| Speaker | Time | Text |
|---|---|---|
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We are still at our core, a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
| And a count of two balls and one strike. | ||
|
unidentified
|
And a swing of a base hit left field. | |
| Tune in Wednesday to C-SPAN's live coverage of the Congressional Baseball Game coming to you from Nationals Park. | ||
| Since 1909, this tradition has united Democrats and Republicans on the field for a spirited evening of camaraderie and competition. | ||
| And this is Drilled into Center Field of Base Hit. | ||
| Two runs are going to score. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Don't miss the historic matchup. | |
| Live coverage starts Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern on the C-SPAN Networks. | ||
| C-SPAN now, our free mobile video app, or online at C-SPAN.org. | ||
| CNBC and others reporting that the president's top trade officials meeting with their Chinese counterparts and counterparts in London today for talks aimed at resolving an ongoing trade dispute between the two largest economies, the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick, and Trade Representative Jamison Greer are representing the U.S. | ||
| China's foreign ministry said on Saturday that the vice premier, Beijing's lead trade negotiator, will be in the United Kingdom between the 8th and the 13th of this month. | ||
| And it was National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett saying today that the U.S. was seeking confirmation China would restore the flow of critical minerals. | ||
| Something to watch out for today as it plays out in Washington and abroad. | ||
| On first up on this open forum, DeLin in Oregon, Democrats line. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hi. | |
| Hi. | ||
| You said this was open forum. | ||
| I've been watching you now for about an hour and a half. | ||
| There was a couple things I wanted to say. | ||
| One was about the stuff going on in LA. | ||
| My husband, his ancestry came from Spain with Father Sarah through Mexico and settled the missions all the way up. | ||
| And they actually have a statue of one of his great-grandfathers in DeWarty, California. | ||
| And if people think back, they merged with the Hispanic people from Mexico. | ||
| They came over, they settled part of California. | ||
| It used to be Mexico at one time. | ||
| And so these people have been around for a long, long time. | ||
| His ancestry goes way back. | ||
| On my side of the family, it's Irish, German, English, American, Indian, and French-Canadian. | ||
| We are a land of immigrants. | ||
| And, you know, I don't agree with coming in illegally. | ||
| But what's going on right now is going to start happening across the United States. | ||
| Millions of people are going to end up in the streets when they get riled enough. | ||
| And it's just the beginning because everybody's being treated so unfairly by the Trump administration. | ||
| It's just really going to take something for everybody to stand up. | ||
| I think the National Guard and having the Marines on hold, this is the beginning to make people too afraid to go out and protest because this is the beginning of millions of people across the United States protesting what Trump's doing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| De Lynn in Oregon. | ||
| This is Kendra in Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
| Hi. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hi, good morning. | |
| Pedro, can you look up the article in the New York Post about the six illegal immigrants that killed the South Carolina woman in May? | ||
| Well, since you know about it, why don't you summarize for our audience? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Sure. | |
| There was six illegal immigrants aged 13 through 21 charged in connection with a South Carolina mother. | ||
| And they were finally arrested in June, but we didn't hear anything about it. | ||
| Like the media didn't cover it at all. | ||
| So I was just wondering if, you know, you could pull it up. | ||
| It is on the New York Post has it. | ||
| Why do you think it's important for the audience to know? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Because it seems like no one's mentioning it. | |
| I mean, this is an African-American lady. | ||
| She was a mother and she was killed by illegal immigrants. | ||
| And no one's saying anything about it. | ||
| No one on the Democrat side is saying anything about it. | ||
| Where's Black Lives Matter and all of that? | ||
| I'm African American. | ||
| I would like to know these kinds of things that are going on. | ||
| Have a good day. | ||
| Kendra, in Virginia, the website, the publication she mentions is the New York Post for that story. | ||
| You can find it online. | ||
| And just to show you the headline that she references there, if you want to look up for that story and read it for yourself at the New York Post. | ||
| Gladys joins us from Los Angeles, Republican line. | ||
| Hi. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hi. | |
| Good morning, everyone. | ||
| I'm calling from Los Angeles. | ||
| I live in L.A. | ||
| And I agree with Trump that he needs to get these people out of here. | ||
| They get everything free. | ||
| They grab for everything. | ||
| They're in line. | ||
| They take over. | ||
| Hello, can you hear me? | ||
| No, you're on. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Okay. | |
| They disrespect our laws. | ||
| They come in. | ||
| And the lady that called last week about the black lady, about they're not competing with people who have bachelor's, master's, and PhDs. | ||
| No, they're competing with people who are lower class, who are uneducated, who are poor, whose jobs they're taking. | ||
| So I'm 100% behind President Trump. | ||
| I hope he gets these people out here. | ||
| They disrespect our laws. | ||
| I live here in L.A. | ||
| I see how they do, how they double up, how they take all the welfare, they're on Medicaid, they're on Social Security. | ||
| So I agree with him. | ||
| Get them out of here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Politico has a story taking a look at the travel ban instituted last week goes into effect today, saying that the president has banned citizens from 12 countries from countries from entering the United States and restricted access for those from seven others. | ||
| The ban that was announced Wednesday applied to citizens of Afghanistan Myanmar Chad, the Republic Of Congo, Equatorial Guinea Etria Haiti Iran Libya Somalia Sudan, Yemen. | ||
| The heightened restrictions apply to people from Burundi Cuba Laos, Sierra Leone Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, who are outside the USA and don't hold a valid visa. | ||
| That policy took place this morning at 1201 a.m. | ||
| And that does not have an end date. | ||
| There's more about what happens now that the ban's in place. | ||
| You can find that story in Politico if you want to look it up for there. | ||
| Uh, Charles is next Pennsylvania Democrats line. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah, I have a little bit of question. | |
| Every country you mentioned here on The ban and majority of everybody getting arrested, either brown or black. | ||
| Nobody that are white. | ||
| Nobody's saying about any of the white crime that's going on in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. | ||
| My concern is that Project 25, the book Project 25, all that is, is a rewrite of MyComp. | ||
| The Republicans are running their country like the Germans ran the early days of 1939, 1940, 1941. | ||
| They are using Hitler's version to make their book 2025. | ||
| All it is is a rewrite on MyComp. | ||
| I'm sorry, but you guys have a good day. | ||
| Some days you do a good job with the station, some days you don't. | ||
| But I'm glad you at least have it out here for us to talk. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Have a good day. | ||
| Texas is next. | ||
| Independent Line. | ||
| We'll hear from Robert. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Good morning, Pedro. | |
| Thank you for C-SPAN and all you do. | ||
| Last time I called in, it was the bottom of the hour, and I was a little bit rushed. | ||
| So when I summarized to Kimberly what I was trying to say, actually, I sounded more like a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| But I referenced things going on behind the scenes between Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, JV Vance, and Palantir. | ||
| And I mentioned what up until a few months ago was mainly a fringe political theory called neoreaction, the dark enlightenment. | ||
| And I think it has profound implications for federal legitimacy and the United States in general, especially given recent developments regarding Palantir, the Golden Dome, the massive database. | ||
| Would you please address this so that we know what's going on? | ||
| Because I think it needs to be covered. | ||
| Robert there in Texas. | ||
| This is John in California, Independent Line. | ||
| John in California just hung up. | ||
| Let me tell you a lot of a couple of events in a little bit. | ||
| I want to let you know about the events that are going on on our networks. | ||
| As always, we have things in and around Washington that we invite you to view the House and the Senate, particularly when they are in active session. | ||
| You can watch them on C-SPAN 1, C-SPAN 2 effectively. | ||
| Some other things to look out for. | ||
| At 12 o'clock today, there's a discussion taking a look at the topic of international investment. | ||
| This is sponsored by the U.S. Global Leadership Forum and two guests joining us: a Congresswoman from California, Young Kim, former USAID Administrator Mark Green, and there will be others. | ||
| You can see that on C-SPAN 2 and our app, C-SPANNOW, C-SPAN.org, if you want to look there. | ||
| And then a discussion taking a look at the tech race between the United States and China. | ||
| Two Chinese researchers that were recently charged with smuggling a biological pathogen into the U.S. Later today, we'll talk about that. | ||
| That discussion of the biotechnology race between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Former Congressman Mike Gallagher and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, Dr. Jason Kelly, joining us. | ||
| That will be from the Hudson Institute, 2 o'clock this afternoon on C-SPAN2, the app and the .org, if you want to watch it there. | ||
| In Ohio, Independent Line. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hi. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| How are you doing? | ||
| Fine. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Hey, this is why I don't vote. | |
| This is why I think that be with any two of the parties you need your head examined because just take the border. | ||
| In the last three years, fentanyl alone has killed more Americans, just fentanyl, than every war put together except for the Civil War. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Now, going back two years ago, you got all these people coming over the border. | ||
| It's just chaos. | ||
| It's broken. | ||
| If anybody can't see that, that the border needs to be fixed. | ||
| There's something wrong with you. | ||
| I'm not a Democrat or Republican. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's how I feel about the borders. | ||
| It's been long, but they make money from drugs. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This stuff is no accident. | ||
| This has been happening for a long time. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And I want to say about the big bill. | ||
| How can you cut? | ||
| How can you cut $29 billion a year for 10 years off of food stamps? | ||
| Snaps. | ||
| I know Trump ain't, you won't see him at Kroger's, but that's kind of crazy. | ||
| I mean, the way food is, and you cut $29 billion, I mean, the system is so broken. | ||
| I'm telling you, both parties, all they do is lie a bigger. | ||
| I mean, if you really look at it, you do critical thinking, it is messed up. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That's all I have to say. | ||
| Daryl in Ohio on our line for independence, as always on this open forum. | ||
| 202-748-8001 for Republicans. | ||
| 202748-8000 for Democrats and Independents. | ||
| 202748-8002. | ||
| We will take calls up until 9:30. | ||
| Two small stops along the way to give you a sense of what's going on, not only in Congress later on, but in the White House right now. | ||
| I'm joining us to give us the latest Joey Garrison, who joins us from the White House. | ||
| He's the White House reporter for USA Today. | ||
| Mr. Garrison, good morning. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Good morning. | |
| Mr. Garrison, what have we heard or what kind of follow-up has there been to the events in California and the White House's role and interest in its involvement in it? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, as you know, President Trump sent 2,000 National Guard members of California, and he did that apparently without consultation with Governor Gavin Newsom, who was pushed back fiercely against Trump's action there. | |
| He said he had no communication, nor did he even mention it during a phone call that Newsom said he had with Trump late on Friday night. | ||
| And Trump and other Trump officials have said, look, you know, we want law and order in L.A. He's condemned the riots and he's pushed back strongly. | ||
| This is something, you know, politically that they see as something that they can work to their advantage. | ||
| You know, this is something that Trump has talked about for a long time. | ||
| And so you have these protests that largely stemmed over ICE. | ||
| But you also see pro-Palestinian flags, et cetera. | ||
| And it's something the White House has jumped all over. | ||
| And you say that it worked to their advantage. | ||
| Can you elaborate on that? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Well, look, this is something that they can seize on politically here. | |
| They think this is a winning issue. | ||
| I mean, this is something that Trump has long campaigned on, this idea of lawlessness in Democratic cities. | ||
| So you have Los Angeles, you have a Democratic governor also in Newsom, somebody who Trump has routinely butted heads with. | ||
| There's quite a confrontation right now unfolding between Newsom, who's one of the, of course, leaders of the Democratic Party right now and Trump on this matter. | ||
| Mr. Garrison, we see the president travel frequently to his home in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| He travels to Bedminster in New Jersey, but he made a stop at Camp David yesterday. | ||
| What was that stop for? | ||
|
unidentified
|
No, that was a surprise that wasn't originally on the schedule and it got put on there. | |
| And reporters asked him yesterday on the what, what exactly are you doing there? | ||
| He just said he was meeting the top military leaders. | ||
| He was asked about possibly meeting with foreign leaders. | ||
| He didn't respond to that. | ||
| Thank you, SCIU. | ||
| Thank you, labor movement, for always standing up for workers, for immigrants, for our democracy. | ||
| I have one word for you. |