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00:00:01WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMIC PRACTICE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
00:00:04TARIFF POLICIES ON INVESTORS AND
00:00:09CONSUMERS WITH POLITICO VICTORIA
00:00:14GEENA. AND THE QUINCY INSTITUTE DISCUSSES NOT ONLY IRAN'S
00:00:17ABILITY TO HOLD OFF ATTACKS BY THE U.S. BUT ALSO THE OPTIONS
00:00:21LEFT FOR THE TRUMP
00:00:23ADMINISTRATION TO CANE THE
00:00:26COUNTRY AND GAIN THE CONTROL OF
00:00:29STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ.
00:00:35WASHINGTON JOURNEY STARTS NOW.
00:00:41>> THIS IS THE WASHINGTON JOURNAL AUGUST 22.
00:00:45WE'LL START WHAT YOU THINK IS TOP NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK, THE
00:00:47SUPREME COURT ON FRIDAY ALLOWING
00:00:49THE PRESIDENT TO CONTINUE THE
00:00:52ABOVE GROUND PORTION CONSTRUCTION OF HIS BALL ROOM
00:00:56PROJECT IT WAS ON HOLD BUT THE
00:00:59TEMPORARY ORDER BY JEFF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS ALLOWS WORK TO
00:01:01CONTINUE FOR NOW BUT THE
00:01:03JUSTICES ON THE SUPREME COURT REVIEW THE CASE.
00:01:07YOU CAN CHOOSE THAT OR ANOTHER OF THE WEEK'S POLITICAL NEWS AS
00:01:10YOUR TOP STORY OF THE WEEK. IF YOU WANT TO CALL US AND LET
00:01:14US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK THAT IS,
00:01:20202-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS,
00:01:22202-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS, AND
00:01:26INDEPENDENTS, 202-748-8002.
00:01:28TEXT US YOUR SUGGESTIONS OR
00:01:31CONTRIBUTIONS IT'S 202-748-8003.
00:01:33YOU MAY WANT TO POST ON OUR
00:01:36SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.
00:01:38YOU CAN DO THAT ON FACEBOOK AT
00:01:43FACEBOOK.COM/C-SPAN OR X AT C-SPAN.
00:01:46WHEN IT COMES TO THE PRESIDENT
00:01:49ABOVE GROUND CONSTRUCTION OF THE BALL ROOM THE SUPREME COURT
00:01:52WEIGHED IN YESTERDAY ALLOWING IT ON A TEMPORARY BASIS TO GO FORWARD.
00:01:56USA PICKED UP THE STORY SAYING IT WAS THE COURT THAT SAYS THE
00:01:59PRESIDENT DOESN'T HAVE TO STOP CONSTRUCTION ON HIS $400 MILLION
00:02:03WHITE HOUSE BALL ROOM WHILE THE
00:02:05JUSTICES DECIDE WHETHER A JUDGE
00:02:08WRONGLY PAUSED THE PROJECT. CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS
00:02:10PREVENTED THE JUDGE'S ORDER FROM GOING INTO EFFECT SCHEDULED
00:02:13AUGUST 21 GIVING THE JUSTICES MORE TIME TO CONSIDER THE
00:02:17PRESIDENT'S APPEALING OF THE RULING IN RESPONSE TO A
00:02:20CHALLENGE FROM THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
00:02:24A FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE RULED THIS SPRING THAT ONLY UNDERGROUND WORK ON BOMB
00:02:27SHELTERS AND OTHER SECURITY RELATED COMPONENTS COULD MOVE
00:02:30FORWARD FOR NOW UNLESS THE PRESIDENT GETS APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS.
00:02:34IT WAS THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION THAT TOLD
00:02:36THE JUSTICES THE PROJECT WOULD LIKELY BECOME IRREVERSIBLE
00:02:40UNLESS IT STOPPED. JUSTICES SAID IN ITS APPEAL THAT THE CONSTRUCTION WHICH INCLUDES
00:02:45AN UNDERGROUND SECURITY COMPLEX
00:02:47IS 55% COMPLETE. AND IS PASS POINT WHERE MAJOR
00:02:50CHANGE TO DESIGN ARE FEASIBLE. TOOK PLACE ON THE SUPREME COURT
00:02:53PORTION YESTERDAY.
00:02:55IT WAS THE PRESIDENT TRAVELING
00:02:58TO SOUTH CAROLINA TO CAMPAIGN BY SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM AND DURING THE EVENT YOU CAN STILL
00:03:02SEE ON C-SPAN HE MENTIONED NOT ONLY THE BALL ROOM PROJECT BUT
00:03:06THE SUPREME COURT'S ACTIONS HERE'S THE PRESIDENT FROM YESTERDAY ON THAT.
00:03:10TRUMP: WE JUST LEARNED THAT THE
00:03:14BIG DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CAME DOWN
00:03:17AND THE MILITARY/BALL ROOM IS
00:03:24BEAUTIFUL. MAGNIFICENT COMPLEX. BEING BUILT ON THE HALLOWED
00:03:28GROUNDS OF OUR CHERISHED WHITE
00:03:31HOUSE, WHICH IS SO VITAL FOR NATIONAL SECURITY WILL BE IT
00:03:35WILL BE THE GREATEST OF ITS KIND
00:03:38ANYWHERE THAT'S EVER BEEN BUILT AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT
00:03:40PRESIDENTS WANTED TO BE BUILT FOR OVER 150 YEARS.
00:03:43WE HAVE A TINY ROOM NOW IT'S
00:03:45BEEN THAT WAY FOR YEARS.
00:03:48IT CALL EAST RECENTLY SEATS 88 PEOPLE.
00:03:51AND AS AN EXAMPLE IN TWO WEEKS, PRESIDENT XI OF CHINA IS COMING
00:03:55AND I WISH WE HAD A BALL ROOM.
00:03:57BUT IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IN
00:03:59A YEAR FROM NOW, YOU'LL HAVE ONE
00:04:02OF THE GREATEST ANYWHERE IN THE
00:04:04WORLD, AND THE MILITARY IS BEING
00:04:07TAKEN CARE OF BECAUSE OF THE MILITARY COMPONENT FOR DRONES
00:04:11AND FOR MISSILES AND FOR BULLET-PROOF GLASS AND ALL OF
00:04:14THE THINGS YOU'VE NEEDED THE MILITARY WANTED THIS DONE 100
00:04:17YEARS AND PRESIDENTS WANTED IT
00:04:19DONE FOR 150 YEARS SO I JUST
00:04:24WANT TO THANKING THE SUPREME
00:04:26COURT AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND
00:04:29WE HAVE A RULING THAT PROCEED
00:04:35WHEN THEY SAY PROCEED I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING.
00:04:39NOTHING IS EASY TODAY. AND CONSTRUCTION IS UNDER BUDGET
00:04:42AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
00:04:44UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
00:04:47AND WE BUILD MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYBODY ELSE >> THAT WAS YESTERDAY YOU CAN
00:04:51CHOOSE THAT BALL ROOM PROJECT AS A TOP STORY, YOU CAN CHOOSE
00:04:53OTHER STORIES WHEN IT COMES TO
00:04:55POLITICS AS YOUR TOP STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:04:59CALL US 202-748-8001 FOR
00:05:02REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATS,
00:05:05202-748-8000, INDEPENDENTS, 202-748-8002 FOR HIS PART IT WAS
00:05:09A SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK
00:05:10SCHUMER ON X POSTING ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ON THE
00:05:14BALL ROOM PROJECT HE SAID THE MAGA SUPREME COURT IS RUB R
00:05:18STAMPING TRUMP'S VANITY GIVEN
00:05:23CORRUPTION. THE ADMINISTRATION IS WASTING
00:05:26MONEY ON ENDLESS AND ILLEGAL WAR
00:05:29CORPORATE GIVE AWAYS, DEMOCRATS ARE LASER FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES
00:05:31THAT APPEAL TO AMERICANS.
00:05:37AND SO THAT'S THE STATEMENT FROM CHUCK SCHUMER.
00:05:39UP FOR GRABS WHEN IT COMES TO
00:05:41YOUR TOP STORIES ON MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRAT LINE LINDA STARTS US
00:05:45OFF THIS MORNING, LINDA WHAT WOULD YOU CONSIDER A TOP STORY.
00:05:48GUEST: SO MANY, BUT I'M GOING TO
00:05:53BEGIN WITH THE BALL ROOM.
00:05:55AND THE ILLEGITIMATE SUPREME COURT.
00:05:59THEY USED TO PASS OUT RULINGS BY
00:06:01LAW AND BY PRECEDENT.
00:06:05BUT WITH THIS PRESIDENT IN
00:06:10OFFICE, THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BALL
00:06:12ROOM WE ARE IN, HE DO NOT USE
00:06:16HIS MONEY FOR ANYTHING BUT
00:06:19HIMSELF.
00:06:21AND HIS SONS THIS IS THE MOST
00:06:23CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION I HAVE EVER SEEN.
00:06:26I'M 75 YEARS OLD.
00:06:29I'VE ALWAYS SAID THAT THE
00:06:31REPUBLICANS WAS A RACIST PARTY
00:06:33AND A CROOKED PARTY.
00:06:37AND IT ONLY TOOK TRUMP TO PUT US IN OFF THE WHOLE THING.
00:06:41HOST: WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE BALL ROOM THAT BOTHERS YOU THE MOST
00:06:44>> IT IS TOO BIG, TOO UGLY.
00:06:48AND IT COSTS TOO MUCH.
00:06:51WE AS AMERICANS CANNOT AFFORD
00:06:54GROCERIES, GAS, HEALTH INSURANCE.
00:06:57AND HE IS OUT HERE SPENDING OUR
00:06:59MONEY JUST LIKE IT'S WATER THROUGH HIS FINGERS.
00:07:03THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HE DID IN
00:07:07THE, AND BESIDES, THAT PART OF
00:07:11THE WHITE HOUSE WAS HISTORIC. HE HAD NO BUSINESS TEARING IT DOWN, IT'S NOT HIS HOUSE, IT'S
00:07:15OUR HOUSE. HOST: LINDA IN MISSISSIPPI.
00:07:18WITH THE BALL ROOM IS HER TOP STORY.
00:07:21LET'S HEAR FROM PAUL IN FLORIDA. REPUBLICAN LINE AGAIN SAME THING WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICAL NEWS.
00:07:25WHAT RISES TO THE TOP FOR YOU, PAUL
00:07:28>> WELL, I'M SURPRISED I HAVEN'T
00:07:32HEARD ANYTHING ON YOUR NETWORK ABOUT MICHIGAN AND THE SECRETARY
00:07:35OF STATE AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERING THESE ILLEGALS INTO
00:07:39VOTING THEY CAN MOVE AND GET REGISTERED AGAIN AUTOMATICALLY
00:07:43AND A SHERIFF HAD A WHISTLE BLOWER FROM THE MICHIGAN
00:07:46SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE THAT REPORTED ALL THIS.
00:07:49AND I HEAR NOTHING BUT CRICKETS FROM THE DEMOCRATS ON THIS AND
00:07:53I'M SURPRISED. BUT AS FAR AS THE BALL ROOM FROM
00:07:57LAST CALLER, I'D ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY THAT'S NOT COSTING THE
00:08:00TAXPAYER ONE RED CENT.
00:08:02THAT'S ALL DONATIONS AND MONEY
00:08:06COMING OUT OF MR. TRUMP POCKET. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POCKET.
00:08:10BEST PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD IN THE HISTORY OF OF THIS COUNTRY.
00:08:12THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. HOST: THAT'S PAUL THERE.
00:08:16BALL ROOM HIS CHOICE AGAIN, YOU
00:08:18CAN TALK ABOUT THE BALL ROOM OR OTHER THINGS WHEN IT COMES TO
00:08:22THIS IDEA OF YOUR TOP STORY. WHATEVER IS OF INTEREST TO YOU
00:08:26POLITICALLY LET'S TRY
00:08:28CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS LINE AND A HELLO. GUEST: HELLO.
00:08:33I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ALL OF
00:08:36THE BILLING AND COMMOTION GOING ON IN THE BALL ROOM AND THE
00:08:40BUILDING UNDER THE BALL ROOM. WHAT BUILDING CODES ARE THEY
00:08:44USING TO DO THIS? EVERY WORKER CHOSEN TO WORK I
00:08:48THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE A
00:08:51BACKGROUND SOME KIND OF SECURITY
00:08:56BACKGROUND CHECK. WE KNOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
00:08:59AGAINST EVERYBODY IN THE USA,
00:09:01AND EVERY DAY DISTRACTIONS HE GIVE US.
00:09:04AND I SHOULD BE ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT BUILDING.
00:09:06WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S PLANNING FOR
00:09:10THE FUTURE WHEN HE LEAVES.
00:09:12I MEAN, WHAT REVENGE.
00:09:17TO SATISFY PUTIN AND NORTH KOREA. WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THESE WORKERS.
00:09:21ARE THEY CITIZENS? IS THERE QUALITY CONTROL BEING DONE ON THE WORK?
00:09:24ARE THEY FAITHFUL OR LOYAL TO
00:09:27DONALD TRUMP?
00:09:30MEANING WHO IS CHECKING TO SEE
00:09:34IF SOPHISTICATED BOMBS ARE BEING
00:09:35PLANTED UNDER THE BUILDING.
00:09:41THAT CAN BE ACTIVATED BY REMOTE
00:09:44CONTROL OR A DRONE WAS ALL OF
00:09:47THOSE FIBER OPT CABLES, WHEN
00:09:50THEY LEAVE THE OFFICE HE WILL
00:09:54PARDON HIMSELF SOME PEOPLE ON
00:09:55THE SUPREME COURT AND EVERYTHING
00:09:58IN THE FUTURE THAT HE DOES. HOST: ANNA IN CONNECTICUT.
00:10:02LET'S TRY JAY IN ALABAMA REPUBLICAN LINE.
00:10:05TOP STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:10:08GUEST: GOOD MORNING.
00:10:09TOP STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:10:13TAKE THIS CALL FOR THE MONTH MY
00:10:15INPUT AS A FORUM AMERICAN
00:10:18CITIZEN TO SAY THERE'S TOO MUCH CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS
00:10:21OF OF THIS COUNTRY.
00:10:22SPECIFICALLY WITH CORPORATIONS.
00:10:25I WANT TO MENTION ONE AND IT'S
00:10:27CALL MONIS AN TOE, IT CAME INTO
00:10:32ACCOUNT IN ANNISTON ALABAMA AND RUINED IT.
00:10:34THERE'S A GREAT VIDEO ON THE
00:10:36INTERNET GOING TO THIS AND IT RUINED, DESTROYED IT POISON THE
00:10:40RIVER, POND, FISH, KILLED PEOPLE. CAME INTO THE TOWN AND BOUGHT UP
00:10:43PEOPLE IN FACTORY IS STILL HERE
00:10:46THE PLANT IS STILL HERE.
00:10:48AND THEY JUST OPERATE WITH IMMUNITY.
00:10:52THEY WERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE NOT TOO LONG AGO WITH TRUMP. THE COMPANY TAKEN OVER
00:10:55EVERYTHING TAKEN OVER FARMS,
00:10:58PROBABLY PUT MOST FARMS OUT OF BUSINESS WITH THEIR SUICIDE
00:11:01SEEDS, YOU KNOW, THEIR ROUND-UP,
00:11:04I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
00:11:07IT'S POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS WHY IN THIS COUNTRY IS IS THIS LOUD?
00:11:11THIS HARMED PEOPLE. HURTING PEOPLE.
00:11:15IF I AN AMERICAN CITIZEN PUT CHEMICALS IN THE STREAM I'M SURE
00:11:18I WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. BUT THESE COMPANIES ARE
00:11:22INSULATED BECAUSE I THINK WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY IS THERE'S GROUPS THAT OWN OF THIS COUNTRY.
00:11:26I THINK THERE'S DEEPLY IMBEDDED GROUPS.
00:11:28I THINK THAT WE GO ALONG WITH THE GAME.
00:11:31WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT LIKE A COLONY A SHOW LIKE THIS AND
00:11:34VOICE MY OPINION BUT THERE'S REALLY NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
00:11:37I THINK THAT IT'S TOTALLY OUT OF OUR HAND, I THINK WE CAN VOTE
00:11:41OUR WAY OUT OF THIS IF MACHINES
00:11:46WERE PROPER, BASICALLY READ THAT
00:11:48PUT THAT MONSANTO IS A HORRIBLE COMPANY. SHOULDN'T OPERATE.
00:11:51HOST: SOME OF YOU CONTRIBUTING BY FACEBOOK THIS MORNING, THIS
00:11:54IS STEVE HEAD HENDRICK FROM
00:11:56FACEBOOK SAYING DEMOCRATS HAVE
00:11:59NO ACTUAL PLAN FOR SOLVING
00:12:01ISSUES.
00:12:03I'M ASSUMING HE'S SAYS
00:12:06DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL OF ITS OF AMERICAN, SOUL CAMPAIGN TRAGEDY
00:12:10IS LABEL ANYONE OPPOSING THEM
00:12:13EVIL AND WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS
00:12:15TO OFFER PLANS OR PROMISE
00:12:17ANYTHING THAT CAN ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
00:12:20SALLY SCHWARTZ FROM FACEBOOK SAYING THAT SHE IS TIRED OF THE
00:12:24PRESIDENT AND TALKING ABOUT HIS PET PROJECTS AND NOT ABOUT
00:12:28FIXING THE ECONOMY. HE PUTS ON BLINDERS FROM THE
00:12:31START WHY DO AMERICAN CITIZENS PUT UP WITH HIM?
00:12:34AGAIN FACEBOOK.
00:12:36IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THOSE COMMENTS THERE
00:12:40FACEBOOK.COM/C-SPAN HOW YOU DO THAT ON AT C-SPAN WJ IT WAS
00:12:44DURING HIS OWN EFFORTS TO WIN REELECTION THAT SENATOR JOHN
00:12:48HOSOF A DEMOCRAT FROM GEORGIA BROUGHT UP THE BALL ROOM PROJECT
00:12:52ALSO BRINGING UP IN THE SAME SENTENCE COMMENTS ABOUT THE
00:12:54PRESIDENT'S AID THAT'S BEEN IN
00:12:57THE NEWS NATALIE HARP.
00:12:59HERE IS SENATOR AUSOFF.
00:13:03>> WHILE THE SAILORS ON THE
00:13:06LINCOLN FIGHT HIS WAR, WHILE HE
00:13:10FRUITLESSLY DRAINS OUR MUNITIONS
00:13:13AND OIL RESERVES, THE PRESIDENT SLEEPS THROUGH HIS MEETINGS.
00:13:16HE GOLFS AND TRADES STOCKS.
00:13:20HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO THE JOB. HE WANTS TO BUILD HIS BALL ROOM
00:13:23AND TRAVELS WITH FDALY ON THEIR
00:13:29APPARENTLY DEFENSELESS FLYING PALACE GIFTED BY QATAR.
00:13:32HOST: SEE THE EVENT ON OUR C-SPAN WEBSITE IF YOU WANT TO
00:13:36SEE THAT. TIMOTHY IN OHIO DEMOCRAT LINE
00:13:40TOP NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:13:47GUEST: HELLO. THE COWARDEST OF THE SUPREME COURT AND JOHN POWERS SHOULD BE
00:13:50IMPEACHED FOR HIS DECISION. THAT WAS ALL. THANK YOU.
00:13:53HOST: WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HIS
00:13:56DECISION IN YOUR OPINION. CALLER: WASTING ALL THAT MONEY
00:14:00ON A BALL ROOM THAT'S NOT NEEDED.
00:14:02IT'S JUST A VANITY PROJECT.
00:14:12AND SUPREME COURT NEEDS REFORM
00:14:17SOMEHOW. THEY HAVE SICK THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE.
00:14:19HOST: TIMOTHY IN OHIO. LET'S HEAR FROM THOMAS IN
00:14:23MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:14:26HELLO, THOMAS.
00:14:31CALLER: GOOD MORNING. I BELIEVE TRUMP IS A DISASTER, HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN
00:14:35ALLOWED TO GET ON THE BALLOT IN THE FIRST PLACE IN COLORADO.
00:14:38THE SUPREME COURT TOTALLY DESTROYED OF THIS COUNTRY, MY
00:14:40SOLUTION IS YOU HAVE SIX NEW
00:14:45JUSTICES, RANDOM OUT OF NINE BECAUSE THEN YOU WON'T
00:14:48NECESSARILY GET TO HAVE YOUR
00:14:49CASH BUDDY WON'T GET TO VOTE ON
00:14:53HIS PROJECT. I CALL HIM INJUSTICE PUBIC HAIR.
00:14:56HOST: ASIDE FROM THE LANGUAGE, I WANT TO REITERATE IT'S A
00:15:00TEMPORARY HOLD ON THE PROJECT NOT PERMANENT WHILE THE JUSTICES
00:15:04DECIDE ON THE FUTURE OF IT AT LEAST THE ABOVE GROUND PORTIONS
00:15:08BUT GO AHEAD AND WATCH THE PHONE PLEASE AND LANGUAGE AND USE OF
00:15:11WORDS. GO AHEAD. CALLER: CLARENCE THOMAS IS THE
00:15:14GREATEST RECIPIENT OF DEA AND HE
00:15:17PULLED UP THE LADDER BEHIND HIM.
00:15:20THE MAGA CROWD IS THE MOST
00:15:23STUPID BRAIN WASHED PEOPLE IT'S
00:15:27JUST -- I POSTED THEY NEED DAILY
00:15:30REMINDERS TO BREATHE.
00:15:32MY HEAD HAS BEEN EXPLODING FOR TWO YEARS WITH THE CRUTCHING OF
00:15:36STRUCTURE OF OF THIS COUNTRY. SINCE TRUMP ELECTED HOW MANY
00:15:39PEOPLE KILLED, HOW MANY WEAPONS
00:15:46EXPLODED AND NOW WE HAVE TO REPLACE.
00:15:49IT'S A TOTAL DISASTER.
00:15:51AND LATER WE ROLL ON FORGETTING TREASON AND JANUARY 6.
00:15:55WE DON'T WE GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING. PUT.
00:15:59HOST: JOHN REPUBLICAN LINE IN CALIFORNIA.
00:16:02CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:16:05WHAT A GUY TO FOLLOW. BUT I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE
00:16:09BALL ROOM AND REMIND EVERYBODY
00:16:12THIS WILL BE STANDING FOR ABOUT
00:16:21100 YEARS.
00:16:43THE MONEY IS NOT THAT MUCH FOR
00:16:45IT.
00:16:48FOR HOW MUCH VETO TRIAL.
00:16:52THEY TELL US HOW BAD EVERYTHING IS.
00:16:55THEY TELL US HOW WE'RE ALL FAILING AND WE'RE NOT.
00:16:59OF THIS COUNTRY AND THIS PERIOD RIGHT NOW IS THE GREATEST TIME
00:17:02EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.
00:17:05WE LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY,
00:17:07100 YEARS AGO, THESE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE TO GO OUT AND GO
00:17:10SHOOT THEIR OWN DINNER.
00:17:13SO WE HAVE ALL THE MORE THAN CONVENIENCES.
00:17:16WE HAVE MEDICINE, WE HAVE CARS. WE HAVE AIRPLANES.
00:17:20WE HAVE EVERYTHING THAT DIDN'T
00:17:22EXIST 100 YEARS AGO AND IF THESE
00:17:25PEOPLE CAN'T SEE WHAT -- HOW
00:17:27GREAT WE ARE, AND WITH GRATITUDE
00:17:29THAT WE HAVE THIS, IT JUST BLOWS
00:17:33MY MIND THAT THE DEMOCRATS HATE
00:17:36AMERICA SO MUCH THEY SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN TWICE.
00:17:39THEY JUST RAIDS -- JUST HAD AU
00:17:45STOP ON THERE SAYING HOW BAD EVERYTHING IS WHICH ACTUALLY IT'S REALLY IF.
00:17:50YOU DON'T BELIEVE HOW GOOD IT IS. IF YOU WERE LIVING 100 YEARS AGO
00:17:53AND TODAY, THERE'S QUITE A
00:17:56DIFFERENCE IN YOUR STANDARD OF
00:18:00LIVING. HOST: THAT'S JOHN ANOTHER RELATED STORY TO THE BALL ROOM
00:18:02PROJECT SOMETHING WE MAY SEE WHEN THE HOUSE AND SENATE COME
00:18:06BACK INTO SESSION, MONEY WHEN IT
00:18:09COMES TO FEDERAL MONEY FOR THE BALL ROOM PROJECT BUT
00:18:12SPECIFICALLY SECURITY RELATED ASPECT.
00:18:14THIS IS ABC REPORTING BY STEVEN
00:18:17PORT NOID FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR
00:18:20BUT ATTEMPTS TO GET MONEY FOR THE SECURITY RELATED PARTS.
00:18:23THAT'S WHEN IT COMES TO THE FEDERAL TAXPAYER, THERE'S OTHER
00:18:26THINGS TOO, WHICH SOME OF YOU BROUGHT OUT. AGAIN YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ISSUES
00:18:29WHEN IT COMES TO THE BALL ROOM
00:18:32AND OTHER THINGS TOO.
00:18:35AND INDIANA DEMOCRATS LINE.
00:18:38NEXT UP THIS IS SHAR LEE HELLO.
00:18:41CALLER: THE GUY ON A CALLED A LITTLE BIT AGO AND SAID THE
00:18:45TAXPAYER AREN'T PAYING ONE RED CENT AND YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:18:48AND YOU JUST LET IT SLIDE. PLEASE PULL UP THE AMOUNTS THAT
00:18:51THE TAXPAYERS ARE GOING TO BE PAYING FOR THIS, DONALD TRUMP
00:18:54EVEN SAID THIS IS MOSTLY COMING OUT OF THE TAXPAYERS.
00:18:58JUST REMEMBER, FOLKS, AS EASILY
00:19:01AS THAT EAST WING CAME DOWN,
00:19:04THIS BALL ROOM CAN COME DOWN.
00:19:08HOST: "WASHINGTON POST" FOLLOWING UP ON THE COMMENTS PREVIOUS TO THE COMMENTS IN MAY,
00:19:12SAYING PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THE
00:19:15PROJECTED COST OF THE EAST
00:19:16WITHIN 600 MILLION COME HALF
00:19:19COMING FROM TAXPAYERS, THE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE COST OF
00:19:22UPGRADES NEARBY BY LAFAYETTE
00:19:26SQUARE, HELL PAD VISITING CENTER
00:19:30AND OTHER PROSECUTES WOULD DRIVE 927 MILLION, THE WHITE HOUSE DID
00:19:34NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SOURCE OF ALL FUNDING FOR THE
00:19:36TOTAL COST OF THE PLAN WORK.
00:19:38SAID THE MONEY WAS BEE SPENT IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH
00:19:42CONGRESS'S ORIGINAL INTENT. SAMUEL IS ON OUR INDEPENDENT
00:19:46LINE. YOUR TOP NEWS STORY FROM MICHIGAN. GO AHEAD.
00:19:49CALLER: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. TAKING MY CALL.
00:19:52I WANTED TO ECHO WHAT THE LAST
00:19:54CALLER SAID IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT
00:19:56$400 MILLION TO THE TAXPAYERS.
00:19:59ANYTHING FROM SECRET SERVICE TO
00:20:01MILITARY OFFICE, TO ANCILLARY
00:20:04COST THE TAXPAYERS WILL HAVE TO
00:20:06ABSORBED FOR THIS UNNECESSARY BALL ROOM ONE OF THE UNNECESSARY
00:20:10ACTIONS IN OWN COSTING US TO PAY
00:20:16HIGHER COSTS TARIFFS, EPSTEIN FILES BUT THE GENTLEMEN SAID IF
00:20:18WE GO BY 100 YEARS AGO AS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN I DEFINITELY DO
00:20:21NOT WISH TO GO BACK AND LIVE IN
00:20:24THE AMERICA FROM 100 YEARS AGO. WE CANNOT BE DISCONNECTED PEOPLE
00:20:27THE PRICE OF THINGS ARE GOING UP.
00:20:30THE LIBERTIES ARE BEING STRIPPED
00:20:32AWAY AND PLEASE FACT CHECK NOT ALLOWED INDIVIDUALS TO CALL ON
00:20:36THESE GRANTS TODAY REQUIRING MEMBERS AND YOU DON'T BOTHER TO
00:20:39TRY TO PUT THEM BACK IN THE SQUARE. HOST: I JUST READ TWO STORIES
00:20:43RELATED TO THE FIGURES THEMSELVES. THANK YOU FOR THE CALL.
00:20:46SAMUEL IN MICHIGAN.
00:20:49SO FAR THE PRESIDENT'S FORMER
00:20:52ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OPINION
00:20:56PIECE IN THE WASHINGTON WALL
00:20:59STREET JOURNAL HAS HIS OWN TAKE THE CONSTITUTION LIMITS FEDERAL
00:21:02COURTS DECIDING OWN CASES BROUGHT BY PARTIES WITHSTANDING
00:21:06THAT IS A CONCRETE TO THEM GIVEN THE MARK THE AT HAND IN THIS
00:21:10CASE NATIONAL TRUST A PRIVATE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION PLAINLY
00:21:13LACKS THE STANDING MANDATED BY
00:21:17THE CONSTITUTION TO HAVE STANDING MUST SHOW IT HAS
00:21:20MEMBERS THAT SUFFER A CONCRETE INJURIES TO HAVE STANDING AND
00:21:22THAT INTEREST THE MEMBERS VINE INDICATE THE GERMANE TO THE
00:21:26ORGANIZATIONS PURPOSE.
00:21:28BILL BAR ADDING THAT THE SUBJECTIVE DISPLEASURE ISN'T AN
00:21:32INJURY CAN FIRST STANDING UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS
00:21:35THOUGHTS FOR YOURSELF WHEN IT COMES TO THE BALL ROOM PROJECTS
00:21:39IN THE LEGAL ISSUES SURROUNDING THAT. THAT'S THE WALL STREET OPINION
00:21:43PIECE YOU CAN FIND IN THE PAPERS
00:21:44TODAY AND ON LINE THERE.
00:21:47LET'S GO TO KATHY IN MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS LINE.
00:21:50OLIVIA: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO,
00:21:53GOOD MORNING, C-SPAN.
00:21:57I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT MY
00:22:00SUPPORT FOR ABDUL SAY AD FOR
00:22:09REPLACING SENATOR PETERS AND I
00:22:11THINK THAT HE WILL MAKE A GREAT
00:22:14SENATOR BECAUSE HE SUPPORTS ALL THE PEOPLE.
00:22:17HE'S NOT A DISCRIMINATORY PERSON.
00:22:19HE'S FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL.
00:22:25WHICH I SUPPORT. HAVING WORKED IN MEDICINE CLOSE
00:22:28TO 40 YEARS NOW, I KNOW THAT IT
00:22:36IS A STRUGGLE FOR PEOPLE TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE.
00:22:39AND IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE.
00:22:43IT'S TIME TO STOP THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE.
00:22:47THE GROSS DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
00:22:49TOWARDS A VERY SMALL PORTION OF
00:22:53THE POPULATION IN THIS COUNTRY AND I HOPE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
00:22:57IN MICHIGAN GETS BEHIND THIS GENTLEMAN AND SUPPORTS HIM.
00:23:00HOST: YOU THINK THAT HE HAS A
00:23:04STRONG CHANCE AGAINST MIKE ROGERS. CALLER: YES, I DO.
00:23:08I CAN TELL YOU THE COST OF
00:23:16HOUSING HERE IN NORTHERN
00:23:18MICHIGAN IN PARTICULAR, IS PRO
00:23:21HIS BODITIVE FOR MOST YOUNG
00:23:22PEOPLE THE AVERAGE COST OF A
00:23:25HOUSE WHERE I LIVE IS $441,000.
00:23:28THAT'S OUT OF THE REACH FOR PROBABLY 80% OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE
00:23:32HERE. AND THAT IS WRONG.
00:23:34IT'S NOT HOW I GREW UP IN FLINT
00:23:40MICHIGAN. MY PARENT SECOND HOUSE WAS 14,000 DOLLARS.
00:23:44I KNOW THAT WAS 1963 BUT NEVERTHELESS, THINGS SKY ROCKETED.
00:23:47THE COST OF GAS, THE COST OF
00:23:56FOOD, THE COST OF UTILITIES.
00:23:59THE IT'S CORPORATE AGREED AND NOT A HEALTHY SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT.
00:24:02VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS.
00:24:06HOST: THERE IN MICHIGAN THE WEBSITE BRIDGE MICHIGAN
00:24:09HIGHLIGHTS THE RACE BETWEEN MIKE
00:24:11RELIGIONS AND ABDUL SAY AD.
00:24:15AND HIGHLIGHTS SOME ISSUES THAT
00:24:17ARE TOP WHEN IT COMES TO THE
00:24:20MICHIGAN SENATE RACE TO THE CALLER'S POINT, ECONOMY AND
00:24:24AFFORDABILITY SAYING THAT ECONOMIC PRESSURES ARE LIKELY TO REMAIN TOP OF VOTERS MIND SAYING
00:24:27COST OF LIVING IN MICHIGAN AND
00:24:31NATIONALLY SKY ROCKETED DRIVEN BY INFLATION AND ECONOMIC
00:24:34VOLATILITY AND THE JOB MARKET IS
00:24:38TIGHT ADDING MEASURE'S MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD LAGS.
00:24:42HIGHER COSTS OF GROCERIES, RENT CHILD CARE AND MORE.
00:24:44AS DAYS GO ON TO NOVEMBER STAY
00:24:48CLOSE TO C-SPAN FOR OUR COVERAGE OF EVENTS THAT ARE TAKING NOT
00:24:51ONLY THE MICHIGAN SENATE RACE BUT MANY RACES ACROSS THE UNITED
00:24:55STATES WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY DETERMINE THE POWERS THAT WILL CONTROL THE HOUSE AND SENATE
00:24:59AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THAT ROUNDED UP
00:25:03ON OUR WEBSITE AT C-SPAN.ORG. YOU MAY WANT TO TALK ABOUT
00:25:07CAMPAIGN 2026 AS PART OF YOUR TOP STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:25:10LET'S GO TO JOE JOINING US FROM
00:25:13ARLINGTON VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: HOW IS IT GOING?
00:25:17THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
00:25:18I WANT TO CALL OUT MY TOP STORY
00:25:24AS THE DSS STORY LINCOLN STORY
00:25:27BILL, LAUNCHED 1998 COST THE
00:25:30TAXPAYER 2.2 BILLION. IT'S AN IMPORTANT TOPIC TO STAY
00:25:34ON TOP OF AND ANCHORING STORY
00:25:37FOR ME. HOST: BESIDES THE HISTORY OF THE LINCOLN ITSELF WHAT IS MOST
00:25:41IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO THE STORY.
00:25:45CALLER: WELL, STANDING OVER HERE
00:25:47IN ARLINGTON, I THOUGHT IT WAS
00:25:51GOOD TO SEE A BIPARTISAN RESPONSE, IT'S BEEN DIVISIVE.
00:25:54SO IT'S SEPARATED THINGS BUT THE
00:25:56FACT BOTH SIDES ARE FOCUSED ON
00:25:59ONE KIND OF TECHNICAL FISCAL AND
00:26:03HUMAN LEVEL ISSUE ESPECIALLY
00:26:05WITH VETERANS ACTIVE DUTY. IT'S JUST GOING TO KEEP US
00:26:09CENTERED ON SOMETHING. HOST: A HEADLINE FROM
00:26:12YESTERDAY'S NEW YORK TIMES, WHICH MANY HAVE REPORTED ON AS
00:26:16FAR AS THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEADING BACK FROM BEING DEPLOYED
00:26:19THE SUB HEAD, AIRCRAFT CARRIER DEPLOYED NINE MONTHS LARGELY IN
00:26:22SUPPORT OF OPERATIONS IN IRAN
00:26:24NOW HEADING HOME TO SAN DIEGO.
00:26:27ERIN IN VIRGINIA.
00:26:29DEMOCRAT'S LINE NEXT UP.
00:26:33CALLER: YES.
00:26:34MY NAME IS ALAN.
00:26:41IF THEY CAN'T SEE THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE BEING BUILT IS A
00:26:45FORTRESS TO PROTECT HIMSELF. HOST: WHAT LEADS YOU TO BELIEVE
00:26:49THAT? . CALLER: BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING GOING ON.
00:26:52THE STRUCTURE, FEELING OF THE
00:26:55MANHOLE COVERS DURING THIS
00:27:00RACETRACK DEAL, THE SETUP IS BEEN GIVEN COMPLETE PROTECTION.
00:27:03NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO REACH HIM
00:27:05AND WHOEVER ELSE WILL BE ALLOWED
00:27:14INTO THE WHITE HOUSE IT'S A
00:27:18CONTINUATION OF THE INSURRECTION. THE PRESIDENT TOLD US WHAT HE WANTS TO DO.
00:27:21GO THERE, BE STRONG, STAND BACK.
00:27:25STAY READY. IT'S A COMPLETION OF THE
00:27:27INSURRECTION AND IF WE ALLOWED
00:27:30THIS TO HAPPEN BEFORE 2026, THERE'S NOTHING WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO WITH THIS PRESIDENT.
00:27:34HOST: WHEN IT COMES TO THE
00:27:37FREEDOM 250 EVENT YOU'VE BEEN HEAR ABOUT TAKES PLACE THIS
00:27:40WEEKEND A LITTLE BIT WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF DC
00:27:44FOLLOW ALONG SOME NECK,S IF YOU
00:27:48CHOOSE. DRIVERS WILL FOLLOW AN 1.7 MILE COURSE SEVEN SHARP TURNS AND A
00:27:52MAIN STRAIGHTAWAY FRAME AND THE
00:27:53DISTANCE BY THE CAPITAL BUILDING AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT, DRIVERS
00:27:57WILL TACKLE 147 LAPS FOR A TOTAL
00:28:00OF JUST UNDER 250 MILES EACH. COURT GOES DIRECTLY PAST
00:28:04LANDMARKS LIKE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
00:28:06BUILDING, GALLERY OF ART AND
00:28:09SMITH MUSEUM, AMERICAN SPACE, INDIAN AND HISTORY ART HE
00:28:13EXPERTS EXPRESSED CONCERNS THAT VIBRATIONS FROM THE CONSTRUCTION
00:28:16AND RACE ITSELF COULD DAMAGE THE
00:28:20ARTIFACTS INSIDE. THERE REPORTING ABOUT THAT EVENT
00:28:23TAKES PLACE HERE IN WASHINGTON, DC OVER THE WEEKEND.
00:28:26FROM NEW YORK, THIS IS JIM REPUBLICAN LINE.
00:28:29YOUR TOP NEWS STORY. HELLO, JIM.
00:28:31CALLER: MY TOP NEWS STORY IS A
00:28:35CALL I'M VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED
00:28:39AND CONCERNED ABOUT THE RIDE
00:28:40THROUGH THE EL, SAY AD AND ALL
00:28:44THE RIDICULOUS STORIES. OF THIS COUNTRY IS GREAT BECAUSE
00:28:46PEOPLE GET OUT THERE AND THEY
00:28:50WORK. THEY GET WHAT THEY EARN.
00:28:53AND OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD
00:28:57NEVER, EVER BE A SOCIALIST COUNTRY.
00:29:00IT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD WHEN I SAW THIS ON TV TODAY.
00:29:03SO MANY RIDICULOUS THINGS GOING ON.
00:29:05THIS IS AMERICA, AMERICA FIRST.
00:29:08NOTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER OR NOT I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. I CAN SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP'S
00:29:11POLICIES THAT DOESN'T MEAN I GOT TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP.
00:29:15AND THAT'S THE LESSON THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO LEARN, ANYTHING
00:29:18EVER BEEN GIVEN TO ME I HAD TO
00:29:20WORK FOR.
00:29:23NO ONE GAVE ME ANYTHING.
00:29:25LAST CALLER, THE WHITE HOUSE A
00:29:28FORTRESS, PEOPLE SWALLOW THINGS
00:29:30LIKE THAT?
00:29:35JUST A THOUGHT. JUST A THOUGHT. C.
00:29:39HOST: HER MAN IN DALLAS TEXAS,
00:29:43INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:29:44THANKS FOR CALLING.
00:29:48. CALLER: MY STORY IS THE BALL ROOM.
00:29:51TO ME IT'S A DESECRATION BY A
00:29:56PERSON TO WHOM NOTHING IS SACRED.
00:29:59IT'S GOT ONE OVER ON US BUT HE
00:30:00CAN GET ALL THE MONUMENTS TO
00:30:05HIMSELF THAT HE CAN.
00:30:07BUT WHEN ASKED IS THE PRESIDENT
00:30:09-- IS A DISGRACE, IT WILL ALL HAVE TO COME DOWN.
00:30:13THAT'S MY THOUGHT. THANK YOU.
00:30:16HOST: HER MAN GIVING US HIS THOUGHTS ON THE BALL ROOM.
00:30:21LIKE I SAID YOU CAN CHOOSE WHATEVER IT IS NEWS STORY-WISE
00:30:24THAT RISES TO THE TOP FOR YOU.
00:30:27WHEN CALLING IN.
00:30:30AND YOU CAN CONTINUE TO DO SO
00:30:32202-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS,
00:30:37202-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS,
00:30:40INDEPENDENTS 202-748-8002.
00:30:42YOU CAN POST ON A VARIETY OF
00:30:49TYPES.
00:30:50ILLINOIS IS NEXT, DEMOCRATS
00:30:54LINE. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:30:55MY ISSUE IS GOING TO BE AN ECHO
00:30:58OF WHAT THE PERSON FROM ALABAMA
00:31:02TALKED ABOUT WITH MONSANTO.
00:31:05I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM HERE IN ILLINOIS I DON'T THINK I DO BUT
00:31:09I CAN'T SEE HOW THESE COMPANIES
00:31:11CAN GET AWAY WITH CREATING
00:31:15PRODUCTS THAT ARE SO HARMFUL TO
00:31:20OUR BODIES. THINGS THAT THINK BACK TO THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND WHAT THEY
00:31:23DID TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
00:31:26AND I RECENTLY HAD A DOPPLER ON
00:31:29MY ARTERIES.
00:31:32I HAVE VERY CLEAN ARTERIES
00:31:34BECAUSE I NEVER SMOKED. I FEEL FOR THESE PEOPLE WHO WENT
00:31:38THROUGH THE PROBLEMS IN MONSANTO, BUT IT'S NOT JUST
00:31:42MONSANTO, IT'S MANY PLACES
00:31:44THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WHERE
00:31:47WE'RE ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO
00:31:50GET AWAY WITH CREATING BAD
00:31:56WATER, BAD AIR, AND THERE'S NO
00:32:01THE ONES WHO WILL SUFFER, NO OTHER PLACES TO GO BUT LIVE IN
00:32:05THE CONTAMINATED AREA. I JUST REMEMBER LOVE CANAL, AND
00:32:08I JUST -- IT BREAKS MY HEART
00:32:11BECAUSE WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL
00:32:16COUNTRY BUT IT'S BEING DESTROYED
00:32:18BY CORPORATIONS WHO DON'T CARE
00:32:22ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
00:32:26THANKS. HOST: MICHAEL IN PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN LINE.
00:32:29CALLER: THANK YOU, FOR TAKING MY
00:32:31CALL AND THANKS FOR C-SPAN.
00:32:33IT'S A GREAT ADDITION TO OUR
00:32:41DEMOCRACY. I HAVE SOME, I REALLY WANT TO
00:32:45ECHO THE SENTIMENTS THE FELLOW
00:32:48FROM NEW YORK BASICALLY ABOUT
00:32:51THE -- THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING
00:32:54WHAT -- TRUMP IS DOING WHAT
00:32:56GEORGE WASHINGTON TRIED TO DO.
00:33:02I'M READING A BOOK BY JOE ELLIS
00:33:05WHO IS IT'S CALLED THE CORE TET
00:33:11ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF OUR
00:33:16COUNTRY, WASHINGTON, HAMILTON
00:33:19JOHN J AND JAMES MADISON CAME
00:33:21TOGETHER WHEN NOBODY IN THIS
00:33:24COUNTRY COULD AGREE UPON A CONSTITUTION.
00:33:27THEY WERE SO FAR APART AND THEY
00:33:31INTENDED THE ARTICLES OF
00:33:35CONFEDERATATION WERE SO WERE
00:33:39WEAK. EVERYBODY WE DIDN'T BACK TO EACH STATE AND WANTED TO RUN THEIR
00:33:43OWN COUNTRY. THESE FELLOWS AMONG OTHERS
00:33:45REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE
00:33:48A COHESIVE COUNTRY, AND IN IT TOGETHER.
00:33:50SO THEY -- INSISTED WE NEEDED TO
00:33:55HAVE A FRAMEWORK FOR A
00:33:58GOVERNMENT THAT WOULD UNITE ALL
00:34:04OF THESE STATES, AND TODAY YOU
00:34:08CAN SEE HOW ALL THE THESE STATES
00:34:11ARE COMPLETELY DIS UNITED FROM HAVING SANCTUARY CITIES, THEY
00:34:15WANT TO HAVE THEIR OWN LAWS
00:34:18REGARDING THE BORDER, REGARDING
00:34:22WARS, REGARDING WHATEVER. REGARDING BALL ROOMS.
00:34:25I MEAN THE BALL ROOM IS A --
00:34:28IT'S AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH THAT IS
00:34:33DOING THINGS TO IMPROVE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
00:34:36THEY HAVE THE PRESIDENT HAS AUTHORITY OVER THAT.
00:34:39AS THEY DO -- IN EVERY
00:34:47ADMINISTRATION, WHERE THE
00:34:50PRESIDENT CAN DECIDE WHAT'S NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ENHANCE THE
00:34:54FEDERAL BRANCH. IT'S SOMETHING SAID OVER THE GENERATIONS.
00:34:57WE NEED A BALL ROOM. PEOPLE CAN MEET.
00:35:01PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES CAN
00:35:04COME TOGETHER, MEET SAFELY.
00:35:07HOST: IN PENNSYLVANIA, LLOYD, ON FACEBOOK SAYING ANOTHER ONE THE
00:35:11SUPREME COURT ALLOWING THE PRESIDENT TO CONTINUE
00:35:15CONSTRUCTION OF HIS BE CONTROVERSIAL WHITE HOUSE BALL ROOM PROJECT AND FINISHES HIS
00:35:18POST WITH THE WORD WINNING. AGAIN, THE BALL ROOM IS UP FOR
00:35:21GRABS WHEN IT COMES TO THE TOPIC
00:35:24YOU MAY WANT TO ALSO TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT DEBT.
00:35:28A NEW FIGURE THIS WEEK, THIS IS
00:35:31CNBC SAYING IT ECLIPSED 40 TRILLION.
00:35:34ANOTHER STAGGERING BENCHMARK FOR
00:35:37RED INK, THE TOTAL IOU HIT 40.5
00:35:44TRILLION AFTER TOPPING 30 TRILLION YEARS OF ESCALATING
00:35:47BUDGET DEFICITS, PUSHED HIGHER
00:35:51BY STIMULUS SPENDING DURING
00:35:53COVID PANDEMIC SEEN THE PUBLIC SHARE OF THE DEBT 100% SAYING
00:35:57MOST RECENTLY MONTHLY ACCOUNT OF
00:35:59U.S. FINANCES TREASURY REPORTED
00:36:02A 432.3 BILLION DEFICIT IN JULY
00:36:06HIGHEST MONTHLY TOTAL SINCE MARCH OF 2021.
00:36:08THE YEAR-TO-DATE SHORTFALL IS NEARLY 1.8 TRILLION HIGHER THAN
00:36:12THE SAME PERIOD A YEAR AGO. IT WAS EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT
00:36:16THE TREASURY SECRETARY AT THE WHITE HOUSE SCOTT BESSENT MAKING
00:36:20COMMENTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
00:36:21ABOUT THIS NEW RECORD WHEN IT COMES TO DEBT.
00:36:25CALLER: THE 40 TRILLION IS A BIG NUMBER.
00:36:28IT IS SMALLER WHEN WE LOOK AT
00:36:31THE PUBLICALLY TRADED AMOUNTS
00:36:34BECAUSE OUR SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITIES HOLD A SUBSTANTIAL
00:36:38AMOUNT. AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO HAVE
00:36:39TO GROW OUR WAY OUT OF THIS, AND
00:36:43AS I TALKED ABOUT AT G20 IN
00:36:47ASHEVILLE THE U.S. STRATEGY AND ENCOURAGE THE REST OF THE WORLD
00:36:50TO COME ALONG WITH US.
00:36:52WE'RE ALSO, I ANNOUNCED THAT
00:36:55DIRECTOR OF RUSS VOTE AND I HAVE
00:36:59BEEN TAPPED WITH LOOKING AT FISCAL CONSOLIDATION.
00:37:01I THINK THE NUMBERS ARE NOT THE ACTUAL NUMBERS NOW.
00:37:06IT'S A SUBSTANTIAL TARIFF REFUNDS DUE TO THE COURT'S
00:37:10RULING BUT WITH THE SECTION 301
00:37:12TARIFFS I'M THAT WE WILL BE BACK
00:37:16TO A THE SAME LEVEL IF NOT HIGHER OF TARIFF INCOME FOR LAST
00:37:19YEAR, AND THAT IS MOST OF THE INCREASE IN THE DEFICIT AND
00:37:23REMEMBER, WE DID NOT GET HERE IN A DAY.
00:37:26WE WERE LEFT WITH A MESS.
00:37:29THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAD THE HIGHEST DEFICIT TO GDT IN
00:37:32HISTORY WHEN WE WEREN'T AT WAR
00:37:34OR WEREN'T IN A RECESSION FOR
00:37:382025, WE BROUGHT IT DOWN BY MORE
00:37:40THAN A PERCENT. HOST: ACCORDING TO THE HILL IT
00:37:43WAS AFTER THAT FIGURE HIT 40 TRILLION THAT LAWMAKERS TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO ARGUE FOR
00:37:47POLICIES THAT WOULD SOOTHE THE DEBT MILESTONE FIGURE COMES
00:37:50AFTER THAT YEARS OF FEDERAL
00:37:53BORROWING THAT ACCELERATED DURING THE PANDEMIC.
00:37:57LARGE SPENDING PACKAGES AND
00:38:01POLICIES, SENATOR RICK SCOTT SAYING THIS IS BAD.
00:38:03CONGRESS NEEDS TO GET SPENDING UNDER CONTROL AND BALANCE THE
00:38:06BUDGET THAT ALL IN CAPS.
00:38:08SOME DEMOCRATS RESPONDING TO
00:38:11INCLUDING RHODE ISLAND'S IN AN
00:38:14INTERVIEW WITH FORBES. TREASURY AT ONE POINT BEFORE YOU
00:38:18BECAME A CONGRESSMAN DO YOU AND
00:38:19DEMOCRATS AS A WHOLE HAVE A PLAN
00:38:23TO DEAL WITH THE EXPLODING DEBT HERE?
00:38:25>> WELL IT STARTS BY MAKING THE WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.
00:38:29AGAIN, REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AND THE DURING PASSED A BILL LAST YEAR THEY CALL IT THE
00:38:32BEAUTIFUL BILL.
00:38:33WE CALL IT THE UGLY BILL.
00:38:37THAT GAVE $4 TRILLION OF TAX
00:38:39CUTS TO THE WEALTHY AND BIG
00:38:42CORPORATIONS WITH NO PAY FORCE.
00:38:46WITH NO PAY FORCE. SO THE FIRST THING WE CAN DO IS REVERSE THOSE CUTS.
00:38:50BUT UNDERSTAND THE TWO PARTIES ARE NOT THE SAME HERE.
00:38:54WE HAVE NOW A LONGSTANDING PATTERN WHERE UNDER DEMOCRATIC
00:38:57PRESIDENTS THE DEFICIT DECREASES
00:39:00IT HAPPENED UNDER CLINTON AND
00:39:02OBAMA AND UNDER BIDEN. UNDER REPUBLICAN
00:39:05ADMINISTRATIONS, THE DEFICIT EXPLODES LARGELY BECAUSE THEY
00:39:08KEEP HAVING TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY DONORS AND BIG CORPORATIONS.
00:39:12AND SO AGAIN, THERE'S A CLEAR
00:39:14PATTERN HERE WHERE YOU KNOW, REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ON THE
00:39:17WHITE HOUSE ACT IN A FISCALLY
00:39:19IRRESPONSIBLE WAY LAVISHING TAX
00:39:22CUTS ON THE VERY WEALTHY AND
00:39:24DEMOCRATS HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS AFTERWARDS.
00:39:28>> WE INCLUDED A STORY TAKING A LOOK AT FEDERAL DEBT BY
00:39:32PRESIDENTS INCLUDES A BAR GRAPH
00:39:33BUT IT SAYS DATA THEY USE SHOW
00:39:36THAT THE NATIONAL DEBT GREW BY
00:39:39APPROXIMATELY 11.6 TRULY DURING
00:39:45PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NEW NONCONSECUTIVE COMBINED ANNE
00:39:48INCREASE 7.8 TRILLION AND 3.4
00:39:51TRULY SINCE RETURNING TO OFFICE IN 2025.
00:39:55IN COMPARISON INCREASED BY 8.4
00:40:04TRAFFIC LIGHT DURING BIDEN AND
00:40:06GEORGEW BUSH EIGHT-YEAR
00:40:09PRESIDENCY, HOWEVER EXPERTS SAY
00:40:11IT ONLY WHAT HAPPENED WHILE EACH
00:40:14PRESIDENT WAS IN OFFICE AND DO
00:40:17NOT INDICATE THEY CAUSED EACH INCREASE.
00:40:20EMERGENCY AND INTEREST COSTS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTER FEDERAL BORROWING.
00:40:23THERE'S A STORY IN NEWS WEEK IF INTERESTED IN LEARNING SOME
00:40:26HISTORY WHEN IT COMES TO DEFICITS AND DEBTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:40:30YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THAT AS A TO THAT STORY TOO.
00:40:33TONY IN FLORIDA, INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:40:35CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO, MY
00:40:44TOP STORY THIS WEEK IS STRONG
00:40:50THAN THE 121 YEAR HISTORY.
00:40:58WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION WANT BORDERS TO ELECT A BLACK
00:41:02GOVERNOR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
00:41:06HISTORY. THIS IS A STATEMENT WE HAVE 67 COUNTIES.
00:41:09ALMOST EVERY ONE HAS A HIGHWAY
00:41:11OR ROAD NAMED DIXIE SOMETHING IN
00:41:13THE HEART OF DIXIE WE'RE LOOKING
00:41:17TO ELECT A BLACK GOVERNOR BYRON DONALDS.
00:41:20I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE I
00:41:21CAN'T VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES BUT
00:41:24THE NATIONAL MEDIA HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RADIO SILENT.
00:41:27I WANT TO ASK ALL OF YOU IF
00:41:39BYRON DONALD A BLACK DEMOCRAT OF
00:41:42THIS HISTORIC EVENT PEOPLE WILL BE CRYING EVERY BLACK RACE UP
00:41:45THERE CRYING ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL
00:41:47THIS IS AND I CALLED THIS
00:41:49MORNING TO CALL SHAME ON THE
00:41:52MEDIA AND SHAME ON C-SPAN
00:41:57BECAUSE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A
00:41:58WHOLE SEGMENT IF BYRON DONALDS
00:42:02HAD BEEN A BLACK DEMOCRAT.
00:42:05I CERTAINLY WON'T VOTE FOR HIS OPPONENT BECAUSE DEMOCRATS
00:42:09HAVEN'T SHOWED ME ANYTHING I MAY
00:42:12SIT THIS ONE OUT AND NOT VOTE THAT.
00:42:16HOST: ALEXANDER IN PENNSYLVANIA.
00:42:18DEMOCRAT LINE.
00:42:24NEXT UP. CALLER:SS.
00:42:26CALLER: YES, I WAS JUST CALLING
00:42:29TO MAKE A COMPARISON TO ANY
00:42:32SMALL CITY VOTING TREASURERS OR
00:42:35PEOPLE INTO THEIR OFFICES.
00:42:38IF THEY HAD ONE PERCENT OF THE
00:42:41CRIMINAL STUFF THAT TRUMP HAS DONE IN HIS LIFETIME, NOBODY
00:42:45WOULD EVER BE VOTED IN TO A
00:42:49POSITION LIKE THAT. SOMEHOW THE UNITED STATES THE
00:42:52PRESIDENCY SEEMS TO BE JUST MUTE
00:42:55FOR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND I
00:42:56DON'T GET IT HOW PEOPLE DON'T SEE THAT.
00:43:00THANK YOU. HOST: REPUBLICAN LINE NEXT TOP
00:43:03STORY, ERIN IS IN IOWA. HELLO. CALLER: HI THERE.
00:43:07GREAT HAVING ME ON THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE WHEN YOU HOST.
00:43:11I HEARD ONE OF YOUR CALLERS
00:43:13EARLIER SAY THAT MANY PEOPLE
00:43:15CANNOT AFFORD HEALTHCARE AND SHE SUPPORTS MEDICARE FOR ALL.
00:43:19THE REASON SHE WORKED IN HEALTHCARE 40 YEARS.
00:43:21I ALSO WORK IN HEALTHCARE. EVERY NIGHT I SEE HOW HEAVILY
00:43:25OUR SYSTEM IS STRAINED BY PAID A
00:43:27AND UNCOMPENSATED CARE. IT INCLUDES PEOPLE THAT
00:43:30PROVIDING CARE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.
00:43:34MEANWHILE, MANY WORKING AMERICANS STRUGGLE TO AFFORD
00:43:37PREMIUMS DEDUCTIBLES AND BASIC
00:43:40TREATMENTS SO ANY SERIOUS HEALTHCARE DEBATE NEEDS TO
00:43:44ADDRESS WHO'S PAYING, WHO
00:43:47QUALIFIES IN THE FIRST PLACE FOR
00:43:49TAXPAYER FUNDED CARE AND WHY ARE
00:43:52PEOPLE INCREASINGLY NOT ABLE TO AFFORD CARE THEMSELVES?
00:43:56ASIDE FROM THAT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRATS HATE
00:43:58THE IDEA OF MAKING THE WHITE
00:44:02HOUSE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
00:44:05AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY FOR NOW.
00:44:07THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
00:44:10HOST: IOWA CAME INTO THE NEWS
00:44:14THIS WEEKEND AS WELL AS TEXAS
00:44:17WITH THEIR RECENTLY ANALYSIS TAKING A LOOK AT, TEXAS BEING
00:44:21ONE JESSE TAYLOR ACCORDING TO
00:44:24HILL THE SENATE AND GOVERNOR
00:44:27EDITOR WROTE POLLING SHOWS TEXAS
00:44:30AFTER THAT JAMES TALL RICO STILL
00:44:34NET POSITIVE APPROVAL READINGS WHILE KEN PAXTON WITH HIGH
00:44:38APPROVAL RATINGS AND EVEN IN A GENERIC REPUBLICAN AND GOP
00:44:41POLLING TAKING A LOOK AT IOWA
00:44:44SAYING THAT IN IOWA SENATE RACE,
00:44:48HE EXPLAINED THE NONPARTISAN WAS
00:44:51NOT MOVING AWAY THE RACE FROM
00:44:54REPUBLICAN PAUSE OF THE QUALITY
00:44:55NOTING THAT SHE NOTED THAT
00:44:59SHIFTING POLITICAL WINS ARE OFFERING STATE REPRESENTATIVE
00:45:01JOSH TURIC IN A STATE THAT VOTED
00:45:05FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP 13 POINTS IN 2024, THAT'S AT THE HILL. IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT
00:45:09THE LATEST WHEN IT COMES TO THE
00:45:11VARIOUS SENATE RACES, MICHELLE
00:45:13IN MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:45:17I'M CALLING ABOUT RACE BETWEEN
00:45:21AL AND MIKE. THE SENATE RACE.
00:45:25MIKE IS NOTHING BUT A -- HE WAS
00:45:31HERE IN MICHIGAN AS A CONGRESSMAN, WENT TO WASHINGTON
00:45:35THEN ENDED UP BECOMING PAID GUY
00:45:37FOR INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON TOOK
00:45:40ALL THE BIG BUCKS, WENT TO
00:45:44FLORIDA BUILT A MANSION HE'S WORTH BETWEEN 10 AND $15
00:45:48MILLION. THE REPUBLICANS AGREEING THAT MICHIGAN HAS A PLAN.
00:45:51THAT'S ALL THEY'RE DOING IS A
00:45:55PLANT. AND I THINK HE'S A CARPET BAGGER
00:45:57WHEN YOU LISTEN TO HIM ON TV
00:46:06WHEN HE DID A COUPLE
00:46:08CONVERSATIONS ON TV, HE ALWAYS
00:46:11TALKS ABOUT THE LOCAL STUFF.
00:46:14HE NEVER TALKS ABOUT NATIONAL ISSUES.
00:46:17LOCAL STUFF THAT IS CONTROL LID BY THE STATE THAT HE HAS NO
00:46:20CONTROL OF. AL IS LOOKING AT ALL OF IT.
00:46:23HE ACTS LIKE A COMMON GUY.
00:46:26EVEN THOUGH HE'S A VERY WELL EDUCATED MAN.
00:46:29AND I LIVE IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN,
00:46:32WE'RE NOTHING BUT A REPUBLICAN
00:46:34STRONG HOLD.
00:46:38IF YOU'RE NOT REPUBLICAN HERE,
00:46:39YOU DON'T GET OFF.
00:46:43MUL NRA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE DOING
00:46:47ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. PEOPLE BEGGED TO HAVE TOWN HALLS, HE WON'T.
00:46:51WE DO NOT NEED A NO DO NOTHING
00:46:54PERSON IN WASHINGTON WHO ONLY STANDS THERE AND GIVES TRUMP'S
00:46:57STAMP OF APPROVAL FOR ANYTHING
00:47:05AND EVERYTHING HE WANTS TO DO. TEXAS ON A DEMOCRATS LINE.
00:47:08CALLER: I WANT TO GET TO TALK TO
00:47:11YOU I SEEN YOU ON TV, AND I JUST
00:47:15WANT TO THANK C-SPAN THE UNITED
00:47:18STATES IN A CRISIS 40 TRILLION
00:47:20IN DEBT DUE TO AN ILLEGAL WAR
00:47:25WITH IRAN, AND ILLEGAL TARIFFS, TRUMP HAS ANOTHER BILL HE NEEDS
00:47:29TO BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
00:47:32HAVE A GOOD MORNING. HOST: DAN NEXT IN KENTUCKY
00:47:36REPUBLICAN LINE.
00:47:40CALLER: THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL.
00:47:43I LOT THERE TO DIGEST.
00:47:47YOU KNOW, I WAS WONDERING HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY FEELING THE
00:47:50PINCH ABOUT THE BALL ROOM.
00:47:55I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SINCE JOE IS OUT OF OFFICE AND TRUMP IN
00:47:59OFFICE. I'VE BEEN DOING BETTER LAST TWO
00:48:02YEARS ALL AROUND ON ALL FRONTS FINANCIALLY.
00:48:06THAN I DID UNDER JOE.
00:48:07HE JUST TOOK, TOOK AND TOOK.
00:48:10I JUST WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE REALLY FEELING THE PINCH
00:48:14THAT THE BALLROOM IS HURTING
00:48:19THEM. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW FEEL LIKE
00:48:21IT'S DESTROYING THEM AND HURTING
00:48:24THEM FINANCIALLY AND EVERYTHING. THEY DIDN'T DIDN'T SAY NOTHING ABOUT OBAMA WHEN HE HAD A
00:48:28BASKETBALL COURT PUT IN OR YOU
00:48:30KNOW, I JUST -- I'M JUST
00:48:33CONFUSED ABOUT HOW THEY THINK
00:48:34AND A LOT OF PEOPLE CALL IN ON
00:48:38DEMOCRAT LINE I THINK ARE I MEAN CALLING ON THE REPUBLICAN LINE SAYING THEY'RE REPUBLICANS BUT
00:48:42SOUND LIKE DEMOCRATS. I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
00:48:45YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE CALLED THEM
00:48:47OUT BEFORE BUT I MEAN THEY
00:48:51REALLY GOT INCREASING AGAIN, BUT
00:48:58I JUST, WELL, OH THANKS DAN THE
00:49:09WALL STREET JOURNAL SAID THESE COULD OCCUR IF DEMOCRATS TOOK
00:49:13POWER. DEMOCRATS PREPARE TO PROBE PRESIDENT AND HIS ALLIES SAYING
00:49:16THE DEMOCRATS ARE READY AND MULTI-FUND INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHOULD
00:49:20THEY WIN THE HOUSE MAJORITY IN
00:49:21NOVEMBER AND THE WHITE HOUSE
00:49:25GEARING UP FOR AN ONSLAUGHT OF
00:49:29SUBPOENAS, IN INTERVIEWS HOUSE
00:49:31DEMOCRATS AND TOP AID LAID OUT
00:49:34NEARLY A DOZEN EARLY INVESTIGATION TARGETS. INCLUDING IRAN WAR, PRESIDENT
00:49:38AND FAMILY BUSINESS DEALINGS,
00:49:44HIS EFFORTS TO BUILD A WHITE
00:49:47HOUSE BALLROOM, JEFFERY EPSTEIN
00:49:51AND IMMIGRATION. THAT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. ARSON INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:49:55CALLER: GOOD MORNING, I LEAN
00:49:57MORE TOWARDS REPUBLICAN THE WAY
00:50:00I VOTE BUT I'M NOT AFRAID TO VOTE ACROSS PARTY LINES, FIRST
00:50:03OF ALL BUT I'LL TELL YOU I THINK
00:50:06THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I'M NOT
00:50:09SURPRISED WITH THE $40 TRILLION DEBT AT ALL.
00:50:12LEGAL DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS
00:50:14DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS.
00:50:18WE KEEP VOTING IN THE SAME TWO
00:50:23PARTIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND BUT THEN WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE FOR
00:50:27YOUR PRESIDENT OR OTHER FEDERAL POSITIONS, THAT YOU VOTE FOR,
00:50:31YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR ALL ABOUT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS THEN
00:50:34YOU GO TO VOTE YOU GOT ALL THESE OTHER PARTIES OUT THERE BUT YOU
00:50:38NEVER EVEN HEARD FROM AND I
00:50:41THINK IT'S REALLY TIME FOR THE LIBERTYIAN PARTY OR ANOTHER
00:50:44PARTY TO START SHOWING NUMBERS
00:50:47AND STEPPING UP. LIKE I SAID WE'RE DOING SAME THING AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT
00:50:51RESULTS OF THE TWO PARTIES WE HAD IN THERE FOR YEARS.
00:50:55HOST: BILL IS AMONG MANY FROM MICHIGAN CALLING IN THIS MORNING
00:50:58LINE FOR DEMOCRATS. HI, BILL. CALLER: GOOD MORNING, PEDRO.
00:51:02THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
00:51:05SINCE IT'S BEING FINANCED NOW
00:51:07WITH TAXPAYER MONEY I'M TALKING
00:51:09ABOUT THE BALLROOM OF COURSE, KNEW WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE TO
00:51:12PUT MONEY INTO IT, AS WE PEOPLE
00:51:15WHO BUILT THE CONSTRUCTION
00:51:18WHETHER IT'S THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, THE WASHINGTON WORLD
00:51:21WAR II MUSEUM AND SO ON WE
00:51:23SHOULD BUILD LIKE ALL THE THINGS IN DC.
00:51:27IT'S SIMPLE TO HELP PAY IT'S THROUGH THE VISITORS HE'S NO
00:51:31GREAT DEAL MAKER AND FOR THOSE
00:51:34WHO SAY CONGRESS CAN'T DESCRIBE A WOMAN.
00:51:37ANYONE -- I CAN'T SAY THE WORD PROPERLY, PARENTS HAVE TO DECIDE
00:51:41TO CHANGE TO A BOY OR GIRL OR
00:51:43LET THEM LIVE THE WAY THEY ARE IN PEACE. DOESN'T AFFECT YOU.
00:51:47HOW COME NO ONE EVER BRINGS UP
00:51:50THE PART WHERE BOTH CHILD IS
00:51:52BORN WITH BOTH PARTS.
00:51:54HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE THAT AND
00:51:57IT'S UP TO THE PARENTS TO DECIDE
00:51:59TO CALL A FEMALE OR MALE AND IF HE CHOSE WRONG THAT'S WHY WE
00:52:03HAVE TRANSGENDERS AND SO FORTH. I KNOW THAT'S CRAZY FOR YOU BUT
00:52:07IT'S POSSIBLE. AGAIN, HE'S NOT GREAT DEAL MAKER. THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS.
00:52:11BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOU TAKING
00:52:12MY CALL, AND YOU GUYS HAVE A
00:52:16GOOD DAY. THANK YOU.
00:52:20HOST: REPUBLICAN LINE IN
00:52:22ILLINOIS KENT GO AHEAD.
00:52:24CALLER: I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
00:52:27THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER THE
00:52:30LINCOLN, AND HOW THE PEOPLE HAVE
00:52:33BEEN CALLING IN WITH THE STORIES ABOUT ALL THE CARRIERS, THE GUYS
00:52:37ARE STARVING AND JUMPING OVER BOARD.
00:52:40SO MANY LIE -- THEY STARTED LYING ABOUT THIS PRESIDENT AND
00:52:43THEY KEEP COMING UP WITH DIFFERENT THING.
00:52:45NOW, THIS IS A GUY THAT TOOK A
00:52:48BULLET IN THE HEAD FOR THE
00:52:51COUNTRY AND THEY CAN'T SAY
00:52:53ANYTHING POSITIVE OF SO THEY LIE
00:52:56ABOUT THIS CARRIER THE GUY -- I
00:53:00HAD ONE LADY -- WE HAVE NOT
00:53:03GETTING CLEAN CLOTHES THEY NEED
00:53:06TO GET A PLUMBER.
00:53:10THESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HAVE
00:53:14PLUMBERS ABOARD, ELECTRICIANS,
00:53:17MACHINISTS MATES.
00:53:20I SPEND FOUR YEARS ON AN
00:53:22AIRCRAFT USS ENTERPRISE, THE
00:53:24MOST THE LARGEST ME LETHAL WORLD
00:53:28SHIP THE WORLD EVER SEEN.
00:53:31I RANG MORE SALT WATER YOU OUT
00:53:33OF MY SOCKS THAN THESE GUYS SAIL
00:53:36ON TODAY. WE DID COMBAT TOURS IN EXCESS
00:53:40EVERY YEAR. I DID THREE TOURS LIKE THAT.
00:53:42AND NOW THEY'LL SAY THESE GUYS
00:53:44ON THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER DON'T
00:53:46GET ANY FOOD, THEY'RE -- YOU
00:53:50THINK THEY COULDN'T LAND OR GET
00:53:52STUFF ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER BIG
00:53:55ENOUGH TO LAND AN AIRPLANE ON, THAT THEY COULDN'T GET FOOD IF
00:53:58THEY NEEDED IT. I'D LIKE THE DEMOCRATS TO COME
00:54:01UP WITH DIFFERENT LIES THAT ARE
00:54:08PLAUSIBLE. HOST: BROWN ON FACEBOOK SAYING
00:54:09COME IT COMES TO THINGS THAT
00:54:13RISE TO THE TOP PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE WALL STREET
00:54:16ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS LOW
00:54:18APPROVAL RATING AND THE
00:54:22DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL LYFTS ARE
00:54:24AMERICAN ARE WINNING PRIMARIES,
00:54:26LET'S GO TO DAVID IN NEW YORK, INDEPENDENT LINE. .
00:54:30CALLER: GOOD MORNING, THING
00:54:33STRUCK ME THIS WEEK IS THE $40
00:54:35TRILLION AND I JUST THOUGHT THAT
00:54:37AND FORGIVENESS OF THE PPP LOANS
00:54:40AND WHO THE LOANS WENT TO.
00:54:42AND WHAT THE PROJECTIONS WERE OF
00:54:45HOW MUCH OF THAT ACTUALLY WENT
00:54:49TO PAY ROLLS AND HOW MUCH YACHTS AND AIRPLANES. WE HAVE POLICE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE
00:54:53USING OUR CREDIT CARD AND JUST
00:54:58LIVING IN LUXURY THE ABSOLUTE
00:55:02UNNECESSARITY FOR RIPPING DOWN THE EAST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE
00:55:05AND REMEMBER THAT? IT WAS ALL GOING TO BE PAID FOR BY OTHER PEOPLE.
00:55:08IT WAS 400 BILLION, NOW IT'S A
00:55:14BILLION OR SOMETHING. PATRIOT MISSILES, WE SHOT 1700
00:55:18OF THEM IF I READ THAT RIGHT,
00:55:21I'M AMAZED.
00:55:234.5 MILLION BUCK AS PIECE, SO
00:55:26WE'RE OUT OF BULLETS.
00:55:27SO WE GOT TO REPLACE THOSE.
00:55:33ARE WE BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE? FIVE YEARS AGO?
00:55:36I HARDLY THINK SO.
00:55:37INFLATION IS RISING.
00:55:40YOU CAN'T AFFORD GROCERIES. THE INSURANCE RATES MY HOUSE
00:55:44DOUBLED. THE ELECTRICITY DOUBLED. DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
00:55:47NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT IT. ONLY THING THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
00:55:51IS LIKE TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH THESE DATA CENTERS THAT ARE
00:55:55GOING TO INCREASE THE COST OF
00:55:56YOUR ELECTRICITY STARTING TO BE
00:55:59LIKE A MORTGAGE PAYMENT.
00:56:01HOST: DAVID ONE MORE CALL FROM
00:56:04LISA IN NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS
00:56:08LINE. CALLER: GOOD MORNING, C-SPAN.
00:56:10BEFORE I GET TO THAT TOP STORY
00:56:12PEOPLE STOP TALKING ABOUT THE BALLROOM, IT'S A DONE DEAL WE'LL
00:56:15HAVE TO PAY FOR LIKE ALL THESE
00:56:17OTHER PET PROJECTS, SO JUST DEAL
00:56:20WITH IT.
00:56:22MY TOP STORY IS HE WANTS TO
00:56:25STRIP A WAR HERO'S NAME OFF AN
00:56:28AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
00:56:31THIS MAN SACRIFICED TO SAVE HIS
00:56:34FELLOW SAILORS, AND TRUMP WANTS
00:56:38TO PUT HIS NAME ON THIS SHIP.
00:56:41THAT'S A SLAP IN THE FACE TO DORIS MILLER, HIS NAME SHOULD BE
00:56:45ON THE SHIP AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT.
00:56:48TRUMP WANTS HIS NAME ON EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES.
00:56:52IT'S ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.
00:56:55SO MY THING TO YOU PEOPLE OUT
00:56:56THERE COME NOVEMBER, YOU BETTER VOTE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER VOTED
00:57:00BEFORE. TO GET THESE REPUBLICANS OUT OF
00:57:04OFFICE. HOST: LISA BEAR FINISHING UP YOUR TOP STORY OF THE WEEK.
00:57:07THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATED.
00:57:11IF YOU GO TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE,
00:57:12THIS IS ABOUT CANADA SAYING THE U.S. SAYING THAT THE U.S. ISN'T
00:57:17THE SAME ANYMORE BUT ADDS WILL NOT NEGOTIATE TRADE AND TARIFFS
00:57:21ANYMORE. THIS IS COMING LATE YESTERDAY WHEN IT COMES TO TARIFFS AND
00:57:25LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM, WE'RE
00:57:27GOING TO TALK ABOUT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES PARTICULARLY
00:57:30THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
00:57:34INSTITUTIONS WITH JOHN MARQUIS.
00:57:35WHEN IT COMES TO THE TOPIC OF
00:57:39TARIFFS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF
00:57:45PRESIDENT'S TARIFFS POLICY ON
00:57:50INVESTORS HOW THEY THINK IS
00:57:55GOING ON. WHEN WASHINGTON JOURNAL CONTINUES. ♪. ♪.
01:00:23>> IN A DIVIDED MEDIA WORLD, ONE PLACE BRINGS AMERICANS TOGETHER.
01:00:27ACCORDING TO A RESEARCH REPORT, NEARLY 90 MILLION AMERICANS TURN
01:00:30TO C-SPAN. AND THEY ARE ALMOST PERFECTLY
01:00:33BALANCED. 28% CONSERVATIVE 27% LIBERAL AND
01:00:3740 1% MODERATE.
01:00:41DEMOCRATS WATCH REPUBLICANS AND
01:00:45REPUBLICANS WATCHING DEMOCRATS AND MODERATES WATCHING ALL SIDES.
01:00:48STRAIGHT FROM THE SOURCE.
01:00:49NO COMMENTARY, NO AGENDA.
01:00:53JUST DEMOCRACY UNFILTERED EVERY
01:00:54DAY ON THE C-SPAN NETWORKS.
01:00:58>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL CONTINUES.
01:00:59>> JOINING US NOW, POLITICO.
01:01:02THE ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT HERE
01:01:05TO TALK ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S USE OF TARIFFS IN THE ADMINISTRATION.
01:01:09THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AGAIN. >> GOOD MORNING.
01:01:12GOOD DAY TO TALK ABOUT IT. >> CANADA.
01:01:15LET'S START THERE. TALK ABOUT WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO
01:01:17HAPPEN AND WHAT HAPPENED NOW.
01:01:21>> THERE WAS ORIGINALLY A THREAT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PUT NEW TARIFFS, 50% TARIFFS ON ABOUT 5%
01:01:25OF GOODS FROM CANADA. AND THEY ORIGINALLY WERE GOING
01:01:29TO GO INTO EFFECT EARLIER THIS WEEK.
01:01:31THERE WAS A PAUSE FOR A FEW DAYS BECAUSE NEGOTIATIONS WERE GOING WELL.
01:01:35THE NEGOTIATIONS FELL APART LATE LAST NIGHT. NOW THE TARIFFS HAVE GONE INTO
01:01:39EFFECT. >> WHAT IS THE MAIN SOURCE WHEN
01:01:42IT COMES TO THE NEGOTIATIONS? >> THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS
01:01:45THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. ON THE U.S. SIDE, THEY WERE
01:01:49FRUSTRATED THAT THE CANADIANS
01:01:53HAD PUT IN PLACE RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICAN ALCOHOL.
01:01:55AND ON THE U.S. SIDE, THEY WERE
01:01:58HOPING THAT THEY COULD LOWER
01:02:00TARIFFS ON CANADIAN LUMBER AND
01:02:06THEORY OR HAVE PUT --
01:02:11RESTRICTIONS ON LUMBAR AND DAIRY WHICH HAVE LONG-TERM CONCERNS WITH CANADIANS.
01:02:15AND ALSO, FOR THE CANADIANS, IT COULD HAVE MET LOWER TARIFFS ON
01:02:18STEEL AND ALUMINUM.
01:02:21THE GLOBAL TARIFFS, ABOUT 50% IN
01:02:24THE CANADIANS WERE HOPING TO GET A BREAK FROM THAT. BASICALLY, ALL THAT HAS FALLEN
01:02:28APART NOW SINCE THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE STOPPED.
01:02:31>> IF THEY ARE STOPPED AND WE DECIDE TO IMPOSE MORE TARIFFS,
01:02:33WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS FOR CANADA
01:02:37AND WHAT IS A RETALIATORY MEASURE? >> PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY
01:02:41SAID THEY WILL RETALIATE DOLLAR, FOR DOLLAR.
01:02:45IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WILL
01:02:45ACTUALLY BE RETALIATION AND THIL
01:02:50VERY FRESH. WE WILL SEE HOW QUICKLY THINGS MOVE OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO
01:02:53NEXT WEEK.
01:03:00OF GOODS FROM CANADA.
01:03:01SO IT IS POSSIBLE THAT MAY BE IT
01:03:05WON'T BE AS MUCH URGENCY AS IT
01:03:07MIGHT BE IF IT WAS A MORE BROAD TRADE RELATIONSHIP.
01:03:10ONE OF THE BIGGER QUESTIONS IS WHAT THIS MEANS FOR NEGOTIATIONS
01:03:13ON THE BROADER TRADE DEAL BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CANADA AND MEXICO.
01:03:17THE SUCCESSOR USMCA.
01:03:22THE CONCERN THERE IS THAT ALSO THIS WILL FEED INTO THOSE
01:03:26NEGOTIATIONS AND POTENTIALLY BE TROUBLE FOR THAT.
01:03:29>> WE WILL STEP BACK TO THE BIGGER PICTURE. REMIND VIEWERS WHAT THE INTENT
01:03:34WAS BY THE ADMINISTRATION FOR TARIFFS WHEN IT COMES TO BROADER
01:03:36ECONOMIC POLICY.
01:03:41>> BASICALLY, THE ADMINISTRATION'S GOAL IS TO
01:03:44TRY -- YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKS ALL THE TIME ABOUT HOW
01:03:46THIS IS UNFAIR.
01:03:49WE ARE BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY BY THE WORLD BASICALLY BECAUSE WE
01:03:52BUY THEIR GOODS AND WE HAVE LOW TARIFFS.
01:03:54NOW BASICALLY PUT IN PLACE
01:03:58GLOBAL TARIFFS OF BASELINE 10% ON MOST TRADE.
01:04:02.CANADA IS INTERESTING BECAUSE CANADA AND MEXICO HAVE BEEN SORT
01:04:05OF THE EXCEPTIONS FOR THAT. WE DO HAVE THE FREE TRADE DEAL WITH THEM.
01:04:08WE HAVE FREE TRADE DEALS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL.
01:04:12THAT WAS THE ONE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP NEGOTIATED HIS FIRST TERM.
01:04:15HE IS HONORING IT A BIT MORE THAN SOME OF THE TRADE DEALS
01:04:18NEGOTIATED UNDER HIS PREDECESSORS.
01:04:21NOW HE SAYS THAT, IT HAS MADE
01:04:23THINGS MORE FAIR. >> AND SO, BECAUSE OF THAT
01:04:26EFFORT, WE ALSO HAVE THE SUPREME
01:04:30COURT INTERACTING AS WELL. TALK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE GAINED
01:04:33SO FAR FROM TARIFF POLICIES.
01:04:38>> SO THE SUPREME COURT RULING WAS BASICALLY THAT THE
01:04:39AUTHORITIES USED TO PUT IN PLACD
01:04:46NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO. AND THAT IS ALGORITHM THEY WERE
01:04:50USING TO REALLY KIND OF SAY, BRAZIL, I DON'T LIKE THE
01:04:54POLITICAL DECISION YOU MADE. COLOMBIA, TURNAROUND THE
01:04:57MILITARY PLANE THAT IS SENDING
01:05:01IMMIGRANTS BACK INTO THE U.S.
01:05:04SO USING IT FOR ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
01:05:07WHEN THAT AUTHORITY WENT AWAY,
01:05:09IT BASICALLY MEANT THAT IT HAS
01:05:14TO GO THROUGH MORE OF A PROCESS FOR THE TARIFFS.
01:05:18IT WILL BE GAINED, I THINK WITH
01:05:19THE SHORT-TERM WE HAVE GAINED IS
01:05:23HIGHER PRICES. IT IS UNCLEAR IF THIS OVER THE LONG-TERM WILL LEAD TO HIGHER
01:05:27MANUFACTURING IN THE U.S. WHICH IS A GOAL OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
01:05:30WE HAVE THE MANUFACTURING JOBS
01:05:35PICKED UP. AND AT THAT IS IRONICALLY
01:05:37BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN IRAN WHICH IS BASICALLY LEADING A BUNCH OF
01:05:40COUNTRIES TO PULL FORWARD
01:05:43WANTING TO MANUFACTURE THINGS HERE BECAUSE OF GEOPOLITICAL
01:05:47INSTABILITY AND ORDERS HAVE
01:05:50RAMPED UP BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO
01:05:53BUY THINGS BEFORE THEY FALL APART POTENTIALLY IN TERMS OF DEMAND.
01:05:57SO THERE IS A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY
01:05:58RIGHT NOW MAKING THE DATA REALLY NOISY AND IT MAKES IT HARD TO
01:06:02SAY WHAT TARIFFS ARE OR ARE NOT
01:06:04DOING RIGHT NOW. >> ALL THAT BEING A SET UP FOR
01:06:08WHAT YOU SAID RECENTLY WHEN IT COMES TO TARIFFS, I WANT TO SHOW
01:06:11YOU THE HEADLINE.
01:06:15HOW TRUMP WON ON TARIFFS. LET'S START WITH THIS ACRONYM.
01:06:18>> THERE IS AN ACRONYM COINED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES.
01:06:22IT WAS BASED ON THIS ATTITUDE ON WALL STREET. IT STANDS FOR TRUMP ALWAYS
01:06:26CHICKENS OUT. BASICALLY IT IS AN INVESTMENT
01:06:28STRATEGY.
01:06:30IT SOUNDS LIKE AN INSULT TO TRUMP AND TRUMP SORT OF HATES THE ACRONYM.
01:06:34THE IDEA IS, HE THREATENS
01:06:37TARIFFS AND THE MARKETS FREAK
01:06:40OUT BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT WILL DOWN TO CORPORATE PROFIT.
01:06:44THEY THINK THAT WILL BE BAD FOR GROWTH.
01:06:45AND IN REACTION TO THOSE -- IN
01:06:51REACTION TO THE MARKET REACTION, PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL PULL OUT, RIGHT.
01:06:55YOU WILL REVERSE WHAT HE IS DOING. THE POINT I'M MAKING THAT PIECE
01:06:58IS, IT DEFINITELY HAS ITS LIMITS
01:07:03IN EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED. EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE
01:07:07REMEMBERED LAST APRIL, THERE WERE VERY HIGH TARIFFS THAT THE
01:07:10PRESIDENT SUGGESTED. AND ACTUALLY, THERE WAS TURMOIL
01:07:14IN THE BOND MARKETS AND THAT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T REALLY WANT TO MESS AROUND WITH.
01:07:17THAT IS WHERE THE U.S. FINANCES DEBT SO YOU HAVE TO BE REALLY
01:07:21CAREFUL WITH THAT. AND THEN, THAT LED THE PRESIDENT
01:07:24TO PULL BACK SOMEWHAT ON TARIFF RATES. SO TARIFFS TODAY ARE LOWER THAN THEY WERE THEN.
01:07:28BUT, 10% BASELINE TARIFF IS
01:07:31STILL WAY HIGHER THAN ONE WOULD
01:07:36HAVE EXPECTED THE ECONOMY TO BE ABLE TO STAND UP AS WELL TO.
01:07:39I THINK THE GROWTH HAS BEEN
01:07:40RESILIENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
01:07:45SO FROM AN INVESTOR PERSPECTIVE,
01:07:47WE CAN GET TO THE INFLATION PIECE AND A BIT. IN A BIT.
01:07:50FROM AN INVESTOR PERSPECTIVE,
01:07:54THEY KIND OF UNDERSTAND AND THEY
01:07:56SAY, WE CAN DO WITH THIS.
01:08:01>> IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE
01:08:01GUESTS, 202-748-8001 FOR
01:08:06REPUBLICANS. 202-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS. AND 202-748-8002, FOR
01:08:09INDEPENDENCE.
01:08:12IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR
01:08:13COMMENTS, YOU CAN DO THAT ON
01:08:17202-748-8003. TELL ME MORE ON THE INVESTOR FRONT. HOW THEY LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAVE
01:08:20SEEN AND WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE
01:08:23WHEN IT COMES TO TARIFF POLICY. >> FROM AN INVESTOR PERSPECTIVE, I THINK THE BIG THING IS THE
01:08:28U.S. AND CHINA, THEY ARE NO
01:08:34LONGER IN A TRADE WAR. THERE WAS A POINT LAST YEAR WHEN
01:08:38THEY WERE BOTH RAMPING UP TARIFFS ON EACH OTHER AND HAD
01:08:41GOTTEN INTO THE TRIPLE DIGITS.
01:08:45DOING 100% TARIFFS ON CHINESE GOODS. THE TWO LARGEST ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD.
01:08:49CHINA, MS OF EXPORTER.
01:08:55BASICALLY THE POTENTIAL TO BE AN ECONOMIC DIVORCE BETWEEN THE TWO
01:08:58COUNTRIES WHICH WOULD HAVE HAD A TON OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE NOT
01:09:00JUST FOR THEM BUT THE WORLD. THE FACT THAT BOTH OF THEM
01:09:03PULLED BACK FROM THAT, WE STILL
01:09:08HAVE PRETTY HIGH TARIFFS ON CHINA.
01:09:10BUT COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES. BUT MUCH LOWER THAN THE TRIPLE
01:09:13DIGIT RATES. I THINK THAT HAS BEEN SOMETHING
01:09:16INVESTORS HAVE BEEN FINE WITH. GROWTH HAS HELD UP.
01:09:20AND EARNINGS HAVE HAD --
01:09:25CONTINUED TO GO UP. BECAUSE THE STOCK MARKET IS SO
01:09:28DRIVEN BY THE BUILDOUT OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
01:09:32SO MUCH OF THE COMPANIES DRIVING THAT ARE THESE BIG TECH STOCKS.
01:09:36AND SO WHILE THAT IS HAPPENING,
01:09:39IT'S SORT OF MASKS AND MAKES
01:09:42LESS IMPORTANT, THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE THESE WEAKNESSES IN RETAIL.
01:09:46ALSO, A BUNCH OF THE COUNTRIES
01:09:52HARDEST HIT ARE SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZE BUSINESSES NOT IN
01:09:54THE STOCK MARKET.
01:09:56>> TALK ABOUT THE SMALLER BUSINESSES. WHAT IS THE DISPARITY THERE AS
01:09:59FAR AS THE IMPACT. >> THEY HAVE LESS ROOM TO
01:10:03ABSORB. THEY ARE LESS DIVERSIFIED WITH WHAT THEY ARE DOING. AND SO IF YOU ARE A SMALL
01:10:07IMPORTER, TARIFFS WILL HIT YOU HARDER THAN IF YOU ARE A LARGE
01:10:11IMPORTER. >> WHEN IT COMES TO LARGER
01:10:13BUSINESSES, WE SAW A NEWS
01:10:17REPORTING THAT THOSE WHO SUBMITTED TO THE TARIFFS, LIKE WALMART AND OTHERS, THEY ARE
01:10:20STARTING TO GET REFUNDS. TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT
01:10:23PLAYED OUT THERE.
01:10:28>> YES. WE MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THE SUPREME COURT SAID THE EARLIER
01:10:30TARIFFS WERE [ INDISCERNIBLE ]
01:10:34AUTHORITIES THE PRESIDENT WAS ABLE TO USE FOR TARIFFS.
01:10:37HE HAS DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES HE IS USING. FOR THOSE TARIFFS, THERE ARE
01:10:41REFUNDS. SOMEWHERE NORTH OF 100 BILLION. I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT
01:10:43NUMBER OFF OF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
01:10:46BUT NORTH OF $100 BILLION BASICALLY OWED BACK. A LOT OF COMPANIES HAVE BEEN
01:10:49APPLYING FOR THOSE. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE
01:10:53ADMINISTRATION IS SORT OF STARTING TO FIGHT SOME OF THOSE REFUNDS.
01:10:55BUT IN GENERAL, IT IS REFUNDING
01:10:59COMPANIES THAT APPLY. YOU HAVE TO APPLY. YOU CAN'T JUST GET A CHECK WHEN
01:11:02YOU ASK FOR.
01:11:06>> YOU TALKED ABOUT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE LEGAL BASIS AT THE IT MINISTRATION USES TO IMPOSE
01:11:09TARIFFS, WE SAW THOSE -- THAT
01:11:15SUFFERED A LEGAL CHALLENGE.
01:11:15WHAT IS THE STRATEGY NOW WITH
01:11:20MAINTAINING LEGAL ABILITY TO DO SO BY THE ADMINISTRATION? >> WE HAVE BEEN TO MULTIPLE PHASES.
01:11:24YOU MENTIONED THE INTERNATIONAL
01:11:28EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT
01:11:30BASICALLY WHAT IT SAYS IS, IN
01:11:34ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES, THE PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE THE
01:11:35AUTHORITY TO DO EMERGENCY THINGS.
01:11:38AND ONE OF THE THINGS -- THE
01:11:47WORD TARIFF IS NO ARE IN THE LAW. BASICALLY, WHAT THE SUPREME
01:11:51COURT SAID IS, THE LAW DOES NOT COVER THAT.
01:11:54THIS IS IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE CONGRESS
01:11:57CONSTITUTIONALLY IS WHO IS IN CHARGE OF TARIFFS.
01:12:01THEY HAVE AUTHORITY OVER TARIFFS. AND IN ORDER FOR THE PRESIDENT
01:12:05TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, HE HAS TO BE DELEGATED BY CONGRESS.
01:12:08THERE ARE OTHER TARIFF AUTHORITIES HE CAN USE AND HAS
01:12:12USED. THERE WAS A TEMPORARY AUTHORITY THAT HE WAS USING.
01:12:15IT COULD ONLY BE USED FOR 120
01:12:19DAYS. AND SO HE USED THAT AS SORT OF A
01:12:22BAND-AID WHILE THEY FIGURED OUT THE NEXT STRATEGY.
01:12:26AND NOW WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS,
01:12:28OR A BUNCH OF COUNTRIES, ROUGHLY
01:12:3460 -- DEPENDING A FEW HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION, THAT BASICALLY
01:12:36COVERS MOST OF U.S. TRADE AND
01:12:41THE TARIFFS APPLY TO COUNTRIES
01:12:44DEPENDING ON THEIR FORCED LABOR PRACTICES AND IN THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS AND HOW GOOD THEY ARE AT
01:12:47MOVING OUT FORCED [
01:12:52INDISCERNIBLE ]. SOME COUNTRY SPACE 10% TARIFFS
01:12:54AND SOME FACE 15%.
01:12:58>> VICTORIA GUIDA IS WITH US. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ON THE
01:13:01TARIFFS, 202-748-8001.
01:13:06DEMOCRATS, 202-748-8000. INDEPENDENCE, 202-748-8002.
01:13:10LET'S HEAR FROM DARYL FROM MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA. GO AHEAD.
01:13:14YOU ARE ON WITH OUR GUEST. >> YES. I WANT TO KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO
01:13:18ABOUT THESE TARIFFS? AND THEY SHOULD NOT BE CALLED
01:13:22TARIFFS. THEY SHOULD BE CALLED TRUMP'S TAXES ON THE PEOPLE.
01:13:26AND IF CANADA IS GOING TO PUT DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR, WHY DON'T THEY JUST HOLD BACK THE
01:13:30MATERIALS AND STUFF AND LIQUOR
01:13:34THAT COMES OUT OF CANADA. THAT WILL REALLY PUT TRUMP AT
01:13:38ATTENTION. THANK YOU. I WILL WAIT FOR MY ANSWER.
01:13:42>> THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT ROUTES CANADA COULD TAKE IN
01:13:44RESPONSE TO THIS.
01:13:47IT IS NOTABLE THAT THEY DID SEEM TO BE MAKING PROGRESS TOWARD A
01:13:49DEAL AND IT SOUNDS LIKE PRIME
01:13:52MINISTER MARK CARNEY HAS SAID,
01:13:55THE CANDIDATE -- THE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER, HAS SAID THAT
01:13:58THEY ARE TRYING TO INSERT THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE. AND THAT CANADA WAS DEMANDING
01:14:02THINGS THAT WERE UNACCEPTABLE. THIS ALL HAPPENED LATE LAST NIGHT.
01:14:06SO A LOT OF THE DETAILS ARE NOT TOTALLY AVAILABLE YET.
01:14:09THE U.S. AND CANADA, THE
01:14:13ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BOTH COUNTRIES. IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO
01:14:16CANADA GIVEN HOW INTERTWINED TO
01:14:19THE TWO ECONOMIES HAVE BECOME TO BE OVER THE YEARS.
01:14:23AND SO, MARK CARNEY IS SORT OF TRYING TO STRIKE THIS DELICATE
01:14:26BALANCE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW,
01:14:31ACTUALLY GETTING A GOOD DEAL FOR HIS COUNTRY, WITHOUT NECESSARILY WRECKING THE LONG-TERM
01:14:35RELATIONSHIP. AND SO I THINK THAT BOTH SIDES
01:14:38WILL BE MOTIVATED TO COME TO THE TABLE. IT DOES SEEM LIKE MARK CARNEY IS WILLING TO PLAY A LITTLE
01:14:42HARDBALL. >> IN KENTUCKY, THIS IS CARLTON
01:14:46FROM THE DEMOCRAT LINE.
01:14:49>> YES SIR. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, DID THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW WE ARE
01:14:54PAYING THE TARIFFS BECAUSE THE COMPANIES ARE PASSING THE COST
01:14:57ON TO US? >> YES.
01:15:00SO THIS HAS BEEN, I THINK
01:15:03SOMETHING MORE PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE WAY TARIFFS WORK.
01:15:05THEY ARE A TAX ON THE IMPORTER.
01:15:10IF YOU ARE DIRECTLY IMPORTING IT YOURSELF, YOU MAY PAY A TAX.
01:15:13ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY GOTTEN RID OF SOME OF
01:15:15THE DISPLAYS TO BE A THRESHOLD UNDER WHAT YOU DID NOT HAVE TO PAY TARIFFS.
01:15:18BUT THEY HAVE GOTTEN RID OF
01:15:19THOSE.
01:15:24THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE COST IS
01:15:24SHARED BY, YOU KNOW, THE -- THE
01:15:30COMPANY IT IS BEING BOUGHT FROM
01:15:31AND THE CUSTOMER, IT DIFFERS
01:15:35DEPENDING ON THE SECTOR AND THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT
01:15:39PLAYERS. IN GENERAL, YES. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT ULTIMATELY THE COST GET PAST
01:15:43ALONG. AND I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN A
01:15:46LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ON THAT FRONT SO PEOPLE ARE MORE AWARE OF HOW TARIFFS WORK.
01:15:50>> THIS IS A VIEWER THAT ASKS IF THE U.S. SEEKS RECIPROCAL
01:15:54TARIFFS AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES. AND IF IT IS FAIR TO THE U.S.
01:15:57TAXPAYER. AND WITH THE ADMINISTRATION THINKS ABOUT HOW ULTIMATELY
01:16:01IMPACTS THE TAXPAYER.
01:16:04>> IT IS A CONCEPT OF A RECIPROCAL TARIFFS.
01:16:06IT IS KIND OF COMPLICATED. BECAUSE THE WORD RECIPROCAL
01:16:09IMPLIES THAT WE ARE GIVING THE
01:16:13SAME TARIFF TREATMENT TO OTHER COUNTRIES BUT THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY HOW THESE TARIFFS WORK
01:16:17IN PRACTICE. WHAT ARE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS SAY IS, WE ARE FACTORING IN A
01:16:21BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS LIKE NONTARIFF BARRIERS.
01:16:24AND BASICALLY THE TARIFF THAT WE
01:16:28FEEL THESE COUNTRIES DESERVE.
01:16:29NOTABLY, AND THIS GOES BACK TO Y
01:16:33TARIFFS HAVE NOT BEEN AS DAMAGING AS ONE MIGHT HAVE
01:16:35EXPECTED MORE INVESTORS MIGHT
01:16:37HAVE FEARED.
01:16:41BY AND LARGE, COUNTRIES HAVEN'T RETALIATED. PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE
01:16:44PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THREATENED TO DO EVEN MORE TARIFFS IF
01:16:47COUNTRIES DO RETALIATE. IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT
01:16:50DOES ALSO POINT TO CORNERS OF
01:16:52THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE THINK HAVING THEIR OWN TARIFFS IS NOT WORTH IT.
01:16:56AND SO, IT KIND OF DEPENDS ON
01:17:00WHAT YOU MEAN BY, IS IT FAIR TO
01:17:02THE U.S.?
01:17:08THERE ARE SO MANY PHILOSOPHICAL POINTS ABOUT DONNA DOES IT
01:17:10MATTER THAT THE U.S. HAS A TRADE
01:17:14DEFICIT? A LOT OF ECONOMISTS WOULD SAY THAT IT DOESN'T.
01:17:16HOWEVER, IT IS ALSO A REASONABLE
01:17:22POLICY GOAL TO WANT TO BUILD THINGS HERE AND TO EMPLOY
01:17:25PEOPLE, TO MAKE CERTAIN THINGS
01:17:28THAT MAKE SENSE TO MAKE HERE.
01:17:30AND ALSO FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
01:17:34REASONS, IT MAKES SENSE TO WANT TO MAKE THINGS HERE. VERY COMPLICATED QUESTION.
01:17:36>> DAN IN WESTBROOK, MAINE,
01:17:43INDEPENDENT LINE. YOU ARE ON WITH VICTORIA GUIDA.
01:17:44GO AHEAD.
01:17:48>> THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THAT CONGRESS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING TAXES.
01:17:52A TARIFF IS A TAX. IT IS CONGRESS' RESPONSIBILITY
01:17:55TO ISSUE TARIFFS AND NOT THE
01:17:57PRESIDENT. ANY LOOPHOLES IN THE LAW, THE
01:18:01CONSTITUTION, THAT ALLOW THE
01:18:03PRESIDENT TO DO THAT, IS
01:18:07CERTAINLY NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.
01:18:08WE WENT TO -- WE REVOLTED
01:18:12AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN UNDER THE BANNER TAXATION WITHOUT
01:18:16REPRESENTATION.
01:18:17THAT MEANT CONGRESS AS THE
01:18:21PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE ARE
01:18:22RESPONSIBLE FOR TAXES.
01:18:28[ INDISCERNIBLE ] IT IS A STORE,
01:18:31THEY WILL PASS THAT COST ON TO
01:18:33THE CUSTOMER. IF YOU THINK THAT'S NOT TRUE,
01:18:37YOU DON'T KNOW MATHEMATICS. IT JUST AMAZES ME THAT THERE IS
01:18:41ANY RATIONALE WHATSOEVER OUT
01:18:41THERE THAT IS NOT SCREAMING ON
01:18:46THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS THAT THIS IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
01:18:49AND IT IS NOT THE PRESIDENT'S
01:18:57RESPONSE TO THROW THEM AROUND
01:18:57LIKE BULLETS TO COWER THE REST
01:19:01OF THE WORLD. HAVE A NICE DAY. >> YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT THAT
01:19:04THIS IS PRETTY UNUSUAL IN PAST
01:19:07AREAS OF TRADE OR CONGRESS WAS
01:19:13DEEPLY INVOLVED. THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED CONGRESS IS PRETTY MUCH ALLOWED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DO WHAT HE
01:19:17WANTS TO DO ON TARIFFS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN A BIG TALKING POINT IN THE MIDTERMS.
01:19:20DEMOCRATS WHO HISTORICALLY HAVE
01:19:23BEEN A PARTY THAT HAVE BEEN A
01:19:27LITTLE MORE INCLINED TO WANT TARIFFS IN CERTAIN SECTORS THAN
01:19:31THE TRADITIONAL FREE-MARKET
01:19:32REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS HAVE
01:19:36POINTED OUT THAT THESE HIGH BROAD ACROSS THE BOARD TARIFFS ARE JUST AND AFFORDABILITY
01:19:40CONCERN AND THEY ARE RUNNING ON
01:19:43WANTING TO ROLL THEM BACK. AND SO, THIS IS SOMETHING
01:19:47CONGRESS COULD DO, BUT THEY
01:19:51WOULD NEED TO HAVE THE NUMBERS TO OVERRIDE THE VETO WHICH WOULD
01:19:53BE TWO THIRDS IN THE HOUSE AND
01:19:5660 VOTES IN THE SENATE WHICH IS A PRETTY HIGH BAR. EVEN IF DEMOCRATS WERE TO TAKE
01:20:00CONGRESS, THERE WOULD BE SOME
01:20:04REPUBLICANS TO GO ALONG WITH THEM. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
01:20:08IT IS CONGRESS' ABILITY TO SAY, MR. PRESIDENT, YOU DON'T
01:20:11ACTUALLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THOSE TARIFFS. AND YOU DON'T SEE MUCH APPETITE
01:20:14FROM REPUBLICANS THAT WANT TO PUSH BACK THAT WAY.
01:20:18>> LET'S HEAR FROM J IN BOSTON.
01:20:22DEMOCRAT LINE. GO AHEAD. >> THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
01:20:26HERE IS THE STORY.
01:20:33[ INDISCERNIBLE ] THE IMPORT TAXES, THE COMPANY CHARGES FOR
01:20:36THE CONSUMER.
01:20:38IF YOU LOOK AT THE RECORD, THE
01:20:4238 COMPANIES THAT SUITED THE
01:20:46TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, TRUMP ON
01:20:49THE CAMPAIGN SPEECH, HE TALKED
01:20:50ABOUT, I MADE $70 BILLION ON THE
01:20:54TARIFFS. HE DID BUT THE COMPANY PAID FOR
01:20:56IT AND THE COMPANY SUED HIM AND
01:20:58THE GOVERNMENT PAID HIM BACK.
01:21:02WHO PAID FOR THAT MONEY?
01:21:04THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:21:06THAT IS WHY IT IS SO HIGH BASED ON THE STUPID TARIFFS. IT DOESN'T WORK.
01:21:09ESPECIALLY ON A FRIENDLY COUNTRY LIKE CANADA WHERE WE HAVE
01:21:13$900 BILLION EVERY YEAR.
01:21:17I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE DON'T
01:21:21FOLLOW THE NEWS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THAT IS J IN BOSTON.
01:21:24AND ONE OF THE COMPANIES GIVING
01:21:30TARIFFS, WALMART, ANNOUNCED THEY WILL USE PART OF THE LOWER
01:21:32PRICES -- TALK ABOUT THE REFUNDS
01:21:37AND HOW COMPANIES PLAN TO USE THEM. >> THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE
01:21:40DEBATE ON TARIFFS.
01:21:42THE REASON WHY THE U.S. IS
01:21:46HISTORICALLY -- OR IN THE AREA
01:21:47OF FREE TRADE, HAS VERY LOW
01:21:51TARIFFS IS BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THE TRADE-OFF WAS WORTH IT.
01:21:53BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE CHEAPER THINGS FOR PEOPLE.
01:21:57TO BUY. AND MAKE THINGS MORE AFFORDABLE FOR PEOPLE.
01:22:01IT NOT -- IT WAS ACTUALLY A VERY
01:22:07COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF TARIFFS IN PLACE.
01:22:09THERE ARE SOME INDUSTRIES WE TRY TO PROTECT MORE THAN OTHERS.
01:22:13IN GENERAL, WE MADE THE DECISION THAT IT WAS GOOD FOR THE GLOBAL
01:22:16ECONOMY AND GOOD FOR AMERICAN CONSUMERS TO HAVE THE TRADE AND
01:22:20IT HELD THE PRICES OF GOODS DOWN.
01:22:22AND THEN WE HAD THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET WHICH ALSO MADE
01:22:25GOODS CHEAPER.
01:22:27AND SO TARIFFS ARE TRICKY THING
01:22:31BECAUSE YOU'RE BASICALLY TRYING
01:22:35TO ENCOURAGE JOBS IN SPECIFIC SECTORS POTENTIALLY AT THE
01:22:39EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE.
01:22:45AND THE OTHER THING REALLY NOTABLE ABOUT THESE ACROSS THE
01:22:46BOARD TARIFFS IS THAT, ONE OF
01:22:50THE ARGUMENTS FOR TARIFFS COULD BE -- I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER
01:22:51THAT YOU WANT [ INDISCERNIBLE ]
01:22:55AND A NATIONAL SECURITY SENSE OR
01:22:56THEIR ARE CERTAIN TECHNOLOGIES
01:23:00WHERE IT MAKES SENSE TO WANT THE
01:23:02U.S. TO HAVE A BIT OF AN EDGE. SO SOME PEOPLE MAKE THE ARGUMENT
01:23:06THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE TARIFFS IN THOSE SECTORS. THE ADMINISTRATION HAS PUT
01:23:09TARIFFS ACROSS THE BOARD ON
01:23:11GOODS ON THINGS LIKE SHOES THAT
01:23:14WE DON'T REALLY MAKE HERE AND I'M NOT SURE THERE IS MUCH APPETITE AMONG AMERICANS TO DO
01:23:18THAT.
01:23:21ALSO, A LOT OF MANUFACTURING IS DONE BY AUTOMATION ANYWAY.
01:23:24EVEN IF YOU INCREASE THE MANUFACTURING, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY GUARANTEE YOU WILL GET MORE JOBS.
01:23:28SO IT IS A VERY STICKY THING.
01:23:36>> NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN LINE. DONALD. HELLO.
01:23:38>> GOOD MORNING.
01:23:44I WAS CALLING ABOUT THE TRADE. WITH THE TARIFFS ON ALL THAT, I
01:23:48BELIEVE THAT IF THE DEMOCRAT
01:23:51PARTY GETS HOLD OF IT, WE ARE GOING TO GO DOWNHILL LIKE A
01:23:54SNOWBALL. I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU, IT IS
01:23:57GOING TO BE BAD.
01:24:02WE WILL BE SINKING. THANK YOU.
01:24:05>> IT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW DEMOCRATS DECIDE TO
01:24:08HANDLE THE TARIFF ISSUE. I THINK THE EXPECTATION IS THAT
01:24:11THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRENDING IN
01:24:15THE POLLS TO LOOKING LIKE THEY WILL WIN THE HOUSE. THE SENATE WOULD BE A LOT MORE
01:24:18TRICKY WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A
01:24:21PRETTY BIG WAVE.
01:24:22TO BE EXPECTED TO GET TO BOTH
01:24:25CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS, I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER, THEY WON'T ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO OVERTURN THE
01:24:29TARIFFS BUT THEY COULD PUT A LOT
01:24:32MORE PRESSURE ON THE
01:24:33ADMINISTRATION.
01:24:37THEY HAVE A LOT MORE OVERSIGHT ABILITY. THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SUBPOENA MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION
01:24:41AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THAT COULD MAKE THIS A MORE
01:24:44INTERESTING DEBATE.
01:24:46AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING IF A
01:24:51DEMOCRAT BECOMES PRESIDENT.
01:24:52DO THEY KEEP THE TARIFFS?
01:24:56WHAT TARIFFS DO THEY KEEP AND WHAT ARE THE POLITICS AROUND
01:24:58ROLLING THEM BACK? ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT IT IS
01:25:02REVENUE. AND THAT IS THE THING THAT IS REALLY COMPLICATED RIGHT NOW.
01:25:06WHERE EVERYTHING IN CONGRESS IS
01:25:08SPEND MORE AND TAX LESS WHICH IS
01:25:13MAKING THE DEBT BIGGER AND BIGGER. SO TAXES ARE THE ONE LITTLE
01:25:16THING HELPING TO FILL THE WRITE.
01:25:19>> FOR THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, THEY IMPOSED TARIFFS. TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
01:25:22CARRIED IS OVER? >> THAT IS RIGHT. THERE WERE PRETTY HIGH TARIFFS
01:25:26ON CHINA. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NOT
01:25:30ONLY CAPTIVE BUT ALSO ADDED TO IT. FOR CHINESE ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
01:25:34THEY ADDED TARIFFS.
01:25:37AND SO IT DOES SPEAK TO, WHEN
01:25:40PEOPLE GET USED TO THINGS.
01:25:42ALSO, I THINK THAT, OBVIOUSLY,
01:25:46YOU CAN TELL FROM TALKING TO ANYBODY REALLY THAT PEOPLE ARE
01:25:49REALLY UPSET ABOUT HIGH PRICES
01:25:51AND THE COST OF LIVING. AND THE TARIFFS ARE JUST ONE OF THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD THINGS YOU CAN DO.
01:25:55MAKING LIFE LESS EXPENSIVE IS
01:25:58HARD AND TARIFFS ARE SORT OF AN
01:26:01EASY TALKING POINTS AND LEVER
01:26:06THAT MIGHT MAKE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE ATTRACTIVE.
01:26:10>> JC IS IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. YOU ARE ON WITH THE GUESTS, ON
01:26:13THE INDEPENDENT LINE.
01:26:17>> I UNDERSTAND THE TARIFFS THING HERE.
01:26:19HERE WE ARE.
01:26:2240 BILLION OR WHATEVER IN DEBT.
01:26:25AND HE IS RAISING TARIFFS TO GET
01:26:30THE GOODS HERE.
01:26:31PEOPLE ARE PAYING MORE FOR
01:26:37WHATEVER THEY BRING HERE. AND THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT.
01:26:39ESPECIALLY THE WAY THE ECONOMY
01:26:44IS NOW.
01:26:47WHOEVER VOTED FOR THIS PRESIDENT
01:26:50MUST HAVE A VERY LOW IQ.
01:26:52I UNDERSTAND THE ELECTORATE IS
01:26:56VERY EDUCATED AND THEY VOTE FOR TRUMP.
01:26:58YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL OF THEM [
01:27:07INDISCERNIBLE ] THAT VOTED FOR TRUMP.
01:27:10>> WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE REFUNDS. WE TALKED ABOUT THE LARGE COMPANIES.
01:27:13VERY STRONG WORDS ABOUT THOSE REFUNDS AND PUTTING THOSE INTO
01:27:17PERSPECTIVE. I WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY AND GET YOUR
01:27:19TAKE ON IT.
01:27:25>> THE 1 BILLION-DOLLAR REFUND FOR TARIFFS, WHAT DOES THAT SAY
01:27:29ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT WAS DONE SO QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY? WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT THE
01:27:33AMOUNT OF FOREIGN-MADE GOODS
01:27:35THAT RETAILERS ARE STILL
01:27:41SELLING? >> WHAT IT IS SAYING IS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT
01:27:44FILED THE A RIDICULOUS LAWSUIT
01:27:49AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION ONE F THE MONEY TO GO BACK TO THE
01:27:53RECORDS. THAT IS CORPORATE WELFARE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THAT MONEY.
01:27:57AND IF I HEAR ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC
01:27:58LEGISLATOR MAKE THAT REMARK, THE
01:28:01AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD GET THE MONEY, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAD
01:28:03THE MONEY IN THE U.S. TREASURY
01:28:06U.S. TREASURYAND WE WERE FORCEDT BACK.
01:28:09BUT THEY ARE USING THE 301, WHICH SURVIVED MORE THAN 5000
01:28:12STUDENTS, THAT WE WILL GET THE TARIFF AND COME BACK.
01:28:16WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS WE DON'T
01:28:18KNOW THE DISCOUNT THAT WAS DONE
01:28:25FROM THE CHINESE SUPPLIER. THIS IS A CORPORATE BONANZA, WHICH I SAID IT WOULD BE AT THE
01:28:29TIME.
01:28:31>> PUT THAT INTO CONTEXT FOR US.
01:28:36>> IT IS STRIKING BECAUSE HE IS
01:28:40SUGGESTING THAT TARIFFS AND THE U.S. TREASURY BELONG TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:28:43THAT IS NOT HOW THEY TALK ABOUT
01:28:48TAXES GENERALLY. TAX CUTS ARE SORT OF THE
01:28:49CRITICAL -- HAD BEEN A CRITICAL
01:28:55POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PARTY TO RETURN MONEY TO THE
01:28:59AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN IN THE U.S. TREASURY. I DON'T KNOW WHICH ARGUMENT IS
01:29:02RIGHT.
01:29:06BUT THAT WAS ONE OF MY FIRST REACTIONS TO THAT.
01:29:10IN TERMS OF THE WHOLE TARGET --
01:29:14IT IS TRUE THAT, WHEN IT COMES
01:29:15TO NEGOTIATING WITH IMPORTERS,
01:29:19IN SOME CASES, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TARGET CONTRACT LOOKS
01:29:23LIKE. WHEN THEY NEGOTIATE WITH THESE
01:29:26PEOPLE THEY ARE BUYING FROM, IT IS POSSIBLE THEY NEGOTIATE SOMETHING ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE
01:29:30VOLUME OF STUFF THEY ARE BRINGING IN AND MAYBE THEY THEY ARE SOME OF THE COST OR SHARE
01:29:34SOME OF THE COST.
01:29:36IT DOES, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE RESEARCH DOES BEAR OUT THAT MOST OF THE COST DOES GET PASSED
01:29:40ALONG TO THE ULTIMATE BUYER.
01:29:45>> WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT IN THE NEAR FUTURE WHEN IT COMES TO TARIFF POLICY BY THIS
01:29:49ADMINISTRATION? WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KEEP AN EYE ON?
01:29:53>> THE CANADIAN NEGOTIATIONS ARE
01:29:54A BIG ONE IN YEAR ONE. BECAUSE I SAID ABOUT THE
01:29:58IMPORTANCE OF THE RELATIONSHIP.
01:29:59I THINK MORE BROADLY, THERE ARE
01:30:03OTHER SECTORS WHERE THEY CAN
01:30:05STILL PUT MORE TARIFFS -- THERE
01:30:09ARE OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY ARE DOING THESE SECTION 301 INVESTIGATIONS WHICH IS A LEGAL
01:30:13AUTHORITY THEY DEFINITELY HAVE
01:30:16TO JUST LOOK INTO UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES GENERALLY. AND SO WE COULD SEE SLIGHTLY
01:30:19MORE TARIFFS.
01:30:22AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, YOU
01:30:25KNOW, WALL STREET BASICALLY AT THIS POINT IS EXPECTING TARIFFS TO ROUGHLY STAY AROUND WHERE
01:30:28THEY ARE. AND KIND OF SHIFTING A LITTLE BIT HERE AND THERE.
01:30:32WHAT EXACTLY THAT LOOKS LIKE
01:30:39THIS BUT I THINK THE CANADA AND MEXICO NEGOTIATIONS ARE THE BIGGEST ONE.
01:30:43>> THIS CAN BE FOUND ON POLITICO
01:30:44WHAT.
01:30:48VICTORIA GUIDO.
01:30:52THANK YOU. >> LATER WE WILL HEAR FROM THE
01:30:53QUINCY INSTITUTE ON IRAN AND HOW
01:30:59THE EXTENDED WAR IN IRAN IS
01:30:59AFFECTING THOSE ECONOMICALLY AND
01:31:04OTHERWISE. FIRST WE WILL BE JOINED BY JOHN MARCUS WILL TALK ABOUT THE
01:31:07QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
01:31:10WE WILL PICK UP THAT DISCUSSION
01:31:13WHEN WASHINGTON JOURNAL RETURNS.
01:31:21>> ALL NEXT WEEK, JOINT C-SPAN2
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01:31:46SHAPE POLICY, SCRUTINIZE IMPORTANT ISSUES AND CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF THE COUNTRY.
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01:33:07>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL CONTINUES. >> WE WILL LEARN ABOUT THE
01:33:11QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN IT COMES TO THE INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES
01:33:15WITH JOHN MARCUS. HE IS WITH THE HIKE IN YOUR
01:33:19REPORT. THE SENIOR HIGHER EDUCATION REPORTER.
01:33:21MR. MARCUS, THANK YOU FOR COMING BY.
01:33:24>> RAY TO BE WITH YOU. >> THIS STORY HAS THIS HEADLINE.
01:33:28U.S. UNIVERSITIES ARE SLIDING INTO DECLINE AFTER GLOBALLY
01:33:31PREEMINENT.
01:33:33WHAT PROMPTED YOU TO WRITE THIS?
01:33:37>> WE TEND AS AMERICANS TO FOCUS
01:33:37ON THE DAY TO DAY FIREHOSE OF
01:33:42NEWS AND A LOT OF IT HAS BEEN ABOUT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF.
01:33:45IF YOU STEP BACK FROM THE TREES
01:33:48AND LOOK AT THE FOREST, WE WERE CURIOUS ABOUT THE MORE BROAD
01:33:51IMPLICATIONS OF THOSE CHALLENGES.
01:33:55AND THE ONES THAT HAD COME EVEN BEFORE THE CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION.
01:33:58AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT BY
01:34:01MANY MEASURES, THAT ARE AT THIS
01:34:07POINT, KIND OF INDISPUTABLE, THE
01:34:09UNIVERSITY OF THE UNITED STATES
01:34:13WAS SO PREEMINENT. HIGHER EDUCATION INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
01:34:17INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED STATES BUT IT IS SLIPPING. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK
01:34:20IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE AWARE OF. >> YOU DREW THE DISTINCTION
01:34:22EARLY ON ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH UNIVERSITIES AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II AND HOW
01:34:26THE GOVERNMENT RESPONDED. TALK ABOUT THAT.
01:34:29THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
01:34:36>> UNIVERSITIES DURING WORLD WAR
01:34:36II WERE IMPORTANT FOR THE
01:34:40INNOVATIONS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE AMERICAN VICTORY AT THE END
01:34:44OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. AT THAT TIME, AS THE WAR ENDED,
01:34:48THERE WAS CONCERN THAT THE
01:34:49GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE FINANCIAL
01:34:55CONTRIBUTIONS TO HIGHER EDUCATION FOR RESEARCH WOULD DECLINE.
01:34:57AND THE RESPONSE TO THAT WAS
01:35:00THAT THE GOVERNMENT DID CONTINUE
01:35:03A TRADITION OF SUPPORTING ACADEMIC RESEARCH.
01:35:05AND THAT WAS DOUBLED UP AFTER
01:35:10SPUTNIK. WE HAD A TRADITION OF THE UNITED STATES OF KIND OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND
01:35:14COLLEGES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
01:35:15AND AS THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT
01:35:19UNDER AT RISK, IS EQUALLY AS
01:35:24IMPORTANT AS OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE STARTED TO POUR RESOURCES INTO THE UNIVERSITIES, WE HAVE
01:35:28START TO SLIP A LITTLE BIT. AND THE PREEMINENCE OF THIS
01:35:30SECTOR.
01:35:33>> WHAT METRICS DO YOU USE TO KIND OF GAUGE THAT SLIDE?
01:35:36>> SO YOU CAN SEE VERY SPECIFIC
01:35:41DATA RELATIVE TO PEOPLE COMING
01:35:44TO THE UNITED STATES TO STUDY.
01:35:48INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THE NUMBERS ARE SURPRISINGLY DOWN CONSIDERABLY UNDER THIS
01:35:51PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION AS THERE HAVE BEEN DETENTIONS AND
01:35:53DEPORTATIONS AND SIGNIFICANT
01:35:55DELAYS IN AWARDING [
01:36:00INDISCERNIBLE ] AND COUNTRIES WHERE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER
01:36:01ALLOWED TO COME.
01:36:05THERE ARE ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT SCHOLARS LEAVING UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
01:36:08THE CNN STORY REPORTED THAT 80
01:36:115% OF TOP SCHOLARS HAVE LEFT. MANY OF THEM FOR CHINA.
01:36:15NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS AND RECENTLY
01:36:17A CHEMIST FROM BERKELEY LEFT FOR
01:36:21A UNIVERSITY IN CHINA. ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO
01:36:25KEEP IN MIND HERE'S THE HIGHER
01:36:26EDUCATION IS THE SIXTH BIGGEST
01:36:30SERVICE EXPORT. IT IS YOU ARE DISCUSSING WITH
01:36:33THEIR PREVIOUS GUEST, WE ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE BALANCE
01:36:35OF TRADE AND WE ACTUALLY HAD A
01:36:39REALLY POSITIVE BALANCE OF TRADE THANKS TO U.S. UNIVERSITIES AND
01:36:43COLLEGES WHICH BROUGHT IN ABOUT $40 BILLION JUST FROM THE
01:36:46SPENDING OF THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS THEY ATTRACTED.
01:36:50SO AS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
01:36:51HAVE GONE AWAY, SCHOLARS ARE
01:36:56LEAVING. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT DATA POINT. ANOTHER -- ANOTHER IMPORTANT
01:36:58AREA TO KEEP AN EYE ON ARE THE
01:37:01INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS. I THINK A LOT OF YOUR LISTENERS
01:37:04WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH THE U.S.
01:37:07NEWS RANKINGS THAT FAMILIES OFTEN USED TO DECIDE WHETHER
01:37:11KIDS WILL GO TO COLLEGE.
01:37:14THERE ARE INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS.
01:37:15AND THE UNIVERSITIES ARE -- ARE
01:37:20VERY HIGHLY RANKED.
01:37:21SEVEN ARE THE TOP 10 IN THE UK
01:37:28RANKING THAT IS PRESTIGIOUS AND LIKELY WATCH TRICK SEVEN OUT OF
01:37:3110 ARE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. THE NUMBER IN THE TOP 500 IS THE SMALLEST EVER.
01:37:35AND ASIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE
01:37:38RISING UP. THE SECOND LARGE INTERNATIONAL
01:37:41RANKING IS CALLED THE QS RANKING.
01:37:45THERE WERE TWO IN THE TOP 100
01:37:48AND THE U.S. UNIVERSITIES HAS BEGUN TO FALL.
01:37:51>> OUR GUEST IS WITH US AND CAN TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS ON HIS REPORTING.
01:37:54IF YOU WANT TO CALL, WE DECIDED
01:37:58TO DIVIDE THE LINES DIFFERENTLY INTO TIME ZONES.
01:38:00IT IS 202-748-8000.
01:38:04202-748-8001 FROM MOUNTAIN AND PACIFIC TIME ZONE.
01:38:06AND 202-748-8002 IF YOU ARE A COLLEGE EDUCATOR OR COLLEGE
01:38:09STUDENT AND YOU WANT TO GIVE
01:38:12IMPACT INFORMATION AS FAR AS THE
01:38:14PREEMINENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
01:38:18INSTITUTIONS.
01:38:22>> THIS REPORT IS A NONPROFIT
01:38:24REPORTED THROUGH JOURNALISM AND
01:38:28HIGHER EDUCATION AND PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL MEDIA INCLUDING
01:38:30NPR, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE
01:38:32NEW YORK TIMES AND OTHERS.
01:38:36>> YOU TALK ABOUT CHINA QUITE A BIT. AND PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES
01:38:39TO THE RATE OF POSTDOCTORAL AND
01:38:44HIGHER DEGREES BEING PRODUCED OUT OF THE COUNTRY. WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT A FACTOR
01:38:47IN? >> THESE NUMBERS ARE EXTRAORDINARY.
01:38:50THE CHINESE UNIVERSITIES ALREADY
01:38:54SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPACE U.S. UNIVERSITIES IN THE PRODUCTION
01:38:56OF DOCTORAL DEGREES IN THE
01:38:59REALLY IMPORTANT FIELDS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH. OF COURSE POPULATION IS MUCH
01:39:03BIGGER. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PACE OF
01:39:07INCREASE, THE PACE AT WHICH THE UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA HAVE BEEN TURNING OUT EXPERTS IN THESE
01:39:10FIELDS THAT ARE SO IMPORTANT AND
01:39:14GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE, THEY ARE TURNING OUT THESE DOCTORAL
01:39:18DEGREES IN S.T.E.M. AT A RATE
01:39:23FIVE TIMES FASTER THAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE U.S. BECAUSE
01:39:27OF FUNDING CUTS, UNIVERSITIES IN THE U.S. ARE ALSO NOT JUST NOT
01:39:31KEEPING PACE BUT COMING BACK ONN THE NUMBER OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES THEY ARE TAKING.
01:39:34SO THIS IS AN AREA OF CONCERN.
01:39:39I THINK A LOT OF YOUR VIEWERS,
01:39:43IF WE HEAR FROM THEM, THEY HAVE
01:39:44VERY AMBIVALENT FEELINGS ABOUT
01:39:47U.S. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. THEY ARE NOT VERY POPULAR RIGHT NOW.
01:39:51THAT IS ANOTHER DATA POINT. IF YOU LOOK AT SURVEY DATA,
01:39:54PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY ARE VERY
01:39:55EXPENSIVE AND THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS VERY POOR.
01:39:59THEY ARE NOT WRONG.
01:40:00BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE
01:40:06UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES CONTINUE TO DO THE RESEARCH THAT
01:40:08HAS HISTORICALLY LED TO ADVANCES THAT ESSENTIALLY HAVE FUELED OUR
01:40:12KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY.
01:40:15WHATEVER YOU THINK OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, WE
01:40:17NEED TO FIX THIS. OTHERWISE, WE ARE AT A GLOBAL DISADVANTAGE.
01:40:21>> LET'S HEAR FROM A COLLEGE
01:40:25EDUCATOR. THIS IS A ROBIN FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO.
01:40:28YOU ARE ON WITH JOHN MARCUS. GO AHEAD. >> THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
01:40:32I'M CALLING FOR TWO REASONS. ONE, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR
01:40:35THOUGHTS ON HOW AI IS INFLUENCING MUCH OF WHAT YOU SEE
01:40:39AND HOW YOUR EDUCATION TRENDS.
01:40:43AND TWO, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT HOW
01:40:48NATIONALLY DUAL ENROLLMENT IS INCREASING ACCESS, FREE COLLEGE
01:40:51ACCESS FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE MORE
01:40:56AFFLUENT, OR SAY MORE HIGHLY
01:41:01RESOURCED SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THEN STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT BENEFITING
01:41:04FROM THOSE RESOURCES?
01:41:08AND ARE NOT, DO NOT HAVE THE
01:41:14SAME LEVEL OF ACCESS TO DUAL ENROLLMENT WHICH IS BASICALLY
01:41:17FREE COLLEGE FOR STUDENTS BEFORE
01:41:18THEY EVEN LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL.
01:41:23I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT.
01:41:24>> ROBIN, THANK YOU.
01:41:28>> LET ME TAKE THE SECOND QUESTION FIRST. DUAL ENROLLMENT PROVIDES CREDIT
01:41:30BEARING COLLEGE COURSES FOR STUDENTS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL.
01:41:34IT IS THE FASTEST GROWING AREA
01:41:35IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
01:41:39WHEN YOU SEE, AS UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES LIKE TO PUT OUT,
01:41:42ENROLLMENT INCREASING AT ALL, IT IS LARGELY BECAUSE OF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS THAT ARE TAKING
01:41:46COLLEGE COURSES IN HIGH SCHOOL. IS THE CALLER CORRECTLY POINTS
01:41:49OUT, THIS TENDS TO BENEFIT
01:41:52WEALTHIER, AS OPPOSED TO LOWER INCOME STUDENTS BECAUSE THERE'S
01:41:54SO THE HIGH SCHOOLS HOSTING THESE COLLEGE COURSES FOR THE STUDENTS.
01:41:58NOT ENTIRELY.
01:41:59THERE IS A LOT OF WORK BEING
01:42:02DONE TO MAKE SURE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES ARE MADE
01:42:04AVAILABLE TO LOWER INCOME STUDENTS.
01:42:07BUT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT THIS
01:42:11DOES TEND TO BENEFIT STUDENTS THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE ANYWAY.
01:42:14NONETHELESS, THE EFFECT IT HAS, THAT THE STUDENTS CAN ACCUMULATE
01:42:17SOME CREDIT, THEY ARE A LITTLE
01:42:20BIT AHEAD BY THE TIME THEY GET
01:42:22TO COLLEGE.
01:42:26ONE OF THE REASONS AMERICANS ARE DISILLUSIONED WITH COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IS BECAUSE THEY
01:42:30HAVE EXPERIENCED THE REALITY THAT FEWER THAN 50% OF THE STUDENTS THAT GO TO FOUR YOUR
01:42:34PROGRAMS ACTUALLY GRADUATE IN FOUR YEARS.
01:42:38AND STUDENTS ARE RUNNING WITH
01:42:41THEIR FEET. WITH DUAL ENROLLMENT AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND
01:42:44BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS.
01:42:46THEN WHEN THEY GET TO COLLEGE,
01:42:49THEY CAN GET IT DONE FASTER.
01:42:50THERE'S A LOT OF ANXIETY ABOUT
01:42:53HOW LONG COLLEGE TAKES WHICH OF COURSE INCREASES THE COST.
01:42:57THE FIRST QUESTION ABOUT AI, I WANT TO LOOK AT IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
01:43:01YES, AI HAS AN ENORMOUS IMPACT ON HOW COLLEGES TEACH WHAT THEY
01:43:05TEACH AND HOW STUDENTS -- FOR
01:43:09STUDENTS AND WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW. I ENCOURAGE MY STUDENTS TO USE
01:43:11AI FOR RESEARCH AT LEAST AS A
01:43:14FIRST STEP AND THEN DOUBLE CHECK.
01:43:16AS A JOURNALIST, I KNOW AI OFTEN
01:43:19SPITS BACK ANSWERS THAT ARE NOT TRUE. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF WHAT
01:43:22WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YOU IS
01:43:25EDUCATION DOMINANCE, WE HAVE IN
01:43:30THE UNITED STATES, DEPENDED ON AI INDUSTRIES LARGELY ON INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS THAT HAVE
01:43:33COME HERE, ESPECIALLY AT THE
01:43:34GRADUATE LEVEL, IN FIELDS AND
01:43:39DISCIPLINES THAT SERVE THE AI INDUSTRY.
01:43:42AND THEY ARE COMING UP MUCH LOWER NUMBERS. WE DON'T PRODUCE ENOUGH DOMESTIC
01:43:45STUDENTS THAT ARE GOOD AT MATH
01:43:48TO GET INTO THOSE FIELDS.
01:43:53SO HOW PEOPLE USE AI AND COLLEGES IS A WHOLE OTHER GIANT CAN OF WORMS.
01:43:56BUT WE ARE AT A DISADVANTAGE IN
01:44:01THE SENSE OF NOT TRACKING AS TRS
01:44:06MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAINING IN THOSE FIELDS.
01:44:08>> LET'S HEAR FROM A COLLEGE STUDENT IN ARIZONA. DOG. HELLO.
01:44:11>> HELLO. >> YOU ARE ON.
01:44:15GO AHEAD. >> I HAD A QUESTION. IS IT REALLY NECESSARY FOR
01:44:19COLLEGE STUDENTS TO WANT TO FINISH COLLEGE SINCE AI IS
01:44:22GENERATING ALL THESE ANSWERS AND
01:44:25YOUTUBE AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
01:44:29AND THEY CAN'T REALLY AFFORD TO GO TO A SCHOOL THAT IS OVERCHARGING WILL THEY WILL BE
01:44:33SITTING THERE FOR FOUR YEARS TRYING TO GET, LIKE YOU SAID
01:44:36EARLIER, EXTRA CREDIT OR DUAL CREDIT. IF AI IS GENERATING ALL THE ANSWERS, ARE THEY REALLY
01:44:40LEARNING ANYTHING?
01:44:43AND TWO, WHY WOULD A STUDENT, SAY FROM A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY,
01:44:47WANT TO COME TO THIS COUNTRY WHEN ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS GET
01:44:49ON THE INTERNET?
01:44:52AND THREE, WHAT IS THE DOWNFALL
01:44:56AMERICANS TAKE IF WE DO MAKE EDUCATION FREE TO ALL STUDENTS IN AMERICA OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL?
01:44:59THANK YOU.
01:45:01>> THOSE ARE BIG QUESTIONS. ON THE ISSUE OF WHY
01:45:04INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS -- OF
01:45:08WHYTHEY WOULD COME HERE, IS NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN TAKE WAS
01:45:12ON THE INTERNET, AND MANY USE --
01:45:13U.S. UNIVERSITIES ARE MAKING
01:45:17AVAILABLE ONLINE HIGHER EDUCATION. AS A WAY TO NOT JUST PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION TO STUDENTS NOT JUST IN THE THIRD WORLD BUT ANY
01:45:21COUNTRY AROUND THE WORLD, AND REALIZED SOME REVENUE AT A TIME
01:45:23WHEN -- [ INDISCERNIBLE ] REALLY
01:45:29IT IS FOR THE UNIVERSITY'S BOTTOM LINE.
01:45:32WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES.
01:45:35MORE THAN 300 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION, ANNOUNCED BUDGET
01:45:39CUTS AND LAYOFFS. THEY ARE BLAMING THE DECLINE OF
01:45:42INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES VULNERABLE
01:45:45TO THAT THEMSELVES IN 2010 WITH
01:45:49A NUMBER OF DOMESTIC STUDENTS STARTED TO DECLINE.
01:45:50WE SAW A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN
01:45:53ENROLLMENT ALREADY SINCE 2011. SO THEY BEGAN TO RECRUIT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS.
01:45:56THAT MADE THEM VERY VULNERABLE TO THE DECLINE WE ARE SEEING
01:46:00NOW. BUT, FOR DOMESTIC STUDENTS, IT
01:46:03MEANS HIGHER PRICES AND FEWER PROGRAMS.
01:46:07ALREADY, MANY UNIVERSITIES HAVE CUT PROGRAMS AND ADVISORS FOR DOMESTIC STUDENTS BECAUSE OF THE
01:46:10LOSS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS.
01:46:13ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR
01:46:15NOT -- GOING TO COLLEGE.
01:46:19NOT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GO TO COLLEGE. THERE ARE TERRIFIC OPPORTUNITIES
01:46:22THAT PAY REALLY WELL IN FIELDS
01:46:25LIKE THE TRADES WHERE YOU HAVE A HUGE NUMBER OF BABY BOOMERS RETIRING.
01:46:29IN GENERAL, BABY BOOMERS ARE RETIRING AND THOSE OF THE INTERCEPTING DEMOGRAPHICS
01:46:33HAPPENING NOW. 18 MILLION BABY BOOMERS ARE RETIRING AND 14 MILLION PEOPLE
01:46:36ARE COMING UP BEHIND THEM. THAT LEAVES A GIANT GAP IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EQUIPPED TO DO
01:46:40JOBS THAT AI CAN'T DO.
01:46:43AI CAN'T DO EVERYTHING.
01:46:46AND IT IS FASCINATING TO WATCH
01:46:49THE SPRING AS UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE GRADUATES BOOED SPEAKERS
01:46:52TALKING ABOUT AI.
01:46:54IN FACT, THEY ARE RIGHT.
01:46:57AND MANY ENTRY-LEVEL FIELDS, AI IS TAKING THOSE JOBS.
01:46:59WE ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF WHAT ECONOMISTS PREDICT WILL BE THE
01:47:03LARGEST LABOR SHORTAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
01:47:05AND THAT IS IN AREAS THAT AI CAN'T DO LIKE THE TRADES.
01:47:09BUT ALSO HEALTHCARE AND SEMI
01:47:13SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION AND AREAS LIKE THAT. SO THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF JOBS
01:47:16THAT REQUIRE A BACHELORS DEGREE. >> CHRIS IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.
01:47:20GO AHEAD.
01:47:22>> GOOD MORNING.
01:47:26OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS,
01:47:26THE LACFUP PARTY HAS BEEN
01:47:33ADVOCATING FOR THE DEFUNDING OF UNITED STATES UNIVERSITIES. I'M WONDERING IF YOU HAVE ANY
01:47:37IDEA HOW EFFECTIVE THIS IS.
01:47:45>> LET'S THINK DOMESTICALLY AS FAR AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE EFFORT THEY ARE MAKING
01:47:49WHEN IT COMES TO DEFUNDING. >> THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS
01:47:53CUT FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING. MUCH OF THE FUNDING WAS RESTORED BY COURTS.
01:47:57IT IS STILL BEING BUILT UP VERY
01:47:59VERY SLOWLY BY THE AGENCIES THAT
01:48:01CONTROL IT AND THAT, AS A
01:48:05RESULT, AS ALL OF US HAVE READ, FOR CURTAILING OR TERMINATING
01:48:09IMPORTANT RESEARCH AND FOR
01:48:13THINGS LIKE MEDICAL CURES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION NOW HAS
01:48:16A PLAN THAT WOULD SHIFT MUCH OF
01:48:20THE GOVERNMENT FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING AWAY FROM UNIVERSITIES.
01:48:23ALL OF THAT IS BAD NEWS FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
01:48:27THEY ARE NOT ENTIRELY BLAMELESS.
01:48:28BOTH PARTIES HAVE TRIED TO CUT
01:48:32BACK ON THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES GET FOR OVERHEAD.
01:48:35THIS IS KNOWN EUPHEMISTICALLY AS
01:48:41INDIRECT COST. THE PROPORTION OF FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING THAT GOES TO
01:48:44EQUIPPING THE THE LAB AND PAYING FOR THE AIR CONDITIONING IN THE
01:48:48HEAT AND WORKERS.
01:48:49AND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
01:48:52PUSHED BACK ON THE.
01:48:54SO FAR, UNSUCCESSFULLY. WE DO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON
01:48:58ACADEMIC RESEARCH THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY TRANSFORM INTO
01:49:01INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY.
01:49:05IT IS NOT ENTIRELY WHAT ACADEMIC RESEARCH IS FOR.
01:49:09BUT I THINK MAYBE THIS WAS A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE UNIVERSITIES
01:49:11THAT MAY BE IT SHOULD DO THAT MORE EFFECTIVELY.
01:49:15AND SO RESEARCH FUNDING IS ONE AREA.
01:49:17AND ALSO CUTTING INTO UNIVERSITY
01:49:21FUNDING. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE POLITICAL
01:49:22REPERCUSSIONS ON THE
01:49:27FINANCIAL -- OR THE FINANCIAL REPERCUSSIONS ON UNIVERSITIES.
01:49:28NO MATTER WHAT UNIVERSITY OR
01:49:31COLLEGES TEND TO COMPLAIN,
01:49:35STATES HAVE BEEN PRETTY GOOD AT CONTINUING FUNDING FOR
01:49:37UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OVER
01:49:40THE 2010'S WITH A FEW PEAKS AND
01:49:42VALLEYS.
01:49:46UNIVERSITIES CONTINUING TO INCREASE PRICES ON FAMILIES IS
01:49:49AGAIN, ANOTHER AREA OF COVERAGE.
01:49:52WHERE THEY ARE REALLY LOSING MONEY NOW IS ON THE DECLINING
01:49:54ENROLLMENT AND THE PROPORTION OF
01:49:58THE REVENUE THAT HAS TO BE SPENT ON DISCOUNTS ON FINANCIAL AID TO ATTRACT A SMALLER MARKET, TO
01:50:02ACTUALLY ENROLL. THOSE ARE ALL TAKING BIG
01:50:06FINANCIAL IMPACTS ON
01:50:07UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
01:50:12>> MR. MARCUS, IT WAS EARLIER THIS MONTH AT THE EDUCATION
01:50:15SECRETARY, LINDA MCMAHON, SENDS A LETTER, A CALL TO ACTION.
01:50:19COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THAT HAVE TAKEN MONEY. IN RETURN FOR THAT, THEY WANT TO
01:50:22SEE SOMETHING COMING OUT OF IT. PART OF THE LETTER READS, HOW
01:50:25WILL YOUR INSTITUTIONS ENCOURAGE
01:50:29INTELLECTUAL PLURALISM AND ITS ACADEMIC UNITS?
01:50:30HOW WILL YOUR FACILITY SUPPORT
01:50:34ACADEMIC VITALITY AND ENSURE THAT ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND HOW WILL YOUR
01:50:36SCHOOL AND ENSURE THAT RESEARCH
01:50:40ENTERPRISE IS DEDICATED TO ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE, A DEEPENING
01:50:44UNDERSTANDING AND SERVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT FUND IT? THERE OTHER ASPECTS OF THIS LETTER.
01:50:48BUT TO GET A LETTER FROM THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR THE INSTITUTIONS IN
01:50:51THE UNITED STATES FOR THE
01:50:55PHENOMENON YOU ARE SEEING WHEN IT COMES TO THE PREEMINENCE THERE? >> I THINK THAT IS A LOT OF THE GOAL.
01:50:59AND I THINK SOMETHING INTERESTING IS HAPPENING. YOU ARE SEEING A LOT OF
01:51:02SELF-EXAMINATION AT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. THERE ARE CLEARLY IDEOLOGICAL
01:51:06UNDERPINNINGS TO THE LETTER INTO
01:51:08THE DEMAND.
01:51:11INITIALLY, THERE WAS THE FAMOUS
01:51:17CONTRACT THAT TRUMP WANTED UNIVERSITIES TO SIGN AND MOST OF THEM DID NOT. NOW IT IS A LESS EXTREME
01:51:21VERSION. BUT IT IS TRUE THAT UNIVERSITIES
01:51:24AND COLLEGES ARE REASSESSING THE
01:51:26DEGREE TO WHICH THEY ARE MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN
01:51:30ECONOMY AND AMERICAN SOCIETY. SOME OF THAT HAS BEEN MADE
01:51:33HARDER FOR THEM AND NOT EASIER,
01:51:35BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
01:51:38AND SO I THINK MOST OF THE JUST
01:51:40OF THAT LETTER, IF YOU READ BETWEEN THE LINES, HAS TO DO
01:51:43WITH IDEOLOGICAL ISSUES LIKE
01:51:48DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN CUT BACK
01:51:50MASSIVELY. ESPECIALLY BY PUBLIC
01:51:54UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND ESPECIALLY IN SOME STATES THAT
01:51:55HAVE PRESCRIBED WHAT FACULTY CAN
01:51:58TEACH AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND
01:52:01COLLEGES. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT THIS
01:52:05IS ANOTHER MEASURE OF U.S.
01:52:09PREEMINENCE INTERNATIONAL. THERE IS YET ANOTHER RANKING BY
01:52:13THE UNIVERSITY IN GERMANY ABOUT AUTONOMY. THAT IS THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE WITH WHICH FACULTY
01:52:17AT UNIVERSITIES CAN DO THEIR JOBS.
01:52:20IN THAT RESPECT, THOUGH SURPRISINGLY, THE UNITED STATES
01:52:23HAS ALSO FALLEN.
01:52:26THAT DISCOURAGES FACULTY FROM OTHER SCHOLARS AND OTHER PARTS
01:52:28OF THE WORLD FROM COMING HERE.
01:52:30IN THE MEANTIME, YOU AND CHINA
01:52:34HAVE BEEN THROWING MONEY AT THEM TO GET THEM TO COME THERE. SO ALL OF THESE THINGS SORT OF
01:52:38ARE HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
01:52:41>> THIS IS JOHN MARCUS JOINING US. LET'S HEAR FROM DENISE IN
01:52:45ILLINOIS. COLLEGE-EDUCATED.
01:52:47HELLO.
01:52:52>> GOOD MORNING. I WAS CALLING BASED ON THE DUAL ENROLLMENT.
01:52:55THERE WAS A CALLER A FEW CALLS
01:52:58BACK TALKING ABOUT THAT.
01:53:00I TAUGHT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
01:53:04I FOUND THAT INTERESTING BECAUSE
01:53:07STUDENTS WOULD BE CREAM OF THE CROP AND YET THOSE THAT WERE
01:53:09ALLOWED TO HAVE A DUAL
01:53:12ENROLLMENT COURSE, WERE NOT.
01:53:15AND IT WAS DIFFICULT ON ADJUNCT
01:53:17COLLEGE FACULTY, THE HIGH SCHOOL
01:53:21SOMETIMES DID NOT WANT THE
01:53:22EDUCATOR THERE AT THE COLLEGE.
01:53:26AND WERE NOT PREPARED FOR IT.
01:53:28AND SO THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER SITUATIONS THAT HAPPENED WITH
01:53:32DUAL ENROLLMENT. THAT IS MORE OF A COMMENTS.
01:53:35AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF THE
01:53:38PRESENTER HAS ANYTHING TO SAY ON THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:53:40>> MR. MARCUS.
01:53:45>> IT IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT STATES IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.
01:53:49SOMETIMES, IT IS TAUGHT BY UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND SOMETIMES IT IS TAUGHT BY HIGH SCHOOL
01:53:52TEACHERS.
01:53:57OFTEN, THE COURSES MADE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS ARE NOT COURSES THAT WOULD NECESSARILY
01:54:00TRANSFER THERE.
01:54:02THEY ARE ON THE EASIER SIDE. THERE ARE GREAT BENEFITS TO
01:54:06THAT. BY EXPOSING YOUNG PEOPLE IN HIGH
01:54:08SCHOOL TO WHAT IT COLLEGE
01:54:12COURSES LIKE, EVEN IF IT IS -- I'M NOT GOING TO SAY BASKET WEAVING BUT SOMETHING THAT MIGHT
01:54:15NOT TRANSFER PARTICULARLY INTO A
01:54:18MAJOR. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF DOWNSIDES TO IT.
01:54:21AND THE GROWTH HAS BEEN
01:54:25MEDIOCRE, LARGELY BECAUSE AMERICANS SEE THIS AS A WAY OF
01:54:27SAVING MONEY ON COLLEGE WHICH
01:54:31THEY REALLY WANT TO DO. THERE IS A LOT OF WORK GOING ON
01:54:33TO CREATE A NATIONAL STANDARD
01:54:38ACCREDITATION AND WAYS TO KIND
01:54:38OF MAKE DUAL ENROLLMENT MORE
01:54:42UNIFORM AND EFFECTIVE.
01:54:46>> ALLEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. GO AHEAD.
01:54:50>> MY QUESTION IS ABOUT COST. 1988, I GRADUATED FROM
01:54:54APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY.
01:54:57MY STUDENT LOAN TOO -- WAS
01:55:10$20,000.
01:55:15NOW, IT IS $200,000.
01:55:16WHY DO THEY HAVE THESE FOR
01:55:21200,000 AND STILL GET LOANS WHEN
01:55:23I GET OUT OF COLLEGE?
01:55:27>> THE SIX-FIGURE IS USUALLY
01:55:31GRADUATED PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS. ONE THING I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT BECAUSE WE TALKED
01:55:35ABOUT THE STEPS UNDER THIS PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION. THERE HAVE BEEN INTERESTING
01:55:37REPORTS THAT BOTH PARTIES HAVE
01:55:40BEEN PUSHING FOR FULL ON TIME.
01:55:43ONE IS TO LIMIT GRADUATE STUDENT
01:55:44LOAN TOO -- STUDENT LOAN
01:55:48BORROWING.
01:55:51GRADUATE STUDENTS COULD BORROW
01:55:53AS MUCH AS THEY WANTED IN 2006 AND THAT FUELED A HUGE INCREASE
01:55:57IN THE PRICE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL. THERE HAS BEEN A CAP.
01:56:01AND ARE DOWNSIDES IS FOR THAT. SOME STUDENTS NEED TO BORROW TO GO TO COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL
01:56:05SCHOOL, THAT IS PROFESSIONAL
01:56:10WITH DENTAL OR MEDICAL OR LAW SCHOOL. THE CONCERNS ARE TOO EARLY TO KNOW. THERE ARE CONCERNS THE NUMBERS
01:56:14WOULD FALL OFF.
01:56:15THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT HAS BEGUN
01:56:18TO BE THAT COLLEGES ARE LOWERING
01:56:21TUITION FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMS OR PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO MAKE
01:56:23UP THE DIFFERENCE.
01:56:27THE TYPICAL GRADUATE OWES
01:56:31$20,000. $20,000. THAT IS COMPOUNDED OVER TIME BY INTEREST. THE MORE CONCERNING PART OF THAT
01:56:35IS THE NUMBER OF THEM WHO NEVER
01:56:39GRADUATE OR GET A CREDENTIAL. THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOUR LOAN GO AWAY.
01:56:43WE HAVE 43 MILLION AMERICANS WHO
01:56:45STARTED COLLEGE AND NEVER FINISHED.
01:56:49THAT IS EQUAL TO THE POPULATION OF CANADA. MANY OF THOSE STILL HAVE LONG LN
01:56:53DEBT BUT NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT. AND THEY ARE VERY ANGRY AND
01:56:56UNHAPPY PEOPLE.
01:56:58IN MANY CASES, PARENTS OF THEM
01:57:04AS WELL. AND SOME DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO GO TO COLLEGE AT ALL.
01:57:07THIS IS A SPIRAL THAT IS REALLY DAMAGING OVER TIME.
01:57:11>> MR. MARCUS, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WRITE ABOUT IS THE AMOUNT OF
01:57:12STUDENT VISAS BEING ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
01:57:15HOW DOES THAT FACTOR INTO YOUR REPORTING?
01:57:20>> STUDENT VISAS HAVE BEEN SLOWED DOWN. IT HAS BEEN HARDER FOR
01:57:22INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO GET.
01:57:29AT THE CONSULATES OR EMBASSIES. THERE IS A NEW ESTIMATE AS OF LAST WEEK THAT THERE WILL BE
01:57:31111,000 FEWER INTERNATIONAL
01:57:34STUDENTS THIS FALL. THERE WAS ALREADY A HUGE DECLINE
01:57:38LAST YEAR. THIS DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE.
01:57:41SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, I
01:57:44THINK YOU CAN GENERALIZE AND SAY THAT THEY ARE CONSIDERED MORE
01:57:47PROGRESSIVE AND THEY CONTINUE TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS.
01:57:51BUT OVERALL, CLEARLY, MANY OF
01:57:53THEM HAVE STOPPED COMING AND
01:57:55THAT IS A BIG PROBLEM.
01:57:58>> OUR GUEST REPORTS FOR THE HECHINGER REPORT.
01:58:01WORKING PEOPLE FIND YOUR WORK?
01:58:07>> HECHINGERREPORT.ORG AND IN ALL OF OUR PUBLICATIONS TO
01:58:09PUBLISH WHAT WE WRITE.
01:58:13>> HOW DO YOU PLAN TO FOLLOW-UP THE STORY? IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WILL
01:58:17FOLLOW UP OR KEEP TRACK OF AS FAR AS TRENDS ARE CONCERNED?
01:58:19>> SOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS ARE REISSUED ANNUALLY.
01:58:23ONE VERY IMPORTANT ONE COMES OUT AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING.
01:58:27I SPOKE WITH THE DIRECTOR OF IT
01:58:30WHO SAID THEY ARE GOING TO SEE MORE DECLINE AMONG AMERICAN
01:58:32INSTITUTIONS. HOW WE REVERSE THIS IS A REALLY
01:58:36COMPLICATED QUESTION. WHEN PEOPLE STOP COMING, IT IS
01:58:39HARD TO GET THEM TO COME BACK.
01:58:42AND SO, YES. THERE'S A LOT OF COMPLEXITY HERE. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE
01:58:46KNOW THE DAMAGE HAPPENING ON
01:58:49BOTH SIDES THROUGH THE
01:58:52UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
01:58:54I THINK THEY ARE AWARE OF IT AND
01:58:57THERE IS A LOT OF WORK JUST GETTING UNDERWAY NOW TO KIND OF TURN THAT AROUND.
01:59:01>> JOHN MARCUS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
01:59:04>> THE LAST GUEST IS THE QUINCY INSTITUTE PROCESSING IRAN'S
01:59:08ABILITY TO HOLD OFF ATTACKS BY
01:59:11THE U.S. SO FAR AND THE OPTIONS LEFT FOR THE TRUMP
01:59:14ADMINISTRATION TO GAIN THE
01:59:18STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ. THAT CONVERSATION COMING UP. THAT IS WHEN WASHINGTON JOURNAL
01:59:22CONTINUES.
01:59:27>> SUNDAY ON C-SPAN'S Q&A, THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
01:59:29STATES JUSTICE NEIL GORE SUCH
01:59:32WILL DISCUSS HIS CHILDREN'S BOOK, HEROES OF 1776 WHICH
01:59:34HIGHLIGHTS THE SIGNERS OF THE
01:59:38DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER LESSER-KNOWN REVOLUTIONARIES WHO RISK THEIR
01:59:41LIVES, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY IN THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM
01:59:43THE BRITISH.
01:59:47>> THE BIRDS WERE COMING IN ON PHILADELPHIA.
01:59:51CONGRESS NEEDED TO GET OUT THE WORD DESPERATELY THAT THE
01:59:55DECLARATION HAD BEEN MADE. >> IT WAS A RALLY CRY FOR
01:59:57INDEPENDENCE.
02:00:00>> AND THINGS WERE DICEY THEM. ONLY 40% WOULD IDENTIFY
02:00:03THEMSELVES AS PATRIOTS. THEY WERE LOYALISTS.
02:00:06PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO GET THE
02:00:09NEWS OUT.
02:00:11SO THEY WENT TO A LOCAL PRINTER
02:00:15WHO ALWAYS PUBLISHED.
02:00:20AND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PROBABLY DID NOT WANT TO DISCLOSE THAT IT WAS A WOMAN.
02:00:22WHEN IT CAME TO THE DECLARATION.
02:00:31>> SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SUNDAY NIGHT AT 8:00 EASTERN ON THE C-SPAN Q&A.
02:00:34YOU CAN SEND TO Q&A AND ALL
02:00:35PODCASTS ON THE FREE C-SPAN NOW
02:00:38APP OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR
02:00:39PODCASTS.
02:00:45>> THE ROAD TO THE CAPITAL RUNS THROUGH AMERICA'S BATTLEGROUND
02:00:48STATES AND C-SPAN IS THERE. OUR CAMERAS ARE ON THE GROUND
02:00:50FOLLOWING THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE TOUGHEST RACES TO DECIDE THE
02:00:54BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS. WE ARE THE ONLY NATIONAL
02:00:58TELEVISION NETWORK PROVIDING THIS LEVEL OF UNFILTERED ACCESS TO THE CANDIDATES, THE VOTERS IN
02:01:02THE ISSUES SHAPING CAMPAIGN
02:01:042026. NO COMMENTATORS TELLING YOU WHAT
02:01:07TO THINK.
02:01:09THE ROAD TO THE CAPITAL ONLY ON
02:01:11C-SPAN.
02:01:16>> WASHINGTON JOURNAL CONTINUES. >> OUR LAST GUEST OF THE MORNING
02:01:19IS WITH THE QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR
02:01:20RESPONSIBLE STATE AND RESEARCH
02:01:24AT THE UNIVERSITY TO TALK ABOUT
02:01:28IRAN. THANK YOU FOR GIVING US YOUR TIME.
02:01:32>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. >> FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT KNOW,
02:01:35THE QUINCY INSTITUTE, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONFLICT LIKE
02:01:38WE ARE SEEING IN IRAN?
02:01:44>> I BELIEVE THERE IS A BALANCED APPROACH ADVOCATING FOR PEACE
02:01:48AND ALSO RESEARCH ADVOCATING FOR
02:01:56PEACE AND DIPLOMACY.
02:02:00>> BEFORE WE GO INTO DETAIL WHEN IT COMES TO IRAN, WE HAVE BEEN
02:02:04AT THIS FOR SIX MONTHS NOW FOR US. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE
02:02:07ASSESSMENT OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS BETWEEN
02:02:10THE INTERESTS OF THE U.S. WITH WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IN IRAN AND
02:02:13WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY SEEING?
02:02:15>> I SHOULD SAY I'M NOT [
02:02:18INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:02:24BUT THE PERSON THAT FOLLOWS THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. FOR
02:02:27THE LAST 20 YEARS IN THE WORLD
02:02:30SANCTIONS [ INDISCERNIBLE ] IN
02:02:39THE ECONOMY, OVER THE LAST SIX
02:02:42MONTHS WAS A DISASTER FOR [
02:02:47INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:02:50TO ACTUALLY EVALUATE THE WAR OR
02:02:54THE RESPONSE WOULD NEED TO KNOW
02:02:58THAT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT
02:02:59ACTUALLY TO ESTIMATE OR
02:03:03PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY GO. WE HEAR DIFFERENT THINGS FROM
02:03:06WASHINGTON.
02:03:09AND LIMITING YOU ON THE
02:03:16INFLUENCE OF THE REGION OR DESTROYING MILITARY CAPABILITIES.
02:03:18WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY.
02:03:22WITH THE EXCEPTION IS WHAT WAS
02:03:28TRENDING [ INDISCERNIBLE ] SO IT
02:03:31IS DIFFICULT TO SAY.
02:03:35IT IS COMPLICATED FOR THE IRANIAN PEOPLE AND MANY PEOPLE
02:03:37IN THE REGION.
02:03:41AND OF COURSE, WE SHOW THE COST
02:03:46OF WAR.
02:03:52IT SEEMED IT WAS A CONSTANT
02:03:53OPERATION.
02:03:59AND WE CAN MEASURE BUT WE DON'T
02:04:05KNOW YET. >> ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WROTE E EARLIER THIS MONTH IS ABOUT THIS
02:04:08IDEA OF IRAN DIGGING AND WHEN IT COMES TO THIS CONFLICT.
02:04:12AND YOU WRITE THAT AS LONG AS
02:04:15WASHINGTON CONTROLLED THE TEMPO OF THE WAR, THERE WILL BE A LACK
02:04:17OF AGENCY IN TEHRAN.
02:04:21SO THE EFFORT TO PUSH BACK IS MANAGED CONFRONTATION ON HOW YOU DESCRIBE THAT.
02:04:25CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT?
02:04:30>> TURNCOAT I DECIDED ON THE
02:04:35NARRATIVE WITH THE WAR [
02:04:41INDISCERNIBLE ] THE LARGER
02:04:44OUTCOME DECISION-MAKING AND ADDED A NEW SHADOW
02:04:48DECISION-MAKING. WE CAN TALK LATER ABOUT THAT.
02:04:51>> RIGHT NOW, WE WILL SEE THE
02:04:57NEW DECISION-MAKERS THAT ARE MORE CONFIDENT AND LESS
02:05:00PREDICTABLE AND WAS PATIENT
02:05:03COMPARED WITH THE PAST.
02:05:06AND SO IT IS THE PERCEPTION OF A
02:05:10THREAT AND THE LEVEL OF
02:05:15CONFIDENCE THEY HAVE THAT THIS
02:05:17WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITH
02:05:20PRESIDENT TRUMP PRESIDENT TRUMP
02:05:22IS NOT PREDICTABLE AND AT THE SAME TIME NOT RELIABLE AND THERE
02:05:26WAS NO DEAL.
02:05:28NO SANCTION RELIEF WITH ANY
02:05:31DURABLE PEACE.
02:05:34SO NEGOTIATIONS AND SANCTIONS
02:05:40ALL OR PART OF THE SAME PACKAGE.
02:05:48SO WE HAVE TO SURVIVE. WE HAVE TO MANAGE THIS.
02:05:50AND WE HAVE TO [ INDISCERNIBLE
02:06:00].
02:06:03SO THE WAR CONTINUING WITH THE
02:06:05END OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.
02:06:09AND SO [ INDISCERNIBLE ] IS NOT
02:06:15WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE OR
02:06:15CANNOT AFFORD IT.
02:06:21[ INDISCERNIBLE ] THIS
02:06:23PERCEPTION OF THREAT THAT THEY
02:06:29HAVE COME A CHANGE TO THE LOGIC OF DECISION-MAKING AND PUSHING
02:06:32THEM TO -- PUSHING THE
02:06:43CONFRONTATION.
02:06:50AT THE SAME TIME, NOT LOSING THE
02:06:54AGENCY AND WAITING TO SEE WHAT
02:06:56IS NEXT AND WHEN THE U.S. WILL
02:07:01TRY TO MANAGE ANOTHER ROUND OF
02:07:03THE WAR.
02:07:06SO MANAGING SOME SORT OF
02:07:08CONFLICT, TO PUSH THE COST-THE
02:07:12UNITED STATES.
02:07:15I DON'T BELIEVE IRAN LOST
02:07:18CONTROL OF THE STRAIGHT OF
02:07:21HORMUZ.
02:07:25I BELIEVE THEY TRIED TO PASS [
02:07:29INDISCERNIBLE ] OF OIL PER DAY.
02:07:33THE SAME TIME, [ INDISCERNIBLE ]
02:07:4280-$90, SO WITH THE PRICE OF
02:07:47FUEL AND GASOLINE.
02:07:55SO IF CRUDE OIL IS $80 FOR $120,
02:08:05FOR EXAMPLE, IF CRUDE OIL IS 80,
02:08:13MAKING THE REFINERY MARGINS HI,
02:08:14IRAN CAN KEEP THE PRESSURE ON
02:08:20THE U.S. ECONOMY AND MANAGE THE
02:08:25CONFLICT.
02:08:25THIS IS HOW IRANIANS THINK AND
02:08:30HOW THEY DESIGN THE BAR [
02:08:39INDISCERNIBLE ]. >> IF YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS
02:08:42ABOUT IRAN AND PARTICULARLY WHAT IS HAPPENING WITHIN THE COUNTRY
02:08:46AND TALK TO HIM ABOUT THAT,
02:08:49202-748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS.
02:08:53202-748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
02:08:53INDEPENDENCE, 202-748-8002.
02:08:58TEXTURE QUESTIONS ON 202-748-8003.
02:09:01WE WILL HEAR FROM TONY AND PENNSYLVANIA. INDEPENDENT LINE.
02:09:05YOU ARE ON WITH OUR GUEST. GO AHEAD. >> YES.
02:09:06GOOD MORNING.
02:09:10SO RARELY DO WE GET TO HEAR THE TRUTH WHEN IT COMES TO WAR AND
02:09:13DAMAGES AND LOSSES.
02:09:15THE U.S. HAS BEEN PUMMELED.
02:09:21OUR BASES AND ASSETS, IN TERMS OF CONTROL OF THE AIRSPACE.
02:09:25WE CAN'T GET NEAR IRAN.
02:09:30PRIOR TO THE WAR, I CALLED IN
02:09:34AND SAID THEY WERE THINK TANKS PROMOTING THE WAR.
02:09:37THERE IS A RAPID PROMOTION OR A LUKEWARM PROMOTION BUT ALWAYS A
02:09:40PROMOTION OF WAR. I POINTED OUT THE PENTAGON
02:09:43LOOKED AT IRAN AND HAVE
02:09:47CONCLUDED THAT THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION.
02:09:49YOU CAN GO INTO IRAN BUT YOU ARE
02:09:52GOING TO FAIL.
02:09:54AND THAT IS WHERE WE ARE AT. THERE IS NOT AN ECONOMIC SANCTION.
02:09:59WE HAVE TRIED THAT FOR 40 YEARS.
02:10:01TIME IS ON IRAN'S SIDE.
02:10:05THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CANNOT SUSTAIN THIS. TRUMP KNOWS THAT AND IRAN KNOWS THAT.
02:10:09PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS IS
02:10:12THAT ISRAEL WANTS THE WAR AND IT
02:10:17SEEMS ISRAEL DRIVES THE FOREIGN POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES AND CERTAINLY NOT THE PEOPLE OF THE
02:10:21UNITED STATES.
02:10:23AMERICANS NEED TO GRAB HOLD OF
02:10:28THE GOVERNMENT AND KICK OUT ALL THE POLITICIANS ACCEPTING MONEY
02:10:31FROM APAC OR DEFENDING OUR KIDS
02:10:36OVERSEAS TO DIE FOR WORDS THAT DON'T BENEFIT US IN THAT WILL
02:10:38CONTINUE TO HAPPEN LIKE IT HAS.
02:10:42>> OKAY, TONY FROM PENNSYLVANIA. THANKS.
02:10:44>> ANY RESPONSE?
02:10:51>> THE CHALLENGE IS -- THE U.S.
02:10:59HAS NO SOLUTION. THE PROBLEM HERE IS [
02:11:03INDISCERNIBLE ] AND THIS
02:11:03ADMINISTRATION [ INDISCERNIBLE ]
02:11:14AND IT IS VERY COSTLY TO PRESENT
02:11:16A NARRATIVE.
02:11:19BECAUSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT
02:11:23IRAN, [ INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:11:26AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS SUCH
02:11:28A GAP IN EVIDENCE AND GAP IN
02:11:33UNDERSTANDING.
02:11:36AND CREATING THE MISCALCULATION.
02:11:39AND I BELIEVE PRESIDENT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, REGARDLESS OF
02:11:42THE PLAN.
02:11:50THE POLITICAL PRESSURE AND
02:11:51ECONOMIC PRESSURE ARE NOT THE
02:11:56SAME.
02:11:57AND [ INDISCERNIBLE ] AND THEIR
02:12:11WILLING TO ACCEPT THE DEAL.
02:12:12BUT, WE KNOW THE PRESSURE WILL
02:12:20NOT WORK.
02:12:23IF YOU WANT TO OVER THE PRESSURE, YOU HAVE TO ADD SOME
02:12:25INCENTIVES WITH THAT PRESSURE
02:12:27LIKE THE EXPERIENCE WE HAVE HAD.
02:12:31AND ADDING INCENTIVES WITH THE
02:12:33SANCTIONS.
02:12:37AND CREATING SOME CONFLICT.
02:12:41AND MAKING IT COSTLY FOR IRAN.
02:12:45SO THEY PREFER TO COMPROMISE.
02:12:46SO RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO SUCH
02:12:50INCENTIVE.
02:12:51AND THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN PROVIDE
02:12:57THIS IS TO BE MORE ACCEPTED.
02:13:03[ INDISCERNIBLE ] THAT IS A PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IN THIS
02:13:07SITUATION.
02:13:09IT IS VERY COSTLY FOR THE REGION
02:13:12AND THE FULL ESCALATION THAT HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR EVERYONE.
02:13:16>> FROM TED IN MASSACHUSETTS.
02:13:19GO AHEAD ON THE DEMOCRAT LINE.
02:13:24>> I WAS WONDERING IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHY THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
02:13:28ARE FIGHTING A WAR OVER
02:13:32RELIGION.
02:13:36>> CAN YOU ELABORATE MORE? >> ELABORATE MORE PLEASE, CALL HER.
02:13:39>> I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE
02:13:40IRANIAN PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING A
02:13:45WAR OVER RELIGION. >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
02:13:49>> ONE RELIGION SHOULDN'T BE FIGHTING ANOTHER RELIGION. THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET ALONG.
02:13:53THAT IS THE HOPE PURPOSE OF RELIGION.
02:13:56TO BE PEACEFUL.
02:13:59>> OKAY. LET ME TAKE THE QUESTION AND ASK
02:14:03YOU ANOTHER ONE. THE PEOPLE OF IRAN, GENERALLY,
02:14:06HOW ARE THEY ACTING TO DECISIONS
02:14:10MADE BY LEADERSHIP WHEN IT COMES
02:14:11TO MILITARY CONFRONTATION?
02:14:15>> WE DON'T HAVE RELIABLE SURVEYS. HERE, WE HAVE SURVEYS WE CAN
02:14:19LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE AND ANY
02:14:2310 PEOPLE CAN TALK ABOUT
02:14:26POLITICS IN THE U.S. OR FOREIGN POLICY.
02:14:28RECENTLY, THERE WAS A SURVEY
02:14:33CONDUCTED BY [ INDISCERNIBLE
02:14:40] -- AND 50 5% WILL SATISFY THE
02:14:44SITUATION.
02:14:44WE SUPPORT FOR OR CHANGE -- AND
02:14:55[ INDISCERNIBLE ] AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY ARE NOT HAPPY
02:14:57WITH THE STATUS QUO.
02:15:03[ INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:15:05AT THE SAME TIME, MAYBE IT IS [
02:15:17INDISCERNIBLE ] AND BEING SUPPRESSED.
02:15:18AND [ INDISCERNIBLE ] AND THEN
02:15:28THAT WOULD [ INDISCERNIBLE ]
02:15:41NOW, AND SO ALSO WE DON'T KNOW
02:15:57THE COST.
02:16:00THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT AFTER
02:16:03THE COLLAPSE, THAT WE WILL HAVE
02:16:10THE RESULT.
02:16:12SO LOOKING AT SYRIA AND LIBYA [
02:16:19INDISCERNIBLE ] THAT IS WHY I
02:16:20BELIEVE -- AT THE SAME TIME, WE
02:16:26ARE NOT SUPPORTING LIKE THE WAR
02:16:33OR COLLAPSE. THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE.
02:16:37THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WAR OR SUPPORT WAR.
02:16:41AND I DON'T BELIEVE THE SYSTEM [
02:16:47INDISCERNIBLE ] RIGHT NOW.
02:16:52AND SO THERE CAUGHT AND SOME LIMBO.
02:16:55AND CHANGING THE LEADERSHIP, [
02:17:04INDISCERNIBLE ] OR ANY POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.
02:17:06AND SO DOESN'T HAVE ANY FUTURE.
02:17:12AND SOME LIMBO.
02:17:17>> FOR OUR GUEST, THIS IS SARAH IN MARYLAND ON THE DEMOCRAT
02:17:20LINE. >> I FIRST WANT TO GIVE A HIGH
02:17:23FIVE TO TONY.
02:17:28ON SPOT. THIS IS A RICH MAN'S --
02:17:32>> YOU ARE BREAKING UP.
02:17:33ARE YOU THERE?
02:17:39>> MAKE SUPER FANCY WEAPONS. THEY MAKE SUPER FANCY WEAPONS THAT RIGHT NOW ARE BEING TAKEN
02:17:42OUT BY LAWNMOWERS ESSENTIALLY
02:17:46DRONES, THROWN AT THEM. AND WE ARE ON OUR BACK HEELS.
02:17:50THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA. THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR PEOPLE
02:17:53OR OUR COUNTRY. >> OKAY, SARAH.
02:17:57WE WILL TAKE THAT. YOU ARE BREAKING IN AND OUT.
02:18:00THANK YOU FOR THE CALL. YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS.
02:18:03THERE IS A VIEWER THAT ASKED YOU
02:18:05ABOUT THE POWER OF THE IRGC AND
02:18:10HOW MUCH THIS HAS AND HOW IT COMPLICATES ANY NEGOTIATIONS GOING FORWARD.
02:18:13HE ALSO SAID EARLIER THAT NOT ONLY DOES IT CHANGE THE
02:18:17DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN IRAN
02:18:19BECAUSE OF THE WAR BUT ALSO WHO IS MAKING THOSE DECISIONS.
02:18:22CAN YOU TIE ALL THOSE THINGS
02:18:23TOGETHER.
02:18:28>> [ INDISCERNIBLE ] OVER THE
02:18:31DECISION-MAKING.
02:18:35MANY IRANIAN POLITICIANS AND
02:18:36LEADERS HAVE SOME AFFILIATION
02:18:40WITH THE IRGC.
02:18:43IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR [
02:18:46INDISCERNIBLE ]. LIKE THE PRIME MINISTER WAS PART
02:18:50OF THE IRGC.
02:18:50AND ANY PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR.
02:18:59VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY IT IS THE IRGC.
02:19:02THE POINT IS THAT -- THEY HAVE
02:19:07FUNCTIONS. SOME PRAGMATIC AND SOME
02:19:11IDEOLOGICAL.
02:19:12IN SOME -- IRGC.
02:19:27AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY NATIOY COUNCIL SUPPORTED THE MOU AND
02:19:30WANTS TO SIGN A DEAL.
02:19:32AND SO WE DON'T KNOW.
02:19:37WHICH PART OF THE [ INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:19:41THE ENTITY, PART OF THE GROUP.
02:19:49PART OF THAT IS THEY ARE PRAGMATIC. AND VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY THAT.
02:19:53AND THE NEW SYSTEM -- THE
02:19:56SANCTIONS.
02:20:00THEY CREATE SOME SORT OF SHADOW
02:20:01BANKING TRADE.
02:20:05WORKING WITH THE FORMAL TRADE.
02:20:14WE HAVE THE FORMAL ECONOMY SYSTEM AND THE DECISION-MAKING.
02:20:16WE DON'T KNOW THE SHADOW
02:20:19DECISION TO SHADOW TRADE.
02:20:22THIS IS A WAY THEY MANAGE THE
02:20:26SANCTIONS. AFTER THE WAR, WE HAVE THE SHADOW DECISION-MAKING PARTLY
02:20:29BECAUSE, WE CAN KNOW WHERE IT
02:20:35IS.
02:20:40AND A FEW LETTERS -- LEADERS
02:20:44COULD [ INDISCERNIBLE ].
02:20:49WE CHANGE THE ARRANGEMENT.
02:20:53AND THE SHADOW DECISION-MAKING,
02:20:54PARTLY WITH IRGC AND ALSO,
02:21:04BESIDES THE OTHER FORMAL
02:21:05INSTITUTIONS, I ENCOURAGE THEM [
02:21:11INDISCERNIBLE ] AND THE NATIONAL
02:21:15COUNCIL TO CREATE SOME SORT OF
02:21:23COORDINATION SOME TIME.
02:21:26AT THE SAME TIME, WE WITNESS THE
02:21:32CONFIDENCE THEY HAVE AND
02:21:38ACTUALLY LESS PREDICTABLE.
02:21:43AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE HAVE THE
02:21:48MEETING BETWEEN THEM.
02:21:50WITH JD VANCE AND [
02:22:00INDISCERNIBLE ], 40, 45 YEARS
02:22:03OLD.
02:22:05SO IT IS NOT THE IRGC
02:22:11CONTROLLING EVERYTHING IT SAID
02:22:13THE COUNTRY.
02:22:17AND UNDERSTANDING WHO THE IRGC
02:22:18IS.
02:22:22>> FROM CARLOS IN NEW YORK, INDEPENDENT LINE. HELLO.
02:22:25>> CAN YOU HEAR ME ALL RIGHT?
02:22:30>> YES. ABOUT IRAN, IF YOU DON'T TAKE --
02:22:33TO GET BACK TO WHAT WE DID THE
02:22:34ORIGINAL ATTACK THERE -- YOU ARE
02:22:38IGNORING REALITY. THE FACT IS THAT THEY STATED THEY HAVE ENOUGH ENRICHED
02:22:42URANIUM WITH 60%, TO 85, 90, FOR
02:22:48IT TO BE USEFUL IN PALMS.
02:22:53BUT GETTING THE EQUIPMENT TO DO THAT. THEY WOULD HAVE HAD IT WITHIN A COUPLE OF YEARS.
02:22:57AT WHICH POINT, YOU CAN COUNT ON ISRAEL BEING DESTROYED AND POSSIBLY NUCLEAR ATTACKS ON
02:23:01EUROPE AS WELL, BEING A VERY
02:23:05HIGH PROBABILITY.
02:23:08THAT IS WHY WE WENT IN THERE. THEY WERE DEVELOPING BALLISTIC
02:23:11MISSILES WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO DO SO
02:23:15SUCCESSFULLY. IT WAS PROBABLY SEVERAL YEARS OUT.
02:23:18BUT THEY WERE AT VERY CRITICAL
02:23:23STAGES OF GETTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE. THE EQUIPMENT BUILT AND
02:23:27NECESSARY TO DEVELOP THE EQUIPMENT TO LEAD TO THE MUSCLES.
02:23:30>> WE WENT IN WHEN WE COULD DO
02:23:33SO AND WE SET THE WAY
02:23:40GEOPOLITICALLY AND TACTICALLY. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST MILITARY
02:23:41MOVES A LEADER OF THE UNITED STATES HAS CALLED FOR PROBABLY
02:23:45SENSE MID WORLD WAR II.
02:23:52>> OKAY. THAT WAS CARLOS IN NEW YORK.
02:23:56HOW DO YOU SWEAR WHAT HE SAID AS FAR AS THE ADMINISTRATION'S
02:23:58INITIAL REASONS FOR GOING INTO
02:24:00IRAN?
02:24:02WHICH WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IS
02:24:05THE STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ.
02:24:11>> THEY HAVE A VERY STRONG,
02:24:12MUTED POWER.
02:24:16[ INDISCERNIBLE ] AND SHOWING
02:24:17THE CAPABILITY.
02:24:21IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST 10
02:24:23YEARS, LOOKING AT 2018, [
02:24:30INDISCERNIBLE ] IN THE WAR.
02:24:37AND SO ENRICHMENT WAS AT
02:24:45THREE-POINT 5%. AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP, AFTER ONE
02:24:48AND A HALF YEARS, STARTING [
02:24:52INDISCERNIBLE ] AND IRANIAN
02:24:57SCIENTISTS, IRANIANS TRIED TO CREATE SOME PRESSURE OR LEVERAGE
02:25:00TO INCREASE ACCESS TO THE
02:25:03INFORMATION.
02:25:07BY INCREASING THE LEVEL OF
02:25:08ENRICHMENT SO WE CAN REACH FROM
02:25:133%, TO 20% AND THEN 60% AND THEN
02:25:18THE [ INDISCERNIBLE ] TONE UNDER
02:25:22200 WITH THE JCPOA, AND SO, 30
02:25:33TIMES MORE.
02:25:34AND [ INDISCERNIBLE ] FROM [
02:25:44INDISCERNIBLE ] -- [
02:25:52INDISCERNIBLE ] I BELIEVE IT
02:25:58COULD BE MANAGED THROUGH
02:25:59NEGOTIATION AND THROUGH THE
02:26:03REGIONAL -- TALKS WITH THE
02:26:06REGIONAL NATION AND STATES.
02:26:10NOW THE PROBLEM IS NOT -- THE
02:26:14PROBLEM BENEATH ALL OF THIS.
02:26:18WE DON'T KNOW TOMORROW.
02:26:21THE NEXT PROBLEM OR THE ISSUE
02:26:24WOULD BE WITH IRAN HAVING A
02:26:29NUCLEAR WEAPON AND WE DON'T
02:26:37KNOW.
02:26:46[ INDISCERNIBLE ] WHAT THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO IT. SO I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU
02:26:49JUST RELY ON [ INDISCERNIBLE ],
02:26:55WHEN WE TRY TO USE IT, WITH
02:27:00SANCTIONS -- SO WE CREATE A NEW
02:27:03PROBLEM IN THE COST -- WE ARE
02:27:07LOOKING AT THE CONFIDENCE AFTER
02:27:16THE WAR. THE U.S. KILLED THE [
02:27:17INDISCERNIBLE ] LEADER.
02:27:26327 -- SANCTIONS.
02:27:30AND DIPLOMACY CAN HELP TO MANAGE
02:27:40AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
02:27:42YOU HAVE TO USE WITH INCENTIVES.
02:27:54[ INDISCERNIBLE ]. >> THERE IS A STORY STEMMING FROM THIS WEEK SAYING WE WOULD
02:27:58BE NEXT WEEK ON MONDAY WHERE THE TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT
02:28:02SAID THEY WILL INTRODUCE MORE ECONOMIC MEASURES THAT THEY
02:28:03CLAIM WILL SQUASH THE ECONOMY IN
02:28:06IRAN AND COLLAPSE THE REGIME. WHAT HAVE THEY SAID ABOUT THE
02:28:09APPROACH PREVIOUSLY AND CAN YOU
02:28:11MEASURE THE CHANGE?
02:28:16>> SO THE NOMINAL [
02:28:18INDISCERNIBLE ] ON IRAN INVOLVES
02:28:213700 CASES.
02:28:25EVERYTHING IS UNDER SANCTION.
02:28:28AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE
02:28:31BLOCKADE, CLOSING ACCESS [
02:28:34INDISCERNIBLE ] AND NO ACCESS TO
02:28:38IMPORTS.
02:28:47>> ANYMORE SANCTIONS OR ANYMORE
02:28:49BLOCKADES [ INDISCERNIBLE ] BUT
02:28:56UNDER HEAVY PRESSURE.
02:29:00SO THE SANCTIONS USUALLY TAKE
02:29:04ONE YEAR, SIX MONTHS, TWO YEARS
02:29:05AND THE ECONOMY LEARNS HOW TO
02:29:08MANAGE AND CONDUCT ITSELF AND
02:29:13HELP MANAGE IT.
02:29:18I DON'T BELIEVE THE SANCTIONS
02:29:20WOULD PUT MORE FORCE ON IT. CHINA WOULD BE HELPFUL TO MAKE
02:29:23THINGS [ INDISCERNIBLE ] MORE WU
02:29:30KILL NECESSARILY THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY. YOU KILL ALL THE COMMANDERS.
02:29:35THERE IS ONLY COST OF ALL THAT
02:29:37YOU CAN PUSH TO HAVE MILITARY RESOLVE.
02:29:40I DON'T BELIEVE NEW SANCTION WOULD BE VERY PAINFUL FOR IRAN'S ECONOMY.
02:29:44OF COURSE FOR IRANIAN PEOPLE THE COST OF SANCTION IS MORE
02:29:49INFLATION, MORE AUTHORITY, YOU
02:29:52KNOW, ACCESS TO THEIR EDUCATION,
02:29:56HEALTH, AND EVERYTHING, BUT IT
02:29:57DOESN'T MEAN THIS IN FURTHER
02:30:01ECONOMY PRESSURE WOULD LEAD TO
02:30:06EFFECTIVE DOMESTIC PRESSURE ON SIDE OF IRAN AND LEAD TO DESIRED
02:30:10OUTCOME WASHINGTON WANTS.
02:30:11HOST: OUR GUEST'S WORK CAN BE
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02:30:25GUEST: THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. HOST: WE WILL FINISH WITH OPEN FORUM.
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02:31:23CALLERS TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY
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02:31:44>> CAMPAIGN 20 IS UNDERWAY AND
02:31:49THE STAKES COULDN'T BE HIGHER. EVERY SEAT IN THE UNITED STATES
02:31:53HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS UP
02:31:53FOR GRABS ALONG WITH 33 U.S.
02:31:58SENATE RACES AND THE OUTCOME OF BOTH COULD RESHAPE THE BALANCE OF POWER IN WASHINGTON.
02:32:02VOTERS WILL DECIDE 36 GUBERNATORIAL CONTESTS.
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02:32:19CONTINUES.
02:32:22HOST: YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN
02:32:24OPEN FORUM BY CALLING.
02:32:30TEXT US AT (202) 748-8003. DEMOCRATS LINE.
02:32:36ANTHONY, BRONX, NEW YORK.
02:32:38YOU'RE ON, GO AHEAD. CALLER: MY QUESTION IS, WHY
02:32:42SHOULD TRUMP -- WHY SHOULD TRUMP
02:32:46GET THE SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM
02:32:48WHEN HE HASN'T -- HE DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THE MILITARY?
02:32:52AND MILLER HAS HARBOR IN THE
02:33:01NAVY SHIPS THAT AWARDED A MEDAL.
02:33:06WHY SHOULD THAT BE NAMED AFTER HIM, MILLER?
02:33:09HOST: JAN, FLORIDA, INDEPENDENT LINE.
02:33:13HI. CALLER: I'M INTERESTED IN
02:33:17CALLING ABOUT THE PREVIOUS
02:33:20SPEAKER REGARDING THE WAR IN I RAN.
02:33:22I WAS BORN AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
02:33:29MY MOTHER WAS ONE OF THE ROSY RIVETERS.
02:33:33WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A TREMENDOUS OF PEOPLE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME.
02:33:42I'VE SEEN THE DESTRUCTION OF PROBABLY HALF OF OUR ENVIRONMENT IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
02:33:47AND BECAUSE OF WARS, BECAUSE OF
02:33:52PEOPLE THAT CONTINUE TO WANT TO PUT MONEY INTO BUILDING MORE
02:33:55WEAPONS, WE'RE NOT FINDING
02:34:00SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS THE WAY WE SHOULD.
02:34:02I BELIEVE MORE WOMEN'S VOICES
02:34:05SHOULD BE HEARD IN SETTLING OUR ARGUMENTS WITH OTHER NATIONS.
02:34:09AND I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE DONE
02:34:11THROUGH NEGOTIATION, NOT BOMBING OTHER COUNTRIES.
02:34:18WE ARE BEING PREEMPTIVE. I THINK THAT'S WRONG.
02:34:21I THINK THE PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE GOING TO BE VERY DISSATISFIED WITH US.
02:34:27WE HAD WONDERFUL
02:34:32NEGOTIATORS FROM JOHN KERRY WHO HAD BEEN IN VIETNAM AS AN
02:34:34OFFICER AND HE HELPED TO END THAT WAR WHEN HE CAME BACK WITH OTHER OFFICERS.
02:34:38HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE NEGOTIATION WITH IRAN.
02:34:44I BELIEVE IT WAS A GOOD -- A GOOD AGREEMENT AND IT SHOULD HAVE HELD.
02:34:49AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN CHARGE NOW, I'M SAD TO SAY,
02:34:53DON'T KNOW THE -- EXCUSE ME -- THE FIRST THING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
02:34:58I'M SORRY, I'VE HAD A STROKE SO MAYBE MY SPEECHES IN AS GOOD AS IT SHOULD BE.
02:35:02HOST: YOU GOT YOUR POINT ACROSS.
02:35:06THANKS FOR CALLING IN. SHARON IN OREGON ON THE DEMOCRATS LINE.
02:35:10YOU ARE NEXT ON OPEN FORUM. CALLER: I WAS GOING TO TALK
02:35:15ABOUT THE ECONOMY. I HOPE TO GET IN WITH THE SPEAKER, BUT HE DIDN'T.
02:35:18I WILL MAKE IT QUICK. THEY KNEW THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL
02:35:23BILL -- BECAUSE THE SHORT TIME
02:35:26AROUND -- THE FIRST ON
02:35:29AROUND IT AT A $2 TRILLION TO THE DEBT.
02:35:31THE CURRENT ONE WILL ADD OVER $7 TRILLION.
02:35:35THEY ALSO -- BUT THEY DECIDED
02:35:41WAS THEY WERE GOING TO BALANCE
02:35:43IT BY PUTTING IN THE TARIFFS.
02:35:46SO THEY GIVE TAX CUTS WHICH LOWERED THE REVENUE FOR THE
02:35:49GOVERNMENT, WHICH PAYS FOR THE
02:35:51BILLS FOR THE RICH, AND IN TURN
02:35:55THE TARIFFS, WHICH MAINLY AFFECTED THE MIDDLE-CLASS AND
02:35:58THE POOR, WOULD TAKE UP FOR
02:36:03THOSE CUTS. THE TROUBLE WAS THE TARIFFS ONLY
02:36:06BROUGHT IN 215 BILLION DOLLARS.
02:36:09AND THAT GOT CUT DOWN TO $100
02:36:11BILLION BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY WERE ILLEGAL.
02:36:15NOW WE ARE WAY IN THE WHOLE. -- IN THE HOLE.
02:36:20ON TOP OF THIS 46% -- EXCUSE ME
02:36:24-- I'M SORRY, I'M SO NERVOUS, I'M SORRY.
02:36:27HOST: YOU'RE FINE. GO AHEAD.
02:36:31CALLER: I'M SO NERVOUS.
02:36:34WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IN TERMS
02:36:36OF THE WONDERFUL DOGE THEY
02:36:40CLAIMED THEY CUT 215 TRILLION WHICH IS NOTHING OF WHAT WE OWE,
02:36:43BUT IT WAS UPDATED AND THE GAO
02:36:46SAID IT WAS ONLY ONE HUNDRED 10 END OF THE 2500 CONTRACTS THEY
02:36:50SAID THEY CANCELED 96% OF THEM DIDN'T HAPPEN. IT WAS A LIE.
02:36:53HOST: SHARON IN OREGON, THANK
02:36:57YOU FOR CALLING IN.
02:36:58WE NOW KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THE
02:37:01FUTURE OF WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITT. IT'S REPORTED THAT THE HILL AND
02:37:04OTHER PLACES SHE IS LEAVING THE
02:37:07TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHICH WAS ANNOUNCED PREVIOUS, SHE SET TO
02:37:11WORK AT THE MAGA PRESIDENT'S
02:37:12MAGA INC. SUPER PAC THAT SHE
02:37:16CONFIRMED ON FRIDAY. SHE SHARED HER NEXT CAREER MOVE WITH REPORTERS OUTSIDE OF YOUR
02:37:20FIRST ONE ON FRIDAY ONE WEEK AFTER SHE ANNOUNCED SHE WOULD STEP DOWN AT THE END OF AUGUST
02:37:23TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER FAMILY. SHE DID NOT ELABORATE ON WHAT
02:37:27HER TITLE WOULD BE AT MAGA INC,
02:37:32SITTING AT OVER 350 MILLION DOLLARS OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS AHEAD
02:37:35OF THE NOVEMBER MIDTERMS. SHE MADE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AS
02:37:38THE PRESIDENT WAS TRAVELING TO
02:37:40SOUTH CAROLINA TO HELP SUPPORT SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM IN HER
02:37:43EFFORT TO WIN. IT WAS DURING THE TIME OF THE
02:37:47PRESIDENT MADE THESE COMMENTS ABOUT DARLINE GRAHAM. [VIDEO CLIP]
02:37:49>> YOU HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
02:37:53STANDING OUTSIDE, CAN'T GET IN. THEY ARE STANDING OUTSIDE AND WE
02:37:56ARE NOT EVEN REALLY RUNNING, BUT WE ARE RUNNING, BECAUSE WE HAVE
02:37:59TO GET DARLINE AND OTHER PEOPLE
02:38:04ELECTED. SO WE ARE RUNNING.
02:38:05AND OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE
02:38:09IS IF THEY SAY THAT TRUMP DOES GREAT WHEN HE'S ON THE BALLOT,
02:38:13BUT WHEN HE'S NOT ON THE BALLOT
02:38:15HIS PEOPLE DON'T COME AND THEY DON'T VOTE FOR SENATORS,
02:38:19CONGRESSMEN, AND OTHER REPUBLICANS, AND THAT THESE
02:38:23PEOPLE, THEY ARE RUNNING, THEY ARE GREAT, BUT IF TRUMP ISN'T
02:38:27ACTUALLY ON THE BALLOT -- SO,
02:38:28WHAT I REALLY WANT YOU TO DO IS
02:38:32PRETEND, PLEASE, THAT I'M ON THE BALLOT. JUST COME AND VOTE. IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
02:38:38SO JUST SAY THAT I'M ON THE
02:38:43BALLOT ONE MORE TIME. YOU'VE GOT TO SAY IT.
02:38:45AND YOU'VE GOT TO COME OUT. AND VOTE.
02:38:48HOST: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE.
02:38:52SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE AND APP TO SEE MORE.
02:38:58(202) 748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS. (202) 748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
02:39:01INDEPENDENTS, (202) 748-8002. ANY IN FLORIDA, INDEPENDENT LINE.
02:39:05CALLER: HI.
02:39:10YEAH, I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS NATALIE
02:39:13HEART -- I THINK IS HER NAME.
02:39:19IF HE HAS AN ASSISTANT AND EVERY
02:39:20ONCE IN A WHILE HE NEEDS TO GRAB
02:39:26HER TO GET SOME ASSISTANCE, I DON'T THINK THERE SHOULD BE
02:39:30ANYTHING NEW AND WRONG WITH THAT .
02:39:33IT WAS OK WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD
02:39:39PUT A TICK TACK IN HIS MOUTH AND
02:39:43KISSED GIRLS AND GRAB THEM BY SOMEPLACE LOWER THAN THEIR
02:39:46WAISTBAND AND GO INTO E. JEAN
02:39:50CARROLL'S DRESSING ROOM AND
02:39:52MOLEST HER --
02:39:55HOST: WE GOT IT.
02:39:59CALLER: THE POINT I WOULD LIKE
02:40:04TO MAKE IS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS SUPPOSED TO BE INTERNATIONAL WATER.
02:40:10NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THAT DOWN. SO COUNTRIES LIKE BRITAIN AND
02:40:15FRANCE, WHO HAVE LOTS OF
02:40:18MINESWEEPERS, WHY AREN'T THEY GETTING THE MINDS OUT OF THE WAY SO THAT THE INTERNATIONAL
02:40:22WATERWAY -- MINES OUT OF THE WAY
02:40:27SO THE INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY CAN BE OPENED? I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE
02:40:31SHOULD INSIST THAT THEY DO. THANK YOU FOR C-SPAN.
02:40:35HOST: JERRY IN MICHIGAN, DEMOCRATS LINE.
02:40:38CALLER: THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT HOW
02:40:42MUCH MONEY THE REPUBLICANS ARE SPENDING TO GET ELECTED AND EVERYTHING.
02:40:49I THINK IT'S REALLY HURTING
02:40:51THEM, BECAUSE WE ARE AVERAGE
02:40:53EVERYDAY PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE A
02:40:58LIVING AND THEY ARE SPENDING ALL THIS MONEY.
02:41:05AND I JUST CAN'T SEE -- I'M GLAD
02:41:08THEY ARE BRINGING ALL THIS MONEY
02:41:09IN, BUT YOU CAN'T BUY THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.
02:41:15THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR WHO THEY WANT TO.
02:41:17YOU CAN'T SPEND ALL THAT MONEY, BUT WE APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING
02:41:21MORE MONEY TO MICHIGAN AND
02:41:23SPENDING IT, BECAUSE IT HELPS OUR ECONOMY.
02:41:28AND I'M JUST GLAD THAT THE
02:41:31PEOPLE CAN'T BE BOUGHT, THAT
02:41:35AREN'T SPENDING THAT MUCH MONEY AND STILL WINNING.
02:41:37HOST: MELISSA JOINS US FROM NEW
02:41:41YORK. INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING.
02:41:47I COULDN'T GET THROUGH WITH
02:41:50HIGHER EDUCATION IN OUR COUNTRY. I'M GETTING READY TO RETIRE.
02:41:54I'VE BEEN A COUNTY PROFESSOR IN THE SECOND LARGEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY
02:41:58FOR THE LAST 40 THREE YEARS.
02:42:00WHAT I'VE SEEN PERSONALLY,
02:42:04EXPERIENCED, IS DISHEARTENING AND ATROCIOUS.
02:42:07WHEN I STARTED 43 YEARS AGO I
02:42:09WAS ABLE TO TEACH JUST AS THE
02:42:11COMMUNITY COLLEGE I WAS AT LIKE
02:42:15ANY OTHER UNIVERSITY. I EXPECTED A LOT.
02:42:18I WAS DEMANDING. THE STUDENTS WERE THERE, WILLING, ABLE, AND WANTING TO
02:42:22ACHIEVE.
02:42:24ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, MANY OF MY
02:42:28COLLEAGUES CAME UP WITH A TERM CALLED ACADEMIC MALPRACTICE.
02:42:31AS WE HAD TO LOWER, AND LOWER,
02:42:35AND LOWER OUR STANDARDS OVER THE YEARS WE WERE NO LONGER TEACHING ON A COLLEGE LEVEL.
02:42:38I CAN TELL YOU, IT IS A VERY SERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.
02:42:44COMMITTEE, MANY FULL-TIME FACULTY HAVE BEEN RETIRING AND
02:42:47BEING REPLACED BY ADJUNCTS. NOTHING AGAINST ADJUNCTS, BUT
02:42:50THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS CHANGING.
02:42:54MY GREATEST FEAR FOR THE FUTURE IS, WE DIDN'T HAVE SHORTCUTS
02:42:58GOING BACK 40, 50, SALON YEARS
02:43:00AGO, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY SHORTCUTS NOW.
02:43:03I WONDER IN TERMS OF THE FUTURE HOW IMPORTANT CRITICAL THINKING
02:43:06WILL BE WHEN SO MUCH OF THE
02:43:09THINKING THAT WILL HAPPEN WILL BE DONE FOR US.
02:43:11HOST: ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE
02:43:15USE OF AI TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIKE?
02:43:19CALLER: ABSOLUTELY. EIGHT.
02:43:20WHEN I WAS A STUDENT WE DIDN'T
02:43:23HAVE HANDHELD CALCULATORS, GRAPHING CALCULATORS.
02:43:26YOU HAD TO BUILD CRITICAL THINKING. STUDYING.
02:43:30EFFORT. NOW THEY SAY, MY GOODNESS, DON'T
02:43:34GIVE HOMEWORK TO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. YOU KNOW.
02:43:37THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
02:43:38IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK, THE LAST
02:43:41THING I WILL SAY, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW MAJOR
02:43:44UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS ARE NO LONGER GOING TO REQUIRE FORMAL GRADING
02:43:47FOR AT LEAST THE FIRST SEMESTER FRESHMAN, IF NOT FIRST AND SECOND SEMESTER.
02:43:53I DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE STUDENTS FROM GETTING -- YOU
02:43:57KNOW, IF THEY GET POOR GRADES,
02:43:57TO DROP OUT.
02:44:03ONE OF THE GREATEST RISKS THAT
02:44:05-- AT THE HIGHER EDUCATION
02:44:09IN THIS COUNTRY IS NOT HAVE INCOMING STUDENTS AND HAVE THEM GO THE FOUR YEARS.
02:44:14HOST: JOHN JOINING US FROM TEXAS.
02:44:17CALLER: I AGREE WITH THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THE QUALITY.
02:44:21I HAVE TWO GIRLS IN COLLEGE. WHEN YOU GET SIX CHANCES TO GET
02:44:25THE ANSWER RIGHT IT'S INSANE. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS PUSH
02:44:29BY THE SOCIALISTS FOR FREE MEDICARE. THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT NOTHING IS FREE.
02:44:33RIGHT NOW, IF YOU POSITION
02:44:37BASICALLY THE PRIVATE INSURANCE THAT PAYS $1.43 FOR EVERY ONE
02:44:42DOLLAR MEDICARE PAYS. IF YOU GO ON MEDICARE THEY HAVE
02:44:45YOUR DOCTOR WILL GET A 30% CUT IN PAY. HOW MANY WILL DO THAT?
02:44:49IT'S WORSE IN THE HOSPITALS. PRIVATE INSURANCE, THEY HAVE TO
02:44:53SUBSIDIZE THE OTHER PEOPLE GETTING FREE SERVICE, MEDICAID,
02:44:57PAYING OVER 200% WHAT MEDICARE PAYS.
02:44:59IF WE GO INTO MEDICARE FOR ALL, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DOCTOR.
02:45:03THE LINES WILL BE LONG.
02:45:05THERE WILL BE NO HOSPITALS. MOSTLY DOCTORS WILL RETIRE.
02:45:09THERE IS NOTHING FOR FREE.
02:45:11PEOPLE HAVE TO REALIZE THIS IS A GAME.
02:45:14THEY ARE DUMBING DOWN EDUCATION. IT IS PART OF A LONG PLAN.
02:45:17WE DEPEND ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR EVERYTHING.
02:45:20IF WE GO TO MEDICARE FOR ALL WE ARE DONE. YOU WILL WAIT IN LINE.
02:45:24YOUR FAMILY WILL DIE. YOU WILL WAIT, PLUS ALL OF THE
02:45:29ILLEGALS COME IN.
02:45:32IT IS A TERRIBLE OPTION.
02:45:35THEY NEED TO LEARN NOTHING IS FREE. WOULD YOU WORK, WOULD YOU TAKE A
02:45:3950% CUT AND KEEP WORKING TO DO TWICE THE WORK TO SURVIVE? NO.
02:45:46REALLY APPRECIATE IT. HOST: JOHN IN TEXAS.
02:45:49PERHAPS WERE ONE OF MANY WHO WATCHED OUR PROGRAM ON C-SPAN AS
02:45:53WE SIMULCAST TWO RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS.
02:45:55STEPHANIE MILLER AND HUGH HEWITT DURING THE WEEK.
02:45:59WE WILL CONTINUE THAT TREND NEXT WEEK ON OUR NETWORKS ON C-SPAN 2.
02:46:04WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THE LIVE TALK RADIO SIMULCAST.
02:46:08MONDAY AT 9:00 A.M. EASTERN THE FORMER REPUBLICAN TURNED
02:46:11INDEPENDENT MICHAEL SMERCONISH,
02:46:16CHALLENGING BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM.
02:46:18AT NOON PROGRESSIVE,
02:46:22COMMENTATOR THOM HARTMANN.
02:46:26AT 3:00 WE WILL TALK TO
02:46:30CONSERVATIVE RADIO TALKSHOW HOST HOWIE CARR.
02:46:33HE WILL FOCUS ON POLITICS IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.
02:46:37YOU CAN SEE THAT ON C-SPAN 2,
02:46:40OUR APP C-SPAN NOW, AND KISSED SIMULCASTS ON OUR WEBSITE,
02:46:44C-SPAN.ORG -- AND CATCH SIMULCASTS ON OUR WEBSITE, C-SPAN.ORG.
02:46:49CALLER: I WANT TO SAY PRESIDENT
02:46:53TRUMP SHOULD HAVE NEVER STIRRED UP THAT HORNETS NEST IN IRAN.
02:46:57HE SHOULD'VE LEFT THEM ALONE.
02:47:01THEY WEREN'T BOTHERING ANYBODY. THAT WAS FOR ISRAEL TO BOTHER
02:47:04THEM IF THEY WANTED TO. THAT'S TERRIBLE THAT WE GOT
02:47:08INVOLVED WITH THAT. JUST LIKE LEON PANETTA AND THOSE
02:47:12GENERALS STATED, WE SHOULD HAVE
02:47:14NEVER ASSASSINATED THOSE LEADERS OVER THERE.
02:47:17WE DON'T DO THAT SORT OF THING.
02:47:19WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING IT.
02:47:22ASSASSINATING OTHER COUNTRY'S LEADERS. THINK ABOUT IT.
02:47:24THAT MAN THAT'S IN CHARGE NOW, THAT WAS HIS FATHER.
02:47:29HE'S ALL STIRRED UP NOW AND HE WANTS REVENGE.
02:47:31THINK ABOUT THE DEAL THAT OBAMA HAD.
02:47:34THEY WILL NEVER GET BACK. BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE GOING TO
02:47:37USE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AS COLLATERAL. THEY ARE GOING TO USE THAT, AND
02:47:41THEY NEVER USED IT BEFORE WITH OBAMA'S DEAL.
02:47:44SEE, IT'S MAKING IT VERY WORSE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.
02:47:47HE'S NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO END THIS WAR BECAUSE THEY HAVE LEVERAGE NOW.
02:47:52THINK ABOUT IT. OBAMA HAD A GREAT DEAL AND
02:47:55PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD BE OH SO LUCKY TO GET THAT DEAL BACK.
02:47:57HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO GET A LOT MORE.
02:48:00I'M TALKING ABOUT, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO REBUILD ALL THE
02:48:03DAMAGE WE DID TO THAT COUNTRY, BECAUSE THAT'S USUALLY WHAT WE
02:48:07DO, DON'T WE? WE HAVE TO REBUILD THOSE COUNTRIES WHEN WE DAMAGE IN THEM
02:48:11AND WE GET INVOLVED WITH THINGS WE SHOULD NOT GET INVOLVED IN.
02:48:14HE STARTED THIS WAR AND HE WILL PAY THE PRICE.
02:48:17AS A MATTER OF FACT, I DON'T WANT THEM TO EVER HAVE A NUCLEAR
02:48:21WEAPON -- DON'T GET ME WRONG. I'M KIND OF GLAD THEY ARE GIVING
02:48:24TRUMP A RUN FOR HIS MONEY.
02:48:27HOST: JONATHAN IN DALLAS, TEXAS. INDEPENDENT LINE.
02:48:31CALLER: HELLO.
02:48:35HOST: YOU ARE ON.
02:48:37CALLER: I THINK AMERICUS IS WE
02:48:40BELIEVE IN GOD AND INTEGRITY AND
02:48:44BEING UPRIGHT AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
02:48:48NO ONE IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE
02:48:50MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
02:48:53THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND EVEN OUR LEADERS -- SENATORS AND HOUSE OF
02:48:57REPRESENTATIVES AND WHAT HAVE YOU -- HOW THEY ARE JUST DOING
02:49:01THINGS THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE
02:49:06OUR CHILDREN OUR GRANDCHILDREN TO DO. THEY ARE NOT VETTED.
02:49:11THEY ARE NOT -- I WOULD NOT
02:49:16POINT TO A LEADER IN THIS
02:49:16COUNTRY AND SAY, YOUNG MAN,
02:49:21YOUNG LADY, FOLLOW THIS PERSON.
02:49:25BECAUSE THEY ARE SO CORRUPT IN
02:49:27THEIR PERSONAL LIVES.
02:49:31OUR PRESIDENT -- HIM AND HIS
02:49:33FAMILY -- DOING SO MUCH
02:49:36CORRUPTION AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT.
02:49:39AND THEN THE POWERS TO BE ARE
02:49:41NOT SAYING ANYTHING.
02:49:46NO NOTHING.
02:49:50IT'S JUST WRONG. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A COUNTRY
02:49:54OF GOD AND CHRISTIANITY AND
02:49:59JESUS.
02:50:02I THINK NOT.
02:50:05HOST: JONATHAN IN DALLAS, TEXAS. SPEAKING ABOUT EFFORTS BY DONALD
02:50:09TRUMP AND THE TEXAS SENATE RACE SAYING THAT HIS SUPER PAC
02:50:13CONTINUED TO SIT ON ITS $400
02:50:15MILLION WARCHEST IN JULY, ACCORDING TO NEW SPENDING
02:50:19FIGURES, REFUSING TO OPEN
02:50:20COFFERS TO BOOST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
02:50:24KEN PAXTON IS ESSENTIALLY IN A DEAD HEAT WITH THE DEMOCRAT
02:50:27JAMES TALARICO. REPUBLICAN DONORS SAY MR. TRUMP BEARS RESPONSIBILITY TO FINANCE
02:50:31THE CAMPAIGN NEEDED TO KEEP THE STATE FROM FLIPPING.
02:50:34MAGA INC IS NOT DIRECTLY
02:50:39CONTROLLED BY THE PRESIDENT AND IS SUPPOSED TO OPERATE
02:50:43INDEPENDENTLY. THE PRESIDENT HAS OFTEN HAD
02:50:46SIGNIFICANT SWAY OVER THE ORGANIZATION.
02:50:48THEY HAD 3 MILLION IN
02:50:55CASH ON HAND.
02:50:56THE PAC THEN IT SPENT ON BEHALF
02:50:59OF ANY CANDIDATES LAST MONTH.
02:51:02LET'S HEAR FROM FLORIDA, DEMOCRATS LINE.
02:51:06CALLER: HELLO. THANKS FOR C-SPAN.
02:51:12I WOULD LIKE TO STATE WE SHOULD
02:51:17NEVER HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN
02:51:20ATTACKING IRAN WITH ISRAEL ALONE
02:51:24.
02:51:24WE DIDN'T INVOLVE OUR ALLIES WHO
02:51:29, IF THEY ARE STILL OUR ALLIES,
02:51:32REALIZE THE FAILURE OF THE LEADERSHIP WE HAVE IN OUR COUNTRY.
02:51:36I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT POTUS
02:51:42SHOULD HAVE HIS NAME ON OUR
02:51:44COINAGE, OUR DOLLARS.
02:51:48I DON'T BELIEVE HE SHOULD BE
02:51:49REWARDED WITH A BALLROOM OR
02:51:54ARCH.
02:51:56WE HAVE A $40 TRILLION DEBT.
02:52:01WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE
02:52:02DEFICIT AT THIS POINT.
02:52:06NO, WE SHOULD NOT BE GIVING THIS
02:52:09POTUS ANY NOTICE OR REWARD FOR
02:52:15HIS ACTIONS AS HIS LEADERSHIP
02:52:20HAS LED US.
02:52:22HOST: MONTANA, INDEPENDENT LINE.
02:52:27CALLER: THANKS. THIS IS JUST AN IDEA.
02:52:3178,000 WHEN -- WINDMILLS
02:52:36IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.
02:52:38ELECTRICITY FROM THAT IS AROUND 600% MORE THAN THE TYPICAL
02:52:41ELECTRICITY MADE THROUGH NATURAL
02:52:45GAS.
02:52:48WHAT I WAS SAYING IS, IN EUROPE
02:52:51THEY HAVE SO MANY WINDMILLS THEY ARE FIGHTING OVER THE WIND.
02:52:55THEY ARE SAYING SOME WINDMILLS
02:52:58ARE IN THE WAY.
02:52:59IF YOU PUT THESE WINDMILLS UP
02:53:03YOU NEED WIND TO COOL THE EARTH. NOW YOU'RE PUTTING ALL THESE
02:53:06WINDMILLS UP AND THAT WILL SLOW
02:53:09THE COOLING OF THE EARTH.
02:53:11WHETHER I AM RIGHT OR WRONG, IT
02:53:13IS JUST AN IDEA I THOUGHT.
02:53:16THERE ARE 78 THOUSAND WINDMILLS.
02:53:19THE TRUCKS HAVE TO VISIT EACH ONE AND GO UP AND GREASE THEM.
02:53:24IT SEEMS IT COULD BE NOT THE THING TO DO WITH THE WINDMILLS.
02:53:27HOST: THAT IS DANIEL IN MONTANA.
02:53:32THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING THE FIRST DEPORTATION FLIGHT TO
02:53:35HAITI SINCE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ENDED HUMANITARIAN PROTECTIONS FOR
02:53:38350,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN THE U.S. LANDED THURSDAY IN THE
02:53:42CARIBBEAN NATION. ACTIVISTS SAY IMMIGRATION
02:53:45ARRESTS ARE BEGINNING TO RAMP UP. THE FLIGHT CARRYING 100 70
02:53:49PEOPLE RANGING IN AGE FROM 19 TO 71 LANDED IN K PATIENT ON THE
02:53:53NORTHERN COAST OF HAITI. COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS HAVE BLOCKED LANDING IN THE CARIBBEAN
02:53:57NATION'S PRIMARY AIRPORT IN THE CAPITAL PORT-AU-PRINCE DUE TO
02:54:01GANG ACTIVITY AND REPORTS OF AIRCRAFT BEING STRUCK BY GUNFIRE.
02:54:04THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN SENDING DEPORTEES BACK TO HAITI
02:54:08ON MONTHLY FLIGHTS BUT THERE'S THESE REMOVAL WAS AMONG THE LARGEST COMMUNITY LEADER SAY
02:54:11THEY'VE SEEN DURING THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
02:54:15LET'S GO TO PATTY ON THE DEMOCRATS LINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
02:54:22PATTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA?
02:54:26ONE MORE TIME FOR PATTY.
02:54:31LET'S TRY ROGER. ROGER IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY.
02:54:36CALLER: HELLO?
02:54:38HOST: IS THIS PATTY OR ROGER?
02:54:42CALLER: PATTY.
02:54:45I JUST WANTED TO MAKE AN
02:54:47OPINION, ASK ABOUT SOMETHING. EARLIER ON PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS
02:54:51TALKING ABOUT ADDING TARIFFS -- RAISING THE TARIFFS TO CANADA
02:54:54BECAUSE OF THE FIRES UP THERE, BECAUSE OF THE AIR QUALITY.
02:54:58AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW
02:55:01WHEN ALL THIS CAME UP ABOUT THAT, I THOUGHT, HOW ARE YOU
02:55:05GOING TO DO TARIFFS BECAUSE OF THE FIRES?
02:55:07THEY CAN'T HELP ABOUT THE FIRES. ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW THEY TALK
02:55:10ABOUT MAKING A DEAL WITH CANADA, WHICH I READ THIS MORNING DID
02:55:13NOT GO THROUGH IN TARIFFS ARE GOING UP.
02:55:17I SAID, HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DEAL ABOUT WILDFIRES?
02:55:21THAT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. TO ME I THINK IS TRYING TO OPEN
02:55:24THAT LINE BACK UP AND EVERYTHING.
02:55:27TO ME, THAT IS TOTALLY NOT TRUTHFUL. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT IT
02:55:31BECAUSE IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE FIRES OUT THERE AND TARIFFS AND
02:55:34NOW IT IS MAKING A DEAL. YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE A DEAL ABOUT
02:55:38FIRES. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS. HOST: PATTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA ON
02:55:42THE DEMOCRATS LINE. THIS IS OPEN FORUM. YOU HAVE A FEW MINUTES.
02:55:47IF YOU WANT TO.
02:55:48(202) 748-8001 FOR REPUBLICANS. (202) 748-8000 FOR DEMOCRATS.
02:55:53INDEPENDENTS (202) 748-8002. MASSACHUSETTS ON THE LINE FOR
02:55:57INDEPENDENTS WE WILL HEAR FROM FRANK. CALLER: HOW DO YOU DO?
02:56:01THERE WERE SOME IN THIS BOOK THE CITY IRAN IS NOT DOING ANYTHING. IT'S NOT DOING NOTHING.
02:56:05THEY JUST KILLED EIGHT SAILORS ON THE SHIP IN THE RED SEA.
02:56:09THERE IS SUPPLYING HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GAZA.
02:56:13THEY GAVE THEM ALL OF THE MONEY FOR THE TUNNELS AND ALL OF THOSE ARMS.
02:56:17THEY ARE ATTACKING SHIPS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
02:56:21THEY ARE A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. THEY ARE USING HALF OF THE
02:56:25CAPITAL THAT WE GAVE THEM TO ATTACK ALL OF THE SHIPS.
02:56:29THEY ARE TRYING TO CONTROL --
02:56:30THEY ALREADY CONTROL PARTS OF
02:56:33EUROPE AND THE U.N. BECAUSE THEY PUT ALL OF THEIR MONEY AND ALL
02:56:36OF THE ARAB MONEY IN THOSE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND THEY GET
02:56:40RECOGNIZED BY THE U.N. OR THE EUROPEANS. THEY ARE PAYING THEM OFF.
02:56:45THAT'S PART OF THAT THAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT.
02:56:48IRAN IS THE LARGEST SUPPLIER OF TERRORISM AND THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST.
02:56:52AND AROUND THE WORLD, PRACTICALLY.
02:56:58ALL OF THESE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS THAT ARE COMING IN
02:57:00FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE
02:57:04REPUBLICANS HAVE IT TO BLAME, ALL OF THE MILLIONAIRES AND
02:57:08BILLIONAIRES MADE ALL THEIR FORTUNES. YOU THINK THAT TRICKLE DOWN TO
02:57:11THE PEOPLE IN THE COMPANIES? HAVE THEY GIVEN THEM FREE HEALTH
02:57:15INSURANCE?
02:57:19MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
02:57:22HAVE THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR THEM RECEIVED ANY OF THAT MONEY?
02:57:26YOU CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE, A CAR, COLLEGE.
02:57:30THEY TOOK THE MONEY AND ARE REINVESTING IT, BUT THEY AREN'T GETTING ANY BACK TO THE PEOPLE
02:57:34THAT ARE WORKING FOR THEM.
02:57:37HOST: ALEX IN NEW JERSEY, DEMOCRATS LINE.
02:57:41CALLER: ALL RIGHT. HOST: YOU'RE ON, GO AHEAD.
02:57:45CALLER: HOW ARE YOU DOING? HOW ARE YOU DOING?
02:57:49I HAVE ONE THING.
02:57:50YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE
02:57:53ON THE PANEL ASKED.
02:57:55WHERE IS MITCH MCCONNELL?
02:57:58I KNOW HAD IT BEEN A DEMOCRAT
02:58:01PASSING ALL THIS TIME THE REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE BEEN
02:58:06RAISING THE ROOF. I MEAN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A
02:58:08FIRE ALARM FIGHT -- 10 ALARM FIRE.
02:58:14HOW DEMOCRATS PULLED WHAT MITCH MCCONNELL IS PULLING.
02:58:17IF HE IS ALIVE, SHOW PROOF OF LIFE.
02:58:20IF NOT -- I MEAN, LET US KNOW.
02:58:24LET THE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MITCH MCCONNELL.
02:58:28BECAUSE I CAN PROMISE YOU IF IT
02:58:31HAD BEEN A DEMOCRAT WE WOULD
02:58:32HAVE BEEN FINISHED.
02:58:35HOST: THIS IS FROM WLKY IN
02:58:39KENTUCKY SAYING A NEW MITCH MCCONNELL STATEMENT DROPPED,
02:58:42NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS HEALTH. GET THE SENATOR HAS BEEN MIA
02:58:45SINCE HIS HOSPITALIZATION IN JUNE. HE HAS PROVIDED FEW STATEMENTS
02:58:49ABOUT HIS HEALTH, A COUPLE OF PHOTOS.
02:58:52ON WEDNESDAY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MIDSTATE CELEBRATED THE
02:58:55OPENING OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING
02:58:57COMMUNITY IN MONARCH STATION IN LOUISVILLE.
02:58:59AS A SUPPORTER IT WOULD HAVE
02:59:04BEEN NORMAL FOR HIM TO ATTEND BUT THERE WAS A STATEMENT SENT
02:59:08ON HIS BEHALF. THAT IS THE EXTENT WHEN IT COMES
02:59:11TO NEWS OUT OF KENTUCKY AND NEWS ON MITCH MCCONNELL.
02:59:15LIKE IN CALIFORNIA ONLINE FOR INDEPENDENTS.
02:59:18WE HAVE A MINUTE OR SO LEFT. TO GO AHEAD. CALLER: I JUST WANTED TO
02:59:21PEOPLE'S ATTENTION THE TRUMP
02:59:25FAMILY TRYING TO TURN WORLD
02:59:30FINANCIAL INTO A BANK. THE WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL COIN
02:59:33IS WORTH LESS THAN SEVEN CENTS.
02:59:38ALSO, THE TRUMP PEOPLE THINK
02:59:43TRUMP IS OUT TO HELP KIDS AND STUFF, BUT HIS ADMINISTRATION
02:59:46JUST APPROVED THE USE OF
02:59:49FLAVORED VAPES AGAIN.
02:59:52THAT IS DIRECTLY AFFECTING KIDS.
02:59:55I THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GETTING KICKBACKS ON ALL THESE VANITY PROJECTS.
03:00:02THAT'S WHY THE CONTRACTOR THAT
03:00:03PUT IN THE REFLECTING POOL IS
03:00:06NOT BEING SUED RIGHT NOW AND
03:00:12BEING FORCED TO REPAIR THAT. ALSO --
03:00:15HOST: APOLOGIZE, MIKE.
03:00:19WE HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE BECAUSE THAT IS IT FOR OUR PROGRAM TODAY.
03:00:23NEW EDITION OF "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" COMES YOUR WAY AT 7:00
03:00:27A.M. TOMORROW MORNING. WE WILL SEE YOU THERE. ♪
03:00:33--
03:00:39♪
03:00:41HOST: WELCOME TO CEASEFIRE,
03:00:45WHERE WE LOOK TO BRIDGE THE DIVIDE IN AMERICAN POLITICS.
03:00:48I AM DASHA BURNS AND JOINING ME
03:00:51FROM EITHER SIDE OF THE AISLE ARE TWO GUESTS WHO HAVE AGREED
03:00:55TO KEEP THE CONVERSATION CIVIL, EVEN WHEN THEY DISAGREE. JAMIE