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| Zbig. Edward Luce is talking about President Carter's former national security advisor, Zbignud Brzezinski. | ||
| Mr. Luce is the Financial Times chief commentator and columnist. | ||
| Luce is a native of Sussex, England, and has spent close to 20 years in the United States since the mid-90s. | ||
| He is an Oxford grad. | ||
| Zbignud Brzezinski was born in Warsaw, Poland, got his PhD at Harvard, spent time in Canada during the time his father was posted as Polish Consul General in Montreal. | ||
| Brzezinski was National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. | ||
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Author Edward Luce with his book, Zabig, The Life of Zbignud Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet. | |
| On this episode of Book Notes Plus with our host, Brian Lamb. | ||
| BookNotes Plus is available wherever you get your podcasts and on the C-SPAN Now app. | ||
| Today, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt holds a briefing on President Trump's agenda as he prepares to address the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York City. | ||
| You can see live coverage beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Here's where we are on Capitol Hill today. | ||
| We are eight days away from a potential government shutdown. | ||
| The House is away this week, not planning to come back until October 1st after passing their budget at the end of last week. | ||
| The Senate met this morning for a brief pro forma session and otherwise not planning to meet this week. | ||
| We'll see what happens when it comes to a potential government shutdown when both parties return and what happens in the days ahead of that September 30th deadline. | ||
| Here's what's going on in Washington today and around the world. | ||
| Today, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is set to discuss the future of U.S.-Canada relations and the changing global economy and other foreign policy priorities. | ||
| It's being hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, and we are airing it live on C-SPAN and c-span.org and the free C-SPAN Now video app. | ||
| 1215 p.m. Eastern Time is when you can watch that on the C-SPAN networks. | ||
| Right now, it is open forum. | ||
| Any public policy issue, any political issue that you want to talk about, now's your time to call in and lead this program. | ||
| We will begin in Jackson, Tennessee. | ||
| Pat, Democrat, good morning. | ||
| What's on your mind? | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I'm a very old person, and I vote Democrat. | ||
| I vote Republican. | ||
| I voted Independent. | ||
| I vote for the person, not the politician. | ||
| And yesterday, I watched Charlie Kirk's funeral. | ||
| I have no doubt in my mind that that man was a Christian. | ||
| He believed every word he was saying. | ||
| But when the politicians got on stage, I listened for about 30 minutes and I had to turn my TV off. | ||
| I just, I cannot believe at a funeral the hate and the mean things that were being said. | ||
| It scares me. | ||
| This country is absolutely scaring me to death. | ||
| Pat, what did you think about President Trump's remarks specifically? | ||
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About just the hate, just the other side. | |
| And I mean, I don't even know what he's talking about when he says the other side. | ||
| The other side of what? | ||
| The other side of evil? | ||
| I mean, People, you know, every person in this country was made in God's image. | ||
| Brown, black, white, whatever. | ||
| And I've heard so, I've heard politicians, I've actually heard this now say, make America white again. | ||
| Now, when they get rid of all of the immigration people, they need to. | ||
| A lot of the criminals, they need to. | ||
| But when they get rid of them, what are they going to do then? | ||
| They're going to start on the African Americans and send them away too? | ||
| Is that what they mean when they say make America white again? | ||
| That's Pat in Tennessee. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's funeral was yesterday in Glendale, Arizona. | ||
| President Trump spoke at that funeral. | ||
| This is about two minutes from his address to the audience. | ||
| In that private moment on his dying day, we find everything we need to know about who Charlie Kirk truly was. | ||
| He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. | ||
| He did not hate his opponents. | ||
| He wanted the best for them. | ||
| That's where I disagreed with Charlie. | ||
| I hate my opponent. | ||
| And I don't want the best for them. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I am sorry, Erica. | ||
| But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent. | ||
| Charlie's angry. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| He's angry at me now. | ||
| He wasn't interested in demonizing anyone. | ||
| He was interested in persuading everyone to the ideas and principles he believed were good, right, and true. | ||
| Before each appearance, he prayed these words, God, use me for your will. | ||
| Always said the same thing. | ||
| Use me for your will. | ||
| And that is exactly what God did. | ||
| When you think, that's exactly what he did. | ||
| The more success Charlie had, and he was getting more and more successful, the more dangerous his mission became. | ||
| On campuses all over the country, his quest for open dialogue was met with menacing hate. | ||
| There were bomb threats, pulled fire alarms, and countless rage-filled radicals who tried to shout him down. | ||
| It was nasty. | ||
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I used to say, Charlie, this is nasty stuff you're doing. | |
| At one event, police had to build barricades to protect students from an angry mob of thugs. | ||
| Many of these people, by the way, are paid a lot of money to do this. | ||
| They're agitators. | ||
| They're paid agitators. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| President Trump yesterday in Glendale, Arizona at Charlie Kirk's funeral. | ||
| If you want to watch it in its entirety, you can do so on our website at c-span.org. | ||
| In those remarks, President Trump mentioning his political opponents, one of his former political opponents, has a book coming out this week about the 2024 campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris with her book about the 107 days of her campaign. | ||
| USA Today breaks down some of the key points, including her two conversations with Donald Trump. | ||
| Here's what they write. | ||
| Harris describes those two conversations, both remarkably conciliatory. | ||
| They write, quote, I'd readied myself for a conversation with Mr. Hyde, but Dr. Jekyll had picked up the call, she said, after that first conversation. | ||
| She had placed a call to express her concerns after a would-be assassin was arrested in September of 2024 at his West Palm Beach golf course. | ||
| Quote, you've done a great job. | ||
| You really have, he said to her. | ||
| Quote, my only problem is that it makes it very hard for me to be angry at you. | ||
| The second call was in November to concede the election. | ||
| Quote, I'm going to be so nice and respectful. | ||
| He said then, you're a tough, smart customer, and I say that with great respect, end quote. | ||
| She wasn't persuaded. | ||
| Quote, he's a con man, she writes in her book. | ||
| He's really good at it. | ||
| That book, 107 Days, comes out tomorrow from the former vice president. | ||
| This is Tanya, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, C-SPAN, and good morning, everyone. | |
| I was watching this young man, and I wanted to talk to him so badly because I think the problem with our young people, and he did say this, they live in a social media bubble, and that's why they're depressed. | ||
| When you did ask him, John, you know, where does he get his news? | ||
| He said on social media, TikTok. | ||
| He didn't say he really watched any legacy media. | ||
| And when you hear some of these conservatives talk, they talk how they say how legacy media is one-sided. | ||
| He said he went to Politico and other websites and mentioned that he consumed some of that legacy media through their social media feeds. | ||
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Yes, but I still think they're missing so much. | |
| CBS has this wonderful series on kindness. | ||
| I think conservatives, I mean, everyone, and especially our president, need to watch it. | ||
| Another thing that really just bothers me is that, you know, Charlie Kirk and they were trying to, they were talking to these young people, but they also needed to, I just lost my train of thought here. | ||
| The reason that they're depressed, they really aren't talking to each other. | ||
| This young man said, well, some people are not going to get married because they can't really talk to each other. | ||
| You need to talk outside of your circle. | ||
| You know, there's no reason why someone who is a conservative and a Democrat cannot get married. | ||
| You know, they need to get out of the social media bubble. | ||
| You know, more kids are online talking to AI than that sense. | ||
| In that sense, is what Charlie Kirk was doing with the prove me wrong events on college campuses. | ||
| I imagine you disagree with some of what he was saying, but do you agree with what he was doing? | ||
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You know, you can go out and talk to people, but there were some things that he said that was very divisive, like the Civil Rights Act, that was wrong. | |
| Or Martin Luther King was a bad man. | ||
| I would have to say to this young man, watch the Eye on the Prize and watch what black people went through. | ||
| When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, there were bomb threats on HBCUs. | ||
| We had nothing to do. | ||
| Young black people had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk's assassination. | ||
| So why were they being attacked? | ||
| So I just need that these young people need to get off of social media, read some books, go and read about some facts about the Civil Rights Act, what has happened to black people and other minorities in this country. | ||
| Social media is going to be the death of this country. | ||
| Tanya in Fredericksburg, Virginia. | ||
| This is Ray, Sarasota, Florida, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I would just like to say that history is basically repeating itself. | ||
| If we look how this country was founded, and when the so-called pilgrims set foot on this land in the name of Christianity, we know what happened. | ||
| During slavery and, you know, teaching different ideas of Christianity among the slaves, we know what happened. | ||
| During Jim Crow era, et cetera, we know what happened. | ||
| I have nothing against Charlie Chris. | ||
| I commend Charlie Chris. | ||
| I respect what he said. | ||
| At the end of the day, we have our own opinion, but this country is heavily, heavily divided. | ||
| I think that this is an issue that minorities, so-called African Americans, have nothing to do with. | ||
| I believe that this is an issue that's going on with the deeper state, those who actually run this country, the LGBTQ, ABC, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| And it's among them and the Republicans. | ||
| Right, that's right. | ||
| This is Sharon in Bemidji, Minnesota, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| Good to see you. | ||
| Been a while since I've talked to you. | ||
| I just want to say a couple of things. | ||
| Number one, I think our president sounded like a big fat joke yesterday, but nothing else is to be expected from that. | ||
| I wish I would have gotten into your last guest to ask him. | ||
| I have two quotes from Charlie Kirk, and I would just have liked to have asked him how these quotes are mistaken. | ||
| The first one is, I've never met a black woman that doesn't look like a gorilla. | ||
| And when I see a black pilot, I always might ask myself, oh, I hope he's qualified. | ||
| I really would have liked to have heard how them are mistaken. | ||
| I just am having a hard time seeing how I'm misunderstanding them. | ||
| I would like to remind everybody back in 2017 when Trump was on one of his stump rallies, he literally told the people in the audience that if they see a tomato getting thrown, that they should knock them out. | ||
| I don't care, just knock the crap out of them. | ||
| I'll get you out of the legal troubles. | ||
| So when people say that this is just a Democratic thing, we Democrats out here, we've had enough. | ||
| We've had enough. | ||
| And just two more points. | ||
| I want to say that I'm hoping that today is the last day that we're done talking about Charlie Kirk now. | ||
| Let's let the man rest. | ||
| Let's move on and let's brace for what's yet to come because we all know that Charlie Kirk was not the last one, right? | ||
| We all know that. | ||
| This country that we're living in is volatile. | ||
| You're concerned about more political assassinations. | ||
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Oh, you bet. | |
| You bet. | ||
| And I would imagine within the next couple of weeks, John. | ||
| How do we bring the tension down in this country? | ||
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Well, of course, it should start at the top, of course, but we know that that's not going to happen when he's telling people to knock somebody's head off or when he's retweeting a meme where he's hitting a golf ball to the back of Hillary Clinton's head. | |
| Remember that? | ||
| That was a lot of fun. | ||
| John, I wrote a paper back in 1981 in my high school year. | ||
| I think you and I have discussed this a couple of times, actually. | ||
| And it was all about, I called it the Great Migration. | ||
| And it's all about, I've never thought I would ever agree with somebody like the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green. | ||
| But I am with her 100%. | ||
| When they say that this country needs a divorce, and I mean cut this country straight down the center of this country, those who want freedom, those who believe in civil rights, those who believe that you have rights as a human being, go to the north. | ||
| And if you don't, if you don't believe in climate change, if you believe in white nationalism, go to the South. | ||
| Let's put up a border. | ||
| And hey, we can still be friends, but this is ridiculous because we will never, ever, ever, ever, never get past this, ever. | ||
| That's Sharon in Bemidji, Minnesota. | ||
| This is Joyce, Houston, Texas, Republican. | ||
| Joyce, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Let me first say, I'm a 92-year-old black American, not African American. | ||
| And to hear, I'm so saddened this morning to hear my people, the people of MyHue, that say that they couldn't listen to the memorial yesterday because Charlie Kirk is a racist. | ||
| You know, I get so tired of my people blaming those old white Republicans for where we are. | ||
| We are our own worst enemy. | ||
| And I don't know why this is not talked about more. | ||
| We kill more of each other than any other group. | ||
| But we don't want to discuss that. | ||
| We want to blame the old white Republicans. | ||
| The white Democrats are more against us than those old rich white Republicans. | ||
| And stop blaming white people for our problem in our community. | ||
| We can't walk in our community. | ||
| We can't go to the grocery store and there's a basket. | ||
| We can't go to the pharmacy and get a basket to shop. | ||
| A 92-year-old woman have to go in the pharmacy. | ||
| There's no basket. | ||
| That's the cause of blacks took those baskets out of those stores, not white Republicans. | ||
| Stop blaming the white Republicans. | ||
| We are our own worst enemy. | ||
| We are locked in our homes. | ||
| We are not locked in our homes for no white Republicans. | ||
| We are locked in our homes because of these black thugs that walk our streets and break into our homes. | ||
| They have broken into my home. | ||
| I walked in my home. | ||
| It wasn't a white Republican up in here to steal anything. | ||
| It was a young black man up in here. | ||
| And I could have shot him, but I didn't. | ||
| So stop blaming white. | ||
| We are our own worst enemies, black people. | ||
| And there's nothing in this nation that we can't become. | ||
| There are rich millionaires in this nation today. | ||
| So why are we continuing to blame white people? | ||
| They are not our prop. | ||
| The Democrats have kept us down. | ||
| All right, that's Joyce in Houston, Texas. | ||
| This is Ryan, Jamaica, New York, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yes, good morning, John. | |
| While everybody's complaining and bitching and moaning this morning, excuse my French. | ||
| Do y'all know that come January 1st, that your good friends, the Republicans, are raking and stealing us from us half a billion dollars that they're taking out of Medicare. | ||
| That goes into effect to 3034, okay? | ||
| So y'all have a wonderful day. | ||
| Y'all keep phone these lunatics, y'all following. | ||
| Have another one more saying. | ||
| You people who don't like us black people, please leave. | ||
| Final one, please leave us alone forever, okay? | ||
| We don't have to break bread. | ||
| We don't have to do nothing. | ||
| Have a blessed day. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| That's Ryan in Jamaica, New York. | ||
| It's coming up on 9 a.m. Eastern. | ||
| It's open forum. | ||
| Go ahead and keep calling in on any public policy issue, any political issue that you want to talk about. | ||
| And as you keep calling in, we're going to head to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. | ||
| That is where Meredith McGraw, Wall Street Journal White House reporter, joins us this morning to look at the week ahead at the White House. | ||
| Meredith McGraw, what's on President Trump's schedule this week? |