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| Welcome back. | ||
| We're in Open Forum. | ||
| And before we take your calls, a few things for your schedule. | ||
| Today, a discussion on the impacts of artificial intelligence on the workforce and what AI could mean for the future of work. | ||
| That's at the American Enterprise Institute. | ||
| That starts at 10.30 a.m. here on C-SPAN. | ||
| And at 2.30 here on C-SPAN, we'll have Fed Chair Jerome Powell. | ||
| He holds a news conference on the U.S. economy, inflation, and interest rates following his meeting with other Federal Reserve officials. | ||
| Again, that's at 2.30 here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Both those programs you can see on our app, C-SPANNO, and online at c-span.org. | ||
| In the news, here's the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Putin agrees to partial ceasefire in Ukraine. | ||
| It says that the Russian leader tells Trump he will pause attacks on energy infrastructure. | ||
| That was during a phone call that happened yesterday. | ||
| It says that he remained resistant to a longer-lasting peace plan pushed by the U.S. president since his election. | ||
| The ceasefire is the first tangible concession from Russia won by Trump in his campaign for a peace deal, in which he has mainly pressured Kyiv for concessions. | ||
| We are hearing also reporting that President Trump is set to speak to Ukrainian President Zelensky today. | ||
| We'll keep you updated on that. | ||
| Here is also news from overseas. | ||
| Israel threatens more strikes. | ||
| Attacks in Gaza killed more than 400 are, quote, just the beginning, according to the Israeli leader, and we have a portion of him speaking. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| Hamas refused offer after offer to release our hostages. | ||
| In the past two weeks, Israel did not initiate any military action in the hope that Hamas would change course. | ||
| Well, that didn't happen. | ||
| While Israel accepted the offer of President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, Hamas flatly refused to do so. | ||
| This is why I authorized yesterday the renewal of military action against Hamas. | ||
| Israel does not target Palestinian civilians. | ||
| We target Hamas terrorists. | ||
| And when these terrorists embed themselves in civilian areas, when they use civilians as human shields, they're the ones who are responsible for all unintended casualties. | ||
| Palestinian civilians should avoid any contact with Hamas terrorists. | ||
| And I call on the people of Gaza, get out of harm's way, move to safer areas, because every civilian casualty is a tragedy. | ||
| And every civilian casualty is the fault of Hamas. | ||
| I thank President Trump for his unwavering support for Israel. | ||
| Our alliance with the United States has never been stronger. | ||
| To those who criticize Israel, I ask, what would you do if terrorists murdered and kidnapped your children? | ||
| You would do what we are doing. | ||
| In the face of pure evil, free societies have no choice but to fight. | ||
| That was Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday in an address to his nation. | ||
| And we will go to the calls now to Christine in Pennsylvania, a Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Christine. | ||
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Hi, I tried to get on earlier with what you were talking about, and I didn't get it. | |
| But I'll just say what I needed to say then. | ||
| I just had comments like, we need more research and development to help with solar and electric instead of stopping it and starting it. | ||
| Jimmy Carter started it, and Reagan took it off, and it's back on. | ||
| We should just stay with it. | ||
| Number two, where I live in the valley that changed the world, that's the Titusville Oil City, Pennsylvania area. | ||
| It has been mostly run by Republicans, and since I lived in Venango County, oil and gas in 2004, my neighbor dumped his brine from his oil holding tanks into the ditch by his house. | ||
| It was a new oil and gas, which ran into the creek in our area. | ||
| In doing so, they left the oil go because they didn't stop it when it was just the brine. | ||
| So it went onto our property that had a beaver dam. | ||
| And then the neighbor or his helper knocked down the beaver dam that was on our property. | ||
| It went further down into Sandy Creek. | ||
| The local paper, which is called the Derrick, would not publish anything about it. | ||
| Fish were killed, and we never found out what happened to the beaver. | ||
| They also use the, um, they, Kevin, go out to the other room. | ||
| They also use. | ||
| So Christine, do you think that this should be handled on the federal level by the EPA or at the local level? | ||
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Well, the local level didn't do anything to help. | |
| And I went to representatives, they gave me one little piece of paper to find out. | ||
| I did get the oil well shut down by spending several thousand dollars, having my water tested. | ||
| We need to have regulation that really works. | ||
| And there's one other thing that I want to say. | ||
| Fast forward to the 2020s, our local area, we had another oil dump because it seems to be standard operating precision that they just dumped the brine off of these oil wells. | ||
| In Reno, Pennsylvania, it just ruined the water for the people there. | ||
| And now they brought in another company that's running the water system. | ||
| And it's going to cost a lot of money to fix this. | ||
| And you know who's going to get stuck with it? | ||
| It's not the people that made the money from the oil wells. | ||
| It's the taxpayers. | ||
| They're going to, in the long run, get stuck with it. | ||
| All right, Christine. | ||
| And staying in Pennsylvania, this is Barry, a Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I was just, I concur with a previous caller, but getting back to the two gentlemen you had on earlier, I think they're both good guys. | ||
| And I just wanted to say it. | ||
| I think there has to be a balance with all this. | ||
| Of course, I don't think there's anybody, President Trump, President Biden, or anybody that isn't concerned with clean air, drinking water. | ||
| We love our families. | ||
| We love our country. | ||
| But, you know, you can be over-regulated, too. | ||
| So I think both gentlemen are correct in the things they were, the point of view they were making. | ||
| And I just wanted to say there has to be a balance no matter what it is for our country. | ||
| And I just wanted to get your thoughts on that if you care to comment. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, Barry. | ||
| And this is Chris, Huntsville, Alabama, Independent Line. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| This is Chris in Huntsville. | ||
| And I wanted to talk about the last two gentlemen that were discussing CO2. | ||
| The CO2 concentration is tracked and is listed in a curve called the Keeling Curve. | ||
| It's been acquired over the last 40 years. | ||
| And the heat in the atmosphere essentially compounds. | ||
| In other words, the more CO2 you put in, it's like your savings account. | ||
| It just keeps getting greater and greater and greater with the interest. | ||
| With more and more CO2, you keep trapping more and more heat. | ||
| And if we just ignore it, as they suggested, don't worry about the change, it's just going to keep getting hotter and hotter and hotter unless we interdict to slow down the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. | ||
| And by the way, that data is recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory, which is one of the things that Elon Musk is trying to destroy right now. | ||
| Get rid of that observatory. | ||
| We'll get rid of the keeling curve. | ||
| Thank you for listening. | ||
| Here's Catherine in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Democrat. | ||
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Good morning, and thank you for taking my call. | |
| I wanted to talk about the Donald Trump's negotiations only with Putin and leaving out Zelensky. | ||
| And I think the American people are like not aware. | ||
| Donald Trump negotiated with the Taliban, the Afghan withdrawal. | ||
| He negotiated only with the Taliban. | ||
| He left out Afghanistan. | ||
| He released 5,000 prisoners. | ||
| He reduced the soldiers from 13,000 to 2,500, making it less safe. | ||
| He closed one of the airports. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| He agreed to all of these terms. | ||
| He agreed to closing the airports in northern Afghanistan. | ||
| And that is why it was very difficult to get the people out of the one airport that was open. | ||
| And my concern is the same thing would happen again with not including Zelensky in these. | ||
| He gives all of these concessions to who I would call the aggressor in this and doesn't consider Zelensky or the people. | ||
| And for anyone who says that Donald Trump is a great negotiator, it seems like he is if you're on the side of the tyrant or the aggressor rather than Zelensky. | ||
| And I'm concerned of what will happen to Europe, what will happen to NATO, and what will happen to the freedom of other independent countries in Europe if there are no checks put on these agreements with just Donald Trump and Putin. | ||
| And maybe there is someone out there because I don't think the news ever covered the fact that Donald Trump negotiated only with the Taliban for that withdrawal. | ||
| I don't ever remember hearing anything about it. | ||
| I looked it up on my own. | ||
| But of those 5,000 Taliban troops, maybe two of them were the people that killed the American soldiers that died over there. | ||
| Then he blamed Biden for everything, the chaotic withdrawal. | ||
| Well, it was because he set the deadline for being out of Afghanistan. | ||
| And I'd love to find out if you could do a survey. | ||
| Did the American people ever hear of any of this? | ||
| And I appreciate it. | ||
| All right, Catherine. | ||
| And Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, was on the view yesterday, and he was talking about his handling of the GOP spending bill vote last week. | ||
| Governor Pritzker's chief of staff, Anna Ann Caprera, has said the following: The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, right, and moderate. | ||
| It's between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. | ||
| And it gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved. | ||
| I think you and nine other Democrats caved. | ||
| I don't think you showed the fight that this party needs right now because you're playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away. | ||
| True. | ||
| And so, in my view, what you did really was in supporting that GOP partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid. | ||
| Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by? | ||
| Okay, first, I'd say, Sonny, no one wants to fight more than me, and no one fights more than me. | ||
| You've got to fight smart. | ||
| It is not true. | ||
| That bill had far less damage. | ||
| It was bad. | ||
| I hated it. | ||
| But it does far less damage to Social Security. | ||
| Medicare, Medicaid are far more susceptible to being eliminated, which is what that horrible Musk. | ||
| Can you imagine this guy, Musk, a billionaire, saying $1,100 for a senior citizen is not necessary for a Ponzi scheme? | ||
| There are many fewer cuts in that bill than that would be in a shutdown. | ||
| But they do not exist. | ||
| It was a bad choice. | ||
| So we got to fight. | ||
| Yes, they exist. | ||
| But if you're not going to be able to do it, if you have two choices, one bad, the other devastating, one chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| So I want to fight, and we are fighting. | ||
| We're going to fight every day on this, every day. | ||
| Today, we're fighting them on Medicaid. | ||
| Tomorrow, we're going to fight them on, you know, the next few days on tariffs. | ||
| We're going to fight them on Social Security. | ||
| But I want to win and fight smart. | ||
| Not just, I understand, we want to stick it to them. | ||
| We're going to stick it to them. | ||
| And that was Senator Chuck Schumer on the View. | ||
| This is Open Forum, and here is Harold, a Republican in Kansas. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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