Whether those Campaign Endorsements matter to you. Join the conversation you can join us on social media. We welcome your tweets cspan wj. Cspan. Facebook. Com we will show you some of the highlights. Here is how last nights debate in miami is playing out on the front pages of a couple newspapers. A look at the Washington Post. They look at the staet din the state dinner we just showed you on cspan of the obamas welcoming Prime Minister trudeau. A novel approach, talk about policy. The debate is sometimes sharp and also serious. Thed of the race for nomination, donald trump adopted a more subdued demeanor, passing up opportunities to strike back when his opponents try to engage him. Common totrategy front runners. A similar tone in the wall street journal. Toner headline gop rivals down debate duels. Bighe brink of five primaries that could and the president ial race,the four contenders adopted a more civil tone and what could be the final debate. Taked trump attempted to on a more president ial posture as he refrained from attacking his rivals or taking the bait when they went after him. To our question about endorsements. Arson is going to endorse donald trump at a News Conference set for 9 00 eastern this morning. We will cover that on cspan 2 at 9 00 a. M. Here is the headline carson set to endorse trump ahead of the florida vote. Ben carson was on fox news saying there are two Donald Trumps. The trump the Co Television and who gets out in front of big audiences. Then the donald trump behind the scenes. They are not the same person. One isa actually a thinking individual to that one is someone you can reason with easily. Hes very comfortable talking about issues and recognizing he does not have all the answers. A night and day difference. That is ben carson. Do endorsements matter to . We hear from ed in woodbridge, virginia on our democrats line. Caller no, endorsement does not matter. Id like to say that Donald Trumps comments about the muslims is really exactly corrects that the muslims hate u. S. Host lets hear from our independents line. Kenny in hyattsville. Do endorsements matter . It does not really matter. [indiscernible] king weather endorsements matter. 538. Com. E where things stand with the candidates. We look at the democrats and republicans. They assign a point value. Marco rubio with the most representatives endorsing him with a total of 168 points. Ted cruz with a number of representatives, one senator, mike lee and a couple governors. John kasich with one senator and a couple of governors. And donald trump and one senator, jeff sessions. Allary clinton garnering number of democratic members of congress and many senators and governors. And Bernie Sanders with just four or five representatives each. Looking for your comments as well and twitter. cspanwj. A tweet from karen on the tone of the debate. She writes trump did not do well answering the question about violence at his rallies. Do you believe you have done anything to create a tone where this volatile be encouraged . Mr. Trump i hope not. I i will say this, we have 25,000 people. People come which are meant as passionate love for the country. In some cases, you are mentioning one case which i havent seen. When they see what is going on in this country, they have anger. They love this country. They do not like seeing bad trade deals or a loss of their jobs. I know. I see it. There are some anger. And theres great love for the country. Some of your critics point to quotes you have made these rallies including fabric 23. In february 23. I would like to punch him in the face. Him. K the crap out of knock the hell. I promise i will pay for the legal fees. Mr. Trump we have some protesters that are bad dudes. They are really dangerous and they get in there and they start hitting people. We have a couple big, strong powerful guys doing damage to people, not only the loudness but doing serious damage. If they going to be taken out, be honest, we have to run some host from last nights republican debate, donald trump. As ben carson prepares to endorse donald trump. Do endorsements matter . Its jim in hot springs, arkansas. Good morning. Caller yes. A donald trump supporter. He is a businessman and very successful. Ive been in business my whole life. I am 65 years old and retired now. Hirehenever i wanted to somebody i would put up a fore hire sign. If i got a large number of people of applying, the cost of the hiree would go down. That is the problem today. We have so many people looking for a job and not enough jobs to go around. And they talk about breaking up the big banks. They need to break up the big corporations. If youre a scientist are looking for a job, there is not that Many Companies that you can go to. A president uld trump break apart Big Companies . What would you like to see his policies be in that regard . I think that they need to break them up like they did in the beginning of the country with the antitrust laws. They basically have monopolies, if they have 5 of the sales of a particular product in the whole country, that is too much. What they do is, they borrow money at 0 . When a competitor gets big enough and give some trouble, they buy them out. They borrow all the money from the banks at 0 . They just took in that company on mergers and acquisitions. And reduce the amount of competition. Big youre talking about companies. Walmart is based in your state and arkansas. What about Companies Like walmart and amazon . I these the companies you are talking about . Caller im talking about all these Large Companies that have a large percentage of the sales in america. Even if they have 5 of the sales, then in america, that is too mcuh. Too much. They are going out and buying all these companies and reducing the work force at that company. Youve heard all the stories about walmart going into towns and all the Small Businesses go belly up. Host lets move to princeton, new jersey. Democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. We arehat do you think, asking about endorsements and do endorsements matter for candidates . What are your thoughts . Caller i think they should not matter as much as they do. One of the leading thinkers in america about wrote a wonderful short piece the other day or a couple weeks ago. Tv show. En on a he said he was going to support Bernie Sanders. A bit viral. He later wrote a piece how uncomfortable it made him. Some people vote for somebody because he said so. Writer ise does as a to get people to think critically about themselves. I think it was thoughtful of him recognizing the influence he has. Who areome other people thinking about these endorsements with think critically about what it is they are asking their followers to do when their own message has been think for yourself. Host i realize youre calling on the democratics line, but does an endorsement like ben carson for donald trump add more to his prestige on the republican side . Say. R its hard to for ben carson supporters, as much as they had overlapped with Trump Supporters, all it is is momentum now. It cant hurt. Host appreciate your calls. Welcome your comments on twitter. A couple here. This one is from mary who said i had the greatest respect for is carson, although it ludicrous to run for president without experience. He has gone crazy. An endorsement from carson does not matter to trump, im sure. A News Conference this morning in palm beach at 9 00 eastern on cspan 2. Up, independent line, frostburg, maryland. Caller good morning. Did embrace carson mr. Trump. One of the things historically in our country, all of our president s which come from wealthy backgrounds teddy roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, john kennedy, bush one, all of these gentlemen made it a tremendous impact on our country. They understood money. Teddy roosevelt, he broke up, the creator the antitrust laws to give us prosperity for 30 years. Then Franklin Roosevelt did the same thing. Gave us prosperity for 50 years. John kennedy gave us civil rights and human rights and voting rights. Bush one made our military, he and reagan made our military greater than any on earth. So, these president s who come from wealthy backgrounds like donald trump, they are able to understand better than some of bought politicians we have. Between trump and Bernie Sanders, though its would be too great people to represent us as president. Host while the debate was going on in florida, at the white house last nights state dinner for the new Prime Minister of canada Justin Trudeau. This is a front page photo of the Washington Post. The story about that that talks about the issue a tweeter earlier mentioned in terms of some of the associated violence related to trump campaigns. This is a report from the Washington Post about the incident the other day with michelle feels fields. He writes the the original trump crew stood at the fringe of the News Conference watching as the boss trash talked his competitors. Hawked trump products and paraded the media. They smirked and laughed. Some of the news media treated them like a joke. Now they are winning so much their heads are spending. From the beginning, they had been willing to fight for their candidate sometimes to a fault. When donald trump to send it into the crowd after speaking tuesday, the insect to defend the instinct to defend kicked in. Pressed fields forward to ask the republican front runner a question. I watched as a man with short cropped hair grabbed her arm and took her out of the way. Fields stumbled. im a little spooked, she said. No one has grabbed me like that before. That is the writing and the style section this morning of the Washington Post. This is christopher and inglewood, new jersey, democrats line. Caller thanks for taking my call. I strongly believe that the politicians should be heard about the issues that we all care about. Endorsements, i think, are nice but strongly i believes that the real issues we need to be heard on on the most important. Because the politician who needs to be elected are the fact that the people must be coming first instead of the the endorsements. Issues like bullying our Public School system and so forth must be addressed fully enough in our elections as well. How much School Safety needs to be also addressed to the candidates on both sides of the aisle. As a former candidate myself who ran for assembly, i strongly believe that this is one of the issues that iran on i ran on that that really gave me a boost in my political life as a citizen who stood up. Host you ran on the issue of School Bullying . Hawir bullying in waiis to bai in ha should be deemed as a hate crime. Host why do you suppose that has not been a bigger issue in the president ial campaign . Caller im afraid it has not been addressed fully because i think it has been lost in the malay melee with other issues. The youth need to be heard on this issue because they want to know how, as a president , what will they do to address the issue of bullying and so forth. That really is making me very sad. I think it should be addressed in the next debate. Host appreciate your comments. Here is the headline about last night debate. Trump brags he bringing the voters front runner calls them to smart and unified behind him. Jake tapper called for a serious debate and the candidates did lower the volume without the shouting. Spectators could hear their thoughts on immigration, trade, jobs, education, israel, counterterrorism and social security, a big issue in florida during that event, jake tapper asked about trumps comments on muslims. Islam hates us. Did you mean all 1. 6 billion muslims . Mr. Trump i mean a lot of them. Do you want to clarify the current . Ive been watching the debate in there talking about radical islam, but i will tell you there is something going on that maybe you do not know about and maybe a lot of other people do not know about that there is tremendous hatred. I will stick with exactly what i said to anderson cooper. I know a lot of people find appeal in what donald says. President s cannot say anything they want. It has consequences here and around the world. Let me give you one. This couple, i met on furlough because they are missionaries in bangladesh. It is a very tough place to be a missionary it is muslim. Their safety and security is very much relied upon friendly muslims that live alongside them. That may not convert but protect them and look out for them. And their Mission Field really are muslims that are looking to convert to contrasty anti. Convert to christianity. Have all me that the hostile environment because the news is coming out that leading political figures are saying america does not like muslims. There is no doubt that radical islam is a danger in the world it i can tell you if you go into any national cemetery, arlington, you will see crescent moons. World,anywhere in the you will see american men and women serving us in uniform that are muslims. They love america. As far as i know, no one on the state has served in uniform. Anyone out there that has the uniform of the United States on and is willing to die as someone that loves america and the matter what their religious background may be. Host from last night republican debate, showing is some highlights in this first hour of washington journal and asking whether endorsements matter. We welcome your comments on twitter spcspanwj. Steve says endorsements matter carson saying they are behind trump doesnt scare nothing will. In termss who says of endorsements, not at all. Areracists and bigots voting for republicans. welcome your comments, too, cspanwj. Lets hear from our independents line in ohio. Its charles. Caller good morning, sir. Call. You for taking my i think the only endorsement that matters is the endorsement of the american voter. The people in hollywood that endorse people, you know, theyve got this crazy leftwing deal going. I dont get why, what Britney Spears says or whatever should determine i think donald trump, to me, is a huckster. Im an independent. Elections. Different i have voted for democrats and i have voted for republicans. Larges hubris is so that i do not see any other state in the world host your primary is next tuesday. Do you want to share with us you think you will vote for . Caller you know, i really respect and like governor kasich, but i do not think he has got enough room for him to even make a dent. The only thing he could do is keep trump out. I really like ted cruz. I like the way he sticks to what he says. He did what he said he would do. A lot of people do not like he did what he said he was going to do. Kasich, but i think im going to vote for ted cruz. Host he mentioned hollywood. That is a tease on the front page of the Washington Times. Stars are aligned against trump. Hollywood heavyweights turn their ire. Like pressing hands into freshly poured concrete, denouncing donald trump has become a right of passage this campaign season. Conservatives have seen this movie before. Tinseltown has never been especially welcoming of republicans or their ideas. Vitriol,evel of complete with a racially charged screenplay of spike lee joint has reach new heights this election cycle. Carol next up in salisbury, north carolina. A primary coming up on tuesday. Republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I just heard on cbs where Hillary Clinton is making trumpts about donald campaigning out here where andle are acting unruly saying things. Shes telling us that when you are in the white house to have to be decent and respect for. Respectful. I guess you forgot that bill will be coming along with her. And everybody remembers how respectful of the white house he was. When you start throwing stuff out like that it donald trump, you need to remember that you have been there before and we have seen how you act in the white house. And we see the disrespect and you talk about Young Children being able to watch something on tv. The healthcare that you have just passed has destroyed all of the people out there. The Senior Citizens health care has been totally ruined. Im in my second month of this year, and already spent over 600 on drug prescriptions. And last year this time it would have been way less tha nhan half this much. But now we have got a deductible that we got, because we have got to pay for obamacare. We now have a payment that we would not make we werent making last year that we are making because of obamacare. We need for hillary to talk to us about how you got to act decent in the white house. Host lets get another view from north carolina. A democratic caller. Caller yes, sir. To begin with, that lady that just talked. I do not think hillary has forgotten that bill was in the white house. Think endorsements help you one way or another. What i want to talk about. Hillary and bernie having this argument about the bank bailout. And the auto industry. Ides the auto industry, the bank bailout worked. Wall street works. I read an article in usa today says the bull market started in 2009 . Of, what was it, we gained over 16 trillion in value. I remember that debate. They voted it down but the next day the stock market fell 900 points. The next morning we were going into depression. They had to stay up all night and bernie voted against it. He was wrong. Hillary was right. It worked. We are great. And he was just, you nkow. You know. That is the fact. I hope the hillary political people are listening. Quit arguing about detroit and argue about she was right and bernie was wrong. He wanted to punish people. He didnt make no difference who broke it, it was broke. Host sounds like you were vote for Hillary Clinton tuesday. Caller ive voted for Hillary Clinton. Host front page this morning of the New