host: paul brandus, what do you want to add? guest: it is convenient for him to say that, but the fact of the matter is that this administration, not unlike previous ones, they want to say as little as possible, control as much as possible. he can come on the stage in a briefing room and say whatever he wants, but at the end of the day, they are going to try and dispense information with an eye dropper. that will never change. host: sharon, minneapolis, minnesota. caller: good morning, c-span, and thank you for taking my call. there are two things i would like the reporter to talk about what he wrote. one is about grover norquist and his pledge and what the republicans are doing about the pledge now, and the second thing is during the 50th anniversary of martin luther king, there was one republican, i watched it twice on c-span, and there was that spokeublican during the anniversary, and i want to know -- i think that would have been a perfect opportunity for the republicans to have racial relations with african americans. showe

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next "washington journal," paul brandusooks at president obama's relationship with the press and his administration's goals for 2014. bialosky talking about illegals being removed from the country. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," author and columnist, amity shlaes discusses her latest historical narrative titled coolidge >> coolidge. >> amity shlaes author of coolidge, when did you first get interested in this president? >> i was writing my recent book "forgotten man" and everything was broken which forgotten man is a book about the 1930's and how the economy was broken. and i thought what happened before. and there was a period when it was fixed. and that was calvin coolidge. i thought i've got to go back and figure out what went right in the 1920's. >> talk about him.