You can also comment through social media. You can make a comment on our Facebook Page as well. That is facebook. Com cspan. Here is a little bit from the debate last night. Tothis discussion began gaza, not making an overall evaluation about the secretary. She was in ohio in september and november. She said Something Like, i have been criticized because people think i am a moderate. Well, i am a moderate. That is where this came from. I did not paraphrase her. That is what you said. I said, there is nothing wrong with that, but you cant be a moderate and a progressive. Senator sanders is really trying to distinguish himself. That is what you do in campaigns, i understand. Bethe same time, lets not and i think in an unfair way, making an accusation or an attack about where i stand and where i have always stood. Inis fair to say, senator, your definition as you being the selfproclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, i dont know anyone else who fits that definition. Host democrats only in this first section of the washington journal. A new poll out by cnn. Standards holds a sanders holds a two to one lead in New Hampshire. It is 30 for Hillary Clinton. On the republican side, the headline ruboiio surges to secondplace. Donald trump, 29 percent. Marco rubio, 18 . Ted cruz, 13 . John kasich, 12 percent. Jeb bush, 10 . Chris christie, 4 . Carly fiorina also at 4 . Catherine writes in the Washington Post, why millennials feel the bern. Generation that is broke and stuck in their parents basements, a more robust social safety net and free college can sound pretty appealing. There is a second major reason millennials prefer sanders to clinton and that one is more stylistic. It has to do with his socalled authenticity, by which is usually meant his willingness to look and sound like a hot mess. I suspect Young Americans have always been skeptical of anyone trying to look or sound a particular way. That skepticism is heightened among todays youth. He goes on to write, it is precisely sanders onatu him to hisat endears supporters. These qualities are what make and seem authentic, sincere, especially when contrasted with clintons hyperscriptedness. He does not give a damn if he is camera ready. That is from the column in the Washington Post. Times lead story is on the debate. Mrs. Clinton, loving her harshest assault yet lobbin g her harshest assault yet. Of cuttingrt remarks she usually reserves for republicans and it drew boos from the audience at the university of New Hampshire. Progressivism, we will begin with marissa from montana. Democrats only in this first segment. Hello, marissa. Aller good morning, cspan i am so grateful for cspan. Thank you so much for book tv. Anyways, what i would like to say this morning is, there are pessimists, optimists, and then there are possiblitists. Is it possible . And if it is, can we do it . If it is possible, we can. It is so possible that we can rebuild america and change out all the pbc pipes in. All the have to do is figure out what we want to do and we can do it. As democrats, we have such wonderful candidates. Goodness, both of them are incredibly wonderful. Everybody is always putting down political correctness, but really what it really is is just that we treat each other with dignity and respect. We dont compliment all kinds of names. We dont call people of different races names. It is just treating people with dignity and respect. We are just trying to be civil towards each other. That is all i have, but i am so grateful for cspan. America, we can manifest anything. Host that is marissa in belfry, montana. She mentioned pbc pipes. There is a report that Hillary Clinton will visit flint, michigan on sunday. Hill newspaper and msnbc is the source. How do you define a progressive . Caller i have a question. Host you are on the air. Caller i have a question. Host yes, maam . Caller i have a question. Host all right, we are going to move on to tom. Weve built on with your please go on with your definition of a progressive. [indiscernible] caller he cares about americans. We are not the 1 . Believe me. It is only a dream for the poor people. Or should i say, the minimum wage for the middle class. It is only a dream. Believe me, i wish i could win 1 million, that it is only a dream. Between a difference reality and a dream. The reality is corruption. Host that is tom from sarasota and this is lewis from new york city. How do you define a progressive . Caller how are you this morning . Host how are you . Caller always a pleasure. You know, i actually think progressive is a copout word. I get the gist of the question. I was enthralled in a debate last night. I prefer the words liberal democrat. Over the years, i think the reason progressives turn around so much especially in democratic primaries, peter is because they are both during the years i suppose, certainly leading up to the contract with america, and before that, as i know my political history. Liberals became a dirty word, but conservatism never was. There were so many moderate meanings to the word conserve. That being said, let me just say that my definition of regresses progressivism is different from that of the liberalism. They were talking about who was more progressive, and i did not think that was the point. I have always admired senator sanders. A progressive is someone who believes in progress. A conservative, it is not so much that they are in favor of conservation. That is not what i was getting at. Again, it is not a dictionary thing here. More ofy, but its like i have great definitions for ideology. I heard one of the earlier collars speak and i am speaking generally. Question andr your not speak like a dictionary i will get off very shortly i just want to say that i think the difference really is what it is not that everything is possible. Not everything is possible. What it did be a Wonderful World wouldnt it be a Wonderful World if everything was possible. Host we have to move on very quickly. You have four seconds. Caller better the world. Host this is matt. Caller good morning. Host go ahead, matt. Caller i think a progressive is iody who is going to he wasto jeb bush and talking about getting rid of certain entitlements. Host matt, we have a bad connection there. Forre asking democrats only this first segment. Define a progressive and whether or not that is important to you. What you think of the candidates running on the democratic side, whether or not they are progressive, etc. That is what our conversation is revolving around. Here is a little bit more of last nights democratic debate. I will absolutely admit that moretary clinton has far governors, mayors, members of the house. She has the entire establishment, or almost the entire establishment behind her. That is a fact. But i am pretty proud that we have over one Million People who have contributed to our campaign, averaging 27 a piece. 25,000 had meetings with or 30,000 people who have come out. Our campaign is a campaign of the people, by the people, and for the people. So, racial . Doessecretary clinton represent the establishment. I represent ordinary americans and by the way, i am not enamored with the establishment. Senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me , a woman running to be the first woman president , as exemplifying the establishment and ive got to tell you that [applause] quite amusing to me. People support me because they know me. They know my lifes work. They have worked with me and many have also worked with senator sanders. At the end of the day, they endorse me because they know i can get things done. Host and from twitter, irisheyes says, i dont see why these silly labels matter. Tell us what you want to do, why it is important, and how you are going to do it. Another follower says, if by liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties. Someone who believes who can break through the stalemate and suspicions of that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by liberal, then i am a liberal. You morning, tell us what think of progressive is. Caller im glad john f. Kennedy said that the cows i could not that aid everything progressive means to me as well. I know the word became popular after the denigration of the term liberal. Progressive may be thinking about new ideas. I am a lifetime feminist activist. I am now 70 years old. Quite liberals werent there. Think, are more in the vanguard of the liberal movement. Host who are you supporting for president . Caller im supporting Bernie Sanders. The nomination, i will support her enthusiastically. I think she is a wonderful woman. I would classify her as establishment because of her endorsements. I think she has been cheated by the Democratic National committee. That smells of establishment politics. Yeah, i think she is more establishment than Bernie Sanders is. Host we have johnny from vacaville, california. Democratic lawmakers are turning their fire on Bernie Sanders as he marches toward a big when in tuesdays New Hampshire primary. Sanders could drag down candidates running for the house and senate if he wins the nomination. Representative scott peters, who is one of the biggest republican targets in a the 2016 election cycle, suggested his constituents would view sanders socialistdescribed who is too extreme. Tom, good morning to you. What is a progressive . Would like to congratulate the people in your profession. It was the best moderating job i have ever seen. Ask a question and let them go at it. They stayed out of the way and i would like to congratulate them for sure. Ernie did a very good job audition aiding for the number two position. Jobernie did a very good auditioning for the number two position. I just want it was the best debate i have seen in a very long time. Host go to the question we are asking this morning. What is a progressive to you and are you a progressive . Caller for sure. I dont see where people get much progress here. There is no way the democrats can take back the house of representatives. If hillary wins the white house and the democrats get the senate, they still wont be able to push through any legislation passed paul ryan. I thought it was a great debate, ok. Keith is calling in south of fort wayne. Caller a progressive is someone who constantly looks for a better way to do thing, a neverending search for perfection. Host do you consider yourself a progressive . Caller yes, i do. A progressive can still stick with some traditions and traditional institutions, but you are constantly looking for ways to improve the nation as a whole. Host with that positive definition, how would you define a conservative . Caller a conservative is more of a traditional. Someone who has always worked in the past. There is no need to change or wheel. T tehe that is a conservative. Host if both Democratic Candidates are Still Standing by the time the primary reaches caller indiana, who will you support . Caller i am going to support Bernie Sanders. Host why is that . Caller i just prefer Bernie Sanders. I have nothing against Hillary Clinton per se, but i have seen many news interviews with Bernie Sanders from several years ago. His opinions and views have not changed or swayed and i agree with him an overwhelming majority of the time. Host sorry, i thought you were finished there. Ed, from north carolina. What is a progressive to you . Caller to me, it is someone who is serious about trying to bring about change. I make the difference because, if you look at what has consistently and referred to as a liberal, it is typically someone who says, we want change, but we are either going to be pragmatic about it, for down toed to water it something that is acceptable to the other wing. Thatgressive is somebody instead of saying, we are going to continue to water this down, they say, we are going to actually try to push through. And prevent example for this would be the 15 an hour wage. Bernie sanders says, i won 15 an hour wage. If you start from a position of weakness, you will end up with a lower result. In a nutshell, that is how i feel regarding the difference between a progressive and a liberal. Host this is the washington times. Look ahead to this weekend and the candidate events. It is all about New Hampshire this weekend with the state primary on tuesday and yes, there is yet another Republican Debate saturday night in manchester posted by abc. Lets hope important policy stuff does not get overwhelmed by infighting. Harper writes, governors Chris Christie and john kasich, plus Carly Fiorina, each have 10 in events, followed by ted cruz with seven, jeb bush with six and senator marco rubio with four. Mr. Rubio is the only candidate holding a Super Bowl Watch Party at a country club in manchester. Ben carson has three events and donald trump has staged two of his jumbo rallies. Town halls,has two followed by two televised debates this week. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders are not as active. Mrs. Clinton will be at a major fundraiser in boston on friday. Also campaigning for her in New Hampshire, senators aj franken, mikne shaheen, barbara uiski, and ebbie stabenow. By wednesday, the candidates stampede is on once again. This time in South Carolina. Randy from belleville, illinois. What is a progressive . Caller good morning, america. I think it is what president kennedy said. Some people look at things and say why and some people look at things and say why not . Host that is randy. Are you a progressive and how do you define it if you are . A progressive,t but i would like to go back and explain history. The Progressive Movement started under lenin. Party,ed the bolshevik he wanted a violent overthrow of governments. The opposition said, that will not work. Progressively and take over government. If you want to go to the history books and check on what i am see it. You will then, it really took off under this country under president wilson. Ist is the ideology, that the starting of progressivism. Host who are you supporting for president right now . Caller i dont know. Convolutedent is so right now. It has been that way for the past 30 or 40 years. Speakingght now is about diminishing our debt. I dont know. It almost seems hopeless. Host a reminder, democrats only for this first segment. We want to talk about the issue of progressive and progressivism and how you define that yourselves. We look the minute ago at all of the candidate events happening in New Hampshire this weekend and monday before tuesdays election. There andn will be up we will be covering a lot of these events live. Carly fiorina at 8 30 a. M. This morning will be live on cspan2. Bernie sanders will be live at 10 00 a. M. On cspan following the washington journal. Everything we have covered so far you can watch online at www. Cspan. Org. The gop will not consider obamas final budget. A house and Senate Budget committees decided they will not hold a hearing regarding president obamas tenure in the white house. Chair price from georgia said on thursday that they will skip hearings with shaun donovan, the white house budget director to review the president s fiscal budget. The white house will unveil its latest budget blueprints on tuesday. What is the definition of a progressive to you, sir . Caller it is hard to come up with where is the term first started. If anything, i would say a progressive is someone in line with the thinking and thoughts and direction with Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. We have gone a long way from what the Democratic Party was and that is what i consider progressive, what the Democratic Party was under Franklin Roosevelt and where it is today. If they were alive today, i dont think they would recognize the Democratic Party as it is today. Ertainly, Eleanor Roosevelt it was a fair country then. She would have been the first unitedresident of the states. If she were alive today, she would laugh at the fact that mrs. Clinton would be running for president under the Democratic Party. I think the new party that will develop should, mr. Sanders should not get elected, should be a new particle the progressive party. I left at a previous caller who indicated that bernie would make a great second person to mrs. Clinton. I think that is ludicrous and i dont think anybody would endorse that. Lastly, i would like to say that there are a number of people like myself who i feel will never vote for mrs. Clinton and will look for alternative candidates to vote for. Those are the true progressives. Thank you. Registry,des moines you probably heard about this, the editorial they ran yesterday. Something smells in the Democratic Party. What happened monday night in iowa at the caucuses was a debacle, the register writes. At thecy, particularly local party level can be slow, messy, and its gear. The refusal to undergo scrutiny reeks of hypocrisy. The iowa Democratic Party must act likely to ensure the accuracy of the results beyond a shadow of the doubt. First of all, the results were too close not to do a complete audit. Separated Bernie Sanders and Hillary