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unidentified		Morning on Washington Journal.
		We'll take your calls and comments live as we discuss President Trump's first 100 days.
		We begin with Republican Oklahoma Congressman Kevin Hearn, chair of the House Republican Policy Committee, and later Reuters White House correspondent and board member of the White House Correspondents Association, Trevor Honeycutt, and Democratic Massachusetts Congresswoman Lori Trahan, co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.
		Washington Journal is next.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history, and everyone is saying it.
		We just, we've just gotten started.
		You haven't even seen anything yet.
		It's all just kicking in.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Journal for April 30th, President Trump touting his efforts for the time he's been in office at a Michigan rally last night.
		Democrats on Capitol Hill have expressed their own thoughts about the first 100 days.
		And for the next three hours, we will hear from you on your view of President Trump's first 100 days.
		Here are the numbers to call to talk to us this morning.
		Republicans 202-748-8001.
		Democrats 202-748-8000.
		Independents 202-748-8002.
		If you want to text us, you can do that at 202-748-8003.
		You can also post on Facebook and on X. You may have noticed by now, this is not our usual location for Washington Journal.
		In fact, we are at the White House right outside of the White House at a place called Pebble Beach.
		It's a place where various media set up tents so that people can do stand-ups and interviews during the course of the day.
		That's where we find ourselves this morning.
		And this is where we'll be for the next three hours outside of the White House talking about the Trump administration's first 100 days.
		You have a chance to comment on that.
		And again, you can call the phone lines if you wish.
		You can post on our social media sites.
		And you can also text us if you wish at 202-748-8003.
		During the course of the morning, we'll show you portions of video looking at the first 100 days.
		It was President Trump himself at a rally in Michigan talking about what he sees as his administration's achievements in the first 100 days.
		Here's the president from last night.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And week by week, we're ending illegal immigration.
		We're taking back our jobs of protecting our great American order workers and all of our workers.
		Frankly, we're protecting all of our workers.
		We're restoring the rule of law, which was sort of out the window with this crazy guy we had.
		How the hell did that guy ever become president?
unidentified		Could somebody explain to me?
unidentified		How the hell did that happen?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		There's my friend, Blacks for Trump.
		I like that guy.
		He follows me.
		He follows me.
		We love you.
		Your whole group has been so supportive over the years.
		I want to thank you.
		Everyone thinks I pay you a fortune.
unidentified		I don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I don't even know who the hell he is.
		I just like him.
		Phil.
		Thank you very much.
		Thank all of the fellas.
		Thank them all.
		But we're ending the inflation nightmare, the worst that we've had probably in the history of our country, getting woke lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our government.
		We're stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse.
		And above all, we're saving the American dream.
		We're making America great again, and it's happening fast, too.
		What the world has witnessed in the past 14 weeks is a revolution of common sense.
		That's all it is, really.
		We're conservative.
		You're conservative, you're liberal, whatever the hell.
		You know what it's all about?
		It's about common sense when you think about it.
		We're for common sense.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, the president from last night will show you more perspectives as we go about our three hours, again, from a different location right outside the White House.
		And if you want to give your thoughts on the first 100 days, 202748-8001 for Republicans, Democrats 202748-8000, and Independents 202748-8002.
		Lots of perspective and news coming out from this first 100 days.
		And here to set the stage for us throughout the morning is John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Morning, Pedro.
		We're back here at the same old location and our Washington Journal set.
		And it's a good day for headlines this morning at the 100-day mark of the second Trump presidency.
		This is the front page of the New York Times.
		There have never been 100 days like this.
		Driven by vengeance, Trump shreds rules on his crusade is the sub-headline they went for.
		Retribution and imperialism, two of the categories that they take a look at in that story.
		Here's a few more from the Freedom Forum this morning.
		This is the Arizona Republic.
		Americans Await Economic Boom is the headline they went with.
		The subheadline, many see uncertainty at Trump's 100 days mark.
		This is the Mercury News out of California.
		Popularity plunges amid chaos and worries.
		This is the New York Post front page.
		Tornadon is the headline they went for.
		Trump promises whirlwind start is just the beginning.
		And then to the online media, first from the conservative websites.
		This is Breitbart.
		Trump torches globalist elites, politicians in his first 100-day speech.
		You finally have a champion of workers in the White House, is the quote that they went for from Red State.
		100 days of hoaxes should be more aptly named 100 days of Democrat meltdown.
		And then from the left, this is the Atlantic.
		The unsustainable presidency is the headline.
		Nothing about Donald Trump's first 100 days has been ordinary.
		And then this one from The Daily Beast.
		It's David Rothkopp with his piece, the worst first 100 days of any administration in history, ushering in a new golden age for America.
		You've got to be kidding, is what David Rothkopf writes.
		Just a few of the headlines, and we'll go through more throughout the morning, Pedro.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		As promised, we will hear from you largely during the course of our three hours this morning.
		Some guests stopping along the way.
		But first of all, we'll hear from Lynette.
		Lynette joins us from Virginia on our line for independence on perspectives on the president's first 100 days.
		Lynette, good morning.
unidentified		Hi, good morning.
		I didn't get a chance to watch the rally that he did last night in Michigan, but so far I think he's doing okay.
		Prices need to go down some.
		I don't notice that they're going up.
		Like some people are always calling and saying prices are going up.
		I don't notice that, but I do notice that they haven't gone down much yet.
		They're kind of still the same.
		But I am looking forward to watching him on News Nation tonight and the town hall meeting with Chris Cuomo at 8 o'clock this evening.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, when you say things are okay, are you looking primarily at prices or are you looking at other things?
unidentified		I'm just really looking at prices.
		That was my main thing.
		And also the illegal immigrant.
		So he's taking care of that.
		You know, he is making changes on that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Gotcha.
		Lynette and Virginia, viewers, you'll probably notice by now what's behind me as far as the signs the White House has put up on the driveway there taking a look at the president's deportation efforts.
		Let's hear from Christine.
		Christine in Massachusetts.
		Democrats line hi there.
unidentified		Hi, how are you doing this morning?
		Yes, I think it's been a horrible 100 days.
		God knows what's coming next.
		The bigger picture of everything he's doing should scare the hell out of everybody.
		He's breaking the law.
		He doesn't seem to care.
		People don't seem to care that he's breaking the law.
		And then he has a gull to talk about the rule of law in his speech like it's some, you know, pastime.
		It's just horrific.
		Everything's gone haywire.
		We have more enemies than we ever had friends.
		It's amazing to me how people just follow him.
		And it starts off with, oh, you're going to feel a little bit of pain.
		Oh, it might be longer.
		Oh, it might be permanent.
		And people just lead.
		They just follow him like he's got a flute that's leading them.
		It's like, wake up.
		He's playing you.
		He's playing you like there's no tomorrow.
		This Bitcoin is mean coin.
		He's just filling and lining his pockets.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, back to the original point you made as far as breaking the law.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Specifically, what do you mean by that?
unidentified		When he says the courts, he can get that person back.
		He has no intentions just because he knows he doesn't have to.
		Even though he's been told by a court of law to do so.
		They can deport people.
		Just do it lawfully.
		You're not above the law.
		You need to make sure these people aren't American.
		And you need to make sure they're not legal, especially when you laugh and say you can't get them back.
		Like, oh, well, it's not a big deal.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		It is a big deal.
unidentified		If it's your loved one over there.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Christine in Massachusetts.
		Let's go to David.
		David's in North Carolina.
		Republican line.
		Hi there.
unidentified		Hi.
		First 100 days, of course, the extension of his previous presidency, but maybe with better staff.
		He brought out some key things that Americans are waking up to.
		Inflation does not hide prices.
		Inflation is the increase in the money supply.
		And one of the effects of an inflated money supply is increased prices, and it has to do with supply and demand.
		Very important, another aspect of supply and demand is we've had an unexpected increase of 20 million consumers that drives up the demand and the price for mainly fuel and housing and food.
		So he's brought those things into the forefront.
		And cutting the budget is inevitable.
		We have a serious budget crisis.
		And I'd like to, as a corollary to that, I would like to say democracy does not equal free stuff.
		It's not the government's job to take care of people.
		So we will have to cut.
		The biggest part of the federal debt is the only way to really save it is to cut back on social programs.
		You look at food stamps and Medicaid.
		They have to be adjusted.
		It's inevitable, and there will be great pain.
		He's bringing this to the forefront early, and we have to get used to it.
		But the biggest thing with the great pain that we're going to face, and it doesn't matter who's in the White House because of congressional spending, the great pain is coming.
		And what it takes for a leader to do is to say, we're all sailing the USS America.
		We're all in the same ship.
		So we have to think of making America stable again and solid again financially.
		And he's one that could do that if people would just stop hating him.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's David there in North Carolina, the House and the Senate both working on bills to get the president's legislative agenda done, including tax cuts later on.
		This morning, gross domestic product numbers expected out.
		Taking a look at the bigger economic picture, you can factor those things too as you make your comments on these first 100 days.
		Let's go to Sid, Sid in Maryland, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Yeah.
		The biggest success is immigration and the Board of Security.
		And President Trump has put Americans first.
		Why is that such a problem for Democrats?
		Why is that such a problem for Democrats who are advocating for illegal immigrants?
		And they have to go all the way to El Salvador to support MS-13 gang members.
		I don't think they even know the reality of MS-13 and how dangerous they are.
		They want to put them in our communities so they can commit crime that they have already committed.
		I fully support the president's 100, first 100 days.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So, as far as immigration, what do you think he's actually achieved?
unidentified		He is enforcing the law.
		If you cross the border, come here illegally, you've already broken the law.
		And I don't think they deserve due process.
		If you've broken the law, you don't deserve due process.
		Okay?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		If you come here legally, yes, then I think you deserve due process.
		Yes.
		I support the immigration czar.
		I do.
		He's right.
		And this time, he's got fighters in his cabinet who will stand up for him and fight, like Stephen Miller, Carolyn Levitz, Tom Holman, Pam Bondi.
		There's more people like Trump in the cabinet today to support him.
		He didn't have that in his first term.
		Okay.
		That's all I got to say.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Sid in Maryland giving us his thoughts on immigration, particularly listing off all those key people that's around the president when it comes to immigration policy, those key people in and around the building behind me, the White House, as they work on these issues, other people too, when they come and work on policy matters.
		Again, you can make immigration part of the first 100 days and your take on it.
		You can also talk about the economy and other factors too.
		The numbers there on the screen.
		Pick the one that best represents you.
		And if you would, if you called the last 30 days, hold off from doing so today.
		Florida is next.
		Barney, hello, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes, this guy talking about the law, and we got a 32-time convicted felon running running the United States.
		This is absolutely ridiculous.
		And what happened to the 75 million people that overstayed their visa, mostly white people?
		What's the problem with that part?
		Are they deporting any white people?
		None.
		None.
		This is absolutely ridiculous.
		We got a fictional predator in the White House.
		Thanks for letting me share that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Barney and Florida, Democrats line.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We're back to John McCurdle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, how do you measure a first 100 days?
		That's a question a lot of people are asking.
		There's a lot of numbers out there to do it.
		Let me take you through some of those stories about measuring the president's second first 100 days, the first 100 days of his second term.
		This is from the Independents out of the United Kingdom.
		Over 200 lawsuits, 142 executive orders, and 24 days golfing.
		Trump's first 100 days by the numbers.
		Their story dives into it.
		One of the big measuring points is approval ratings.
		You can see Donald Trump's first and second terms with his average approval rating from national polls about in the low 40s.
		That compares to Ronald Reagan in the high 60s, Barack Obama in the low 60s, and George H.W. Bush also at 60%.
		And his son, George W. Bush, also right around 60%.
		Joe Biden at this point was at 53% in the average of national polling of approval ratings.
		There's another way to measure it that some have looked at, and that's posting online.
		The Economist calls Donald Trump America's poster-in-chief, and he is very, very online.
		They write the prolific social media influencer has churned out about 4,149 words a week on Truth Social and X. That's nearly a newspaper op-ed every day if you want to look at it that way.
		And then here's just a few more by the numbers from the Hill newspaper.
		Their wrap-up: 142 executive orders breaking the record for the most executive orders by a president in the first 100 days.
		Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the record with 99, and that was to tackle the Great Depression.
		Also, there's 123 active lawsuits against Donald Trump.
		Five bills have been signed into law.
		That's fewer than any president's first 100 days since at least the 1950s.
		And then 7.9% is how much the SP 500 has dropped since Donald Trump took office.
		This is the second worst record, only trailing former President Nixon's second term.
		For context, the SP 500 usually rises about 2% in the first 100 days of a new administration.
		That's, Pedro, just some of the by the numbers, and there's plenty more ways to measure it out there.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And one of those ways they're measuring issues of immigration and deportation, like we've told you at this location at the White House, those signs that you can see behind me.
		You'll remember that it was last month that the president, during his address to Congress, talked about specifically his efforts on immigration.
		Just to give you some perspective on these 100 days, let's go back in time to that point, and here's what he had to say about it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		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.
		Joe Biden didn't just open our borders.
		He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country.
		Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before.
		Beautiful towns destroyed.
		Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great liberation of America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, you can see all these events of the president from our website at c-span.org.
		You can follow the recent events on our free app at C-SPANNOW.
		Pebble Beach is what this area is known as.
		And as you see there, tents where various media outlets have a chance to do stand-ups and other interviews.
		And that's where we're today outside the White House, and we will be for the next remaining time for our program.
		You can call in on the president's first 100 days, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats, Independents, 202-748-8002.
		Let's go to Frank.
		Frank, NDC, Republican line.
		Hi there.
unidentified		Hey, good morning.
		I just wanted to call in and say that I am just absolutely proud to see a renewed focus on military readiness in the president's first 100 days.
		I mean, the commitment to cutting through bureaucratic red tape and streamlining defense priorities certainly sends a strong signal to allies and adversaries alike.
		You know, further positive steps are being taken to restore pride, discipline, and efficiency across the rank.
		I'm seeing that.
		And these reforms certainly prioritize our mission readiness and empower our service members that are long overdue and finally getting that attention.
		And lastly, I would just say that support for warfighters certainly could not be mired in red tape.
		And I'm encouraged to see that's putting capability and lethality over paperwork and politics.
		And so as a proud American, lifelong servant of this nation, it just feels better today.
		And there's something powerful about hearing others out from the mountaintop with a renewed sense of pride, discipline, and urgency.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		In Kansas, we go next to Mike, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hey, good morning.
		Thank God for C-SPAN.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Your honor, go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah.
		This first hundred days with Mr. Trump, I finally figured out what MAGA actually stands for.
		He's making America go away.
		And he's doing it step by step.
		And all these MAGA guys out there, they have what I call, Trump is my savior syndrome.
		He lies every day, believe it, and they'll do anything that he says.
		And that's all I got to say.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When you said when you gave your variation of a theme on MAGA, what did you mean by that when you say making America go away?
		Specifically, what do you point to?
		Oh, he's gone.
		Let's go to Florida, Peter.
		Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		Good morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Good morning.
unidentified		Anyways, I called in about three months ago, and what I say, watching the Trump administration is like watching an accident where you have, you know, an accident and eight people and everybody walk away with a different idea of what happened at the accident.
		Now, I think Trump's leading us down the wrong road.
		And somehow we got to reel him in.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When you say leading us down the wrong road, give an example of one of the ways you think that's happening.
unidentified		Well, with the terrorists, and, you know, the way he talks and promises stuff.
		And look, I'm still buying eggs.
		The other day I bought them.
		It was almost $6 a dozen just for regular large eggs.
		And a lot of the things he spreads are falsehoods, I believe.
		But, you know, I don't know everything, but I think he's like a small child.
		You know, he's got to be paddled and pulled in.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Peter there in Florida calling in, giving us thoughts on the first 100 days.
		You can do the same.
		The numbers will be on the screen.
		Text us if you wish at 202-748-8003.
		And you can always post on our social media sites at facebook.com slash C-SPAN on X. You can do that at C-SPANWJ.
		The numbers there.
		30 days is what we ask you to hold off between calls.
		One of the people that have been calling us for years on this program on the 30-day Marcus Joe in LAJ, Georgia, Republican line.
		Hello, Joe.
unidentified		Pedro, a lot of C-SPAN in me.
		So hello to my friend John McLaughlin.
		I think Trump is the best leader in the history of the world.
		I think the stock market in the next couple of years will break every record.
		I just thank God for Donald John Trump.
		I think he is by far the best leader in the history of the world.
		And we down here in LA J, we love him.
		He won 85% of the vote in my county of Gilmore, which is the home county of LA J.
		And anyway, we're just fired up, Pedro.
		LAJ won 85% for him in the election.
		So I think Donald John Trump is by far the finest leader in the history of the world.
		And I think the stock market will, in the next four years, will break every record.
		And all I've been doing, Pedro, is buying more blue chip the other day and paying stocks.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Joe in Georgia, again, a regular viewer of this program, a regular caller, too.
		Let's go next to George, Georgia, North Carolina, Independent Line.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hello.
		There's two things I'd like to state on.
		I'll try to be quick.
		I talk to a lot of people about politics, and I've realized the people who really support Trump, all they listen to is Fox and Newsmax.
		I've asked them what they listen to.
		And Murdoch, the CEO of Newsmax, when he was being sued for $787 million, he literally told the judge, yes, we lie and mislead our viewers.
		We have to.
		If we don't, they go to Newsmax.
		And anyone can look that up.
		That's the truth.
		And Humpty Dumpty, he said the other day that gas prices are $1.98 in several states.
		There's no state in this country that's $1.98.
		He said egg prices are down 90%.
		There's no place in this country that's down 90%.
		And all those people who are standing around Humpty Dumpty, they all just stand there and smile and nod their head, knowing that he's flat out lying to them.
		And something's got to happen.
		This guy just flat out lies and lies and lies.
		Humpty Dumpty's got to go.
		Thank you.
		Goodbye.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Michigan is where the president was yesterday.
		Eddie is there in Saginaw, Democrats line.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, how are you doing there, Pedro?
		Good morning to you.
		As a Democrat, I mean, Trump got a lot of good points, what he's doing.
dick gregory ▲ ● ▼		And as far as this immigration deal, that I see all these pictures behind you, I guess that they arrested these people for illegally coming in here to the United States.
unidentified		No, he's not arresting the people that come in the front door.
dick gregory ▲ ● ▼		He's arresting and beating the people off the street that came in the back door, which is illegal.
unidentified		So I don't have no problem with him arresting the illegal people, but you don't hear nothing about him arresting what's coming the front door.
		And then on this security and Medicare, Medicare, he's cutting the waste out of the programs.
		He's not going after people and going to take their Medicare or stop or cut their security cheeks.
		He's not doing that.
		So the people, a lot of things that they say, they don't be saying it correctly.
		And I think, as a Democrat, I think he's doing a real good job.
		And I hope he continues.
		Now, as far as the prices in the store, yeah, they are still a little high.
dick gregory ▲ ● ▼		And as far as the gas, yes, it's still a little high.
unidentified		The gas go up and go down.
		The last time I was in the store, which was yesterday, some of the prices are high.
		So I hope there's something that he can do about that.
		Other than that, thank you, Pedro.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		That's Eddie calling from Michigan.
		You can continue to do the same on the phone lines.
		You can text us your thoughts.
		You can post on social media your thoughts as well as we are during the course of the morning.
		We have a lot of locations going on today.
		We are here at the White House.
		You've heard from John McCarto there at our main HQ and also our C-SPAN cameras, which regularly do day in and day out going to Congress.
		And that's where we're going now.
		Representative Kevin Hearn joining us, a Republican from Oklahoma.
		He is a member of the Ways and Means Committee joining us to talk about the President's first 100 days.
		Representative Hearn, good morning.
		Thanks for joining us.
		Good morning.
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Good to be with you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How would you assess the last 100?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, certainly been fast and furious, not only for the White House, but for us here in Congress, working on things like securing the southern border, you know, bringing transparency to government and accountability for so long.
		Many Republicans, if not all, have talked about the waste fraud and abuse in government for decades.
		Even some Democrats who care about spending have talked about it.
		President Trump's actually doing something about it.
		And certainly what we're seeing with releasing our energy production as he's done for the great state of mine, Oklahoma, Texas, so many others that produce the energy in this nation to keep us secure.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We heard from John McCarter earlier about the president signing five bills into office and comparing that to other administrations.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Legislatively, where do you think this 100 days has been, not only for you on Capitol Hill, but working with the White House?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, certainly it's moving at lightning speed with the executive orders, things that most of us, if not all of us, on the Republican Party approve with.
		And by the way, there are some Democrats that quietly say they approve with them as well.
		They're just, you know, they're just told they can't support them.
		You talk about the five bills we passed.
		Remind everybody that's watching and listening.
		Republican Party, if we want limited government, you don't need to keep adding hundreds and hundreds of bills every single month, as it's been often done here in Congress.
		We want to skinny down government, limit government, which is a principle of our American founders.
		And the only way you're really going to do that is to cut the spending that goes out to some of these wasted bureaucracies that are out there.
		And President Trump doge initially.
		Now the cabinet secretaries are doing just that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of the things that Congress has been tasked with is passing this legislative bill of the president.
		He said the other day he'd like to see that done, at least the tax portions of it by July the 4th.
		What do you think about that as a deadline?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'm on Ways and Means.
		I'm on the tax writing subcommittee.
		Chairman Jason Smith has done a fantastic job of making sure that we're all informed.
		It's important for everybody to note that this bill was passed, obviously 2017 Tax Cutting Jobs Act back almost eight years ago now.
		Many of the people that were in Congress are no longer here.
		So the chairman of Ways and Means, Chairman Smith, is tasked with bringing everybody up to speed, which he's been doing over the past year, knowing that we anticipated being in the majority as early as March of last year.
		So we've been working with working groups, having policy hours, having policy sequestrations in the Library of Congress so that we could get up to speed for this very moment.
		We're excited.
		We're ready to go.
		We're going to meet the Memorial Day deadline.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What do you think are the hurdles then if you want to meet that deadline?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What are the hurdles?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think it would have been much more difficult had we broken up the bill as originally was anticipated.
		Chairman Smith, the Speaker of the House, and others really put their case forward with the President that we needed to pass one big beautiful bill as it's been called so far because then everybody gets a little bit of everything.
		Nobody's going to get 100% of what they want when you're doing the legislative process.
		Ronald Reagan reminded us back in the day that if you could get 80% of what you wanted, you should call it a day and move on.
		And that's what we're moving for.
		That's what we're shooting for, is that everybody gets something that they can go home and tell their constituents that they're working hard for them.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		It was yesterday it was reported in a couple outlets that was Representative Don Bacon speaking out about concerns over cuts to Medicaid saying he would only accept up to $500 billion in cuts.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		If that's the case and if others follow along, what complications does that mean for passing legislation that you want to pass?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, energy and commerce is where the Medicaid waste is being looked at, things that streamline Medicaid.
		It's not about cutting the benefits to those who deserve them.
		Just as the president said on the campaign trail all last year, he's kept his promises.
		He talked about tariff.
		He kept those.
		He talked about not touching Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.
		He has said that not only to you all in the press, but also to us in private.
		And so we're doing everything that's out there possible to get after the duplicative spending on the backside of administrative cost, work requirements, which is an 87% polled United States desire for people to get benefits from the American government, from taxpayers.
		that they work if they're eligible and able to work.
		And so all of these things are components of that.
		And I think as we go forward, Congressman Bacon is going to be able to see some of those works.
		He's a great member of Congress in a tough district in Omaha, and so he knows exactly what he's talking about.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Representative, a lot of this banks on ultimately what the president does with tariffs.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What do you think about the possibility of tariffs complicating matters if, especially if inflation occurs or if a lot of these deals that they say they want to pass don't get passed?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		I don't think it's going to have impact on the tax policies we're moving forward.
		The president made campaign promises that got him elected, that helped us get into the majority in the Senate, stay in the majority in the House.
		We have the so-called trifecta.
		We're going to work hard over the next 16 months to exercise and execute that agenda.
		Certainly the things that are before us right now are getting this reconciliation package done by the 4th of July and Independence Day.
		I would argue that it's another Independence Day for the American people to be separated further from the federal government.
		What we've seen over the decades and now what we've seen in the last four years, it cannot continue for our kids and grandkids with $2 trillion in deficits and $37 trillion in debt.
		This president wants to do something about it.
		He's doing something about it.
		Congress is here to support him.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		The president has said over the last couple of days, at least in interviews, about this idea of maybe eliminating or highly reducing income taxes because of what can be done on tariff policy.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's the reality of that?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, we just have to see what the 10% tariff policy around the world does as far as generating income.
		We have to see the reaction.
		Certainly around the world, other leaders are going to have reactionary measures, policies they put in place.
		But I think it's important that many people in Congress, I would say most of the United States, had no idea that other countries around the world have been imposing import tariffs on our products that we're sending them for literally decades.
		And the president has called that out.
		They've put up trade barriers, whether it's safety barriers that only apply to a United States-produced product like cars, and not put it on their own cars like in Japan.
		And so the president's addressing each one of these, whether it's in France.
		I mean, there's so many out there that have come forward.
		I talk with the Secretary of the Treasury often.
		Certainly talk with the legislative staff of the president.
		All of these things are important.
		They're moving at warp speed.
		I don't think they thought this many people would come to the table all so quickly.
		We're seeing what China's happening.
		The economy in China is eroding very quickly.
		They're looking at a reduction in their optimism.
		So all these things are happening very quickly, and it's only just now been 100 days, and we're starting the first day of the next 100 days.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Before we let you go, it was Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, in a letter To his fellow Democrats, he assessed, he said this.
		He said, Donald Trump and rubber stamp Republicans in Congress are crashing the economy, driving us towards a recession, and assaulting the American way of life.
		What do you think of that assessment?
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Well, so far he's been wrong.
		The economy hasn't crashed.
		Yes, there's been a dip in the Wall Street and the stock market, but now we've had six days in a row, and the futures look like it's going to be another positive day.
		And listen, for the American people, I'd much rather follow a Donald Trump who's securing our southern border, who's bringing energy security back to us in the world, who's trying to stop the chaos around the world in wars, as opposed to the Democrats and the leader of the Democrat Party when they're following Joe Biden, who didn't even know he was in the White House, when he was allowing people to leave Afghanistan, creating 13 Gold Star families because they have a crazy pullout,
		allowing the Russian-Ukrainian war to start, all the chaos with Iran, the Houthis, the Hezbollah, and Hamas.
		I would much rather for the American people to follow Donald Trump than Joe Biden.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Representative Kevin Hearn, Republican of Oklahoma, member of the Ways and Means Committee, one of several guests joining us throughout the course of the morning to talk about the first 100 days.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Representative Hearn, thank you for your time.
kevin hern ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Pedro.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We will continue on with calls right after this news hit with John McCurdle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I want to show you what's going on on the White House social media page, specifically this montage of photos that was released yesterday by the White House.
		You can take a look at it.
		It's 100 photos over the first 100 days of the president's term in office.
		It includes Oval Office meetings with the likes of Kid Rock, meeting with sports teams, champions, executive order signings, pictures from Air Force One, presidential visits, and the presidential limousine going out on the track at Daytona 500.
		That's from the official White House page.
		This is from the official ex-page of the Vice President, JD Vance.
		He sent this out yesterday on the president's first 100 days, speaking about his appreciation for all that the president has done in that time.
		He said President Trump has made historic progress in the first 100 days, but he's also revealed the ways in which the entrenched bureaucracy in Washington is working to undermine the will of the American people.
		Thank God we have a president who is fighting back.
		The vice president with that post yesterday.
		And then a post today from the president's former vice president, Mike Pence, sending out the link to his Wall Street Journal article today.
		That article appears in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal.
		What the 47th President Can Learn from the 45th is the headline.
		And the former vice president, Mike Pence, ends his column this way.
		President Trump deserves credit for an energetic and effective start.
		His instincts on security, strength, and sovereignty are as sharp as ever.
		But if we want to see this nation become truly great again, we can't exchange time-tested conservative principles for populist platitudes.
		We need to stand with our allies and stand up to our enemies.
		We need to cut taxes and tariffs, keep our military strong and well-funded, and lead on the world stage.
		A strong first 100 days is a foundation, but only a return to the conservative principles that guided our administration and achieved peace and prosperity during the president's first term will ensure that this administration builds something lasting for the president's legacy and for America's future.
		Mike Pence writing today in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		As the sun rises here in Washington, D.C., we are at the White House again.
		Pebble Beach is the location.
		That's the shot from down the line of those tents.
		You've probably seen them in use as you watch the various networks as they use them.
		For our purposes this morning, we are using them to talk to you about the first 100 days and your view of it.
		202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats.
		And Independents, 202-748-8002 is how you can reach out to us.
		The social media sites there, too.
		If you want to do that, texting is available to you as well.
		This is Kevin in Illinois, Republican line.
		Thank you for waiting.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		You're very welcome, sir, and good morning.
		And God bless America.
		God bless Donald Trump.
william in arkansas ▲ ● ▼		The first hundred days, they have been amazing.
unidentified		He's one amazing man, and I'll tell you what, he's a genius.
gene in georgia ▲ ● ▼		And all you have to do is just look over your shoulder and look at those signs.
unidentified		He's putting in people's face whether they like it or not.
		But I tell you what, he knows the world.
		He knows what he's doing.
		He's got the world's attention.
		He's given us respect.
		He's given us respect.
		He's just amazing, just simply amazing.
gary in oklahoma ▲ ● ▼		But don't forget, it's all because of God.
unidentified		It's all because of Jesus.
		You don't just do these things as a human.
		God's leading him and guiding him.
willie nelson ▲ ● ▼		That's how our country started: with God and with Jesus.
ernest ramirez ▲ ● ▼		So as long as we have faith, and as long as we have a leader that believes in God, not the Koran, and he believes that there's three kinds of people.
unidentified		You have men, you have women, and you have those who are, if you're not sure what you are, you're crazy.
		And as far as the TV and what they show, and they need to get a, I don't know, a paramedic like at the view because they're all in cardiac arrest.
		These are people who were wanting to destroy our country.
		I mean, think about it.
		We got 150 Chinese nationalists that had came across the border.
		Now, what if you open your door and you look out?
		You got China taking you over.
		You know, I mean, they didn't come here on vacation.
		They're out to kill us.
		They're out to destroy us.
		But God's not going to let that happen because our country was found on that.
		But I love that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Kevin in Illinois.
unidentified		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from another Illinoisan.
		This is Randy on our Independent Line.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Yeah.
		Hey, Pedro.
		I like to say, hey, you look healthy out there in all that fresh air.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		It's a nice change of pace.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I'm not going to lie.
unidentified		I only got one thing, Pedro.
		It's about he got a big thing on this, bringing back all these jobs and everything from Mexico and from China.
		Now, the big one that he really gets on to is the big one in Indiana, the big Honda plant that's coming back.
		Pedro, are those plants all going to be, when they come back, the hundreds or thousands?
		He's saying, are they going to be union plants?
		Are they going to pay a good wage?
		Because, you know, China pays a lot less than what we pay here.
		So will they be paying a good wage to the American people to survive?
		So that's all I'd have to say, Pedro.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Auto policy and auto tariff policy.
		Some announcements yesterday from the White House, particularly when it comes to parts.
		That's a viewer there talking about that.
		Robert in Texas joins us next.
		Robert's on our line for Democrats.
unidentified		Hi.
unidentified		He's got to say Mr. State.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Robert.
unidentified		Hello.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		You hear me?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		You're a little hollow.
		Try getting closer to your phone.
unidentified		Okay, do you hear me now?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		A little better.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, go ahead.
unidentified		Okay.
		I want to say he's done a good job and come down to removing people that may be gang members and stuff like that.
		But when it comes down to everything else for the first hundred days, he did them live people completely.
		See, like he was going to add his brother today, yesterday.
		He got out and said, gas, wherever he is, $1.95 a gallon, $1.90 something.
		All you got to do is Google where he's at.
		10 stations.
		They're all above 2,060 cents.
		So now I can't understand why people believe in the stuff he's saying.
		That's what I'm trying to say.
		Google it.
		You'll find out what the damn time start where he's at.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		This is Robert.
		Then Bernadette is next.
		Bernadette in Maryland, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Bernadette in Maryland.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Hey, good morning.
		I just wanted to say that I'm disappointed in his first 100 days.
		I did read 2025, Project 2025, and I guess I was one of the people who didn't completely believe what it said.
		I was looking for other things.
		He has totally disappointed me.
		And I'll be glad when they get that orange clown out the office.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		As a Republican, why is he disappointing you?
		Ah, she's gone.
		But Barry joins us.
		Barry's on our line for independence, Long Island.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
unidentified		How you doing?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Fine, thank you.
unidentified		Good.
		Listen, I just want to say, you know, Trump is, he's not doing these things to be politically popular, it seems to me, but these are the things that need to be done.
		These are the necessary steps that must be taken.
		There is no president in the last 40 years who's confronted China.
		From the day China was led into the WTO, they cheat.
		They've been cheating.
		They've been dumping goods, wiping out businesses here.
		They're manipulating their currency, and they're stealing our intellectual property.
		What president has confronted China like Trump is doing?
		Nobody.
		And as far as immigration, it's obvious that, you know, Joe Biden and the Biden administration let in millions, 10, 15, we have no idea whether it's 20 million, 25 million, 15 million unvetted people.
		That's an extraordinary situation.
		So in order to correct that, Trump has to use extraordinary measures to remove these people.
		You know, I think the problem we're having in America is we're not used to a politician doing what he says he's going to do.
		And people are in shock that somebody is actually confronting the issues that are going to be.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, let me ask you, Barry, you said about China so far tariffs being put into place, but what makes you think that in the long run it's going to change China's position?
unidentified		Well, I'm not sure it's going to change China's position.
		I'm really not sure about that.
		But the idea is something had to be done.
		Nobody was looking at this.
		You know, I live in New York, and sometimes I drive straight up towards Canada.
		At one time, there was town after town after town that survived and thrived on these little factories.
		That is all gone now because as Ross Perot told us, if you sign NAFTA, you're going to hear a loud sucking sound.
		And that's the jobs leaving America.
		And that has to be confronted to some degree.
		Listen, we're not going to bring back manufacturing the way it was.
		There's a lot of new technology.
		Maybe factories now, instead of having 100 people, are going to have 40 people.
		But somebody has to address the issue.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Barry there in Long Island on our independent line.
		You can keep calling the lines, and we will take many of those calls throughout the course of the three hours together.
		One of the things we'll also show you is a series of interviews that C-SPAN's Tammy Thuhringer had with people in and around Washington, D.C., the topic being the first 100 days and getting people's assessment of that.
		Here's one of those interviews now.
unidentified		I'm Dean Holder from Oklahoma.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		And Dean, how would you grade, what grade would you give President Trump for his first 100 days in office?
unidentified		10 plus.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What do you like that he's done?
unidentified		I like that he's turned the country around.
		I like that Religion has come to be more open with him than it was with the others.
		Just all around, everything's just good.
		It's just changed in a lot of different ways.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Is there anything that he's done, any policy or action that you don't like?
unidentified		No.
		The one that I really like, though, is the border policy.
		I have two sons that served in the service, and one of them was stationed on the border for three years, working the border.
		So I'm glad that that has totally turned around.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		You're from Oklahoma.
unidentified		Yes, ma'am.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		The policies and actions of President Trump, are you seeing the impact there or have you personally been affected by any of them?
unidentified		Just with my kids and being in the service and things, you know, like that.
		I have noticed in different areas where you go, like, people complain because the prices are still high, but actually, the prices are dropping.
		Not as fast, probably, as a lot of people would like, but we're not near as bad off as we were before.
		JP, and I'm from Phoenix, Arizona.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		JP, do you think that President Trump's first 100 days in office have been successful?
unidentified		No, I do not.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Let's talk about some of the policies and actions that he's taken.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Is there anything that you do like that he's done?
unidentified		Personally, not really.
unidentified		Yeah, I really can't pull anything off the top of my head that I agree with him on.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What about the policies that you don't like?
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What is he doing that you disagree with?
unidentified		All of his actions towards immigrants currently, as well as the tariff situation, as well as his defunding of a lot of the federal institutions, especially national parks.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What message would you like to give to President Trump?
unidentified		Just that this country was founded and made by immigrants.
		We're a melting pot.
		They do a lot of the work that a lot of Americans don't necessarily want to do or enjoy doing.
		And I think that there are better ways to go about the way he's handling things.
		And with the tariff policy, the last thing we need is a trade war.
		We should be building alliances or improving our alliances with the countries that we do work with and trying to do better with those that we don't.
		And I don't think that a trade war is the right answer for any of that, especially with how little we actually produce in America.
		And it'd be great if we had all these factories and manufacturing plants, but we do not.
		And the amount of time that's going to take to build those and get that infrastructure up and going, it's just not realistic for the hard times that we all have to endure in between.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We'll see more of those interviews throughout the course of the morning for people traveling and to Washington, D.C. Chances are, if they travel, they're going to want to look at the White House.
		We're looking at the White House from a different perspective this morning.
		We're inside right outside the White House there at a place called Pebble Beach.
		We've told you throughout the course of the morning this is where reporters and other news organizations use for their various things as they go throughout the day.
		In fact, you may see people walking in and out behind us during the course of the morning.
		It's a normal workday for those people as well as us as we take your calls on the president's first 100 days and your view of it.
		AV in Florida, Democrats line, thanks for waiting.
		Good morning.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, I was wondering when they're going to let the Christians talk a little.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Say that again one more time.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I don't know if we heard you.
unidentified		Wondering when they're going to let the Christians talk tell about what's going on.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What do you mean by that?
unidentified		Christian.
		Here the Bible way.
		You know, the Bible says the way of God and Darling apparently.
		We can't do it a man's way.
		We got to do his God way.
		He makes the beautiful laws and stuff, but he's not getting the he's not looking at the children at school.
		Well, what are they going through with devil names and stuff like that?
		He's making his exit in order to get the devil names out of school.
		Go back to the Bible.
		You can't do it, man.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We okay.
		New Jersey's next.
		This is Scott, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Pedro.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		How are you?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I'm fine, thank you.
unidentified		I can't agree more with our friend Barry from Long Island.
		As far as I'm concerned, I think it's laughable that you have somebody like Hakeem Jeffrey saying it is that he's driving us towards a recession when it is that the policies that have been in place for how long have been driving us off a fiscal cliff.
		You're looking at $36 trillion in the debt.
		It's laughable.
		So to think that it is that when we go on a course correction, that all of a sudden things are just going to be perfectly smooth right away.
		It's unrealistic.
		The president right now is doing what he needs to do to get us back on a path towards fiscal responsibility.
		And as a young man with three children, and to be honest with you, I'm willing to deal with a little bit of pain right now to make sure that it is that my children have a brighter future than perhaps I do at the moment.
		So as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't be happier.
		And I hope that it is that the people out there recognize that right now we're looking at the first hundred days.
		That's not even the first 10% of what it is that he has to do.
		And he is not doing this for political popularity.
		He is doing this as a man who understands what it takes to be successful in to get things on the right path.
		And he's doing it so it is that I think that not his family and those around him, but our country can continue to thrive the way it did that gave him the opportunities he had.
		So as far as I'm concerned, people out there need to understand this is just the beginning of the ballgame.
		We got to give him an opportunity to, you know, play out his plan.
		Hopefully it works as well as it is that he tells us it's going to.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		In ballgame vernacular, probably the first half of the first inning is if you take the first 100 days and put that into context, that's what we're talking about.
		We'll continue on with your calls.
		Also, a lot of news and information coming out in connection with these 100 days.
		And with that, we're back to John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, a few of your callers this morning have mentioned those signs behind you that have been put up by the Trump administration there at the White House.
		I want to show a video from yesterday.
		It was Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene walking among those signs and commenting about them.
		This is about 45 seconds long.
unidentified		Rape, lewd acts in front of a child, sexual assault, lewd and lascivious acts against a child, fentanyl illegal gun, child pornography, sexual offense against child, rape, rape of a child, and it goes on and on.
unidentified		Rape and sodomy of a child.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		If you're an American and you do these things in a foreign country, you are going to face serious consequences, probably the death penalty.
unidentified		You'll probably go to a prison and never come out again.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		This is exactly what Joe Biden and the Democrats were allowing into our country, harboring and protecting these people.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		God bless President Trump and his administration for rounding them up, arresting them, and they're going to face consequences.
unidentified		And America absolutely voted for this.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene putting that video on her ex page yesterday.
		Plenty of your callers have talked about the issue of illegal immigration in these first 100 days.
		Here's another post from X from the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christine Noam, saying, Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, we have the most secure border in American history.
		In less than 100 days, daily border encounters are down 93%, and migrant crossings are down 99.99% at the Darien Gap.
		The world is hearing our message.
		Not come is what she posted yesterday for visual learners.
		Here's a chart from the BBC showing the arrests at the United States border on the left side there.
		That was during the first Trump administration.
		The middle, the blue bars representing the months of the Biden administration for four years there, and then the first three months of the second Trump administration on the right.
		As of March, just some 7,181.
		You can see how far down those total monthly arrest numbers are at the U.S. border by border patrol.
		And then another factor is the interior arrests in this country.
		So not just at the border, but those arrests made in cities and counties and states throughout the country.
		This is another chart from the BBC.
		Immigration arrests inside the U.S. hit their highest level since the pandemic under Donald Trump this year.
		These are people detained by ICE for the first time each month.
		Again, you can see the end of the first Trump administration on the left, the months of the Biden administration in the blue, and then the first three months of the second Trump administration on the right there in March, up to 19,000 numbers and more.
		One more text on one more tweet, or I should say ex-post on this topic that from Senator Bernie Sanders.
		He posted on this issue yesterday saying, illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent.
		We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
		Bernie Sanders posting that yesterday.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
		Richard in Boston, Independent Line, you're next up.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hey, Pedro.
		Today marks 50 years ago that the Vietnam War ended, and I want to thank all the men and women who are listening today.
		Thank you for what you've done.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Tony is next in Detroit.
		Democrats line.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hi, good morning, Pedro.
		This is laughable, the first hundred days of Donald Trump.
		And why I say that is because, you know, we got every ally that America has built up from World War II is pretty much decimated.
		Then we have the tariff, which is going to double back and raise the economic prices on a consumer, which is the American people.
		Then we have China, who only buys like 12% of America's domestic product.
		So Donald Trump is really making a mockery of America.
		And he's not talking to the whole country by no means.
		He's only talking to this small segment of closed-minded people who want a savior, who want a savior.
		And they are trying to make him their savior.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When you talked about foreign relations, you said relations with other countries are decimated.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What would you look to as an example of that?
unidentified		Canada?
		He's talking about taking Canada from the Canadian people and making it an American country.
		Like, who would want a dictator as their president?
		Who would want that?
		Only a closed-minded, narrow-minded fool would.
		And I'm not talking to be hateful or mean.
		I understand brainwashing, but there's a big difference between a follower and a supporter.
		A follower, a supporter can be objective.
		They can be objectionable, but a follower, they just follow you right off the cliff.
		And that's what the Republican Party is doing today.
		They're not doing any work.
		They're just letting Donald Trump run rampant.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go to Becky.
		Let's go to Becky in Ohio, Republican line.
		You're next up.
		Good morning.
unidentified		Hey, I am.
		Good morning to you.
		I am excited about what's going on.
		I watched the Michigan rally yesterday.
		It was good for the first hundred days.
		I really like the part where the migration, the border is secure.
		I think they're doing a wonderful job.
		We have to let them do what they need to do.
jody in minnesota ▲ ● ▼		Things might get a little rocky, but, you know, it's got to be what it's got to be because the last four years was terrible.
jody in minnesota ▲ ● ▼		When I'm raising five of my grandchildren, it's been terrible.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, can I ask you then, how long are you willing to wait for these results to happen?
unidentified		I can handle a year.
unidentified		I'm good because the prices are going down here in Ohio.
jody in minnesota ▲ ● ▼		Gash prices, eggs definitely went down, but that was a lot of do for the third flu stuff while we weren't having eggs.
unidentified		But yeah, everything's getting a lot better.
		I can see it in my grocery bills.
		My utility bills are getting much better.
		Things are going down.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Becky in Ohio, Independent Line, Isaac in Maryland.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Good morning.
unidentified		Hey, good morning, Pedri.
		Thank you for taking my call.
		The last 100 days for me have been very troubling.
		I think that there is a serious issue in this country that our perception is extremely skewed based on, I guess, your own personal beliefs.
		The last 100 days, this is a reality.
		There have been five bills passed into law.
		We've had 130 executive orders.
		Over half of those executive orders have been challenged in court and they're now currently blocked.
		And we have, in my opinion, the foundations of what is going to be an authoritarian presidency.
		We have a president that is capitalizable when it comes to his lives.
		And the first thing he did was get rid of the checks and balances, i.e. the attorney generals, people that stand up against him.
		And the problem is the same thing is happening now that is happening in this last administration.
		People that, you know, majority of people that are getting terminated now are Trump allies, Trump supporters.
		The whole Pete Hexet debacle, the people that supposedly got terminated from that were all people that Pete Hexet brought in.
		And I'm very concerned that because people have this idealism or saver complex when it comes to this administration, that they are really willing to give up their own personal freedoms.
		This 100 days, nothing has gotten done.
		That's the reason why he has the lowest approval rating out of any presidency.
		And I'm very concerned that people are just going to be like, well, you know, even though the house is on fire, I feel good.
		And that's just something that I'm seeing that is very concerning.
		I think that we are in a very bad place as a nation.
		I look forward to 2026 because that is the next time that we could actually put checks and balances back on this administration.
		Because for whatever reason, this administration does not believe in checks and balances.
		For whatever reason.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Isaac there in Maryland calling on our independent line.
		Our first hour done.
		If you're just joining us, you may notice something different.
		And that's our location this morning right outside of the White House in an area known as Pebble Beach.
		This is to mark the first 100 days of the Trump administration and to give us an avenue to let you give us your view of that 100 days.
		Two hours to go.
		We'll hear mainly from you with short visits with guests along the way.
		And if you want to give us your thoughts this morning, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats and Independents, 202-748-8002.
		You can text us at 202-748-8003.
		Not only will we be taking your calls, talking to some people along the way, giving you news and information that you need to assess the first 100 days.
		And with that, here's John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, yeah, there's plenty going on on this 100-day mark of the second Trump administration.
		Let me run through it for viewers today, including right now over on C-SPAN 2, Axios is hosting a conversation with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland, along with the CEO of PBS.
		They'll talk about the accomplishments, challenges of the first 100 days of this administration.
		Again, that's happening live now on C-SPAN2, also on c-span.org and the free C-SPAN Now mobile app.
		Also today after this program, 10 a.m. Eastern time on C-SPAN 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the case of the legality of religious charter schools.
		The case involves a Catholic online school, which was given the status of charter school by the state of Oklahoma.
		We're going to be showing those live arguments against C-SPAN 3, 10 a.m., c-span.org as well, and the mobile app.
		2:30 p.m. Eastern this afternoon, Senator Dick Durbin and other Judiciary Committee Democrats are holding a meeting to look at President Trump's handling of the January 6th pardons.
		You'll hear if you tune into that event from U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, D.C. Metro Police Officer Daniel Hodges, and others speaking there.
		Again, 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, C-SPAN3, C-SPAN.org, and the mobile app.
		And then this evening, former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the former vice president, will speak at an event for the group EMERGE, an organization that recruits and supports female Democratic candidates.
		She is expected to address the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
		Again, it's her first major speech since leaving office.
		We will be airing that live at 10.45 p.m. Eastern on c-span.org here on C-SPAN and again, the mobile app.
		So lots of ways to watch today.
		Speaking of Democratic leaders, it is a lot going on today that people have been talking about, whether it's Democratic leaders or the first 100 days.
		C-SPAN was out yesterday interviewing folks around Washington, D.C. about the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
		Here's a few of those interviews.
unidentified		Jenny, we are from Florida.
		Arthur, we came down, we came up from Florida.
		Yeah, Royce.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Patrick, tell us about what actions you like that he's taken so far.
unidentified		Well, so far he's playing very high with the immigration.
		So everything he has promised to the voters, that's what he's doing now.
		He's doing great work with the tariffs.
		He's imposing to other countries.
		So when we go to sell our woods to other countries, they want to give us a tariff.
		So he's doing the same thing.
		I think it's a good thing that he's doing the tariffs because it implies for other businesses from foreign countries to build here to more employment for the American people and a better economy for the American people.
		Obviously, it's not a short-term thing, but in the long run, it's going to do really, really good.
		I think the best part of it is that he's really doing what he said he was going to do.
		So we knew what to expect and that's exactly where we are getting.
		And I really appreciate that part of it.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Have you seen an impact when it comes to tariffs, when it comes to immigration?
unidentified		Well, not where we are, where we are.
		We're in a small town.
		I don't think it's a short term for sure.
		It's hard to say.
		So only a few days, 100 days is nothing.
		But eventually things will get better.
		I'm pretty sure he's doing his job and he's going to continue doing better every day.
		My name is Cesar and I'm from San Diego, California.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		And Cesar, would you say that President Trump's first 100 days in office have been a success?
unidentified		Well, it all depends.
		Like, I mean, so far from what I've been reading and what I do, most of his voters are, I believe, satisfied or happy with what he's doing.
		But from the get-go, from what I've seen, I think it's been so far mixed back to negative.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What grade would you give him yourself?
		Probably like a C minus or a D. Tell us about the actions that he's taken so far.
		Is there something that you like that he's done?
		Is there something that you don't like?
unidentified		Well, to start off, the things that I like, I mean, I am all, you know, for like, you know, tariffs, because, you know, we used to be a protectionist state, but eventually that all went away with free trade.
		But, I mean, it's one thing to do tariffs, but he uses more of them like kind of like as a threat instead of actually going for it.
		I don't know if it's because like the people around him tell him not to do it or like his whoever donated to him and stuff, but so far like I'm all for that.
		Like because that, but the thing is we also don't have like the resources to start building and you know manufacturing here.
		That's the thing.
		Like if you're gonna have the tariffs, you gotta have like the resources back home in order to restart it or think.
		And he hasn't really given much incentive for companies that went overseas to come back.
		But overall that's one thing that I do like.
		Now as for him ending like illegal border crossings, I do also support that as well.
		The thing that I think that he's done bad on is like, I mean the Ukraine war is his now.
		He said that he was gonna end it on day one.
		Clearly that hasn't happened.
		And also I mean he said that he was going to do like all these deportations which you know each administration does that but like I mean Biden deported more people than he has so far for the most part.
		And also I mean essentially he said that he wasn't going to do any more like big spending bills and he's giving like a trillion dollars to the Defense Department.
		And on top of that there's also what's going on in the Middle East and everything else.
		But for the most part it's been pretty negative for me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We are back at the White House and as promised one of several guests joining us throughout the course of the morning Trevor Honeycutt who reports on the White House for Reuters.
		Good morning.
		Thanks for giving us your time.
		What's it been like in the last 100 days reporting on this second term?
unidentified		So it's been busy.
		The administration has come out firing on all cylinders in terms of having a very ambitious agenda in terms of immigration, in terms of the economy.
		They've been willing to kind of push legal limits in achieving those aims.
		And so this has been a really busy 100 days as a reporter as well.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		The administration's spending time this week to tout its accomplishments as they say or at least give their perspective on it.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's the job that you bring to it to assess what they're saying and what the truth is?
unidentified		So really what we're supposed to do is to test the assumptions they're making, the logic of the policies that they are pulling together and looking at what the impact is in the real world and on the markets.
		And so our job is not just to repeat what is coming from the White House, although we have to explain what they're saying, but then also to test it against what's happening in the real world.
		And so that's a lot of the reporting that we're doing around tariffs right now is how the administration describing their policies, their tariffs, in line with where those negotiations actually are right now.
		And so that's what we've been looking into.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We've heard a lot about tariffs even this week, more information about auto aspects of the tariffs.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Give us a sense of what the administration's end game is or even if they've expressed such a thing.
unidentified		So there's a lot of questions about what the end game is exactly.
		The president has described tariffs as kind of a cure-all, right?
		That they can solve geopolitical problems.
		They can solve problems with countries that we have issues with.
		They can fix law enforcement issues related to fentanyl coming across borders.
		They've talked about how it can reindustrialize and reshore manufacturing in the economy.
		They've talked about how it can be used as leverage for individual deals.
		So that's really a big open question is what will satisfy Trump?
		What is the end game in terms of tariffs?
		And I can tell you in talking to U.S. trading partners, they're confused.
		When they put a proposal on the table, they don't know if it's going to be accepted.
		They don't know if it's going to pass muster with this administration because they don't necessarily know what that end game is and what the administration wants to accomplish.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When you ask the question about the end game, do you get an answer?
		Do you get variable answers?
		How does that work?
unidentified		We get variable answers depending on the official we're talking to and depending on the day.
unidentified		And even with Trump, we've gotten a variety of different answers about how tariffs can be a solution to the economic problems that he's put forward.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of the things that you brought up connected to tariffs is the ability to actually finalize trade deals.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's the White House saying as far as what's been actually finalized?
unidentified		They're saying that they're close on a number of deals.
		Our reporting shows that they've definitely close to a scope of negotiations with a number of close U.S. trading partners, whether it comes to India or Japan, countries like that.
		But as far as reaching kind of the ultimate deal with a country like China, we're still very far away from that at this point.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Trevor Honeycott, when you come to work every day, what's it like reporting on this White House, especially as you deal with the press aspects of the White House?
		What's the challenge?
		What have the challenges been?
unidentified		So our job is to try to maintain as much coverage of the White House as we possibly can and to make sure that our reporters are getting in on a day-to-day basis.
		And so that's been kind of the big challenge.
		It usually is with most of these administrations is preserving, maintaining access, making sure that if something is closed to press, that we get it maybe open to a smaller press pool.
		If something's open to a press pool, maybe getting it open to just open press to the larger press corps.
		And so with this administration, we've had a president who is very talkative.
		He speaks to the press sometimes more than once a day.
		And that's a big change from the last administration.
		So for us, it's been making sure that we have access to those events and making sure that, for instance, the wires are represented when the president is speaking to the press so that that message gets out to the entire press corps.
		So that's what we've been fighting for.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Can you elaborate on that, the wires and what's been going on specifically with the wire services in light of the Associated Press?
unidentified		Absolutely.
		So the wires have normally, for decades and decades, had a position in the White House press pool.
		And what we are trying to do is advocate to make sure that that comes back because the administration, in terms of managing, the administration has taken over the management of the press pool and the wires are no longer a part of that.
		And so we have advocated for bringing us back in because we feel that we make a contribution to the broader press corps in terms of distributing news very quickly to thousands of clients and billions of people.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of your jobs, besides the day-to-day work of covering the White House, you're on the board of the White House Correspondents Association.
		Talk about that aspect of the job.
		What have the challenges been?
unidentified		So, we had, as you saw, a different kind of dinner this year.
		We had no entertainer and no president.
		And really, we thought it was kind of back to basics for us.
		It was an attempt to do a dinner that was really about the core beliefs of our organization, which are belief in the First Amendment and scholarships and support and training for the next round of journalists that are coming up out of colleges and universities right now.
		And so, that was really the focus of our dinner: celebrating the traditions of this country in terms of a free press and encouraging the continuation of those traditions.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And challenging access to the White House.
unidentified		Always, always pushing the administration to let us, the press corps, choose who covers the president and not the other way around.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Trevor Honeycott, what do you think the perception is of people who do your job, the reporters, the men and women who report on the White House?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What do you think the perception is?
unidentified		Say that again.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What do you think the perception is from people in America about the job that you do reporting on the White House?
unidentified		I think it's really important that the press tells its story more, that we speak to the public more about what it is and why we do it, right?
		Explaining that we're here to document what the president says, what he does, and also to hold the administration accountable on what the real world impacts of that are.
		And so, I think we need to do more to educate the public about what it is that we do on a day-to-day basis.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Trevor Hunnicott reports for Reuters of the White House.
		Part of our coverage today of the first 100 days.
		Thanks for your time.
unidentified		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We're going to go back to John McCartell.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, you're there at the White House.
		We're back here on Capitol Hill, and we've been tracking members of Congress how they're reacting to the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
		Let me take you through some of the tweets and ex-posts from leaders on Capitol Hill, starting with the majority leader in the Senate, John Thune.
		He said, Today marks 100 days of promises made and promises kept.
		The president continues to follow through on the promises he made to the American people.
		And I'm proud that the Senate has been here to help, quoting from his remarks to reporters at that Tuesday lunch yesterday.
		Here's a few more.
		This was the post from Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday.
		Simply, America's back celebrating the first 100 days, the picture there from the president's joint address to Congress.
		This is from Hakeem Jeffries, a minority leader in the House.
		The Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster over the first 100 days, is what he posted yesterday.
		These extremists are not fit to govern, and we will hold them accountable.
		And then to the Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, posting yesterday afternoon, as America marks 100 days of the worst president of our lifetimes, Trump is making a full frontal attack on the core elements of what makes America truly amazing: the rule of the people over kings, the rule of law, the respect for the rights of all people.
		And Chuck Schumer had even more to say on the floor of the United States Senate yesterday.
		Here's Chuck Schumer.
chuck schumer ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, this week, as you know, marks the 100 days that Donald Trump has been in office.
unidentified		It is 100 days of chaos.
chuck schumer ▲ ● ▼		From one end of the government and one end of the country to the other.
		So let's do a simple review.
		In these 100 days, what has gone up?
		Cost of groceries?
		Up.
		Energy costs? Up.
		Cost of clothes, of homes, of cars, up.
		What has dropped?
		Your retirement in 401ks, down.
		The stock market, down.
		The dollar, down.
		And today, we saw the trend continue.
		Consumer confidence, down.
		And that's not just a statistic.
		Consumers, when they don't have confidence, don't buy things.
		Businesses, when they see chaos, freeze.
		I have talked to business people, some of the biggest businesses, medium-sized businesses, and small businesses.
		They're all frozen.
		Even if Trump were to drop the tariffs, and who knows what the hell he'll do, I doubt he'll do that.
		The businesses don't know what he'd do two weeks later, so they're frozen.
		And that's why the chance of recession, not according to us, but according to banking experts, is so much greater than it was before.
		Americans are noticing.
		The polls this week show Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating since they started polling 80 years ago.
		The lowest.
		Even worse, 72% of Americans think it's likely that Trump's handling of the economy will walk us directly into a recession.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Steps from the White House, that's where we're located today at a place called Pebble Beach.
		That's the shot that you can see there.
		People wandering in and out, and you'll see that throughout the course of the morning as well as we take your calls on the first 100 days.
		Republicans, 202-748-8001.
		Democrats, 202-748-8000.
		Independents 202-748-8002.
		Gene is in Michigan.
		Democrats line.
		Thank you for waiting.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, I almost don't know where to start.
		Due process is one thing.
		Viewer called in earlier and said if you were a criminal that does something illegal, you don't deserve due process.
		Well, I haven't committed any crime, say.
		I'm sitting in my bedroom, laying in my bedroom, sleeping at night.
		All of a sudden, they bust my doors down.
		And they rush in, arrest me, throw me out in a prison someplace, and then send me to El Salvador.
		You know, I don't even have the opportunity to defend myself, even though I haven't committed a crime.
mike in chicago ▲ ● ▼		I'm in a jail somewhere where I can't get out, can't speak to anybody.
unidentified		So why is that?
		Why do they do this immigration policy that way?
		They say there's too many people out there to arrest.
		The courts can't handle it all.
		But that's what the rule of law is.
		It's there for a purpose.
		It's there because the founders of our country put it there because of this revolution.
		I could have just accused somebody of something and they could have came and got them and locked them up, hung them, or whatever.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Gene in Michigan, this is Michelle in Ohio, Republican line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Hey, I just want to tell you that I have everlasting gratitude for President Trump and his cabinet.
		It's full transparency.
		He's doing what we want him to do, is to protect our nation and to save our children from the pedophiles out there.
		And he's righting the wrongs of our nation.
		And these Democrats should be ashamed of themselves.
		Thank you very much.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		South Carolina, that's where George is independent lying on the first 100 days.
unidentified		Good morning.
		I think President Trump is doing a fantastic job, even though he has to fight the media and a few liberal judges to get things done.
		But he's doing what he said he was going to do as far as the border.
		He's trying to make the country great again.
		I'm happy with how things are going.
		And yeah, it's going to be rough for maybe a year or so.
		But I'd rather sacrifice a year than four more years of the nonsense that we went through last four years.
		So anyways, that's my opinion.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		From Florida in Havana, Cecil, Democrats Line.
unidentified		Good morning, sir.
unidentified		How are you doing?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I'm well, thank you.
unidentified		Yes.
		I'm sitting here listening to everyone talking about the economy and the immigration.
		What I'm thinking is it is a due process that you're supposed to have when you come in, come in, or get ready to leave or get a green card.
		We've got students coming in for school and everything.
		But you snatching them up and taking them out just because they have freedom of speech.
		Freedom of speech is supposed to be one of our amendments.
		And it is definitely wrong for them to come in and snatch up people, but just because they have freedom of speech.
		The next thing is, it kind of reminds me how they did us when they took us from Africa and brought us over here, just snatched us up and just came and put us into work to do things here.
		We built this America.
		We did a lot for America.
		A lot of black people, Latinos, brown people did a lot for America.
		It is time for us to stop going backwards.
		Stop trying to take us back and try to move forward.
		If we could play basketball, football, baseball, softball, all together and get along and win championships, why should we have to go backwards and not have a nice time enjoying each other as neighbors, as friends, just because we have a different race?
		I don't think that's right.
		I think we should do much better.
		We need to do more better than what we're doing now.
		That's all I got to say.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		From Ann on our Republican line, who joins us from Massachusetts.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You're next up.
unidentified		Yes, good morning, Pedro.
unidentified		Hi, how are you this morning?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, thank you.
unidentified		Oh, great.
		Hey, I just want to say I've been watching you here.
		I like where you're sitting today with all the signs on Pebble Beach there.
		It's a wonderful day.
		I am so happy that President Trump is back in office again.
		It is a I didn't know that I was as stressed out as I was until President Trump got back in office.
		I wanted President Trump to run for the presidency 30 years ago because he was a businessman and he was going to run this country as a businessman and not as a crooked politician.
		And the Democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves, as a number of people have said.
		With the cuts that he's trying to do, if the Democrats really, really care about the citizens of this country, they ought to be trying to figure out what they can do to make it better for the people.
		I have not heard one Democrat since Donald Trump has been elected come out with anything positive to say about him or any ideas that they might have of how to cut back this out-of-control spending.
		What are their ideas?
		Anytime I try to watch them, and I don't watch Fox.
		I have basic cable.
		So these people that are saying that we all get our news from Fox, I don't watch Fox.
		I don't have Fox on my TV.
		I'm in Massachusetts.
		I have liberal news all day long, but I'm not stupid.
		I read.
		I pay attention.
		I see what the Democrats are doing.
		All they do is complain.
		Here's an idea for them.
		Stop complaining and tell the American people where you think the out-of-control spending ought to be cut instead of talking about what Donald Trump is not doing.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		That's Ann in Massachusetts.
		Independent Line next.
		Tammy in St. Petersburg, Florida.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi.
		Thank you for taking my call.
		So I just like to preface this with, I was a Republican, a McCain Republican.
		And then when Gingrich and McConnell started cheating to keep certain Supreme Court justices at UNIT switched parties.
		But I'm here in Florida and I can tell you this is a mess.
		I think people are ignoring some very important facts.
		So I just watched the Canadian government saying they're going to stop trade, reroute their oil and gas pipelines to their own coast so that they can trade oil and gas with Europe, which will undermine the ports we built three years ago to expand our oil and gas trade to Europe.
		So that's one.
		Number two, I just listened to the Premier of Singapore say they are going to stop trade with the U.S. unless we agree to zero tariffs because they have worked to deal with the Asian market, which if you guys don't know, ASEAN, including Australia and New Zealand.
patty in ohio ▲ ● ▼		Singapore is the fifth largest economy in the world, and they're cutting off trade with us to trade with people who they can trust and rely upon because Trump and the Republican administration does not honor their trade deals and does not promote the rule of law.
unidentified		Then the third is Japan.
		Japan is another major training partner who's also said they're going to align with the ASEAN bloc to China and Saudi Arabia and India rather than trade with the U.S.
		So we are heading down a very dangerous path for the United States because of the arrogance of this administration and the Republican Party that is in place at this time.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Tammy there in St. Petersburg, Florida, giving us her perspective on international issues at his speech in Michigan last night.
		It was the president himself giving his own assessment of the 100 days, particularly when it comes to reducing the size of the federal government.
		Here's some of his comments from yesterday.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And on day one, I created that very, right now, very successful Department of Government efficiency headed by Elon.
		That was a big thing doing that.
		I mean, the numbers are really incredible.
		Doge.
		So it was a very big thing.
		We terminated the left-wing money laundering scam known as USAID.
		How about the money that was going out?
		How about the money that was going out?
		Billions and billions.
		They were giving individual people billions of dollars.
		Can you believe it?
		People that had nothing, they got a billion.
unidentified		They got one, got two billion, two billion for the environment.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Had $100 in the bank, got $2 billion.
		Not $2 million.
		$2 million would have been a lot.
		$200,000 would have been a lot, but it would have been fine.
		$2 billion!
		And we directed all federal workers to return to the office in person, or unfortunately, they're fired.
		You're fired.
		You know, some of these guys got their golf handicap way down during the so-called time where they're supposed to be working at home.
		You know, they weren't working at home.
		Who the hell would work at home?
		How do you work at home?
		They're terrible.
		And we, you know, we found a lot of them where they had second jobs.
unidentified		They were just taking us for a ride.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		If you watch C-SPAN, sometimes you'll see cars driving up to the front of the White House.
		And as they drive up the driveway there, then you'll see them pass what's collectively known as Pebble Beach.
		It's a series of white tents where media outlets have stakeouts and positions.
		And that's where we are today for this 100 days look at President Trump and his administration and it starts.
		Let's hear from Orlando.
		Orlando is in Georgia, joining us on our Republican line on the first 100 days.
		Orlando, good morning.
		You're on.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Yeah, Trump has done a wonderful job.
		And, you know, when it comes to the Democrats, they didn't say anything when the prices was going up.
		Now we got somebody trying to get the prices down.
		But for four years, they let Joe Biden run rapid, and we didn't even know what he was saying half of the time.
		We didn't even know what was going on.
		But Donald Trump is coming in, and he's trying to strain things out.
		And of course, people who don't work, who get on C-SPAN, call in, and complain, yeah, they're going to be mad because they can't get that free money no more.
		While people like me who are here driving trucks, working every day, and people like them that sit at home and play on the computer are taking all our money.
		So I want Donald Trump to look into the trucking companies that have went to other countries and got people to dispatch loads and brokerage loads from other countries and bring some of those jobs back so mothers who have children can be dispatchers in America and dispatch American loads in America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		From Ohio Independent Line, Philly, hello, you're next up.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		Good morning.
unidentified		How are you, sir?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Fine, thank you.
unidentified		I just want to say that I think Donald Trump is doing a wonderful job.
unidentified		And the reason why I say that is because all Americans have common sense and they really see with their eyes and they know exactly right from wrong.
chip roy ▲ ● ▼		And if you're a, I just can't comprehend why some of the, I don't say all the Democrats because there's a lot of good ones, but the ones that don't understand this left, they keep thinking about it's the same old party.
unidentified		It's not.
		The party has completely changed in the wrong direction.
		So I feel sorry for these people, old school Democrats, that still are stuck in that mold thinking that everything's the same because they don't watch the news.
		They're not educated.
		They don't know what's going on.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So Philly, let me follow up on something you said, if I may.
		You said he's doing a wonderful job because people can see a sense of right and wrong.
		Elaborate on that.
		What do you mean by those two statements?
unidentified		Well, common sense tells you that if you're a parent or a grandparent and you support bringing those illegals back into our country, and then you've screwed your grandchildren over or your kids over.
		And I'll tell you why.
		This last guy that was on a little bit ago just got done saying, I can be at home and they can just take me out of here.
		That's not true.
		We're talking about people that are in gangs that are the most ruthless gangs in the country.
		We're not talking about normal people.
		That's just common sense.
		Get them out of here.
		Why would you want those people in here?
		We never had them before.
		Why do we got to take them now?
		The only reason why the Democrats are saying anything about it, because they're trying to find a loophole to get attention because nobody's really listening to them.
		What they should be doing is trying to be upright and support the right things.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Philly, there in Ohio.
		Part of your comments on this first 100 days.
		Also, we want to give you information, stats, figures, other kinds of information that you can use as you assess these 100 days.
		John McCartle has been joining us doing the yeoman's work on that front.
		Mr. McCartle, go ahead.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, we've heard from President Trump on how he assesses the first 100 days.
		First at that rally in Michigan last night, it was his first major speech outside of Washington of this second administration.
		And then as one of our viewers pointed out already this morning, he's going to be on NewsNation tonight, NewsNation promoting that Cuomo town hall first 100 days featuring President Trump.
		It's at 8 p.m. Eastern tonight on NewsNation.
		We'll hear what the president has to say.
		And then another event that's being watched closely today that will be tied closely to President Trump's first 100 days.
		The Bureau of Economic Analysis is releasing its first quarter GDP estimates for today, and that's set to come out any minute now.
		Those numbers are likely to impact stock market numbers today.
		Forbes, with their tweet, closely watching the release of those numbers, we'll see what it means for the stock market.
		For viewers, as we've talked about this morning, stock market numbers, certainly part of the first 100 days story here when it comes to the numbers that have defined these first few months.
		You could see Donald Trump in 2025, the stock market's performance.
		This is specifically the SP 500 index, the percentage changed since Inauguration Day.
		Donald Trump down there around the minus 10% range this year as compared, as you can see, to Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the first Trump administration, all beating that average in their first 100 days.
		The stock market, certainly, and economic numbers, part of the story as well about approval ratings for the president.
		It is a place where he seems most vulnerable right now.
		This from NBC News, national polling averages, when it comes to cost of living and inflation, that was one of the issues that was polled on there on Donald Trump's approval ratings.
		It's at the bottom of this chart, just 37% approving of the president's handling of inflation and cost of living, 61% disapproving.
		The president does his best on border and immigration numbers and government spending numbers.
		He's underwater when it comes to managing the federal government, foreign policy, tariffs, and again, those cost of living numbers.
		Those are just some of the polls out as we mark the first hundred days of the second Trump administration.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Back to your calls.
		Let's go to Jim.
		Jim is in West Virginia Democrats line.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Yeah, I was listening to other people speaking.
		I just wanted to remind people of a few points.
		I feel that Trump has led the Republican Party kind of over a cliff of self-righteousness and purity and blah, blah, blah.
		And in the process, he is eroding real concepts of democracy and Western liberal notions of a legal constitution and due process.
		And that's points that Democrats are trying to make.
		And Democrats have tried to make these points, but they get shouted down by people with their right-wingers, with their fiery passions that don't want to listen to sanity and reason.
		I think there's a feeling in the United States that, oh, this isn't perfect, that isn't great, and so on and so forth.
		And that sometimes is just the way it is.
		We have a big, huge, expensive nation to run.
		And I don't understand how these people think that the VA is going to be better, provide better service to veterans by firing 70,000 employees or Social Security or the IRS and on and on and on.
		These things, it's an expensive nation to run.
		You have to have a tax base to take care of that.
		But Trump tells people, I feel the Trump and the Republican Party, they want to cling to lies and oversimplify everything.
		And as far as that, who was the person that made the centerpiece of his rallies screaming about immigrants and calling them illegals?
		Well, you know, Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, and Trump, his first term, they changed a first-time border violation coming across the border, some woman with her kids.
		They changed that to a felony.
		Before, during the Obama administration, it was a misdemeanor unless a person had drugs or guns.
		Gotcha.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Gotcha.
		Jim, Jim, only because we're sticking to the 100 days current, let's go to Paul in Florida, Republican line.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		Yes, thank you for taking my call.
		You know, I heard one caller say that Trump has a small group of followers.
		I just want to remind people that Donald Trump had 77 million votes.
		He took the populist vote.
		He took the electoral vote.
		He is not just a few followers.
		He's got most Americans behind him.
		I lived in Michigan.
		If I took my boat across to Canada, before I threw an anchor in their water or before I came on shore, I had to call Canadian Border Patrol and get permission to go on land.
		Then when I left Canada, I had to call back to U.S. Border Patrol and get permission and customs and get permission to come back to the United States.
		But yet we open up our borders and just let people walk across, and that's okay.
		It's not.
		It's a crime.
		And we need to get these people out of our country.
		This is disgraceful what Biden has done to our country and what the Democrats have done.
		And you know what?
		They all allowed it.
		They all said that Biden was sound-minded.
		He had so much energy as he laid on the beach sleeping and eating his ice cream.
		It was disgraceful.
		Thank you for taking my call.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Lynchburg, Virginia, Independent Line, we will hear from Joe.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Joe, go ahead.
unidentified		Yeah, thanks for taking my call, CNN.
		I'm sorry, C-SPAN.
		There's a lot of misinformation going around, but I want to clarify something for everybody out there, Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal.
		An immigrant is someone who legally goes through the process of becoming a citizen of the United States.
		A migrant is someone who relocates temporarily with the purposes of returning to their country.
		An illegal immigrant, an illegal alien, is someone who enters the United States illegally for whatever purpose, and they have no guaranteed rights here in the United States.
		So for some of you guys who constantly make that mistake, whether it be intentional or unintentional, you are dishonest with that discussion.
		And Donald Trump has done a great job in dealing with illegal aliens in this nation.
		He's not done a great job so far in everything else, but on that one, I will give him a pass.
		And I think I'm the only honest caller on here because I can be objective.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When it comes to the everything else, and he's not done, and your assessment that he's not done a good job, what's one of those anything else categories?
unidentified		I think the steadfast way that he's tried to speed up the process of defaulting student loan borrowers, where you have 5.2 million people currently in default, if they're not paying their bills now, if you try to force them to do that, they're not going to do that.
		And we're going to create a debtor society.
		I think it's a better way.
		I'm not saying that other people should pay for other people's education, but a lot of those people who are student borrowers are taxpayers as well.
		So that's one of the misnomers that gets put out there.
		So I think he could do better with that.
		I think he's doing things that people haven't done.
		But I want to say this one last point real quick as well.
		I'm really disappointed with C-SPAN because we just had a governor yesterday basically tell people to confront elected officials and we are not even discussing the fact that that, you know, whether or not that's a dangerous rhetoric to have in this country.
		And he should not be, he's, that you shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't have elected officials doing that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Joe there in Lynchburg, Virginia, talking about our network C-SPAN, in which we allow you to call in from all parts of the United States and sometimes even beyond that to comment on issues of politics.
		You'll notice that our location is different today outside of the White House here, that we've decided to set up shop to talk about these first 100 days.
		And you can join in the conversation.
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		Democrats 202-748-8000.
		Independents 202-748-8002.
		You can post on X at C-SPANWJ, our Facebook page, facebook.com/slash C-SPAN.
		You want to make comments there.
		We will go to Jack in Atlanta, Democrats line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hey, how are you doing?
		I just want to say I just can't believe the people calling in there are believing any of the propaganda of this guy.
		Look at the signs behind you.
		You have one that says rape, rape of a child, murder.
		There's no policeman local in my town, in your town, in any town, who is going to let a murderer, a rapist, a child rapist go.
		This is a bunch of baloney.
		There's no such possibility that Donald Trump's people are going around finding these murderers and rapists that nobody else found before.
		This is just pure propaganda.
		The people who believe those signs are just silly.
		And Donald Trump has been this kind of propagandist for his entire life.
		He used to lie about how tall his buildings are to try to outdo the buildings around him.
		So Donald Trump, this is a tactic that I don't know if you remember the Filipino president who went after drug dealers and started killing and disappearing all kinds of people around the Philippines, the exact same way Donald Trump is doing it now.
steve vaus ▲ ● ▼		And now this president of the Philippines, he's in front of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
unidentified		So all those people who believe that ICE is really going around finding rapists that the local police didn't find or murderers, it's just a bunch of lies.
		It's not true.
		And so people have to realize that this is all baloney.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Jack in Atlanta, let's go to Sarah in Maryland, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi, good morning.
		I just really appreciate this line.
		There was a gentleman that talked a few calls ago about, first of all, I think Trump is doing a fantastic job in his first 100 days.
		In fact, in the first 10 days, I felt like I was on Cloud 9 because the man is doing everything that I would want a president to do for my country.
		There was a gentleman that was talking about all these lawsuits that are going on.
		And what you don't realize, or what I want people to realize, is that as those lawsuits are all going on, we are codifying law in this country to support the values, American values in this country.
		So as those lawsuits go through the court system in this first 100 days, we are going to codify law that is going to back and support American values.
		And I think that is supremely intellectual and amazing.
		The other thing with regard to immigration is, you know, I always think of this country as my house.
		This is my house.
		Would I open my front door or allow anyone to just come onto the property that I pay taxes for to just set up shop and use all the resources that I have in my house and on my land?
		And the reality is, is no.
		And I love the caller Joe just a couple calls ago who defined what a legal alien is.
		And the fact is, is that we are supposed to allow, as Americans, refugees who are suffering from persecution in their own countries to come into this country.
		And we certainly will allow that.
		But what's happened over the last four years is an influx, the Great Reset, trying to change the population for somebody else's use.
		And that's not allowed.
		This country is an amazing country.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Sarah and Maryland, let's go to Joan in Nevada, Independent Line.
		Joan in Nevada.
		Hello.
		One more time for Joan.
		Okay.
		Why don't we put her on hold if we can?
		And can we move to Sheila, Sheila in Youngstown, Ohio, Democrats line?
		Sheila, good morning.
		You are on.
		Go ahead on the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
unidentified		Oh, good morning.
		I was just going to, first of all, remind people of what the Pope had said.
		His parents were immigrants fleeing from the Nazis.
		And I just want to tell a local story that was on local news in Oklahoma.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		But before we go too far, because this is dealing with the first 100 days, what's your assessment of the 100 days of the Trump administration?
unidentified		Well, this story will encompass everything I'm trying to say.
		These American citizens, this family had moved from Maryland to Oklahoma two weeks ago.
		The woman was waiting for her husband to get there.
		She had two children, 20 armed, and they were American citizens.
		Okay, American citizens, not migrants.
		20 armed federal agents busted in, forced them out onto their yard undressed.
		They removed everything from the house.
		They took their documents, their phones, their money, their furniture, everything was removed.
		These people were American citizens.
		Check it out, K-F-O-R was...
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And how does that relate to the 100 days?
unidentified		This is how he's treating American citizens.
		If you don't get what's going on, I mean, I just, I can't understand how many men on those pictures did anything wrong.
		And they're going to send them to a prison for the rest of their life?
		I mean, would Jesus think I'm going to send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life?
		What's wrong with these Catholics?
		I just don't understand it.
		What did the Pope say?
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, since you started there, we'll end with there.
		And Sheila in Youngstown, Ohio, continue on with your calls if you want.
		As you do that, we're back to John McCurdle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I just wanted to fill viewers in on what we talked about just a few minutes ago, the first quarter GDP, gross domestic product numbers, those estimates out.
		And they note, as Scott McFarlane, a Hill News reporter, that the U.S. economy went into reverse in the first quarter, according to the latest GDP data estimates.
		The Hill newspaper writes this.
		The U.S. GDP fell at an annualized rate of 0.3% during the first three months of the year, according to the data from the Commerce Department today.
		That's down from an annualized increase of 2.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024.
		The Hill notes that economists had expected U.S. GDP to fall amid a steep increase in orders on foreign products, which could be far more expensive once President Trump's full slate of tariffs take effect.
		The preview of the report from Pantheon Macroeconomics that they cite say the drops seems to be wholly due to tariff-related distortions.
		And one more ex-post on this to give you a sense of the history of what this looks like.
		The GDP numbers put into context over the past several quarters by Steve Ratner in his ex-post.
		Wall Street Financier worked on the auto task force in the Obama administration, contributing writer to op-eds in the New York Times.
		He shows quarterly GDP post growth over time.
		You can see in recent months that it was always in the green and now today backtracking down 0.3%.
		We'll see how that impacts stock market numbers today, again, on the 100th day of Donald Trump's second term.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And that's what we're focusing on, getting your perspectives on a lot of different fronts, economic, immigration, otherwise.
		If you want to call and let us know what your thoughts are on these first 100 days, let's try Jonah, Nevada again, Independent Line.
		Hello.
unidentified		Good morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Morning, go ahead.
unidentified		Yes, and Rosen Sue with me being a senior in dollars.
		How much was that increase we got?
		I know you said a percentage, but dollar-wise, how much was it?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Deloise in Herndon, Virginia, Republican line.
		You're next up.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
		Thank you so much for taking my call, Peace Pan.
		This is my first time calling, so I'm a little bit nervous, but I love listening to you because you have unfiltered news, and I try to promote that with everyone that I meet.
		But every time I hear people speaking, sometimes it just urges me to call in and say something about certain things.
		And when it comes to undocumented immigrants, I am so glad that President Trump is taking the has the agenda that he has.
		I just disagree with everyone thinking that all undocumented immigrants are criminals and gang gangsters.
		Yes, there are some, but not all of them.
		And I still don't support them being here illegally.
		My issue is, as far as employment is concerned, I just recently learned that businesses, and maybe I have this wrong, and I hope I do, but businesses are allowed to hire undocumented immigrants that are paying into our tax system, our social security system, and all of that.
		And the effects that that has on young college students and high school seniors who are not fortunate enough to have an internship at some big corporation, they would appreciate to have those entry-level jobs.
		And you hear it all the time where they say, I can't find a job.
		You hear people, American citizens with master's degree that says, I worked so hard to get my master's degree and I still can't find a job.
		And no one is talking about how a lot of these entry-level jobs, people say no one wants them.
		But they forget about the group of people who would appreciate having those entry-level jobs as American citizens.
		They would appreciate those jobs.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Let's go to Jordan in Florida, Democrats line.
		You're next up.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi.
		Thank you for having me on, Pedro.
		Thank you again.
		So the one thing I wanted to say about, you know, the last 100 days of the Trump presidency, I would say that it's an utter failure.
		I mean, you know, on the campaign trail, Donald said that he was going to bring down prices.
		He hasn't.
		Actually, prices have risen.
		And when the tariffs went into effect, the gas station outside of my house literally went up 20 cents in less than 12 hours to 319.
		Okay.
		Actually, I'm sorry, 329.
		Let me correct that.
		All right, 329 is what he went up to.
		He said he was going to bring manufacturing jobs back to America.
		And yet, just last week alone, you see Nissan and you see Subaru pull out of the United States.
		That's over 40,000 American jobs alone.
		You see, UPS has to lay off 20,000 workers due to the economy.
		So right there alone, in just the last week alone, 60,000 American jobs have been lost.
state police david ▲ ● ▼		You see, Donald Trump also promised on the campaign trail that he was going to end the wars in Gaza and in Ukraine.
unidentified		He hasn't done that.
		Instead, he's actually made matters worse.
		And you're also seeing him not granting due process to people here in the United States when the Fifth Amendment says you have to have your day in court.
		He's not giving that to anybody.
		Regardless of your citizens, your citizenship status, you are granted the right of due process, of being heard.
		All right.
		And if you are, and if the verdict is still that you're guilty, or if the verdict is still that you need to be deported, then that's the verdict.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		You're not even getting that much.
unidentified		All right.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Jordan in Florida, Democrats line talking about the first 100 days.
		It was on Inauguration Day during his address that the president talked about this idea of a golden age of America.
		Here's some of that from January 20th of this year.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		The golden age of America begins right now.
		From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.
		We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
		during every single day of the Trump administration I will very simply put America first.
		Our sovereignty will be reclaimed.
		Our safety will be restored.
		The scales of justice will be rebalanced.
		The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.
		And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.
		America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.
		I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.
		A tide of change is sweeping the country.
		Sunlight is pouring over the entire world.
		And America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		If you're interested in revisiting that inauguration address, you can do that at our website at cspan.org.
		As the sun rises and it approaches nine o'clock, signs of life here at the White House, as correspondents and other staffers come for this Wednesday workday.
		It's part of our workday as well, joining you and letting you tell us about the first 100 days about the Trump administration as we do this from just outside of the White House.
		Let's go to Gilbert in Ohio, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hello, how are you doing?
		First of all, most of the two last speakers told everything that I wanted to say to you already.
		So I'd like to talk about those pictures you have behind you.
john trudell ▲ ● ▼		First of all, most of those guys in those pictures were from Mexico, the illegal people that Mexico caught and sent to America, the fugitives, and they were sent to Guantanamo Bay, and then they were shipped back to America, which cost $28 million, by the way.
unidentified		And then they were shipped to El Salvador.
		Okay?
		You will see most of them in your pictures behind you.
		Next, my grandfather came to America in the first boat that landed in America, not Christopher Columbus who landed in the islands, okay?
		And now I'm carrying around my birth certificate and all documentation to say I am a citizen.
		And my grandparents settled in Texas, by the way, before we were thrown off our land.
		That's all I got to say.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go to Teresa then in Pennsylvania, Republican line.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Good morning, Pedro.
		I would just like to say that I think our president is doing a fantastic job, especially on the border.
		He would be progressing on other things if he wouldn't be getting a fight on the Democrat side continually.
		So we knew that he inherited a mess, and it's going to take time.
		So I do believe in time it is going to work out.
		Thank you, Pedro, and have a wonderful day.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How much time are you willing to give it?
unidentified		I think it's going to take somewhere at least within a year or a little bit longer.
		I truly believe that.
		But we're heading in the right direction.
		He just gets they're constantly trying to tie his hands, and it's so wrong.
		And I'm hoping and praying that our country does come together in unity.
		Thank you, and have a great day.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		A viewer, thank you.
		A viewer in New Hampshire next.
		This is Culver, Democrats line.
unidentified		Yeah, Cutler from New Hampshire.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Oh, Cutler, I'm sorry.
		I'm sorry.
		Go ahead.
unidentified		No, that's Brian Pedro.
		Thank you.
		I am confused about what is going on.
		I'm sad that our Congress is not functional.
		They've relinquished their responsibility, chiefly Republicans, and allowed the executive to take power that he doesn't deserve.
		We are a nation of law, and this man has broken so many laws, selling cars on the White House lawn, making money off the presidency.
		I'm beginning to wonder about his mental competency, making Canada the 51st state ideas like that.
		I wonder what's going on.
		What made me really sick was when I saw ICE members with masks taking people to wherever they shipped them.
		Are we a banana republic?
		That's what they do in dictatorships.
		That's the way they.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Cutler there in New Hampshire, two hours down in our look at the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
		You can add your thoughts to the mix, as always.
		202748-8,000, one for Republicans, 202-748-8,000 for Democrats.
		And Independents, 202748, 8002.
		And as we go throughout the course of the morning, like I said, we'll be here outside of the White House, but we'll be giving you other information about these first 100 days.
		And doing that is John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I just want to come back to those first quarter GDP estimates for 2025.
		It will be wrapped into the story today of Donald Trump's first 100 days here.
		This is the Wall Street Journal front page right now.
		If you take a look at it, the U.S. economy contracted at 0.3 percentage rate in the first quarter.
		The decline in the GDP was the steepest since the first quarter of 2022.
		Imports surged as businesses rushed to stock up ahead of the tariffs while consumers held their spending in check.
		That's what you're seeing at the Wall Street Journal website if you go there.
		And members of Congress and members of the media picking up on this story already.
		RoCanna, the Democratic congressman with this ex-post: It turns out that when you launch a trade war with blanket tariffs, lay off federal workers en masse, cancel federal contracts, and reduce skilled immigration, you will have negative GDP growth.
		Trump turned a 2.4 percentage growth into minus 0.3 percent.
		Econ 101 is what the Democratic congressman wrote.
		And this from political commentator George Conway, he sent out this ex-post.
		It's hard to imagine that the second quarter of 2025 won't be worse, which means he says the Trump recession has already begun.
		We'll keep track of that throughout the day.
		One more post I wanted to show in relation to the first 100 days.
		Members, various political or various members of the media putting out their posts about what it means to have a first hundred days, what the key moments were.
		This is the Washington Post's key moments of the first 100 days.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Economic independence.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think Biden could get into that car.
unidentified		I don't know.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		For $5 million, this could be used.
		Well, it's somewhat voluntary, but it's also if you don't answer, I guess you get fired.
		Some of those people move the police troop very minor incidents about you don't have the cards right now.
		With us, you start having cards.
		Right now, you don't have to.
		You better comply because otherwise, you're not getting any federal funding.
unidentified		See, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
		Well, if you have somebody else's contact, and then it and then somehow someone said nobody was texting war plans.
		People are sort of looking around thinking, wow, well, maybe I could get a chicken in my backyard.
		Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		You see this pen, this wonderful pen?
		My desk is the Middle East.
		I rebuilt our military.
		A lot of it was given away to Afghanistan, but it was a lot, but a very small portion, in all fairness.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		The cameras are all on.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Anything that I say, no matter how crazy, Usha has to smile and laugh.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I promised my wife I would never use a bad word.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		The case against me was bull.
unidentified		I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
		They were getting yippy.
		Why don't you wear a suit?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Does everybody know what a condom is?
		Thank you again.
		Thank you again.
		Once again.
unidentified		How is that bad, bump?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I think we've seen enough.
		What do you think?
		This is going to be great television, I will say that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from Tim in New York, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hey, Joel.
		I'd like to speak about some of what I think are more important things, like the independent news, which I prefer democracy now, but most of the people are just debating the finer points of MSNBC and Fox News.
		It's been reported that Eric Prince of Blackwater fame.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, hold on, hold on.
		Before we go down that road, this is about the first 100 days.
		So, what's your assessment of that?
		Let's start with there.
unidentified		Well, the first assessment of that is that he's suing law firms, colleges, and media companies.
		He's taking students.
		He's taking students, judges, and children that have cancer and sending them overseas.
		He's using the Hispanics for scapegoats.
		And he's aligning us with authoritarian countries which is not in our best interest and all of this has taken place within the first 100 days and there's a lot of books out there that have been written about authoritarianism and you know I suggest some people go out there and read them.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Tim there joining us from New York part of several facets of our coverage this morning on the first 100 days.
		Primarily we'll hear from you but members of Congress stopping to join us throughout the morning as well.
		Representative Lori Trahan, Democrat from Massachusetts, the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee co-chair joining us from Capitol Hill.
		Representative, thanks for giving us your time.
unidentified		Thanks for having me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How would you assess the last 100 days?
unidentified		You know, I think these first 100 days since President Trump has been back in office have been the exact opposite of what the American people want and frankly, what he promised.
		You know, costs and chaos, corruption are all on the rise.
		And when you combine that with the unfettered access and power that he's given Elon Musk to cut programs that people rely on for their health care, for their food assistance, and so much more, it's no wonder that he has the worst numbers of any president in their first 100 days.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		For being a Democrat then on Capitol Hill as this goes on, what does it mean for the Democrats in both the House, well, in your case, the House, but also the Senate?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What does it mean on pushing back against the administration?
unidentified		Yeah, I look at this as a three-pronged strategy.
		Democrats are taking the fight to try to mitigate the damage of this administration every single day.
		Certainly our most effective tool has been in the courts.
		Over 200 cases have been brought in the first 100 days with over 100 injunctions and restraining orders on some of these policies.
		We're taking it to the floor.
		You know, we have a very slim margin in the House.
		And so we're making sure that we put the pressure on Republicans.
		We don't want them to be complicit or rubber stamping this disastrous agenda.
		And just last month, we brought down a rule on the House floor.
		And that caused Speaker Johnson to have a temper tantrum and basically send us all home.
		But then third, we're traveling the country.
		We have Democrats in every district, our own, and also in Republican districts, where they're hiding from their constituents because they don't want to face the music of this administration.
		And we're offering another option of what we would do and how we can fight back and win.
		So we're not waiting until those midterms in 2026.
		We're bringing the fight every single day.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		One of the specifics that I guess Democrats in the House will have to consider is work on this legislative bill, including the bill that would include a tax cut.
		You were quoted as saying if Medicaid cuts are part of that, you were saying the Democrats would make it as, quote, painful as possible.
		Can you elaborate on that?
unidentified		Yeah, well, I think people are looking at the next 100 days and this Republican House plowing forward with a strategy that would rip health care away from millions of people in this country.
		That is deeply unpopular.
		And so we know that we're having those fights in committee rooms, but very shortly we're going to be having that debate on the House floor.
		And people are going to understand exactly what's at stake.
		So look, when I think about this administration, and the president liked to ask the question on the campaign trail last year, are you better off than you were four years ago?
		Well, I would just pose the question, are you better off than you were 100 days ago?
		And are you feeling good about the next 100 days?
		And unless you're a billionaire donor to the Trump campaign, that answer is no.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So is part of the strategy just what you'll say, the type of rhetoric you use?
		Is there an administrative or legislative strategy you'll try to employ?
		Can you elaborate on that?
unidentified		Well, I think first and foremost, we don't even have the details yet.
		I sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Medicaid cuts that could be upwards of nearly a trillion dollars.
		We don't even have the details on that plan yet.
		But we're ready because we know where those buckets of costs are that they are targeting.
		So we're going to fight that battle in the committee room first, making sure that we could use every tool that we have to make sure that they don't move forward with their plan.
		And then most importantly, that the American people know what's at stake.
		And you asked about the first 100 days and the promises that this administration has made.
		I'll just point out three of them, right?
		The costs.
		You know, people right now are struggling.
		This president promised to lower costs on day one.
		And instead, prices are rising.
		This reckless trade war is actually, it could add $2,000 to $4,000 annually to people's out-of-pocket costs, all while they have deep anxiety around their retirement savings.
		Secondly, he promised to cut government waste.
		Instead, Elon Musk has wasted $135 billion in taxpayer dollars, all just to cut $63 billion in government spending.
		And then third, this president was going to make America healthy again.
		And RFK Jr. is actively dismantling our health care system.
		He's cutting research that patients rely on and doing nothing to end the most deadliest measles outbreak that we've had in decades, killing kids in Texas.
		So I think the slogan for this administration isn't promises made, promises kept.
		It feels to the American people like these promises have been broken.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		You probably heard the comments from the Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently about his own party, the Democratic Party.
		He described them as do-nothing Democrats, do-nothing political types.
		What do you think of that assessment, especially pushing back against the president?
unidentified		Look, I think we're using every tool.
		I mean, one, we're attesting this in the courts, our separation of powers and the independence of our court system, and we're having a lot of wins there.
		That doesn't happen by accident.
		Democrats are mobilizing those plaintiffs and are working hand in glove with our Democratic attorney generals to bring those lawsuits.
		Secondly, we are bringing that fight to the floor in the Senate and in the House, and we've had some wins.
		We've brought down some important rules, and we're taking advantage of the low margin and the deeply unpopular policies that these Republicans are rubber stamping for this administration.
		And third, we're bringing our case directly to the people.
		We've won a couple of important special elections this year, and there's going to be a few more bellwethers.
		But we're going to take the case to the American people.
		We have town meetings in our districts every time we're home.
		We're mobilizing so that we can take advantage of every opportunity that we have.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Representative Laurie Trahan, the co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, Democrat who serves the state of Massachusetts.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Representative Trahan, thanks for your time.
unidentified		Thank you for having me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, one of many stops along the way of our new location, our temporary location for today at least at Pebble Beach.
		This is a new perspective shot.
		Just to give you a sense of where we are today, right outside of the White House, you'll notice that several of those tents there ready for various news outlets to use.
		I appreciate the chance for the access.
		And as we take your calls, let's hear from Alia.
		I hope I said that right.
		In San Diego, Republican line, you are next up.
		Thanks for waiting.
unidentified		Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
		I would like to say about Our wonderful president, Mr. Trump.
		He has done a lot for our country, for people, and I'm so proud to say he is my president.
		He has done a lot of good work for people.
		And I am trusting him, and I respect him.
		And I'm so proud to say I'm an American, and our president is Mr. Trump.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Democrats line is next.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Michigan, we'll hear from Tony.
unidentified		If he were a kid, and this is his report card, he's got failing marks.
		And as an adult, I would give him tutoring if he were in school.
		Just like the lady just got off the phone.
		What are these people looking at to say he's done so well?
		And every time I ask a Republican, what has he done so well?
		Nobody can be specific.
		Yes, he's done immigration and he's fulfilling it.
		But he's turned up and challenging the judicial system throughout the rest of the whole country.
		He's tearing this whole thing apart.
		It's been made over 200 years.
		And I just don't understand.
		Ask people, what does GDP mean?
		Half of them probably could not tell you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		So it's specific.
		What's the failing marks you would give him?
		What's a specific failing mark?
		Give me a category and what's I would give him a D. Specifically in what?
unidentified		A D on how he's doing the country far as Doge, far as what he's doing with the health system, the lies.
		I just don't understand a president getting away with all the lies and nobody's challenging him on it.
		He's done good on immigration, I must say so.
		I'm a Democrat, and when Joe Biden did that, I said this is the failure of his administration when all the immigrants came across freely.
		But look at the numbers again.
		Joe Biden numbers crush what he's going to do, and it's going to get worse.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Randy up next in Illinois, Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Hi there.
		I'm in Missouri, but that's fine.
		That's close enough.
		The question is, are you better off than you were 100 days ago?
		And I would say overwhelmingly yes.
		He has stopped.
		He has stopped illegal immigration at the border.
		And we were told by Mayorkas, the border secure, the border secure for three and a half years.
		And you could watch MSNBC, the border secure, turn it over to Fox.
		They would have a drone showing a border crossing in Texas where people were just flowing across this.
		And the press didn't ask them about this.
		The thing that people don't talk about the border is the fentanyl.
		We lost 300,000 to 400,000 lives during the Biden administration due to fentanyl overdoses.
		Many of these people did not know they were taking fentanyl.
		And I don't know that that's going to stop because these cartels will figure out other ways to get it in.
		But that has significantly lowered that.
		We lost 3,000, less than 3,000 people on 9-11.
		300,000.
		Why doesn't anybody talk about that?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, can I ask you then?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		If immigration is the thing, how is it better off for you specifically?
unidentified		I have a niece who is a heroin addict, and she's recovering her and addict.
		She's doing very good.
		But she might fail, and she might get heroin inflation with fentanyl.
		That would kill her.
		Okay?
		So I'm better off knowing that this has stopped.
		And again, You know, Trump, I wish sometimes he's got to stop talking about Joe Biden.
		That is very unprofessional, and I think everybody's tired about it.
		And I'm going to be fair, and I'm going to be honest when I critique him.
		And I think that everybody, the General Accounting Office put out that in 2023, they accounted for $650 billion that was lost to fraud or mismanagement.
		So everybody agrees.
		There's a lot of fan we could cut.
		Okay.
		The problem is when we start cutting it, people start screaming.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Randy there in Missouri giving us his thoughts on these 100 days of the Trump administration.
		You can add yours to the mix as well.
		The numbers 202748-8000, one for Republicans, Democrats, 202-748-8,000.
		Independents 202-748-8,000, too.
		It's a windy day.
		A little blustery here.
		You'll notice that the signs behind me are blowing in the wind there, right outside of the White House.
		Those placed there recently to talk about efforts when it comes to deportation and immigration.
		Pebble Beach is the shots we've been showing you, that strip of tents, so to speak, where media sets up for the day and does its business.
		There's another perspective shot as well.
		Our C-SPAN cameras capturing that.
		Well, as you look at that, let's hear from Anthony in Oregon, Republican line.
unidentified		Yeah, what I would like to say is, you know, it doesn't matter what Trump does.
		The Democrats and people on the left are all going to hate him.
		He could save the world.
		And they would say it wasn't done the right way.
		He's only had 100 days to do what he's doing.
		And, you know, sometimes it takes longer.
		You know, it might take three years before the economy really starts booming and things start getting better in this country because it took four years for the Biden administration to tear down the country to where it was with gas over $5 a gallon, high inflation.
		All the inflation that we're dealing with now was brought on by the Biden administration.
		And so now Trump is starting off at a higher level.
		He needs to correct everything so he can get inflation to fall.
		I don't care what they say.
		He hasn't had enough time.
		They just don't like the man and they don't like his policy.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Well, you said three years.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Are you saying people should wait three years or how much time would you be willing to give?
unidentified		Well, there you go.
		How long does it take?
		If a person declares bankruptcy, they have seven years to write their ship.
		Okay?
		They have seven whole years.
		So, you know, and in some administrations, it takes the whole eight years for them, for their policies to actually start being enacted and to start working.
		I think that it's going to take a while, but I think Trump is totally on the right track.
		And he's going to get the country working again and the price is down eventually.
		But it's not going to happen.
		He doesn't have a magic wand.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Anthony there in Oregon giving us his thoughts this morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's go back to John McCartney.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Joe, as we've said before, the 100-day mark is a good day to take a look at the headlines.
		Here's the current ones from overseas.
		We'll focus on those papers first.
		This is the Globe and Mail, their headline focusing on newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreeing to meet with Donald Trump amid those first talks after his win.
		The former central banker's ability to negotiate with the U.S. president was a chief focus of his campaign, as they note in that headline.
		I want to go to the Guardian newspaper.
		Their headline focuses on what's happening right now.
		The U.S. economy shrinks in the first quarter of the Trump 2.0 amid sweeping tariffs is what they say there.
		To the independent also in the United States and the United Kingdom as well, forgive me.
		They focus on what they're calling the missing Melania.
		While Donald Trump has barely been out of the news, the first lady has hardly been spotted.
		They write, even after a public show of affection in Italy at the Pope's funeral this weekend, the couple reportedly went their separate ways the minute that they landed.
		That's again out of the United Kingdom.
		We'll take you to France now.
		The Liberation is the newspaper there.
		Their headline translates to 100 days without end.
		To the South China Post out of Hong Kong, this is their headline.
		Trump's executive order, power grab, leaves official Washington gasping to keep up.
		100 days into President Trump's second term, the U.S. Capitol has been thrown into chaos, responding to sweeping actions that may not be legal.
		And then to Africa, this is out of Kenya, the standard.
		Their headline, in 100 days, Trump shatters the U.S. global role.
		Those are some of the international headlines.
		And then here's a few of the ones from inside the United States.
		We noted this morning, the New York Post, their cover is Tornadon.
		Trump promises a whirlwind start is just the beginning.
		Their deep dive into the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second administration.
		This is the Arizona Republic.
		Americans await the economic boom.
		And out of the Mercury News out of California, the San Jose area, popularity plunges amid chaos and worries.
		A few of the newspapers that Americans and citizens from around the world are waking up to this morning.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
		Let's hear from Diane.
		Diane's in Iowa Independent Line, your view of the president's first 100 days.
unidentified		Hello.
		I think he's doing an excellent job.
		And there's just a couple of things I want to hit on.
rosalind peterson ▲ ● ▼		First of all, I personally don't, I listen a lot to C-SPAN now that I have cable, but I don't listen to the other news, I call them news rags, because they're, if one's lying, the other one's lying.
unidentified		So I just totally, I listen to you, I get my information, I check it out, I decide what's right, what's wrong, and of course, with the help of God.
		Now, the second thing, I am glad, I am so happy because I've had an experience of my own that he is getting the illegals, excuse me, illegal aliens out of the United States.
		Illegal means illegal.
		No matter what it is, illegal means illegal.
		Now to the economy and the food market, people, a lot of people don't know.
		My husband used to work in a store or work in stores, grocery stores, and sold to them and stuff.
		Stores buy large quantities.
		So when prices started going up under Biden, they would have stocked their warehouses to the gill.
		And then the prices went up.
		They bought high.
		They are not going to bring the prices down just because we want them to go down.
		They have to empty their warehouses with them making a profit on it.
		And so nobody, nobody, unless somebody goes in and buys their warehouses out, nobody can make the price go down until all that is done with.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		And that's what I wanted to say because people just don't understand that.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Diane in Iowa, that's her perspective.
		Let's hear from Brenda and Michigan, Democrats line.
		Go ahead.
		You're next up.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
		I'm enjoying your show.
		First of all, Donald Trump is, he lies all the time.
		He was lying on TV last night.
		When they fact-check him, he's telling many story lies.
		He should not be in the White House, period.
		But he is destroying our country within.
		I hope he reaps what he sows.
		These people that are out of jobs, he's just too much.
		And if they don't get him out of that office, he is destroying our country within.
		He is a liar.
		He lies all the time.
		I don't know how people voted against their own interests.
		And these immigrants, they should be given a chance to become legal.
		He has made mistakes in his life, and they need to be able to become citizens and treat them.
		He's going to reap what he sows.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Tiffany in Washington, D.C., Independent Line.
unidentified		Hi, good morning.
		I am just godsmacked by the level of, I'm going to say ignorance that I hear from starting with the lady in California, Missouri, Iowa, Diane, you know, all these people who are this rah-rah, I love Trump.
		Part of what I see going on is they're going to tolerate Trump as long as he is kind of playing to their interest, which is they don't like anybody that doesn't look like them.
		And from the aspect that I was hearing from their tone of voice, except for the lady from California, they're majority white Americans.
		So as long as Trump is, as long as he keeps elevating them and keeps allowing, you know, playing to them as far as their racism and hatred, that's what they're going to do.
		And Diane, I hope you're still listening.
		The fact that you use God in one sentence and then use a flur calling people illegal aliens, which is a flur, shame on you.
		You're not being godly.
		God and Jesus taught us to lead with love.
		And so anybody that is pro-Donald Trump is just pro their own white America first interest.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Tiffany in Washington, D.C., Independent Line, joining us on the phone.
		John McCartle joining us from our HQ.
		Go ahead, John.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		And I want to bring in President Trump joining us via True Social, responding to those numbers on the first quarter GDP estimates that came out.
		A reminder that those numbers showing that the economy shrank in the first quarter by 0.3 percentage points.
		That's far down from increasing by 2.4 percent in the last quarter of last year.
		This is what Donald Trump had to say on True Social.
		This is Biden's stock market, not Trump's.
		I didn't take over until January 20th.
		Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers.
		Our country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden overhang.
		This will take a while, has nothing to do with tariffs, only that he left us with bad numbers.
		But when the boom begins, it will be like no other.
		Be patient.
		That was President Trump just about 15 minutes ago.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, John.
		You may have noticed a little something different behind the background here as we are outside on Pebble Beach.
		Again, we've been showing you these why perspective shots throughout the course of the morning, but just a few seconds ago, somebody was removing the signs that you saw at the start of the program.
		In fact, still in the process of removing those signs right now.
		So that's just happening seconds ago, part of the dynamic that's happening here at the White House.
		Let's go to Jerry in Texas, Republican line.
unidentified		Hi.
		Morning.
		I am a Republican, and I do appreciate everything that Donald Trump has done for the country up to now.
		The two most important things for me, obviously, was sealing the border.
jack in japan ▲ ● ▼		And I would ask any Democrat if they would invite any of those people on those posters behind you to their house for breakfast or dinner, or would they let any of those people babysit their children?
unidentified		The other issue that was really important for me was defining the difference between a man and a woman.
		And I think Mr. Trump, President Trump has done a good job of that, and I think that's important.
		And the last thing I'd like to say is I know when a Democrat's not telling the truth.
		And that's because 17 of them will get on the TV at the same day and expouse the exact same talking points.
		The exact same words.
		Republicans, for some reason, they don't do that.
		Democrats do that.
		So I know that they're not truthful when that kind of behavior happens.
		Appreciate your time.
		Thank you.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from John.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		John, the New Jersey Democrats line.
unidentified		Yes.
		How you doing?
		Thanks for letting me on.
		I think the president has been doing a terrible job.
		Right now, he's making himself richer.
		All right.
		He's passing laws to make the people who are rich richer.
		He's got that scam going with his Bitcoin.
		He's going to send us into a recession.
		And I believe his goal is to make American people in debt, personally in debt.
		A third of America is already a third in debt.
		His agenda and the Republican Party's agenda is for Americans to let him take our privileges, our rights as Americans, away from us and to give it to him.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		John there in New Jersey on our line for Democrats as we've been hearing from Republicans, Democrats, Independents all during the course of the morning as part of our coverage of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
		As promised, along the way, several stops with short interviews and chats with people.
		One of the things, people we're going to talk to next, actually, is Anna Kelly.
		She's the White House Deputy Press Secretary joining us.
		But before that, again, C-SPAN's Tammy Thuringer was out in the streets of Washington, D.C., the National Mall there talking about these first 100 days to get people's perspectives.
		Here's a bit of those conversations from yesterday.
unidentified		I'm Sonia.
		I'm from Virginia.
		I'm Layla.
		I'm from Texas.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		We are coming up on President Trump's first 100 days in office.
		You're in college.
		If you were a professor giving him a grade, what grade would you give him?
unidentified		Not a passing one.
		Probably.
		I think like between the tariffs and everything that's going on with the trade agreements, it's just not a good outcome for the economy right now if we're just focusing on that.
		Other stuff with immigration as well, it's just a mess.
		Yes.
		I think like a 20% immigration really is something that's big for me.
		So that really drops his grade pretty low.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Are you seeing the impact of President Trump's policies where you're at at your school?
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Or have you personally been impacted by any of them?
unidentified		Definitely.
		I know at GW there was like a few students who their international visas were taken away without their knowledge.
		So now they could be deported at any point.
		So I know that's something really big.
		And then also our funding, funding for research and funding for other things at our school is under attack.
		Yeah, and also just because the economy is bad right now and all of these government jobs have been cut in DC.
		A lot of people don't have internships for the summer when usually that's a normal thing for GW students.
		Everybody usually is gainfully employed.
		So the fact that most people are having to go back home this summer because they don't have jobs is really sad, honestly.
		So, and we're juniors.
		We're about to graduate next year.
		My name is Owe Onlyway.
		I'm from Shanghai, China.
		I'm Jonathan Zelensky.
		I'm from near Niagara Falls in a small town called Buffalo, or Fredonia, actually.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		President Trump is coming up on his first 100 days in office.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Do you think that period of time has been successful?
unidentified		You go first.
		That is so hard to answer.
		I feel like I think the change is good.
		I think that big changes can be create unsuspected, sort of, you can't tell what's going to happen.
		And so the changes that he's made have been so far-reaching that I think it's hard for American people to imagine.
		Like, we live in Shanghai, China, and China's a huge country.
		And so just because of things like huge tariffs, many of the people who really survive on, how do you say that?
		Oh, gosh, my English is terrible, even though from America.
		What is it called?
		Guangtang?
		Guangtang.
		Factory.
		Factory jobs in China have shut down so much that so many people are just unemployed now.
		And those sorts of changes affect a broader base than just the American people in a huge way.
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		What would you like to see him focus on moving forward?
unidentified		Focus on?
tammy thueringer ▲ ● ▼		Or not focus on.
unidentified		Or not focus on.
		Oh, gosh.
		I hope.
		I just hope that more jobs can be created for American people.
		I hope that the economy can be brought back up.
		What else can be happening here?
		Oh, gosh.
		What do you think?
		Any opinions?
		I just hope he would like doing his job while not damage our like a country-China-U.S. relations.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Again, man on the streets, as they're known as, getting people's perspectives on the 100 days, the first 100 days of the Trump administration, as promised Anna Kelly serves as the White House Deputy Press Secretary joining us.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Thanks for your time.
unidentified		Thank you so much for having me.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		I guess messaging is part of the week.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What would be the message that the White House is giving as far as these first 100 days?
unidentified		Well, this president is very quickly delivering on the promises that he made to the American people.
		Remember, this president pledged to cool inflation.
		We are seeing that happen already.
		Gas prices are down.
		He pledged to secure the southern border.
		That happened in basically a month.
		Border crossings are at historic lows.
		He pledged to launch the largest deportation of migrant illegal aliens in history.
		That has happened already.
		We're seeing so many migrant illegal aliens being deported at historic rates.
		He is quickly delivering on his promises, and the best is yet to come in the form of more trade deals, more peace deals, and more tax deals that are all going to tremendously benefit the American people.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		When it comes to matters of the economy, it was reported this morning there was a slight shrinking in the GDP.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's the response of the White House to that?
unidentified		Well, look, if you break it down, there is an outsized influence of January in that report.
		Remember, this president wasn't elected until January 20th.
		The GDP is a backward-looking indicator, but all the other indicators that we do have from that report and others show that there is a really positive trend for this president's new golden age that he is unleashing.
		Investment is up 22%.
		That is a testament to all these conversations he's having with 130 countries all around the world trying to make better trade deals with this president.
		because companies know the way that you'll face no tariffs 100% is by manufacturing here in America.
		So we are seeing those investments roll in.
		We are seeing private sector job growth increase.
		We are seeing retail shopping increase.
		All the signs trend that the new golden age is underway thanks to this president's economic leader.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Will the president be addressing this GDP number out specifically today or will there be a press conference on these issues?
unidentified		Well the president is hosting a cabinet meeting and of course as you and the press all know the president is certainly not shy and always willing to answer questions.
		I mean this is his fourth cabinet meeting that has been open to the press.
		He answered 20 times more questions than Biden ever did in his entire term in those first three cabinet meetings.
		So I'm sure that your colleagues in the media will be happy to ask that and he's always happy to take those questions.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Besides that cabinet also at the White House today and expect a meeting with CEOs.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Tell us about that.
unidentified		Well yes as I mentioned this president is incredibly proud of his record of investments into this country.
		So we are hosting an Invest in America event with some of these companies that have made really significant pledges to increase their manufacturing here in the United States.
		As I said, thanks to decades of unfair trading practices by Democrats and Republicans, we are seeing our manufacturing industry totally hollowed out.
		And so this president wants to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
		And so we are so excited to host companies like NVIDIA, companies like Johnson ⁇ Johnson, who are either coming to the United States or they are expanding their operations in the United States because number one, they want to take part in this president's new golden age or they want to face no tariffs.
		And so this president's economic agenda is already paying off and we are so excited to host those great companies here today.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's talk specifically about your job.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What does it mean to be Deputy White House press secretary?
unidentified		Well, I answer questions all day, every day.
		Sometimes I get to do fun things like go on C-SPAN, but most of my day is spent working directly with the press.
		As I said, this president is extremely transparent.
		He's always willing to answer questions himself, which certainly makes my job a lot easier.
		So folks get the answers they need and the American people get the answers they need from him.
		But otherwise, I am just answering questions from the media day in and day out.
		This president is certainly leading from the front on that effort.
		That's why he is constantly taking questions from the press.
		That's why our press team also has refocused its vision to also include new media, audiences that have traditionally been left behind by past White House administrations.
		And so I'm just answering questions all day, every day and taking part in the really great transparency initiative that is led by this president.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Those new media outlets that you've brought into the White House, how objective do you think they are as far as what they report on or if they're friendly to the president on what they report on?
unidentified		I think they're very objective.
		I think, of course, we look at a number of outlets that we have hosted in our new media seat.
		The first one was Axios, right?
		So we are hosting a number of outlets in that new media seat, also hosting new media briefings.
		Again, this is a part of reaching out to new audiences, not just new audiences also, but a lot of audiences that have massive followings, often dwarf those of legacy media outlets, right?
		But they've just been traditionally left behind by past White Houses, past politicians, and past candidates.
		This president partially got here because of his willingness to reach out to people like Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughan, individuals with massive audiences that have been truly untapped by past presidents.
		And so we are certainly continuing that strategy here at the White House, making sure we're reaching all Americans, not just those who watch or listen to legacy media.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How would you describe the White House's relationship with the press?
unidentified		I think it's pretty fair.
		I mean, I think the press largely know that, of course, that they will never totally give the president his credit that he is due for all that he is accomplishing on behalf of this country.
		But I will say, you know, I think they recognize a lot of the time that this president was given a overwhelming mandate by the American people to carry out the promises that he made on the campaign trail.
		And so we are always ready to answer those questions.
		He, of course, is always willing to take tough questions.
		That's why he had Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic in the White House.
		And so, you know, we are always ready to hold the press to that same standard that we hold ourselves to.
		As Caroline started off her first briefing, we hold ourselves to a standard of truth.
		We certainly expect the press to follow that suit.
		And so we'll call them out if they don't.
		But I think it is a mutual understanding that, you know what, this president was given an overwhelming mandate by the American people to deliver on these promises.
		And that's exactly what he's doing.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's talk about how you got to the job.
		Talk a little bit about the road you traveled to get to the point of being a deputy press secretary.
		What were the highlights?
unidentified		Yeah, so there's truly no substitute for hard work.
		I started by knocking doors on campaign trail.
		It was my summer job every year since I was 15 years old.
		And so I think you truly develop a level of grit and perseverance and hard work when you are literally willing to sweat it out and knock on doors and talk to the American people.
		And so I think that's a really great way to make sure you're having conversations with people, right?
		There's no better practice for what I'm doing right now with you than really getting out, knocking on doors and talking to the American people, listening to their concerns every single day.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		How did you get this job specifically?
unidentified		Well, so I cut my teeth.
		I grew up in Northern Virginia, but I cut my teeth in Wisconsin politics, which of course is a very competitive purple state.
		And so I started out, I worked for the president's 2020 campaign in Wisconsin, ended up working for the Wisconsin Republican Party, Tim Michaels, who is a Trump endorsed gubernatorial candidate in the state, worked for Congressman Derek Van Ordin, who is also excellent, also a Trump endorsed candidate recently, this cycle as well.
		And so now here we are working for the RNC hand in hand with Caroline Levitt in the 2024 campaign down in West Palm Beach.
		And so it's truly an honor to have been part of so much of these promises that have been made along the way and now these promises being made.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		What's the most surprising part about your job to you?
unidentified		I'll be honest, I don't think too much surprises me because I think, of course, there's a difference in working for past White Houses, right?
		This is not the White House under the previous administration that was calling lids and telling press to go home at 3 p.m.
		Working for President Trump is a truly unique experience.
		And so thankfully, from being at the RNC and being on the campaign trail this past cycle, I feel a lot more adept and used to the pace of this president.
		He is always working.
		Of course, he was in Michigan yesterday, got back late last night, and this is just an extension of the campaign trail where he was hitting four, five, six states a day.
		And so I think it helps to be a lot really used to that pace and to this energy that this president brings to the job.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Anna Kelly is the White House Deputy Press Secretary joining us as part of our coverage of the first 100 days on C-SPAN.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We thank you for your time.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We'll go back.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		John McCartle.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Joe, about 15 minutes left in our program today, and want to keep viewers aware of what else they can see over the course of a very busy 100th day of the Trump presidency.
		And it's not just in the executive branch, it's a busy day in the judicial branch as well.
		Starting in 15 minutes over on C-SPAN 3, we'll show you the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the case of the legality of religious charter schools.
		The case involves a Catholic online school, which was given the status of a charter school in the state of Oklahoma.
		We're going to be airing those arguments so you can hear them on C-SPAN 3, also on C-SPAN.org and the free C-SPANNOW video app.
		This afternoon, 2.30 p.m. Eastern, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and other Judiciary Committee Democrats are holding a meeting to take a look at President Trump's January 6th pardons.
		They're going to be hearing from former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and D.C. Metro Police Officer Daniel Hodges as part of that event.
		You can watch that live on C-SPAN 3 again, 2.30 p.m. Eastern.
		And then tonight, former Democratic presidential nominee, former vice president Kamala Harris, will speak at an event for the group EMERGE, an organization that recruits and supports female Democratic candidates.
		She's expected to address the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
		10:45 p.m. Eastern Time, that's going to be here on C-SPAN, also on C-SPAN.org and the free C-SPAN Now video app.
		She's likely gonna be talking about the economy today, especially in the wake of those estimates that came out today on the first quarter GDP shrinking at an annual rate of 0.3 percentage points.
		Democrats on Capitol Hill already talking about it and tweeting and sending social media posts about it, including Congressman Darren Soto of Florida, the Democratic congressman saying President Trump is barreling us toward a recession in record time.
		This was the worst quarter since 2021 and Trump shows no signs of correcting course.
		Another member of Congress from the Democratic side of the aisle, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, saying it's only been 100 days, but Donald Trump already managed to sink the economy and spark widespread fears of recession.
		And then Congressman Mark Pocan, the Democrat from Wisconsin, saying, please, just too much winning and pointing towards, again, the stories out today about first quarter GDP.
		It was yesterday on Capitol Hill, another Democratic member of Congress, a prominent one, Corey Booker of New Jersey, taking Donald Trump to task on the eve of his 100th day in office.
		Corey Booker yesterday.
cory booker ▲ ● ▼		So, 100 days.
		I do not need to speak.
		Schumer does not need to speak.
		The truth of the matter is, the American public has already rendered their verdict.
		This is the most failing failure, fantastically, of any president in four generations.
		The American public has already made it clear, Donald Trump, you have failed us.
		He has the lowest approval rating of any president in 80 years.
		And why?
		Because he has consistently said one thing and done another.
		He has lied to the American people and betrayed those people who put their act of civic trust their vote for him.
		How so?
		Well, first and foremost, he said that he would manage the economy better.
		He said that he would lower people's costs on day one.
		Across the board, across the board, we see Americans' prices for home goods, for baby carriages, for groceries going up and up and up.
		And he has so tanked the economy that there are thousands of Americans right now who thought they would retire this year because their 401ks had enough resources for them to do that that are putting off their retirement.
		Number two is he said he would drain the swamp.
		Well, this is a staggering lie.
		This president has literally brought in the greatest corruption in the White House ever.
		Exhibit one, frankly, is this meme coin that he created.
		He has literally done something that is so unconscionable that he is selling attendance at the White House to people who buy his meme corn, which is a way for people just to deposit money.
		This president has already grifted millions and millions of dollars from his position while costs are going up.
		This president has eviscerated people like inspector generals who were put into place to call out corruption.
		Number three, this president has been a foreign policy failure.
		He again told the American public, I will bring an end to the Ukrainian war on day one, to the invasion of Ukraine.
		And what he has done instead is he has called a hero a dictator and coddled up to the dictator in Putin.
		In addition to that, he has alienated our allies, said in the most demeaning and degrading way that he was going to make Canada a 51st state, and gave license to China to have influence across the globe as we, through our cuts in USAID, have retreated.
		We've sent a few people over after the disaster in Myanmar who got fired while they were doing the job, while the Chinese stepped up and brought millions and millions of dollars of resources to people aid.
		That used to be America.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		We continue on with your calls on the view you have of the first 100 days.
		That's the White House shot that you would typically see when you go to C-SPAN.
		This is today's shot, new location for us, right outside there on the driveway.
		Bill in Alabama, Independent Line.
		Hi.
unidentified		Yes, good morning.
		So I've been listening to a lot of people, and I don't remember the same criticism of Joe Biden for four years when inflation hit 9%.
		I don't remember the Democrats jumping up and down talking about how he was destroying the country.
		Mr. Booker, who just talked about prices, he forgot to talk about how gas prices are down, egg prices are down, mortgage rates are down, interest rates are down.
		Maybe he forgot that, but that probably doesn't affect him.
		To talk about the millionaires, I don't remember him talking about Joe Biden getting millions from China.
		I don't remember him talking about his son making millions of dollars sitting on a board that he had no knowledge of what he was doing.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And so, how that all relates to the 100 days of the Trump administration, sir?
unidentified		Let's talk about how he has made promises.
		He's keeping the promises.
		The border's shut.
		Period, end of discussion.
		Borders shut.
		How come we aren't discussing that?
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		People have been discussing immigration all morning.
		Let's go to Carol.
		Carol in Minnesota, Republican line.
		You're next up.
		Hello.
unidentified		Good morning.
		Nice backdrop, Pedro.
		I think Donald Trump's done.
		I give him an A mind.
		There's some things I don't like that he does, especially the way he talks about people.
		But other than that, like your caller just before me said butter's down, eggs down, gas is down.
vanessa in florida ▲ ● ▼		We suffered quite a lot when Joe Biden was in office.
unidentified		And I just won't forgive the Democrats for not seeing how much of a decline he was because I felt sorry for him.
		And I can't understand why his wife didn't say something.
		But anyhow, that's all over and done with.
		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Liz is next in Marlton, New Jersey, Democrats line.
unidentified		Hello.
		Well, I don't think Trump has accomplished a lot other than executive orders in the first hundred days.
		And a lot of those are flying in the face of the U.S. Constitutional law for the president and other federal laws.
		So it's a very strong power that we adopted.
		And that's not what our constitution falls for.
		But I think I've been able to beg the right to put a divide on the And it's because I was employed in a state prison for the better part of a decade and a half.
		And part of our training was being able to fine-tune our ability to see manipulation of other people.
		And while he's been called out the bullying, he does an excellent job of manipulating public opinion.
		And there's a book that I read many times over the course of 15 years I was deployed in the state prison system that is called Games Criminals Play.
		And it gives you live sort of scenarios of how an inmate or a criminal manipulates people both when he's serving his time, but also when he's out at the stout control.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Lesnar in New Jersey.
		Les there in New Jersey, Kelvin in Houston, Independent Line.
		Good morning.
		You're next.
unidentified		Yeah, well, I'm taking from the first 100 days that this administration no longer wants people of color in the military because when I was in the Marine Corps in 1972, I had people in my platoon with from Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic, places like that, that when American people was going to Canada.
		So now it's going to come a time when people are going to have to question their sons and daughters.
		They're going to put on the uniform, and they have to ask themselves, what are they defending and why?
		And I have to get a correction.
		They no longer want your daughters.
		They only want your sons.
		So it's going to be another war.
		And who's going to fight it?
		It's going to be the courtstan.
		Because anybody of color with a uniform on, they will not be looked upon as favorable anymore.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Let's hear from our Republican line in Illinois.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Stort is next.
unidentified		Hello.
		Last caller just made a comment about Trump not respecting people of color.
		It is the Democrats who have had a long and sordid history of doing evil things to the people of color, starting back in the late 1700s when Democrats wanted slaves added to the census for the purpose of increasing their power in congressional representation.
		In my opinion, they're doing the same thing with importing all of these illegal aliens to skew the next census so they can change the congressional districts to make it more advantageous to the Democratic Party and to create a generational dependency class in this country that'll be dependent upon them supplying them with food and housing and everything else at the expense of the rest of us taxpayers.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		And in Wisconsin, let's actually, before we hear from Ann, let's go back to John McCarter for one final hit.
john mcardle ▲ ● ▼		Pedro, I just wanted to jump in and let our viewers know.
		You were talking to Anna Kelly, the White House Deputy Press Secretary, about the cabinet meeting that President Trump is holding today at 11 a.m. Eastern time.
		Just want to make sure our viewers knew that they can watch that.
		We're going to be airing that here on C-SPAN again, 11 a.m. Eastern, also on C-SPAN.org and the free C-SPAN video app.
		And it's interesting that that's taking place today, in part because it was yesterday that President Trump sent out this true social post in which he was focusing on cabinet meetings.
		He was apparently watching Fox and Friends live their audience interviews about the president's first 100 days.
		And he quotes one of those audience members saying that she really loves the cabinet meetings.
		He, Trump, lets the American people into those rooms.
		We get to observe the questions and the answers and know what they're doing.
		It's really a way that he connects with the public.
		And so, President Trump attempting that connection once again today with today's cabinet meeting.
		Also, on President Trump's agenda today on his first 100th day in office, it's that News Nation town hall.
		That's happening tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, sitting down with Chris Cuomo in that town hall.
		And it's going to be a busy day throughout the day at the White House and throughout the day here in Washington.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		For you, Mr. McCartle, thanks for your time and your efforts.
		Really appreciate it.
		Let's hear from Ann, Anne of Wisconsin, Democrats line.
		Hi.
unidentified		Hi.
		I appreciate your program.
		I would say this first 100 days has been a disaster for the citizens of the United States.
		But it's been good for Trump and the wealthy people who are surrounding him.
		During Biden, there were over 15 million jobs created.
		Right now, with Trump, we've lost over 2 million jobs.
		Unemployment was 3.8, and now it's at 6.3.
		Economic growth under Biden was 18% more than that.
		And right now, with Trump, it's a negative number, 3.4.
		And the trade deficit was, under Biden, 1.6 positive.
		And under Trump, it's a negative of 40%.
		I would say he's failing the American people.
		He's just helping the wealthy to get more of what they want.
		And he's destroyed the goodwill that we had with other countries, our allies.
		And we're pretty much going to be on our own now.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Ann there.
		Let's hear from Debbie and Missouri Republican line.
		The House just about to come in.
		Debbie, so go ahead quickly with your comment, please.
unidentified		Yes, I just want to say that the Democrats are lying.
		Schumer and Booker, the prices of things are coming down.
		I bought eggs and bacon for under $8, and eggs were $4.50 a dozen at Easter time.
		Gas is down to $280.
		Fentanyl deaths are getting down, and crime and murders and rapes are down.
pedro echevarria ▲ ● ▼		Debbie, thank you.

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