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CSPAN Washington Journal December 20, 2014

Host that was his assessment of the year, but, however, for the first fortyfive minutes, we want to get your take on how the president did this year. How would you rate president obamas year . Here are the lines. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Those are the phone lines, if know how you et us would rates the presidency are. Us or send us eat a comment on facebook. The last press conference of the year before him and his headed to hawaii it found found on it can be on our website at cspan. Org. I am not done, says the piece. This is edward writing. The president said he promised that would be heavy on outreach of congress, but also his own rd on protecting healthcare and financial regulations. As the white house was a ut the run of good news, sense of turnaround they admit that they have gotten lucky in the timing. The climate deal with china, the booming obama care enrollment numbers, the teetering of the russian economy were all the results of ripened in ng, but close succession more on their own timetable been due to any great plan to jampacked the last few weeks of the year. The Washington Post adds that where ely acknowledged the setbacks were. In luding the ongoing chaos syria and iraq, a country where the United States has spent in the an 1 trillion past decade. The Islamic State militants took control of mosul, but they got no mention over the course of the hour. Again, we are asking you about your assessment of the president. Were asking you how you would rate the year that the president has had. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. President made several comments yesterday during his press conference. Things he talked about was the issue with Sony Pictures and north korea. He talked about the sense of the polling of the movie, and how sony should have reacted. Heres a little bit from that press conference yesterday. [video clip] again, i am sympathetic that tony, as a company, was worried about liability, etc. , etc. I was they would have talked to me first. Have told them do not get into a pattern in which you are intimidated by these kind of criminal attacks. Being e if, instead of it a cyber threat, somebody had broken into their offices and destroyed a bunch of computers, and stolen discs. That what it takes for you to suddenly pull the plug on something . So well engage with not just but the news stry, industry and the private sector around these issues. We already have. We will continue to do so. To i think all of us have anticipate that occasionally there are going to be breaches like this. To be conflicts. We take the with the utmost seriousness, but we cant start of behavior terns anymore than we stuff going to because they me might be the possibility of a terrorist attack. Anymore than boston didnt run its marathon this year because the possibility that somebody mmight try to cause harm. So lets not get into that wway of doing business. Host that is north korea. Some other topics the president offering yesterday how would you rate the president year . Again, you can let us know on the phone lines. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Lets hear from jim in chicago on our independent line. Good morning, jim. Caller good morning, pedro. Would say that this president is not only delusional, but he is pathetic. The economy is not Getting Better. He lost the house and the senate. People overseas are making fun of him. The guy has no accountability. The republicans are going to make a fool out of him. So i think the guy has made it worse. How can you say things are Getting Better in america when you have unemployment the real unemployment over 20 , are on food stamps, and you have more people working parttime and fulltime . Host on our democrats line, well hear next from debbie. Debbie is from massachusetts. Caller thank you for putting me on. I have been trying for years. I think president obama did the right thing with cuba. I have thought about it for a long time. It hasnt been they havent had any results from isolating is a first step. And i dont think it should be called a deal, either. Host that is cuba. What you think about the year over all that the president has had . Caller i think is great. Out a k it has brought lot of biased, you know, but i as nk he is going to go down a great president. Host thomas from virginia, you are. Good morning, how are you . From virginia, are you there . Caller yes, im here. Out of the fourteen president s i have lived through, i would say he had a good and bad year. Have had hat he mmay some accomplishments like the cuba deal. I was on the runway air force to e in reloaded up to go cuba in 1962. Has done nk that he things, and, some you know, when you have a congress that can block anything you do, it is pretty hard to accomplish anything. Bill clinton was able to accomplish some things because some s able to work with members of congress. The Current Congress that we is dead set on obstructing everything that the man wants to do. So he has done about as well as he could do. Host so you labeled some good things. What about bad things, as you see them. What comes to mind on that topic . Pretty good is a constitutional lawyer, but i that he understands in rule of interference other nations business, such as the middle east. The middle east has been such an disaster in my entire lifetime, simply because the the french when in and decided to is going to be in what country. So he can handle that situation over there. We might as well give up on it you get sorted out, we will be happy to join in. Host sso were asking you at home about the presence year would read it president s year and how you would rate it. The Washington Post this morning has another story look at the conference for months, hat, walk resident has tried to and eloquent line between his principal and not alienating voters in conservative states who would help determine the fate of several moderate democrats. That calculation is now irrelevant, and obama seemed to be reveling in the new freedom. He is hoping to cut deals that some members of his party do not like. This is john. John, thank you for calling. Go ahead, please. Caller good morning. Veteran, etnam selection earlier caller, i have quite a few president s to go back and look at. To my friends on the other post a question mccain, look john at mitt romney. If either one of those had been elected, how much better would we be today than we are right now . Of the ke all significant measurements tthat country uses the debt, the deficits, unemployment, stock market, etc. , etc. , etc. Are out of that, we afghanistan. We have no more infantry boots the ground in syria and iran not iran, iraq. War in did didnt go to war in libya stayed out of syria because there is nobody to support over there. Whoever takes over that country will hate us just as bad. Stayed out of ukraine. As much as we like to help people against the russians, we have stayed out of it. And the russians get to either kate now. So, on that basis, and just on no matter facts, nno tell r how you look at it, me how much better would mitt romney or mccain had been president . Caller good morning, cspan. Thank you for taking my call. I want to say that the president has done a great job. With all he had to go against, this man did it on its own with no approval from congress. Human and. He went in and battled it back. And sung. T there this president said, this is what i want to do. And he did it. A damn good job. Knowing get some credit for the gas prices coming down. No one gives him credit for putting us through multiple wars, giving us out of force. This new congress, the only thing i ask is that you work with this man. Because we are a strong nation. Can only get stronger. Work with him. God bless you, and anybody else who supports this president. I truly believe we will be followed by a romney oor a john mccain. Twitter ads om president obama had a great year, only a physical is to destroy the democratic party. Well hear next from curtis and our republican line. Curtis, how are you . Caller pretty good. I dont think he has done well at all this year, or the previous years. Some of these people are stating some opinions and they throw in a few facts, but they all be explained away. Economy has the gotten better, as far as people because but that is the republican governors and the policies that they have implemented. The states the ones that have strong republican governors are doing better, which is causing the overall picture to look at. And obama is getting the credit for it. The price of oil he has taken credit for the price of oil dropping. He has been an adamant opposer of anything. Take keystone, for example, he will let them build keystone. He will let them do anything on any federal property. It is only because the state and private individuals have out and implemented fracking, and that has brought the oil prices down, and he is taking credit for it. When he came into office, the gas prices were a dollar sixtynine a gallon. Brought them down from where they were when he came into the office. The downturn in the economy lasted for eighteen months. This one has lasted six years. And, finally, six years later, it is starting to get a little bit better because of the republicans. And they are taking credit saying, oh, everything is Getting Better. Everything is Getting Better. Host that is curtis from alexandria. Again, we are asking you folks to rate the president s year. Caller mention keystone xl, a question that he was asked yesterday. [video clip] i dont think i have minimized the benefits, i think i have described the benefits. The issue of keystone is not it is canadian oil that is drawn other tar sands in canada. Is being currently, shipped out through rail or trucks. It would save canadian oil the canadian oil enormous amount of money if they could simply type it all the way through the United States down to the gulf. Gets to the gulf, it is then entering into the world market. And it would be sold all around the world. I wont say no no there is very little impact. Nominal impact. What the as prices average American Consumer cares about by having this type i come through. Host again, that full press conference available for you on our website. Were asking you to give us your assessment of how you would rate the presidency or. Plainfield, new jersey. This is pierre. Go ahead. Obama at a ould put d in terms of a university professor. His impact does not have a direct impact, necessarily, on oil markets. As i have been traveling the u. S. , i noticed a lot of fracking in north dakota. You can i get a hotel room, actually, because there are so many workers there. In terms of his economic grae it is very grade, it is very low. He has done nothing to reduce the deficit. The Federal Reserve bank has a lot to do with setting the economic policy. So if you look at the overall dollar worldwide as a president ial have some ey can affect hhe can have some affect on foreignpolicy. Agree with the caller from virginia that congress does make it difficult for him to pass to certain agendas. Last point a lot of the road projects, you see them coming to fruition now. Host the Washington Post has a look at cuba. The present making announcements this week about policies with cuba. Senator rand paul and senator marco rubio are going back and the issues, as well. Over cuba ap view of 2016, writing that rand backs president obamas moves, accused senator marco rubio as being in oppositionist. He says he wants to retreat to perhaps, build , a moat. Pauls comments came after cuban exiles n of who has stepped forward as a leading voice of resistance to obamas policy. Here are some of the tweets. Hey, marco rubio, if the embargo doesnt hurt cuba, why do you want to keep it . As well a treat the United States trade and with other communist nations, such as china and vietnam. So, marco rubio, why not cuba . Joyce, hi. Caller hi. How are you . Host find, what you think about the president s year . Caller considering that when he got into office as far as i am concerned things all screwed up anyway. I feel that he has done his best. It makes it so racial, aand i am not a racist person at all. I am africanamerican, but im not racist. It seems like everything towards this is so racist. You know, like the republicans. I dont hear too many africanamerican republicans come on this tv. I dont really here, im pretty sure other people dont, too. If we could all just get be ether and, you know, together as one and stop whining about, you know, democrat, republican, who is black and to his white. America would be a better country. Reading n is next on the president s year. Caller what he has Done Since Taking Office is nothing short of miraculous. When he took office, i would head that were taking a direction into another depression. Southern republican until 1966, i was totally astonished at what has been accomplished. Despite the committee for nonstop ires and attacks against him. This contest has been racist. It has been totally offthewall and unhinged. It has been the number one problem. Situation ing at a where the democrats do not stand up. They were so busy running scared this last race. Host jason is up next from pennsylvania. Hi, jason. Caller hi. How are you today . Host im fine, jason. Go ahead. Caller in the very beginning, i was not very supportive. But, you know, he has had a lot to deal with on his plate. His two terms, here. The ally feel as though republicans even though i am a republican that they could have done a better job to work with him in trying to get some of these issues resolved. Particularly domestic issues. Whether it is the Border Protection or the economy and so forth. Also, we need more good americans getting involved in the political circle. And in overall rating, done nk he has probably the best job that he could to work on who he had with and work against, if you will. He has u know, he really been called to the pulpit quite often. He really you know was truly guilty of. There was other people who should of taken up some fault with this. Host that is jason from pennsylvania. One of the things that the taking off id before for vacation was approve a federal pay raise for federal employees. The 1 pay raise guest on their second mandatory wage increase in the past five years. This marks the second year the president provided a raise for the federal workforce, after a threeyear pay freeze. The 2014 increase was also 1 . Rate the king you to presence year president s year. Obama signed that the better fair pay act. Five gop senators. You can add your own as you give your assessment of the year. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Kevin. Kevin, go ahead. Caller thank you. At the end of the year, we should give out the silliest comments of the year. The earlier republican caller should give t we the republican governors an award. That doesnt make any sense. Who ge w. Bush had people would ride shotgun for his plans. Joe biden doesnt support obama at all. He is so timid. Harry reid, when i hear him speak, he puts me to sleep. He should be reading childrens books and i am a democrat. But we should stand behind this president. For example, after thirtyfive years, im going out on my own to get health insurance. The Affordable Care act. A different situation, kevin, in Congress Next year. What do think next year will be like . Caller for the first time, out his going to break veto pen because he they are going to push through things that he is not going to sign off on. He is not going to sign off by what one because, despite fox news says, its going to create 30,000 jobs and lower gas prices by quarter. They keep changing the goalposts. It is not going to do any of that. You can tell by his tone, he is going to break out his veto pen. Host a Republican Senate and when the new ar Congress Comes in. Well hear from incoming tom price of georgia, the republican. He joins us to talk about fiscal issues and the 114th congress. And whether the Budget Committee has the authority to repeal or alter the Affordable Care act. Here are some of the conversation. [video clip] who dont know, can you do something on the a photo care act to repeal it . As i mentioned, it was passed to the process of reconciliation. This is a giveandtake. It is a process that has to work through both the house and the senate, but also, the rules of both the house and the senate have to be adhered to. That we can le or improve eplace some things within obama care. Whether or not we can repeal a e entire lot itself is point law itself is a point that is still under question. Host newsmakers. You can see it tomorrow. That and other topics related to fiscal matters. Am in the morning, and then again at 6 00 pm in the evening. Petersburg, new hampshire. Joining affairs patrick. Caller hi, how are you . Host im good, thank you. Caller i just want to say that president obama year an a last for his last year, and basically overall. Is working to he has can d to do the best he with the opposition. Know, the Senate Leader who that his main int mission wwas to make sure that obama didnt get elected again. That is kind of a diversion from what the senate is supposed to be doing. Host so, patrick, you are giving him an a. Are there any specifics you you are t as to why giving him an a . Yes, i think the Affordable Care act was passed before this past year. But i would deftly give him an a for that. And also for the way that he you know, handled the tthese situations with these other countries. Like a lot of people say, he of these in some things, but like a previous color said, you know, we are not engaged in any wars or anything with these countries. Know, the caller vietnam veteran he said everything that i feel. And the one that made the what if mitt out romney, you know, what john mccain had been elected, with a have actually done a better job . Host angela from rocky mountain, North Carolina. Hi. Caller hi, how are you today . Host i am well, thanks. Go ahead. Caller based on what ive seen over the years, president obama i would probably give him a b. Because im a hard grader, first of all. But based on what he had to endure, he came in an inherited this from the beginning. He has managed to

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