I do want to follow up on those accusations that you mentioned about the 13-year-old girl who that was reported in various cases.
This is a story from back in 2016, referencing that story.
That the woman who did accuse Donald Trump of raping her at 13 dropped the lawsuit at the time.
She alleged that Trump and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein raped her in 1994, but the accuser's attorney filed a voluntary dismissal, and President Trump had denied those accusations.
But that was a story that the caller was referencing.
Jim is in Asheville, North Carolina, on our line for Republicans.
And Jim, can you please turn down the volume on your television and then you can go ahead with your point?
unidentified
Okay, what I would love to speak about is with the thing with this Obama thing with the thing that the Democrats have code saying.
If we really use the situation with that, where we need to know who's getting the benefits, how many people that are benefiting from the things of this file, and how many people, American people with so forth, and how many foreigners or so forth are receiving the goods of this.
Jim, we're still getting pretty bad feedback on your call, but I think I understand your point about wanting to have more details about who's receiving the health care benefits in the country.
Sal is in Ridge, New York, on our line for Democrats.
Good morning, Sal.
unidentified
Hi, good morning.
It's my opinion that what's going on with the food stamps and immigration is just a tip of the iceberg.
The money that gets funneled away from the poor and into the hands of the wealthy and the connected, it's not by mistake.
It's my opinion that the unseen arm of the Catholic Church, the CIA, and the media are using artificial intelligence to break people from their political views, their religious views.
And a lot of what's going on in Ukraine, in my opinion, is just a holy war between, you know, the Orthodox Christians and the Catholic Christians.
It's the same thing that was going on in Ireland with the Catholics and the Protestants.
It's just moved to another area of the world.
That's my opinion.
That's what I think is going on, and that's where the problem is.
I think a lot of the immigration is probably immigration, but they're also targeting people, like I just said, you know, for political views and their religious views.
And they're using weapons of war that we don't know about, but it's happening.
They have artificial intelligence and it's being used as a weapon of war.
You don't see it, but it's happening.
You know, people could be enslaved.
There's a new slavery.
It's not, you know, out in the open where people are owned by somebody.
You're owned by somebody by these means of these weapons.
All right, then let's go to AJ in Kennesaw, Georgia on our line for Democrats.
Good morning, AJ.
unidentified
Good morning.
How are you?
Hope everyone has a blessed day.
Yes, it's been a very interesting.
C-SPAN is the number one show on TV in America.
So, real quick, today is Sunday, and we're talking about Christians.
Psalms 101.7 says, No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house.
No one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
So God rejects deceitful people from his fellowship.
And so the Washington Post fact checker counted 30,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump during his first term.
That's over just 31,000 lies, basically.
And so here's the last thing I want to say.
91 criminal charges, six bankruptcies, four indictments, two impeachments, one convicted company, one fake charity shutdown, one fake university shutdown, 26 sexual assault allegations,
$25 million fraud settlement, $5 million sexual abuse verdict, $2 million charity abuse judgment, and 34 convicted felonies.
With the longest government shutdown now in the rearview mirror, Congress returns in the week ahead for legislative business and votes.
The House is back on Monday at noon Eastern.
Later in the week, members are expected to vote on legislation to compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker Mike Johnson announced plans to schedule a floor vote after 218 members signed a discharge petition, enough to force the House to action on the bill.
Lawmakers will also vote to repeal a provision included in the new government funding law, allowing senators to sue the federal government for seizing their phone records without being notified.
The Senate is back in session on Tuesday.
Senators are expected to continue work on 2026 federal spending legislation, including full-year funding for the defense and health and human services departments.
Only parts of the federal government are funded through January 30th, included in the new law to end the shutdown.
Watch live coverage of the House on C-SPAN.
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Next, President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One on his way back to the White House.
This is about 10 minutes.
Great weekend.
Price Reductions Revealed00:10:02
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From an economic standpoint, our prices are coming down very substantially on groceries and things.
They're already at a much lower level than they were with the last administration.
And we worked on it this weekend, and you're going to see some of the items that were a little bit higher.
They were lower than the last administration, but a little bit higher.
We're going to have some little price reductions, and in some cases, some pretty good ones.
Any update on Benezuela, Mr. President, on Benezuela updates?
No, no update on Venezuela.
With the designation of that cartel associated with Maduro, does that mean that the U.S. government can charge Maduro's assets or infrastructure inside Benefela?
It allows us to do that, but we haven't said we're going to do that.
And we may be discussing, we may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we'll see how that turns out.
They would like to talk.
unidentified
Mr. President, President Matthew says he's concerned that the Epstein probe you are calling for could be a smoke screen to lock or read some more files.
Well, I don't want to talk about it because fake news like you, you're a terrible reporter, and fake news like you, they just keep bringing that up to deflect from the tremendous success of the Trump administration.
So, a guy like Massey, his poll numbers are showing he's at 6% approval rating right now.
And we call him Rand Paul Jr. because he never votes for the Republican Party.
So, they're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous success that we're having as a party.
unidentified
Mr. President, Venezuela, he said they want to talk.
About paying large amounts of dollars back to the people.
You know, this was my idea.
It came up during that, you know, oftentimes under times of stress, like the shutdown, you come up with great ideas that you wouldn't have thought of before.
The insurance companies are making a fortune.
Their stock is up over a thousand percent over a short period of time.
They are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars, and they're not really putting it back, certainly not like they should.
So when I see this, and when I've seen this over the last pretty short period of time, I said, why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?
And you know, I made that statement, and I made it a little bit cavalierly, but it sounded good.
And everybody has picked it up, including Democrats.
And I am talking to some Democrats right now about doing that.
People love it.
We're going to take the money, well, if it gets approved, we're going to take the money, we're going to pay it back to the people of our country to go out and buy health insurance.
Now, they could put it in a health account.
We can do it a lot of different ways.
But they'd buy their own health insurance.
They can negotiate price.
And it's going to be locked so they can't go out and buy a Cadillac.
They can go out and buy health insurance.
unidentified
Is it time for Congress to move legislation that puts pressure on Russia and puts pressure on him?
I mean, we're stopping drug dealers and drugs from coming into our country.
And I actually told Marco and some of the people, our Secretary of State is doing a great job, by the way.
I said, go to Congress and let them know we're not letting drugs come through Mexico.
We're not letting them come through Venezuela.
And let Congress know about it.
We don't have to get their approval, but I think letting them know is good.
The only thing I don't want them to do is leak information that's very important and confidential and may put our military at risk or whoever is doing, you know, CIA, military, et cetera.
But I did say, I said, go and see Congress, see the representatives that we're supposed to be seeing, and be open about it.
If they say, we don't want you to stop drugs from coming into the country, I don't think that would be good, yes.
unidentified
Are any other countries committed to helping the U.S. with Venezuela, or is all our actions still?
Yeah, we have great support because it's all about drugs.
Well, in Venezuela's case, it's about drugs, and it's also about thousands, hundreds of thousands of people that they've released into our country.
And some are gang members from Trendi Aragua.
Some are drug, many are drug dealers, some are murderers.
So in the case of Venezuela, it's about the prison population.
Their almost entire prison population was released into the United States.
You know what that means?
Their prison population was released into the United States.
And we're getting it out.
We're doing an amazing job.
We have a strong border now.
We have everything, our country's doing so well.
But what the Biden administration did to our country should never be forgotten.
And the single worst thing they did is allow 20 or 25 million people to pour into our country.
People from prisons, drug dealers, mental institutions, bad people, gang members, to allow that to happen to the United States, totally unchecked and unvetted, should never be forgotten.
What they've done to our country is a very big thing.
But we are correcting it.
We have strong borders now.
We have a great economy.
The prices are coming down.
The Democrats like to use the word affordability, but their affordability was terrible.
The problem with the Democrats, they lie.
They do it so well.
They talk about affordability.
But I'm the one that's getting the prices down.
As an example, they had the highest inflation in the history of our country.
I have it down now to a normal level, and it's going down further.
Thank you very much, everybody.
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