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unidentified
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About Trump, the press will say he's lying. | |
| He's giving you the truth, right, most of the time. | ||
| And it's just ridiculous. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| And people are fed up. | ||
| And I want him to get retribution. | ||
| Frankly, I want him to go after these people that have done nothing but lies and create this narrative that is totally false. | ||
| What do you want to see, Carl? | ||
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unidentified
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I'm sorry? | |
| When you mean retribution, or when you say retribution, what do you mean? | ||
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unidentified
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I want him to go after and investigate it. | |
| And if they've done wrong, they need to be put in jail. | ||
| And these poor people sitting in the Washington, D.C. jail that have not had due process and been sitting there for years, what a travesty. | ||
| You let these people that burn down Minneapolis off with nothing. | ||
| And these people have been sitting in jail for years. | ||
| We've not even had a trial. | ||
| That's not America at all. | ||
| What do you think of the people who have gone on trial and have been convicted of various crimes? | ||
| Do you think any or all of them should be pardoned or have their sentences commuted? | ||
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unidentified
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Well, let me tell you this. | |
| I don't think you can get a fair trial in some of the cities in this country, Washington, D.C. being one of them. | ||
| I think they were overcharged. | ||
| I think they were over-sentenced. | ||
| And I don't have a problem at all with him pardoning them all, frankly. | ||
| That's Carl in Florida, last caller in this segment of the Washington Journal. | ||
| January 6th, meaning different things to different people. | ||
| In today's Washington Post, President Biden says this is what Americans should remember about January 6th. | ||
| This is what he writes. | ||
| For months, for much of our history, this proceeding was treated as pro forma, a routine act. | ||
| But after what we all witnessed on January 6th, 2021, we know that we can never again take it for granted. | ||
| Violent insurrectionists attacked the Capitol, threatened the lives of elected officials, and assaulted brave law enforcement officers. | ||
| We should not forget, he writes, we must remember the wisdom of the adage that any nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. | ||
| We cannot accept a repeat of what occurred four years ago. | ||
| And we should commit, he writes, to remember January 6th, 2021 every year, to remember it as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed. | ||
| To remember that democracy, even in America, is never guaranteed. | ||
| President Biden in today's Washington Post, a different perspective on this day from Robert Knight writing in the Washington Times today the headline of his piece, How Democrats and the Mainstream Media Used and Abused the January 6th Insurrection. | ||
| Citing the insurrection in quotes, Mr. Knight writes, Attorney General Merrick Garland rounded up more than 1,300 people who had been at the Capitol. | ||
| Many were in prison for years before facing trial, and some are facing harsh sentences. | ||
| Using facial imagery technology, the FBI has been rounding up still more defendants. | ||
| Citing the alleged insurrection, Democrats in the House impeached Mr. Trump a second time and held the January 6th committee hearings. | ||
| Emboldened by the insurrection narrative, he writes, Democratic prosecutors in four jurisdictions brought spurious charges against Mr. Trump, hoping to keep him from being re-elected. | ||
| January 6th, 2021 was the gift that kept on giving for Democrats, he says. | ||
| At least they thought so until voters shocked them on November the 5th. | ||
| Let's hope, he said, and pray that Monday's Electoral College certification is conducted without any drama. | ||
| That's Robert Knight writing in the Washington Times, getting your thoughts in this first hour, simply asking you, what does January 6th mean to you? | ||
| Again, here's the schedule in the House today. | ||
| It's noon when the House meets for legislative business and for morning hour. | ||
| And then 1 p.m. will be the joint session when the vote counting and certification process happens. | ||
| You can call in this morning, this three-hour Washington Journal on phone lines on your screen. | ||
| Democrats, Republicans, and Independents will start with Kelvin in Maryland. | ||
| Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're up first. | ||
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unidentified
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Hey, John. | |
| Good morning, man. | ||
| Thanks for taking my call, man. | ||
| And, yeah, January 6th to me, man, what it did for me, John, it took me back to the insurrection back after the Civil War, man, when the first Reconstruction was started in that 10-year period, man. | ||
| And then it slowed to erode away. | ||
| And I believe we, as a country, have not learned the lessons from that first Reconstruction era. | ||
| And now we're in the second Reconstruction era. | ||
| And here we are. | ||
| And it's sad. | ||
| It really is sad that the people did what they did. | ||
| And we now just overlook it. | ||
| I mean, now we're trying to give them a pass, John. | ||
| And only thing I can say. | ||
| Why are we trying to give them a pass, Kelvin? | ||
| How are we overlooking it? | ||
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unidentified
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Well, the reason why we're giving them a pass is because we have a president who is saying that it was a love affair. | |
| It was a, you know, he's justified, rationalizing, and minimizing the behavior of the people. | ||
| Although people went to jail, he's now walking it back and talking about pardoning these people and things like that. | ||
| And think about the officers that were beaten that day and the guys who were injured. | ||
| What about their families and the suffering they've been through? | ||
| Are we remembering them? | ||
| Are we talking about them? | ||
| Or are we trying to make it feel good for the president and his followers? | ||
| That's what we have to remember because if we don't remember the past, we are doomed to repeat it, John. | ||
| That's all I really have to say, John. | ||
| I really appreciate you. | ||
| And this is a great question, man. | ||
| Have a blessed day. | ||
| That's Calvin and Marilyn Daniels here in D.C. Republican line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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unidentified
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Yes. | |
| We have a very dangerous emergency situation. | ||
| Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath, violent. | ||
| And we need to stop this inauguration. | ||
| Daniel, you say that as a Republican? | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah, and he is a responsible Republican. | |
| He has tried to overthrow the government in 2020. | ||
| And the Supreme Court has basically installed him and rewrote the 14th Amendment. | ||
| And the Democrats are so weak. | ||
| Every Democrat needs to stand up and go after this president before he's inaugurated for violating the 14th Amendment. | ||
| And he is still giving them safe harbor. | ||
| Daniel, you want members to object on the floor in this joint session that's happening today? | ||
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unidentified
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I want everyone in the House or Senate who participated in the previous insurrection, Donald Trump is aiding and abetting them still, this idea of pardoning them. | |
| Things are definitely out of control. | ||
| His inauguration must be stopped, put on hold for the sake of this country, for sure. | ||
| That's Daniel. | ||
| This is Todd in California, Independent. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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unidentified
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Good morning. | |
| How are you? | ||
| Doing well. | ||
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unidentified
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Hi. | |
| We are going to lead this here and take you live now to Capitol Hill, where today members will be gabbling in for what we expect to be a brief session before convening a joint session to certify the presidential election. |