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The United States has lost 300 ,000 people a year.
Think of that.
I don't know.
I mean, how many people?
Everybody you meet said, I lost my daughter, I lost my son to drugs, to fentanyl.
Mostly to fentanyl, but to drugs.
Families are being destroyed and we're going to stop it.
We're not going to let that happen.
And we're also going to be doing something that's...
I think it'll help a lot.
We're going to do very big advertising campaigns, just like a campaign for running for president.
We'll spend a lot of money, but it'll be a very small amount of money, relatively.
We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you, how bad they are.
They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, and ruin your teeth.
If you want to have horrible teeth, take a lot of fentanyl.
If you want to have skin that looks so terrible, take fentanyl.
We're going to show what these drugs are doing to you.
Nobody's done that before, and we're going to do it.
That was yesterday.
If you'd like to see the whole event, it's at our website, cspan .org.
And this is thehill .com with the headline, Trump says he's planning large -scale ad campaign on fentanyl crisis.
You can read that at thehill .com if you'd like more information on that planned ad campaign.
Let's talk to Aaron in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Republican.
Hi, Aaron.
Hail Trump, Mimi.
How are you?
Good.
How's it going?
I'm from Massachusetts.
Unfortunately, I live here now.
I don't care about immigration, but I used to be addicted to fentanyl.
Anyways, healthcare, right?
That's what Bacha said?
Yes.
Luigi Mangione's arraignment is today.
I hope we see a lot of support for him out there.
He's our new Christ figure.
You know what, Aaron?
He's also an alleged murderer.
Don't you see other ways of showing your displeasure?
This is Christina, Oakland, Michigan, Independent Line.
Hi, Christina.
Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
And where do I begin?
This country has gone so out of whack.
I'm one of the biggest problems we have.
Is all the money in our politics.
That's become big business.
Ever since the Supreme Court, the conservative Supreme Court passed Citizens United saying everything is free as a speech and so is money.
Somebody like Elon Musk can contribute $270 million to get somebody elected that he can influence.
Now, you know...
Something's wrong someplace.
So first of all, I think we've got too much money in politics.
Second of all, I think we've got too much religious beliefs.
I'm a Christian.
I had 12 years of Christian education.
I never learned Christ to preach violence.
And that's how you take care of problems, by violence.
Just what that last gentleman said.
I worked in the health care field.
I'm a retired RN.
I worked in surgery.
Everything became a business.
It was do more with less.
Push the people more.
Do I think Donald Trump really cares about working class people, of which I was?
No, he doesn't.
He really cares about marketing.
He's a terrific marketer.
And that's what is in his favor.
This country...
It's subject to marketing like crazy.
I mean, that's all we do is commercials, commercials.
I'm 78 years old.
I remember a day when we were told paid TV, you wouldn't get commercials.
Well, now we got paid TV in the form of cables and everything else.
And it's commercial, commercial, commercial, commercial.
Because we are so subject to influence of marketing.
It is ridiculous.
We should start thinking about what's really important and get the money out of politics.
That would be the biggest start.
But it's not going to happen because there is too much money in politics.
Got it, Christina.
And this is a story from Axios that says this.
Congress's age debate reignites over member living in retirement home.
This is...
Congress's long -simmering debate over the age of its members has resurfaced over revelations that Representative Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas, has been living in an independent living facility in Texas.
The retiring former House Appropriations Committee chair's absence from votes since July has led some of her colleagues to raise concerns.
Granger acknowledged in a Sunday statement to Axios that she has, quote,
And this is Katrina in Georgia, Line for Democrats.
Good morning.
Hi, good morning and thank you for taking my call.
I have a laundry list of things but I'm going to try to keep it short.
I definitely agree with age limits and this is a prime example why we need to have age limits.
This country cannot progress forward with people of old age or of old thinking being in charge of this country and making decisions.
This country needs to grow and progress and without young minds, young ideals, and views, this country will continue to live in the hatred and woes of what it was basically grew on.
In addition, Trump, his thing on trying to fight drugs and things of that nature, Trump has no substance.
Trump has no morals.
Trump is a person who just continues to spew all kinds of division.
And for anyone who thinks that this man is educated, whoever thinks he's a genius, I really do feel for you.
As far as this country, this country is ruled by lobbyists.
Lobbyists have this country.
Us, the people, for the people, that no longer exists.
It's for the People who have money, who can buy votes, who can take over industries, who can continue to feed us horrible food, who can continue to pollute our air, who can continue...
Just think about how many people, how young people are now.
The number amount of people who coming up with cancer.
- Those questions, our government is spelling us.
They're spelling us every day.
And until we recognize that these people need to start showing where their money is, start showing who they're backing, Congress should be an open book.
We should be able to see everything.
They should not be able to invest in certain companies or be on certain panels or in charge of committees.
There's certain things that As citizens, we should know.
It's a money grab.
And that's the reason why they don't want to leave these crazy jobs, because they have the best health care, which they don't offer to us.
They're able to see what companies are moving, what company is going to close or whatever, and so they could be able to move their money.
We are in a farce.
This is a farce.
And until the people of this country take charge and start asking these people to show your hand, We're going to continue to be in the stand that we're in.
All right, Katrina.
And we mentioned this news about the death row commutations.
This is Politico.
It says, Biden to commute sentences of nearly all men on federal death row.
The president will block Donald Trump's chance to quickly resume executions.
It says, so this was 37 of the 40 men condemned to death, the second mass clemency in the weeks following the pardon he issued to his son, Hunter Biden.
This is what the president said in a statement, quote, Make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, grieve for their victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.
But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.
Now, we mentioned it was 37 out of the 40.
So it says here, Biden's commutations exclude three prisoners convicted for what the president characterized as terrorism.
You can read the rest of that at Politico.
Good morning, thank you.
I don't know if I'm understanding what you're saying about Biden's situation.
I called him for something else I was wanting to say, but if I could, are you saying that they're going to be free to the public or they're just going to be denied being put to death?
No, it's just that they won't be put to death.
They are actually going to be life in prison without parole.
So how does Biden justify from someone who does a hate crime?
To someone who killed a bunch of children or whatever it may be.
Those people hate no matter what they do.
When they kill somebody, they hate.
And I've never understood hate crimes.
I've never understood any of that stuff.
But what I wanted to call in for was the lady that was on there before.
It would be nice if you could have other people on with predicting the future of how our economy and how our income is going to be.
When we get all the AI and all the robots implemented, we're bringing in this country so many uneducated people that they'll be basically unneeded, just like so many other people that are already here in this country will be unneeded.
You won't need data entry people because everything will be basically done.
So how much are you going to pay?
How much do people, do they have it figured out?
How much do they want to pay me?
I discussed this with a young person many years ago.
What do they want to pay everyone?
Just a basic wage?
Everyone gets the same?
And we have some elites that tell us what we do and what we don't do?
And then, if I steal your money, say $50 ,000 a year, or even a million dollars a year, whatever they decide it will be, if I steal your...
If it's not enough for me, can I steal your money?
Or can I kill you and take your money?
Or whatever it may be?
I mean, all this is just so...
The future is going to be so amazing, you know?
But the thing that the future looks like it's going to be, though, is going to be without God.
The future in America and those people is going to be godless.
And you can absolutely never have that.
And communism is godless.
All right, Randy.
And we are in open forum.
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Independents, 202 -748 -8002.
We will just take your calls, whatever you want to talk about, as it relates to politics and public policy, up until the end of the program at 10 a .m. Eastern.
And Robert is calling us from North Carolina, Independent Line.
Hi, Robert.
Hey, how you doing?
Good.
I'm just calling this morning to say I was Democrat.
I was.
But when I saw Kamala Harris kept saying that she's going to give this much to this many people, she's going to give to pregnant women, she's going to give more to family,
people who've got families.
But what about working class citizens?
Anybody can just see clearly how she lost.
She lost for giving to somebody that wasn't working.
Giving to the mamas that ain't working.
And we got enough of those people out there that ain't working and feasting off people that's working, taxpayers' money.
And, you know, people get sick and tired of it.
And that's what she was doing.
I was a Democrat till I kept hearing her saying, give, give, give.
But she never said anything about the working class citizens.
And that's why I went to Donald Trump.
Trump is for the working people and thank God for AI.
People say we don't need AI.
Come on, man.
We need AI.
People don't even know how to go on the right side of the road.
We need AI.
We need electric cars.
We, you know, we need that GPS.
Thank God for a GPS.
At least you know where you're going.
These people got so dumb and crazy.
They thinking that AI gonna destroy everything.
Donald Trump gonna, you know, it's corporate and this and that.
We made it through the George Bush administration.
We made it through the Ronald Reagan administration.
We made it through even Joe Biden's administration.
And we will make it through Donald Trump's administration.
But we gonna have 12 years.
Of Trump administration.
I bet you my bottom dollar, 12 years.
Four years, Mr. Trump, and Mr. Trump gonna elect somebody for eight more years.
He got the government locked down.
He got the Supreme Court locked down.
Let me tell you something, another thing.
Democrats just now waking up to say...
Oh, how did he get this passed, and how did they change the government?
Well, you got one set of people that's smart, and that's the Republicans, and you got another set of people that's dumb.
Republicans is, like, very smart.
They know how to pass a bill.
They know what to do to pass a bill.
Democrats think this way is supposed to be to the end.
But yeah, hey, you got food.
You should have changed the government if you wanted to change.
Thank God for Donald Trump.
Got it.
And this is Rochester, New York, Democrat Berta.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I just want to say that in some states, felonists can't even vote.
But we got a felon going into the White House.
I am so ashamed of our country.
I don't know what to do.
And all those who vote for Trump, they're going to see what Trump is going to do for them.
All right.
And this is Larry in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, Republican.
Hi.
Good morning.
Morning.
I want to say, in a couple of days from now, Washington Journal is going to be on on Christmas and I said this, uh, last month I can't remember who it was I told it would be nice if Democrats call on Christmas and not speak of hate, because Christmas is a sacred day and you should not speak of hate.
So if you're a Democrat caller, Kind of keep your comments civil.
But Larry, shouldn't everybody keep their comments civil?
Of course.
And I'd say there's a few Republicans that way, too.
But not as bad as the Democratic and the media.
It's so divisive to speak of hate.
And there would be a good program viewed to have callers, only Democratic callers only.
Explain to me what good hate is.
So that's my comment for today, and I wish everybody Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Larry.
This is from thehill .com with the headline, President of Panama Fires Back at Trump at the Canal Belongs to Panama.
It says that the Panamanian president shot back Sunday after President -elect Trump suggested the Panama Canal return to U .S. control.
Quote, That every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama and will continue to do so.
The sovereignty and independence of our country are not negotiable.
It says the canal is not under direct or indirect control neither by China nor by the European Union nor by the United States nor by any other power.
As a Panamanian, I strongly reject any manifestation that distorts this reality.
You could read that at The Hill.
And here is Bobby, St. Paul, Minnesota, Independent.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
I'm from West St. Paul, Minnesota.
And I want to talk about the Melendez brothers.
I think that's kind of faded out with everything that's going on.
And a reminder that the Melendez brothers shot and killed their parents in cold blood.
And I think there was a Netflix documentary that brought this back.
To be reexamined.
Also that they were models, the model prisoners.
And my point is that apparently the dad was a sex fiend that was sexually abusing the boys.
And they had made a plan and they shot their, once again shot their parents in cold blood and now they're looking for, to have their sentence pardoned or whatever the terminology is.
But people have to remember that they pre -planned this killing, number one.
Number two, they shot their dad and shot their mom.
Their mom was still alive.
They went outside.
And at that moment in time, that moment in time, they should have rationalized and said, geez, look what we did.
You know, mom's still alive.
The mother that brought us...
to this world, the mother that raises us as babies, the mother that's got us through adolescence.
So they went back in.
Instead of calling 911 to save their mother, they reloaded and they shot her to death.
And and after, when they left, they called 911 and of course, we know the rest of the story.
They came up with this bogus story.
But the mere fact that they had an opportunity to save their mother But oh no, no, no, we can't do that because she's going to be a witness.
That's why they should never see the light of day outside of prison.
Thank you for taking my call.
All right, Bobby.
That's my point.
Edward is in Arlington, Virginia, line for Democrats.
Hi, Edward.
Hi, how are you?
I'm doing great.
I just want to say a couple of things.
You have to have intellectual, emotional, and or moral short circuits.
Okay, Edward.
And this is Floyd in Iowa, Republican line.
He got out because it was so dirty.
He thought that MMA was dirty.
He got into politics.
But he should have known it because even in junior high school, we had to study a bit by Clausewitz.
He said politics is war by other means.
Anything's going to go.
And Truman, president, said if you can't stand the heat, get out of the...
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
This just in.
Matt Gaetz, you are the father.
And this is Terry in New Jersey, Independent Line.
Good morning, Terry.
Good morning.
Mimi, if that's your name, I think it is.
Merry Christmas.
The only thing I want to say here, and Merry Christmas to all, I've been watching you.
I watch and watch and watch, and don't cut me off, please.
You know, everybody who's sticking up for Mr. Trump should really take a trip down memory lane.
And I think you should show them that.
I wrote you a letter.
No one's talking about the school shootings.
No one is talking about what's really going on here.
And I think that there's so many people I agree with who called in.
People really need to remember.
Women have very long memories.
Take a trip down memory lane.
I implore you to do so.
Have a nice holiday and thank you for taking my call.
And this is Rosemary in Alabama, Democrat.
Hi, Rosemary.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Go right ahead.
All right.
I just wanted to just make one comment, and that is, how did we ever allow the richest man in the world to buy an election for Donald Trump?
That is my only thought.
Thank you.
And some news for you from this morning.
This is the New York Times about a merger.
Honda and Nissan aim to merge as global competition bears down.
It says Japan's second and third largest automakers hope the $50 billion deal would help them catch up with Tesla and China's BYD in electric vehicles and advanced software.
You could read more about that at the New York Times.
Kendall in Cincinnati, Ohio, Republican.
Good morning.
Good morning and happy holidays to everyone out there.
One of the big problems that I hear Democrats coming up with, talking about how President Trump got re -elected.
This is the problem.
There were 9 million Biden Democrats that disappeared when it came to voting for Kamala.
So anytime Democrats want to question where did the election, where was it won and whose fault is it?
They need to look right within themselves and ask, where did those 9 million Biden Democrats disappear to?
That's huge.
And secondly, I have pushed forward in the first Trump administration and continue to do it now and even the last time to lower the student loan rates to 2%.
All right, Kendall.
And I got an update for you on the Matt Gaetz ethics report.
As we mentioned before, that has been released by the House Ethics Committee.
And the New York Post is reporting this morning.
Matt Gaetz files lawsuit against damning House Ethics Committee probe findings on sexual misconduct.
It says that the former representative filed a lawsuit Monday today against the House Ethics Committee seeking an emergency temporary restraining order to try and stop the release of its damning investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct and illicit drug use,
arguing its release would prompt immediate and widespread media coverage.
Gates filed the lawsuit after denying allegations published in a leaked draft of the report ahead of its official release in full.
And Homer in Florence, Massachusetts, Independent.
Good morning.
I'd like to point out your biased narrative that you guys put out.
How can you say, geez, is Trump going to weaponize the DOJ against his people?
From the time he came down the escalator, I heard all of the squad, including Rashida Tlaib, saying we're going to impeach the MF -er.
And then I remember all of them saying, and then Leticia James and Fannie Willis.
Alvin Wright.
And happy holidays to you, Homer.
Ed in Pennsylvania.
Democrat, good morning.
Good morning.
I'm 87 years old, and I have a degree in science and a master's degree in communications.
I have 40 graduates beyond my master's, and I would like to make some comments about my service in Kansas.
I was in Topeka, Kansas, and there was a university I could attend out in Topeka, Kansas, Washburn University,
and it was close to the Menninger Foundation Hospital for mentally people that had mental problems.
And I was able to attend some classes in the evening.
What I observed about this President Trump is that he never accepts any responsibility for the riot at the Capitol.
He didn't express any overall responsibility for his financial problems up in New York.
So he seemed to me like a non -president.
You know, he never accepted it.
I would classify him as a hypocrite.
And a hypocrite is, he believes life is what you fake it, you know?
And that seems to suit this fellow that's going to be president.
He never accepts anything.
He never apologizes for anything.
He just refers his problems to other people.
Hello?
Yes, we heard you, Ed.
Yes, that is my opinion.
Even the Puerto Rico, they said it was a...
All right, Ed.
We got that.
And this is Judy in Signal Mountain, Tennessee.
Independent.
I don't understand how America condones the Israelis from seizing lands from everybody around them.
They've already taken more land from Golan Heights.
When they say that they are protecting their boundaries, what's the difference between them protecting their boundaries and Putin killing people to protect his boundaries?
I just don't understand how America supports this.
Thank you.
And Kathy in Belton, South Carolina, Democrat.
Good morning, Kathy.
Yes, I have a prepared speech that is more important than any speech I can imagine.
Peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
I will not be surprised if the earth starts to shake or the sky becomes a vivid blue.
Both can only be done by God.
My name is Kathy, a black female, senior citizen from South Carolina.
I am a first -time caller, telling the world that I will speak about God's master plan.
Remember this, Jesus is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle.
In this speech, God will lift up the bowed -down heads, and God will call those who are proud and mighty.
To be humble.
Only then will God lift up their bow, down his also, because it is God's will to help all men saved.
This includes the great and small, rich and poor, free and bound, those rejoicing and those still in doubt.
Not for anyone thinking that this is impossible.
Most would agree with this thinking, But with God, all things are possible.
All right, Kathy.
And Judy in South Beach, Oregon, Republican line.
Hi, I guess I called in on the wrong line.
I'm a Democrat.
I'm sorry.
Kathy, that was beautiful.
I hope it's true.
Really, I truly do.
But what I'm calling about is Trump and his retribution.
And Joe Biden.
You know, the Hunter Biden thing was really ridiculous.
Hunter Biden wasn't running for president.
Trump, in his adult life, has had, before he was ever running for political office, has filed or he's been sued or tried to sue over 4 ,000 times.
I mean, this wasn't persecution going after Trump.
He did a lot of shady things.
I mean, it's true.
He pretty much was used to getting away with whatever.
If somebody said something he didn't like or something that was true, he would try to sue them for slander.
I mean, this was his way of life, his way of doing business.
Now, since he became president, he's done some pretty horrible things.
I mean, he's done some horrible, horrible things.
He should be held accountable, and the media that calls him out on it shouldn't have to worry about losing their job or being sued by him.
I mean, that's free speech.
So I'm just saying, Trump has been doing horrible things his whole adult life.
All right.
All right, Judy.
So, of course, there's going to be a lot of things.
All right.
Thank you.
Bye.
On the line for independence in Knoxville, Tennessee, Corey, you're next.
Yeah, I was just wanting to make the suggestion that I think in order to increase jobs, to build new jobs, I think they should try to reinstate more assembly lines back into the industries, you know,
build more warehouses.
And I think that would help a lot with the economy.
And I also think it's important for military purposes as well.
If we ever go into a war, it's...
And this is Jennifer in Oak Hill,
Ohio.
Independent Line.
Yes, I would just like to talk about the WEPGPO that we've been working on for 40 years and it finally got passed.
I heard Mark Levine and Ted Cruz say yesterday that it was for every social security recipient.
It is not.
It is those people like me who, when I retired from the post office, They took 20 % of my retirement because I was going to get Social Security.
When it come time to get my Social Security, they took 85%.
So I ended up just making donations of my Social Security because I got none of it back.
My husband filed for Social Security disability when he got cancer and he had
And this is Lisa in Shreveport, Louisiana, Republican.
Hi, Lisa.
Hi.
Is there any way that you can quit censoring everything on your C -SPAN?
Like, could you put on people like Larry Sinclair that had sex with Obama?
And can you also put on Tara Reid that was sexually abused by Joe Biden?
Can you put those people on since you're saying that President Trump did all this?
Thank you very much.
Clark in West Virginia.
Republican.
Hi, Clark.
Good morning.
Good morning.
It's you.
I'm in a studio.
Yeah, I might have made a mistake.
But why is Elon Musk sticking his nose in our business?
Unless he wants to give some of his billions back to the poor people, the people like the lady before us and other people that's hurting, he should just shut up and go away.
And Clark, are you in favor of the Department of Government Efficiency that he and Ramaswamy are going to be heading up, even though it's not a department?
Well, but now, if he thinks that, yeah, he's been done wrong, and you know he said that,
then maybe I wouldn't blame him too much, especially the ones that really tried to put him under the bus.
All right, Clark.
And Barb in Long Grove, Illinois sent a text about that.
She said, election contributions come from all sources, large and small.
Those that contribute very large amounts should not automatically be appointed to patronage positions in the government.
And here is William in Virginia, Independent Line.
Hi, William.
Hello?
Hi.
Go right ahead.
Hokey, hokey, hokey, hi.
Tech, tech, VPI.
Solar X, solar I.
Team, team, team.
Merry Christmas, Mimi.
Merry Christmas, William.
Bob in, uh, my great Connecticut, uh, Kentucky, Democrat?
Bob?
Yeah?
Aye.
Go right ahead.
Yeah, no, I was calling in regards to, I hear a new law that's coming up back, and I wondered if it was true that they're changing the age for Social Security to 66 years and 10 months.
Is that a fact that he's going to sign it, Donald Trump, on January?
My guess, 20th?
You know what?
I hadn't heard that, but we'll do a little bit of research and see if there's anything coming up about changing the age.
I know that that has been proposed, Bob, but I'm not sure that there's an actual bill that is making its way through Congress, but we'll look at it, okay?
Okay, Mimi.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
And Mike in Heartland, Wisconsin.
Republican, good morning.
Okay.
I heard something about...
Oh, he's gone.
Try to find that.
Maybe our producer can look into what that was about emails and protecting emails for people in Congress.
I want to get something specific for you so that we don't misspeak on what that provision would have actually done.
Kenneth in Los Angeles, Independent.
Good morning.
Well, good morning.
Thank you very much.
I'm surprised that I got in so early.
I want to encourage people that think that they're not going to be heard to call.
Let's see.
What I would say is the whole idea of those with the most paying...
Yeah.
Yeah, good morning.
I'd like to offer a perspective.
I've been listening for quite some time.
You just don't hear.
As a nine -year -old little girl, I became a rape survivor.
Can you imagine what that brings up in somebody like me when my neighbors have filled in an oval for a rapist and a felon?
Can you?
Well, no, you can't, you Republicans, because you don't believe anybody that has been assaulted.
Right?
You and your God, your book of lies, tells you that it's okay?
So we've elected a rapist and a felon.
Oh my God, you Republicans, I can't even imagine how proud you must feel!
And I pray that no females in your family have to go through what me and all the other survivors have to look at, this piece of trash that we've elected.
He's a piece of crap.
Why can't anybody see that?
He's a liar.
He's a fake.
He's a phony.
And all you women out there, you better be careful because when you get raped, because now it's okay because guess what?
You get to put rape on your resume and it elevates you.
What on earth is going on?
So all you people, I hope you're proud of yourself.
All right, Kathy.
Republican Line, Axtell, Texas.
Paul, you're next.
I feel sorry for her because, you know, all my family follows the Bible for her because she sounds like she's kind of lost or something.
I'm not going to say he's a perfect man.
There's nobody perfect.
And I know a lot of people think that he's kind of an old bear.
But if you look back in history, some of your greatest presidents were kind of bears.
Lewis is S. Grant.
Harry Truman, a Democrat.
You had good presidents.
You know, John F. Kennedy was one, Harry Truman.
But the Democrat Party now, there are Democrats out there that are good, you know, but they're loud, they're radical left.
The Democrats are just upset because they got beat, and I mean really beat bad.
African -American Trump, all different kinds of, you know, especially Christians and Catholics and Bible, you know.
All right, Paul.
Here is Grant in Savannah, Illinois, Independent.
Hi, Grant.
First of all, I thought it was interesting yesterday, and it goes to show you the variety of callers that you get.
You had one caller yesterday call in from North Carolina that wanted Biden to face a firing squad.
And getting back to Mr. Trump and his speech that he gave in Phoenix apparently yesterday, I agree that the fentanyl issue is, you know, a national crisis.
And needs to be addressed.
But my understanding is that much of the fentanyl is being brought across the borders legally.
I mean, through people that just get waved through.
And at the same time, with the fentanyl issue, one of the pharmacists that prescribe it, often they're not being penalized or Yeah,
opioids, yes, yes.
And getting back to the likely pardons Mr. Trump's proposing to make, I think it'd be totally ludicrous that the rioters at the Capitol would be pardoned.
When I think about it, back in the early 70s, I was able to go to the Capitol.
And nowadays, of course, the only way any citizen can get to the Capitol and visit it is you have to arrange with your either senator or congressman, make an appointment.
And that's not particularly easy.
So the fact of the matter is those people illegally entered the Capitol, caused Great amount of harm contributed to the death of a few people, etc.
And I am concerned about Trump's many proposed cabinet appointees, particularly Robert Kennedy,
who could be a very dangerous appointee with his ridiculous anti -vaccine policies, along with
And here's Joshua in Los Angeles, Democrat.
Hi Joshua.
Yeah, that's what ABC got sued over, correct?
Correct.
Turn of the century, early 20th century, like imperialism by threatening Denmark and Canada, wanting the Panama Canal and Greenland back, while at the same time supporting these insane tariffs on imported goods,
which will bring up prices, especially for electronics and solar panels.
And at the same time, you see Donald Trump taking a more isolationist and populist spend and sort of places.
That really do matter, especially in the war in Ukraine, constantly chastising Zelensky, while at the same time refusing to read his intelligence reports.
As Keith Kellogg, who's Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said to Bob Woodward in his book War, that Trump simply doesn't read his intelligence reports unless you make them over a page long.
And what I'm really concerned about is we have a commander -in -chief who's an abuser, who's a fraudster, who's been divorced and remarried four times.
All right, Joshua.
Here's Karen in Cheshire, Connecticut, Republican.
Yeah, good morning.
I'm commenting on the woman that said that Trump was a rapist and the whole spiel there.
He's gone to so many funerals of the immigrants raping and killing our kids.
So I don't think he's a rapist.
He wouldn't be there.
Biden never showed up.
Second thing, never took a paycheck.
How greedy is he?
How greedy is he?
He doesn't take a paycheck.
I'm going to tell you that all the Trump supporters are very happy.
The Democrats are still crying, even on Facebook.
And here's Frank in Florida, Independent Line.
Yeah, this is Frank.
Yes, I know it's Frank.
Go right ahead.
Problem we're not getting at is the country's problem is called lawyers.
Number one.
Okay.
Here's our problem in this country.
Look how many pages are written for a bill.
Okay?
He's going to hopefully stir up the pot.
In Florida, they advertise, "We're going to get you more money for your claim," which makes our insurance rates go up.
It's a very simple formula.
We have to regulate attorney fees.
Regulate them.
We must regulate attorneys.
They are taking the money legally.
Thank you.
Have a good Christmas.
You too.
And thanks to everybody for watching.
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This week, we're showing encore presentations from our weekly interview program, Q &A.
Tonight, Michael and Robert Meeropol discuss the U .S. government's case against their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
The two brothers, who were 10 and 6 at the time, share what life was like before and after their parents' execution, the anti -communistic climate in the U .S. during the 1950s, and their efforts to posthumously clear their mother Ethel's record. was privy to all the stuff that we have learned since,
including the non -involvement of my mother.
And that is the reason why, surprisingly, when the judge was soliciting, by the way, doing this secretly, recommendations on the sentence, Hoover is in writing opposing the death sentence for our mother.