Those favoring a vote by the yays and nays will rise.
A sufficient number having risen.
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Welcome back to Washington Journal.
We are taking your calls.
Before we do, just want to show you real quick president-elect Donald Trump has arrived.
This is just from moments ago.
He has arrived in Washington, D.C. He's having meetings with congressional Republican leaders as well as President Biden at the White House.
This will be his first time in the White House since leaving office almost four years ago.
And let's start with Colin in Cincinnati, Ohio, line for Democrats.
Hi there.
So I'm glad that you actually mentioned Trump making a visit to the White House today because that's one of the things that's been on my mind a lot.
And specifically in that realm, what the Democrats can do, considering the fact that the Republicans are looking like they're going to clutch the trifecta in terms of the government.
I think the Democrats need to look back to the Obama years at what Mitch McConnell was able to do and what Paul Ryan was able to do in terms of utilizing minority power in the legislature to gum up and to maybe make things more difficult for the Republicans to get things done.
Okay, and John, College Park, Maryland, Independent.
Hi.
I think the only solution to the problem in the Middle East with Israel and the Palestinians is for Iran to develop biological and chemical nuclear warheads and share that technology with countries like Jordan.
And Egypt and surround Israel with the threat of a preemptive strike and see how they would react to it.
Maybe that would stop the killing, you know, of all these innocent people on both sides.
Because if you look at the United States and Russia, right, they both have this mutually assured destruction.
And I think that that same dynamic would come into play, and that would make Israel more amenable to a two-state solution.
So I think that those countries should develop those nuclear arms and surround Israel and then make Israel be more open to negotiating two-state solution.
And you're sure that those weapons wouldn't fall into the hands of any terrorists or people that might use it to actually use it, not for deterrence?
Well, if it's maintained, but I mean, these countries have standing armies, they have security, and they shouldn't, you know.
But I just think that now, since Israel has that threat, I think everybody else should have that threat.
And I think that if Israel knows that, you know, there's a third of a preemptive strike, then they wouldn't be more amenable to negotiate because the United States and Russia, right, they don't want to be, they're well aware of this mad destruction.
So I think that that would be the only solution.
Maria, Atlanta, Georgia, Democrat, good morning.
Good morning, Mimi.
Peace fan family.
Can you hear me?
Yep.
Go right ahead, Maria.
Oh, okay.
I'm a longtime viewer Peace Fan.
I've been watching you guys for 20-something years, and people know not to disturb me from seven to three, pardon me, seven to ten.
But my sister, and I've been wondering, do you guys have new people that do your program?
Because y'all are definitely not fair and balanced when it comes to your guests.
We see too many Caucasian people, even in one segment for three hours.
I can count the number of African-American people that has been on there in the last three weeks.
And I really know for a fact any subject matter that you talk about, they can give their opinion.
But it's just Caucasian, Caucasian.
It's Sunday through Saturday, day after day.
And I know for a fact this is true because I get up every morning and I'm not.
Lately, I have not been interested in watching your people because you're just not fair and balanced.
And I hate to leave you guys after 20-something years, but you need to be more fair and balanced.
So your opinion of fair and balanced is racially balanced.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah.
Just have more people giving their opinions besides Caucasian, Caucasian.
You have seven to ten.
Caucasians are Caucasians.
I'm not saying you had to be BET or TV1, but you can have more people.
I'm going to maybe have a new program director.
I don't know what's going on.
Well, Maria, let's take a look at actually the White House press briefing was yesterday where Press Secretary Karine John Pierre was asked about aid to Ukraine.
Here she is.
I know you don't want to get too far ahead of the conversation, but I did want to point to something that Jake Sullivan said over the weekend.
He said that President Biden would have the opportunity over the next 70 days to make the case to Congress and the incoming administration that the United States should not walk away from Ukraine.
So is foreign policy going to be on the agenda for tomorrow, Ukraine specifically Israel's war with Boss?
I'm not going to get into the details of what's going to be discussed tomorrow.
That's not something I'm going to get into here.
But look, you heard from the National Security Organizer Jake Sullivan, our commitment to Ukraine.
I mean, that is something that we have showed for almost, what, three years since Russia's aggression into Ukraine.
And you saw the president's leadership, global leadership on this.
When you think about making NATO stronger, when you think about the partners and the alliances that he's been able to bring together, more than 50 countries have gotten behind Ukraine.
And continuing, we talked about this on September 29th when we talked about surging aid into security assistance aid into for Ukraine so that they are able to beat back Russia's aggression.
So you've seen our commitment.
We've been very clear.
We don't even need to say that privately because we've been very public about that.
And getting to, it just went back and forth about making sure that we get a hostage deal and so that we can get hostages home, all hostages home, who have been held by Hamas.
And let's not forget Lebanon.
We want to make sure that we get to a deal there too.
And we're negotiating there.
Those negotiations continue.
And so our commitment has been very clear.
And our global leadership, this president's global leadership, has also been very, very, very prominent, if you will, on the global stage.
About 13 minutes left in open forum for this program.
Jennifer, Santa Margarita, California, Democrat.
Hi.
Good morning, Mimi.
Good morning.
C. Stan.
I just wanted to ask you a question because I'm very concerned about, well, a lot of different things being a Democrat and also being a native California.
I'll give you a little background.
I do ancestry and my family is actually both related to Stephen Hopkins from the Mayflower.
So we've been here a while, but I live in a state that had Hispanic people living here before we got here.
So I've always lived with immigrants.
I don't have, I feel like I'm the newcomer, to be honest.
But at any rate, the thing that's concerning me is I think we're turning into something that I've read about but never seen.
I understand that we're going to allow cryptocurrency into our economy now.
And there's, you know, Elon Musk owns his own company called Dogecoin, D-O-G-E.
And now he has just been appointed, along with Ravasami, who ran for president too, sort of, to head this commission to take all the fat out of government.
And the acronym for it is Department of Government.
Thank you.
Which spells?
Yep.
Thank you.
And do you think that seems normal?
Because I'm 67 and I don't.
Yeah, that was intentional, Jennifer.
Yeah.
And does that seem like a banana republic might do something like that, like advertise your companies while you're working for government?
All right.
And Gary, Newport, Connecticut, Republican.
Newport, Kentucky.
Oh, sorry.
What did I say, New York?
Little difference there.
Yeah.
No, definitely a big difference.
Newport, Kentucky.
Gary.
Yeah.
I originally wanted to talk about Ukraine and what's wrong with diplomacy with Russia and China and what Trump did before.
But you had a call on there before that said that Democrats should figure out a way to resist everything that the Republicans want to do.
Maybe there's some of the stuff.
Did they ever think that some of the stuff might be something along what they want to do too?
And it might work for everybody, but that's not working for the people.
And that's just exactly what Democrats learned in this last election.
You're not working for the people.
If you're resisting stuff constantly, constantly, and I watch MSNBC and CENN, and everybody comes on there is figuring out from Harvard, Princeton, professors, everything, giving their opinion about how to resist Trump.
Gary, it's not working.
Gary, you mentioned Ukraine.
What do you think should happen in Ukraine?
Should there be continued support, military support, financial support?
What are you thinking on that front?
Well, obviously, the last four years, that's not working.
And constantly throwing money at a losing proposition isn't working.
We need to get in there and get to the table.
And Trump has talked to these people.
He gets criticized all the time.
Colin Powell said one time he had to shake hands with some pretty bad people.
So what's wrong with talking and getting back to diplomacy?
And another thing, too, we're starting to put contractors in to American contractors into Ukraine.
That's exactly how Vietnam started.
So they better think about it.
It hasn't worked yet.
So got to be open about anything going forward.
Might work.
Jacob, St. Albans, West Virginia, Democrat.
Yeah, about the Ukraine war.
With Trump coming back into office, I look for Ukraine to be forced to surrender because Donald Trump has already praised Vladimir Putin countless times.
In Helsinki, Trump agreed to letting Vladimir Putin to interrogate U.S. intelligence officers.
So how is Donald Trump good for this country?
And Brian, Yorkville, Illinois, Independent.
Hi, good morning.
I'm calling it in regard to some specific calls that you've gotten that are so racially hateful that I know your policy of letting anybody speak their mind within certain limits, but this I hate white people equivalent of blaming the state of the election and whatever dissatisfactions with the issues on white people.
It seems like you're digging yourself a deeper hole than what got you to the results of this election.
And I think it's all in our best interest, but to you people specifically that are claiming that point of view to reassess your values, because that's what got rejected last week, was what a lot of us, including myself, see as I'll take this woman who wasn't voted in by anybody through the primary process because she's a black woman rather than she's the best person for the job.
All of a sudden, she had magical qualities to her that people that wanted her in ascribed to her that she'd never shown, and it was transparent to the point you guys got rejected.
And that's basically what I wanted to say.
Thank you.
All right, Brian.
And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was on the Senate floor yesterday, and he talked about Democrats losing the majority in the Senate.
Here he is.
Last Tuesday brought a mix of success and disappointment for Senate Democrats.
In the final analysis, we hoped for a better result.
As happens from time to time, control of this chamber will change from one party to the other.
To Senator Brown and Senator Tester, we could not be prouder of the races you ran.
More importantly, we could not be prouder of the legacy you have built here in the United States Senate.
You are some of the finest people I've ever worked with in this chamber.
To both of you, I say thank you.
Job well done.
Job well done.
I've spoken to both Senators Tester and Brown a couple of times this past week, and they're not the ones to get down on themselves.
They're not ones to get down on themselves.
They're going to be just fine, and they'll continue to do great things for their home states and for our country.
But I feel for the people of Montana and Ohio, who will now lose two incredible leaders.
To Senators Rosen and Baldwin, we're thrilled that you're coming back for another term, despite all the headwinds and obstacles you faced back home.
In fact, despite a difficult year for Democrats, four of our most contested seats will remain in the hands of Democrats.
And in one other state, the votes are still being counted.
Let me repeat that.
Despite a difficult year for Democrats, which everyone predicted would be a place where we lost all of our seats almost, despite that, four of the most contested seats will remain in Democratic hands, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
And as I said, in one more state, the votes are still being counted.
Donald Trump won all those states, but so did our Democratic colleagues and colleagues to be.
That was on the Senate floor yesterday, and what you're seeing on your screen is Leader Schumer with all the newly elected senators.
These are the ones coming in in January.
And this is Jim, Cincinnati, Ohio, Democrat.
Hi, Jim.
Hey, good morning.
I have not heard much analysis about the electoral turnout.
I voted for Kamala Harris, but I see she got nearly 12 million less votes than Biden did in 2020.
Donald Trump seemed to have gotten almost exactly the same number of votes that he got in 2020.
So to me, it seems like we as Democrats just had a weak candidate who could not inspire an additional 12 million to 15 million people who otherwise chose not to vote.
And I think all the hand-ringing Democrats are doing about messaging, I just think it boils down to having good strong candidates.
Rodney, Canton, Ohio, Republican, good morning.
Good morning.
I didn't want to pawn and get too much into numbers or too much of a debate.
I really just wanted to hope that the people of America seen as America came together for the Republican Party to win the race.
I feel like the Republican Party may not have won the race without the confirmation from the Democratic Party.
Former President Biden speaking up, saying, I support this new president, this former president to be our future president and everything.
I really feel like we lose sense of the peace, the love, and everything.
We take God out of schools from doing the Pledge of Allegiance and everything.
And I feel the love comes from more of the Democratic side.
And I just really hope that we really come together, emerge together, and really help make America great again.
I really do hope that, just that.
Not so much talking about each other, the numbers and everything else.
I really hope that we just really stick together and keep moving forward and back each other, whether you're blue, red, Democrat, Republican, it shouldn't matter.