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In 1945, the United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II. | |
| This week, C-SPAN marks the 80th anniversary of the UN. | ||
| We'll dig into the C-SPAN archives for historic speeches from U.S. presidents and world leaders delivered at the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York. | ||
| Tonight, at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2, we'll feature Ronald Reagan in 1988 urging the Soviet Union to open up and embrace democratic reforms. | ||
| George H.W. Bush in 1990 declaring a new world order after the fall of the Soviet Union. | ||
| And Bill Clinton in 1995, making the case for U.S. enforcement of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia. | ||
| Watch the 80th anniversary of the United Nations all this week at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| You can go ahead and start calling it in now. | ||
| It was Rand Paul on Meet the Press yesterday morning who was asked about this idea of lawfare. | ||
| This is what he had to say. | ||
| I think lawfare in all forms is bad. | ||
| What they did to Donald Trump by changing the statute of limitations, changing the law, adding up a bunch of misdemeanors, adding up a bunch of records violations and making them into felonies, approving hundreds of millions of dollars in fines when there was no agreed party, none of the banks complained. | ||
| That was lawfare. | ||
| But it's also wrong if Republicans do it too. | ||
| We need to get politics out of the judicial system as much as we can, but we can't do it without acknowledging that the king of law fare was Biden. | ||
| And so, yeah, it's wrong if we do it, but it certainly was wrong when Biden and the Democrats were doing it throughout the country. | ||
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But, Shutter, if it was wrong then, you're making the argument it was wrong then. | |
| Is it wrong now? | ||
| I mean, do you explicitly disagree with President Trump's post? | ||
| I just said lawfare of all sorts is wrong, Republican or Democrat. | ||
| It's wrong now. | ||
| But you have to put it into context also and acknowledge that the king of all lawfare was Biden and the Democrats for four years. | ||
| What they did to Donald Trump was an abomination. | ||
| But yes, it is not right for the Trump administration to do the same. | ||
| Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul yesterday on the Meet the Press. | ||
| Kristen Welker referring to the president's posts there. | ||
| It was two posts from Saturday night directed at his Attorney General. | ||
| This is the headline about those posts from today's Washington Times. | ||
| Trump puts pressure on Pam Bondi to pursue his political foes. | ||
| The story notes that in those social media posts over the weekend, Mr. Trump demanded that his Attorney General move quickly to go after some of his top critics, signaling out former FBI Director James Comey, Senator Adam Schiff of California, and New York Attorney General Letitia James. | ||
| We'll show you the post itself. | ||
| It's a lengthy post from the president on his truth social page from Saturday night. | ||
| It was about 6.45 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| He is addressing Pam Bondi directly, saying, Pam, I have reviewed over 30,000 statements and posts saying that essentially same old story as last time, all talk, no action, nothing's being done. | ||
| What about Comey, Adam Shifty Schiff, Letitia? | ||
| They're all guilty as hell, but nothing is being done. | ||
| The post goes on to say that we can't delay any longer. | ||
| It's killing our reputation and credibility. | ||
| They impeached me twice and indicted me five times over nothing. | ||
| Justice must be served now. | ||
| That was the president in his post to his attorney general on Saturday night. | ||
| As we said, it generated plenty of discussion on the Sunday shows yesterday. | ||
| Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, was on a CNN and on the State of the Union program, had this to say. | ||
| I think it's a real threat to democracy, Dana. | ||
| You know, the Justice Department has always been a very, very strong civil service. | ||
| No matter who was in charge, a Democrat or Republican, they went after law violators without fear or favor. | ||
| What Trump is doing is he's turning it. | ||
| He's firing anybody who doesn't seem to be part of his acolytes. | ||
| And he's turning it into an instrument that goes after his enemies, whether they're guilty or not, and most of them are not guilty at all, and that helps his friends. | ||
| This is the path to a dictatorship. | ||
| That's what dictatorships do. | ||
| It is so very, very frightening and damaging to our republic. | ||
| Chuck Schumer yesterday on CNN. | ||
| So that's our topic of conversation for this first hour of the Washington Journal this morning: lawfare, equal protection under the law. | ||
| Do you think the justice system has become more or less political in the eight months since Donald Trump has returned to the White House? | ||
| Phone lines, as usual, Democrats 202-748-8000. | ||
| Republicans 202-748-8001. | ||
| Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
| We'll start on the independent line. | ||
| Andy Hyattsville, Maryland. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Hi. | |
| It's a tough question because Trump is attempting to politicalize the justice system, and I believe in a firm separation between the executive and judicial branches. | ||
| However, I think the courts are doing a good job of stopping him, but that delays the system because you get more of a backlog in the courts with things that just shouldn't be there, which creates a very unstable system. | ||
| I don't think Trump has any understanding of the Constitution. | ||
| If he does, it's a very warped understanding of the Constitution. | ||
| And I think he's very dangerous for America, and the people he surrounded himself with are very dangerous for America for that reason. | ||
| Andy, what's an example of the courts, as you said, doing a good job of stopping him? | ||
| What case would you cite? | ||
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Every time a federal judge turns back one of his executive orders, that's a good job of the courts stopping him. | |
| However, how many months does that take? | ||
| Andy, would you put this one into that category? | ||
| A federal judge threw out last week President Trump's $15 billion libel and defamation lawsuit against the New York Times ruling. | ||
| It didn't provide a succinct complaint for the court to consider. | ||
| That happening last week. | ||
| You probably saw the headlines on it. | ||
| It's in today's USA Today. | ||
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Well, I'm a retired journalist, and I have both a bachelor's and master's degree in journalism. | |
| So I've had to study libel law. | ||
| No one's ever tried to sue me. | ||
| I guess I've studied it very well. | ||
| And I believe truth is an absolute defense for libel. | ||
| Andy, go ahead. | ||
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It was stupid of Trump to even try this suit, and I'd like to see him beat the legal costs for both parties in this. | |
| But for them to throw it out in one week shows how frivolous the suit was, A. | ||
| And B, it also shows how the time factor there was very quick, and I'm glad to see it happen that fast. | ||
| Andy, as a retired journalist, let me give you one more story that's getting a lot of attention. | ||
| The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown on Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge that they won't gather any information, even unclassified, that hasn't been expressly authorized for release and will revoke press credentials of those who don't obey. | ||
| That's the Washington Post story on it, but there's plenty this weekend about it. | ||
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Well, that's just an absurd decision, again, by one of those Trump gathered around him who's unqualified for the position at the Pentagon. | |
| I think the Pentagon, yeah, the Pentagon Papers case that the Supreme Court ruled decades ago clearly speaks against that. | ||
| And if I were a journalist at the Pentagon, I would ignore the order. | ||
| I would make S. I can't even pronounce his name from Fox start pulling credentials, and I would wait for the lawsuits to come in, and I would wait for the public backlash. | ||
| Andy, thanks for the call from Hyattsville to Brad, Jacksonville Beach in Florida, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I think we're headed in the final direction. | ||
| I'm a little concerned about a president going on a public forum like he did, apparently, with this tweet or social meet using social media. | ||
| But I think that his staff is moving in the right direction and solely needed because we're in serious trouble for what Biden and the far left have allowed this country to come to. | ||
| How are they moving in the right direction, Brad? | ||
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They're going to go ahead and pursue by law and using the Constitution to get back to our traditional values and do what is moral and legally right. | |
| One of the things, this is a little off topic, but is there anybody, I'm 79 years old. | ||
| The biggest, and I was a political science major, but I'm not normally that politically active. | ||
| But to me, the biggest problem we have in the United States is the election process. | ||
| Whereas whether it's on a federal, local, or state level, to be a public servant, you must take private money and you must be bought. | ||
| And our judicial system and the legislature, they've expanded that over the years. | ||
| In other words, everybody's on the take. | ||
| But nobody wants to talk about election reform. | ||
| Is that not even possible? | ||
| Or have you heard anybody discussing that within the last year or so? | ||
| You're talking about campaign finance reform, Brad? | ||
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Yes, yes. | |
| Certainly it's a topic that comes up, though. | ||
| I will say it usually comes up around election season in election year itself. | ||
| I bet you we'll start hearing even more about it in the 2026 cycle. | ||
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But there's been what I'm saying is getting worse and worse and worse, where to go and be a public servant, you have to have a lot of money. | |
| And to get that, you're going to be bought. | ||
| And that's why we've come to the extremes. | ||
| That's why we've gotten so far off and we're not really paying attention to our traditional values. | ||
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And we're letting the extremes and polarization continue to bring down this country. | |
| Is there any merit to what you think I'm saying, or am I off base? | ||
| Brad, we'll take your point. | ||
| Thanks for the call from Jacksonville, Florida. | ||
| This is Denise next here in Washington, D.C. Good morning. | ||
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Good morning, American. | |
| We are in a crisis. | ||
| We will handle this like we've always handled crisis. | ||
| We will stand strong. | ||
| Trump is our president, but he doesn't have the final say. | ||
| Keep the faith, keep looking up. | ||
| This is not the end. | ||
| It's the beginning of a new era of pride, of honesty, and of decency. | ||
| We are Americans. | ||
| God bless you and your family. | ||
| It's Denise here in D.C. | ||
| This is William in the Buckeye State Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're next. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I got to say a couple things about this. | ||
| Number one, how can you call yourself the party of law and order when you pardon over 1,500 people that are very bad criminals? | ||
| And I know it's all political right now, and he's trying to own the political department. | ||
| We've got to look out for this man. | ||
| He's a false prophet, and he's really scaring me because he wants to be a dictator, and I don't want him to be a dictator because I love my democracy. | ||
| And he's politicizing everything for his benefit. | ||
| And he's taking money from everybody, including foreigners. | ||
| And, you know, he's the most worthy country's ever had as a president or a human being. | ||
| Don't forget Epstein. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's William in Ohio. | ||
| More on Donald Trump's true social posts from Saturday night being asked about on the Sunday shows. | ||
| Yesterday, Mark Wayne Mullen, the Republican of Oklahoma, was being interviewed by Dana Bash on CNN. | ||
| Here's that exchange. | ||
| Well, I think what we know is President Trump is very open and transparent with the American people, and he speaks his mind. | ||
| And that's what his supporters love about him, and that's what America loves about him. | ||
| I don't think there's any question that Comey should be looked at. | ||
| I mean, we just got to look at the 86 comment that he made. | ||
| And when we start looking at the lies that he chose to continue with Russian Gate, Adam Schiff went out while he was the chairman of Intel every single meeting and said that we had the smoking gun. | ||
| And he said that for how many weeks straight? | ||
| And you're going, where was the smoking gun? | ||
| At some point, their actions need to be looked into. | ||
| And if they did something, I don't know. | ||
| This is a country that should look into it. | ||
| If they did something illegal, if they were leaking classified information, if they used their position of power for corruption, then they 100% should be held accountable. | ||
| And what President Trump is saying here is it's time to look into them and say and hold them accountable for what they said. | ||
| Mark Wayne Mullen yesterday on CNN. | ||
| This is Margaret at Elevenworth, Kansas. | ||
| Democrat. | ||
| Margaret, after listening to that, do you think that that is lawfare, this term that's being talked about of politics creeping into the justice and the judicial system? | ||
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Hello. | |
| You're on, Margaret. | ||
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Well, yes, because he's always looking at judges and talking about them and saying horrible things. | |
| There's no respect for just the common courtesy, respect, and not calling people names. | ||
| And he has done this, it's scary. | ||
| Now, the second thing I'd like to say, good morning, but I would like to say a shout out to late night. | ||
| I want people to remember during the COVID crisis that late night comedians came back that day, and they came back and they kept us together through all that COVID and isolation, and they never got a thing for it. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| That was very brave. | ||
| Every one of them kept coming and talking. | ||
| They didn't just, you know, they were under COVID isolation too. | ||
| And that was very beautiful. | ||
| And thank you very much for that, for those courageous people. | ||
| And Trump is the scariest thing, how he's destroyed our justice system, how he's destroyed it. | ||
| And we've got to keep fighting because this man is not going to quit until we're all, you know, whatever he calls names all the time and things. | ||
| We are Americans, you know? | ||
| We are Americans. | ||
| I'm not calling my neighbor names. | ||
| This man needs to clean. | ||
| This is the worst thing that's ever happened to our country. | ||
| Margaret, on comedians, before you go, I want to get your take specifically on Jimmy Kimmel's show being canceled. | ||
| There's a column in today's New York Times about it, the on comedy column. | ||
| It's written by Jason Zinnemann, and the headline, being a high-profile comedian right now is no joke. | ||
| With the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel on the heels of the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, The Landscape has unquestionably shifted for comics comedians and hosts. | ||
| What do you think of what happened with Jimmy Kipple's show specifically? | ||
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I thought that was terrible. | |
| And I always wanted to thank him during the COVID shootdown. | ||
| He opened up a little playhouse and his kids would come down the slide. | ||
| It was just beautiful. | ||
| And the work he did after his son had heart surgery, what he donated, what he helped, what he started. | ||
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You know, he took his, he spread and he helped other people with heart problems. | |
| He donated money. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So I love you, Jimmy Kimmel. | ||
| I will always remember you during the COVID shutdown, how you came back, how they all came back and kept us going. | ||
| And I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. | ||
| It kept us together through a horrible isolation. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And this will pass if we survive, if we fight back. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's Margaret in Leavenworth, Kansas this morning. | ||
| More comments from Republican senators about the actions of the Trump administration and those in it. | ||
| Ted Cruz on his podcast on Friday calling the FCC had Brendan Carr's threats to Disney's parent company, the one that took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, quote, dangerous. | ||
| That statement by Ted Cruz getting praise in the editorial pages of today's Wall Street Journal. | ||
| It's the editorial board of the Conservative Wall Street Journal calling it Ted Cruz's finest hour. | ||
| The statement specifically from Ted Cruz on his podcast on Friday. | ||
| Mr. Carr, this is quoting Ted Cruz. | ||
| Mr. Carr says that we can do this easy or we can do this the hard way, Mr. Cruz told his listeners. | ||
| That's right out of goodfellas. | ||
| That's right out of mafioso coming into a bar and saying, nice bar that you have here. | ||
| It'd be a shame if something happened to it. | ||
| The editorial board saying the sender added that he's no fan of Mr. Kimmel, but he warned conservatives that government power abused in this way won't only hurt the left. | ||
| What Mr. Carr said is dangerous as hell, Mr. Cruz continued. | ||
| It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it's used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it. | ||
| Again, the Wall Street Journal calling it Ted Cruz's finest hour. | ||
| Ruth, Detroit, Michigan, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yeah, it never ceases to surprise me. | |
| Well, anyway, the last time I called you guys on Washington Journal, I warned you about the attack before September 11th when they took the Twin Towers down. | ||
| Ruth, you haven't called since 2001? | ||
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Well, no, because you thought maybe I should get psychiatric treatment, you know, and stuff like that because I warned about us coming shortly under attack. | |
| But the next time we will be attacked, okay, will be because of some of the things that the news media and stuff like that get all confused. | ||
| Trump will say one thing: news media will come out and twist it and turn it around. | ||
| Now, you got to remember: millions of other people, other countries, other leaders listen to TV. | ||
| They understand English. | ||
| And that's why the next war that will be caused will be because of the news media. | ||
| And by the way, loose lips sink ships. | ||
| That's why the journalist should not even be near the department, the Pentagon, or any place like that. | ||
| During the Kennedy administration, and believe me, I knew Kennedy. | ||
| I spoke with him for several hours. | ||
| He would never allow a journalist in the Pentagon. | ||
| They would consider them spies. | ||
| Why would they want to be in the Pentagon? | ||
| There's nothing there for them. | ||
| And to say they're going to say anything they want to about what they see in the Pentagon, are you out of your mind? | ||
| Ruth. | ||
| That's why I say it'll be a journalist. | ||
| It will be somebody from the news media that causes World War III. | ||
| Ruth, how did you meet JFK? | ||
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People can be laughing and cheering in the ashes in dust after this country starts getting bombed because nuclear bombs aren't funny. | |
| Ruth, how did you meet JFK? | ||
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Well, I met him when I was in the military years back. | |
| I was in the Signal Corps. | ||
| I was supposed to be going into communications and stuff like that. | ||
| So, I mean, I was in communications in the Signal Corps, and that's how I met him. | ||
| So, this is, I mean, very interesting individual. | ||
| He was truly interested in what you had to say. | ||
| He was truly interested in the average individual. | ||
| He wanted to know how they felt about the situation then in 1960. | ||
| I also warned him that he was going to be assassinated because he was doing things. | ||
| He didn't want the war in Vietnam. | ||
| He was doing his best to avoid any wars. | ||
| He spent his time, you know, maybe in a PT boat, but that was a battlefield out there, too, on those PT boats. | ||
| He knew what war was like. | ||
| That's Ruth in Detroit. | ||
| This is Roy in Georgia, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I saw the post about the president, about the Justice Department, and what he was telling Pam Bondi. | ||
| We need to understand that Comey and all of those people actually broke the law. | ||
| The FBI director, they broke the law. | ||
| And somebody have to hold them accountable for what they did. | ||
| I mean, who else is going to do it except the Justice Department? | ||
| All the things that they did, they actually tried to attempt a coup against a sitting president in New York. | ||
| Like you said, they changed the rules that the president can be sued by this woman that had no rights to sue him. | ||
| I mean, how else are you going to stop all of this stuff by the deep state unless you have a legitimate Justice Department to go and highlight all of the lies they told? | ||
| Roy, do you think Pam Bondi's doing a good job? | ||
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I think she's done a good job. | |
| I respect her. | ||
| But, you know, again, somebody have to hold these people accountable for what they did. | ||
| Are we just going to sit back? | ||
| And that's, I hold the Republican accountable because the Democrats get out there and they fight, they lie, they cheat, and the Republican will hold a meeting, an investigation, but nothing comes out of it. | ||
| All of the money that Joe Biden stole with his son, the billions of dollars he didn't get to threaten Ukraine. | ||
| What happened to that? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| That's Roy in Georgia. | ||
| The posts again from President Trump on Saturday night. | ||
| It was about 6:45 p.m. Eastern, speaking directly to Pam Bondi, encouraging her to ask her, what about Adam Schiff and Letitia James and Comey saying that we can't delay any longer. | ||
| It's killing our reputation and credibility. | ||
| They impeached me twice and indicted me five times over nothing. | ||
| Justice must be served now, the president said in all capital letters. | ||
| That was his True Social post in the evening. | ||
| It was about an hour later that he came back onto True Social. | ||
| This is just before 8 p.m. Eastern time, saying Pam Bondi is doing a great job as Attorney General of the United States, and she's very careful, very smart, loves our country, and needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia promoting his recommendation, his pick. | ||
| Lindsay Halligan is her name. | ||
| And then the president going on to promote his pick for that position. | ||
| But a series of posts on Saturday night that raised a lot of eyebrows, caused a lot of discussion on the Sunday shows yesterday, and was the impetus for this question this morning on the Washington Journal asking you about lawfare, equal protection under the law. | ||
| Has the justice system become more or less political in the eight months since Donald Trump has returned to office? | ||
| Eugene in Freeport, New York, Democrat, what do you think? | ||
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No doubt about it. | |
| The justice system has become far more one-sided. | ||
| But besides that, if Donald Trump, let's just remove his face and say if there was anyone else who had upwards of 95 felony counts, who had more than 19 women filing sexual predator kinds of complaints, who had currently implicated in Epstein case, who is proven to have cheated the people of New York, | ||
| who came in on tropes of racism and dehumanizing people, and who continues to this very, very day to put people down, create divisions, to talk about people very badly, and to just act completely corrupt and lawless in his position. | ||
| I don't think anybody like that deserves to be president. | ||
| Moreover, I really question, I was really disappointed to see, with all due respect, I hate to see anyone harmed, let alone killed. | ||
| I feel bad for the young man who died, his family. | ||
| I really no man should die because of what he did. | ||
| But had he been another person of another group, would the highest echelons of the country attended his funeral? | ||
| Did you watch any of that funeral yesterday? | ||
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No, because I am a black person and everything he said about black people was very disrespectful, very dehumanizing. | |
| And I was particularly disturbed that he calls himself a Christian. | ||
| I'm a Christian as well. | ||
| And I don't know what Bible our communities read out of, but we obviously read out of different Bibles because my Bible says every man is a reflection of God. | ||
| So when you begin to decide some people are human, some people aren't, when you begin to decide that your color makes you better than someone else, this isn't something that I can consciously, morally justify or celebrate. | ||
| This is something that is very, very damaging to our country. | ||
| Trying to erase people's history, trying to pretend like Americans didn't enslave people, trying to get involved in every single thing you can stick your hand in, change everybody's life. | ||
| This is not a good thing. | ||
| We are headed down the wrong path. | ||
| Got your point. | ||
| That's Eugene. | ||
| This is the front page of the Washington Times this morning. | ||
| Charlie Kirk, a martyr now for American freedom. | ||
| Trump and his cabinet joins tens of thousands of mourners at Charlie Kirk's funeral. | ||
| Here's about two minutes of President Trump from that memorial service yesterday. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I used to say, Charlie, this is nasty stuff you do. | ||
| 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? | ||
| I was President Trump yesterday from Glendale, Arizona, at the funeral of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| To your phone calls this morning. | ||
| Fred is waiting in Michigan. | ||
| Republican line. | ||
| Good morning, Fred. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| This is my first time being on here on C-SPAN. | ||
| I've been blocking you guys over the years, but this is my first time. | ||
| Anyways, I'm sorry for Kirk's wife's husband's death. | ||
| This is for Trump. | ||
| Yeah, this is my first time. | ||
| Fred, do you want to talk about the question that we asked this morning about the justice system? | ||
| Has it become more or less political under President Trump? | ||
| I didn't. | ||
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I just got up. | |
| What's the deal with that? | ||
| What's going on with that? | ||
| That's the question we're asking folks to call in and talk about, Fred. | ||
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Justice, Liquid. | |
| I'll tell you what, we'll let you think about it. | ||
| You can call in once a month on the Washington Journal and you can call back in again and hope to hear from you down the road. | ||
| This is Kevin in San Antonio, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I think that we have to focus on 2026. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Democrats, independents, whoever disagreed with Trump, understand that the check on Trump is going to be the 2026 election. | ||
| So all these people that's running around here, and if you don't agree with it, you got to vote. | ||
| That's Kevin in San Antonio. | ||
| This is Mary in New York City, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Thank you, C-SPAN. | |
| I love to hear the voices of the American people every day. | ||
| And so I'm going to add my voice to it this morning. | ||
| And good morning, John. | ||
| I just wanted to start by saying Dr. King, Dr. Monte King Jr., said that a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. | ||
| And lawfare is often used as political retribution. | ||
| It's important to change this. | ||
| It's crucial that we change this by voting for people, for elected leaders, for leaders who have integrity, who have morals, who have that lead in truth. | ||
| I understand, you know, a lot of our elected officials get, sometimes they get compromised and it causes complications. | ||
| But we have to do what's right for the people. | ||
| And that's the moral responsibility of any elected leader is to lead with justice and truth and honesty. | ||
| And almost every elected official you can imagine who has really risen up has endured some form of lawfare or some form of attack. | ||
| Elizabeth Warren has gone through it. | ||
| President Barack Obama went through it. | ||
| He was the one who said children are off limits when it comes to these issues. | ||
| Other elected officials have, I mean, there's so many people who've endured these kinds of things. | ||
| But the most important thing about it is to do something about it by electing leaders who are going to do something about it. | ||
| And the ones who are in charge right now, they have a moral responsibility to act on behalf of their administration to do what's right. | ||
| So not pointing the blame at anyone. | ||
| You know, I'd like to see, you know, even our president putting out that, you know, on Truth Social, you know, do something. | ||
| You have the, when you are in that seat, you have the power to do something about it. | ||
| Don't pass it on to, oh, I have to have this person do it or that person do it. | ||
| You can do something about it. | ||
| And in fact, people are expecting you when they elect you. | ||
| They expect you to do something. | ||
| They expect you to change it. | ||
| They expect you to show leadership and morals and values. | ||
| So that's what I want to see happen. | ||
| I want to see that upheld. | ||
| I mean, I've personally seen, you know, no equal protection under the law. | ||
| I've personally experienced, you know, some really unjust things that are very sad and very, very hard to deal with. | ||
| And I don't want anyone else to go through it. | ||
| What I've been doing, I've done a petition. | ||
| I've been getting other elected officials to join with me in trying to help what's right. | ||
| What's the petition for, Mary? | ||
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The petition I have is on change.org, and it's called Letter to Legislation. | |
| So you go to change.org forward slash letter to legislation. | ||
| And this is about protecting our children. | ||
| It's about standing up for our young people, standing up for women, mothers who are dealing with domestic violence situations or have been dealing with, you know, political, you know, retribution or any kind of kind, you know, thing that is not with the Constitution. | ||
| We have constitutional rights that have to be upheld. | ||
| And every elected official knows this when they take that oath and when they decide to lead. | ||
| So we need our leaders to just have morals, integrities, values, and change it for the future generation. | ||
| Got your point. | ||
| That's Mary in New York. | ||
| This is Sean, Columbia, Maryland Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| About 20 minutes left in this opening segment. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| First of all, until I see somebody with drummed up charges from the previous administration go away to jail, it's not been politicized. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| There's people that need to be investigated. | ||
| I'm sorry if it hurts the Democrats or the far left. | ||
| You guys committed some heinous crimes. | ||
| And when they're investigated, they're done fairly. | ||
| As far as Charlie Kirks is concerned, I hear so many people calling him as if they've listened to the guy. | ||
| I've listened to him. | ||
| He is not a racist. | ||
| He's not anything that these people put him out to be. | ||
| Because he happens to speak to the right and looks at values and wants to challenge young minds. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| If that's what he got shot for, we have a sick world. | ||
| And previous callers said if it had been anybody else, if it had been anybody from the left, anybody, the streets would have burned down after they took out an innocent life. | ||
| He was an innocent person. | ||
| And when's the last time somebody from the left has ever sat down at a university and listened to conservative thought? | ||
| Give me one example, and then I will shut up. | ||
| Hey, man, have a great day. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's Sean in Columbia to Alexander, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Independent. | ||
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There I go. | |
| Thanks for waiting. | ||
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Hello. | |
| How are you? | ||
| Doing well. | ||
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Yeah, I would like to talk to some issues that were said during the memorial of Charlie. | |
| That's fine. | ||
| Do you want to talk about the justice system as well, which has been the... | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Well, I'll talk about that, too, right? | ||
| I believe what you said was it one-sided. | ||
| And what it is, is not one-sided. | ||
| It's just that legally, there's a lot of things that you cannot do according to the letter of the law. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And Trump is asking these people to ignore the letter of the law and just bypass all that and do what you want done. | ||
| And that's what's illegal about what's going on there. | ||
| And a lot of them refuse. | ||
| Now he's talking about firing people who don't agree with what he's saying. | ||
| And he put these people in there in the first place. | ||
| The woman, she disagrees with doing it the way he wants to do it because of the law. | ||
| He wants to circumvent the law. | ||
| And that is not right. | ||
| That is not the way America was built and not what it was founded on. |