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This afternoon, President-elect Donald Trump will attend a pre-inauguration Make America Great Again rally to celebrate his victory in the 2024 presidential election. | |
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| Good morning. | ||
| It's Sunday, January 19th, 2025. | ||
| We're just a day away from President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. | ||
| Tomorrow, he'll return to the White House, becoming just the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland. | ||
| And this morning, a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza begins, with Hamas releasing the list of the first group of hostages scheduled for release later this morning. | ||
| A pause in the conflict, which has stretched for more than a year and cost tens of thousands of lives. | ||
| This morning, we want to hear your thoughts on both of these stories. | ||
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| For Republicans, 202-748-8001. | ||
| And for Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
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| Now, there's quite a bit of breaking coverage about the ceasefire beginning in Gaza. | ||
| Here's some from Al Jazeera finding that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect in Gaza. | ||
| That ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has taken effect after a nearly three-hour delay, pausing a devastating 15-month war in the Palestinian enclave. | ||
| The ceasefire came into effect at 11:15 a.m. local time on Sunday after Hamas handed over to Israel a list of three female captives to be released as part of the deal. | ||
| Here is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday speaking on the ceasefire and the role of President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump in the conflict. | ||
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Until now, we've managed to bring back 157 hostages. | |
| Out of them, 117 were alive in the deal and the agreement just agreed about. | ||
| Recently, we will bring back another 33 of our brothers and sisters, most of them live. | ||
| And this outcome is first and foremost the outcome of the heroism of our soldiers in combat. | ||
| It's also an outcome on how we stood firmly on our goals and interests and withstanding heavy pressures both domestically and from the outside. | ||
| It is an outcome of the cooperation between Israel and the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration. | ||
| Since he was elected, he was completely, Trump was completely committed to the release of the hostages. | ||
| We spoke on Wednesday. | ||
| He congratulated me on the agreement and he emphasized, and rightly so, that the first stage is a temporary ceasefire. | ||
| This is what he said, a temporary ceasefire. | ||
| Towards the next stages of the agreement, we are holding on to some significant assets so that we can bring back all of the hostages and in order to accomplish all the goals of the war. | ||
| Both President Trump and President Biden have provided full backing to Israel's right to resume fighting, to resume combat, if Israel reaches the conclusion that the negotiations over the second stage are pointless. | ||
| I truly appreciate that. | ||
| I also appreciate the decision of President Trump to lift all the remaining restrictions on the providing of essential munitions and weapons to the state of Israel. | ||
| If we need to resume combat, we will do so in new ways, and we will do so with tremendous force. | ||
| And coming back to Washington, D.C., where the city is preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump tomorrow, today there's going to be a rally in preparation for the event, and Elon Musk is scheduled to be among the speakers that will precede President-elect Donald Trump at his pre-inaugural rally in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, according to a source familiar with the planning. | ||
| That's in this article on NBC News. | ||
| Musk, the world's richest man, spent more than a quarter billion dollars on last year's campaign. | ||
| Soon after his victory in November, Trump named Musk to co-chair an outside advisory committee dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOE, which is aimed at dramatically slashing government spending, regulations, and the federal workforce. | ||
| Others who will speak before Trump's evening address at the Capitol One Arena include Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who was recently named to the Facebook board, Vice President-elect JD Vance, retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, conservative media personality Megan Kelly, top Trump aide Stephen Miller, and incoming Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. | ||
| And of course, we will be covering that here on C-SPAN. | ||
| We will have the Make America Great Again rally that will be happening to celebrate Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, and that will be at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C. You can watch it live here on C-SPAN at 3 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| It will also be on C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Once again, we're looking for your thoughts this morning on the ceasefire in Gaza as well as Trump's inauguration. | ||
| Our number again for Democrats, 202-748-8000. | ||
| For Republicans, 202-748-8001. | ||
| And for Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
| Let's start with Doug in Ohio on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Doug. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you today? | ||
| Good, thanks. | ||
| Can you turn down the volume on your TV? | ||
| Then go ahead with your point. | ||
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Yes, ma'am. | |
| Okay, how's that? | ||
| It's good. | ||
| Go ahead, Doug. | ||
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Yeah, I'm talking about the inauguration of President Trump tomorrow. | |
| Is the United States really ashamed of itself right now, I think? | ||
| I mean, we're a convicted felon taking the big office of the most important man in the road. | ||
| And the guy is totally, totally a disgrace when he was a president first time. | ||
| And he's in there to take as much graph for him and his millionaire buddies and billionaire buddies as he can for the next four years. | ||
| And all he does is name-call people and all that. | ||
| And he's a terrible man. | ||
| I mean, he's unfit to be president, in my book. | ||
| And, you know, if he's president, we got to put up with it. | ||
| All I know is most people got a duck and cover for the next four years, especially poor Americans. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Robert is in Worcester, Massachusetts on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Robert. | ||
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First of all, I'd like to say, Lord have mercy on all of us. | |
| I miss Jesse on Sundays. | ||
| I don't know what happened with Jesse, but I really miss him. | ||
| But I want to get back to the point. | ||
| Monday is going to be Dr. King's birthday. | ||
| I'm going to celebrate my black heritage. | ||
| I'm not going to celebrate Donald Trump's inauguration. | ||
| Let's get that straight. | ||
| I fought for civil rights in the 1960s. | ||
| Dogs, Ku Klux Klan, very terrible stuff. | ||
| When I see it limiting the 1950s and 1960s, I'm very, very disturbed of my country. | ||
| And I love my country. | ||
| First of all, here in Massachusetts, yesterday I went to the store and this young white fella had a Donald Trump hat on his head. | ||
| I couldn't believe it. | ||
| Wearing a Donald Trump hat. | ||
| 20 years ago, I would have took that hat and slapped it off his head. | ||
| Good thing I'm a peaceful man today. | ||
| God is good to me. | ||
| I want to know one thing. | ||
| Everybody celebrate Monday for Dr. Martin Luther King's Day. | ||
| Do it today and do it Monday. | ||
| And God bless us that fought. | ||
| Everybody got rights but us. | ||
| I fought for every right for every human being. | ||
| They got more rights than me. | ||
| Gays, lesbians, homosexuals, the world is going upside down, and God is like, if you bought a house today, Kimberly, if you bought a house, you have to sign it. | ||
| You have to date it. | ||
| You have to date it. | ||
| Nothing is legal unless you date and you sign it. | ||
| Today's date has been 2025 years since the passing of Jesus Christ. | ||
| That's what today is. | ||
| God bless everybody. | ||
| Kimberly, have a great day. | ||
| As we've heard from some of our callers already, this reporting in the Hill follows up. | ||
| The U.S. is split between excitement and fear over Trump's return to the White House, according to a survey. | ||
| And this is a survey that was released on Tuesday. | ||
| The new USA Today Suffolk University poll found that the incoming president has generated strong feelings right before his second foray into the Oval Office, with 31% of respondents saying they felt excited about him being commander-in-chief again, while another 31% said they were afraid. | ||
| President Biden took questions from reporters earlier this week on the incoming Trump administration as well as his role in the ceasefire that's taking that's beginning this morning in Gaza. | ||
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We're saying the implementation of this deal will be in the hands of the next administration and basically they will shape the future for Gaza. | |
| So how do you see this future? | ||
| And also, how much credit do you give to the 12-team for this deal? | ||
| Trump is already taking credit for it. | ||
| Well, you know, this is the exact framework of the deal I proposed back in May. | ||
| Exact. | ||
| And we got the world to endorse it. | ||
| Secondly, it's America's support for Israel that helped them badly weaken Amas and his backers and create the conditions for this deal. | ||
| And thirdly, I knew this deal would have to be implemented by the next team. | ||
| So I told my team to coordinate closely with the incoming team to make sure we're all speaking with the same voice because that's what American presidents do. | ||
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How many Americans will be released when the hostages are being released? | |
| All the exact detail of how many people are being held, how many bodies will be returned and us will all be forthcoming. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
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Mr. President, what's your level of confidence that this deal will hold? | |
| I'm confident. | ||
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Who is the history folks credit for this, Mr. President? | |
| You or Trump? | ||
| Is that a joke? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| In other news, we're following this morning. | ||
| The 170 million users of TikTok in the United States got a different message when they logged on to the app today. | ||
| As reported here in the Wall Street Journal, TikTok has gone dark for U.S. users while Trump signals he will save it. | ||
| Americans start losing access to the popular video sharing app as the law goes into effect. | ||
| The app started halting service Saturday night for 170 million users in its most important market shortly before a law took effect requiring it to shed its Chinese ownership or close in the U.S. | ||
| It marked the first time the U.S. government has compelled the closure of such a widely used app and disrupted millions of American businesses and social media entrepreneurs who use TikTok to connect with customers and fans. | ||
| TikTok users started seeing a message late Saturday saying, sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. | ||
| And we've got a screenshot of what that looked like for some of the users of TikTok in the United States. | ||
| Let's get back to your calls on the ceasefire in Gaza as well as Trump's inauguration. | ||
| Joel is in Mountain Home, Arkansas on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Joel. | ||
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Yes, good morning, ma'am. | |
| How are y'all doing this morning? | ||
| Yesterday, you had a caller call in complaining about the inauguration would be done indoor. | ||
| He said something about other people was able to do it. | ||
| But my point on this one thing is, you know, a lot of people be walking on them icy roads and everything fall and break a leg. | ||
| But that's all I want to say. | ||
| Now, this morning you had a caller called in. | ||
| He was the first caller from Ohio. | ||
| He sounds such a bitter man. | ||
| He needs to get involved with something else. | ||
| And the last thing I want to say is Biden pardoned 2,500 people from jail this past week or so. | ||
| And he's got dimension. | ||
| He shouldn't have that authority. | ||
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Mike is in Norwalk, Ohio, on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Mike. | ||
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Good morning, America. | |
| Hi, kudos to our guy from Arkansas. | ||
| I'm from Ohio, too, but I have an open mind. | ||
| And a little background, I was military police CID. | ||
| So Biden's taking credit for the ceasefire. | ||
| Well, that's kind of funny. | ||
| He's going to take credit for everything on his way out the door. | ||
| He's had four years to accomplish this, and what has he done? | ||
| He's accomplished nothing. | ||
| Trump's coming in. | ||
| He's going to clean that building out back behind you, ma'am. | ||
| And that building back behind there is going to start working for we the people. | ||
| We are tired of our money being flushed on the toilet. | ||
| Trump's going to come in. | ||
| Pamboni's going to come in. | ||
| There's going to be legal law affair instead of illegal law affair. | ||
| I should know. | ||
| I work for the military police criminal division, and corruption is widespread in that government behind you, ma'am. | ||
| Tomorrow we are going to turn the page back to America. | ||
| Our government is going to start working for we the people. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mike in Ohio just mentioned Pam Bondi, who is President-elect Trump's pick for Attorney General. | ||
| And she was questioned about the existence of an enemies list when she was in some of her Senate confirmation hearings and the idea of a list of people targeted for political retribution. | ||
| Here's that exchange. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Would you have hired someone into the Florida Attorney General's office who you knew had an enemies list? | ||
| Senator, to cut to the chase, you're clearly talking about Kash Patel. | ||
| I don't believe he has an enemies list. | ||
| He made a quote on TV, which I have not heard. | ||
| I saw your sign or Senator Durvin's sign about cash, but I know that Kash Patel has had 60 jury trials as a public defender, as a prosecutor. | ||
| He has great experience in the Intel Department, Department of Defense. | ||
| I have known Cash, and I believe that Cash is the right person at this time for this job. | ||
| You'll have the ability to question Mr. Patel. | ||
| And I'm questioning you right now about whether you will enforce an enemies list that he announced publicly on television. | ||
| Oh, Senator, I'm sorry, there will never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice. | ||
| Back to your calls. | ||
| Mark is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Mark. | ||
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Morning, Kimberly. | |
| I'd like to say about the incoming Trump administration. | ||
| I'm in my mid-70s. | ||
| I go back to Dwight David Eisenhower, a real Republican, a real man of conviction and integrity. | ||
| And now, look where the Republican Party has gone to. | ||
| Look how far it has fallen. | ||
| And I have never had what a sense of dread in my 70-plus years. | ||
| I'm in my mid-70s, a sense of dread of this incoming administration. | ||
| And it is just, I am just so dumbfounded by this past election. | ||
| But I have to say that I just want to say one thing to all these working men and women out here that are singing Trump's praises now. | ||
| Let's see the tune you'll be singing at the end of his second term in 2028. | ||
| And I guarantee you this, Kimberly, they're going to be singing the blues because Trump's coming right at them. | ||
| Apparently, they don't know that. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| He's already talking about taking away Medicaid expansion in the states that have expanded Medicaid. | ||
| A lot of Trump voters, supporters are on, you guessed it, Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. | ||
| So he's going to take away the only affordable health care they've ever known and their spouses and their children, and they voted for him. | ||
| I mean, I don't know what to say, except I am just totally and utterly depressed for the next four years for this country. | ||
| Have a good day. | ||
| Fred is in Jessup, Maryland, on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Fred. | ||
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Good morning, everybody. | |
| Well, I can see that Trump deranges syndrome is still alive and strong with that last caller. | ||
| Mr., you're 70 years old and you haven't figured out what's going on in the last four years. | ||
| Joe Biden has done this. | ||
| Fred, it's a little hard to hear you. | ||
| Just want to make sure you're speaking directly into your phone. | ||
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Yes, ma'am. | |
| I am. | ||
| 14 interviews, 14 interviews Joe Biden's done. | ||
| Trump's 44. | ||
| Every reason he's doing that, he's not being challenged at all. | ||
| He's had plenty of time. | ||
| Four years. | ||
| I mean, you guys, the Democrats, you thought that he was sharp as ever for you. | ||
| You bought all the racist remarks he's made and never been held accountable to that. | ||
| We finally got with President Trump, we finally got accountability. | ||
| And what's going on? | ||
| And my Democrat friends, for the blue cities, my black Americans, you can't keep blaming Trump for anything. | ||
| These cities are failed because of black violence and Democrat politicians. | ||
| He has nothing to do with it. | ||
| I live in Maryland. | ||
| We're under constant tax and spend policies. | ||
| They're given surpluses. | ||
| They're taking the money and spending on projects. | ||
| We don't even know what's going on. | ||
| Now we finally got a chance for accountability. | ||
| And the caller from Mike from Ohio, he said it the best. | ||
| We finally got a president that's for all the people. | ||
| It's not just one party. | ||
| It's not just pushing an agenda that nobody agrees with. | ||
| We're finally getting back to what America stands for, and that's opportunities for everybody. | ||
| And like I wanted to also mention the affirmative action federal workers that work from home and never show up, and you're all waiting on hold on their phone, waiting for them to answer. | ||
| They're making you wait while they're making their coffee and they're doing their little home projects. | ||
| That's going to end. | ||
| Start looking for a job because accountability is here. | ||
| Next up is Patrick in Brookings, Oregon on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Patrick. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| And in four years, I like to have you look up how many homeless school children are in the United States today and how many homeless school children are going to be in the United States four years from now. | ||
| I may be two years old. | ||
| I hear your drugs moving, but I don't hear anything. | ||
| Oh, there's a little bit of a delay between what you see on your TV and us, but go ahead. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But I think the United States lost its moral compass, is what I really believe. | ||
| And I hope that everything goes well. | ||
| As far as the Middle East, you know, they're killing their own cousins for a little bit more of the land. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| He talked about the shining hill on the shining city on the hill. | ||
| It's time we got back to our moral compass. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That's all I wanted to say. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Patrick, the best numbers I was able to find quickly, at least for the first part of your question, on the number of students in U.S. public schools experiencing homelessness is 1.4 million. | ||
| This is according to schoolhouseconnection.org. | ||
| Public schools identified nearly 1.4 million students experiencing homelessness in the 2022-2023 school year, a 14% increase from the previous school year, nearly making up for the drop in homelessness, homeless student enrollment during school closures during the pandemic. | ||
| Many states at this point were reporting even higher numbers for the 2023-2024 school year. | ||
| Brenda is in Indiana, Pennsylvania on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Brenda. | ||
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Hey, good morning, Kimberly. | |
| I wanted to talk about Donald Trump keeps saying that he had this landslide victory and that he has a mandate when the fact is Donald Trump won by default. | ||
| 6 million Democratic voters sat home this election because Kamala Harris got 6 million less votes than Joe Biden in 2020. | ||
| So Donald Trump actually won by default. | ||
| And if you want to talk about a landslide victory and a mandate, in 2008, President Obama won by 10 million votes, and he got 362 Electoral College votes. | ||
| So that's a landslide victory mandate. | ||
| And to address the Trump supporter that keeps talking about Trump derangement syndrome, the people that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, the people that tried to hang Mike Pence, they tried to hang their own Republican vice president, a Christian, God-fearing man. | ||
| They did this at the behest of Trump. | ||
| They are the ones that have Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| There's a story in the New York Times pointing to a poll finding that support for Trump's policies actually exceed support for Trump himself. | ||
| A new poll found that the public is sympathetic to the president-elect's plans to deport migrants and reduce America's presence overseas, going on to say, many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald Trump share his bleak assessment of the country's problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from the New York Times in Ipsos. | ||
| A little more than half the country expresses some desire to see Mr. Trump follow through with his harshest threat to deal with illegal immigration, deporting everyone living in the United States without authorization. | ||
| And here's a bit more of those numbers. | ||
| Which of the following comes closest to your opinion about our nation's political system, even if none are exactly right? | ||
| 59% of U.S. adults saying it has been broken for decades, 29% saying it's been broken only for the last few years, 9% saying it's not broken, with similar numbers between Democrats and Republicans. | ||
| 57% of Democrats saying it's been broken for years. | ||
| 63% of Republicans saying it's been broken for years. | ||
| Alexander is in New Jersey on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Alexander. | ||
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Hey, how are you doing? | |
| Good, thank you. | ||
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I am about to cross into Pennsylvania driving from New York on my way to the inauguration this morning. | |
| Okay. | ||
| What do you think of the fact that it's been moved indoors? | ||
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I think it's the smart move. | |
| You don't want, I think somebody say you don't want people falling on ice. | ||
| You don't want old senators and heads of state getting sick and God forbid something would happen. | ||
| And I think it's probably a little disappointing for people like me who actually scored a ticket from Congressman LaLota. | ||
| I was lucky enough to get one. | ||
| But at the same time, I think it was the wise move. | ||
| Also, in light of what happened on January 6th, it's just better to not have the conditions for any potential trouble. | ||
| So the cold, I think, is a blessing in disguise. | ||
| Alexander, are you worried that if the inauguration had been held outside, we'd see a repeat of January 6th? | ||
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No, but, you know, you never know. | |
| It could be something. | ||
| I think anytime you get a crowd that big, politically charged, I mean, was that a woman? | ||
| I'm not sure who was just on before that lady saying that January 6thers had Trump derangement. | ||
| Well, I won't deny that a very small crux of those people that they were maybe loony, loony MAGA people, the vast majority of what you call MAGA just simply want to make America great. | ||
| It's the again part that drives people mad because they see it as an indictment of Democrat politics, Obama and just maybe both parties, even Bush. | ||
| You know, Trump's been very critical of both parties. | ||
| So I also want to say that Biden, I read or heard, is leaving at a 38% approval rating, which is the longest in the lowest in certainly modern American history. | ||
| I don't know if you could fact check me on that. | ||
| And you just know Trump's policies are actually rather popular. | ||
| So I hypothesize that the reason for that disconnect has a lot to do with how people consume their news and just, you know, I think, Alexander, you may be going through a tunnel. | ||
| Are you still with us? | ||
| I think we've lost Alexander, who's driving on his way to the inauguration here in Washington, D.C. Let's go to David in Denison, Texas, on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, David. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| First thing I want to address mandates. | ||
| Yes, Trump got the popular vote. | ||
| And yes, Trump's popularity, although higher than it's ever been and 50, 52 percent, doesn't represent what you call a mandate by a vote. | ||
| But looking at it from the other hand, his policies are where his mandate is. | ||
| He's got over 70 percent in favor of the deportation. | ||
| The economic policies, all of these policies are very popular. | ||
| That's the mandate. | ||
| The popularity of him personally, after having nine years of 90 percent plus negative press coverage and all the other stuff that went along with that, it's amazing that he had a popular personal popularity above 40 percent. | ||
| But that'll change now that the social media is not going to be able to line up against him with government censorship, etc. | ||
| One other thing I'd like to mention is that all this talk about taxes, just finished a book by one of the most, if not the most prominent economists in 1817. | ||
| I've read and studied Marxism, socialism, communism, all that economy for years and years. | ||
| This guy, David Ricardo, even then realized and wrote about that taxes on businesses are paid by the consumers, by the people that buy their products. | ||
| No company makes a penny profit until they pay all their taxes. | ||
| It's only the money they have left over after all costs involved in everything they do before they have a penny to pay an employee anything or do anything with that money. | ||
| And it's the profit that's left over after that, if they're a corporation, that's spread among the shareholders who provide the funding for the business. | ||
| But the point is, there is no such thing as a tax that the people aren't paying. | ||
| It's not possible. | ||
| It is simply not possible. | ||
| So that any taxes that are raised on businesses are simply more things that are passed along through the cost, increased cost of what they're selling or the decreased amount that they can pay their staff employees or anybody else. | ||
| That's a simple fact of life. | ||
| It's one of the laws of economics. | ||
| And as far as the Trump syndrome scenario that the other fellow was talking about, And oh, one last thing, because I know I'm getting to the point where you're going to push a button on me. | ||
| Enemies list. | ||
| All the politicians, the New York Attorney General, the Manhattan Attorney General, forget the third one. | ||
| Oh, Atlanta. | ||
| Georgia, yes. | ||
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They all campaigned against Trump to begin with. | |
| That was in their campaign. | ||
| They were going to get Trump. | ||
| That's just like Soviet Russia with Berea back under Stalin, who said, Show me the man, I'll find you the crime. | ||
| If there's anybody that's going to end up being prosecuted as a result of the activities that have gone on over the last eight or nine years since the Russia hoax, it's going to come out through an investigation about what happened, whether there was collusion among all the attorneys with the law affair, which there's plenty of evidence that shows there was, or whether any of these other issues like that. | ||
| There'll be an investigation of the wrongdoing associated with something that happened. | ||
| And during the investigation, if certain people show up in the investigation through emails and communications, that's when they would be involved in an investigation. | ||
| And that's the way it's supposed to be done. | ||
| That's not an enemies list. | ||
| That's just accountability. | ||
| And there's plenty of it to be had. | ||
| The Democrats lied for four years about Biden. | ||
| They lied for four years about the border. | ||
| They lied for four years about the economy. | ||
| David, speaking of the economy, you were mentioning taxes earlier and corporate taxes and the upcoming debate over, I'm guessing, the extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. | ||
| I wonder also what you think about President Elect Trump's plans regarding tariffs. | ||
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He had tariffs. | |
| He engaged China. | ||
| He's the first president to, his administration engaged China and the trade war that's basically been and the poor trade laws and rules that America has functioned under in a in a that have been harming us more every year since World War II and the Marshall Plan. | ||
| His tariffs, to a large part, they're going to be used as leverage in negotiation. | ||
| Let me point this out. | ||
| Canada and Mexico, 75% of their exports come to America. | ||
| Most countries in the world have a much higher spend. | ||
| Their economies depend on America. | ||
| We have a consumer economy. | ||
| China, for example, does not have a consumer economy. | ||
| They could not possibly win a trade war against us. | ||
| Mexico, China, like I said, Canada and Mexico, no way they can win a trade war. | ||
| 75%, we get 17% of what we get from them through trade. | ||
| We have a huge consumer economy. | ||
| 70% of our economy is consumer-based. | ||
| That is the strength. | ||
| That's the strength of our economy. | ||
| And Trump knows how to use it in negotiations. | ||
| That's how he talks about the USA. | ||
| Mr. President-elect Donald Trump. | ||
| For the folks like Alexander, our previous caller coming in, as Alexander mentioned, the Arctic blast that is coming to Washington and other parts of the United States has moved that ceremony indoors. | ||
| Here's a story in CNN. | ||
| An Arctic blast will give Trump the coldest inauguration in 40 years, the coldest air of winter so far, will blast into Washington, D.C. on Monday as President-elect Donald Trump stands up in front of the Capitol to take his oath of office. | ||
| This is obviously before they announced that this was going to be moved indoors. | ||
| But the temperature on Inauguration Day at noon when the president-elect swears in is expected to be in the low 20s, which is about 20 degrees before normal. | ||
| There are quite a few events leading up to the President-elect's inauguration that we will be covering here on C-SPAN, including today, live at 12:45 p.m. Eastern, a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. | ||
| That's going to be on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| And then later this afternoon, President-elect Donald Trump will appear at a pre-inauguration Make America Great Again rally to celebrate his victory in the 2024 election. | ||
| That will be at the Capitol One Arena here in Washington, D.C. We'll be covering that live as well here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Back to your calls. | ||
| Ernestine is in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Ernestine. | ||
| Hi, I'm calling in to say that it is a very sad day that America is going to put in a treasonous, corrupt traitor, a treasonous traitor. | ||
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He is a criminal. | |
| He is a racist. | ||
| That thing that he says, make America great again, it is a Ku Klerk's Klan banner thing. | ||
| America has never been great. | ||
| It was built off the backs of slaves. | ||
| The land was stolen from Indians. | ||
| And America is going down the tubes. | ||
| Donald Trump has dementia, and everybody covers it up. | ||
| All of the crazy stuff that he says, he doesn't pay his taxes, but yet he wants to bully every other country. | ||
| There are states and police officers that he's not paid for the services. | ||
| He has lawsuits. | ||
| He's a con audit. | ||
| He's the man behind the curtain. | ||
| And the Republicans could have brought an end to this. | ||
| He was impeached twice, and all they had to do was just send him on his way. | ||
| Every time a woman is running for office, you go and put the dumbest man in the position. | ||
| Donald Trump is not worthy of this thing. | ||
| If he was legit, why did the Republicans have to steal, draw new maps? | ||
| Look at North Carolina. | ||
| North Carolina, they're changing masks. | ||
| They're refusing to give the Democrat their seats. | ||
| Republicans are corrupt, and they have pedophiles. | ||
| They had Matt Gates. | ||
| Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| The corruption, they said they're going to get rid of the swamp. | ||
| But Donald Trump, Trump is the swamp monster, and he's bringing in men that are unworthy, men and women. | ||
| Miss Bondi in Florida, she was paid $25,000 not to dismiss the case of the university, all the parents that wanted to sue Donald Trump for the university that went down. | ||
| Donald Trump is not worthy of office. | ||
| And people are brain dead, and they chose Trump over eggs and groceries. | ||
| Those bills would have changed. | ||
| It was because of COVID that we went through. | ||
| It was because of the supply chain. | ||
| Every time America suffers, it's because a Republican is in office and it takes the Democrats to come back and fix it. | ||
| Stay strong, America. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| And either God is going to move Trump or either we're going to have to suffer for 40 years. | ||
| Next up is Vincent in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Vincent. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| To the last call on this. | ||
| The very party you're talking about, you belong to, you support, enslaved my ancestors and your ancestors. | ||
| And it started in 1858. | ||
| So America being built on the backs of slaves, the very party you're a member of, and no black person, in my view, could have anything to do with the Democrats. | ||
| You could vote independent. | ||
| That wasn't what I was talking about. | ||
| Mike, thank you, Mike. | ||
| God bless you, Mike. | ||
| And yesterday, there was a lady on. | ||
| Do you have thoughts on Trump's inauguration or the Gaza ceasefire, Vincent? | ||
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Ms. Kimberly, I'm going to politely ask you, don't do that to me. | |
| You have a deceptive, not just you. | ||
| When you want to get off of a topic about Democrats or anything else, you slide in a different type of question. | ||
| Don't do that. | ||
| Well, actually, I'm trying to get you to talk about the topics that we have for this hour, which are the Gaza ceasefire and President-elect Trump's inauguration. | ||
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I'm about to say does include about all of that, okay? | |
| The lady yesterday stated it. | ||
| As a matter of fact, you're doing what she said that you folks do. | ||
| She's very nice about it. | ||
| Anyway, I'm going to get off now because I was insulted. | ||
| You tried to fool me, slick me, like you do to all of us when you don't want to talk about a certain topic that is related to the topic. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Kim is in Ohio on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Kim. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I would just like to say to the lady in North Carolina who said everything that she had said is Biden. | ||
| I don't know where she comes up with the name Trump. | ||
| And everybody that thinks Trump is going to ruin this country, I don't believe that they were here in the last Trump. | ||
| And that's all I have to say. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Bert is in Camp Hill, Alabama on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Bert. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How you doing, Kimberly? | ||
| Good, thank you. | ||
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Well, this is what I want to say. | |
| I've just been listening at everybody going back and forth toward each other. | ||
| Can you hear me? | ||
| Yes, I can hear you, Bert. | ||
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I'm not going to be like the guy that told you you was rude. | |
| I don't think you rude. | ||
| But let me say this right here. | ||
| Now, according to the C-SI thing, Biden, he's, I mean, he's being trustworthy. | ||
| He got it started and he's leaving it over to Trump. | ||
| And that's what Trump's was supposed to do. | ||
| But let me say this about Trump. | ||
| I don't hate Trump. | ||
| The thing I dislike about him, he don't want nobody to never tell him nothing. | ||
| Somebody got to tell the man something. | ||
| He don't know everything. | ||
| And as far as make America great again, I want all the views to know one thing. | ||
| God is the one that made America great again. | ||
| God is the one that made America great again. | ||
| And I wish Trump would go in there and say, you know what? | ||
| This thing that he talk about, retribution, he always used that. | ||
| Look, you got to get over that, Trump. | ||
| You don't want the election, man. | ||
| Come look and tone it down and get the country going. | ||
| For us, Biden, I don't got no problem with Biden. | ||
| I think Biden did a good job. | ||
| He really did a good job. | ||
| Now, he's not going to get credit for a lot of the things he said he did because you know Trump going to step up in there and say, look, he already done said, being that he got elected, the economy is doing good right now. | ||
| You don't have but one president at a time. | ||
| Kimberly, thank you for letting me be to share my message. | ||
| You have a wonderful day. | ||
| Bert was mentioning the Gaza ceasefire. | ||
| Here's some of the latest news coming out of the Times of Israel. | ||
| The UN says aid trucks are entering the Gaza Strip as part of a surge under the hostage ceasefire deal. | ||
| Trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect. | ||
| The United Nations says first trucks of supplies started entering minutes after the ceasefire took effect on this morning. | ||
| UNAID official Jonathan Whithall, interim chief of the UN's OCHA aid agency for the Palestinian Territories, says on X, a massive effort has been underway over the past days from humanitarian partners to load and prepare to distribute a surge of aid across all of Gaza. | ||
| He says a surge of aid to the strip is part of the deal that will also see hostages freed and Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails. | ||
| Russell is in Harrison, Michigan on our line for independence. | ||
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Good morning, Russell. | |
| Good morning, Kimberly. | ||
| I just wanted to thank you. | ||
| I don't know how you do it. | ||
| Some of these people are very emotional, as you can tell. | ||
| But I just wanted to thank you for your patience and allowing people to call in on this platform. | ||
| But to touch on the inauguration, I think it's a beautiful day any day in the United States where you get to still see the process of our Republican style government or representative democracy, however you want to define it, going to action. | ||
| A lot of people have been frustrated and think that the government's ineffective, but if you read the Federalist papers, this was all by design. | ||
| Us as humans are emotional characters, and by having this low form of government we have, it takes the emotion out of things and makes things go through a process. | ||
| That's all by design. | ||
| For the guys of ceasefire, I think it's a good thing. | ||
| I think people in the U.S. are just frustrated. | ||
| Our money's going to other countries and they want to see stuff fixed back home before we start taking care of everybody else. | ||
| But that's all I have this morning. | ||
| Hope you have a blessed day. | ||
| Well, thank you very much for your call, Russell. | ||
| There's a Wall Street Journal editorial talking about Trump's win and the second chance that he has in his second term in office, saying that he owes his remarkable comeback victory over Kamala Harris to his personal resilience and Biden's failures. | ||
| Among other things in this article, the Wall Street Journal editorial board says: if Mr. Trump makes a priority of seeking revenge against his opponents, he will squander political capital and quickly lose whatever goodwill his victory earns him. | ||
| Ditto, if he focuses on responding to every critic who insults him, we realize that asking Mr. Trump to act with self-restraint and political grace is the triumph of hope over hard experience. | ||
| John is in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| I used to be a Democrat, and with everything going on, I definitely became a Republican because this Democrat Party is not for the minority. | ||
| One thing that I ask, you always ask people to be on topic, but it seems like when it's black rage, you let them just continue and continue and continue, even though it's totally off topic. | ||
| And I see that a lot with you. | ||
| I don't know why you do that, especially when it comes to that anger. | ||
| So I ask that you stay on topic. | ||
| Like sometimes you try to be, but when it comes to black, that's it. | ||
| You just go right off topic and you let them go on and on and on. | ||
| That's not what this country is about. | ||
| And you shouldn't let this be sidetracked like that. | ||
| Maybe that's your view also. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Robert is in Mason, Arizona on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Robert. | ||
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Yeah, hello. | |
| I am going to talk about the inauguration. | ||
| I'm definitely going to be watching it and taking notes because a friend of mine from St. Louis who sold his business and spends about half the time in Florida had three points that I had to write down because I thought they were a little bizarre. | ||
| He believes that since the majority of illegal immigrants, as he calls them, are Catholic, that Trump will stop the invasion of Catholic Church members invading the United States. | ||
| I thought that was a little bizarre. | ||
| He also wants to have the tax of church property removed after he talks. | ||
| He believes that Trump will talk with the Pope and make him a deal that if he doesn't support Trump's immigration, that he will stop the tax exemption for Catholic properties. | ||
| And the third things he believes is that ICE will start invading Catholic churches on Sunday because the majority of immigrants are Catholics, and he definitely believes this is a Catholic invasion. | ||
| So that's the main reason I'm watching the inauguration and the speech. | ||
| I want to see if any of those particular three points, among many others, are on the list. | ||
| This guy is a real conservative. | ||
| I get along with him, but I definitely don't agree with him. | ||
| But I thought, man, that's a new twist. | ||
| I hadn't thought of that one. | ||
| But it has to do with immigration, and the majority of immigrants are Catholic. | ||
| I looked that up, and that is true. | ||
| So I'll be watching. | ||
| Thank you very much, Kimberly. | ||
| The Washington Post and several other news outlets have been covering Trump's plans or announced plans to potentially do what he has called what would be the largest immigration raid in U.S. history. | ||
| Some of the latest reporting, Trump officials haven't decided on post-inauguration Chicago raids in particular. | ||
| Border czar Tom Holman said the incoming administration is reconsidering plans for an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago next week after preliminary details of that plan leaked. | ||
| President-elect Trump, Donald Trump's hand-picked border czar, Tom Holman, said in an interview Saturday that the incoming administration is reconsidering whether to launch immigration raids in Chicago next week after preliminary details leaked out in news reports. | ||
| Holman, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Washington Post that the new administration hasn't made a decision yet. | ||
| We're looking at this leak and we'll make a decision based on this leak, Holman said. | ||
| It's unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at greater risk. | ||
| ICE has been planning a large operation in the Chicago area for next week that would start after Inauguration Day and would bring additional officers to ramp up arrests, according to two current federal officials and a former official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal law enforcement planning. | ||
| Roy is in Queens, New York on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning, Roy. | ||
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Good day. | |
| How are you, Kimberly? | ||
| Good, thank you. | ||
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Good. | |
| I'm a person who notes Trump from Jamaica, Queens, and watched him move from a juvenile delinquent to an adult who is incorrigible. |