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The real news source for me is C-SPAN. | |
| When they say they are unfiltered, they are unfiltered. | ||
| Democracy is always an unfinished creation. | ||
| Democracy is worth dying for. | ||
| Democracy belongs to us all. | ||
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core, a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
| You'll have your chance now to talk about whatever's on your mind as far as public policy, politics, the goings-on in Washington, foreign policy as well. | ||
| And we'll start with Kathy in Hudson, Florida, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Kathy. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you? | ||
| Good. | ||
| My thing is, I've been looking at all the different branches of the government and going through the accounting. | ||
| And we pay billions of dollars for accounting companies to go through our books. | ||
| And they list recommendations. | ||
| Nobody seems to have followed these recommendations because the things that Doge is talking about with the payments going to people that we don't know about and all that. | ||
| If Congress had gone through the audit, a lot of this would have been caught. | ||
| And I don't understand why Congress neglected it. | ||
| That's my opinion. | ||
| All right, Kathy. | ||
| And let's talk to Kendra in Ashland, Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
| Hi, Kendra. | ||
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Hi, good morning, Mimi. | |
| Morning. | ||
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Regarding the first 100 days for President Trump, News Nation, an unbiased news station, will hold a town hall meeting on Wednesday regarding his first 100 days. | |
| That's April 30th at 8 p.m. | ||
| It's for two hours and hosted by Chris Cuomo and Bill O'Reilly. | ||
| Stephen A. Smith will also be present, and most importantly, President Trump will be on the phone answering their questions. | ||
| Hopefully, they will ask meaningful questions, and hopefully, Trump will answer questions fully, but without being long-winded, you know, with his answers. | ||
| If anyone from his administration is currently listening, please advise him to keep his answers short because Americans want as many questions answered as possible within the two-hour allotted time. | ||
| Have a great day, Mimi. | ||
| Kendra, before you go, what question would you want to ask President Trump? | ||
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Well, you know, I did vote for him for the first time this, you know, but I just would like to know, I want to know when, you know, prices are going to go down. | |
| That's what I want to know. | ||
| He did run on that. | ||
| He is making some changes, and hopefully that will be discussed. | ||
| All right, Kendra. | ||
| And there's a Fox News poll about President Trump's job performance. | ||
| Overall, they have this, this has it at 44% approval, 55% disapproval of President Trump's job performance. | ||
| But on what Kendra was talking about, which is inflation, his approval rating is at 33%, disapproval at 59%. | ||
| Here's Clara in Virginia, Democrat. | ||
| Hi, Clara. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| Yes, I'm interested. | ||
| I was really interested in what the last person who was on speaking on. | ||
| My question is, could you please put up a graph of what other countries are budgeting for their military and then for what our last military budget is and what the changes are in this year's military budget? | ||
| Because it sounds like they're very substantial, but I'm not seeing any graphs or numbers behind it. | ||
| And I think it's super important for Americans to know how much of our actual money is going towards this new military budget while we're making so many other cuts in the parts of the government that people use that are really imperative for a lot of people. | ||
| So Clara, you want to see as a percentage of GDP, I guess? | ||
| Defense spending? | ||
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I would mostly just like to see the dollar amounts that every country, like, you know, maybe, you know, industrial nations spend. | |
| Got it, Clara. | ||
| And sorry, I got to cut you off because we're going to take you live to the White House press room. | ||
| Caroline Levitt is speaking. | ||
| Tom Homan will be joining her. | ||
| Undoubtedly been the most monumental and historic of any administration in American history. | ||
| President Trump has already delivered on hundreds of promises he made to the American people, and we will continue to talk about all of them throughout this week. | ||
| Tomorrow, I will host a press briefing at this same time, bright and early again, to highlight the Trump administration's economic accomplishments with our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant. | ||
| And tomorrow night, President Trump will travel to Michigan to discuss all that he has achieved on behalf of the American people. | ||
| On Wednesday, the President will host an open press cabinet meeting where each cabinet member will discuss their success thus far and their plans for the future. | ||
| Today, we kick off 100-day week with a focus on the president's historic effort to secure our southern border. | ||
| Later this afternoon, President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on sanctuary cities. | ||
| The first EO will strengthen and unleash America's law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens. | ||
| The second EO is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens, and it will direct the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws. | ||
| After these are signed, the President will have signed more than 140 executive orders already, rapidly approaching the total number signed by the Biden administration over the course of four years in office. | ||
| Speaking of Joe Biden, it was his awful open border policies that recklessly allowed more than 10 million illegal aliens to invade the United States over the past four years. | ||
| Innocent Americans like Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nungre, Rachel Morin, and so many others were viciously murdered at the hands of these illegal aliens as a result of Biden's dereliction of duty. | ||
| That's why one of President Trump's central campaign promises was to secure the border and end this invasion. | ||
| In just under 100 days, 99 now to be exact, the president has overwhelmingly delivered on that promise. | ||
| America's borders are now secure because of President Trump. | ||
| He has restored the rule of law, enforced our immigration laws, and defended America's sovereignty. | ||
| The president immediately declared a national emergency on the southern border, deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion, and ended reckless catch and release policies. | ||
| The results have been nothing short of extraordinary. | ||
| Between President Trump's inauguration and April 1 of this month, only nine illegal aliens were released into the United States, a staggering 99.99% decrease from the more than 184,000 illegal aliens who were released into the country under Biden during the same period last year. | ||
| The number and that's happening live right now at the White House press room. | ||
| If you'd like to continue watching that live, it is over on C-SPAN 2, or you can watch it later on our website, c-span.org. | ||
| And she did mention that President Trump will be in Michigan later. | ||
| This is the Washington Times with the headline, Trump Thrills MAGA Base Rattles Some. | ||
| Presidential rally in Michigan to mark a busy first hundred days. | ||
| He is scheduled to hold his first rally of his second term today, Tuesday, in Macomb County, Michigan, where Republicans are in awe of his actions in a little more than three months to stop illegal immigration, cut government spending, claw back regulations, and implement a host of other policies through a flurry of executive orders. | ||
| Macomb is the most heavily Republican county in the critical swing state. | ||
| And we are back with open forum and we'll take your calls. | ||
| James is in Georgia. | ||
| Republican. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I wanted to talk about your earlier segment with the Congressional Reporter. | ||
| You had a call that called in from California saying that President Trump has not done anything. | ||
| And the reason, in my opinion, that he can't get anything done is because of these rogue judges. | ||
| Judges that's hiding illegal aliens in their homes. | ||
| Judges that's hiding illegal aliens in their courtrooms. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| The problem is with these rogue judges. | ||
| But you let her go on and on and talk about what the Republicans are not doing and didn't push back on the rogue judges. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| We got that. | ||
| Joe is in Providence, Rhode Island, Independent. | ||
| Good morning, Joe. | ||
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Hi, I'm a retired IMS agent. | |
| I retired 29 years ago before ICE existed, but I never saw anything like this. | ||
| You know, this judge was quite lawfully arrested because she committed a felony by interfering with an arrest by ICE agents. | ||
| You know, I saw all this outrage from people. | ||
| Oh, they're arresting judges. | ||
| You know, if you go back 20-some-odd years to Chicago, they arrested over a dozen judges in Operation Glarewood for corruption. | ||
| Nobody said anything about that. | ||
| And I mean, people agreed with that. | ||
| Obviously, these judges were taking bribes. | ||
| Now, I doubt this judge took a bribe. | ||
| She just decided to do something illegal. | ||
| There was a similar case in Massachusetts a couple of years ago with Judge Richmond up there. | ||
| You know, I just saw her on the stand with the Democrats are going to die on this hill with illegal aliens. | ||
| I'm an independent, but I can't agree with the things they've done. | ||
| We have a lieutenant governor in the state who said people don't want ICE here, and people who are here under any status are Rhode Island citizens. | ||
| I don't know where this woman gets her ideas from. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And Joe, some more information on what you were talking about from CBS FBI arrests. | ||
| Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan for obstruction in immigration case. | ||
| It says that that arrest happened on Friday by the FBI. | ||
| Wisconsin County Judge, obstruction charges accusing her of preventing the arrest of a man by immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation at her courthouse. | ||
| FBI Director Patel said that the man Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was later arrested and is currently being detained. | ||
| Judge Dugan was arrested at 8 a.m. on Friday at the courthouse where she works, according to federal law enforcement source. | ||
| She was charged with two counts of obstruction and released from detention after making an initial appearance in federal court. | ||
| Here's Gina in Decatur, Alabama, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Gina. | ||
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Hi, how are you doing, Mamie? | |
| Good. | ||
| I just got a couple of things on a couple of subjects you've had already. | ||
| Number one, about the budget. | ||
| The Democrats didn't raise minimum wage because they wouldn't overrow the parliamentarian because the parliamentarian is advisory, and Nelson Rockefeller did it as vice president in 1975. | ||
| And if the Democrats did not like the tax cuts and jobs acts of 2017, they could have repealed it. | ||
| But they're all rich and they're not going to, you know, cut their nose off to spite their face. | ||
| And as far as the wars go, I have a son on active duty right now. | ||
| And it makes no sense to me that we're getting ready to give a loan to Ukraine for $50 billion. | ||
| And they don't have any money to pay us back. | ||
| And I don't think they have any minerals either. | ||
| And even if they do, it's probably in the eastern part of Ukraine from the old maps from the 1960s. | ||
| And as far as Iran, I understand you guys. | ||
| Somebody coming up. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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Jake Sullivan lied on the news. | |
| $6 billion went to that other country to dish out for humanitarian stuff from South Korea under Biden. | ||
| $10 billion was released. | ||
| And I can give you the date because I remember April 15th of 2024. | ||
| Kirby announced it. | ||
| It flew under the radar. | ||
| And Iraq gave Iran money when they had to pay them for the natural gas because the president Blinken met the president of Iraq in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And the only reason I keep up with this stuff is because I have one on active duty. | ||
| So when these people call in, they want to continue. | ||
| You know, we got troops in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan, and Israel, and everywhere around this world. | ||
| So when these people call in, want to continue these forever wars, you better think again. | ||
| All right, I don't think there are people who serving. | ||
| Thank you, Mamie, and you have a very blessed day. | ||
| I'm sorry, I got upset. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Rick in Raleigh, North Carolina, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Rick. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I just think the politicians need to let the people have their trial and be considered innocent until proven guilty instead of condemning these people on the air. | ||
| And the Republican politicians talk a lot about balancing the budget, but they never do any laws to try to do it. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we are in open forum. | ||
| If you'd like to give us a call, you can. | ||
| Our lines are Republicans. | ||
| 202-748-8001. | ||
| It's 202-748-8000 for Democrats and 202-748-8002 for independents. | ||
| You can also text us at 202-748-8003, which is what Teresa in Little Rock, Arkansas did. | ||
| She says, who will be responsible if, when, citizens die or get sick from bad food as the FDA is not reviewing milk and food with four lab closures? | ||
| Why is there not more outcry? | ||
| And here is Ronnie in Wadesboro, North Carolina, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Good morning, Amy. | ||
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| First of all, I'm out to shock a little bit, shout the United States a little bit. | ||
| I'm going to blame the Democrats for Donald Trump because they should never ran Hillary and they should never ran Carmel Harris. | ||
| This country is controlled by you know what? | ||
| Massan that people know what I'm talking about. | ||
| Now, Trump beat two ladies. | ||
| He lost his Joe Biden. | ||
| And these slick-brained Republican Donald Trump supporters, they don't understand about the immigrants. | ||
| The immigrants is the backbone of this country. | ||
| They don't collect Social Security. | ||
| They pay into it. | ||
| And that's why our Social Security is so strong. | ||
| But these people call in, love Donald Trump. | ||
| I don't care if you love Donald Trump. | ||
| But think about the country. | ||
| The country is controlled by a person that don't know what he's doing. | ||
| And he got people in his administration that don't know what the hell they're doing. | ||
| Look at the Pentagon. | ||
| I mean, it's so crazy. | ||
| Now, when I say blame the Democrats for Donald Trump, because this country is controlled by Tu Paul King. | ||
| And thank you, darling, for having me on. | ||
| And you guys are doing a good job. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, Ronnie. | ||
| And Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent of Vermont, agrees that he is criticizing the Democrats. | ||
| He was on Meet the Press yesterday. | ||
| Here's what he had to say about that. | ||
| What Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future. | ||
| How are we going to provide a decent standard of living for a younger generation, which everything being equal, will be poorer than their parents? | ||
| How do we repair a broken health care system? | ||
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How do we raise the minimum wage to a living wage? | |
| How do we deal with a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires to control both political parties? | ||
| Those are some of the issues that need to be discussed. | ||
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And we are going out around the country right now, asking people, working people, run for office. | |
| You want to run as a Democrat? | ||
| Great. | ||
| You want to run as an independent? | ||
| That's great. | ||
| But you got to get involved in the political process because right now the two-party system is failing the working class of this country. | ||
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Let me ask you about something that your colleague, Senator Alyssa Slotkin, said. | |
| She said, Democrats should stop using the term oligarchy because it's a phrase that doesn't resonate with all Americans. | ||
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Are you missing a chance to speak to a wider audience, Senator? | |
| Well, geez, we had 36,000 people out in Los Angeles, 34,000 people in Colorado. | ||
| We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is kind of a rural area. | ||
| I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Lotkin thinks they are. | ||
| I think they understand very well when the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%. | ||
| When big money interests are able to control both political parties, they are living in an oligarchy. | ||
| And these are precisely the issues that have got to be talked about. | ||
| Are you living in a democracy when Mr. Musk can spend $270 million to elect Trump and then becomes the most important person in government? | ||
| Or APAC and other super PACs have enormous power over Democratic candidates. | ||
| Those are issues that we have got to talk about. | ||
| That is the reality of American society today. | ||
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The very rich getting richer. | |
| Working class people are struggling. | ||
| 800,000 people sleeping out on the streets. | ||
| If we don't address that issue, the American people will continue to turn their backs on democracy because they're looking around them and they're saying, does anybody understand what I am going through? | ||
| And unfortunately, right now, to a large degree, neither party does. | ||
| That was Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday, and we are in open forum. | ||
| Vancouver, this is the Wall Street Journal front page. | ||
| Vancouver mourns victims after car attack kills 11. | ||
| That was at a street festival, and Reuters is reporting that prosecutors charge a Vancouver man with murder for the attack on that Filipino festival. | ||
| It says police, quote, confident it was not an act of terrorism. | ||
| The driver is 30 years old, and he's charged with eight counts of second-degree murder. | ||
| And this is Tala in Virginia, Line for Independence. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, ma'am. | |
| I had a question. | ||
| This is regarding dogs. | ||
| According to the HUD Housing and Urban Development Rules, the Section 8 program that they administer, if a voucher recipient does not pay their portion of the tenant rent or does damage to the property, then the voucher is terminated. | ||
| But however, in Prince William County, the person that was overseeing the program was promoted to a director, and now he is part of the board of county supervisors. | ||
| So any complaints that are made, no one is overseeing them, and those same people are committing taxpayer fraud by keep reissuing the vouchers to those same problem tenants. | ||
| So do you know how I could report it to the dog office, or is there a mechanism where this can be reported? | ||
| I would go through your Congressional Representative, Tala, and probably start there. | ||
| Steve in Painesville, Ohio, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| The president's job is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States to the best of his ability. | ||
| He takes an oath to do that. | ||
| He's not doing it. | ||
| He's either unable or he's unwilling to do it. | ||
| The 25th Amendment, Section 4, has never been used, but I think it should be used. | ||
| Where if the President is unable or unwilling to do his job, he should be removed from office. | ||
| It would require JD Vance, vice president, and a majority of the cabinet to start that process. | ||
| Maybe it's wishful thinking, but they need to either use that or they need to impeach this president. | ||
| Based on what, Steve? | ||
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Well, he's flagrant. | |
| He's violating the Constitution. | ||
| He's ignoring the rule of law. | ||
| The Supreme Court, just for one example, they ruled 9-0 to return Brego Garcia. | ||
| He was, whether he had tattoos or he was a gang member or not, he was denied his due process. | ||
| You can't just come around and pick people off the street because they have tattoos or you suspect them of being a criminal. | ||
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So this sets a precedent. | |
| And the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, she's acting like the president's personal lawyer. | ||
| This is way out of hand. | ||
| And, you know, most of us are law-abiding citizens. | ||
| We've been working our whole lives. | ||
| We're paying our taxes. | ||
| We're serving our country. | ||
| I've served the country, you know, 78 to 82, served in the Navy. | ||
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I took an oath, support and defend the Constitution. | |
| It's not a Republican or Democrat thing. | ||
| It's an American thing. | ||
| Everybody should love their country, love this country, and everybody should abide by the rule of law and the Constitution. | ||
| I could go on. | ||
| I mean, the Emoluments Clause, Section 1, or Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8. | ||
| I mean, where's the money going? | ||
| President Trump is selling little golden tickets to foreign nationals or whatever. | ||
| We got your point, Steve. | ||
| Let's talk to John, a Republican in Malta, New York. | ||
| Hi, John. | ||
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Hi, Mimi. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| Mimi, a while back, C-SPAN did a segment on civility and discourse in government. | ||
| And, you know, a lot of your viewers called in and gave their reasons why things were as heated and uncivil as they were. | ||
| But one of the things that really shocks me, and it's very disturbing, is to watch some of these Democrat, women, especially, and their rhetoric and vitriol. | ||
| And specifically, it started with somebody like Maxine Waters getting up and sensationalizing things, telling people to get in your face, whipping up hysteria and things. | ||
| And you had a lot of incidents following that. | ||
| And then, of course, you had Jasmine Crockett, I believe her name is, coming up and, you know, give me a birthday present, take down Musk. | ||
| And again, using charged and heated words. | ||
| But one of the worst things I've seen, you know, I'm trying to be unemotional about this, was this Frederica Wilson. | ||
| I believe that's her name. | ||
| She came up and it looked like a circus clown. | ||
| And she got up and she says, threaten, call up Republicans and threaten them. | ||
| And, you know, I'm just totally shocked that the Democrats don't come out and tell these people to mollify it a little bit. | ||
| It's just unbelievable. | ||
| And I'll wrap this up. | ||
| My congressman is a Democrat. | ||
| And the person in the next district where I am is Elise Stefanik. | ||
| And I've, you know, I certainly wished I could get in Stefanik's district. | ||
| But when I call the Democrat up and I tell him this, that this is happening, you know, I really don't get a response. | ||
| So I don't know what could be done. | ||
| The Democrats boast a big tent, but all you see is people like Tim Waltz coming out on the stage, jumping up and down, you know, wishing that Musk would, you know, suffer misfortune. | ||
| So, John, I do have this about what you were talking about. | ||
| So this is the New York Post. | ||
| It says, Dem, let's get it right there. | ||
| Dem rep in pink cowboy hat calls for anti-GOP, quote, uprising over Florida ICE detention center conditions. | ||
| So she went to the ICE facility and talked about the conditions there. | ||
| She says, urged Americans to hit the streets, flood Republican lawmakers with, quote, threatening calls, and cause a, quote, uprising over the conditions at a Florida ICE detention center, all while clad in full pink suit and flower-adorned cowboy hat. | ||
| That is the New York Post. | ||
| This is Diane in Florence, South Carolina. | ||
| Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| To the American people, good morning to everybody. | ||
| I just want to say that we have elected a 34-count convicted felon, and still we are yet giving him a claim. | ||
| It's named affectionately the F-47 for the felon 47 President of the United States. | ||
| Isn't that appropriate? | ||
| I'm just so sick and let's go to Angel in Alabama, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Angel. | ||
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Yes. | |
| This is the first time I've called, and there's a few things I'd like to say. | ||
| First of all, Social Security starts in 1937. | ||
| The average age was 65, but at that time, the life expectancy for a man was only 59. | ||
| For the lady, it was 60. | ||
| And so it was not supposed to be your main source of living. | ||
| It was supposed to be just a little extra. | ||
| Cal Thomas spoke a couple of weeks ago concerning the three things that a country has to have in order to collapse. | ||
| One is an extraordinary amount of debt, which I believe we have. | ||
| The second is an extraordinary amount of immigration that a country has that has not had time to be absorbed into the general population, which we had in the last four years. | ||
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And the third thing was that we have a general lack of lowering of moral character, which of course you can see. | |
| People attack cars, they tear up property, and they think it's okay. | ||
| They kill a person like the president of the United Health, and they lauded the killer, even though he did not have United Health. | ||
| I don't understand that. | ||
| I believe in law and order and obeying the law. | ||
| I don't mind people coming into the country, but if you come in, you don't break the law, you speak English, and you pay income tax. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And I think that President Trump said that it would take a little while for us. | ||
| We will be in discomfort for a while because of the tariffs. | ||
| But give it time. | ||
| And that's all I have to say. | ||
| All right, Angel. | ||
| And we will pause our calls for open forum, but we will come back to it because we're going to speak to a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner, Christian Daytock, joins us. | ||
| Hi, Christian. | ||
| Welcome. | ||
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Mimi, good morning. | |
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| So, Christian, let's talk about the continued fallout from the arrest of the judge in Milwaukee County over on Friday. | ||
| She has been charged with two felonies. | ||
| She was released after appearing in federal court. | ||
| Can you talk about the White House's stance on that and if they're continuing to stand by that arrest? | ||
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The White House is certainly standing by the arrest. | |
| And if you just look at the reactions of Kash Patel at FBI and Pam Bondi, his boss at DOJ, they think this is a great selling point to deliver to voters ahead of the president's first 100 days. | ||
| Look, President Trump has been very clear. | ||
| He thinks the judicial branch is undermining him at every turn. | ||
| But critics still maintain that this is an attack on democracy. | ||
| It's the executive branch undermining not only the judicial branch, but also the legislative branch as well. | ||
| And I think if you're not a fan of Donald Trump, this arrest last Friday has you shaking in your boots because it feels like just the start of something even bigger here. | ||
| Turning to the war in Ukraine, what are you hearing from administration officials about the next steps regarding those negotiations? | ||
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The administration is still optimistic they can broker a ceasefire, but if you look at President Trump's meeting with President Zelensky in Rome over the weekend, it obviously had a very different tone than that Oval Office sit-down, which Vice President Vance blew up back in March. | |
| And I do want to point to the president's comments themselves regarding Vladimir Putin, urging him to stop these missile strikes on Ukraine. | ||
| He is shifting because it seems that the Russian president is acting intransigently and he does not want to broker a ceasefire despite Donald Trump sort of buttering him up over the last several months, let alone his entire political career. | ||
| So the White House, the administration, they are optimistic that they can reach a ceasefire, but it's going to take significant concessions from Ukraine, potentially even giving parts of Crimea, if not Crimea, entirely over to Russian control. | ||
| You mentioned there was a Truth Social post by President Trump with the, quote, Vladimir stop in all caps. | ||
| How much leverage does the White House still believe that President Trump has with President Putin? | ||
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The White House believes he has all of the leverage because he's Donald Trump, the greatest deal maker in the world. | |
| But again, folks on the periphery of this, if you're talking to European embassy officials here in Washington, they are not sure that Donald Trump's current tact with Vladimir Putin is working. | ||
| They believe that tactic has run its course, hence the shift in messaging. | ||
| And again, you see Donald Trump sort of getting closer to Zelensky, keeping Putin at arm's length over the weekend. | ||
| It is a shift in the negotiations, but again, the American officials are confident that President Trump can close this deal. | ||
| And the White House is celebrating the president's first 100 days in office this week. | ||
| What are some of the things that they're going to be doing to mark that? | ||
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Well, as you can see behind me, they've already started. | |
| They've lined the driveway of the White House with pictures of migrants who have been deported. | ||
| And the White House claims that these 100 men, convicted rapists and murderers, are the worst of the worst. | ||
| And they're sending them home. | ||
| It's not a surprise the White House is leading with immigration this week on Monday, considering it's really the only issue that Donald Trump has positive approval ratings from American voters. | ||
| But there's going to be more of these issue briefings throughout the week. | ||
| Caroline Levitt spoke to reporters at 8.30 this morning, extremely early, and she'll do the same on Tuesday and again Thursday. | ||
| Now, of course, President Trump himself is traveling to Macomb County, Michigan on Tuesday for a big speech at 6 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| It's the first time he'll be back in Michigan since the night before the election last year. | ||
| And it's a tradition that he thinks can hammer home his message to not only voters in battleground states, but across the country as well. | ||
| The Canadian elections are today. | ||
| Have you heard from the White House as to who they would like to win that election? | ||
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It's no secret that they want Pierre Polivaire to win, but I think the hopes of a conservative victory are fleeting right now. | |
| And you have to thank Donald Trump's tariff agenda for that. | ||
| Look, the way that the president has embraced sort of antagonizing Canada amid this tariff and fentanyl debate has really rankled Canadian voters. | ||
| There was a time not so long ago when the Progressive Party were down more than 20 points in the poll, and now it looks like Mark Carney is going to deliver a surprise victory again, thanks in large part to Donald Trump's gruff tone and overtures about annexing Canada. | ||
| And regarding tariffs, anything that we're expecting this week? | ||
| I mean, there was reporting about the administration saying that they are speaking to China about tariffs, saying, no, we are not speaking to the United States. | ||
| What do you know about that? | ||
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Well, China is certainly the biggest domino here. | |
| It's the one that we believe can sort of get Asian countries off of their slow start in terms of some of these negotiations. | ||
| Now, you do have leaders like Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan. | ||
| The Japanese trade minister will be in Washington this week to meet with Jamison Greer and Scott Besson and Howard Lutnick. | ||
| But as it stands right now, China, the number one target for this tariff agenda, is not cooperating. | ||
| The White House says they are reaching out to their counterparts, but like you mentioned, Beijing is saying no talks have taken place. | ||
| And until the China negotiations formally launch, I think you're going to see some of these other countries hesitant to really bend over backwards and give this White House what they want when it comes to trade. | ||
| Christian, anything else you're watching this week at the White House? | ||
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We're watching everything, Mimi. | |
| I mean, let's be honest, with Donald Trump, we could be coming into Monday talking about immigration and heading out talking about foreign policy or other parts of his domestic agenda. | ||
| That's one of the interesting things about covering this White House. | ||
| You never really know what to expect when you roll out of bed, and we've got to stay on our toes because news can break at any time. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, we appreciate you watching that for us. | ||
| This is Christian Daytalk. | ||
| He's White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner. | ||
| Thanks for joining us this morning. | ||
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Take care, Mimi. | |
| And we are in open forum. | ||
| You can give us a call up until for about another seven or eight minutes about anything public policy-wise for your schedule. | ||
| I want to make sure that you know that at 12 o'clock we'll have live programming over on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| That is, President Trump recently signed an executive order that includes reforms to a program which provides drug discounts to hospitals that serve low-income patients. | ||
| That's today at the American Enterprise Institute. | ||
| They host a discussion on the intended and unintended consequences of this federal program. | ||
| Again, that's on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| You can also watch it on our app, C-SPANNOW, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| And let's go to Longo in Columbus, Mississippi. | ||
| Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Go right ahead. | ||
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You're on open forum. | |
| Okay, I have a different take on all the people that's so-called illegally coming over from other countries. | ||
| I believe that the Republicans is just as much blamed as Democrats. | ||
| And the reason I say that is because I think the Republicans encourage a lot of those people to come over by a constant drumbeat of our borders are wide open. | ||
| Our borders are wide open. | ||
| All during the campaign, that was the drumbeat. | ||
| So I believe that the Republicans encouraged a lot of those people to come across. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And here's Mike in South Bend, Indiana, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, I have a question about Biden. | |
| He's been in politics for over 50 years. | ||
| How is his net worth over $10 million? | ||
| And why isn't anybody delving into that? |