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president jimmy carter. here's a portion of that. brblght video clip] vice president harr pis: on behalf of the american people doug and i offer our deepest condolences. being with you today i'm reminded of the enduring words of a favorite hymn. may the works i have done speak for me. today we gather to celebrate the life of a man whose works will echo for generations to come. a man from plains, georgia, who grew up without electricity or running water, and served as the 39th president of the united states of america. and lived every day of his long

life in service to the people. president james earl carter jr. so i was in middle school when jimmy carter was elected president. and i vividly recall how my mother admired him. how much she admired his strength of character. his honesty. his integrity. his work ethic. and determination. his intelligence. and his generosity of spirit. we have heard much today and in recent days about president carter's impact in the four decades after he left the white. jimmy carter established a new

model for what it means to be a former president. and leaves an extraordinary post-presidential legacy. host: that was yesterday. we have the full event on our website at c-span.org. we will be covering the funeral of former president jimmy carter tomorrow. definitely stay tuned for that. we'll go to your calls now to thelma in bronx, new york, line for democrats. you're on open forum, thelma. caller: good morning. i'm calling to let the guy that called in and was saying about joe biden, what about donald trump? donald trump has a problem. host: is that all you wanted to say? caller: no. donald trump has a mental problem. what about donald trump? republicans need to stop talking

about people's mental problem, because donald trump has a mental problem, everybody can see that. i want to say that, i want to say that joe biden could have -- why is it all the democrats -- but kamala did not win. all the democrat senators win the election and kamala at the top of the ticket did not win. joe biden could have won this election. i spoke to people in pennsylvania. i have family and friends in pennsylvania. and they told me, a lot of democrats stayed home. they did not come out to vote for kamala. that is the rp why kamala lost. they did not like the fact that they remove joe biden from the ticket the way they did. and they told me that a lot of

democrats stayed home and did not vote for camlasm joe biden would have won. he is the only democrat who could beat donald trump. host: all right, they will karma. mentioned this before. this is the front page of "usa today," exclusive exit interview that president biden did, he said, when asked, he said, yes, he could have won re-election. you can read that whole article at "usa today." and this is ronald in georgia, republican line. good morning, ronald. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: good. caller: i just want to know, the beginning of your segment this morning, right before i called, that lady that you had on, rebecca, the republican, rebecca, she said she was a

teacher. but laken riley was a student. and yet they blocked everything that policy that they had going on. they tried to block it. thank god there were enough republicans to society for it. on the first part of that segment you had there, you was talking about y'all had trump up there. wanting to have that -- that block where that girl he was with, y'all shouldn't put stuff like that up there. he's our future president. and i really don't have much faith in the way y'all talk about it. host: so ronald, you mentioned the laken riley act. this is nbc news, it says that the house passes laken riley act to amp up border enforcement and put pressure on democrats. the bill, name forward nursing

school student who was murdered by a man in the country illegally, passed the house last year, the new republican-controlled senate is expected to take it up friday. so we will let you know if that happens. the vote, by the way, was 264-159. to pass that act in the house. and this is can be don in rhode island, independent line. you're next. caller: hello. hi. i've been watching you guy for a very long time,s the first time call, first time i got through, actually. host: great, go right ahead, don. we're listening. caller: i mentioned comments on earlier thing, it jumped me over to open forum. i watch a lot of c-span you get the range of callers, people that you interview as well. and i also like to apologize for

america on -- to you on behalf of america for sometimes the way people, i'm sure you guys get a kick out of it when you're offline, how people call in, it's crazy. my point today would be all americans, everybody in the world, should strongly consider looking into roasting their own sacred cows. this country and people in general are just really, really into their own prop begandasm right, left, center. whatever emotionally supports their narrative is what you're going to go with. seems to be. more so than where the facts would dictate. i would like to share a quote with america. john maynard keynes, and i'm not a hard-core leftist or a righty, i'm a very independent thinking person but he tends to be on the left of the spectrum he had vigorous debates with someone who was a right-wing economist, i can't remember the gentleman's name, but in the

1800's, people used to rite wriet back and forth to each other, have respectful debates. and have lunches together and what not. this gentleman who had a very, what would be considered more of a right-wing economic theory had a portion of that theory which accounted for bubbles and that kind of thing and john maynard keynes' theory had no such, a tech toture built into the theory. so it simply absorbed his friend's idea and brought it to his open. his friend said to him, what are you flip-flopping? basically in today's parlance? i thought we were arguing here. john maynard keynes responded with a coat that -- a quote that all americans should pay attention to, it was, i don't know what you do, but when i get new facts i change my opinion. that is something we all need to do better. joe biden, come on guys. whether you're -- trump obviously lost the election.