Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence and all others 202 7488002. You can join us online as well. At twitter we are at cspan wj. Well get your calls momentarily as the field begins to get more populated for republicans. The headline on a number of papers this morning about Hillary Clintons candidacy announced on youtube yesterday. Heres the Washington Times headline this morning. They write, mrs. Clintons statement in the video was brief but she made clear that she will run on Economic Issues and adopt populist rhetoric demanded by the them credit Party Liberal base. The democratic Party Liberal base. Clinton starts her Campaign Long expected bid as official. Shes bright that she strikes a populist tone. She strikes a populist tone. Mark fisher running for the Washington Post, when senator rubio stands before miamis Freedom Tower on monday and announces that he is the second cubanamerican to join the 2016 race for president of the United States, Gabriel Perez and mike bell this will share a sense of pride mike aboutvaldez will share a sense of pride. Serious contenders for most american job the most american job in the land. He writes that the wave of pride surrounding the candidacy of rubio and ted cruz of texas is taken by a number of different meanings. He continues, the idea of the cubanamerican monolith, the notion that the estimated 2 Million Immigrants and their offspring constitute a single issue ramrod is chr crumbling. Time is turning immigrants into americans. I want to let you know we are covering live from miami, 5 30 eastern. Lets go to your calls. John is up on our republican line. Caller good morning. I believe rubio has some good ideas. We cannot afford another four or eight years of obama tactics what with hillary in their. I would support rubio. Host you have three freshmen senators in the field with rand paul and ted cruz in texas. Who would you pick . Caller i am a cruz man if he is the nominee. Host is there one issue that stands out that would be the deciding issue . Caller we need somebody to take care of problems in the middle east. We have issues over there. Isis terrorists. It is going to be more problem down the road if we cannot handle that now. Host lets go to our independent line. Phil, good morning. Caller good morning. I had to call in because i live in florida and also have a business in maryland. Im able to look at both states. I was also affected by a comment made by someone on your program last night. I think was people in the news a news guy was analyzing politicians from i guess what their motives and lifestyles are like. I think America Needs to look at these professional guys that are running around saying that they can lead the country. Florida is a lowwage state. They work the people there very hard. I found that to be something that if rubio really wants to do something positive, change how they pay people entry people before they start taking more and treat people before they take national responsibilities. America needs to look at the reality of our politics. We need real people who are not attached to american who are attached to the American People. Host thank you for your call. Heres how the hometown paper for marco rubio read this morning. The miami herald has a mention of the candidates announcement. Their lead headline is obama rebuilds regional policy. What a difference three years writes, three years makes they write. Asking you this morning about the candidacy of marco rubio which will be announced today in florida. We will have coverage on cspan. Lets go to hyde park, massachusetts. Antonio is on her democrats line. Caller even though we have a cubanamerican at the candidacy i do not see rubio getting the nomination. Even if he does, his stance on immigration will not cut it for the growing population of latino voters in the country. I do not think hes making it to the finish line. Host more of your calls coming up. We are joined by mark com caputo. Tell us about the expected themes that marco rubio is going to talk about today. Guest got to give credit to marco rubio announcing at the Freedom Tower. A mediterraneanstyle building built in the 1920s in the miami. In the 1960s it was used as what became called the ellis island of the south to process cuban refugees freeing fleeing from cuba. Use using this as a launchpad to announce he is running for president. It fits within his history and within his narrative of being the American Dream candidate. Whether the Campaign Craft is going to be good enough to get him across the finish line is going to be another matter. Host how is he going to position himself early against the announced candidates . Rand paul . Ted cruz . Even Hillary Clinton . Guest rubio up to now has been largely a candidate of ideas and biography. In many respects he has echoes to president obama back in 2008. His Campaign Strategy and tactics will not necessarily say. Ive heard the speech but nevertheless it is effective. He talks about how he is the son of a maid and a bartender and what a ghost of fundraisers he will see a bartender and think back to his fathers struggles. Expected here more of that. A similar speech he gave at the rnc. As for where he positions himself, it almost seems like all lanes. He has a little bit of tea party, a little bit of establishment. I would not say much of a libertarian lane. In many respects, his Campaign Success is premised on the idea that jeb bush has too many structural deficiencies within the republican party. Scott walker might not be able to make it either. He almost rises by default. We will see how that plays out. Host your piece in political. Com is headlined why marco rubio could not say no. Guest weve been writing these pieces about how candidate got to yes. When rubios advisors look at his history, it was more like, what is the reason not to run. They could not find one. The best reason would be to stay in the u. S. Senate and run for reelection in 2016. Florida does not allow you to run for two offices in the same ballot. Rubio is not a fan of the u. S. Senate. He likes the prestige but does not do anything. This is not necessarily the most attractive place for him to stay. Rubio has his Main Residence in west miami unlike a lot of senators and congressmen. He did not move to washington. If he does move to washington he wants to move to the white house. Host mark caputo, covering the story. You can follow reporting on politico. Com and on twitter. Back to your calls on the candidacy of marco rubio. Lets go to mike in thompson, pennsylvania. Caller thank you. I will not be voting for marco rubio. Host why not . Caller i will not be voting for him because i am a roman catholic. I have read the joy of the gospel by pope francis. He says some people continue to defend trickledown theories which assume that Economic Growth will spread. I do not think marco rubio is the kind of person i will be able to vote for. Thank you for your time. Host on twitter, a tweet from karen who talks about obama was criticized for being a one term senator and therefore not qualified, wheres the criticism against rubio, paul and cruz . Mary in danville, virginia. Caller good morning. I am distressed by this trend of camera ready, photo op ready freshman senators who look good on camera running for the highest office in the United States. I am sure senator rubio would be loaded by economic advisers from the top corporations who he will serve, but there is only one guy who carries the Nuclear Football and that is the president of the United States. I think we need to get back to electing elder statesman, even if they are not as cute as some of these young guys running. This is ludicrous. Host youre calling on the democrats line. What did you think about the announcement of Hillary Clinton . Caller i am delighted. She is experienced and some of her experience is nontraditional as a first lady. She knows all the ins and outs of washington politics. She has been head of the state department. I think the most important qualification for a president today may be that Foreign Policy aspect. All you need is one rightwinger with the Nuclear Football and it all goes up in smoke. She is the gal for the job. Host the tweet mentioned the inexperience in their opinion. The New York Times writes about senator rubios experience especially in elections. They write his father knocked on doors for him. He still defeated a west miami city commissioner twice his age. At 28, when a man refused to endorse him, he prevailed over a wellknown state lawmaker and Television Personality to become a member of the order house of representatives. At 39, when Party Officials pleaded with him to drop out of the race, mr. Rubio managed to beat popular governor of florida to become a net United States to become a United States senator. Rubio has built a remarkable career around big political bets that inflame party elders and at times went against his own gut instinct. On monday, when he did when he declares his candidacy it may it will be his biggest gambit yet. Jimmy, in ohio. Your thoughts on marco rubio entering the race. Caller he looks like a baby running for office. I like rand paul. If Hillary Clinton becomes president im moving to canada. Host we go to detroit next. Democrats line. Caller senator rubio, when he ran for the senate, he did not tell the truth. His family came over here as exiles from castros regime. His father baking first. They came first. He said that he was exiled from castros regime. No he wasnt. His parents came over here exiled from the regime before the revolution. Host looking for your calls and thoughts on marco rubios candidacy. 202 7488001 four republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. For others, 202 7488002. This is from the Washington Times this morning. Some of the reporting on the announcement of marco rubio. Polls show that marco rubio unlikely to earn gop new hispanic fans. As senator marco rubio prepares his campaign, a pollster who specializes in serving latinos cast out on whether the republican will help the gop make inwards best inroads with republic with hispanics. We find no evidence that rubios candidacy will draw significant latino support for his candidacy or for his party more generally. Your thoughts on the announcement coming up today that marco rubio is running for president. Heres elizabeth on a democrats line in baltimore. Caller good morning. Rubio, of all people, does not have any foreignpolicy experience. He does not know how to present himself to the public. He lies. As far as the republicans, all they offer is cuts. All they offer is mushroom clouds. Fear mongering. They did not help this president to do anything for the people of the United States. All people. That is all i have to say. Host appreciate your call. At headline in the wall street journal this morning. They write that mr. Rubio the florida senator who had Tea Party Support in his 2010 primary victory over a sitting governor has the most approved to his the most approved to his tea party the most to prove to his tea party allies. They write that a news poll found that 45 of republicans say they support the Tea Party Still a big share of the republican party. This is a wall street journal poll gauging the three candidates who have announced. Registered voters who said they would vote in the republican primary when asked to rank support for the tea party on a scale of lowest to highest. They also asked the percentage of support for scott walker, 73 , marco rubio, 66 . Ted cruz, 66 . Rand paul at 60 . This is carol on our independent line, go ahead. Caller i would vote for marco rubio as far as an ambassador to cuba goes. I think that is where he belongs because he is a cuban american citizen. I have met him. I met his beautiful family. He is a wonderful guy. He is not president ial material at all but definitely as an ambassador to cuba. He would be perfect. Even the democrats would agree and so would the republicans. Thank you for taking my calls. Host this is john. Oneonta, new york. Democrats line. Caller republicans are saying the democrats are not going to vote for hillary or anything else like that. This is the funny thing about it. Every time republicans say everything about cutting food stamps, cutting this and everything that lower people lowerclass people need most of them are all white that needed more than blacks does. Republicans will have a rude rake rude awakening when i have a election when they had that election. Hillary clinton is this, obama is this, if they want to win they should stop doing what they are doing and help obama pass tuition. He is going to cut things for college kids and help people out. If they do not do that, nine times out of 10, they go in they are not going to win in 2016. Host we had a caller who suggested that marco rubio would make a good ambassador to cuba in her view. The issue of cuba came up as president obama met with raul castro over the weekend at the summit of the americas. Some reaction to that meeting, a potential softening of relations with the nation. Senator robert menendez, he was on Fox News Sunday this weekend. [video clip] i think the president has a misguided calculation that if you open your hand to dictators that they will unclench their fist. While raul castro may have said nice things about president obama, just last month, we had 600 arrests of innocent people inside of cuba who were detained. Many political activists who were not allowed to leave the country to go to the panama summit. Last year, we had 16 detentions 1600 detentions. When you say that and provide those facts as well as their violations of arms shipments and a host of other things like having one of the ten top terrorists in their country people change their attitude about with this policy is about. Host senator menendez yesterday. We are asking you about marco rubios candidacy. The announcement coming today at 5 30 eastern. Live coverage here on cspan. At the broader look of cuban support in miami cuban americans united in private split on politics. He writes that over the last 15 years, cubanamerican community has undergone a major transformation. In the most politicized Hispanic Group in the country there is a cleavage in which the second and third generations as well as more recent arrivals do not share the hardline views and republican affinity of the historic exiled generation. Rubio and crews are not necessarily favorite sons at the ballot box. What are your thoughts on marco rubio . Caller rubio, completely inexperienced. He would be like a deer in the headlights as president. Hes like that as a senator. As far as hillary, no way. She works for walmart. She is taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other banks. She is told the banks she will be on their side. She is wrong also. I think Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren hold the key for democrats and working people. The 99 . Host Hillary Clinton announced she is stepping down from her position with the clinton foundation. Editorial views on the clinton c candidacy. They write in usa today that clintons familiarity represents her biggest advantage and biggest vulnerability. She brings more toplevel experience in the White House Congress then her rivals put together. She is devoted fan base that likes her and wants her to become the first female president. She is demonstrated admirable persistence. Clintons record as first lady senator and cabinet member leaves her with a long trail of controversial controversy. Oddly, she has more to prove than lesserknown candidates. Another view in the usa today from reince previous who writes that for more than a decade she has been running from scandal. Can you remember a time when the clintons were not surrounded by controversy . That is from the usa today. Lets hear from john in fairview, North Carolina. What do you think about the candidacy of marco rubio . Caller i think that he scares democrats and republicans alike to death. The best evidence i can offer for that, almost to a single person, every single democrat has called that has called in to the show today has said exactly the same thing. They all said, he is too young he is too inexperienced. A lot of independents have said that. I think both democrats and republicans are scared because in florida he not off well a step he knocked off wellestablished candidates. He did support an immigration bill that a lot of Establishment Republicans also supported. He turned around and said he was wrong to do it. People liked that about him. I do not know who some of these pollster are that are experts on the cubanamerican community but personally i think they are nuts. I think marco rubio is going to be if we were just to judge it by the cubanamerican community, marco rubio would be president tomorrow. Barack obama did not have this much experience but we were all excited. We practically put up a temple for him in a football stadium when he announced his campaign. Host does the fact that marco rubio is a freshman senator does that work against him or any of the other either of the other two . Caller absolutely not. None of them have shown themselves to be as ideologically rigid as the current occupant of the white house. He has refused to back down from anything he ha