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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 tax, they can't vote on a bill until 72 hours after the tax 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 not wait till last minute?
I know it tends to get done.
Government funding, the watch words of the week, and it sounds like in 2025, reconciliation, at least early 2025, will be the word on Capitol Hill.
Reese Gorman covers it all.
Notice.org is where you can go to see the work by him and his colleagues.
And we always appreciate your time on the Washington Journal.
Thank you so much.
This is John in California, Up First, Republican.
Go ahead.
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.
Why don't 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 in the most liberal area in the country and they found against Donald Trump.
She was all over the media for about 24 hours.
And then people could see how uncredible she was.
And you don't see her anymore.
So, John, why doesn't the media to that question?
Your complaints about the media.
So what media do you read or watch?
I watch Fox.
I watch MSNBC.
I watched MSNBC this morning.
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.
John, especially Pete has been a very good person.
If you think he's so discredited, why do you continue to tune in?
Because 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 that it didn't even cost Trump a vote.
The moderators were unfair.
It was obvious.
JD Vance's debate the same way who mopped the floor with the Democrat candidate, but they fact-checked JD Vance at every turn and come to find out their fact checks were incorrect.
They did something they weren't supposed to do, which was facts check one of the candidates.
And when she did facts check the candidate, she was wrong.
And those people are still on the air.
George Stephanopoulos, one of the biggest Democrat hacks in the world, is still the head of ABC News.
And they lied about Donald Trump and he's rape conviction.
$10 million to ABC is a drop in the bucket.
It's not enough.
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 Vane said that even Jesus was tried and convicted, you know, talking about how he, I don't know, was perfect.
I mean, you can't convict someone who's perfect.
And I just, I really, 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?
Is because they always cheat.
And this time, apparently, nobody cheated anywhere.
It's a miracle.
Again, miracles happen every day with Donald Trump.
How do you think they cheated, Miles?
Give me, 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 is 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 or didn't vote, right?
And then all the other people that voted against Taylor Swift and Bruce Pringstein and decency and justice, you know, it's just sad.
America is waltzing into fascism.
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.
Was wondering how Trump's true core, 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 Hedgepeth wears is a white nationalist 99% of the time.
And what he's written, you can see this is the reward that Trump is giving to his Corps of the Corps of making this guy head of the military in the United States.
Dan, have you been in the military recently?
No, but I have a lot of friends and relatives.
Reason I'm too old, I'm talking about currently.
And they've told you about the tattoo?
That is their opinion of people who sport those tattoos in the military.
Okay.
And 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.
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 day in 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, 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 these, all this stuff.
You showed every single word that he said.
Okay?
You showed the truth.
CNN, MSNBC, no.
All they showed was his 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 know, you don't, you don't even 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.
I wish C-SPAN would show the General Milley deposition.
Okay, a sworn deposition.
I saw it that Donald Trump did request the 11,000 National Guardsmen on January the 3rd.
That was a sworn deposition by General Milly.
But of course, the media does want to tell you those facts.
But other than that, John, no, I don't trust the media, but I do trust you, and I trust C-SPAN.
You guys show the truth.
John, I want to thank you for everything, and have a great, great rest of the year.
Joe, we'll talk to you again in 2025.
This is Bob in Amsterdam, Ohio.
Democrat, good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning, John.
Listen, 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.
They run around here 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?
Bob, when it was pathetic.
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 Bulge, the beginning of the Battle of Bulge, 1944, during World War II.
I wonder what your thought, Sarah, 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 just cut them to pieces.
And they still overtook that whole area there in Normandy and everywhere.
The 82nd Airborne, there's some bad guys in the 82nd Airborne.
They don't put up with nothing.
And, you know, these guys did not vote for Trump.
They hate everybody that I are acquainted with from the 82nd hate Trump because he's such a sissy.
He runs around with these, like Elon Musk and that idiot jumping up and down on the stage.
And we gave him all his money.
He didn't earn anything.
He bought Tesla.
He bought everything.
He didn't invent nothing.
And these people saying, oh, well, him and that ronk Swami guy are so intelligent and so tech-oriented.
It's a bunch of hogwash.
It's Bob in Ohio.
This is Mike in Stockton, California, Independent.
Good morning.
Good morning.
What we have here is that the Minion in Arizona 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 with insurrection, I thought the definition of insurrection is to stop a lawful proceeding of Congress or the government when Mike Pence wanted to certify election or whatever.
And then they go in there with Roger Stone saying, oh, you 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 mirroring 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 accused of just accuse, like the state-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.
And I hope you really enjoy the new America, just like that other caller said, Elon Musk and Ramasquami learning all of our secrets.
We've been sold out to a foreign entity.
Don't you see that?
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 mentions 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.
Back 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 the one that had raped her was an illegal.
So they pushed 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, whether he, 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 and know what they are pushing, and we have to know the difference between right and wrong.
That's Marcy in North Carolina.
This is Tommy out of Kentucky.
Democrat, good morning.
It's open forum.
What's on your mind?
My mind is on the lady just said that.
Hardly come up with this stuff.
Hey, never, I never hear him say you can go here and look for it and go there and look for it.
How did she find LOS stuff to say that?
How does she even know?
And the Trump was a draft Dodger and all that.
And he was at a party with O Epstein.
Where do they hide all this stuff from?
You can finish watching this online if you go to our website, c-spam.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-SPAM.
We'll take some questions later if you'd like.
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