you are on with elise viebeck. high, isy comment, along the lines of the things that i see so much from the beginning. it is all about money and investment made by the republicans in trying to defeat this thing, trying to turn the american people against it. if they had taken all of that energy and brain power and turned it into working with the if they were this big, this massive, of course it would have problems. if the republicans had worked with democrats on the problems, i feel like we could have had a very workable bill right now. i am hoping that the republicans realize that there is nothing more to be gained by fighting it and actually work with the democrats to really overcome the remaining problems in the bill. the bill seems sound and i hope that we can really make this work in the future. , what dide viebeck you hear in that call? guest: the caller reflects many people, he wants to see the law fixed. that vulnerable lawmakers would do well to propose fixes to the law. poll after poll shows that the amer

you are on with elise viebeck.igh, isy comment, along the lines of the things that i see so much from the beginning. it is all about money and investment made by the republicans in trying to defeat this thing, trying to turn the american people against it. if they had taken all of that energy and brain power and turned it into working with the if they were this big, this massive, of course it would have problems. if the republicans had worked with democrats on the problems, i feel like we could have had a very workable bill right now. i am hoping that the republicans realize that there is nothing more to be gained by fighting it and actually work with the democrats to really overcome the remaining problems in the bill. the bill seems sound and i hope that we can really make this work in the future. , what dide viebeck you hear in that call? guest: the caller reflects many people, he wants to see the law fixed. that vulnerable lawmakers would do well to propose fixes to the law. poll after poll shows that the americ

jonah goldberg, elise viebeck, and jason riley. lise, you hear the president and i guess the question is whether what he and secretary kerry are saying is really having any effect to russia or the ukrainians? >> i think it's a great question. are sanctions effective as a foreign policy tool to change behavior of a leader like vladimir putin? it doesn't seem like they are. they haven't been in north korea and putin in many ways is a rational leader, it doesn't appear that he responds to sanctions. arms to ukraine, will we see that? it's very unlikely at this point because the american people doesn't appear to want it. >> vladimir putin continues to act and we continue to talk. that's what it's been from the get go. i don't see any reason for vladimir putin to stop doing what he's been doing. his approval rating at home is up wards of 80%. why is he going to change course until we show that we're serious? diplomacy is fine if it's working. we've been taken for a ride here. this geneva deal from a couple weeks ago was supposed to deesc

let's bring in our panel, george will, elise viebeck, and charles krauthammer.houghts? >> these reports in estone i can't -- estonia, this is alarming. it is a member of nato. we have an obligation we have held for 60 years. that an attack on one is an attack on all. what's happening in ukraine is a classic, it was a nazi, then a communist tactic of stirring up unrest clearly from the outside and then having those stirred up unrest ask for intervention. that's what happened in hung garry, what was done in crimea. the russians are clearly setting the premise for an invasion. they may not have to do. they have already conceded it's ready for an referendum. so putin can win at a distance, but if he doesn't, he will win hand to hand and he has nothing to fear from the united states. the fact that karyn went on -- car any went on in the president conference to say they are not considering lethal assistance, the ukrainians -- what we are doing is holding the coat of the little guy in a fight who is essentially unarmed. >> senator mccain has been very outspoken on this

elise viebeck talks about what the health insurance law means. nick tenaris looks at the efforts in the senate to revive the mortgage forgiveness debt relief act which expired in december last year. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> next, q&a with author matt taibbi, then british prime minister david cameron taking westerns from the british house of commons. after that, attorney general eric holder testifying before a senate subcommittee on the 2015 budget request. >> this week on q&a, author and former rolling stone columnist matt taibbi discusses his new book, "the divide: american injustice in the age of the wealth gap." >> matt taibbi, the "washington post" did an article about you in 2005, and they called you a "gonzo" journalist. is that the way you describe yourself and if so, what does it mean? >> i was approached by

but let's bring in the "boston globe" reporter lynn sweet and elise viebeck of the hill, and matt vicer of the boston chronicle. and why did she write a book here? lynn, because that is the right of the run for the top of president if there was a playbook for running for president there. >> and this is the point of the mother jones' article. i have been to the movie before, and right before he started the presidential run, barack obama started the campaign with a book. this is a great way to have a free and perfectly ethical way to travel around the kun tcount and travel around the country, and test the waters which is what is going on right now. i don't think that she even does not know if it is going to turn into a run, and obviously a lot depends what hillary clinton is going to do, but she is putting herself on deck. >> and it is a trial run, and the suggestion is that if she is on a trial run out, there matt, she could be the next barack obama, upstart, and first-term senator, and generating a lot of the enthusiasm as we have been describing so far, and more liberal than hillary cl