With members of his task force that have been looking into 21st Century Police practices. He traveled to selma, alabama for the anniversary of the historic civil rights march. We want to pick up on the question from bloomberg news. Whats next for republicans in congress . 202 7488000 is our line for democrats. 202 7488001 is for republicans. Independence, 202 7458002. You can also join us on facebook. Www. Facebook. Com cspan. You can also send us a tweet cspanwj. Or send us an email journal cspan. Org. Happy first day of march. We want to get your comments. Can House Republicans govern . You probably saw much of this on friday, well into the evening. Bloomberg news has this piece, again, the piece begins by saying, mark your calendars originally set for midnight, it has been rescheduled for march 6. The house of representatives did not, and said it pushed through a oneweek extension. That means two things. The department will continue to hobble along under the threat of defunding. Some House Republican members will continue the rigmarole of executive overreach. Congressional republicans, back in january, agreed to fund it, but only until that and of february lee get to operations that demanded that the president reversed executive actions. We will get your calls and comments in just a moment on that question. Can House Republicans govern . Also, the other big story this weekend, the chpacpac conference wrapped up yesterday. Senator paul getting about 25. 7 of the votes. A close second was Governor Scott walker of wisconsin with 21 . Senator 10 crews coming in third with 11 , along with dr. Ben carson. Former governor jeb bush at 8 . Former senator Rick Santorum at 4 . Senator marco rubio at 3 . Donald trump and Carly Fiorina at 3 . The headline from washington times. Com, rand paul winning the cpac conference. Joining us on the phone, Stephen Dinan. Thanks for being with us. What was your take away yesterday . It seems like the story was rand paul strong showing. Guest he has now won for three years in a row. His father won a couple of times. There seems to always be one of the calls at the top of the test top of the contest. The story was scott walker who one year ago was down around 5 seven percent. Now into the 20 . That shows all you need to know as to how interest conservatives are into his potential candidacy. For a number of different reasons. I think the other two interesting story out of the straw poll were jeb bush, who had a decent showing, but nowhere near what he would hope for being jeb bush. Probably the worst part for him is that when his name was announced in fifth place, he was booed by the audience. It tells you that the reception he is getting. The other thing is marco rubio. Two years ago, he was the runner up, a close second to rand paul. That was just before he engaged on this site for Immigration Reform. Was part of a gang of eight senators to pass the immigration bill through the senate. Actually wrote the bill and passed it through the senate. It of course did not become law. It not only did not become all it hurt rubio immensely amongst conservatives. You dropped 20 from where he was two years ago. Thats a real problem for someone trying to regain conservative trust. He is not done that yet. At least not with these grassroots leaders whose job for events like this. Host while all of this was taking place and maryland, there was also the event in florida where friday and saturday, members of key republicans headed down there to try and raise money. This was the headline from the New York Times. Its what many call the invisible primary, but not so invisible, correct . Guest thats exactly right. The press is done a lot better job over the last decade or so tracking down and covering the side of the nomination contest. As a talked about a few minutes ago, the problems that jeb bush is having with conservatives in places like cpac, the area where he is likely to do a lot better is exactly what you mentioned the invisible primary. The queequeg key question for republicans they believe scott walker to do both well among the invisible primary but also among conservative republicans. As you touch about, the Campaign Strategists say it takes three things to win a campaign money, message, and manpower. Manpower is generally those who go and knock on doors, thats where the activist come in. The money is exactly what you just talked about. Wooing these donors and hoping to get them on your side. That has become even more important over the last five years or so. The ability, in particular in a primary, for a very wealthy donor to come and fund a Political Action committee, or some other outside organization that can aid a Single Person in the primaries. We saw and 2012 in the republican primary at a lot of these folks are hoping to get essentially, a major donor behind them who can help them a lot of anniversary. Host scott walker, who is part of the story this week, if he were elected as president , he would be the first since harry truman that does not have a college degree. Will that be an issue . Guest it will be an issue. There will be folks who actually try, whether it is a Whisper Campaign or something actually someone actually challenges him on in a debate. I dont think many voters will make a decision based on that. To me, that is more this sort of thing that if youre looking for a reason to dislike a guy, you may settle on that and become hardened in an opinion. I doubt there will be many voters and the primary will vote on that. It will get attention. There are people like you or me who may ask him about it. He will have to talk about it. There may be some people who in the general election and up finding that an intriguing thing. In terms of relating to them. Im not sure how it plays. I do suspect they does play a role, one way or another, to some extent. Host Stephen Dinan. You will be joining us on newsmakers as well. I want to talk about one other issue that we will see more of this week. Put on your congressional hat. This is a story from your colleagues over at politico. Allies of John Boehners considering a possible coup. Guest the vote last week on one of these continuing resolutions failed pretty badly. You had several republicans who were unable to vote with boehner. He did not have a very good strategy for them. He does not have a lot of options going into this week. All of these are reasons why you could expect there could be a coup. There are big reasons why a coup is very difficult. It is not impossible. There may even be an effort towards it. A will be difficult, first of all because there are not many prominent candidates out there who can fill the shoes. Second, even a number of folks who voted against his position on the continuing resolution they like boehner. A have a lot of faith in him and know he is doing a very difficult job. The fact that midget Mitch Mcconnell in the senate was not able to do anything different over there than boehner was able to do the house, tells you that maybe the issue is not boehner may be the issue is the republican conference and its inability to get together and everyone walk in the same direction at the same time, before they take these issues to the house floor. There will probably be a conversation in the house about boehners leadership, we seem to have these conversations every five or six months, or so. Especially around immigration issue, it is a very tough issue for republicans, and it will prompt conversation about boehners future. Host always appreciate time and insight. Stephen dinan of the washington times. Go he is politics editor. The other story this morning, on the front page of the Washington Post. Members of congress prepare for the speech by israeli Prime Minister then yahoo . Ive piece points out that this will probably be his most important speech of his career. The question we are asking, can House Republicans govern . A story from the l. A. Times points out that leaders other vote in Congress Never want it to be like this, another cycle of lurching from crisis to crisis. Feeling the impression that the gop cannot govern. Boehner and mcconnell struggling to retain their grip on power. And when christian has this on her twitter page saying, they determine which Republican Party is in charge. Jerry is joining us from michigan. Our line for democrats. Thanks for being with us. Caller yes. It shows they cannot govern. They do not know what they are doing. The tea party is holding them all hostage. I think they ought to just lock up all the congressmen and senators and make them work 12 hours a day seven days per week and come up with something. Im 70 years old. I never seen such a dysfunction in government. The republicans are supposed to be the managerial you know the people who know how to do things. We are not seeing it. To have the government in this dysfunction is just incredible. Host jerry, thanks for the call. On the republican line, next is filled from virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. The republicans, every time we collect them, they give us the things feel that they will go to washington and strain the place out. It will do the right thing. It seems to be two different worlds. They get to washington, they turn into jelly and melt. Harry reid, i dont think you guys play this out. He change the Voting System in the senate when he could not get his way. He went to a 50 vote majority. Host the Nuclear Option. Caller mcconnell could do the same thing. He does not have a guts to do it. As far as boehner being a strong leader and give us a break. This guy is a waffler. Mcconnell is a waffler. We are looking for people who can lead this country, not people who fall into the traps set for them every week by the democrats. One other thing. As far as scott walker not having a college education, i think obama has had all kinds of degree from harvard and everything and he has totally screwed up this country. All those guys in washington have all these fancy degrees and they cannot go to shanghai and find a chinese man. Thats my feelings on that. Host your last point . Scott walker is what . Caller a good man and a good leader. He should get the nomination of the Republican Party. Host thank you very much for the call. We will go next the chuck from florida. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve. How are you . Host fine, you . Caller wonderful. Good morning, america. A couple points. Cap upload can the Republican Party lead . Of course they can lead. What we have is a president who absolutely refuses to deal with the majority. He has the tools, and harry reid to completely stop anything that the Republican Party what to do. Now, i am an independent. I do not care what party is empowered. The majority is the majority. The president is not a king. He only enforces the laws of the majority passes. He will not allow them to do their job. Number one. Number two. If everyone would go back to remember when we establish the department of Homeland Security, there was a huge argument over whether or not it was a smart thing to do to put all these different organizations under one umbrella. Here we have the situation where we cannot fund the Homeland Security department because the one issue that the president is a legally a legally administrating, and is tied up with the immigration issue. Host a comment on twitter, they cannot even order a pizza. Our next call is david. Good morning. The question we are asking, can House Republicans govern . Where is your answer. Caller good morning, steve. Yes, they can govern as long as they can get everything their way. That has been the case especially in the last six years. The previous caller talking about how harry reid brought out the Nuclear Option in the senate, that was for judicial nominations. That was because republicans the two congresses previous to this one with the least productive in history. I think the dhs situation right now is critical for the security of our nation. We havent coming an upcoming debt ceiling vote, i think in march. When he until the government shuts down again, then we will see how republicans govern. They will shut this down. The worst thing that happened in this country was when john mccain gave sarah palin the microphone to spread the radicalism of the right. Uneducated masses seem to follow it, all the propaganda spread by fox news. It should be modest modified the cup is out. Rupert murdoch over at fox news has created all the chaos. They are basically political terrorists, in my opinion. Host on our facebook page, a lot of comments. This is from gary who says, this is a stupid question, why is is not asked about the democrats . They stick together to defund dhs and there is no backlash. Craig says, Neither Party can govern alone, requires mutual interest to supersede personal. Brenda says, theyre passing bills and working, and harry reid sat on over 380 bills, that is dysfunction. David says, no, that is proven. Jerry says, no. Harold has this on her twitter page saying, president obama exacerbates the problem with his veto power, this too shall pass. We are asking the question, can house go republicans gove . Well go to owl on the revoking line. How do you answer that al . Good morning. Caller steve, good morning. First off, let me say this. The problem with republicans governing is that you have democrats on the left now, everyone knows that they are more progressive now. There are no more blue dog democrats, they are all liberal. Everything they are doing is liberal. We cannot have on the other side, on the republican side, a half republican leadership. We need a conservative republican leadership. I think boehner and mcconnell should go i think mcconnell made the mistake that he did not keep the 50 vote. I think they should go. We need real conservatives leading the way. Host next is john from akron, ohio. Caller this is a really important issue what were talking about today. Listen democrats, please do not be cutting them off. I want to hear the main thing that theyve got to say. Never two, they been cutting people off your democrats all week. During grad, and the girl yesterday. She should be fired for that. She was awful yesterday. Anyways, the first caller, he was right about everything. The whole thing is a joke. People need of will in need to vote in 2016 for democrats. They want war, so they will have to pay taxes to republicans. They Want Health Care and everything to go out the window. People, get out and vote democrat and 2016. Host john from ohio. Another viewer on twitter saying if you call total legislative dysfunction governance, then i suppose they are governing. Hows chaos on dhs funding leaves gop senators fuming. That is the headline from the hill. They worry that voters may soon question their ability to govern if they dont move forward with a more substantial agenda. Congressman dent saying and peace from the hill newspaper saying that the showdown will not end well for us. Lets go to the end line, a caller from florida. Caller they are doing a good job on immigration. Thats i saw on the media that any use of immigrant was deported he that amnesty, hes a cashier, try to change now, in south texas, some i got deported twice killed someone got deported twice, and killed border patrol. You can do for them 100 times, and 100 times they will come back. And california, there was another incident, a cop got killed by a man who was deported twice. I can go on and on. The republicans are doing a good job. Host next is marcia from pennsylvania. Caller im absolutely opposed to all the republicans. They have not been affected. Effective. I do not think they have accepted the fact that we have a black president. It had been against him since the beginning. They are not working for the people, you are working for big business. They are bought and paid for. I can list issue after issue. They all get a thousand 100,000 voted for voting for the keystone pipeline. I think we need to overturn citizens united. I wish to god that this country would get smart enough for a third party. The last decent thirdparty candidate was ross perot. They pushed him off the airwaves. They did not give him a chance to run. We were not even founded on democrats ever publicans and we seem to be end of two party deadlock. All i can and with is that i support my president. I think he will go down as one of the greatest president s in history. The American Public has a shortlived memory, and it needs to remember the mess that he was handed on his first day in office. Host the Washington Post with this editorial an embarrassing spectacle. Martha is joining us next from huntington, indiana. Republican line. Caller i think they can govern if they just told the democrats, like they told us, sit down and shut up. I think that is what it will take. Host the Christian Science monitor can john boehner survive the dhs the bok after the dhs debacle . That is the headline. Frequently rot tears to his eyes but it has largely been a slog, he has had to fight off democrats, tea partiers, members of his own party. In fact, republicans voted for someone else last month, the largest rebellion since the civil war. Our next caller joining us from george r. Georgia. Caller i am 64 years old and a black man. You know what, when have they ever govern . Statistics showed and him preach and impeach president , you know what, i have not seen them govern never. Another thing. About the Prime Minister. Its an insult to every voter in america who voted as president in office. All of them need to sit down. The democrats need to sit up and let them know, when do you let an out sider it is an insult to the president of the United States. Any