we will check in with humberto sanchez later. caller: i think nothing is really going to change until we have -- we vote most of these republicans out who are anti-tax increase and all of that. you've got to remember, when george bush took office, we had a budget surplus. we were in the process of paying off our debt by the year 2009. what happened? think about it. thank you. host: thank you for the call. michele from auburn, pennsylvania. what do you think about this? go ahead. caller: i have been on disability for years. i have gone to work at times, even though i am disabled and even though it darned there killed me. and i believe we need entitlement reform but we need oversight. we need to look at fraud and we need to stop spending money like it is monopoly money. that is the problem. they are spending money like it is water out there in washington. and it is hurting -- when they are looking things like inflation, they are not looking at the price of bread, eggs, milk, gasoline. they are looking at laptop computers and things

host: our guest is umberto sanchez -- humberto sanchez. caller: good morning. and when the air now? host: you sure are. caller: ok. i think the obama administration has ruined this country. i cannot understand why they do not let the drilling come from canada. online trading has appalled me. that is all they think about, making money for their own self. obama has made the dollar worthless. overseas, you give people money that we do not have, like brazil, to drill, yet he does not want us to drill. i do not understand why people are so blind and listen to his allies from this administration. thank you. host: thank you for the call. guest: i think you will see the president continue to push for his jobs addendagenda. he will have trouble running against the economy as he did in the past. but the objective now is to try to paint congress as intransigent. i think the president will try to say, i will appeal to the american people in this upcoming election to try to help them help me push the economy forward. there are a lot of people -- and republicans will try to paint him with this ba

we'll talk to humberto sanchez of roll call and david walker. and after that, melanie sloane a citizen's responsibility of ethics in washington on congress and the influence of money. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 eastern here on c-span. and later, a number of conservative organizes will come together to talk about their support for not raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit. we'll hear from americans for prosperity, the tea party patriots, the family research council and citizens united. live coverage at 10:00 eastern. >> now republican presidential candidate newt gingrich talks to the new hampshire newspaper. he's talked about fees he received after leaving congress from freddie mack and other organizations. this is about an hour. >> it's been very good as you know going around the country. it's joe and gary and the chief editorial writer, and gary's taken on 6,000 new assignments in the last few weeks, and he'll be in the state house bureau for us when he's not here. we said, gary, come down here to do this one. we got some g

humberto sanchez of "roll call," and then the former comptroller general david walker. and then melanie sloan of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington on the influence of money. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. a number of conservative birds will come together to talk about their support for not raising taxes. we'll hear from americans for prosperity, that tea party patriots, the family research council, and citizens united. live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> from the miami book fair international last weekend -- >> miami was the center stage where they came to recruit cuban exiles -- the cia came to recruit for the invasion of cuba. many of the people who did not like him very much, they fled right here in miami. >> race riots are still the devil of american life. the election of the first black president is a tremendous landmark that shows tremendous change in racial attitudes. if there had not been that change, he would of had no hope of prevailing. >> in a presidential debate, it is critical -- it is hard to