bobby jindal is a good up-and- coming voice. i think sarah palin is a light and she needs to go back to alaska. host: front page of "but chicago tribune." "harsh sentence for the two journalists in north korea" is making the front page. we are turning our attention to the situation there at the bottom of the next intel rep. john is on the phone from atlanta. who speaks for your party? caller: it is hard to tell who speaks for our party right now. i believe that we need to go more moderate. with john mccain or colin powell or the main senators. i think the republican party has been hijacked by more radicals like dick cheney and rush limbaugh. i think we need to be more inclusive of the minority. host: thank you for the call. in the next hour, we turn our attention to two foreign policy issues. shibley telhami will join us to talk about the elections in lebanon and what is next in the middle east following president obama's speech in cairo last week, and the elections in iran, and the dynamics in the middle east. later in the prog

host: and finally, hal is bobby jindal doing? guest: well, if he would stay home in louisiana a little more and focus on being governor. since the legislative session has started he has, but before that he was all over the place. our state really needs the governor to stay focused. we have a deficit, this oil and gas situation to deal with, and our universities are in terrible shape right now. he is recommending substantial cuts to our universities and spending a lot of time focused on his next office instead of the the one that he has. that is unfortunate. people elected to office should serve in the position they were will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: madam president, yesterday this city and our country experienced a terrible and horrifying tragedy. a man by the name of stephen johns went to work every day for six years at our most moving museums, a living memorial to one of our world's more horrific atrocities, the holocaust museum. while standing guard yesterday at that united states holocaust museum, mr. stephen john

host: and finally, hal is bobby jindal doing? guest: well, if he would stay home in louisiana a little more and focus on being governor. since the legislative session has started he has, but before that he was all over the place. our state really needs the governor to stay focused. we have a deficit, this oil and gas situation to deal with, and our universities are in terrible shape right now. he is recommending substantial cuts to our universities and spending a lot of time focused on his next office instead of the the one that he has. that is unfortunate. people elected to office should serve in the position they were elected for. i hope he will pass up any presidential run and give the people of louisiana the full four years that we elected him for. host: they thank you for being n "washington journal." we will be right back. ♪ >> every weekend, the latest non-fiction books and authors. saturday, how the run for congress was $7,000 and your sixth grade students running the campaign? cahill for congress. sunday, joel rosenber

governor bobby jindal tried to respond to the president, and sarah palin -- [laughter] >> she had a moment in november of last year, she was the second most well-known, most popular politician in the country and has done nothing with it for 7 months. david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leach, republican congressman from iowa, national endowment for the -- congressman from illinois, secretary of transportation, this is from th