Two -step reconciliation package is likely what's going to happen, but they're still kind of working and talking about that.
I do think government funding is going to be a big deal.
House has a 72 -hour rule, so what it means, like, from when they release a text, they can't vote on a bill until 72 hours after the text is released.
So right now we're looking at a Thursday vote with the government shutting down on Friday, so we're really kind of cutting it close here.
But, I mean, when does the Congress ever...
Good morning, John.
If the news media, the major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, want to restore their credibility, they've got to quit misleading the American people.
And they have been, oh, since the Clinton administration.
You tune in there and I heard several callers mention, in fact, Trump's a convicted felon.
Why doesn't 60 Minutes do an in -depth study of that biased judge?
And that corrupt Attorney General that changed the laws, changed the statute of limitations to file these trumped -up charges against Donald Trump and then impanel a jury from the most liberal area of the country and find him guilty.
The same way with the rape charges.
The Democrats are really good at digging up somebody from the distant past.
Some lady that will claim that they were sexually assaulted by an appointee by a Republican or a candidate, a Republican candidate, or like that, and they never do an in -depth study.
That rape charge was never tried.
Trump wasn't convicted of that at all.
What happened was this lady finally, after 30 years, got into a civil court.
So John, to that question, your complaints about the media, so what media do you read or watch?
Joe Scarborough, one of the most discredited guys in the media who told us for four years, or three some years, that Joe Biden was one of the smartest guys around and he had all these faculties and he ran circles around his staff,
is on there this morning.
He's slamming every appointee that Donald Trump has made.
If you think he's so discredited, why do you continue to tune in?
I want to see what he's saying.
I want to see if he's changed.
I want to see if he's seen the light.
Do you think he will?
He is discredited.
It doesn't look like it, not according to this morning.
I don't understand how we could set by and let ABC News, perfect example, we watched a debate that Kamala Harris literally mopped the floor with Donald Trump that was so unfair.
It didn't even cost Trump a vote.
The moderators were unfair.
It was obvious.
J .D. Vance's debate the same way, who mopped the floor with a Democrat candidate.
But they fact -checked J .D. Vance every turn, and come to find out, their fact -checks were incorrect.
They did something they weren't supposed to do, which was fact -check.
Who's that?
It was a $15 million settlement was the news that came out over the weekend, John.
But that's John in California.
Miles in San Angelo, Texas is next.
Democrat, good morning.
Hey, yeah, well, after listening to all that, it's perfectly apparent that Donald Trump has actually never done anything wrong.
So I would ask John from California, can you name anything that he did wrong?
Because it sounds like...
You know, he was a perfect gentleman with that woman in the dressing room, right?
If you listen to John.
Anyway, whatever happened to Jeffrey Epstein in the news?
He was talking about a discredited lady.
What about a discredited gentleman?
How come we never talk about him anymore?
And, you know, he came out and said that he was best friends with Donald Trump for 10 years.
So, you know, you can imagine...
Well, maybe you can't because you don't think Trump ever did anything wrong.
And that seems to be the thing about propaganda nowadays is that they can convince people that one of the most disgusting individuals to ever even walk into the White House is almost like Jesus.
And they even refer to him as Jesus sometimes.
Have you ever heard that, John?
Where do you see them referred to as Jesus, Miles?
Give me an example.
Well, Marjorie Taylor Bain said that even Jesus was...
I don't know.
It's perfect.
You can't convict someone who's perfect.
I was surprised today because I got in on the very first try, which has never happened.
But I really appreciate C -SPAN.
But listen, man, Trump is not...
They stole this election.
I just want to say that.
That's one thing I've felt since the election happened.
And why do I say that?
And why am I the only person that says that?
How do you think they cheated, Miles?
When you say stole an election, there was a whole lot of controversy about comments of Donald Trump saying that in 2020, and Democrats were very upset at him using those words.
So when you say stole, what do you mean?
Yeah, well, it's an easy word to use.
I would say they manipulated the election, because all you have to do, if you're smart, and they're not, but they did try once before, and they did fail, so you can learn from your mistakes.
And Elon Musk has more money than anyone in the world, okay?
And he's joined at the hip with Donald right now.
There's no telling what he was able to do.
That's the problem, is they figured out how to do it.
20 million people voted against him.
That's Miles in Texas.
You mentioned Elon Musk, a story in today's Washington Times where Donald Trump goes...
Elon Musk follows the story, noting where the two have appeared together.
Elon Musk in the 2024 cycle pouring at least $227 million into efforts to help Donald Trump.
The latest place where the two were together, the Army -Navy game over the weekend.
Donald Trump watching Saturday's showdown between the military service academies.
Musk right there as part of the President -elect's entourage.
Dan in New Jersey, Independent, good morning.
Good morning.
I was wondering how Trump's true core of white nationalists was going to be rewarded.
And now we see that anybody who's been in the military recently knows that somebody wearing the tattoos that Hespeth wears is a white nationalist 99 % of the time.
And what he's written, you can see, this is the reward.
Dan, have you been in the military recently?
Kelsey, Tulsi Gabbard goes to Syria about Assad.
She didn't go about Assad.
That was a place where she could go to get a direct line with Putin.
And she is Putin's intelligence chief of the United States of America.
That's what he wants to put in there.
He has no respect for the people of America, Trump.
That's Dan in New Jersey.
Joe, Dayton, Ohio, Republican.
Good morning.
Good morning, John, from a rainy Dayton, Ohio.
And the first thing I want to do, John, is wish you and your family and C -SPAN a happy holidays and a beautiful new year.
Same to you, Joe.
John, I just want to tell you, I want to thank you, and I've told you this before last month, that you and C -SPAN show the truth.
And I was really impressed with all these Trump rallies and all this stuff.
You showed every single word that he said.
Okay?
You showed the truth.
CNN, MSNBC, no.
All they showed was this picture, and they turned the volume off, and then they told you what he was saying, which was all lies.
But, you know, John, you don't have to look any further than the January 6th committee, how they didn't show you all the facts.
And again, I mentioned this the last time I called.
C -SPAN would show the general mail -in deposition, okay, a sworn deposition, I saw it, that Donald Trump did request the $11 ,000.
Joe, we'll talk to you again in 2025.
This is Bob in Amsterdam, Ohio.
Democrat.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Morning, John.
I've talked to a lot of different women in Ohio, and I can't find one that voted for Trump.
But, you know, they was like 67 % against abortion.
They voted to have legalized abortion.
And now, all you find is, like the guy said, these tattooed, I don't even know what to call them, and they have their guns strapped across their shoulders.
What a bunch of sissies.
Why didn't they go into the army if they wanted to do that?
I did my time.
And one more thing.
Putin said that he took this country, and all he had to do was buy one man to get it.
Now, isn't that pathetic?
That's pathetic.
Bob, when and where did you serve?
I served in Vietnam.
Army, 82nd Airborne.
Bob, there's an event going on today in Washington and there's others around the country on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, 1944, during World War II.
I wonder what your thoughts are on, as somebody who served in the military, the legacy of that battle.
Well, that was terrible because these guys were floating down and they were just cutting them to pieces.
They still overtook that whole area there in Normandy and everywhere.
The 82nd Airborne.
There are some bad guys in 82nd Airborne.
They don't put up with nothing.
These guys did not vote for Trump.
Everybody that I am acquainted with from the 82nd hate Trump because he's such a sissy.
He runs around with Elon Musk and that idiot jumping up and down on the stage.
And we gave him all his money.
He didn't earn anything.
That's Bob in Ohio.
This is Mike in Stockton, California, Independent.
Good morning.
Good morning.
What we have here is that Dominion...
When I was in Arizona and we took those machines, I guess those forensic scientists that Republicans had really learned how to use the machines and manipulate votes, I guess.
And then as far as that not being charged an insurrection, I thought the definition of insurrection is to stop a lawful proceeding of Congress.
Or the government, when Mike Pence wanted to certify the election or whatever.
And then they go in there with Roger Stone saying, oh, we can go in and buy a couple of the police and then they'll let us in and all that kind of stuff.
Carrying five -gallon buckets of feces and urine to the Capitol.
And the Republicans keep calling in saying it was a picnic.
I mean, it's just terrible.
These are people we have to live with, and they keep accusing other people of stuff.
Donald Trump literally did things illegal and immoral, yet they accuse, just accuse, like the Salem witch trials.
You keep accusing Democrats of stuff.
No facts at all, but the facts will come out.
He's going to be the president.
That's Mike in California.
A lot of attention over the weekend to that $15 million settlement.
Between the president -elect and ABC News, the caller mentioned Dominion Voting Systems.
It was back in the spring of last year, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that,
as the Associated Press put it at the time, would have exposed how Fox promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.
This is Marcy in North Carolina, Republican.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Yeah, we got a lot of angry people out there today.
I've got one story that will pretty well explain your media.
A few years ago, there was this nine -year -old girl that was taken across state lines to kill a baby.
That was the liberals' perspective on it.
Then the conservatives found out that had raped her was an illegal.
So they pushed...
That's the illegal part of it.
So the liberals got to kill a baby.
The conservatives got to lock up an illegal.
And then both of them moved on.
Nobody cared about this child.
Nobody cared whether the child had gone back into that same situation.
Nobody cared whether she was safe.
Nobody cared what happened to the illegal, what happened to him.
So it's a quick pitch, and everybody pushes their own agenda.
Right now, News Nation probably has the best coverage with a so -called balance to it.
But we have to see through it.
It's Marcy in North Carolina.
This is Tommy out of Kentucky.
Democrat, good morning.
It's open forum.
What's on your mind?
You can finish watching this online if you go to our website, c -span .org.
We'll leave this here.
Go live now to Palm Beach, Florida, where President -elect Donald Trump is speaking to reporters.
Live coverage here on C -SPAN.
I'd be shocked if you didn't.
I'd be very impressed.
But I'm honored to welcome one of the most accomplished business leaders of our time, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, everybody knows.