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It's much harder for them to work, much harder than for the communist high priests. | |
| Because, okay, Secretary Suslov really believed in communism. | ||
| Medinsky does not believe in our Magarita Simiran. | ||
| They do not believe in anything. | ||
| So I think we have much more arguments on our side. | ||
| So I'm sure that one day we're going back. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We can extend this conversation over coffee if you have more questions. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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| David, Riverside, California, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| It's nice to be the first open forum caller today. | ||
| Israel was attacked by trained and funded Iranian terrorist group, Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen. | ||
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And now we know they are making several nuclear bombs, some of which could reach America and Israel. | |
| This is a country that has stated death to America and death to Israel. | ||
| They shout that, but they also claim that that is their policy of their country. | ||
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They are the leading state sponsor of terrorism, and they need either to be overthrown as a government or their nuclear program needs to be destroyed. | |
| So, David. | ||
| What are your thoughts about striking some new deal with Iran over its nuclear program and efforts to that effect? | ||
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Well, we tried with the JCPOA that Barack Obama had, and it didn't solve anything. | |
| I mean, they're still working on, you know, they're still working on enriching Iranium. | ||
| You know, this has reached the point where, you know, since 1979, they took our hostages, and we've been taking their terrorist abuse all these years while they're threatening America and Israel. | ||
| How long can we put up with that? | ||
| They need to be stopped militarily. | ||
| You can't just talk to these fanatics that are determined to kill Israel and America. | ||
| It's not enough just to talk about going to war. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| We went to war with Iraq a while ago, and that was not the best idea. | ||
| Iran is the real enemy, not Iraq. | ||
| We picked the wrong one. | ||
| That's David in Riverside. | ||
| This is Linda out of Norwalk, California. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're next. | ||
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Okay, thank you. | |
| I'd just like to ask your audience: can they tell me what impeachment is? | ||
| And, well, what are the facts about that? | ||
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And also, what do you mean? | |
| What are the facts about impeachment? | ||
| Is that something that you support impeaching the president of the United States right now? | ||
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What does it mean to them? | |
| What does it mean to you, Linda? | ||
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It means to me that you don't go after a man and woman living there, a husband and wife. | |
| It means that the president is out of office. | ||
| It doesn't mean that he stays there. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| To me, that's impeachment. | ||
| To get him out. | ||
| Okay, that's Linda. | ||
| This is Michael out of Philly Independent. | ||
| Michael, good morning. | ||
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Morning, how are you doing? | |
| Doing well. | ||
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So I've been kind of out the loop of what's been going on since the presidential election. | |
| And from what I've heard from friends, and obviously news tabloid, we see the tariffs in China. | ||
| We see the different wars that President Trump is enacting on Americans. | ||
| And I'm kind of confused as to why DEI was such an important topic for this presidency to attack, considering how that has helped to shape the next generations to come after these parents are done with their jobs, them training up their children to be able to go and pursue a college degree or a trade. | ||
| I feel as though, I know I'm speaking mumble jumble, but I felt as though DEI was very important, not only for the African American, but for the Indian American or important for the Mexican American in order for them not to infiltrate, but to be a part of the different jobs that have been offered generationally past us to, say, the white American, and we've been bypassed for those things. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I just wanted to figure out why that was important for this administration to dismantle. | ||
| Michael, can I ask you, you say you've been out of the loop since the election. | ||
| There's a lot of people who might consider themselves news junkies watching this program. | ||
| How does one get out of the loop on the news for six months? | ||
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So I've been keeping up with what's going on, but it's been through hearsay. | |
| So since I haven't been able to really watch C-SPAN as much as I was during the Biden administration, I've been out the loop, being as though that C-SPAN offers so much information for the average Joe like myself. | ||
| We're here, Michael. | ||
| You just been busy? | ||
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Yeah, with that, and then I'm currently at work, and I get a lot of the bulk of my news during this time while I'm at work. | |
| Our TV went down, and we recently purchased a new TV, but we still don't have access to C-SPAN without having cable, which is a problem. | ||
| What line of work are you in, Michael? | ||
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So I'm in social work. | |
| So I work with individuals who are transitioning from mental health institutions back into the community. | ||
| And how is that work for you, Michael? | ||
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I mean, it's fulfilling work. | |
| It doesn't pay enough, but it's fulfilling work. | ||
| There's opportunity for me to help, again, just individuals not only here who I work with, but also outside of this job, because I understand better the condition that most people are in. | ||
| How'd you get into it? | ||
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The call is soon. | |
| I'm sorry, what did you say? | ||
| How'd you get into this line of work? | ||
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So I got into this line of work going to community college. | |
| I didn't finish community college, but during the time I was studying psychology with the hope of becoming a marriage counselor. | ||
| And the credits and classes that I picked up and passed offered me the ability to apply for this job here. | ||
| Michael, is it with like city government or is it a private group? | ||
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Yeah, this is a private sector. | |
| This is JFK Behavioral Health over here in Philadelphia. | ||
| Michael, thanks for telling us about it. | ||
| Thanks for what you do. | ||
| This is Clara in Tennessee. | ||
| Republican, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I'd like to make a statement about the Supreme Court justices. | ||
| Recently, Justice Brown went to France, I think it was, and let her bias towards Donald, our president, be known. | ||
| You're talking about Justice Katanji Brown Jackson? | ||
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Yes, that's right, Justice Jackson. | |
| And in my opinion, she should have to recuse herself for anything that would come before her that would involve President Trump because some of the stuff that she talked about, it clearly showed her bias. | ||
| And I'd like to also answer the question about what does impeachment mean to you? | ||
| To me, it means that our president is being harassed, that they're trying to take away my vote, somebody that I voted for to do exactly what he's doing, which is clean up a mess. | ||
| So I don't think impeachment should just be thrown around. | ||
| Oh, well, let's just impeach him. | ||
| So those are my comments. | ||
| But I don't think that any judge should be allowed to listen to a case when they have such bias towards the person that's coming before them, and especially the Supreme Court justices. | ||
| And I think, well, I'll leave it at that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's Clara in the volunteer state back to the Wolverine State. | ||
| This is Randy Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| John, I talked to you last month. | ||
| You know, last time I talked to you about our drug problem here in Michigan, this year, in 2024, excuse me, we had 8,817 alcohol-related accidents in our state. | ||
| We had 2,251 all drugs, all drugs, illegal and non-legal. | ||
| Now, we've been doing some figures here. | ||
| We've got 27,009 in the last 36 months of drunk driving accidents in our state. | ||
| 27,009. | ||
| All drugs together, 6,692. | ||
| Now, out of that, just in 2024, we had 29,000 treatments for alcohol, just for alcohol. | ||
| That was $264 million. | ||
| Every four years, we're spending over a billion dollars in treatment for drunks. | ||
| When are we going to address this problem, John? | ||
| I mean, I'd like to hear. | ||
| How do we address that problem? | ||
| This country has done prohibition in the past. | ||
| There are age limits for alcohol. | ||
| How do you address it? | ||
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We got to direct this by we got 6,692 all drugs. | |
| Now we've got 27,009 alcohol. | ||
| Don't you think we need to even this out? | ||
| We did things like to potheads like take their children, take their houses, take their land. | ||
| I mean, can't we at least make it so that we can detect alcohol in their system for 70 days like we can for pot when they go to jail? | ||
| So they can't just get out of jail in three days and make sure they got a job on Monday. | ||
| Everybody else goes to jail and pays for their treatment. | ||
| And that's the whole thing. | ||
| That's the reason why it's that way. | ||
| It's so that a drunk's got a job on Monday and everybody else goes to jail and pays for it. | ||
| That's the whole truth of it all, John. | ||
| And we've talked about this issue in the past. | ||
| You're passionate. | ||
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Yes, we are. | |
| Hold on, Randy. | ||
| You're passionate on this issue. | ||
| Where did that passion on this issue come from? | ||
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Over that law. | |
| Half of everything I owned, I lost over that life. | ||
| Now, I've never been a drunk ever in my life. | ||
| Why am I paying for a bunch of drunks? | ||
| Right now, I've never did no drugs in my system my whole life. | ||
| I have worked for the government. | ||
| I pissed in a cup my whole life to prove to a drunk that I didn't pot my system, not other drugs, pot, because they're so scared they can't compete against a pothead at anything. | ||
| That's what it's about, John. | ||
| A pothead doesn't wake up in the morning and say, how did I get here after getting brought home off the street from the sheriff? | ||
| Randy, do you think we should legalize marijuana in this country? | ||
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Yes, that is a very important thing to do, but we got to hustle even off the lunch. | |
| 70 days for a person to get a trace amona pot out of their system before they can get out of lockdown when they go into jail. | ||
| A drunk gets out in three days. | ||
| My brother can be so drunk he can't even say his name. | ||
| Two days later, going and piss for the probation officer, and it's clean. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| I'm sick. | ||
| That's Randy in Michigan. | ||
| This is Jack in Tallahassee, Florida, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| Good morning, C-SPAN. | ||
| You had a segment on your first hour, I guess it was, about who do you trust, which agency do you trust? | ||
| Which branch of government, Jack? | ||
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All of them. | |
| If you can't trust one, you can't trust any of them. | ||
| That's my opinion. | ||
| It's not my observation. | ||
| Excuse me, it's my observation, not my opinion. | ||
| Why do you think that? | ||
| Why do you think that you can't trust any of them if you can't trust one of them? | ||
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Well, that's just how I see things are going. | |
| We have a liar in the White House. | ||
| We have a person that's had bankruptcy six times in the White House. | ||
| And that's where this country's heading and my observation. | ||
| And I feel very strong about that. | ||
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And the fella that you just had on about the alcohol and all that stuff, yes, legalize marijuana, legalize prostitution, and then you can have control over everybody, just about. | |
| That's Jack in Florida. | ||
| This is Rita in Pennsylvania, Brookhaven. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| You know, I just want to talk about the Republicans. | ||
| They keep talking about Joe Biden's mental health. | ||
| But I figure like this, Trump isn't any better than Joe Biden is. | ||
| He acts just like somebody that has dementia. | ||
| He says the same thing over and over again. | ||
| Every time he has a speech, he talks about his big crowds and things like that. | ||
| And, you know, people don't want to hear that. | ||
| They keep saying the same thing over and over again. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| And I believe the only way that he passed that mental health test, he probably told the doctors that if they didn't pass him, that he probably would threaten to fire him, just like he threatens everyone who doesn't do what he wants. | ||
| Rita, do you watch many of President Trump's interviews these days? | ||
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No, because I get tired of hearing the same lies over and over again. | |
| Did you hear about the Meet the Press interview yesterday? | ||
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No, I didn't. | |
| I mean, but I think I said he's about the worst president we ever had because he's just tearing the country apart. | ||
| He destroyed all our allies with his, you know, might as well say, I guess, signing up with dictators and everything like that. | ||
| So I think, like I said, he doesn't deserve to be the president. | ||
| And the sooner he gets out of there, the better off we'll be. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Rita in Pennsylvania, that Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker getting a lot of attention because of headlines like this. | ||
| Donald Trump says he doesn't know if he must uphold the Constitution. | ||
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That's USA Today's page two. | |
| It made page one of several papers as well. | ||
| It was this exchange yesterday on Meet the Press. | ||
| Well, you say you have the power to bring him back, though. | ||
| Your attorney general says, quote, that's up to El Salvador. | ||
| Just to put a fine point on this, do you have the power to bring a Brego Garcia back as the Supreme Court? | ||
| Well, I have the power to ask for him to come back if I'm instructed by the Attorney General that it's legal to do so. | ||
| But the decision as to whether or not he should come back will be the head of El Salvador. | ||
| He's a very capable man. | ||
| Well, you know, and your attorney general has said the issues with that word facilitate. | ||
| Will you seek clarification from the Supreme Court? | ||
| Do you need to go back to the Supreme Court? | ||
| We may do that. | ||
| I was asking about that. | ||
| We may do that. | ||
| Your Secretary of State says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. | ||
| Do you agree, Mr. President? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not a lawyer. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Well, the Fifth Amendment says. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It seems that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to. | ||
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We're leaving this here to take you live to Capitol Hill, where the House is gaveling in for legislative business. | |
| Today, members are working on several bills related to veterans affairs and foreign policy, including a bill that would permanently authorize sanctions on Iran's energy sector. |