reportsrose we continue with al hunt with the junior senator from colorado, cory gardner? >> we have to prove to the american people we can governor responsibly and maturely. >> that's something i have talked about. >> means that we put ideas practical ideas of the desk of the president ideas that have support of republicans and democrats alike to prove we can regain the trust of the american people. rose: we conclude this evening with markus roberts, the great pianist. >> the biggest difficulty in jazz is while you are playing, you need to be able to have a mind that can still comprehend what other folks are trying to do. and even though you might not like what somebody is playing, you have to make it sound good and not get in the way with your individual agenda. >> that's what makes jazz more democratic in terms of relating to the principles of our country because we ultimately have an individual agenda and perspective and approach but we have to try to put it inside of a shared common purpose. reportsrose marco rubio and marcus roberts. funding for "charlie rose" is pro

the only republican who defeated an incumbent was colorado's cory gardner.e are pleased to have you. what are your expectations for this congress? >> the big expectations we have to prove to the american people we can govern. we can govern responsibly and maturely. that is something i have talked about. that means we put practical ideas on the desk of the president. ideas supported by republicans and democrats alike to regain trust of the people. >> let's talk about some of those. you were first elected in 2010. your friend said one of the striking things about most new members, they were not happy about coming to washington. it wasn't unpleasant duty. there is no sense of appreciation of the institution. is it the same with the newcomers? >> being part of the class of 2010, a lot of people were sent here with big ideas and big hoax. -- hopes. maybe it is different. they know the tufts slogged it is going to be over the next two years as we try to build consensus and support. if you look at the people elected to the senate, there are talented and smart peopl

host: we're talking with cory gardner. he is here to take your questions and thomas for the next 15 minutes or so. louisiana on airline for democrats. caller:-- our line for democrats. caller: the congress is going to do nothing for the american people. i can't understand -- congressman are good people until they get elected. it seems disturbing to me that everything president obama does is wrong. i'm a pastor and i hear these people come on. if you do this to the least of them you have also done this to me. host: the label of a do-nothing congress. guest: the people of this country what you talk about in terms of dysfunction is important and what we talked about. that is building a government you can be proud of, trying to find ways that we had a government that instills confidence in the american people that we can provide solutions to our greatest needs. growing our economy, helping the middle class finding jobs that allow people to achieve their goals, making sure they can send their children to college and not worry a

reportsrose we continue with al hunt with the junior senator from colorado, cory gardner?have to prove to the american people we can governor responsibly and maturely. >> that's something i have talked about. >> means that we put ideas practical ideas of the desk of the president ideas that have support of republicans

hugged and mugged for senate family selfies and even called the grandmother of colorado republican cory gardner. >> betty, how are you? my name is joe biden, vice president biden. how are you doing? >> reporter: getting down to business, republicans vowed to quickly pass the keystone oil pipeline project that environmentalists oppose, setting up a showdown with the white house, brian, which the -- which says the president will wrok that with his veto power. >> kelly o'donnell on the hill for us, thanks. >>> across this country, while gas prices have been very easy to take of late, the bigger story of plummeting oil prices hasn't been all good news. the dow has dropped 461 points in just these last two days and plummeting energy prices are a big reason for what's happening to wall street. and while people are saving money in the short-term, it could cause some hurt in the long run. we get our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: from coast to coast it's the talk at the tank. 46% of the country's stations are now selling gas for $2 or less. >> the price is so low, it's unbelievabl

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worked very hard to help elect joni ernst and cory gardner. elect scott brown. we failed there. i have been to new hampshire a lot. who is is making calls and dropping in new hampshire. >> i also went to texas and illinois and florida and kansas. i have been a lot of places helping candidates. >> i sure hope you don't forget us here on the record. >> go pounding after all the candidates. i hope you come back. thank you, carlie. >> thanks for having me. >> up next political panel is back to talk 2016. nfl star says even football could not prepare him for the test of physical strength he just endured. you will hear how the miami dolphins swam for his life >>> okay. tonight, your calendar behalf say 2015 but it sure feels a whole lot like 2016. so many signs 2016 has already started first in a state of the state address senator chris christie seemed to be talking beyond the garden state borders. >> america's leadership in the world is called into question because of a pattern of indecision and inconsistency, during this time of uncertainty it seems our leaders in washington would r

it was fascinating to watch a new senator like cory gardner, new republican senator from colorado, a former house republican, criticize house republicans on this and basically say you can't just try to stop it. you better come up with an alternative solution. and the fact that you have a senator, cory gardner, who's, not going to be mistaken for a moderate republican someone somehow in the middle. he's seen an a pragmatic conservative. also a reminder he knows he's representing a state with a growing hispanic population as well. >> yes. >> so i think there's hometown politics he's worried about there, but i think that also sort of adds to the pressure on house republicans. >> yeah. and do they have enough time to deal with this issue before the 27th of february? >> look, my gut is we see another two-month delay. that's my -- yeah. you know this to me it's like, i could just see them going, well, they'll be able to do a clean funding for another two months or something like that. that they won't be able to just do for the rest of the year. if they somehow get to the point of where --

en colorado, cory gardner llegÓ muy cerca de ganar el voto hispano en colorado, y creo que mucho de eso, más joven, con mÁs mujeres. tÚ hablas de estas medidas ejecutivas. ¿por quÉ necesitamos un congreso si lo que hace falta es un presidente con su telÉfono y su lapicera para redactar las leyes? ¿cuÁl es el sentido de tener una legislatura? eso nos lleva al tema fundamental en nuestro paÍs, que es la separaciÓn de poderes, que es la base de nuestro paÍs, el acta de derechos. el presidente estÁ abusando de ese derecho. ya sea un tema en el que tÚ crees apasionadamente, como sÉ que es el caso, o un tema que no te importa. el hecho es que este paÍs estÁ basado en la constituciÓn, y el presidente estÁ pisoteando el documento. >> hablemos del 2016. el pasado diciembre, usted le dijo al new york times que no querÍa otra candidatura de mitt romney. ¿por quÉ? >> yo no dije eso. ese reporte fue ridÍculo. yo no me basarÍa en este reportaje. >> pero ¿quÉ quiere decir? ¿que no lo citaron bien? ¿cuÁl es su problema con ese reportaje? >> todo, todo fue ridÍculo. todo el contenido del reportaje fue r

worked very hard to help elect joni ernst and cory gardner. elect scott brown. we failed there. been to new hampshire a lot. who is is making calls and dropping in new hampshire. >> i also went to texas and illinois and florida and kansas. i have been a lot of places helping candidates. >> i sure hope you don't forget us here on the record. >> go pounding after all the candidates. i hope you come back. thank you, carlie. >> thanks for having me. >> up next political panel is back to talk 2016. nfl star says even football could not prepare him for the test of physical strength he just endured. you will hear how the miami dolphins swam for his life coming up. my house... it's a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don't like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. it's just two pills, all day! and now, i'm back! aleve. two pills. all day strong, all day long. and now introducing aleve pm for a better am. is your high-performance laptop yo

you throw in guys like cory gardner in colorado this is not a comfortable place for the gop to be andial candidates. what does mitt romney and jeb bush say about the bill when they are trying to run a national race. it started out far to the right. we'll see at -- tomorrow at hershey in peninsula, the sweetest place, where they are meeting, and that is about mitch mcconnell and john boehner saying this is the art of the possible we could control two chambers and president obama, still a democrat is in office. >> luke russert, as always. >> take it easy my friend. >>> and for how this fits into the gop agenda. we have brian boyler. how are you? >> well. how are you? >> good. and when you look at the pickle today and when you look at today and watering down wall street regulation, they campaigned on these issues and won on these issues so what do you say to the argument there is nothing wrong with this as their opening salvo? >> because i don't think it is an opening salvo. john boehner doesn't think this dhs bill will pass as is. the situation that the house is in emerged because hardl

your fellow freshman cory gardner said this, we have a very limited time frame in 2015 to shore up thef what republicans are going into 2016. what's the most important thing you can do in congress to get a republican president elected? >> i think give the american people confidence that congress will work again. that we will send measures to the president's desk that he will sign into law whether it's the excel pipeline, whether it's regulatory reform, a number of things we can do to prove we can function and produce positive results for the american people. >> congresswoman-elect love, i want to turn to you on this. i'm sure you're following the story of one of your house leaders this week steve scalise, who spoke to a white supremacy group in 2002. what were your first thoughts? >> my first thoughts is this was 12 years ago. it's interesting it's coming up now. that was -- i found that really interesting. these groups are awful and the last thing i want to do is give them any sort of publicity or credibility and i can say as far as i'm concerned with representative scalise, he has be

host: senator cory gardner on the capitol hill yesterday. it was on what the president had to say on the economy. we also talked with amy klobuchar. this is what she had to say. guest: i thought it was a very positive speech. it was done in a way that was pretty joyful about the positive of the country and what we stand for. he clearly laid out the challenges and how to solve it in terms of community college and childcare. but i think what was also important was that he talked about the successes and where we were six years ago and where we are now. i think that was an important thing to do. at least in my say, we are down to 3.7 percent unemployment and we need more students with community college degree street we need more welders. we are starting to turn away business. we have something like 8 million people who are unemployed. we still have 5 million job openings. the key is to match the people with the job openings. you do that through training very a lot of times it isn't some kind of advanced degree. host: minnesota senator talking ab

. >> senator cory gardner.from michigan, republican, what did you hear in the president's speech tonight? >> quite honestly what came to mind and i wrote down on my notes was rose-colored glasses. the shadow of the crisis has passed. tonight we turn the page. i'm not sure that the american worker feels all of that. stagnant wages, a lot of questions about healthcare upward mobility. they are in question. i don't think we're cross the rubicon to add to the metaphor but we have got to come together and figure out how to get this economy running. we have seen things, he did not talk about it directly, but a discussion about taxing 529 and a lot of things that will add more uncertainty. we need stability. >> the economy adding jobs another drop of the unemployment rate, the stock market president pointed out was going up. what does it look like? you said rose-colored glasses. when do you get to take them off? >> when people actually feel it in their pocketbook. energy production is up. well, that's because of priva

. >> at one point he spoke on the phone with the grandmother of cory gardner. >> betty how are you?joe biden. >> talk to him. here he is. i don't have time. i each watching my grandson being sworn in. >> in the end it was the kids who stole the show. >> oh, man, this is boring boring boring. >> charming the vice president with their attention. >> do you solemnly swear. >> or lack thereof. >> you'd better snap. charlie, remember who ease's president, okay? >> okay. >> it lasted about 2 hours. he looked over the supplyingporters and fundraisers thanked them for their patience and said someone should be buying them dinner but they're still waiting. >> he always has a good since of humor. >> he sure does. thanks a lot bill plante. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," you're slimming down? rereveal the top >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 presented by subway. introducing the new chicken strips. subway. eat fresh. >>> coming up ava is with us in the toyota green room. how she's handling critics and breaking down barriers. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." before fibromyalgi

including cory gardner who will take your calls. plus, your facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal" is live on tuesday and every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on seat and. >> the 114 congress opens at noon eastern on c-span. next ray flock discusses the history of the house speaker. this is 10 minutes. >> the constitution requires the house of representatives to choose a speaker. what is the speaker's job? >> the speaker has a big job that has evolved over 200 years. it started off as a constitutional office because they say that the house shall choose their speaker's. they spelled it 18th century style. and there were no other duties mentioned. it was assumed since the founders knew all about this from colonial legislators and from the british parliament going back to the 13th century, what a speaker was, which was a presiding officer. but in our congress the speaker was not only a presiding officer but he quickly became a powerful person because he appointed the committees and that evolved into the party system, congress did not have organized policies as a two

you have tom cotton, dan sullivan, cory gardner. all coming into the senate people in their late 30's, early 50's. diverse backgrounds. impressive people. they were all younger than the people they beat in each of those races. the republican congress in both houses will be younger than the democratic caucus. suddenly, the image one had and i had too, which was depressing as a conservative in 2008 and 2012, of the republicans as the party of backward looking, older, hanging on desperately. democrats are cutting-edge. i think that is going to look different in the next year or two. that could affect the 2016 election. hillary clinton will be the nominee, who has been around quite a long time. the republican nominee is much more likely to be someone who may be in his or her 40's or 50's. jeb bush will be a little older. he is a little younger than hillary clinton. it is an argument against jeb bush, incidentally. host: you are talking with bill kristol. stephen on the republican line in texas. caller: good morning. a fairly simple ques

but the fact that republicans are able to win in colorado -- cory gardner who was the republican who won he has given a road map how you win in a state where it would look impossible for republicans. republicans don't need to win 50% of hispanics 50% of women, 50% of younger voters in the same way that democrats don't need to win 50% of white voters. they need to do better than 27%. it's about this increment. and that is not as hard -- need to go out from 27%-55% that's hard. from 27% to 40%, 42% 43% ok. and the other question, too is, will the slide on the white voters who did not vote with barack obama and the democratic party, that slide has been going on for quite some time. it is true the demographics favor the candidate who can reach out to a diverse group of voters, but you can't get 27% of the white vote and win just as you can't get 27% of the hispanic vote to win. >> the comparison was made between the american people not knowing jeb bush and us knowing hillary clinton. as a voter i believe there is a misconception in the media that we do hillary. while we know her policy,

it was a very regional election and the fact that republicans are able to win in kl colorado, cory gardneror that lech has given a pretty good road map where you win in a state where demographically it would look impossible for republicans. >> remember, republicans don't need to win 50% of hispanics. 50% of women 50% of younger voters in the same way that democrat depps don't need to win 50% of white voters. they just need to do better than 27%, right? so that's really about increments and that is not as hard as to say you need to go now to go from 27% to 55%. that's hard. from 27%pb3to 40, 42, 43%? okay. >> come is what george w. bush did. >> correct. the other question too, is will -- you know, the slide on white voters, it did not start with barack obama and the democratic party. that slide has been going on for quite some time, but how low can it go? it's true the demographics definitely favor the candidate who can win a more diverse selection of voters and you can't lose the -- you can't get 27% of the white vote to win and you can't get 27% of the you know hispanic vote to win. >> ye

cory garner. after he did that took a chance to speak to senator gardner's grandmother after the swearing in. here is a little bit of what he said. [video clip."] >> betty, how are you? my name is vice president joe biden. how are you doing? well, i know. i just swore in your grandson. yeah. i will put him on the phone. here he is. nice to talk to you t [laughter.] host: one more call lloyd from, republican line. hi. lloyd from north carolina, are you there? i think he has gone. we will move on to segment did of the day. we are going to start off by talking with the republican governor of utah, gary herbert, vice chairman of the governor's association just met with the president to talk about the king he knows facing the nation's government. we8 talk to him about when he talked about. and donald norcross of new jersey will join us for a look at the democratic priorities and agenda for the 114th congress. in case you mentionedg missed it, it was tuesday where the border pat tro chief, michael fisher and to discuss the department's ongoing efforts to protect the border against trans-inational c