Im a democrat, 70 years old that supports Bernie Sanders because i trust him but im dying to get your book. It looks like its humorous and informative. And i believe that donald trump is holding con candy. And thats appropriate because hes fluff and hot air. But i have a theory. Trump is a republican weapon of mass distraction. Hes a shill. Republicans dont have a policy that helps the American People so as long as trump is in the game, they can skirt around the real issues. Host thank you. Thank you very much for the kind words. Theres a lot in this book including behindthescenes stories of covering this campaign. A lot of it is amusing. Its not just a textbook. Theres some Great Stories from behind the scenes as well. Carol has this point. Jim heath couldve told the obama caller that obama could have sealed his records. Guest everybody can unseal them if they wanted to that nobody is obligated to do that. Money ins talk about politics. Until Citizens United is revisited, there will be even more cash flooding into our system buying more influence and legislation. We would be wise to remember democracy is about the debate of ideas not the purchasing of power of a select few. Guest i feel strongly about this. I love politics. I have been around it my entire life. A lot of these folks do the best they can in an increasingly fish tank type environment with those of us in the press looking at everything that is done and said. But i do have one concern. And when i was thinking about how to end the book, i decided the epilogue should be kind of the main concern i had moving forward. Attacksink for all the that donald trump rightfully has taken in this campaign, he is absolutely correct when he looks at dark money and talks about dark money being displayed that that ising this plague endangering all of us in the political arena. When you have a Supreme Court decision that lifts the lid off this issue and allows individuals not just to contribute to super pacs where we can track it from a press standpoint and know who is giving what to whom and monitor was legislation is being proposed and what is being accomplished on the other side of that, but now you have the creation of dark money were a select few americans with a lot of money are dumping endless amounts of cash and we cant follow exactly who they are or where its going or what the end result is. That is troubling and i think the Supreme Court eventually is going to have to take another look at this. I make a prediction in the book. Its not a question of if but when we start seeing major scandals related to all this cash that we cant track. Host your favorite story in the book. Line fors on the republicans. One. Caller good morning. I am an 83yearold former immigrant. I came from the netherlands. I lost my heart to the United States when i actually was sent here as a student pilot. The thing that bothers me is when i heard the democrat person calling up and saying the government doesnt do enough, the republicans dont do anything for the people. Well, if you know the constitution, then you also know that the government is not supposed to care for the people but the people who care for the government. Because the government is supposed to just do what the government what the constitution states. People,rotect the provide for navigation and so forth. Host thank you for the call. Guest i would quickly say that in my lifetime, republicans have controlled the white house about 56 of the time in my lifetime. Republicans currently have the house, the senate, a majority of state legislatures in their control along with governorships. That message that you just mentioned is still very effective here at i think. Republicans have been very successful on running on the constitution. The only thing they have failed at least in the last two election cycles has been the white house. Host and that is next in Las Vegas Hannah is next in las vegas. The only thing i want to say is i keep hearing them talk about always say the Mainstream Media, the Mainstream Media. And the liberal media. This to me seems like especially fox news and them, its always an attack on the other stations. The stations are not really doing an attack. But there thing is constantly talking about the Mainstream Media and even with the radio station. Most of the radio stations and runprint is now owned and by the republicans the right wing. And one more thing. For the love of god, i said it was my own people and this has been six years and this president only has one more year to go. Can you will please refer to him as president obama. Please stop saying barack obama or obama. I mean, from the time we were in school, in civics and history and stuff, we were taught president reagan whether i liked it or not. President bush or whoever. But for some reason i mean i see it with my own black. S. Especially with fox, if you refer to this president on their talk show or anything, if you cant say president obama you cant say president obama. It has to be barack. Only barack or obama. Give this president the same respect that these other president s have received during the time that they were in office. Guest i dont disagree with that. We refer to president bush as bush. After you get into a discussion or writing about one of them, you revert back to the last name only. Its certainly not meant as any disrespect on my part. Or president h obama, republican or democrat. I should ask you what your favorite part of that book is. Host you wrote the book. Its your chance. Guest in 15 years i have never sat on the other side of the table. I was hoping to get at least one question into you. Host why did you write it . Guest so many fun stories from South Carolina. Hollings fromitz South Carolina. I was set to go live with him at chor tosses coan out to me. And i hear the three words that live report is dread before any other, let us pray. Hissenator hollings house head and closes his eyes and im standing here with the microphone at the top of the interviewtrying to senator hollings with a hushed crowd people and i had to toss it back in the studio. Incidents like that. Was a minute to go before the South CarolinaSenate Debate and he refused to come on the stage because one of them was standing on a wooden crate. They were scrambling behind the scenes trying to find a wood crate for the other guy because he was tired of the other guy looking taller on television. Those are the sort of behind the scenes stories i put in the book and i hope people enjoy them. Host and i thought it was interesting to see the challenges of local news reporters. Guest but also an opportunity to make a difference. I devote whole chapter to my interview with mitt romney that dinged his campaign for a day when i asked him about the issue of contraception the day before super tuesday in ohio. To me and pointed out the new media age we are in. Because i asked the question, he responded. He got it wrong, he had to correct his answer and that social media went crazy. You are ground zero of Something Like that, its amazing helmet social media has taken over and how quickly people get information. Host will you be writing about the political circus in 2016 . Guest that would be interesting. Front row seat at the circus one journalists journey through two president ial elections, jim hea on the next washington a report on campaign 2016 in South Carolina. Errishill reporter sarah f has a report on drug prices, and a look at the estimated cost of conducting the 2020 census. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. At 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Monday on the discuss cyber we security threats in the u. S. And other countries. James lewis is our guest and talks about what the u. S. Is doing to avoid attacks by china and russia. Security legislation passed by the house and senate. On the program, he is joined by tim sparks, these Cyber Security reporter for politico. Obama administration had a grand mission to defend cyberspace, but they had neither the authority nor the resources. The bill in 20 of would have dealt with vertical infrastructure, probably not in the right way. The Obama Administration put out a bill that imposed very light requirements. Congress needs to go back and ask if that is enough. Communicators on cspan2. President ial recently marco rubio made an appearance for a roundtable discussion. He took questions from the audience. This is 45 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here with us today. I am kate, the president and ceo of state works, New Hampshire. We were not expecting this full ehouse. I hope you are all comfortable for the next 45 minutes. The ideas is this is a differentp to bring a discussion to political conversation. So, we want to offer you the chance to get to know senator rubio, to find out what he is like as a person and what his political policies and ideas are. We have a number of questions, but as michael explained, we really want you to be engaged throughout the morning. We really want to thank inc. Of america. We would not be here without them. We really want to thank bank of america. We have a hashtag lifeofthepartynh. We wouldurther ado, like to invite senator rubio to join us eerie at [applause] we would like to invite senator rubio to join us. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Senator, thank you for being here. What we thought we would do, have the moderator go around. You met kate, the ceo. I am the editorial page editor. I am on my own as an independent writer and can munication consultant. I am jessica eshelman. Fundamentally i am a mom. Cynicallyk in speaking, i serve on a variety of boards. I am mike skelton. I am the president and ceo of the Greater Manchester chamber of commerce. Oard member your hesitation. As you can tell, we have a full room. We have a lot of student leaders, community leaders. We have a number of questions we want to talk to you about. They are very different, i think, and what you have been asked mr. Rubio then the debate, yeah. That was what i was going to get into. This will be very different from those debates. Our goal as moderators is to surpass the performance of those debate moderators getting so much attention lately. Hopefully we can pull that off. How do you debates, recover from those . What is your process . Are you hitting the gym . Is there family time . I cant imagine what youre feeling like . Mr. Rubio you are basically in an airconditioned room behind a microphone for two hours. There are harder jobs in the world than that. Most of the debates have been indifferent time zones, so it has given us a couple extra hours. At 8nk the last one ended p. M. , 9 p. M. Mountain time. I dont do any thing special. I have dinner in my room, try to get to sleep. The next day we usually wake up early for television and its. That is the downside of being another time zones. The next day we usually wake up early for television hits. That was three hours. I almost needed a whirlpool after that one. But that was three hours. Michael i dont know how you do it. Mr. Rubio it is fine. The first one, you walk up on that stage, i feel he was, i of the watching these things on tv for years and now im actually in one. The first one struck me that way. The first one was the one that really impacted me. We were watching the debates for all of these years and now im in one. So fitting in with the theme for the day, we had your playlist from spotify where is that list from . Im not sure. There is some u2 in their 2 is good. U fitting in with the theme, if you were to host a party, what like . That party look what would you eat . Where would you hold it . Mr. Rubio obviously i am a fan of the early 1990s western, west coast hiphop. Family friendly. Tell it to people, right, but not necessarily familyfriendly. Electronic dance music has grown really fast. The good thing about it is i can listen to it and there are no words. A lot of them do not have words, or they are samples of other songs. So, i like to have some of that music. Maybe some of those guys can come in like tso, any of these other performers going around the world. Maybe they could do part of it. What would you eat . Mr. Rubio thats a great question. [indiscernible] something along those lines. When you are planning and doing your party thing, one of the questions we had was people always ask about you, what is the one politician you want to sit down and have a beer with . Mr. Rubio in the history of the world . Would say nonpolitics. You can invite anybody to the white house in history. , maybe historical, too. Who would you call up and say, i really wanted to hang out with that person . Michael maybe watch the dolphins game or Something Like that. Mr. Rubio thats a good question. I was a huge dan marino fan growing up. I might invite him. So, i think theres a couple interesting things that are happening today. Last name. Ss up her , theyoung lady malala incredible courage to speak out on global issues impacting young girls. I would love to be able to talk to her. I think shes maybe 19 now . 18 . Shes very young now. She has put a lot of work and for 18 years of life, 19 years of life. Someone i have just spoken to once in my whole life, the former chess champion, who was also part of the political opposition in russia and cannot return to russia today. I have not met with them, but i have the chance to speak to on the phone a few days ago. He is someone i would like to spend some time with. I think he understands about the changes in russian and what it means geopolitically. Those are a couple names that come to mind. Before this is over i will probably think of someone else. So, i was thinking about this race. At politically on the other side you have hillary Bernie Sanders, and you have a guy who says openly, im a socialist. You grew up in a community where you had a bunch of people flee socialism. Mr. Rubio in fairness, communism. There are social democracies in europe where the government governs every aspect of your life. There are consequences to that. They fled communism. There were people in executed. But i get your point. You have been in the senate with Bernie Sanders. Say, hey,r want to bernie take him aside. Here is the real deal. Mr. Rubio what i appreciate about bernie, he is not trying to sugarcoat it. It is what he believes. This is just another interview this is just another version free enterprise. He has said openly, i dont believe in capitalism. I dont think it works here. We should continue to be american. But this is a debate we should have. If that is truly what you believe, and i think there are many in his party who share his view because they support Bernie Sanders, we are a free and open Democratic Society where we can have debates about policy and their implications. But i dont have a problem personally about bernie because he says what he believes in we need to have that debate and if he is the nominee, we will. Cameel one question that to mind is vladimir putin. He comes up a lot in the debates. I think its interesting. He has almost taken on this character within american politics and society where you crazy pictures of them hunting and riding horses and wrestling tigers in these kinds of things. But theres actually some really significant and scary aspects to russia and their involvement on the world stage. How would you deal with someone like him . Mr. Rubio on one hand, he is the leader of a country that has 90 of the that develops 90 of the worlds nuclear weapons. He is a gangster. He is virtually indistinguishable from the head of an organized crime organization. He blew up an apartment building. He can blame it on chechens and justified military intervention. Thate radical jihadists are motivated by ideology, he is largely motivated by geopolitical tactics. Part of his policy is to distract from the ukraine. Russia on is to place par with the United States in terms of influence. Part of it is he wants to retain influence in that region and syria gives him an opportunity to do it if aside retains power. And he weighs costs and benefits and the only proceeds, usually, if he believes the benefits outweigh the costs. He most certainly did that in georgia in 2007 and 2008. He did it in ukraine. He did it now in syria. Our job is to change that calculus, to ensure he realizes that the costs are higher. But you have to understand. This is not someone you will be able to find some cooperative agreement with. You have to deal with him in ways that reflect back, unfortunately, to the cold war. Until such time as there is new leadership in russia and hopefully the russian people will have a Better Future than what they have now under potent. Under putin. Michael i know we are going to jump around. I want to mention to the audience, if you have a question, raise your hand so we can see it. There are microphones. Lets get into some of these issues. Issue,going to ask that and i think it is an American Issue truly. Education. Igher i am financing my masters. My son is a sophomore in college. You i know that you have talked about addressing these issues. Mr. Rubio i o over 100,000 myself in student loans. Over 100,000 myself in student loans. It is not that i did not think it was a good investment. It became especially early on it was really staggering. Over 1000 when you added into some of the undergrad that i had as well. That is why i am so passionate about it. I have approached it in three ways. I have tried to be bipartisan about it. I dont think it needs to be a bipartisan it needs to be a partisan issue. Ive talked about incomebased repayment. Your lump amos, the automatic goal amount will be based on how much money you make. The more you make, the faster you pay off those loans. The less you make, the less of a burden its going to be. To me it is a better approach than not collecting anything in allowing people to go into default, because that debt will never be discharged. It ruins your credit. It locks you out of homeownership, entrepreneurship. The plan allows individuals that instead of going the student aan route go the way of private investment group. They look at all of this and they decide whether you are a good investment. An