Politics, 2014 politics. President obamas nomination of Sylvia Burwell as the next head of health and Human Services on this open phones for our first 45 minutes. Here are the numbers. 202 5853881 or republicans. 202 5853880 four democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. Theres our Facebook Page right there. You can email us. Heres the interior section of the wall street journal this morning. Taking a look at rand paul as a potential 2016 candidate. Hes speaking at that event in New Hampshire today. One of the things highlighted from the wall street journal saying mr. Pauls approach to policy he initially advocated a handsoff approach to russian aggression against ukraine. It stands at odds with most republican lawmakers. His nonintervention posture mix into extreme for many gop rainmakers. His name doesnt even come up in my circles says mel semlerbler. We are a leader in the world and we should not abandon that philosophy. That is in the wall street journal. If you go to the pages of the New York Times this morning 2016 politics the topic. The tea party a story the elections may be far off, but the Tea Party Class of 2010 is shaping up to be problematic for the public and party. The party could seize control of both houses of congress in 2014. Only to uselose it two years later. Some republicans say they are pressing that point. Im helping with the majority and way 14 and making the point of 2016 being a different map for us. It goes on to say that Senate Republicans are gearing for the worst in 2016, spreading the Playing Field this season and stockpiling reserves. Scott brown tossing his hat into the ring in New Hampshire. Republicans have put 11 democrat seven seats in play. They will have to prevail in six to take control. You can write about the 2016 president ial politics. You can talk about 2014 midterm elections. Other topics on this open phones. We will give you the numbers one more time. 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. You can make your thoughts known on facebook and twitter. Michael is up first grade new kensington, pennsylvania on our republican line. Caller thank you for cspan. Its great to have some real questions answered and talked about. Im interested in the confrontation out in nevada. Ive been watching it and i think its unconscionable that 75 of the land in the western states like nevada and utah its unconstitutional that they should be owning this much land. We could auction off these federal lands and people would develop them for oil. Drill and we would become selfsufficient. The federal government is not doing anything to encourage gas oil production. This would be a great way to do it and still maintain get our independence from some of these foreign countries. And fix our deficit. Host heres the headline from fox news about what he is talking about. Concerning outofstate groups. A battle with the federal government over grazing rights. When did you first get attention to the story . Caller ive been watching fox for this past week. They are talking about some of the issues that the rest of the media does not touch. This last week, they covered this issue. Its been boiling for a long time. This is not just popping out of nowhere. They have so much support from other states and other ranchers and other individuals out there. Host geronimo, indiana. Democrat line. Caller i hear what he is saying about the federal land law. A lot of them are reservations and stuff like that. Im an indian from north dakota. You have no clue how much it sucks that all of this drilling is happening. You are not there. The thing we need to focus on is alternative energy. Im an auto technician. I dont see what the problem would be why do we have to go into the earth when we have other technologies . We just went with spectrum. They just passed in the house what people dont understand about spectrum is, spectrum is a finite technology that nobody has any clue they dont have any clue as to how sophisticated spectrum is. Not only in your house but also host youre talking about Old Television waves that are now used for wifi and other purposes . Caller yes and no. Wifi is a different radio wave from spectrum. Host back to your thought quickly about you said something about people not seeing whats going on. When you talk about drilling, give some examples. Caller on the reservation, there is a couple of people who got they had no clue there was oil there. Everybody went their ahead of time and started offering them 100,000 for 1 billion worth of oil. When they found out the drilling would happen, they were baffled. There is nothing they can do because it was the republican that ran against obama mitt romney owns part of halliburton. They were using the power of National Defense to take peoples land to be able to do the keystone and all this other stuff. Host he mentioned technology issues. There is a profile on the front page of the New York Times today with senator al franken. Talking about efforts he is making on this merger that you may have heard about between comcast and nbc. After a failed attempt to block the comcastnbc universal merger, he finds himself layinf laying a trust busting role in washington. A merger that will unite the two biggest cable companies. There is more on that profile. On our Communicators Program which airs on saturday evening senator franken our guest talking about the same issue. If you want to find out more about it. You can watch that at 6 30 this evening on cspan. Mark and in ohio. Independent line. Caller i was calling as an avid fly fisherman and i heard the gentleman before wanting to develop all of these federal lands. That is not good because a lot of the flyfishing we do in montana is in the National Forest on federal lands. Who wants to go flyfishing when you have all of these huge trucks and rigs set up next to streams all over the place out there . That is not a quality experience. Host do you find that happening . Do you still have plenty of places to fish . Caller it is being crowded out. I was fishing out there last year and we also fish up in michigan at the mason tract. We have been fighting these people for years. They want to develop every last square inch and claim our independence. The oil goes to europe. Our prices here keep going up. If we have all of this gas right now, why did natural gas go up for everybody this year . Why is gasoline so expensive if we are pulling all of the stuff out of the ground in north dakota . Have them answer that question. Host mark from ohio. Until 7 45. The numbers will be on your screen. You can make your thoughts known on twitter as well. Our previous guest mentioned north dakota. Our next caller from grand forest. Republican line. Caller think out for cspan. Think godank god for cspan. I have come from pennsylvania to the oil patch to do construction there. An opportunity that was not back from where i was from. Im out here for survival. Host hows it going . Caller ive talked to you a couple of times the past two years. I had to sleep in my car when i first got here and a i work my way up. Im going to fish on the red river today. A beautiful country out here. I wanted to make a point first about jeb bush. No way i will be voting for another bush. Dont even think about that. When he talks about Illegal Immigrants coming here and this act of love, i wanted to say there is only so much love we can give in this country. We have to think about we have to turn our compassion inward toward our own people. People like george bush and jeb bush these people never had to compete with foreign labor in their life. I dont know why we listen to them. Why we give them credence they dont know what its like. Host is it jeb bushs policies that bother you or his last name . Caller i voted for george bush. Its how insulated they are and how privileged they are to become you can afford to have that compassion when you dont understand or compete. Another point is about i say this all the time we only allow certain amounts of people to come from different regions of the country. 6 million germans came here. 5 million italians. That our government acted and halted migration. That was the act of compassion to abolish diversity and immerse us in one culture, one language and thats what made a strong. Host james from north dakota mentioning jeb bush. The topic of a column in the Financial Times this morning. A push for bush in 2016 is dangerous for republicans. His mexican wife, his record for promoting hispanics have piqued the interest of republican strategists. He cannot replicate those numbers nationally. 40 of voters would definitely not vote for him under any circumstances. No reason to believe they are playing coy. Mr. Bush would have to get 96 of the undecided vote to win. Americans have indulged in political dynasties. The bushes, the clintons and the kennedys. They cannot feel good about it. Donnadynasties are a sign of corruption. Certain bush advisers say that Hillary Clinton would neutralize popular resentment of mr. Bush is privileged family background. But there is no difference. They won the last two president ial elections by nominating someone who inspires their party base and then battling for uncommitted voters. Republican party is following a different strategy. Trusting that the redhot members will fall into line having no place else to go. They will not. Those voters appear to be gravitating to the conservative Kentucky Center rand paul senator rand paul with his untraditional mix of libertarianism. Senator paul and others will be speaking at that manchester New Hampshire event that takes place at 10 00 this morning. You can watch it on cspan. It is sponsored by Citizens United and americans for prosperity. Watch that at 10 00. Columbus, ohio. Democrats line. Caller i was just my observation i dont know how republicans think they can win the white house in the next decade. All of these policies that hold people back and prevent them from exercising their natural given rights described in the constitution. They have intentions of they will become a Regional Party if they dont change their views. Host silver lake, indiana. Independents line. Caller i would like to make a comment. Why is barack obama waging war on energy in the United States of america . The rest of the United States, hear me on this. United states will never acquire enough energy to run this country through wind and solar and hydro. I dont know why they think they can because they cant. They can even produce 40 of the energy to get this country back on the productive path for job creation. I think the democrats need to quit wrapping their arms around anything that is coming in this country. Host joseph from florida. Republican line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Im an eisenhower republican. I lived in florida for about 30 years now. Not one governor, democrat or republican has been it kills me to hear these bushreagan republicans call up lets explore our natural resources. That stops at florida. You had one of these browsers you guys usually trout out about obamas letting officers go because he wants to change the military. Two days later, the ap had a story out that the marines had actually let fewer officers go. Air force and navy were about the same. It is the u. S. Army military officers that were being let go at a higher rate. One because, under bush, they had so many appointed. Bush lowered the standards. In normal times, we would not have taken these guys. It was sleazy of cspan2 not do a followup. Well, he works for a communications company. What does that mean . He make cell phones or radios . Hes like one of these guys tooting in New Hampshire . The freedom institute. We have no idea what they really promote or how they get the money. They always say, less government. But to West Virginia where they just polluted the waterways. They want a federal bailout. Or that Texas Company that blew up. They want federal funds. Do you get them on the Cspan School Bus to go down to texas and West Virginia and say, no big of her meant for you . Host debbie from florida. Democrats line. Caller good morning, pedro. Im back home in Gainesville Florida now. Host how long have you been home for . Caller we came back home in 2010. As you know, when we lived here, jeb bush was our governor. He was liked even by democrats. The point i want to make is that, more and more people are registering independent now. Because parties dont have the sav same as our generation we have a glorified view of the past when parties made a difference. Now, because the Corporate Funding of elections, there is no corporate lobbyists and the young people dont want that. They want through Public Financing of elections. They dont feel its worth voting. They feel president ial elections are Just Entertainment for the wealthy because they feel they dont have a voice. That is why they want through Public Financing of elections because they feel our senators and Congress People are like prostitutes. All they do is fundraising. Then as the bankers and people that fund their campaigns that legislate. Until we get through Public Financing of elections, not this hybrid thing am i dont think you are going to get an interest in young people wanting to get involved in national politics. Host we will hear next from mary. Georgia. Independent line. Caller im not going to mention names or anything. My husband comes from a wealthy family. Barry wealthy family. My mother passed away in 1998. Everything she left me they committed fraud. They said she died of mesothelioma. They let me find out after seven years my Insurance Company let them do everything. His father was in world war ii. He worked on the manhattan project. He worked on bills with congress. He was 94 last year. He built the pipeline im looking for the h her letter writing here. He has the government in his hands. I have hidden paperwork that had signatures and boxes of this kind of stuff. Im afraid for my life. I dont care anymore. They turned my children against me. Host have you told this to your local authorities . Caller yes. I went to the police. Host i want to tell you but our Newsmakers Program. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee appearing on capitol hill this week. Testifying about the Justice Department and oversight issues. Our Newsmakers Program bob asked about that appearance. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] its always wise for anybody appearing before the committee to not make things personal. The remark by the attorney general general, he referred to them as a buddy, i dont think there are many people who believe that he is a buddy of the attorney general. As a result, that was not well advised him on his part. He answered questions from 34 members of the committee on a wide array of issues. We have a lot of concerns about the conduct of the department of justice and we thought it was a Good Opportunity to raise those concerns with the attorney general and from that standpoint, it was a successful hearing. Host our guest on our Newsmakers Program, tomorrow at 10 00 and 6 00 p. M. Find out more on our website. Open phones for the remaining 25 minutes or so. 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 5853881 for democrats. 202 5853882 for independence. New jersey. Independent line. Caller could you please Chris Christie is a nightmare. I watch msnbc quite a bit. We watch we know why we went to war in iraq. It was all for oil. Dick cheney has no business in this country. I cant even believe that we voted for i never voted for Chris Christie either. Let him go to your country or your state. I like Frank Pallone he is a good man. He called two weeks ago and i asked him, could you run for governor . He is running for a congress he. A congress seat. Im trying to wake up. We are a mile from the ocean. We do not get ruined here, but they did on the beach. Some people lost their homes and Chris Christie couldnt care less. Have a good day. The weather here is wonderful today. Host she began to catch the attention of washingtons Democratic Party makers in clintons 1992 campaign for the white house. Her biggest fan was robert rubin. The white house budget director for the president. Not to become the next nominee for the head of health and Human Services. The editors of the wall street journal this morning talk about about the process of w questions she will be asked. She should be pressed to assess obama karras imitation so far and address what she would do differently. The lack of legal basis, the enrollment deadline has been extended indefinitely. Large parts of the federal exchange for remain on build. Major rules are unwritten, including the final employer mandate regulation. Will the constant improvisation continue . You can read the whole thing in the wall street journal. Greg is up next. Jacksonville, florida. Caller a 35 year watcher of cspan. I have been a fan of cspan ever since 1979. Thanks for the open lines. Its been quite a while since we have had called in. My particular issue is this oppression of voting by the republicans who control the legislators in this co