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| This is an article for you from Fox News. | ||
| National Guard troops from six red states head to DC to help tackle crime. | ||
| It says National Guard troops from Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee are joining in on the Trump administration's crackdown. | ||
| That's at foxnews.com. | ||
| And Maryland's governor, Wes Moore, was speaking yesterday. | ||
| He gave his opinion on the National Guard deployment in D.C. Take a look. | ||
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And honestly, and it's something that we're not trained for. | |
| And I said this to the president, you know, and I, you know, listen, listen, the only uniform the president has ever worn is a Brooks brothers suit. | ||
| So I said, so as someone who's actually worn the uniform of this country, let me explain to you how this works. | ||
| How this works is this, is that we are trained to fight and win our nation's wars. | ||
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That's how we were trained, right? | |
| Our National Guard are trained to make sure that we can actually address moments of crisis, moments of tragedy inside of our states under the jurisdiction and under the authority of the state's commander-in-chief, right? | ||
| And I have had to activate members of the Maryland National Guard since I've been the governor, but it's also a duty that carries a significant amount of weight and soberness to it because I will not deploy these remarkable men and women for no reason and definitely not for a publicity stunt. | ||
| That when we are putting them in harm's way, that when we're putting them in harm's way, we have to understand the weight that that decision should carry. | ||
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And so this concept that we're going to put them out there to do municipal policing operations, which they are not trained for, my National Guard's not trained to do municipal policing. | |
| And he knows that. | ||
| And that is what is so unbelievably damaging about this decision and this racket that is then that he's asking these men and women to do on behalf of quote-unquote public safety. | ||
| And you can see on your screen there, National Guard deployment right outside of Union Station. | ||
| That's D.C.'s train station. | ||
| And it's right in front of C-SPAN's studio here. | ||
| So that's a live look at that right now. | ||
| We'll go to your calls now, Robert, Washington, D.C., Independent Line. | ||
| Hi, Robert. | ||
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Yeah, thank you for taking my call. | |
| Yeah, I wanted to catch your last guess on the marijuana policy. | ||
| But I wanted to make some clarifications. | ||
| Now, I've done my own personal research at the Library of Congress. | ||
| And I put in about like about several thousand survivors on research on cannabis. | ||
| Now, remember, one gentleman, I think, he called and said he had taken us achievement. | ||
| Well, you know, that in the plant world, in the plant kingdom, that you have many different species that are similar to, but they're not alike. | ||
| But now, the CBD thing came in as a medical, I guess, a schedule for dispensaries because it was a hemp plant. | ||
| But now, the hemp plant and the cannabis plant are two different species of plants. | ||
| Now, the CBD that the gentleman was saying that he took the sativa, whether or not that it was an actual variety, or rather than, which in many dispensaries, they sell what is called a knockoff version of the real thing. | ||
| And that many dispensaries now, about 90%, usually contain hemp, but that they are usually hybridized with GMO, another varietal that brings about. | ||
| So I've had many of these dispensary types, and they'd be known now. | ||
| Like I said, I've smoked at least over 100 different varieties. | ||
| And I've been on my own personal been growing cannabis in D.C. itself for over 30 years. | ||
| I've been growing cannabis in D.C. | ||
| Now I've gone to bought at least 37 different varieties, and each one of them is different from the next one. | ||
| They all have different properties and different, what they call the cannibal node profile. | ||
| So now the CBD does not have a particular profile other than that I did find that it was very good for pain. | ||
| It's excellent for pain. | ||
| But anything else, I wouldn't even use CBD at all. | ||
| But one of the reasons why I didn't allow that is because it doesn't have any and contain any THC. | ||
| But now in the District of Columbia now, and all the dispensaries, they could only sell CBD products only. | ||
| And that THC was considered as an illegal product in DC. | ||
| Now, like I was up in Colorado several years ago, and so you could only produce only a certain amount of plants and certain types of plants. | ||
| And so certain ones that were. | ||
| I got to move on to other callers. | ||
| Stan Grants Pass, Oregon Republican line. | ||
| Good morning, Stan. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I think I got my TV off. | ||
| I was wanting to say one of the reasons why I called you the first time ever on C-SPAN. | ||
| Okay, go ahead. | ||
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Okay, you caught up with me on the TV. | |
| I'm concerned about in 1972, the Interior Sex Ray came out, and they were defunded and not getting the money to the forest because the fires came every year. | ||
| That was part of the ONC properties that were in southern Oregon. | ||
| And it was 1972. | ||
| I was only 16. | ||
| And I took the Interior Secretary out to CB repair shop to have shown them that I boxed them up. | ||
| They're going to be gone. | ||
| And I didn't have no repair person to repair the CBs so I could make sure everybody got back in from the compounds that were around. | ||
| And they were cutting back before even that. | ||
| In Langloys, Tip of Curry County, there was Forest State National Forest Service. | ||
| Well, that was gone in the early 70s. | ||
| But the fires came every year. | ||
| The ONC lands and the bylaws were set up to run perpetual, to take care of the land because it's the breeze and the stuff that comes off the continental drifts that creates weather. | ||
| It's a wave. | ||
| All right, Stan, and here's Joel in Cleveland, Ohio, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning, Joel. | ||
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Yeah, I have a cheaper solution to the crime problem around the country. | |
| I think Trump should nationalize open carry and conceal carry. | ||
| It's more effective. | ||
| It's cheaper. | ||
| If you don't like that, best practices are the Singaporean model. | ||
| Singapore has no crime. | ||
| It's clean as can be. | ||
| Those are our two ideas. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Elizabeth and Maryland, Line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I just want to comment on the relationship with Ms. our President and Putin. | ||
| I am a child of war. | ||
| We were caught by the Russians. | ||
| I come from East Prussia, which belongs today to Russia. | ||
| And Mr. Putin's goal is to get back all the countries that were given taken from them in 1990. | ||
| He's very angry about this. | ||
| He wants to have East Germany back. | ||
| He wants to have Poland back. | ||
| He wants to all those. | ||
| The Ukraine is a big pretense. | ||
| And I read that in the Christian Science Monitor, so it's not a fly-by-night magazine. | ||
| And I don't understand that our president sells this country to a man who has killed thousands of people. | ||
| He was a middle-level person in the military in East Germany where he already killed people. | ||
| So why does this country, why our Republicans don't stand up against our president and say, look, you can do this. | ||
| You can sell your country down the drain. | ||
| We fled the Russians. | ||
| I know what it was like. | ||
| We had to hide. | ||
| The women had to hide on rooftops at night because the Russians took the building where we were refugees in Czechoslovakia. | ||
| And the women were going to—my mother said, I will jump off the roof if any Russian comes up here. | ||
| And the owner of the villa protected the women at night. | ||
| My 10-year-old cousin had to be up there. | ||
| The Russian came up to us and said, women, don't be worried. | ||
| I will not bother you at night. | ||
| They had taken place on the first floor. | ||
| We were on the second floor. | ||
| All the children, my cousins, we slept in one room. | ||
| I will never forget that entry. | ||
| That same night, he came looking for the women and my 10-year-old cousin. | ||
| And the owner of that villa protected him by putting a big cover over the door that led to the roof. | ||
| My mother always said she would have jumped. | ||
| Elizabeth, what do you want President Trump to do? | ||
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I don't understand that our president sells us to a low-level man who has killed thousands of people, who has attacked the Ukraine. | |
| My heart bleeds every day on that one because I live through war. | ||
| That is the message to our country, to the people. | ||
| Well, this is from the BBC with the headline, Kremlin plays down Zelensky talks as Trump warns Putin may not want to make a deal. | ||
| And here's more from White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt yesterday reaffirming that there will not be any ground support for Ukrainians. | ||
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First question is, whose idea was it to change the next steps from a trilateral to a bilateral? | |
| It was an idea that evolved in the course of the president's conversations with both President Putin, President Zelensky, and the European leaders yesterday. | ||
| And as you saw, Kristen, with all of those European leaders leaving the White House, including the NATO Secretary General, they all agree that this is a great first step. | ||
| And it's a good thing that these two leaders are going to be sitting down together, and the president expects that to happen. | ||
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And how long is Trump willing to wait and operate in good faith for Putin to actually arrange a meeting before he intervenes? | |
| Look, the President has put tremendous public pressure to bring this war to a close. | ||
| He's taken actions, as you've seen, sanctions on India and other actions as well. | ||
| He's made himself very clear that he wants to see this war end. | ||
| And he has scoffed at the ideas of others that have been raised that we should wait another month before any meeting takes place. | ||
| The president wants to move and he wants to bring this war to an end as quickly as possible. | ||
| Here's Ron in Florida, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Well, good morning. | |
| How are you today? | ||
| Good. | ||
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Good. | |
| You know, in these days where it doesn't seem like anyone can get along, Republicans or Democrats, it seems that they could find an issue that really benefited the American people, that they could get together and pass it and maybe start getting along with one another. | ||
| Now, my idea is: number one, the amount of people we lose on the road every year due to distracted driving, I've been told it's 4,000 or 5,000. | ||
| I'm sure it's much more because most people lie and say I wasn't on the phone. | ||
| Now, everyone knows that they have passed laws that are supposed to keep you from texting, but everyone still does it. | ||
| So, why don't they just tell the technology companies to say, if this device is moving, it doesn't work. | ||
| And if you want to text or talk, you pull over and you text and talk. | ||
| No one dies at all. | ||
| In the meantime, we have children going to school, getting T-bone by people that are getting messages that are probably unimportant and dying every day. | ||
| Now, the party, the Republicans, say they're pro-life. | ||
| Well, if you're pro-life, life begins and then life ends, and you should have protection the whole way. | ||
| You shouldn't have to get on a road where you're supposed to be safe and get killed by someone that's using a device that shouldn't be used. | ||
| All right. | ||
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I talked to him. | |
| Got that. | ||
| And just for your awareness, NBC News is announcing that Walmart shrimp may have been exposed to radioactive material, according to the FDA. | ||
| The raw frozen shrimp was sold at Walmarts in 13 states, including Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania. | ||
| That's at nbcnews.com. | ||
| Elizabeth Utica, New York, Independent, go ahead, Elizabeth. | ||
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Yeah, my name's Elizabeth. | |
| I was wondering, how come the Republicans do not stand up for this country? | ||
| Putin has been playing Trump, and Trump has been playing us for the simple reason he held back the money from Ukraine a few months ago, so their ammo went down. | ||
| So Putin can take a little more land. | ||
| This wouldn't happen if he didn't hold up all of the ammo and what we needed. | ||
| They needed there. | ||
| Everybody stands by and just watches this. | ||
| I cannot believe it. | ||
| Trump knows that the insurrection was caused by him. | ||
| He done this, and he's holding up everything just so that they can take the rest of Ukraine. | ||
| I don't know what the Russians got on Trump, but they have something because that is why he's stalling everything off. | ||
| To get Ukraine, let Russia take it. | ||
| To bring him to Alaska to shame this country, to bring that war criminal here is another thing. | ||
| It's just unbelievable that we watch this and the people don't go against it. | ||
| They should boo him every time he comes, no matter where he goes. | ||
| That is what this person should get. | ||
| All right, Elizabeth. | ||
| And we got this text from Rob in Huntington, West Virginia. | ||
| I wonder how black people that voted for Trump feel about Trump attacking the Smithsonian by saying there is too much focus on how bad slavery was. | ||
| And this is an article from NBC News. | ||
| Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on how bad slavery was. | ||
| That's a quote. | ||
| A White House official told NBC News that Trump plans to expand his review of museums beyond the Smithsonian, which is based in Washington, D.C. | ||
| This is an article that you can read at NBC if you'd like more information about that. | ||
| Steve in Mission, Kansas, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Steve. | |
| Hello. | ||
| Hi, Steve. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Yes. | ||
| My name's Steve. | ||
| I'd like to mention a few things. | ||
| You ought to have a special on the first 53 days of Hiller. | ||
| It describes Donald Trump to the T. | ||
| They destroy any news media, any credibility for anything against democracy. | ||
| And also, that summit was a joke. | ||
| All this is, is more diversion. | ||
| So we do not talk about Epstein. | ||
| Let's face it, that's going on. | ||
| He's running this country like a crime boss. | ||
| It's just total ridiculous. | ||
| And that war they call over in Israel, it's been genocide for a year. | ||
| Maybe we should start calling it that. | ||
| We need to learn how to enunciate fascism and dictator, because that's what we've got right now. | ||
| And these tension centers you call, without due process, they're concentration camps. | ||
| So let's start stating some facts about this guy. | ||
| All right, Steve. | ||
| Elizabeth, Randallstown, Maryland, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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We're going to leave this taped program, but you can finish watching at c-span.org as we take you to Richmond now, where Virginia Governor Glenn Young is giving an update on his state's preparations for Hurricane Aaron. |