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C-SPAN, Democracy Unfiltered. | |
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| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| We'll start with real clear polling on President Trump's job approval. | ||
| This is an aggregate, an average of all these polls. | ||
| And here is the trend over time. | ||
| This black line is approved. | ||
| The red line is disapprove. | ||
| And right now, the average of all the polls that have been conducted during this last month of April is at a disapproval rating of 52% and approval rating of 45%. | ||
| Well, Borders are Tom Homan was at the White House yesterday talking about the success of the administration's immigration enforcement activities. | ||
| I've been at this for over 40 years. | ||
| I've worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. | ||
| Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can't have national security if you don't have strong border security. | ||
| We've got to know who's coming in, what's coming in, where it's coming in, why it's coming in, right? | ||
| Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. | ||
| Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. | ||
| That's just a fact. | ||
| We handed the Biden administration after President Trump's first administration. | ||
| We handed the Biden administration the most secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose. | ||
| Now, President Trump and this administration here, the success is unprecedented. | ||
| We beat Trump's first administration on border success. | ||
| Border numbers are historic law. | ||
| Today, as I'm standing here, we are the most secure border in the history of this nation. | ||
| And the numbers prove it. | ||
| President Trump's policies are saving lives every day. | ||
| That was yesterday. | ||
| And this morning we'll have a similar briefing at the White House with Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. | ||
| And this time it's going to be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant talking about the economy during the first 100 days. | ||
| We're going to carry that live at 8.30 a.m. Eastern this morning on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| So you can watch that if you're interested, or you can stay with us here at the journal and watch that briefing later at c-span.org. | ||
| This is Pew Research doing some polling. | ||
| Trump's job rating drops. | ||
| Key policies draw majority disapproval as he nears 100 days. | ||
| Majorities in both parties say Trump administration must stop an action if a federal court rules it is illegal. | ||
| So here's a little bit more detail about that. | ||
| This one is Trump's approval rating is 40% and majorities disapprove of his tariff hikes and cuts to government. | ||
| Here are the numbers on that. | ||
| This is from Pew. | ||
| And Trump's job performance overall for them is 59 at disapproval, 40 at approve. | ||
| Administration's tariff policies have a 59% disapproval, 39% approval. | ||
| And the administration's cuts to federal departments and agencies are at 55% disapproving and 44% approval. | ||
| And we'll start taking your calls. | ||
| David is up first in Annapolis. | ||
| Good morning, David. | ||
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Good morning, America. | |
| Good morning, Speak Fan. | ||
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| I'm an independent. | ||
| I think Trump is doing a fine job so far. | ||
| He's sticking to what he's been talking about for the past, well, during the campaign season and before. | ||
| Everything from the Panama Canal to let's get better trade deals to let's bring America jobs back to let's try to end these foreign wars. | ||
| There's really not much he's not touching. | ||
| And if anyone ever has any questions for Donald Trump, you can always go in the Oval Office because he's having a 45-minute Q ⁇ A every day with his cabinet there. | ||
| And anyone can feel the question. | ||
| I think within the first three days, he's probably spoke to the media and the American people off the cuff more than Biden did in his entire four years. | ||
| Nothing seems to be scrubbed at him. | ||
| So David, let's get specific now. | ||
| So tell me, what have you liked? | ||
| You're obviously think that he's doing a good job the first hundred years, first hundred days. | ||
| What is it that you've liked the most? | ||
| Give me your number one. | ||
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Well, if the reports are true, I like the fact that there's 70 countries in the queue ready to make new trade deals, which is, well, we'll see what they look like. | |
| But I find it hard to believe they're spending all this time for not or to not have favorable trade deals restructured. | ||
| I also like the fact that he's given the business to both Zelensky and Putin saying, stop it. | ||
| Hey, it was $2,500 a week. | ||
| Now it's 5,000 people dying a week. | ||
| And he's constantly throwing that number out there, as well as reminding everyone that war is not good. | ||
| And he's also trying to end the war over with Israel and Hamas. | ||
| And he's also making sure that Iran is not necessarily arming the Houthis over there in Yemen in order to disrupt the shipping channel, which could really have some problems. | ||
| So he's just he's taken all these hard issues, these difficult issues head on. | ||
| And I just can't think of anyone else in my lifetime that I see it. | ||
| Is there anything, David, that you don't like? | ||
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Yeah, I don't know. | |
| Like when he says that, you know, we're going to move into Gaza and it's America's now, it's like, all right, well, sir, what does that look like? | ||
| He's like, well, it's just ours and we're not going to use Americans. | ||
| And I don't like the mineral deal. | ||
| And just speaking plainly, I don't like the mineral deal in Ukraine because then we have American companies over there and that could be a flashpoint if anything were to happen. | ||
| All right. | ||
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You know, the rare earth. | |
| So there are a couple things. | ||
| I know he likes to throw things out there to see what sticks to the wall and keep everybody on edge. | ||
| So, you know, this is Vicki in Nebraska, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Hi, Vicki. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| And thank you for having this show. | ||
| I love you guys. | ||
| I love watching you. | ||
| I think he's doing a horrible job. | ||
| I'm for the people. | ||
| I believe in God, and I believe we're supposed to help poor people, and we're supposed to be honest. | ||
| And I'm sorry, but this is a bad time. | ||
| And I'm glad I love prayer, and I believe God will get us out of it. | ||
| And thank you for being such a great show. | ||
| I recommend everybody to watch this show. | ||
| And yes, I don't think he's done anything right. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Have a beautiful day. | ||
| All right, Vicki. | ||
| And appreciate that sentiment. | ||
| Wanted to bring something to your attention, actually, since Vicki brought up how much she enjoys C-SPAN. | ||
| And that is an article, an opinion piece in the Washington Post because it's about us. | ||
| This is written by Karen Tummelty with the headline: Streaming Services Should Step Up to Make C-SPAN Great Again. | ||
| I'll just share with you a little bit of it. | ||
| It says that it starts by talking about how President Trump watches C-SPAN, and it says fewer and fewer Americans these days are getting access to C-SPAN, and that is creating a growing financial crisis for the network, which receives no government funding and is financed by a tiny sliver of what people pay on their cable bills. | ||
| It says that C-SPAN provides a vital service as the only place viewers can easily find start-to-finish coverage of so much that their elected officials are up to. | ||
| And if you would like to support that, we would love it if you went to our website and you can click there and let the streaming services know why you love C-SPAN so much and why you would love it if they carried it. | ||
| Here's Roy in Florida. | ||
| Democrat, good morning, Roy. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, people need to get some stuff straight right here. | |
| I mean, I don't think he's did a good job at all. | ||
| I think he did a miserable job. | ||
| I was hoping that he'd do a good job, but he hasn't. | ||
| He's done what he's going to say and worse. | ||
| Every day, this guy signs executive orders on something when it's supposed to be going through Congress, which is extremely illegal, but Congress won't do anything. | ||
| Plus, he's doing away with due process, which that's on the way to a dictatorship. | ||
| If we don't get something done and ring in our government and get our Constitution back, he's going to keep on doing it. | ||
| He's using the Constitution for a piece of toilet paper. | ||
| Roy. | ||
| So let me ask you this: Is there anything that he's done this first hundred days that you appreciate, that you like? | ||
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No, there's nothing that he's done. | |
| People have to live in fear. | ||
| I mean, the immigrant community, they don't give any due process to anybody. | ||
| They put them in jail. | ||
| Right, Tom Horman, I like some of the immigration stuff, but that Tom Horman's wrong. | ||
| People get due process in this country. | ||
| A two-year-old with cancer sending them overseas is wrong. | ||
| They're U.S. citizens. | ||
| When you're a U.S. citizen, you stay in this country. | ||
| There's nothing that says that if you're not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, that you're supposed to leave this country. | ||
| The Democrats, people need to protest, or they're going to lose their country, and they're not because they're getting ugly. | ||
| They're starting to grandstand and cheerlead this thing of this immigration. | ||
| These people are evil, evil people. | ||
| And here's David Ossining, New York, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning, David. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| Let me focus on a foreign policy issue that if President Trump could really hack this and move it forward, his name at least would be absolved for many of the domestic policies that he has got involved, and that's Iran. | ||
| There is no way that he should only focus on the nuclear issue with Iran. | ||
| Not only the nuclear issue has to be totally resolved. | ||
| That country doesn't need nuclear-related technologies as they have really wasted so much of their resources for the past 46 years. | ||
| But far more importantly, after having failed miserably at the domestic, regional, and international level for the past 46 years, if Trump can really facilitate the possibility of keeping the people of Iran fully empowered and at the table so that they could take their destiny into their own hands without any military confrontation and be able to transform that historic country, | ||
| that's the way Trump would be able to leave his name. | ||
| So, David, so far, do you think that that's the best thing that President Trump has done the first 100 days? |