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| Live coverage starts Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on the C-SPAN Networks. | ||
| In a nation divided, a rare moment of unity. | ||
| This fall, C-SPAN presents Ceasefire, where the shouting stops and the conversation begins. | ||
| In a town where partisan fighting prevails, one table, two leaders, one goal, to find common ground. | ||
| This fall, Ceasefire on the network that doesn't take sides, only on C-SPAN. | ||
| It's our open forum. | ||
| Any public policy issue, any political issue that you want to talk about, now is the time to call in. | ||
| We're letting you lead the discussion. | ||
| And we'll start with Shirley in Connecticut. | ||
| Republican, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I was calling yesterday. | ||
| There was a lot on the different channels about the politicians visiting Alcatraz, Alligator Alcatraz, whatever, and the deplorable conditions. | ||
| And I would like all of the congressmen and senators to go visit the prisons and jails in their own state and port back. | ||
| As I understand it, there are rodents, the food isn't good, and the conditions are just as deplorable, if not worse, than Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
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Thank you so much. | |
| Here's the lead from the story on that visit by bipartisan group of members of Congress to that prison. | ||
| Democratic lawmakers condemned Florida's new Everglades immigration detention center after visiting Saturday, describing it as crowded, unsanitary, and bug-infested. | ||
| Republicans on the same tour said they saw nothing of the sort at the remote facility that officials have dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. | ||
| The state-arranged tour came after some Democrats were blocked earlier from viewing the 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. | ||
| So many state legislators and members of Congress turned up on Saturday that they were split into multiple different tour groups. | ||
| The Washington Times with their wrap-up of those visits. | ||
| This is Alan in Brooklyn. | ||
| Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Pleasure to speak to you again. | ||
| Although, given the circumstances, the pleasure is a bit diminished. | ||
| We have the first anniversary of the event at Butler PA last year. | ||
| The anniversary was yesterday. | ||
| And it seems that it turned many Republicans into believers that the survival of this assassination attempt or apparent assassination attempt Was proof that it was God's will that the current president be seated in office. | ||
| And that changed the minds of many supporters and donors to redouble their efforts to reelect him. | ||
| And I just want them to reflect on the past six months of his administration and ask whether these seem to be actions that would be favored by any benign deity, whether it's abusing Hispanic American workers because their paperwork isn't in line with the ICE authorities and rounding them up at workplaces, even though they have no criminal records. | ||
| Whether it's eradicating our vast body of research, proving that climate is a real threat, and rolling back rules and laws in favor of not only allowing more pollution, but basically manufacturing more pollution sources in the name of data centers that supposedly sustain artificial intelligence, | ||
| but where the intelligence of the enterprise of adding carbon to the atmosphere to build AI at a time when the atmosphere is already producing disasters like the flood in Texas is just so absurd. | ||
| Would any benign and rational God want someone in power who is doing some of these things? | ||
| I could go on for an hour if your schedule allowed it without aberrations. | ||
| It was yesterday on the anniversary of the Butler assassination attempt that President Trump was asked about his view 365 days later. | ||
| This is what he had to say. | ||
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On this one-year anniversary of Butler, what was going through your mind this morning when you woke up? | |
| I know that you're praising God you're alive, but a lot of people want to know how you're taking this day on this one-year anniversary. | ||
| God was protecting me. | ||
| Maybe because God wanted to see our country do better or do really well, make America great again. | ||
| But God was protecting me, Brian. | ||
| I'll tell you, the more you think about it, the more you see it. | ||
| But no, I just don't like to think about it much. | ||
| You know, I have a job to do, so I don't like to think about it much. | ||
| It's a little bit of a dangerous profession being president, but I really don't like to think about it too much. | ||
| I think you're better off not thinking about it. | ||
| That was President Trump on the one-year anniversary. | ||
| Also, should note that the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee releasing that new report on Secret Service failures ahead of the assassination attempt at Butler, front-page story on today's Washington Post about it. | ||
| But you can also read from that report from the committee website that getting a lot of attention this weekend as well on the one-year anniversary. | ||
| It's open forum. | ||
| Any public policy, any political issue that you want to talk about, now's the time to call in. | ||
| This is Carolyn in Georgia, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I'm calling because I'm concerned about the way the country is headed. | ||
| This country is focusing on three generations. | ||
| That's Z, Millenniums, and Generation X. | ||
| And I see that because when I look at the Trump administration, I see those generations among him and also the Democrats. | ||
| Those generations are among him. | ||
| So the boomers are changing. | ||
| They're going into a different direction. | ||
| And it's called into older age between 70 and 79. | ||
| The youngest baby boomer is 70 and the oldest is 79. | ||
| And these generations, the boomers are moving to the end stage, which sad to say, but we're losing about 7,000 a day. | ||
| And so we, the baby boomer generation, is a generation that's moving toward the end. | ||
| So we need to see and support Generation X, Z, and the Millenniums. | ||
| And also, I want to know if possible, don't cut me off, please. | ||
| C-SPAN with the lines that we have now are catered to the baby boomers. | ||
| But I want to know if we can put in lines for Generation of Z, Millenniums, and X, because those are the generations that are coming to the front now. | ||
| Baby boomers are moving to the side. | ||
| And these generations, a lot of times, don't want to hear anything baby boomers have to say. | ||
| Generation X is trying to teach Z and Generation Millenniums. | ||
| So we need to start focusing more on these generations also. | ||
| And Caroline. | ||
| We do occasionally split up our phone lines by age groups, trying to get younger callers as well. | ||
| So we'll do that occasionally as it fits for various topics. | ||
| When it comes to open forum, we generally just do the phone lines, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, because it's just the easiest way to run open forum. | ||
| But I do appreciate the comment in Georgia this morning. | ||
| We have about 15 minutes left in open forum. | ||
| So go ahead and keep calling in. | ||
| As you are calling in, want to head to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue now, where Notice reporter Jasmine Wright joins us for a look at the week ahead at the White House. | ||
| And Jasmine Wright, let's start with what we're expecting today from President Trump when it comes to that statement on Russia. | ||
| We know his meeting with the NATO Secretary General is expected to take place in about an hour or so. | ||
| What are you hearing there at the White House about that meeting? | ||
| Yeah, well, the President is promising to put out a major statement that potentially will have a weapons package attached to it. | ||
| Obviously, this is kind of a 180 turn, John, from where President Trump was when he entered the White House in January, kind of more of a negative view on providing Ukraine more weapons. | ||
| Now we see him kind of on a positive outlook. | ||
| And I think you can attribute it to basically three things. | ||
| One is that he's been lobbied by Republican lawmakers to try to put more support on Ukraine as they face an onslaught of attacks from Russia, particularly in the last month or so. | ||
| Then, of course, it's his continued conversations with President Zelensky after that dust up in the Oval Office a few months ago. | ||
| Obviously, that relationship has really changed. | ||
| And we've seen President Trump meet with Zelensky time and time again. | ||
| And third is, of course, his relationship with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Obviously, that has soured in the last few weeks. | ||
| We've heard President Trump say really vocally that President Putin may say one thing on the phone, but then continues to bomb Ukraine with his drones and other bombing campaign. | ||
| And that the conversations really have gone nowhere. | ||
| He said those things both publicly and privately to his advisors. | ||
| And so we could see a really turnabout situation when it comes to what President Trump is planning to provide to Ukraine. | ||
| Now, of course, he said with the Patriot missiles, something that Ukraine has been asking for really since the Biden time, really trying to get President Trump to go beyond the capacity of weapons that was sent to them under the last administration. | ||
| President Trump has said that he will be sending Patriot missiles. | ||
| Now he says that the European Union will be paying for those, and that's, of course, where we're going to see the NATO general come in today, whether or not they're able to make a deal on that today versus in a couple of days. | ||
| But certainly we expect to see something pretty robust come from the president today when it comes to what they are prepared to give Ukraine to defend themselves against Russia. | ||
| Jasmine Wright and her colleagues at NOTIS will be covering it today. | ||
| Notice.org, N-O-T-U-S.org is where you can go for their coverage. | ||
| So that's the focus for today. | ||
| What else is happening this week that you're going to be watching for there at the White House on the President's schedule? | ||
| Yeah, well, I mean, trade is number one. | ||
| Of course, we know that last week President Trump basically threatened 25 nations, some of the major trading partners with the U.S., with higher levies, basically saying that you have until August 1st to try to negotiate a deal. | ||
| So the question is whether or not some of those countries are going to be able to negotiate a deal or whether or not the status quo is going to stay put, what he put in those letters. | ||
| So that's going to be a huge thing. | ||
| Obviously, more things that this White House is doing on foreign policy, seeing if there are any updates on that. | ||
| And then domestic issues. | ||
| Obviously, last week it was a huge, huge issue when that birthright citizenship ruling came down from that federal court. | ||
| The White House called it an unlawful circumventing of the Supreme Court guidance that said that basically these federal courts cannot be issuing nationwide injunctions. | ||
| Now, of course, this birthright sedition case is a bit different because it actually is a class action suit, something that the Supreme Court did say could be used to issue a nationwide injunction. | ||
| And so we're going to see how that evolves over the course of the week and whether or not the White House not just asks the Supreme Court to basically put it on shadow docket, something that would be kind of fast forwarding them to at least issue some sort of guidance or injunction on the physical ruling from that federal judge, but also whether or not they actually sue the judge, something that they've been doing in these cases where these judges have had put in these nationwide injunctions. | ||
| I asked Tom Holman, the immigration czar yesterday, I mean, excuse me, on Thursday, whether or not potentially the White House could be doing that. |