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		Coming up on Washington Journal, we'll take your comments live and get your reaction to President Donald Trump's address to Congress.
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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Members of the United States, Congress, thank you very much.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is the Washington Journal for March the 5th.
		President Trump used his first joint address to Congress of his second term last night to not only highlight many of the actions since his inauguration, but also express his future goals on the economy, government spending, foreign policy, and other matters.
		He also took Democrats to task for a lack of support for his agenda.
		Our program today will focus on your reaction to President Trump's first address of his second term and the themes he discussed.
		And here's how you can join in the conversation.
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		A lengthy speech last night.
		Here's the 30,000-foot view of what the major themes from last night's speech.
		ABC News reporting on matters of the economy and focus on that, saying that Mr. Trump said the focus on how to defeat inflation will be on reducing the cost of energy and taxpayer savings through Doge.
		Mr. Trump meanwhile offered defense of his tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico.
		Reuters picking up the foreign policy aspects of last night's speech, saying Mr. Trump said he received that letter earlier in the day from the Ukrainian president, saying he was ready to sign a proposed critical minerals deal.
		Mr. Trump also said the mastermind of a 2021 bombing during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan had been detained.
		The Washington Times this morning, focusing on the speech discussion and topics when it comes to immigration, saying the president also took credit for, quote, swift and unrelenting action on immigration, noting that the border crossings are down significantly from last year.
		He promised to keep America's border secure.
		And the Washington Post, focusing on the Democratic reaction to last night's speech, saying that Representative Al Green got the night off when an inauspicious start by hollering at Mr. Trump and refusing to back down, with House Speaker Mike Johnson ultimately having him removed from the chamber.
		Democrats also held up signs that said things like Musk steals and false in response to Mr. Trump's claims.
		That's just some of the themes from last night.
		We'll talk about more and show you more as we go throughout the course of the morning.
		No guest, but we're going to focus on you and you can make comments on last night's address by the president.
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		You can text us at 202-748-8003 and post on our social media sites.
		Joining us also this morning through the course of the morning is John McCartle to give you some highlights from last night's speech.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Morning, Pedro, you went through some of the themes of the speech there.
		Let me give you the speech by the numbers.
		In first, it's the length of this speech, notable because it was the longest annual presidential address ever at this point at about a little few seconds under 100 minutes.
		Let me show you the C-SPAN chart so you can see a comparison to the length of previous presidential first addresses.
		You'll see that this address by Donald Trump, about 40 minutes longer than his first address to Congress in 2017, back after the 2016 election.
		This 100-minute address beats the previous record by Bill Clinton that he set in 2000.
		It was 88 minutes that Bill Clinton spoke that year.
		In terms of who was watching this address last night, it was a largely majority Republican audience.
		This is a CBS News YouGov poll.
		About 1,200 Americans that they polled over half of the audience, 51% were Republicans last night.
		Just one in five of those who watched last night identified as Democrats.
		About 27% identified as independents.
		In terms of what those who watched heard last night, here's a Hearst television data team image of the most used words by Donald Trump over the course of that 100 minutes.
		You'll see going being the most used words, as in we're going to do this in the coming weeks, months, and years.
		Us and dollars were the other top three words.
		Trump mentioned dollars and money more than he talked about the border tariffs.
		And tariffs were mentioned at least 14 times during the speech.
		The Hearst media team noting that at least 15 countries were mentioned in Trump's address to Congress.
		The most mentioned country during the speech was Ukraine, which Trump said seven times, followed by Panama and the Panama Canal, China, Russia, Mexico, and Canada.
		And then there's one name that Donald Trump kept coming back to last night, and it was Joe Biden.
		The Politico story noting that Joe Biden was mentioned 16 times last night, calling that striking and unusual.
		That's the quote from their story, especially in a president's first address after an election when a president usually chooses to look forward rather than backwards.
		You'll see that in 2024, Joe Biden mentioned Donald Trump 14 times.
		That was in the year in which he was running against him for reelection.
		That chart there from Politico.
		And then one more note in terms of words that were spoken last night.
		The word military was said six times last night, though, as Leo Shane of the Military Times notes, there was no mention of veterans or veterans issues in the speech.
		Trump only said veteran once in reference to Corey Comperator, the man who was killed at his campaign rally over the summer.
		That's some of the speech by the numbers this morning, Pedro.
		We'll get more into it throughout these three hours, the Washington Journal today.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And we'll hear from you during the course of this time as well.
		John in San Antonio starts us off Republican line.
		Go ahead on the president's speech last night.
unidentified		Yeah, I think the speech was excellent.
		It was one of the best I think I've ever heard.
		My question, though, is: has a member of Congress ever been thrown out like that before?
		I don't think I've ever seen that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Good question.
		We could try to find that out.
		Frank in Delaware, Democrats line.
unidentified		I'd say I listened to it, and he says you can have free speech as long as you don't speak bad about him.
		I mean, he threw that guy out, and I think I was on call for.
		Secondly, I didn't hear him say anything about how he's going to lower medicine to help people.
		Nothing about medical, you know.
		And he's talking about all the fraud and Social Security and so forth.
		I mean, he's a habitual liar.
		And I'd say, I watched it for a while.
		I had to turn it off because he made me sick.
		Okay, he talks about America is supposed to be the American language for our country.
		His wife can't even speak American.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Glenn in Pennsylvania, independent line on the president's speech last night.
		Good morning.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Am I on?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Yes, you're on.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Okay, yeah, I was there when I was about 30 yards from Trump when he was shot in Butler, I'm in Pennsylvania.
		And I think that speech was just wonderful.
		And I think that one thing behind these Democrats, why they're getting real weird and strange, is because their ideas don't work.
		We've tried their ideas for 50-some years.
		I'm 66, so I know about this.
dave walsh ▲ ● ▼		You know, just throw money at a problem and just take money from rich people or people that have money or pay taxes and just throw it at a problem.
unidentified		And it doesn't work.
		It's far more complicated.
		People have to have discipline.
		They have to be willing to get up in the morning and work.
		And they want to have this equity stuff and just everyone lives there.
		Well, that's communism.
		That's just communism.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So specifically, how does that relate to the president's speech last night?
unidentified		Well, just everything that he talks about.
		It's just, it's just, it makes sense.
		It's logical.
		It's rational.
		We had to get away from this silly nonsense that people would get up and just have a drone speech and same old stuff.
		And we're going to make some changes, but nothing ever changes.
		He's trying to make changes.
		He's trying to get things in a better situation in this country.
		We can't have this crazy debt.
		But I think it was just a wonderful speech, and it's very encouraging.
		I think people are uplifted.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Let's go to Doug.
		Doug's in South Dakota, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yeah, good morning, Pedro.
		If you could believe what he said, a lot of that stuff I'd probably agree with.
		But like even on that, on how much that Ukraine knows is, he lies about that all the time.
		And then how much Ukraine or UK or whatever is putting in.
		And then also all this deal about Social Security, all these dead people drawn.
		How many millions he's got counted up drawn on Social Security.
		And I figured his guest is probably going to be Putin, the way he's been kind of buttoned up with him all the time.
		And I bet you in that town of Washington, D.C., why all these Republicans are getting down and kissing Trump's feet?
rich in tennessee ▲ ● ▼		I bet you can't buy a pair of knee pads in that state.
unidentified		And Dusty Johnson, why don't you come on one of these days and slop your jaws?
bob in new york ▲ ● ▼		You'd like to do a lot of talking and tell us why the Capitol building on our state capitol building has got the name spelt wrong on the state.
unidentified		Capitola building.
unidentified		I just can't figure that out.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Doug there in South Dakota on matters of social security.
		It's the marketplace website that takes a look about claims about who's receiving Social Security and at what age.
		You can find it at marketplace.org.
		But that says data on the Social Security Administration's website shows that only about 89,000 people over the age of 99 are receiving payments on the basis of their earnings.
		And there are only an estimated 108,000 centurians living in the United States, according to the United Nations data, while the oldest known human being lived to age of 122.
		The idea that millions of centurions are still receiving benefits is, quote, preposterous, said Eric Kingston, professor emeritus of social work at Syracuse University, an expert on Social Security, saying that this is part of an orchestrated attack to undermine Social Security.
		The marketplace story saying that Social Security has received records on millions of people.
		That doesn't mean they are actually receiving payments.
		That's Charles Blahaus, former public trustee for Social Security and Medicare, who served as the deputy director of President George W. Bush's National Economic Council.
		There are many people who were born more than 150 years ago for whom Social Security lacks information about their death, just like we lack information about a lot of things involving people that lived a long time ago.
		Let's go to Dan.
		Dan in Kentucky, Republican line on the president's speech last night.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Thank you for taking my call.
		I think his excellent speech is really a kind of a speech, really trying to bring people together.
		It's just Democrats just don't want to get on board and keep pushing back.
		And they haven't learned a lesson.
		You know, Seamicho learned a lesson this last election, but they're so stiff-necked and stubborn, they're going to buck him all the way.
tony in florida ▲ ● ▼		But in 43 days, he's got quite a bit accomplished.
unidentified		You know, I try and call a couple weeks ago when y'all was asking for a grade.
		I would have gave him an A.
		The only reason I didn't give him an A plus is because it's just been 43 days.
		I'm sure he'll get an A plus at the end of his administration.
		But he's gotten so much done.
unity in texas ▲ ● ▼		And I'm glad he's mentioned Lake and Riley and that girl from Houston renaming that wildlife thing.
unidentified		You know, I can't, the Democrats sitting over there wouldn't stand up, wouldn't clap.
		How disrespectful can they be?
		I wonder if they would cry river, you know, if one of their children got killed or hurt or something, would they still sit there and not clap?
		Thank you for taking my call.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		From Austin, Texas, Independent Line, this is Cindy.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hello, first female caller of the day.
		And we're how long into the show?
		Anyways, what I want to say is Trump's a blowheart.
		Anybody who can't see that, especially after his long-winded, winding speech, is stupid.
		I have nothing, no interest in hearing what the orange Willy Wonka Oompa Loompa has to say.
		Let me say this, though, about why I'm an independent.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, let's stick to the speech.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What exactly about the speech did you not like?
unidentified		He can't keep a coherent thought.
		He can't keep a coherent thought.
		And let me just say this, Pedro.
		The Democrats putting up Alyssa Slotkin as the rebuttal, she's a Democrat, really?
		She went to two Ivy League schools and said she lived all around the world in different countries.
		That's really relatable to me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		But why does it disqualify her as a Democrat responding to the president?
unidentified		It disqualifies her as being somebody to speak for the downtrodden.
		She doesn't, she's gone to two Ivy League schools.
		She had money.
		Somebody pulled strings for her.
		How did she get into two Ivy League schools and then into the national security system?
		Somebody pulled strings for her.
		Nobody pulled strings for most of us.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from California Republican line Alice.
unidentified		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Alice.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Yes.
		I like my president, and I love my president.
		And he is the best president because I'm a Republican.
		So, you know, and, you know, and what exactly of the speech did you like?
		Oh, I like everything about the speech, you know, that he did.
		You know, he was very good.
		Very, very, very good.
		You know, I don't know why.
		You know what?
		I think some of these Democrats are so jealous of my President Trump.
		They are.
		They are.
		I mean, they really are, Pedro.
		They are.
		They really, really are.
		They're just jealous.
		You know, they're just jealous of him.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Alice there in California.
		We'll continue on with your calls.
		Again, the phone line is available to you.
		If you want to post on social media, you can do that.
		If you want to text us, you can do that too.
		A caller asked earlier about if the events of last night involving Representative Al Green getting escorted out of the chamber after disrupting the president during his speech ever happened.
		To give you a sense of this happening just minutes within the speech, here's that exchange from yesterday.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country.
tom homan ▲ ● ▼		Counties in our country,
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		1,700 to 525 on a map that reads almost completely red for Republican.
		Now, for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.
		In fact, it's an astonishing record.
		27-point swing, the most ever.
		Likewise, small business optimism saw its single largest one-month gain ever recorded.
		A 41-point jump.
unidentified		Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions.
		That's your warning.
		Members are engaging and willful in continuing breach of the quorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant-at-arms to restore order to the joint session.
		Mr. Greene, take your seat.
		Take your seat, sir.
		Take your seat.
		Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum.
		The chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
		Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
		To uphold and maintain decorum in the House.
		Mr. President, you continue.
tom homan ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That took place last night.
		You can still see it on our app, our website, and during the day on C-SPAN.
		There's more to that, though.
		And with that, here's John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, the new Republic took a look at the history of this sort of thing happening, calling it unprecedented in the history of presidential addresses to Congress.
		As dissenting members of Congress, they write, aren't usually removed from the chamber, even if they've shouted at the president, though they note Green, who has already introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, probably won't mind being the first.
		Here's what happened afterwards.
		It was House Majority Leader Steve Scalise who told CNN that Al Green will obviously be considered for censure by the House of Representative Manu Raju, saying this quote from Steve Scalise.
		He knows what he did was a clear violation of the House rules and it shouldn't have happened and it is going to be dealt with.
		For his part, Al Green spoke to reporters right after being removed from the chamber.
		He said in part, quote, I'll accept the punishment, but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
		Al Green last night, we're likely to hear more from Al Green.
		In terms of other firsts in that speech last night, Pedro, this is from the Washington Post, a list of words that you never heard before in a presidential address.
		They go through quite a list of them from last night, including circumcision, Pocahontas, open AI, deep fake, volleyball, and doge just a few of the word firsts from a presidential address before Congress.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Back to your phone calls from Ohio Democrats line.
		This is Cynthia on the president's joint address to Congress.
		Hi, Cynthia.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Hi.
		Trump is a dictator.
		He proved it again last night.
		He's alienating us from, you know, Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
		That's the biggest trading force in the world.
		The most powerful trading force with a hugely successful history of working together.
		He's alienating us on both borders.
		Okay?
		And he reiterated in his speech.
		And the thing that's very dangerous about him, he's like Hitler.
		He can stand there and he can get to people.
		He uses the same formula.
		He lies.
		Truth and lies means nothing to him.
		If you listen to the follow-up on MSNBC and some of the other outlets and listen to all the lies he told, and he doesn't care if people call him out on it, like the amount of funding that Ukraine has gotten from Europe compared to the United States, like the lie that they didn't have to pay it back to Europe,
		but they have, you know, that it was unfair.
		That's a lie.
		And it's been said that it's a lie, but people don't hear it because they're high.
		It's like a high that people get from his charismatic use of language and his way of just continuing these lies.
		And he just keeps telling them over and over and over again.
		And why was it okay for the Republicans in the audience to be out of order when they were shouting, but not the Democrats?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Rob is in Michigan, Independent Line.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I'm an independent, and much of what Donald Trump is doing, he's doing badly, however, well intended.
		But I have a question for you.
		I'd like to hear your perspective.
		The Democrats have suffered a disconnect, which is obvious in the last election, and resorted to calling people names when they can't win on the merit of their argument.
		But last night, President Trump introduced a Jay gentleman who, if I followed it right, was a 27-year worker of the steel industry.
		He served as the captain of a volunteer fire department.
		He had raised seven children, and over the years, he and his wife have been foster parents to 40.
		He was recognized.
		He got applause.
		But if you looked at the Democrat side, everyone sat on their hands and refused to give him any acknowledgement or credit.
		And I'm wondering, how do the Democrats think that that's going to enhance their image?
		And maybe I missed something.
		Could you offer perspective on that, please?
		How would you answer your own question?
		Pardon?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How would you answer your own question?
unidentified		I would think that they're digging the hole even deeper.
		And they're lending some credence to his President Trump's suggestion: is that, well, it didn't matter what he would do if he found a cure for cancer, they would still reject any effort on his part.
		It's their way or the highway.
		And again, they'll call him Hitler.
		They'll call him a liar because they cannot present a valid argument for their own perspective.
		And they've lost touch with America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Don.
		Don joins us from Michigan, Democrats line.
		Hi, Don.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Good morning, Pedro, and good morning to the American people.
		That last call blows my mind how everybody wants to attack Democrats when the Republicans were talking about Biden and every argument.
		I mean, Trump can do all kinds of things and it's okay.
		But when a Democrat yells or screams about something or makes a high point about something, it's the Democrats are doing.
		I don't know what's going on, but one that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So that said, what was your reaction to last night's speech?
unidentified		Same Trump lie, tell the people what they want to hear, make them stories, and his base just eats it up.
		It's amazing.
		But when the stock market that's in the tank right now, in these tariffs that keep the prices going up, not down, let's see how they're going to be feeling six months when their social maturity is cut or their Medicaid or when their family members who need it are getting kicked off of it.
		Then I want to hear these Republican callers.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go to Ralph.
		Ralph joins us from Virginia Republican line.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		How are you?
		Cease Pan.
		Good morning to you, and I really enjoy your program.
		I watch it every morning.
		Anyway, I think President Trump did a wonderful job on his speech.
		He has a lot of compassion for people.
		And it's no matter what he does or what he says, you're never going to convert some of those Democratic Party people to listen to what's going on, even to the total of the American people.
		Have let them know from this vote that President Trump won the election with a landslide, and they call him Hitler and all this stuff.
		It's unbelievable.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So what exactly, if I may ask, what exactly from last night's speech was the most impressive to you?
unidentified		The most impressing was that he is compassionate about the American people.
		He loves this country and he wants to do right.
		And those Democrats ignored him and sit and did not rise with the rest of the Senate and members that have joined this party there tonight.
		And they, I just don't understand them.
		And God bless them.
		I know some of them came over to the Republican side.
		And I know they're good Democrats, but I cannot understand why they are ignoring him and fighting him all the way through this process.
		It's the most terrible thing I've ever seen in my life.
		And yet they can get up and say how bad he is, call him Hitler and all this stuff.
		Okay, okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You made those points.
		So again, we'll continue on with your calls if you're just joining us.
		You can still see the whole joint address to Congress, by the way, on a variety of platforms.
		We aired during the day on our various networks.
		You can go to our app at C-SPANNOW to watch it there and the website available to you at c-span.org if you want to see those themes from last night's speech.
		Let's go to Anwar in Washington, Independent Line.
unidentified		Good morning.
steve in ohio ▲ ● ▼		There is a cancer in this country, and it is spreading across the entire world.
unidentified		And it is this white supremacist, and it is this man, Trump.
steve in ohio ▲ ● ▼		Now, as for his speech, it was beginning to sound a lot like a type of a Klan meeting.
unidentified		This wokeness he talked about, no more wokeness in the military.
		He showed.
		I showed all these generals sitting there.
		I was wondering what that was for.
		A major lie, he said, was that Americans, 38,000 of them died building the Panama Canal.
		He was going to take the Panama Canal back.
		I wonder where he gets his numbers from or where he even thinks that's possible.
		38,000.
		The only people that died building that were black Jamaicans or black people from Barbados.
		There were literally no Americans.
		I want all the white people, and if you're listening to my voice, there were no Americans that built the Panama Canal.
steve in ohio ▲ ● ▼		No Americans died building the Panama Canal.
unidentified		And what about our students who are no longer able to protest?
		He wants to tell us, the college students, that they in college where they paid their money, that they don't have a right to protest.
		Isn't that against the First Amendment?
		Also, go ahead.
		No, I was just going to say, isn't that part of the First Amendment that our college students that have paid to go to school have a right to protest?
		Isn't that in the First Amendment, a right to free speech?
		So now if it doesn't suit this person, this emperor-in-chief, this person who now says it's Gulf of America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Okay.
		Got your point, Anwar, and they're in D.C., one of the themes from last night, the tariffs that the president has proposed and placed on Canada and Mexico and what he feels he gets from the placing of those tariffs.
		Here is the portion from last night.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		April 2nd, reciprocal tariffs kick in.
		And whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them.
		That's reciprocal back and forth.
		Whatever they tax us, we will tax them.
		If they do non-monetary tariffs to keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market.
		There's a lot of that, too.
		They don't even allow us in their market.
		We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.
		I did it with China and I did it with others.
		And the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money they couldn't do anything about it.
		We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer.
		It has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada, but we have very large deficits with both of them.
		But even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people, destroying families.
		Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
		They are, in effect, receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars.
		We pay subsidies to Canada and to Mexico of hundreds of billions of dollars.
		And the United States will not be doing that any longer.
		We're not going to do it any longer.
		Thanks to our America First policies we're putting into place, we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in America in just the past few weeks.
		The combination of the election and our economic policies that people of SoftBank, one of the most brilliant anywhere in the world, announced a $200 billion investment.
		OpenAI and Oracle, Larry Ellison, announced $500 billion investment, which they wouldn't have done if Kamala had won.
		Apple announced $500 billion investment.
		Tim Cook called me.
		He said, I cannot spend it fast enough.
		It's going to be much higher than that, I believe.
		They'll be building their plants here instead of in China.
		And just yesterday, Taiwan, semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount, 97% of the market, announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on earth right here in the USA.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Patients have fact checks from last night's speech.
		When they look at the Washington Post, they talk about that aspect when it comes to subsidies to Canada and the president's claim we pay subsidies to Canada, to Mexico for hundreds of billions of dollars.
		The post saying this is misleading.
		The trade in goods deficit with Canada has consistently hovered between $50 billion and $70 billion a year, according to the Census Bureau.
		While the Mexico goods deficit was $172 billion in 2024, the deficits often are reduced by trade and services, where the United States has an advantage, but trade deficits are not, quote, subsidies.
		So Mr. Trump's obsession with trade deficits is misplaced.
		That's just some of the fact-checking that you can take a look at from last night's speech.
		We're giving you more information also during the course of the morning about last night's speech.
		With that, it's John McCartney.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, it's always interesting after these speeches, whether it's this first speech after an election or a State of the Union address to note where the president goes in the days after he gives his address.
		There's nothing on the official White House schedule today except for a 1 p.m. press briefing with Carolyn Levitt.
		So we'll keep watching that.
		Though President Trump is up and on his Truth Social social media page, this was his post from just a few minutes ago citing the CBS YouGov poll on views of his speech last night, saying that 76% of those watchers approved of his speech last night and just 23% disapproved of that speech last night.
		Though you'll note, as we talked about earlier, when it comes to who watched that speech last night, 51% of those who watched were Republicans, just 20% were Democrats.
		So maybe no surprise on some of those earlier numbers on approve and disapprove.
		Also, in terms of where folks are going in the Trump administration today, the Vice President JD Vance is headed to Eagle Pass, Texas to visit the border today.
		The border, of course, a very big issue last night.
		And then we saw Elon Musk at that address last night there in the House of Representatives.
		Today, he's going to be back in the House of Representatives, meeting with House Republicans to talk about Doge, according to the Hill newspaper.
		That's set to take place at 7 p.m. Eastern today.
		Here's the quote from Speaker Mike Johnson, according to The Hill, about the gathering that's set to take place.
		He's just going to give an update, answer questions.
		The closer we coordinate together, the more that we'll be in a position to codify the savings that he's finding.
		So that's what this meeting is about.
		The Hill newspaper, with their reporting today, there'll probably be more when Elon Musk is back on Capitol Hill.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And as John told you, that press briefing expected to take place later on today.
		By the way, C-SPAN has an opportunity to ask a question at the press briefing.
		So we will turn the microphone over to you, so to speak.
		And if you have a question that we should ask, the press secretary, Caroline Levitt, you can send it to us.
		Here's how you can do so if you want to include it.
		WHQUSTIONS at chyphenspan.org is where you can send those questions that we'll look at and see what we can ask of the press secretary.
		When you do that, by the way, if you could, please include your name and your city and state.
		Jerry in North Carolina Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Good morning.
		I listened to the speech last night, and I didn't think a whole lot of it called the same old Donald Trump.
		And he wants people to want him to be loyal to him and not loyalty to the Constitution and loyal to America.
		Seems like to me, he ain't show no compassion for the American citizen, you know, especially the downtrodden.
		And ever since he always talked about the debt, the debt has been going up ever since he's been in there more and more.
		I've been watching his stock market.
		And he always talks about money, money, money, how the money comes in.
		But like he always wants to blame on the Democrat.
		But most of the time, when the Democrat come in there, they knew the budget started coming out.
		You're like when Joe Biden was in there before he left, they were getting more stable.
		Now there's just more corruption, unstability in America since he's been in there.
		And then for the guy getting throw it out, I remember when Johnson was in there at Obama, he said, You lied.
		Took to call Obama a lie, and then he didn't get throwed out.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Robert there in Maine, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Good morning.
		I thought this speech was excellent.
		It was historic.
		And I'd like to focus on the Doge aspect of it.
		I was surprised about the stat you said about the only 21% of the audience, the reviewing audience, was Democrat.
		So I would like you to cue up the portion where he goes through all of the USAID and other fraud that's been afflicted on us over the last no matter how many years.
		So the Democrats can hear the type of things that our money was going to.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Mel is in North New York.
		This is on our Independent Line.
		Mel from Jamestown.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
		I almost turned the speech off when I saw the beginning and the decorum of the situation.
		However, I stayed with it, and I so appreciated what President Trump had to say.
		I'm so grateful that he's ending this EV mandate, withdraw from the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accord, the restoration of security at the border.
		I mean, it was just a tremendous list of things that have already been done, like ending DEI from the federal government, ending this cultural Marxism of CRT in the nation, and proclaiming that there are only two genders.
		I so appreciated him restoring common sense and simply restoring sanity.
		Pedro, how can Trump be this puppet of Putin when he brought back Mark Fogel from prison in Russia?
		Where was Joe Biden those three years?
		And so appreciate what President Trump has been doing in getting investment back into our country, not through taxing us who work, but through companies that want to do business in America.
		It was tremendous.
		And like that previous caller said about Doge, this was a great list.
		The one that took it for me was that $8 million for transgender surgeries for mice.
		And I'm wondering, Pedro, was the President correct in saying that Europe is spending more money buying oil from Russia than defending Ukraine?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, to Bell's point, several comments from the President last night concerning the so-called Doge and its efforts.
		Again, you can always see that full speech from start to finish with no interruption on our various platforms.
		But when it comes to specifically the actions of Doge, here's the President from last night.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		This is just the beginning.
		The Government Accountability Office, a federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation, and we are working very hard to stop it.
		We're going to.
		We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and people that we love rely on.
		Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old.
		It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119.
		I don't know any of them.
		I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly.
		3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129.
		3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139.
		3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149.
		And money is being paid to many of them.
		And we're searching right now.
		In fact, Pam, good luck.
		Good luck.
		You're going to find it.
		But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does.
		And it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country.
		1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are age over 160 years old.
		We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
		Including, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229.
		One person between the age of 240 and 249.
		and one person is listed at 360 years of age.
		More than 100 years, more than 100 years older than our country.
		But we're going to find out where that money's going.
		And it's not going to be pretty.
		By slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, just a portion from last night's speech.
		Let's hear from Rachel.
		Rachel in Florida, Republican line, reacting to last night's joint address to Congress.
		Rachel, hello.
unidentified		Yes, hello.
unidentified		Yes, it's unbelievable how disrespectful the Democrats are to Trump.
susan in east coast ▲ ● ▼		I mean, he's only been in for two months, and, you know, right away, they have to put up a big act, similar to what Pelosi did by tearing up his speech before.
unidentified		And I can't believe, I just can't believe their behavior.
		And I mean, he's trying to, this is some of the things he's trying to do.
		Stop war.
		He's trying to stop war.
		He's trying to stop the killing of our most vulnerable citizens, children and women, from the illegals.
dr rebecca grant ▲ ● ▼		He's allowing women to participate in sports free from harm and injury and unfair competition.
unidentified		He's trying to improve the health of our population.
		Yes, he's an evil man, and he should be treated like he was yesterday.
		It's unbelievable.
		And anybody who votes for Democrats is complicit in this behavior.
		I just, I can't believe you can, it's just pure evil.
		I mean, the man is trying to do things for us.
		And look at what people are doing to him.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Rachel from Florida, calling in as you can on the various lines.
		We'll do that for the course of our time together this morning, which stops along the way for information from last night's speech.
		Back to John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, it's always interesting after these big addresses to check in on how it's playing on the front pages of newspapers around the country and in the political media as well.
		So let me start with some of the newspapers.
		This is here in Washington, D.C.
		This is the Washington Post, the headline, Trump touts record to rowdy crowd applause, jeers for acrimonious speech is the subheadline.
		This is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania.
		Pressing forward, president promises to keep up swift and unrelenting action will go to President Trump's hometown of New York.
		Trump touts success in rousing speech to Congress says best is yet to come.
		Reborn in the USA is the New York Post headline.
		The other paper there in New York, the Daily News, tariffs, job cuts, Musk just the beginning.
		Trump boasts Dems balk at Congress address is the headline that they went for.
		And then in the online political news, Pedro, this is the Huffington Post on the left.
		Gloat bloat is what they went with.
		Trump unleashes grievance-filled address and shrugs off his economy chaos.
		The president plays with fire.
		And then from the right, Breitbart is one you can check out.
		Here's their series of headlines from last night: The Renewal of the American Dream.
		Trump fight-fight fights for our country, torches Dems for waste and abuse, an epic Doge list of fraud.
		That's how it's playing out in media around the country, Pedro.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Back to our phone calls.
		Eve in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
		Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		And John, my two favorite moderators.
		You know what?
		Let me say this.
		I actually was watching Merit at First Date last night.
		It was no way that I was going to sit there and watch this buffoon give this bloated speech that he was doing.
		He was preaching to the choir.
		And my thing about this is the Republican talking about they were not going to be, they was listening.
		Yeah, they was listening because we've been listening for the last, what, is it eight years or whatever when he was in there before and then got stumped and then came back in again?
		No.
		This man, he's going to get his and ours A kicked with this tariff because the neighboring countries, the neighboring countries like Canada and the ones abroad, they're not going to take this laying down talking about he's going to put a tarot on them and they're not going to put one on them.
		He needs to, really, I just, I don't understand this reality that we are having here with this with this man.
		And what love affair that the Republican have with him.
		And they talking about people being in a decorum in the speech last night.
		What about Marjorie Taylor Greene and what he did?
		And yes, I'm going to say this again, and I've said it before.
		Donald Trump has something going on with Putin.
		Everybody knows that he wants to be a dictator just like his idol, Putin.
		So with that being said, yeah, people, Democrats was not watching this buffoonery going on because I heard this before.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Douglas Douglas in New Hampshire, Independent Line.
unidentified		Yeah, I think it's great we finally have a president that loves his country.
		I think overall, the country has optimism back again.
		What he said yesterday was a lot of positive stuff.
		And overall, it was a great speech, I think.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		What did he say that had most of an impression with you?
		What made it positive?
		And a great speech.
unidentified		Just that he talked about Doge a lot, clearing up all the fraud, equalizing the trade.
		A lot of people say they don't like the tariffs we're putting out, but those same people probably would say they don't like Canadian tariffs on us or Mexican tariffs on us.
		I say we equal it out.
		And a year from now, I think the economy is going to be a lot better off.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That is Douglas there in New Hampshire.
		We will hear next up from William.
		William in Ohio.
		Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Yes, Pedro and John.
		This is the old dumb knocking on 90-year-old Hillbilly.
		I grew up in the recession back in the 30s and the 40s.
		I know what it is.
		And I know that's what's coming with his MAGA that stands for Make America Go Away.
		And he's a Doge, Department of Government Elimination.
		He put us over $8 trillion in debt in his previous four years.
		So how can we stand another?
		He's wanting an unlimited debt limit.
		My 10 little great-grandkids won't stand a Chinaman's chance.
		and you know where to survive.
		Luckily, when I was growing up, we could grow our stuff, but no, we can't.
		We'd grow it and then put it in the ground and dig it up as we needed it.
		We'd wring a chicken's neck to have meat.
		In the fall, we'd butcher a hog, but we can't do that now.
		And that idiot, every time his lips move, I get diarrhea.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go to Russell.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Russell in Louisiana, Republican line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Good morning, people.
		It's hard for me to understand that some people can call themselves Americans, but, man, just don't want to do right by America and their own grandchildren.
		You know, my big sister and I go at it back and forth.
		She's a Democrat and I'm a Republican.
		And she told me the other day, she said, don't you realize our mother and father was lifelong Democrats?
		And my reply to her was, yeah, I don't sure know that.
		But they also knew right from wrong and they knew what bathroom to go in.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And how does that relate to last night?
unidentified		It relates because he's about America.
		How can this man be doing all these good things and the Democrats don't even see one turning point on it?
		I mean, absolutely nothing.
		I truly think that the Democrats are willing to destroy our country for the fear and hate of one man, and then that's Donald J. Trump.
		And it amazes me how childish they are.
		You know, they're not American.
		They're traitors.
		They're absolutely traitors.
		It's a shame across the board.
		All these years I've been alive.
		I'm 59 years old.
		What I've seen America come to.
		I'm not as proud as I used to be to be an American.
		My daddy fought with bayonets in the 7th Cavalry in Korea.
		And I learned to love our military and right from wrong and that we should be punishing criminals.
		We don't do that today in America.
		We just let them slide right over through the border and hurt our own families.
		It's amazing.
		And as far as the sports thing, I'm all about keeping men out of sports.
		I don't understand.
		Does any of these Democrats in Congress have daughters that play sports or grandchildren, daughters that play sports?
		How would they feel if the shoe was on the other foot?
		Because obviously they don't have a clue what's going on.
		They don't know right from wrong.
		I am blessed to have been raised by the parents I have because again, like I told my big sister, they knew right from wrong.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Russell there in Louisiana.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is Janae in Washington, D.C., Independent Line.
unidentified		Yes.
		Hi.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		Just want to comment a couple of things on the speech last night.
		Let's not forget January 6th.
dr rebecca grant ▲ ● ▼		Let's not forget that Donald Trump pardoned a lot of the people that committed crimes in the Capitol Hill.
unidentified		Let's not forget that these people are out running around and he talks about crime only for one side of the country, only for those that he did not vote for him, only those that are not supporting him.
dr rebecca grant ▲ ● ▼		Also, Doge, Doge is unelected by the people, by Congress.
unidentified		Elon Musk paid $225 million into the campaign of Donald Trump.
unidentified		I just wonder if George Soros was running next to Joe Biden, what that would look like and what people would be saying, because that's what they've been saying.
dr rebecca grant ▲ ● ▼		But we've got an official man who's not really, I think he's an immigrant.
unidentified		He's really not really technically an American citizen, and he's a polygamist.
		And he's got everything that's so wrong about being married and having children.
		And he's idolized by these Republicans.
		But moreover, a lot of the numbers that he spewed out last night are hyperbole.
		They're not vetted.
		They have not been verified.
		A lot of the fraud, there's no receipts for it.
dr rebecca grant ▲ ● ▼		You know that he talked to America about false, I mean, about the fraud election, Stop the Steal, and the brainwashing of fake news.
unidentified		And that really kind of has been the mantra of this party: that they can rebrand or brand anything, and it goes.
		And this is the ignorance of the country that voted for Trump.
		He has been a con man.
		He's a convicted felon of 34 felonies.
		And that's kind of like buying that he paid his way through that.
		So I just don't see what's so wonderful about what we're going to see in the next four years.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And as far as let's hear from Stephen.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Stephen in Virginia, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hey, how's it going?
		That last woman was funny.
		I'm just laughing.
		It's ridiculous.
		You know, last night, Trump was better than I thought it was going to be.
		I'm very ashamed of the Democrats.
		You know, I never paid attention to politics until he came down on the escalator.
		You know.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So, how does all this relate to last night, the speech last night specifically?
unidentified		Yeah, no, the speech last night.
		No, he did great.
		Democrats sat on their asses.
		They didn't do nothing.
		They didn't applaud.
		Lake and Riley.
		I am so disgusted where we're going.
		I mean, really, come on.
		Can we all just get together?
		You know, Trump's not that bad.
		When he was on the bus and they recorded him talking about what I do with a woman, you know what?
		That is locker room talk.
		Guys do it all the time.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Stephen, got the point.
		Again, your comments for this course of almost now two hours plus a few minutes are welcome.
		202-748-8000 for Democrats, 202748-8001 for Republicans and Independents 202748-80002.
		If you're just joining us, our program dedicated to the president's joint address to Congress last night.
		We'll show you portions of that during the course of our time together.
		We'll hear from you and we'll get information from last night's speech as well.
		Joining us with that responsibility is John McCartney.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I want to come back to some of those disruptions in the chamber last night.
		These disruptions are starting to become as common as these yearly presidential addresses.
		This is the headline from Axius Trump speech repeatedly robbed by Democratic disruptions, Al Green being the poster child for that last night.
		The Democrat from Texas, of course, being escorted out.
		Questions today about whether he'll be censured by the House of Representatives.
		But there's also this chart from USA Today, and it looks at lawmakers objecting, disrupting during a state of the union.
		You'll see it was pretty rare for the past couple decades, just once in the 70s back in 1975, once in the 90s, a couple times in the 2000s.
		And then as we've gotten into the 2010s and certainly the 2020s, these sort of disruptions are becoming more and more common.
		It happened last night even before President Trump began speaking as he made that usual walk down the aisle and was being greeted by members of Congress, C-SPAN viewers and those who watched the procession saw Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury holding that sign saying, this is not normal.
		There's the picture of her as the president was turning to his right where the Republicans were standing.
		The Democrat from New Mexico was there on his left.
		She's a member of the Doge subcommittee in the House and she was holding that sign.
		Axius then goes through what happens next as she was holding that sign.
		It was Congressman Lance Gooden, the Republican from Texas, who then reached across the aisle, grabbed her sign, yanked it out of her hand, and threw it up into the air.
		And Melanie Stansbury then takes to Twitter in the wake of that event last night and when it was getting a lot of attention, saying, that was me, we will not be silent, and then saying, join me in the fight with a link to her fundraising page for her congressional campaign.
		For his part, Congressman Gooden, the Republican who yanked that sign out of her hand, also was tweeting last night about the incident.
		He said, putting the American people first is normal and no one will disrespect President Trump in front of me.
		He went on to tweet, it's not normal for men to play in women's sports.
		It's not normal for children to have gender surgery.
		It's not normal for tax dollars to fund trans mice.
		What today's Democrat Party stands for is not normal, speaking directly to the Congresswoman Melanie Stansberry.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of those Democrats also responding to the President's speech last night was chosen by the Democratic Party to give the official response.
		A Democratic Representative Senator from Michigan, Alyssa Slotkin, giving the Democratic response address.
		Michigan Advanced, the online publication, highlights it this way.
		Their headline, U.S. Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan urges engagement, not doom scrolling.
		In Democrats' response to President Trump, you can see that full speech from the senator on our various platforms, but here's a portion of it from yesterday.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		But our democracy, our very system of government, has been the aspiration of the world.
unidentified		And right now, it's at risk.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		But it's also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other, when he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people they shouldn't be included.
unidentified		Because America is not just a patch of land between two oceans.
		We are more than that.
		Generations have fought and died to secure the fundamental rights that define us.
		Those rights and the fight for them make us who we are.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		We're a nation of strivers, risk takers, innovators, and we are never satisfied.
unidentified		That is America's superpower.
		And look, I've lived and worked in many countries.
		I've seen democracies flicker out.
		I've seen what life is like when a government is rigged.
		You can't open a business without paying off a corrupt official.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		You can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the night.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		So as much as we need to make our government more responsive to our lives today, don't for one moment fool yourself that democracy isn't precious and worth saving.
unidentified		But how do we actually do that?
		I know a lot of you have been asking that question.
		First, don't tune out.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		It's easy to be exhausted, but America needs you now more than ever.
unidentified		If previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today?
		Second, hold your elected officials, including me, accountable.
		Watch how they're voting.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		Go to town halls and demand they take action.
unidentified		That's as American as apple pie.
		Third, organize.
		Pick just one issue you're passionate about and engage.
		And doom scrolling doesn't count.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		Join a group that cares about your issue and act.
unidentified		And if you can't find one, start one.
elissa slotkin ▲ ● ▼		Some of the most important movements in our history have come from the bottle up.
		In closing, we all know that our country is going through something right now.
		We're not sure what the next day is going to hold, let alone the next decade.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Starting off our second hour of calls, Helen in North Carolina, Democrats lying.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Good morning.
unidentified		Yeah, good morning.
		I didn't hear President Trump speak about Medicaid, Medicare, food insecurity, affordable housing, and what's best for Social Security.
		In other words, what is really best for the American people.
		And I just say Elon Musk and President Trump, they're criminals destroying America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is Mary.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Mary is in Indianapolis and our independent line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Thank you for having me on this morning.
		I've sat here for the last two hours listening to everyone's opinions, which I value.
		But three things came out of that speech last night that I'd like to voice my opinion on.
		One, just the beginning of President Trump coming in and seeing both sides acting not very engaged for the U.S. citizens.
		That's one.
		Two, I, as a mother, I'm appalled that when he said that a human being was taken, a life was taken, not one Democrat stood up to that mother as she is grieving for her daughter.
		That's a disgrace.
		Two, when our prisoner has been brought home, not one Democrat stood up and applauded for that man being brought back to his homeland.
		Three, again, a poll, a little boy that has brain cancer, he's acknowledged, and not one Democrat stood up to acknowledge that young man.
		I don't know what the Democrats' policies are anymore.
		I don't know what they're fighting for anymore, but I can tell you between the speech and these kids who are supposed to represent us in the United States, they all need to go.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Mary there in Indianapolis.
		Let's hear from Tennessee.
		That's where Ray is, Republican line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Yes, I've got one major thing to give to the American people.
		Those people, those Democrats that sat on their hands and didn't engage our Marxists.
		They have been in this country since the early 1900s, and they have been in our higher education.
		They have tried to brainwash our young people.
		And that is an example of them sitting right there.
		Now, the reason I can say that is because I have seen it creeps in, and they want one world government.
		And the United States does not want.
		We are the United States of America.
		And they said they talk about the Social Security and the Medicare and Medicaid.
		I don't understand.
		If people are in that and taking money that's not theirs belongs to that system, how in the world can you be against that?
		And then when you can sit on your hands, when people's rights and lives are lost by letting people in this country just come right in and take over, something is wrong with you people.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Renee is next.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Pennsylvania Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes.
		Hi.
		It bothers me.
		All these people, American people, I'm a Democrat, but I don't hate Republicans.
		I disagree at times.
		And all these people losing their jobs.
		Republicans feel good about that.
		They think that's fine.
		No one took time to go through, really go through these departments and find out what's what or what can be eliminated.
		In the way it's being done, it's disgusting.
		Another thing.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So how does that relate to the speech last night specifically, since we're talking about that today?
unidentified		I'm just saying there were people there that lost their jobs that were there sitting there along with the Democrats.
		But I'm going to speak about what one thing he did speak about last night.
		Social Security.
		Yes, there may be some people that are over the age of whatever, 100.
		There's not many.
		There's a few.
		There's a couple of them that I know.
		And there's, for me to believe that you can have millions of people that are 150 or 120 to my great-grandparents, if they were, that's their age group.
		If they were alive, they would be.
		They were born in the early 1870s.
		And the family members that care for them are long gone.
		I was a small child when they passed.
		One was 99, one was 97.
		And the people who care for them or would have had the paperwork have long gone.
		Some of these people never received or applied for Social Security.
		I don't even know when Social Security began, which exact year.
		But it cannot be millions of people between 100 and let's say 20 and 200 or whatever that are on Social Security.
		Okay.
		Unless there's people from outside of our country, hackers that are hacking in and setting it up.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Rhonda in California, Independent Line.
tom homan ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		Good morning, John.
		This is Rhonda in California.
		Yes, I watched the speech, the whole speech, and it made me proud to be an independent for many years.
		I grew up in a Democratic household.
		Every member of my family is a Democrat.
		But yesterday, it made me proud when I watched the speech to be an independent.
		The Democrats, I am so ashamed of that side of the aisle.
		Like everyone else who voiced about the part they couldn't stand up for the people there who were getting recognition for their dead children.
		That gentleman who came back after being imprisoned in another country.
		Pedro John also, you know that leaders of the world watched this speech last night and they saw the dissension between the Democrats and the Republicans and that doesn't make us look good.
		And my last point that I want to make to both of you is this.
		I wanted to hear more about the domestic problems that we're having.
		$10, $11 for a carton of eggs when I went to Walmart yesterday.
		I want to hear how come I'm paying now $7 to fill up my car.
		I want to know about why here in California, we have thousands and thousands of homeless still living under the freeway.
		The one thing that Trump made me proud of when he did say was this, that he wanted, he mentioned us law enforcement people.
		I'm a retired probation officer.
		I'm 65 years old.
		I collect Social Security, but I was happy when I heard him talk about us because we need help.
		The crime here in California, Pedro and John, is horrible.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Rhonda there in Sacramento, California.
		The editors of the Modesto Bee out of California have this reaction from last night's speech.
		You can find it on lineModB.com saying that Mr. Trump and his team are at real risk of a pattern that befell President Biden, paying too much attention to the niche political issues that his most fervent, most online base cares about, and not the big picture concerns that the vast majority of voters who don't live full-time on social media.
		For the former president, that looked like an administration with its head in the sand on inflation led by an increasingly feeble, aging chief executive and devoted to unpopular language wars on race and gender.
		For Mr. Trump, it registers as potentially reckless action by Elon Musk and Doge, indulging conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein and overhauling the FBI, not concrete steps to reduce prices or help Americans find an affordable house to buy.
		Again, the Modesto Bee is where you can find that.
		If you go to the pages of the New York Post, their editorial on last night's speech in part reads with this, new presidents do such joint addresses in lieu of an official State of the Union speech.
		But this had none of the dry list ticking off trivia of those affairs, even though the president didn't shy from telling details to make a point.
		He listed promises made and promises kept with more promise keeping well in motion.
		He joked and inspired, assured his base, and baited the opposition.
		He spoke to the country and owned the room.
		And sorry, the page refreshed.
		It was one speech on one night, still early in his term, but Donald Trump did his cause and the nation as much good as he possibly could, assuring America that for all the sound fury and for many confusion of the early going, he's in total command and has Americans dreaming.
		Again, that's from the Post, their editorials.
		You can find both of those online if you want to read more for yourself.
		John in Ohio, Democrats line, you are next up.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		I'm a lifelong Democrat.
		I could not be more ashamed of my party than I was last night.
		That was, I'm just, it's something.
		It's just something that they would act that way.
		And the great Martin Luther King and John Fitzgerald Kennedy must be rolling in their graves at this time.
		I think my party has turned treasonous against this country.
		And they threw women clear under the bus three days ago, I believe it was.
		Voting against women in sports, that they have to compete with men, whether they're faking it or real, thinking they're women, I think is atrocious.
		And the disrespect of my party, I'm saddened.
		I think we're heading for an absolute revolution in this country to save this country.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Rhonda in Georgia, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Hello.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Yaron.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Hi, how are you?
		Good morning, Pedro, and blessings to you.
		And blessings to the nation and the whole world.
		I'm calling in because there are some things that I wanted to say.
		This is on a first-time caller, and there are things that I wanted to say addressing that I wanted to let everyone know that this is a platform for everyone, everyone, to call in and address your opinions, how you feel, because it's needed.
		And I have appreciated the bad and the good from whatever you represent.
		Now, when it's based on what the president addressed the other day, I will say this, that I am not going to give a strong opinion on that, that I am going to let it play out.
		I'm going to give it to God and let God work it out.
		But on what I'm going to say to you all, that nothing is a fact unless we prove it.
		And if you can't prove what you're saying, then, you know, it's not so much addressing about how you say what you know, but how you prove and you can look it up.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there's Rhonda there in Georgia.
		Thank you for calling in.
		Thank you for, as you said, participating in this platform where you can give your opinions, particularly today when it comes to the president's joint address last night, 202-748-8000 for Democrats.
		Republicans, 202-748-8001, and Independents, 202-748-8002.
		Back to John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, two things to follow up on.
		One, hot mics and two, social security fraud.
		On hot mics, this is the headline from the examiner.
		Mike Johnson caught on Hot Mike with JD Vance ripping Joe Biden ahead of that Donald Trump speech last night.
		It was after JD Vance entered the chamber when that hot mic moment happened.
		The moment happening in part, JD Vance saying, I think the speech is going to be great, but I don't know how you do this for 90 minutes, to which House Speaker Mike Johnson responded, the hardest thing was doing it in front of Biden when the speech was a stupid campaign speech.
		That caught there before Mike Johnson then folded the microphone down and then returned to their conversation.
		The other thing, a couple callers have brought up already this morning, social security fraud.
		I just wanted to point to factcheck.org as one of those fact check organizations out there.
		They took up this topic last night in the wake of Donald Trump mentioning it in that speech.
		They noted that Donald Trump talked about money being paid to many of those who are over 100 that are still alive.
		They've said, as we've written, internal audits conducted by the Office of Audit in the Social Security Administration's office of the Inspector General have identified that millions of deceased individuals were still listed as living in the Social Security database.
		However, the number of dead recipients still being set benefits is likely in the thousands, not the millions.
		In total, the Social Security Administration distributed payments to 89,000 individuals aged 99 and older in December of 2024.
		A July 2023 report published by the Office of Audit found that there are 18.9 million people with Social Security numbers born in 1920 or earlier with no record of their death.
		Vast majority of these records, they note, are clearly outdated.
		And the Pew Research Service estimated that there are only about 101,000 Americans who were 100 and older in 2024.
		One of the fact checks from factcheck.org if you want to follow up on that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Steve.
		Steve is in New York, Republican line.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Good morning, Pedro.
		Can you get to give me a minute?
		I want to talk about the speech last night.
		It was full of lies.
		I'm a Republican.
		I'm anti-MAGA.
		And the Democrats are playing Pong while the conservatives are playing PS5 2K.
		They have a brand ambassador pushing forward pure lies.
		There's not people on Social Security 300 years old.
		And then they say if fraud is a crime and Doge has found fraud, how come no one has been arrested?
		No names have been called on who's under investigation for committing crimes against America.
		And also, since 2003, Elon Musk has received $38 billion of American taxpayer money.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so, but how does all that relate to last night?
unidentified		Last night was a speech that was full of lies.
		And how can you say you're here to protect America and save money when Elon Musk, you can't name an American who's received personally more money from the American taxpayer?
		If you want to save money, wouldn't you start cutting there?
		If fraud is a crime, wouldn't the Pam Bondi, wouldn't she be out investigating?
		There's no names.
		There's just numbers being thrown out.
		There's no truth being thrown out.
		And once again, Democrats, Republicans have a brand ambassador, Donald Trump.
		He's like, anybody from New York City remembers Crazy Eddie?
		He's practically giving it all away.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Christine in Pennsylvania, Democrats line.
		Hi there.
unidentified		Hi there.
		This is Christine Adams.
		I'm calling because I was lied to and I've been stolen from.
		And Americans are deeply hurt.
		You know, the lies, they'll be fact-checking with the lies.
		There have been fact-checking with the lies.
		I appreciate the gentleman before me who is a true Republican.
		Our Social Security information has been stolen.
		We're told that we don't expect to get your Social Security on time now.
		That's what I read.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And how does it relate to last night?
unidentified		What?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How does it relate to last night?
unidentified		I didn't.
unidentified		I waited for the clips and, you know, I was on the internet.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, what was your impression for how you gathered information about the speech?
unidentified		I was disappointed.
		I did turn it on to see the Democratic speech.
		She did a lovely job.
		She really did a good job of pointing out the issues, the fact that, you know, our democracy is on the line.
		This is fascism.
		What would Putin do has been what I've been saying for nine years now.
		And this, you know, this fiasco in the Oval Office, oh my gosh.
		And, you know, we are getting up to the future.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That's Christine there in Pennsylvania.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Britt in Alexandria, Virginia on last night's speech, Independent Line.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Hey, good morning, and thank you for having me.
		I actually just want to echo what Steve from New York said.
		I'm independent.
		I'm actually originally from Jersey, so we know Trump is a liar and a grifter for a long time.
		And he's right about Doge.
		And that's actually also what I wanted to call about is Trump in his speech identified Elon Musk as running Doge.
		And I know that a lot of the lawsuits have been recently updated to reflect that.
		Elon Musk hasn't been elected.
		He hasn't been confirmed by Congress.
		He and the website on Doge are making false statements about savings.
		And I encourage people to go to the website, look at it one day, and then look at it the next day when they've taken down the falsehoods and not said anything.
		There are people who are paying into Social Security that are never going to see benefits.
		Those are the immigrants being rounded up.
		Where is that money going?
		So, with the concerns about things like Lake and Riley and the Democrats not standing, or with concerns about the Democrats not cheering for a person to be returned, yeah, I'm sure they're happy about it, but giving an audience to a tyrant who identified himself as a king above the law is not something I want to see from Democrats.
		So, I was happy that they're trying to hold the line about the illegal behavior.
		And once the illegal behavior of Musk and Trump stops, then people can come to the table and talk about solving the American people's issues.
		But right now, there is fascism, as the caller before just said.
		And as Steve from New York said, he's right.
		These are lies, and I'm against MAGA Republicanism.
		I would love small R to come back.
		So, thank you so much for taking my call, and I appreciated the Democratic response.
		I look forward to the fact-checking for you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Gotcha, Republican line in Kentucky.
		This is Bill.
		Bill in Kentucky.
		Hello.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Yeah.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're on.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead, please.
unidentified		Okay, what I'd like to say about last night, I'm not 73 years old, and he's the best president I can ever remember in my lifetime.
		And I've got people that's Democrats, and they're asleep like a lot of them people I see there last night sitting in that middle row.
		They're upset to sleep.
		They don't even know what's going on.
		And I can't understand why a man won't vote for policies that uphold gayism and all that stuff.
		My Bible don't teach me that kind of stuff.
		They're going to be a bunch of people bust tail wide open.
		That's what's going to happen.
		That's all I got to say.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Democrats line from Meryl and Pamela.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're up next.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi, Pedro.
		You know, Republicans have some short memories because they never stood up for President Obama or President Biden when they spoke.
		But now, all of a sudden, it's disgraceful.
		So it's kind of funny how hypocritical that is.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Sean, up next in Baltimore, Independent Line.
unidentified		Good day to you.
		I enjoyed the speech last night.
		I don't agree with everything he said, but I think Trump is on point with a lot of stuff.
		And I just, in my opinion, all these people interrupting on both sides, it needs to stop.
		But overall, I appreciate what Trump did.
		But all these people call him a fascist.
		I don't know what dimension they're from because Biden and Obama, the stuff they did, it was just unreal.
		Communism, the socialism they put forth.
		And Al Green, that clownish behavior, that was ridiculous.
		That was just unheard of.
		And I tell you what, these Democrats, they better get together because the stuff they're doing, the way they acted last night, it's going to allow the Republicans to run Washington for the next 20 years.
		I mean, they're going to vote against the bill to keep biological men out of women's sports.
		Unbelievable.
		And just all the other stuff they're doing.
		I mean, Doge, what Doge is doing, you know, getting rid of all this waste, but it claims a lot.
		And the last few callers talking about unelected officials, did they forget about Fauci?
		He wasn't elected.
		Look at all the mess he started.
		But anyways.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Sean, there in Baltimore, giving his thoughts on the president's speech last night, mentioning some of those disruptions, mentioning specifically Representative Al Green, Democrat from Texas.
		We showed you the portion when he was led out of the chamber yesterday.
		Once he got to the hallway, he was interviewed by reporters about the experience and why he did it.
		Here's a portion from yesterday.
		Let's hear from Steve.
		Steve in Massachusetts, Republican line.
		Steve in Massachusetts, hi.
		One more time for Steve.
		Marilyn, up next.
		Marilyn in Illinois, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
		I'm recovering from COVID, so you'll have to be a little patient with me talking, okay?
		I'm very proud of the Democrats for sitting on their hands.
		Why would you clap for anything that was said in that speech?
		I don't know about the rest of the Americans, the United States, because I've tried to get medication for, and I'm 81, by the way, on Social Security and Medicare.
		And I tried to get that prescription, and they wanted to charge me $500 to save my life.
		That's a third of my Social Security check that I live on.
		So I ask you, America, United States of America, what good is he doing for you now, this minute?
		What has he done for you?
		My neighbors, the people in the next state, tell me, the farmers, tell me how you're doing.
		And then listen to his speech again.
		Only the rich are getting richer.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Marilyn in Illinois, again, talking about the aspects of yesterday about those disruptions.
		Representative Al Green in the hallways of Congress after being led out of the chamber.
		Here's some of his response.
unidentified		So who were you shouting to the president?
al green ▲ ● ▼		The president said he had a mandate.
		And I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid.
		I have people who are very fearful.
		These are poor people.
		And they have only Medicaid in their lives when it comes to their health care.
		And I want him to know that his budget calls for deep cuts in Medicaid.
		He needs to save Medicaid, protect it.
		We need to raise the cap on Social Security.
		There's a possibility that it's going to be hurt.
		And we've got to protect Medicare.
		These are the safety net programs that people in my congressional district depend on.
		And this president seems to care less about them and more about the number of people that he can remove from the various programs that have been so helpful to so many people.
		It is the best way to get on the cost to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incibility against our civility.
		He is a person who has consistently been used incivility against civility.
		Well, look, I'm willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me.
		I didn't say to anyone, don't punish me.
		I said I'll accept the punishment, but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
unidentified		Were you saying you have no mandate?
al green ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you just said?
al green ▲ ● ▼		He has no mandate to cut Medicaid.
unidentified		None.
unidentified		Is that the only punishment that you were kicked out, sir?
al green ▲ ● ▼		Is there something?
		I don't know.
		Whatever the punishment is, I'm not fighting the punishment.
		This is about the people who are being punished by virtue of losing their health care.
		This is the richest country in the world, and we have people who don't have good health care.
		We've got to do better.
		And now we're about to cut Medicaid, which is for poor people.
		Health care has become wealth care for many people, and we can't afford to let that happen.
unidentified		Is that the only thing that you're protesting?
al green ▲ ● ▼		No, I have other things I'm protesting.
		And I'm also working on my articles of impeachment.
		This president is unfit.
		He should not hold the office.
		34 felony convictions, two times impeached.
unidentified		Sir, tell me one more time what you were shouting in the chamber.
al green ▲ ● ▼		That he has no mandate to cut Medicaid.
unidentified		That's what you were saying over and over.
		Thank you, sir.
		No mandate.
al green ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And just clarify, Representative Al Green, being led out of the chamber yesterday, talking to reporters about why he did what he did yesterday.
		Again, you can see all of that on our website, our platform, our app.
		If you want to watch that whole speech, we're going to show you portions of it, get your reaction to it.
		202-748-8000 for Democrats, 202-748-8001 for Republicans.
		And Independents, 202748-8002.
		Joel in Illinois, Independent Line.
		Go ahead.
		You're next up.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks.
		Thanks for having me on the show.
		Look, as an independent, I didn't weep whenever Joe Biden was elected.
		I thought he was an elder statesman.
		He's been in Washington forever.
		And, you know, let's see what he has.
		But I think we have to conclude at the end of his election that this country isn't better off than it was four years prior.
		You know, especially with, you know, the Democratic Party kind of reminds me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, before you go too far, but how does this relate to last night specifically?
unidentified		Well, it's the Democratic Party reminds me of kind of spoiled children who didn't get their way.
		With that outburst from Representative Green, that wasn't the forum to do that.
		He didn't even give President Biden a time to go and do a speech.
		Maybe he would have addressed that.
		I don't know if they have the talk.
		I don't know if they have the speech before them prior to its deliveries.
		But anyways, I think that that wasn't really the place for Mr. Green, Representative Green, to voice his opinion like that.
		How Keith Jeffries, when I understand, told the Democratic Party, just sit there and be polite.
		You know, the Democratics didn't even clap for that poor child who got his, you know, was a police, wanted to be a police officer.
		Didn't clap for any of that.
		I think that's a little bit childish.
		There are things that we can all agree with.
		Diversity, equity, inclusion, all great ideas.
		All right, but they take it to the umpteenth degree.
		All right.
		It's ridiculous.
		And then what he said, what President Trump said last night nailed it about telling a child that they're perfect just the way they are.
		I think he scored a lot of points with people.
		I think he just went back to the roots.
		That's what I heard when I was growing up, and I'm 60.
		And I think that that just nailed it.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Joel there in Illinois.
		Again, keep calling.
		And if you're on the lines, just hold for a few minutes.
		Again, part of the purpose of today is to give you information, some background, things that happened during the course of the speech for you to put it in context.
		John McCartle's been doing that yeoman's work.
		Mr. McCartney, go ahead.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, here's some information on today.
		The House is set to come in at 10 a.m. Eastern.
		The Senate is set to come in at 10 a.m. Eastern.
		You can watch that on C-SPAN 1 and C-SPAN 2, respectively.
		On C-SPAN 3 today at 10 a.m., a confirmation hearing for the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
		There's a hearing on C-SPAN.org on Sanctuary City policies that's happening at 10 a.m.
		So a lot going on today on the C-SPAN networks and on Capitol Hill.
		Of course, in the wake of a very late night last night, you had to stay up pretty late because it was the longest first presidential address in history at just under 100 minutes last night, which meant that members of Congress who wanted to talk to the media afterwards had to stay up pretty late last night.
		Here's a few of the leadership posts and media interviews last night after that speech, including Speaker Mike Johnson.
		He tweeted just before 1 a.m. last night.
		President Trump's speech wasn't a speech for the mainstream media.
		It was a speech for the American people, saying the way Democrats behaved was unserious and embarrassing.
		The Senate majority leader, John Thune, saying the American people gave the president a decisive mandate in November to secure the border, unleash American energy, and rebuild our military.
		The Senate Republicans have wasted no time in getting to work to implement that agenda.
		He will be the first to speak in the Senate today when the Senate opens at 10 a.m.
		And then following him will be Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate.
		This is what he had to say just before midnight last night.
		Tonight, President Trump rattled off broken promises after broken promise and lie after lie.
		There was more truth in 10 minutes of Senator Alyssa Slotkin's rebuttal than two hours of Donald Trump's long-winded diatribe.
		It was Alyssa Slotkin who gave the Democratic response, of course, after Donald Trump's speech.
		And speaking of Alyssa Slotkin, she was the subject of a tweet from Elon Musk saying, Alyssa Slotkin, I am saying, when she asks, is anyone in America comfortable with Elon Musk and his gang of 20-year-olds using their computer servers to poke through your tax returns and your health information?
		Elon Musk saying, I am doge is exactly what I voted for.
		Elon Musk on X last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of the things that happened during the course, and the previous caller had mentioned concerning a young boy named DJ, a big fan of law enforcement, even at a young age, getting special recognition from President Trump last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Here's some of that exchange.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Joining us at the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police.
		His name is DJ Daniel.
		He is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer.
		But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.
		The doctors gave him five months at most to live.
		That was more than six years ago.
		Since that time, D.J. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and D.J. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times.
		The police love him, the police departments love him.
		And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.
		I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
		Thank you, DJ.
		DJ's doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger.
		Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40 percent.
		Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make America Healthy Again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That whole speech, as we've been telling you, you can see it online at cspan.org.
		Our app is C-SPANNOW.
		We've shown you portions of it during the course of morning, but a lot of ways that you can watch the complete speech and all the events that took place last night.
		In New York, this is David, Republican Line.
		You're next up.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hi, good morning.
		I grew up a pretty simple life.
		I went from picking up trash and helping neighbors out and stuff all the way through GE and a good test job at the end.
		But in my whole time, we started off at GE, for instance, with over 20,000 workers back in the 70s.
		And by the time I retired, we were down to 1,500 workers.
		Now, our government should work the same way.
		You don't need all these people in chairs anymore.
		And the thing is, with this, when they come around, they don't ask me if I should get laid off.
		I got laid off more than 10 times in the time I was a GE.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So draw this back to the speech last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What parallel are you trying to make?
unidentified		I'm trying to make a parallel with the layoffs.
		People are afraid of the layoffs coming.
		People are afraid of the downsizing the government.
		We have to downsize the government in order to get the waste and the fraud out of it.
		We don't need all these people.
		As I said, we still made money at GE with that.
		The thing is, is that you don't need those many people, and you can't you have to accept the layoff.
		And I went back, as I said, ten times also.
		And so I started at $3 an hour and got up to $40 an hour before I retired.
		And I worked on farms, and I did, you know, so they say people won't pick and people won't do this.
		No, it teaches you something.
		In fact, now that I'm retired, I'd rather work outdoors.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Let's go to Jerry.
		Jerry in Massachusetts Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi.
		How you doing?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Fine, thank you.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Thank you, John.
		Yeah, I found the speech very appalling.
		I don't think the rhetoric that Trump spewed out was factual.
		I don't think what he wants to do with this country is a benefit to the country.
		And I think he's hurting us totally across the board with the world organizations and the help we need overseas to keep America name great.
		That's how the U.S. aid, that's how everything, world health organizations, that's how the science and the weather, climate change, and everything else is needed in this country.
		And then he has things in this country with Social Security that he's going to cut.
		He's going to say what he's going to say, but he is going to cut it because he's looking at the way these things are.
		And I don't believe Medicaid is going to withstand his and Musk's cuts because people need that wholeheartedly.
		And there's children that are going to be cut besides.
		And it's appalling that people on the Republican side don't seem to see that.
		I can't see how they see that.
		It's unbelievable.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Sarah in New York, Independent Line.
		Good morning.
		Sarah in New York.
unidentified		Hello.
		Good morning.
		Good morning, Your Honor.
		I am a 93-year-old lady, and I have lived through the fascist period when Hitler wreaked his vengeance on the world.
		Donald Trump is our Hitler.
		He is a liar, a convicted felon, a possible rapist, and has hoodwinked the American people, often the angry and the uneducated, to his way of thinking.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And how does that relate to last night's speech?
unidentified		I applaud the Democrats for standing up to him because Trump wants Americans to join him in his personal avenue.
		And thank God for the Democrats.
		I hope they will remain a bulwark against the anger and the craziness of this guy.
		And all I can say is I hope that somebody has to stand up to Trump before he ruins America.
		I thank you, and I pray for the future, and I hope the future remains in the hands of the Democrat.
		And I applaud them for what they have done.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		That's Sarah in New York.
		One of the news stories just coming out this morning was the reaction from Greenland, which was mentioned in the President's speech yesterday.
		This is from Yahoo New saying that it's the Prime Minister of Greenland warning the President off his controversial ambition to acquire the territory, writing on social media Wednesday, Greenland is ours.
		Mr. Trump again expressed a desire to take control of the Arctic Island, which is a semi-autonomous territory within Denmark in his speech yesterday.
		America said, he said, would acquire the strategic territory, quote, one way or another.
		The prime minister of Greenland, apologies, I'm not going to try to pronounce the name, but dismissed Mr. Trump's remarks in a post to Facebook, quote, Greenland belongs to Greenlanders.
		We are not Americans.
		We are not Danes because we are Greenlanders.
		This is what the Americans and their leaders need to understand.
		We cannot be bought and we cannot be ignored.
		Again, that's just some of the foreign policy aspects coming out from last night's speech.
		Let's go to Dean on our Republican line in New Jersey.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, hi.
		As far as the speech last night, the Democrats just showed who they truly are, that they don't care about the country.
		And they're just their vendetta against President Trump is what they put above everything else.
		To hell with the country, they'll just do anything because they don't like Trump.
		And the fact is, they thought he was going to prison, but now he's their president.
		And they can't get over that.
		They can't get past that.
		No matter what he does to the benefit of the country, they just can't get past that they thought he was going to prison and now he's their president.
		And as far as Representative Green's outlandish behavior last night, he's just setting himself, trying to make scenes for his coming political advertisements.
		You know, in the future, we'll see him on TV shaking his cane, vote for Al Green.
		He stunted up to Trump.
		That's all that was.
		Just bluster.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		North Carolina is where Ricky is.
		Ricky joins us on our line for Democrats.
		Ricky, good morning.
		About talking about the speech last night.
		Hi there.
		Ricky in North Carolina, hello.
		One more time for Ricky.
		Let's go to Norman.
		Norman is in New Hampshire, Independent Line.
unidentified		Yes.
		Hello.
		Good morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Morning, you're on.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, well, I watched that speech last night in its entirety.
		I'm a disabled American veteran, served three years under three presidents during Vietnam.
		And he failed to mention anything about the sacrifices of veterans.
		And in order to heal the wounds in this nation, I believe it has to start with America's veterans.
		You know, for him to whitewash everything, you know, he's a perfect man of deception.
		You know, he's a television entity who's, you know, been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
		But I think between him and the two Mickey the Duncanes behind him, they're going to lead America down the wrong path.
		I grew up in Massachusetts.
		I knew the Kennedys.
		And, you know, for him to whitewash everything and use sympathy towards the American public is an embarrassment, not only to the American people, but to the whole world.
		Everything is money, money, money.
		Billions and billions.
		We're going to become rich.
		Who says that?
		Really?
		You know, I met John Bobby Kennedy when I was five years old.
		In fact, played pool with Bobby, he's my age, at Maccarelli's Lounge in Somville, Massachusetts.
		But those people were heroes.
		John Kennedy was a hero.
		World War II.
		And this Trump is so far removed from the love and honesty of God, he uses God to try to get his ways from the sympathy of American taxpayers.
		And we're going to build ships with billions of dollars.
		And, you know, we're ready.
		He's the one that should be looking at World War III.
		It's on his watch right now.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Norman there.
		Let's go to Brian.
		Brian in Minnesota, Republican line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		In response to L. Green, he's whining about the poor people not getting medical help and whatever.
		How come he let all these border runners, 20 million of them, cross the border?
		We got to support these people.
		I mean, this is Minnesota's share was $640 million.
		I mean, what a joke.
		What a flipping hypocrite.
		He needs to get a different job.
		Anyway, I got to.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Democrats line in Independence, Missouri.
		We'll hear from Alice.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Hi.
		I listened to the speech last night and I found that it was a joke.
		Donald Trump contradicts himself so much about how he feels for kids, Social Security, whatever.
		And then the next day, we're talking about Social Security and doing away with it.
		I think the people that he brought in, it's like a show to him.
		That's all that it was last night.
		It was a show.
		And for the Republicans, I don't understand how they can follow somebody that has 34 felonies and was convicted as a rapist.
		And we all know that the reason why that was delayed, because he was convicted by his own peers.
		Okay.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We'll leave it there only because we'll focus on the themes of last night's speech.
		It was the purpose of this program today to give you a chance to react to it and things related to it.
		Joining us, here's John McCartney.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, always interesting after a big speech like this to look at how it's playing overseas and in international papers.
		So let me give viewers a quick tour of some of the headlines from some of our neighbors around the world.
		Starting first to our neighbor to the north, the Province newspaper out of Vancouver.
		You can see the photo on the front page there.
		Democracy dies in apathy.
		The Trump effect is their headline.
		Tariffs overshadow British Columbia budget and will add to the deficit and the debt focusing on a potential trade war.
		The Daily Mail out of London focusing on the war in Ukraine.
		Zelensky's olive branch to Trump after the prime minister's plea, the Ukrainian leader on the brink of signing a minerals deal with the United States.
		Of course, President Trump announcing that last night during his speech.
		The Irish Times, also focusing on the war in Ukraine.
		The story on the left side there, Zelensky ready to seek peace deal under Donald Trump.
		This is from the Indian Express, going back to the potential trade war.
		Global trade war begins as high U.S. tariffs kick in.
		And from Mexico, it's El Universal, the newspaper, their headline questioning whether a trade war is about to begin, showing the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
		And also, Pedro, I showed a couple tweets earlier from Elon Musk, the head of Doge.
		I mentioned this one in which somebody said Doge is exactly what I voted for.
		It was retweeted by Elon Musk to his account.
		That's not what he wrote about himself, although he did write this yesterday himself about 1.30 a.m. last night, saying after tonight, after that speech in the House chamber, I am increasingly convinced that we can get to 60 senators.
		He is reasonable to think they're talking about a filibuster-proof majority for Republicans in the Senate.
		But that was Elon Musk's Twitter page late last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, John McCartney.
		You heard John mention reaction, particularly to trade when it comes to our neighboring countries, Canada and Mexico.
		It was yesterday that the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talking about his reaction to the newly placed tariffs by the United States.
justin trudeau ▲ ● ▼		Just like I did a month ago, I want to speak first directly to the American people.
		We don't want this.
		We want to work with you as a friend and ally.
		And we don't want to see you hurt either.
		But your government has chosen to do this to you.
		As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically all across your country.
		Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk at the thousands of workplaces that succeed because of materials from Canada or because of consumers in Canada or both.
		They've chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items like groceries and gas, on major purchases like cars and homes, and everything in between.
		They've chosen to harm American national security, impeding access to the abundant critical minerals, energy, building materials, and fertilizers that we have and that the United States needs to grow and prosper.
		They've chosen to launch a trade war that will, first and foremost, harm American families.
		They've chosen to sabotage their own agenda that was supposed to usher in a new golden age for the United States.
		And they've chosen to undermine the incredible work we've done together to tackle the scourge that is fentanyl, a drug that must be wiped from the face of the earth.
		So on that point, let me be crystal clear.
		There is absolutely no justification or need whatsoever for these tariffs today.
		Now, the legal pretext your government is using to bring in these tariffs is that Canada is apparently unwilling to help in the fight against illegal fentanyl.
		Well, that is totally false.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Back to your calls.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is Carrie in Virginia Independent Line.
unidentified		Yes, hi.
		After listening to the speech last night, I have to say that we have a very sick country on both sides.
		You know, Democrats had elected a man who really shouldn't have been there.
		He was past his due date.
		Republicans have elected a man who basically is a criminal and a fraud.
		And about the child who has cancer and was to be a policeman, not once did that child smile.
		He didn't look happy to be up there.
		And every time his father raised him up, his eyes were asking him, could you put me down?
		It looked like it was a pup, and I hate to say that.
		It was very sad.
		But, you know, as a country, we are going down the tubes because neither side has got it together.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Donovan from California Republican Line, you're next.
unidentified		Good morning.
		It's early out here.
		I just wanted to say I was born in the late 60s, so I'm on the tail end of the baby boom generation.
		So I've lived through many presidents.
		And I can honestly say that not only, in my opinion, is Donald Trump the most consequential president in my lifetime, I really believe he's the best.
		I really believe his policies, his ideology, everything that he's done for the country.
		Again, just like he mentioned about Musk, he didn't need this.
		He didn't need to be president, but he felt compelled to be president, and I really respect that.
		And all these people, the callers that are calling in that are slamming him, to me, it's very sad because it's clear to me that perception becomes reality.
		And a lot of these people, they're brainwashed by the mainstream media to hate Trump.
		You know, it's all propaganda.
		It's sad to me.
		Talking about the substance of the speech last night, it was uplifting.
		It was a clear vision for a prosperous America.
		The golden age that President Trump was talking about that's on the way.
		I respect that.
		And I admire a person of optimism who has a hope for the future.
		What do the Democrats offer?
		They offer petulance.
		They offer just testiness, pettiness.
		They couldn't even bring themselves to put country over party for moments that should have been universal, that should have been just applauded and praised by everybody.
		They couldn't even clap for those type of moments, like the young boy with cancer or the hostage that was returned from Russia, the young man that was accepted to West Point.
		Those are things that should have been universal.
		Everybody should be applauding that.
		And instead, they were just into the tribalism, putting their party above the country.
		It's really sad, in my opinion.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Donovan, there in California, we mentioned the Canadian prime minister and other international news, France 24, reporting that the French president Emmanuel Macron will address the nation today around 8 o'clock local time.
		Part of the speech saying, in this moment of uncertainty where the world is confronted by large challenges, I will address you tonight as European leaders were poised to hold a special summit devoted to defense in Ukraine.
		The story adding that countries in Europe are scrambling to boost defense spending and support for Ukraine and its war against invading Russian forces.
		I make growing doubts over the commitment of the U.S. administration in defending Europe.
		So watch for that to play out internationally as the day goes forward.
		Focusing on the events of yesterday here in Washington, D.C., the joint address to Congress by President Trump.
		This is Karen in Pennsylvania, Democrats line high.
unidentified		Hi, thank you for having me.
		I wanted to let people know why the Democrats did not stand or clap because Trump ended the WHO, which is the first line of defense and lets us know when there's an epidemic coming.
		We didn't get that message on COVID because he had taken us out of WHO.
		He also got rid of people in the NIH who do cancer research.
		He got rid of people in the APA who could have caught that chemical that that boy was exposed to.
		And the worst one of all is USAID because part of that budget goes to the people who screen for Ebola before those folks get to leave the country on a plane.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Karen is finishing off our, well, going into our third hour here as we've been taking your calls from the address last night.
		You can continue to do so in this final hour, 202748-8000 for Democrats, 202748-8001 for Republicans, and Independents, 202-748-8002.
		Several of you posting on social media.
		You can do that at facebook.com/slash C-SPAN and on X at C-SPANWJ.
		You can text us your thoughts at 202-748-80023.
		And as always, if you want to see the speech in its entirety, go to our website, our app, watch the networks, and we'll show you that joint address from last night.
		And you can comment on it from last night as well.
		Independent Line in Virginia.
		This is Mark.
unidentified		Hello.
		Hi, good morning.
		Pedro, thanks for having me on.
		First, I would like to thank Mr. McArdle for his insight on the speech and picking up some of the headlines across the world.
		I would like to ask that maybe he could bring some focus to anything that was positive or true instead of pointing out all the falsehoods, which I don't disagree or condone.
		As for the speech itself, I did watch the entire thing and it was really long.
		For those who didn't watch the speech and are making comments, I would recommend that you do watch before you just speak about the bits and pieces.
		I think from both sides, whether it's Biden or Democrats or the Republicans, there are always truisms and falsisms.
		But what I would like to state about, you know, what is going on as it was spoken about, execution versus action.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, when it comes to the speech last night, what's a truism?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's a falsism?
unidentified		I don't know.
		I think that's what I'm asking about.
		Can you point out what was true?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'll let you react to it since you watched it.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So whatever you perceived as that is to be, what is it, do you think?
unidentified		I believe that as for immigration and the crossing of the borders and maintaining what was going on, immigration is down.
		Or illegal immigration, or again, whatever words we're supposed to be using now, it is down from last year or from last month, month to month.
		So that is working.
		I don't necessarily agree with how some of the actions right now to replace or remove or send individuals back working.
		Again, execution versus action, kind of like all of a sudden in the last administration, cutting off all of the pipelines in oil and focusing on electric and green energy.
		I agree that needs to be done, but what has to happen is a plan.
		And I don't see a plan.
		I don't see a plan right now going forward on some of the things that we are doing.
		But just like yourself, I can point out falsisms and there are the truisms.
		And so let's try to find those instead of combing.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Mark Garrin, Virginia.
		Let's hear from Alex in New York, Democrats line.
		Alex in New York, go ahead, please.
unidentified		I just wanted to reply to.
		Yes, I'm here.
		Can you hear me?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Yep, go ahead.
unidentified		Hello.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're on.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yes, I just wanted to reply to the last caller.
		Yeah, so immigration actually more people were being deported under Biden than under Trump, and that's the reason why he fired his head guy, deporting people here.
		So that's false.
		There's actually a new wave of immigrants coming.
		So, you know, all of these things that you people out there in the Republican Party think that is actually a good thing, none of this is good.
		There's hundreds of thousands of people in the federal government that are going to be fired.
		We are going to be in a crisis when bird flu actually jumps to humans because we don't have any way of being part of the World Health Organization.
		And there is chaos coming.
		And what I will say as a Democrat, I have no idea why Democrats even attended this thing.
		If you really want to protest, if you really, really want to be able to be a voice of opposition, you shouldn't have even been there.
		There is no point in Al Green trying to interrupt this propaganda tour of Trump in order to make a point.
		There is no point in having a sign-up saying this isn't normal.
		Why are you trying to normalize this by being there and trying to make a point?
		The whole Democratic Party has to extract itself from this ridiculous craziness that's happening right now and let Republicans own everything, every failure that they are going to make.
		Because guess what, you Republicans, the last president that handled the budget and was able to make things better was Clinton.
		He left Bush zero, zero to deal with, and he actually made the federal government smaller.
		And Republicans do not understand that you cannot simply just go firing everybody because you just want to make a point and then say that you're doing better for the country.
		You're not.
		And Democrats, if you really want to fight, do not be on the defensive.
		Be on the offensive.
		There shouldn't have been a Republican.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Alex there.
		Let's hear from Bill.
		Bill in Michigan, Republican line.
unidentified		Hey, good morning.
		I'm calling in to tell you the truth now.
		That man was pulling a lot of hot air last night, but I love what he's doing.
		As for Mr. Musk.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Caller, go ahead.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're still on.
unidentified		Okay, as for Mr. Musk and Doge, God bless them.
		Let's get rid of all that waste.
		As we went through all the 80s and 90s and such, we learned how to be manufacturers into service people.
		Well, it's time our federal workers, state and local too, started taking the same hit.
		We need to save us money.
		I'm not worried about Social Security.
		I have two pensions I've earned.
		I only have a junior high education, so I knew to get out there and work hard.
		I did.
		I have two pensions.
		So if you want to delay my Social Security a little bit, go ahead.
		I plan for it.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Bill Bear in Michigan.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We'll continue on with calls after we hear from John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, we said we'd be tracking what President Trump is doing today, the day after that big address before Congress.
		It looks like there could be an announcement on tariffs.
		We noted that President Trump used the word tariff or tariffs some 14 times in that speech last night as one of his key words from that speech.
		And this is the news today from Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove saying Secretary of Commerce Howard Luttnick, in speaking to Bloomberg television this morning, says that President Trump will make a new tariff announcement this afternoon on Canada and Mexico and that he may cut the tariff in some sectors like automobiles while keeping the rate at 25% for others.
		So perhaps some news today out of the White House from the president after a newsy evening on Capitol Hill.
		And then the other thing, Pedro, you had a caller a couple calls back asking, talking about stats on border crossings for the past couple decades, wondering where it ranked in terms of recent years.
		Border crossings, as Aaron Blake in the Washington Post points out, is one of the bright spots for President Trump.
		And he was sure to talk about it last night.
		Aaron Blake in the Washington Post saying perhaps the best story for Trump right now is the huge drop in illegal border crossings.
		Monthly apprehensions on the U.S.-Mexico border in February dropped to their lowest level since at least the year 2000.
		And Donald Trump certainly highlighting that last night during his speech.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		John, thanks for the segue because here is President Trump from last night talking about the issues of immigration.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Last year, a brilliant 22-year-old nursing student named Lakin Riley, the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia.
		That morning, Lacan was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered.
		Lakin was stolen from us by a savage, illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border and then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.
		It was indeed a failed administration.
		He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.
		With us this evening are Laken's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.
		Last year, I told Laken's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.
		That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
		It's a very strong, powerful act.
		It's called the Lakin-Riley Act.
		So Allison and Lauren, America will never, ever forget our beautiful Laken Hope Rally.
		Thank you very much.
		Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded.
		The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.
		We must have legislation to secure the border.
		But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, that was from last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from Tony in Virginia, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		I want to say thank you, Pedro.
		Thank you, everyone at C-SPAN, for allowing this interaction with everyday citizens.
		I also want to say thank you to everyone who's calling in and sharing your opinions.
		What I really want to talk about, especially last night, is with the speech.
		First and foremost, like, yes, I understand that we have Democratic Party and Republican Party.
		And on both sides, we saw people supporting the president, or we saw people showing their disapproval, performing disapproval, like the Congressman, Mr. Green.
		Quite frankly, I think that there needs to be more education and more transparency in the information that is being shared.
		Like addressing the nation and telling us and informing us of what their plans are and what they're doing is great.
		I think that that's, you know, we need to be informed by our electorate and our politicians and our bureaucrats.
		It's important for them to disseminate information because in reality, they work for us.
		And I think what needs to happen is, because you very much see this when, whether it's President Trump or anyone from the Republican Party gets up, or you see it also on the other side with the Democrats.
		A lot of times people throw out buzzwords and hot information, which we often see regardless of who's giving the State of the Union speech or who's talking to the news media in front of the cameras and online.
		You know, but I think there needs to be more transparency and more fact-checking.
		Quite frankly, I think this off-the-cup, you know, speeches and information, why not submit your speech or your stuff that you're going to talk about to the public and allow the public to pre-read it so that when you're giving your information,
		you know, we can sit there and be like, well, that's not accurate or, you know, and that's part of what you all do as part of the news media.
		You know, it's important for the news and other everyday citizens to hold our politicians and our bureaucrats accountable.
		So I really commend you guys on the work that you're doing as well.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Tony.
		Tony, I apologize.
		Leave it there.
		Get to callers.
		But before that, we'll go back to John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Pedro, some breaking news out of the Supreme Court this morning.
		You saw members of the Supreme Court as they always are.
		There's always at least a handful there for these presidential addresses.
		They were there until late last night.
		And then this from the Supreme Court this morning.
		Stephen Mazey is a Supreme Court reporter with The Economist.
		The Supreme Court has denied President Trump's emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in U.S. AID spending.
		The vote on the court was 5 to 4.
		This is from Scott McFarland of NBC News, noting that John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal members of the court in that majority, that 5-4 decision.
		And this from Jimmy Hoover of the National Law Journal, quoting from Samuel Alito's dissent, saying, I am stunned about this.
		So that's the news out of the court this morning.
		The Supreme Court denying President Trump's emergency bid to cancel some $2 billion in spending from the U.S. Agency of International Development.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
		Back to our calls.
		Robin in Pennsylvania, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		There are so many people that said everything I was going to say on here.
		I am just so happy with the speech that Donald Trump did.
		He was a wonderful speech.
		He told us a lot of information.
		And I'm just appalled at the way the Democrats sat there and acted like they did.
		We elected these people.
		They have to show respect.
		There was no respect for the American people or the president.
		What do other countries think about this?
		This is awful.
		It's a disgrace.
		Anybody that votes Democrat has got to have the screw loose.
		I'm sorry.
		That's all I got.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Ann from New York State, Democrats line.
unidentified		Hello.
		Good morning.
		I think there were many lies and misstatements, but mostly lies coming out of Trump last night.
		Transgender operations in mice?
		No, it was transgenetic, which is a way to do research to maybe help us solve the problem of cancer and other horrible diseases.
		That whole thing about someone 300 years old getting Social Security, that has been debunked numerous times because Social Security lacked the funding because of Republicans to update their computer system.
		Getting to Doge, they are using these words to fire people like transition, and they accidentally did away with programs that helped students with disabilities transition from high school to the adult world of work because they thought transition meant transgender, which is a teeny tiny portion of our population, which should not be vilified.
		So Trump is really using all of these lies as a power grab.
		It's no longer about is it true?
		Does he have evidence?
		It's about whose side are you on?
		And if you're in the cult of Trump, you're going to go with whatever he says.
donna in texas ▲ ● ▼		We just need a lot more critical thinking in America.
unidentified		Thank you so much for taking my call.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		From Los Angeles, this is Larry on our Independent Line.
unidentified		Good day, Pedro.
		Good day, C-SPAN audience, longtime listener.
		Pedro, I'd just like to say about the speech last night that President Trump, you know, he's done a lot of good things in terms of immigration, you know, the border.
		I don't agree with an open border, but I also don't think that the Democrats would not respect the kid that aspires to be a policeman that had the brain surgeries.
		I don't think that just because they didn't stand up and clap, that that was disrespect.
		I think they were just trying to send a message that they didn't agree with a lot of Trump's issues.
		I'm a veteran, Pedro.
		I worked in Greenland from 1981 to 1988, went to Alaska for 13 years, came back to Greenland, worked at Greenland from 2001 to 2007.
		I'm a veteran, and, you know, like I said, there's good on both sides, Pedro, on the Democratic side and the Republican side.
		But I'm a little appalled that the Republicans don't speak up and speak out.
		And as far as President Trump speaking about God, you know, having a purpose for him.
		If God had a purpose for him, I don't think that God would have allowed the shooter to shoot at him.
		And I kind of look at it also, Pedro, as, you know, the Hamas versus the Palestinian issue.
		You can't hide behind the Palestinians to get the Hamas message out.
		I don't believe in hiding behind, you know, innocent people.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Gotcha.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Sandra in Texas, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes.
		Hi.
		Thank you for taking my call.
		I just want to respond to a caller.
		He had called earlier, and he said that he had, I believe, a high school education and he has two pensions, and he doesn't need Social Security.
		So as far as he's concerned, they can cut Social Security.
		Well, I'm a 59-year-old woman who has paid into Social Security for 40 years.
		I have been working since I was in my 20s.
		Many of the jobs that I have had have not had the benefits to be able to save in a 401k.
		I've struggled my entire life.
		I've been a disadvantaged.
		I've had disadvantaged education.
		So I have struggled my entire life.
		And the only thing that I have is Social Security.
		So yes, it is extremely important to me.
		I'm 59.
		I just became unemployed.
		And so I find myself now trying to find work in the job market.
		I understand that it's going to be difficult, but that is just the cards that I've been handed.
		As women, we get paid less money.
		Again, Social Security is the only thing that I have.
		It is very important to me.
		And I would say that I know other women in my life, friends and family, that that's all they have, Social Security.
		So I'm glad that he is blessed.
		But again, here's where we see the privilege.
		He's a male.
		He's been handed better opportunities than women.
		Women have been paid less.
		Women very much rely on Social Security.
		And this is all we have.
		And yes, it is very important to us.
		And I don't appreciate a South African, a South African, not even a born citizen of the United States.
		This is a South African man, okay, saying it is a Ponzi scheme.
		Get rid of it.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Sandra there in Texas.
		One of the people giving his own response via live stream was Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, live streaming of a response after the state of the address to Congress.
		Here is Senator Sanders from yesterday.
bernie sanders ▲ ● ▼		Trump spoke for over 90 minutes, although I must confess it seemed a lot longer than that.
		And he almost completely ignored the issues that are keeping working people up at night as they worry about how their families are going to survive in these very tough times.
		And I will tell you exactly why Trump had very little to say about the real crises facing the working class of this country.
		Think back six weeks ago when Trump was inaugurated for his second term as president just six weeks ago.
		Standing right behind them were the three wealthiest men in this country, Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, and Mr. Zuckerberg.
		And standing behind them were 13 other billionaires who Trump had nominated to head major government agencies.
		Many of these same billionaires, including Musk, were in the Capitol tonight listening to that speech.
		In other words, it is there for all to see.
		The Trump administration is not hiding it.
		The Trump administration is a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class.
		Notwithstanding some of their rhetoric, this is a government that could care less about ordinary Americans and the working families of our country.
		My friends, we are no longer moving toward oligarchy.
		We are living in an oligarchic society.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Senator Sanders from yesterday, the Wall Street Journal, highlighting the fact that several Democratic lawmakers, including Senator Sanders, walking out of that speech.
		In fact, there he is in the process of walking out.
		That's the Wall Street Journal.
		Let's go back to calls.
		This is Joanne in New Jersey, Republican line.
bernie sanders ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Yes, hello.
		First, I just want to say that Bernie's a millionaire.
		So, you know, he's, you know, he's talking about himself if he wants to talk about all the other people.
		And the caller about the Social Security, the woman who's 59, I'm a 60-year-old woman, Republican.
		I'm not afraid that Trump is going to stop Social Security.
		What he's going to do is clean it up.
		He's going to clean it up and take out all those checks that are going to people who are either non-existent or who should not be getting checks.
		All that money will be saved, and that money will come back to the people who are actually in need of it.
		So the Democrats who are out there saying that, you know, they're going to lose their Social Security.
		No, you're not.
		You're actually going to gain your Social Security.
		And the money that's being stolen and sent wherever the heck it's being sent by the, you know, the Democrats, you know, that are all these congressmen and they're all have, they only make so much money a year, but apparently they're worth money worth.
		Where are they getting that money from?
		Are they getting it from our Social Security?
		Are they the ones who are those people who are getting those checks that they're, you know, aren't supposed to be getting it?
		I mean, come on.
		If you're a Democrat out there and you can't see that Trump is saving us money by fighting all this fraud, then you clearly need some help mentally because, you know, it doesn't have to be Trump.
		It could have been anyone out there showing us all this stolen money and all this money going to things that are non-existent.
		Okay.
		So.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Joanne in New Jersey, let's go to Donna in Ohio, Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi, good morning, Pedro.
		Good morning.
		Thanks for taking my call, C-SPAN.
		What I'm concerned about the most is more than anything, the division and the divide within this country, starting at the top in the federal government, I think is one of our biggest issues today.
		The division, the fighting, the backbiting, the it's us against them all the time.
		It's like there is no coming together here, even in my own community at the local level.
		I live in a small village outside of Cleveland in a small suburb, but we're surrounded by other communities.
		Even in my small suburb outside of Cleveland, we have some Republicans that are just especially a little MAGA cult who, I mean, I've been so pissed off lately because, like, since I've been here, they've had this one little newspaper that they stick in our news in our mailboxes every month, right?
		And it's called Liberty News.
		And so, as time goes has gone on, they have become more and more MAGA with this paper.
		And so, even right here in my own community, and I just want to tell people, it all stars at your local level.
		We need to be at our local city meetings, our state meetings, all the way up to the top.
		Whether it's going to do any good or not, I don't know for this country because, again, people are so divided.
		Like, how can we ever resolve anything?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Donna there in Ohio, about a half hour to go until the House of Representatives comes in.
		We'll take your calls up until then.
		202-748-8000 for Democrats, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, and 202-748-8002 for independents.
		We go back to John McCarnel.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I want to come back to that breaking news this morning that the Supreme Court has declined the Trump administration's efforts to pause some $2 billion in foreign aid funding for USAID contracts being seen as a defeat for the Trump administration at the highest court this morning.
		This is Scott McFarland's reporting his tweet on it, noting that it was John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and the three liberal members of the court who joined together in that five to four decision.
		It's interesting to note John Roberts on that because this was the scene last night as President Trump was leaving the chamber after giving his presidential address.
		He shook the hand of John Roberts and as NPR investigative reporter Tom Dreisback noted, he said to John Roberts, Thank you again, thank you again, won't forget.
		Those were his words to John Roberts, his last words before John Roberts and the other justices then left the chamber just before 11 a.m. last night and then 11 p.m. last night.
		And then, of course, this decision coming this morning about 10 hours later is when it broke.
		That was last night.
		And then speaking of news from last night and Scott McFarland of NBC News, here's his alert.
		He's an avid court watcher of the federal courts.
		There's a court appearance today at 2 p.m. for the Abbey Gate terror suspect, Mohamed Sharfula.
		Sharfula's case, of course, announced during President Trump's speech last night.
		Scott McFarland going on to note that the FBI affidavit here alleges that he, as part of his service to ISIS-K, conducted surveillance so that he could prepare the suicide bomber and then transported him to the target area at Abbey Gate.
		More from Scott McFarland.
		The Justice Department filed their motion here days ago to keep the case sealed, arguing that premature disclosure of the charges against the defendant would jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation and may lead to the destruction of evidence.
		The need for secrecy, of course, ended during President Trump's address last night when he made that announcement.
		And that announcement getting a lot of reaction last night and continuing so today.
		Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, with this tweet this morning, the mastermind of the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan, who killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan civilians, is being transported to the United States to face, as he calls it, the sword of American justice.
		Thank you, President Trump, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, this morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from Kathy in Iowa, Independent Line.
unidentified		Thank you for taking my call.
		Yeah, I choose to look at facts as an independent.
		I'm kind of generally middle of the road, and I like to look at policies.
		However, I must say that I am taken by the hypocritical nature of what's going on with President Trump.
		And, you know, there have been a lot of callers calling in about the Democrats sitting down or Senator Greene interrupting Trump's speech last night.
		And I don't know if those same people saw when Biden was president that all the Republicans sat down and Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted his speech and was screaming in the chamber, but nobody took her out.
		I guess I don't understand some of the hypocrisy.
		The same thing in Trump's speech when he talked about unelected bureaucrats running the government.
		And then he has Elon Musk in there as an unelected bureaucrat with Doge.
		He is talking about, you know, making sure that we have people gaining citizenship in this country.
		He's against illegal border crossings.
		And I do agree that the border needs to be closely monitored.
		However, I don't know that our citizenship should be for sale.
		And he talked about a gold card where people could buy citizenship in our country for $5 million.
		I guess I think that's pretty insulting.
		And once again, saying you only belong here if you're rich.
		I also think people have been saying, I wonder what other countries think about the Democrats sitting down.
		I think if they want to know what other countries think in general, they should look.
		We have access to lots of news through, you know, with a click of the finger on Google.
		You do need to look at the sources and make sure they're accurate.
		But most of the countries are not seeing this in a positive light.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Let's go to David in North Carolina Republican line.
		You're on.
unidentified		Go ahead.
		Yeah, I think Trump said everything he needed to say last night.
		I think he did a good job at what he said about wanting all he's doing.
		And I think maybe the Democrats kind of showed their true self last night.
		And the guy that stood, you know, if he don't like it, he should have went on out.
		But anyway, I do know they are a shortage of super glue right.
		My uncle that proved that last night.
		So I thought your tail age is gluten to see.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That's David there in North Carolina, the Washington Times on its front page, by the way.
		The only story I've seen it so far is that the federal government, as part of cutting costs, planning to sell 400 agency buildings on the list saying the administration's listed more than 400 federal properties it wants to ditch, including some high-profile agency buildings in Washington and the office building in San Francisco that bears the name of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
		The buildings total nearly 78 million square feet of office space that the General Services Administration, the government's main landlord, says has been deemed, quote, non-core assets.
		GSC said the buildings have become too, quote, obsolete and unstable for federal agencies to use, and Congress doesn't have enough money to fix them.
		It quotes saying GSA will consider non-core assets for divestment from government ownership in an orderly fashion to ensure taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space or the significant maintenance costs associated with long-term building ownership, potentially saving more than $430 million in annual operating costs.
		That's from the Washington Times.
		Let's hear from Sharon.
		Sharon in Minnesota Democrats line.
unidentified		Good morning, Pedro.
		Good to hear you.
		I haven't, I've taken a hiatus since the election.
		Today's my first call back.
		Sent in a couple of texts, but today's the first call in.
		I think her name was Kathy from Iowa just a few minutes ago, pointing out that Trump is a tyrant.
		Boy, was she smacked dead right on?
		I did not watch the speech.
		I just can't do it anymore.
		My time is way too valuable to sit and listen to somebody who lies through his teeth constantly, who is a rapist.
		I just don't even understand this anymore, Pedro.
		But I guess the reason I'm calling is because I've heard a lot of Republican whiners this morning calling in and complaining that the Democrats didn't yahoo cheer and stand up and kiss his feet last night, for heaven's sakes.
		But they have short-term term memory loss, don't they?
		Because I think, again, it was Kathy from Iowa who pointed out that Biden gave a great speech, and they should just maybe put back into Google and see how the Republicans reacted to that.
		But not even that.
		Let's look at Obama for his how many speeches he had and how rude and disrespectful them Republicans were.
		In my opinion, another caller said none of them should have, the Democrats shouldn't have even showed up.
		I agree with that.
		They shouldn't have.
		They should not have wasted their time either.
		I appreciate your time, Pedro.
		Thank you so much.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Independent Lion Rufus is next in Florida.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I want to first say I appreciate what you're doing in C-SPAN.
		Let me be succinct here.
		The decorum or lack thereof is now become a norm, and that's really sad.
		But I want to address a couple of things.
		One, President Trump is a mixed bag.
		And by that, I think there are things that he brought out in the speech, because we're talking about the speech that needed to be said by either party, but was not.
		For example, I applaud President Trump saying there's two genders, male, female.
		And you can be liberal, conservative, whatever you call it, but we've lost that.
		And that's a sad indictment on our society.
		Second of all, the order that he would not allow men to play on female teams.
		There are several Democrats and independents that believe that to be as well.
		It takes some courage to come out and say, hey, this is how it's going to be.
		Now, the things with the eliminating of government waste and so forth, you know, President Clinton was actually the one that initiated the scaling back of government.
		And that was a Democrat.
		Republicans and Democrats have all talked about it, but nobody really took the courage to do it.
		My point is I close it out here.
		I'm not a fan of President Trump.
		I think he's a mixed bag of inconsistency.
		But there are some things that I think he's bringing out that will be consequential to us as Americans, both positive and negative.
		And all I'm going to say as I end it is: America, we put him in there.
		Be careful what you ask for because you might just get it.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Rufus from Florida there.
		Again, we've got about 20 minutes left of your calls before we go to the House of Representatives.
		But along the way, we're going to stop and visit with John McCartney.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, just an update on Congressman Al Green, the Democrat from Texas, who stood up at the beginning of Donald Trump's speech last night and shouted out his protest, refused to stop when asked to do so by the Speaker of the House and was removed.
		And this coming this morning, about 15 minutes ago, from the official Twitter page, X page of the House Freedom Caucus, the conservative branch of the House Republican caucus, the House Freedom Caucus will be introducing an official censure resolution against Al Green today, is their statement.
		Jake Sherman of Punch Bowl News saying there it is and saying it should pass easily.
		The only question on this resolution is: will there be any Democrats who vote for it?
		Jake Sherman, a longtime reporter covering the Capitol.
		And this is a reminder of what Al Green said last night, right after being removed from the chamber.
		He said, I'll accept the punishment, but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
		So we'll see what happens today.
		The House is in at 10 a.m. Eastern.
		The Senate is in at 10 a.m. Eastern.
		And it's a busy day on Capitol Hill after a late night last night.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is Bob in Illinois, Republican line.
unidentified		Hello.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		Love C-SPAN.
		Several things.
		Al Green was warned to sit down after two or three warnings.
		That's when they escorted him out.
		And he should Google yesterday Stephen A. Smith to find what a mandate was.
		He explained to the ladies on the view it was a mandate.
		Anyhow, the prime minister of Greenland should put it to a vote to his people, see if they want to become U.S. citizens.
		And lastly, I was a Democrat for 45 years, and I'm ashamed of the Democratic Party.
		How none of them people could stand up and applaud for that young kid that's been through the brain surgery or the family that took in the 40 foster children.
		They are heartless.
		These people are heartless.
		And if they don't get a clue, Republicans are going to rule for 25, 30 years, which I hope they do, but I hope it's not at the, I hope the dunns come around and help President Trump.
		He is my hero.
		Thanks, Pedro.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Deborah up next in Pennsylvania, Democrats line.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Good morning.
unidentified		Hello.
		Yeah, so I have a couple comments.
		First, I would like to say that as a Democrat, though, I am willing to give Trump a chance because he is trying to clean things up.
		And I agree with a few of the things that he brought up with like the Lake and Riley Act that he passed and the transgender athlete thing.
		And I know that they should be trying to clean everything out.
		There's too much waste.
		But going in and like chopping everything up before they actually get in and identify exactly where the waste is is a little bit crazy because I know some people who are feather employees that were just given that option or dismissed without any real reason.
		And I do have a comment about like taxes.
		I mean, I've been working for since I was 14 and 67 now, and I've been paying taxes in for all these years.
		And it's unconscionable to me why I've been paying taxes as well as many millions of other people.
		But yet the billionaires aren't doing it, paying the taxes that they should be compared to what the average citizen is.
		And are these tax cuts going to benefit the average American or are they just for the Billionaire Boys Club?
		And I am hoping that we do come to a resolution with Ukraine.
		Unfortunately, I'm not sure why we have to take 50% of their mineral rights rather than maybe 25 or less and why we can't give them security guarantees.
		But I just hope that all gets resolved.
		And I hope they don't do anything to our social security because, like I said, myself and millions of other people have been paying into that for several years.
		Thanks for taking my call.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Deborah there in Pennsylvania.
		She brought up the topic of Ukraine.
		I'll point the President's speech to his joint address to Congress last night.
		Here's a portion of that.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine.
		The letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
		Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians, he said.
		My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
		We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.
		Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you.
		I appreciate that he sent this letter, just got it a little while ago.
		Simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace.
		Wouldn't that be beautiful?
		It's time to stop this madness.
		It's time to halt the killing.
		It's time to end this senseless war.
		If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, viewers, that full speech available to you on our many platforms if you want to watch the events play out that took place yesterday.
		Mike in Florida, Independent Line.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I'm watching that speech last night, and I see a lot of noise coming out of the president, but no policies.
		The only policy I saw actually was for energy, and it was drill, baby, drill.
		And we've been drilling for more oil and gas than we ever have, and prices are still not going down.
		It's all going overseas.
		And as far as Ukraine is concerned, why is Ukraine being made to pay for this war when Russia started it?
		And what is Russia going to give up?
		What is their concessions?
		I don't hear nothing coming out of the president on that.
		And as far as that little kid, that cancer survivor, why are they cutting funds for cancer research?
		The Trump administration is.
		And he's always back in the police talking about the police, but he pardoned 1,500 of these people that rioted on the Capitol.
		So what is it with this guy?
		What does he have to offer the American people?
		I don't see any policies on health care, nothing.
		The guy's a disgrace.
		That's all I got to say.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		In Florida, Susie, on our Republican line.
unidentified		Yes.
		I just hope I can speak like the Democrats do.
		But, you know, Bill Clinton, he fired 477,000 federal workers to cut the budget.
		And, you know, Zelensky, they're calling him Trump a dictator.
		Zelensky, he, what about our American journalists that Zelensky put in prison and tortured and beaten to death?
		And what about, you know, him imprisoning his opponents and shutting down the media, no elections, martial law, shutting down the Christian Orthodox churches, and where are the billions of dollars unaccounted for?
		You know, that Zelensky doesn't know where it is.
		You know, so tell me how this relates to last night's speech, please.
		And, you know, it's a disgrace that they didn't applaud, you know, for those poor children that has died and the little boy that, you know, it's just disgraceful.
		I'm sorry.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Ron is next, and Ron is in Pennsylvania Democrats line.
unidentified		Good morning, Pedro.
		Yeah, a little bit of fact-checking here.
		He mentioned about his economy being the best.
		Well, let me go back to Mark Zandy in Moody's Analytics on your program and indicated that the best economy in 35 years was under the Biden-Harris administration.
		Also, the lowest crime rate.
		And immigration under the Biden-Harris administration was the lowest amount of immigrants coming into our country up to that point.
		So, you know, there's a lot of things that we ought to fact-check when this guy starts talking nonsense.
		And also, like one caller says, you know, he said that the police assaulted, the police now assaulted the protesters on January 6th.
		Can you believe that?
		Then he has this thing about praising the police.
		Unbelievable.
		You talk about hypocrisy.
		This guy's something else.
		I mean, that was the most boring, unbelievably stupid speech I've ever heard.
		And I hope that most people really realize that this guy is just a phony, a con man, and he should be ousted.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		That's Ron there in Pennsylvania.
		All during the course of the morning, John McCartle's been visiting with us to give us information and things that you can take away from last night's speech on other things one more time with Mr. McCartle.
		Go ahead.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, just wanted to give viewers one more look at what we're watching for today on Capitol Hill.
		Again, the House is in at 10 a.m. Eastern.
		The Senate also in at 10 a.m.
		You can watch on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2, respectively.
		On C-SPAN 3, a confirmation hearing for the next director of the National Institutes of Health at 10 a.m.
		And also hearings at c-span.org as well, including one on sanctuary cities.
		That's just this morning on the C-SPAN networks.
		Other news we're watching out for today.
		At 1 p.m. Eastern, we're expecting Carolyn Levitt, White House press secretary, to hold a press briefing the day after a presidential address.
		Those are always interesting to watch.
		JD Vance is headed to Texas to go to the U.S.-Mexico border today in the wake of that speech last night and border issues being such a key part.
		So we'll watch the vice president's trip as well.
		And then, as Josh Wingrove of Bloomberg points out, we are finding out this morning that President Trump may make some news on new tariff announcements this afternoon on Canada and Mexico that he may cut the tariff in some sectors, like automobiles, while keeping the rate at 25% for others.
		So some indication from Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick in an interview this morning that we'll hear more from President Trump.
		And then, of course, there's the breaking news this morning about the Supreme Court denying President Trump's emergency bid to cancel $2 billion in U.S. AID spending a five to four vote at the Supreme Court.
		Obviously, some news and response to that to watch out for today.
		So like we've been saying, it was a busy night last night on Capitol Hill and will be a busy day today.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I thank you, sir, for your time with us.
		The information that you gave to our audience.
		And also, as you heard John talk about the press briefing later on today, C-SPAN's as part of the coverage of that, hoping to get a question or two in from the press secretary, a question directly from you.
		And so what we're asking you to do is that if you had a question that you wanted to see answered from the White House press secretary, you can send that to whquestions at cyphenspan.org.
		Hopefully we'll have a chance to get that in there, and hopefully you'll get a response.
		All we ask is if you do send us a question, please include your name, also your city and your state.
		A few more minutes before the House of Representatives comes in.
		This is Bill in Alabama, Independent Line.
tom homan ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
unidentified		How are you today?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Fine, thank you.
unidentified		I have a couple of questions.
		I watched the entire speech last night.
		I thought it was a shame that the Democrats sat all night long and couldn't applaud for a number of nonpartisan things.
		If your children acted that way, how would you handle that with your children?
		And how many people out there would be okay with a biological male walking into the locker room with their daughter?
		Answer that question and then say, are you for men and women or are you for transgender?
		Also, spend 43 days.
		We had four years.
		Inflation went to 9%.
		It was at 1.4% when we started.
		And I keep hearing about Elon Musk being a non-elected bureaucrat.
		All of the aides that work for the senators and the congresspeople are non-elected people as well.
		Do they have access to my social security number?
		Do they have access to personal information?
		They're not elected.
		How are they vetted?
		Are they really any different than what Elon Musk is doing when they have access to information as well?
		Nobody's asked that question.
		I would love to have somebody answer that question for me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		That's Bill there in Alabama.
		Nancy in California.
		Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Good morning.
		How are you?
		Fine.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yes.
		I think Al Green is a hero for what he did.
		It's what every one of us should be doing.
		We talk a big talk, but when it comes down to it, we don't walk the talk.
		Al Green walked the talk.
		He protested.
		He stood up.
		He protested.
		He said afterwards, I'll accept whatever punishment is coming my way.
		That's what we should all be doing.
		The president, I call him Albert Hitler, is now threatening students who demonstrate on college campuses.
		He's going to arrest them.
		He's going to deport them for some reason under some theory.
		And we all should be taking the risk.
		We all should be out there yelling, screaming, stomping like Al Green.
		Every Democrat in that house should have walked out at that point in support.
		And as far as last gentleman from Alabama saying, why did the Democrats stay sitting, how disrespectful that was, doesn't he remember sit-ins?
		That's exactly what that was.
		They shouldn't have been there, but they were there.
		They should have walked out.
		That's what each one of us should be doing.
		It's what I am doing.
		And if I get arrested, I'll pay the price.
		Okay.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Alan in Maryland, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		I wanted to call in because I didn't want to argue or try to prove a point.
		I just wanted to offer maybe some thoughts about cooperation.
		And really, it's just simply based on, I think we've all, as Americans, gotten a little soft or a little lazy.
richard c hoagland ▲ ● ▼		For example, we just have all these nameless bureaucrats passing out billions of dollars as they see fit.
unidentified		And then pennies on the dollar get to the people who really need the money.
		So, my suggestion just for people to contemplate is: why don't we kind of slow the roll of the government spending?
		And if you want to give money to Gaza, start an NGO and you give the money.
		If you want to give condoms to Mozambique, you start an NGO, you give them.
		Nonprofit, let people put their money where they want and not have the government pay for everything.
		That's my take.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Trina in Gary, Indiana, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes, I have a request for all the citizens of the United States.
		Please read Proverbs chapter 6, verses 16 through 19.
		It is President Donald J. Trump.
		Now, my comments about the speech to Congress last night, I thought it was disgraceful.
		The man who's been registered as having told 30,000-plus lies during his time in and out of office over the past eight years was speaking to the audience last night.
		Why would you listen to someone 34 times convicted, twice impeached, did not place his hand on the Bible when he took the oath of office for this presidency?
		He may have done it the first time.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Craig in Cleveland, Ohio, Republican line.
unidentified		Good morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're on.
		Go ahead.
		And we're running short on time, so jump in with a question or comment about last night, please.
unidentified		Yes, I just want to say the liberals and the Democrats calling in here crying up a storm.
		Omega Americans love it.
		Thanks for the support.
		Have a great day.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Perry in New Jersey, Independent line, same thing.
		House just about to come in.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Well, all I can say is the Democrats were a disgrace last night.
		I know this happens on both sides of the aisle.
		I don't see why everybody is so up in arms when we're 37 trillion in debt.
		There's too many of these non-government officials taking our money and just pissing it away.
		It's ridiculous.
		I support Trump all the way.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Louise in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Republican line.
unidentified		I think that the American people are getting ready to are being gaslighted on the tariffs, just like we were gaslighted on the COVID when the Democrats shut down the schools, shut down the businesses, six feet apart, and all this other stuff.
		We're getting gaslighted.
		Period.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How so?
		Louise, tell us how.
		Okay, let's go to Andre.
		Andre in Washington, D.C., Independent line.
		Again, the time, the clock is ticking.
		Andre, hello, go ahead.
unidentified		Hello.
		I was watching his speech last night, and he said he liked it.
		The White Island Howard deportation plan.

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