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 alive.
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.
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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.
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 of Gaza.
So how do you see this future?
And also, how much credit do you give to the Trump team for this deal?
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.
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.
Next up is Patrick in Brookings, Oregon on our line for independence.
Good morning, Patrick.
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Yeah, 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 lips moving, but I don't hear anything.
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.
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.
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's arrangement.
And while I won't deny that, a very small crust of those people that they were maybe 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 Democrats, 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.
Honestly, you could fact-check me on that.
And you just notice 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, their partners.
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'd 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% plus negative press coverage and all the other stuff that went along with that, it's amazing that he had a personal popularity above 40%.
But that'll change now that the social media is not going to be able to line up against him with government censorship, et cetera.
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 about 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 and 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.
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.
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 in the trade war that's basically been and the poor trade laws and rules that America has functioned under 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 negotiations.
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.
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.
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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.
He is a criminal.
He is a racist.
That theme 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 don'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.
unidentified
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 independently, but that wasn't what I was talking about.
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.
I'm not going to be like the guy that told you you was rude.
I don't think you're rude.
But let me say this right here.
Now, according to the C-SITAN, 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 do the 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.
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 Whitall, 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.
unidentified
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 the 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 that 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.
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.
unidentified
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 acts, 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.
Robert is in Mason, Arizona on our line for Democrats.
Good morning, Robert.
unidentified
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.