If you listening on cspan radio we welcome your calls and comments. 2025853880 for democrats. Republicans. For cspanwj. In us online our next caller retired consulate general. I am still involved in consultant Immigration Law firms. If obama has been a consultative program to administer, watch for Immigration Reform. I dont think there was serious attention on the Actual Administration of the. We have 15 Million People who have to leave the country and . Et in the queue to reapply how is that going to be done . I wish him well. Frankly i think it is better to leave it as is. I dont see anyone getting Immigration Reform done. Host this morning in the Washington Post, a related joins a an irish victim panel on priest sexual abuse. Our Newsmakers Program follows washington journal at 7 00 eastern time at 10 00 eastern time. Maureen is joining us from massachusetts. Good morning. Caller i consider this a privilege and as american to speak. I think we should stop and be grateful for what we have and that our president and see what we can do to help instead of persecuting him. Never mind he is black, he is a human being. And he is our president. The story this morning, the front page of the New York Times, the Community Organizer and his early work in chicago. A piece from the Washington Post next is tidus from hollywood, florida. In because calling see the president being busy with the pope is a good thing. We need to be unified in america. Have parties in our country that are supposed to be representing their district but at the same time you want to take away everything from the people in america. We send billions of dollars to Foreign Countries to support them and their problems. Here in america we are having more problems than anybody else. I think unifying with the president and the pope will be a good thing for america. Going topeople are hate on it because of the fact like one group needs to stay on their side and another group needs to stay on their side. We all live in america, we are all americans. The call. Ks for from the jump page of the New York Times and from online, a group of saintbased environmental activists are encouraging thousands of americans to sign that petition we heard about a few minutes ago. The online petition is designed e try to help progressive jett progressive evangelical organizations to ask the president to invite the pope to visit the National Parks and monuments. Ofmakes the religious case action on climate change. Next caller caller good morning. I think the pope and the president have a lot in common with the minimum wage and helping the poor. Carnal the cardinal from boston put in a good word for the president. I would like to see the president invite the pope to new and come visit to where the most of the american catholics live. I wish him good luck. I think this is going to be a good event for the president and the pope. I hope they dont get snarky with each other. Host this from one of our , thers, the conversation meeting with obama and pope francis will be on the state of the world, the wealth gap, poverty and social economic issues. The primary focus will be on u. S. Russia relations and the situation in ukraine. The president will wrap up his visit in saudi arabia and will be back in washington later this week. A couple of stories related to rand paul. Theres this from inside the New York Times close quote the New York Times you. A related headline this morning, front page of the New York Times it airs tonight at 9 35 eastern time. Speech last wednesday at uc berkeley, here is a portion. [video clip] something new, your senator is in the middle of this. Cia is illegally searching the computers of the Senate Intelligence committee. They are the ones who are supposed to be overseeing the cia. I dont know about you but that worries me. Is spying on congress, who exactly can or will stop them . I look into the eyes of senators and i think i see real fear. Maybe it is just my imagination but i think i perceive fear of an Intelligence Community that is drunk with power, unrepentant, and am inclined to to relinquish power and uninclined to relinquish power. The of you have read dystopian nightmares, the dystopian novels. Many of you are like me and say that could never happen in america. And yet if you have a cell phone you are under surveillance. Last week a new revelation came out. The nsa uses an automated system. Into millionsed of computers. They havent even posed as a fake facebook server. You may have seen Mark Zuckerberg complaining to the president about this. You willve a computer, be under surveillance. Who knows . They will not tell you. Your government collected information from everyone of your phone calls. That is what they arming tainting. Are maintaining. Your Government Stores your email so they can access it without a warrant. The government claims a right to look at your every purchase online. Government actually claims that none of your digital records are protected by the fourth amendment. They say they will protect them, that they say none of your records are protected by the fourth amendment. This is something we are going to fight in court erie if you own a cell phone you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their dam business. The speech by rand paul, republican of kentucky and potential 2016 president ial candidates. He spoke with students at uc berkeley last week. You can watch that tonight at nine 30 eastern time here on cspan. You can listen to it on cspan radio. The meeting with pope francis on thursday as part of a weeklong trip to europe that includes the netherlands and belgium. One note about pope francis, and this is from the website saying it iser with reverence and admiration that pope francis has inspired millions of americans with his pastoral manner and servant leadership. That from Speaker John Boehner and his invitation to invite the posts and his invitation for the pope to join a session of congress. The a list of the most influential leaders in the world, pope francis was named bill clinton was ranked number five. The piece is available online. She is head of the our guest on newsmakers is the head up insurance and Americas Health insurance plans. Our speculation is to whether or not the administration will receive the numbers it expects in order for the law to be sustainable. March 31 is the deadline to sign up. The president try to encourage young people to sign up online. Heres a portion of our newsmakers interview. [video clip] would create a lower tier so people could gradually get into the program, so they could he part of the risk pool, so we dont pull the healthier people outside so the process can be working the way it was designed. Gradually,ng things just from human nature, it just makes more sense. Wouldnt all the Healthy People congregate in that lowest sphere . I dont think so. We are not seeing that right now by the bronze, silver, and gold. From that perspective you would expect a lot of people to buy bronze, and they have chosen silver. It is not as high a deductible. Theyre willing to pay a bit more per month. What i would do is give me people give people more choices. Theyll like they like that. They are in control if they have more choices. Met, those targets are not the young people that are so important to the implementation of the law, whats next . We have several options in terms of trying to contain costs. This is an issue that relates to , as congress and states look at how the process is going, are they going to pass regulations to limit the use of our tools that would have a negative consequence for consumers . Number two, without a doubt you have to look at that ms. That mix. At a number of Healthy People have been held out of the pool. How do you price the pool . There have been some policy decisions that will help that. The question is is that enough help . We are trying to get a handle on that with our actuaries. We are continuing to look at it, looking at the data, trying to make sure that we can make things as affordable as possible. That is our objective and we have been working very hard to do it. President andhe ceo of Americas Health insurance plans. You can watch the newsmakers following washington journal at 10 00 eastern time. What happened to the separation of church and state . Another example of liberal hypocrisy. Arizona. Oining us from caller good morning. Glad that america is allowing what is going on in the world to be shared with others. Remember it is not about me, it is not about you, it is about the others. It is about the others who need help. I am a retired military officer. I did not have Health Care Coverage until i was 24. I went overseas in 2009. I came back from i to relieve and i was in the atlanta airport. I was in one of their lounges and one individual saw me in uniform and started asking me about the president. Saying he is not my president , is he yours . I am a member of the mili