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host: good morning, the attorney general's office put out this statement, this evening we contacted mr. trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the manhattan d.a.'s office for arraignment on a supreme court indictment which remains under seal. guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since then it's been reported he will be arraigned on tuesday, april 4, 2:00 p.m. eastern time. the former president issued this statement on his truth social website. this is political persecution and election interference at highest level in history. from the time day down the golden escalator at trump tower and before i was sworn in as your president of the united states, the radical left, democrats, the enemy of the hard-working men and wf in a witch-hunt to destroy the

make america great again movement, yomber like do, russia, russia, raja, the muller hoax, ukraine, impeachment hoax one and two and the mare lago raid and now this. the democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession in trying to get trump but now they've done the unthinkable, indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election interference. this is the headline, in many of the newspapers across the country with two simple words, the "sun-sentinel," trump indicted. from other newspapers, "the des moines register", thump indicted in 2016 payments. out of california, palm springs, the desert sun, trump indicted. this is the "atlanta

journal-constitution" with trump indicted. democratic caller from tennessee, let's hear from you first. good morning and go ahead. caller: good morning, greta. you didn't put the queens newspaper that said queens man indicted. host: what was your reaction to the news? what's your reaction o the news? caller: i am a baby boomer and of the generation where we grew i'm a baby boomer and of the generation it was the 1960's before censorship would allow a bad guy to get away, on the tv shows, the movies, the bad guy always got caught or died in the end and was a very strong sense among us baby boomers of right and wrong. i think that's why i anyway wanted to see a lot of illegal things accounted for and hope it won't cause a lot of violencest since he's the type of perp that tries to generate violence. i hope everyone can remain calm

and follow the law. i don't know why his followers want him to be above the law. hys above the law. anyone should be convicted of a crime with evidence. he was trying to steal the election without any evidence and appoints to the fact that they are trying to steal the election. it's a sad day for america and i hope people can keep their violence down. people who protested for him last time are already in jail. it's too bad they went to jail and the person who started the protest didn't go to jail. i don't know why they are not angry about that or why they want to help a dictator take over our country. i hope everyone will remain calm and not cause violence and not cause any damage or not harm the d.a. the republican party wants to break down law and order and

break down these officials in mr. trump is calling for violence against the d.a. i hope everyone remains calm . host: security is definitely being ratcheted up in d.c. and new york, in florida around mar-a-lago as well. on your screen is protesters outside the manhattan district attorney office last night. then you had pro-trump protesters in mar-a-lago last night. we will see what those two scenes look like and how they unfold this morning. new york police officers have been told to be in uniform today so authorities are expecting more protesting. hopefully, it will be peaceful protesting. cindy in connecticut, republican. caller: good morning.

i just want to say that every time joe biden is getting himself into trouble, something happens like this. i suppose nobody will talk about or you will have a segment about how china, i ran and saudi arabia will trade oil in the yen and another u.s. dollar. our cash will be worth nothing soon. let's go indict trump so we can take the focus on the mess this president made and after everything this country has been through, we are a euro entity for the american people. we want to tear each other apart. host: can i ask you -- do you think this deserves to be front page news across the country? caller: of course it does. it's big news. i'm going to hear this to death

ad nausea. no one is above the law except for hillary clinton who also violated -- had violation laws. she was left with a fine but they don't go to jail. do you see the difference? host: what happens once the former president is in custody? this is the question posed in the washington post. this is the answer --

one one restriction that could be in place, from "vice news" the former president, racist attacks they say on the manhattan d.a. could land him a gag order if he is charged. they write, that's because trump's ravings if he keeps them up after criminally charged will likely prompt the judge to slap down a gag order and restrict trump and potentially others close to him from speaking out about the case. this according to former prosecutors and legal experts who spoke with vice news. bob in oak grove, missouri, independent. hi, bob. this is a sad day for or

country for sure because we have seen the republicans take party over country many times. now, the republicans are taking a criminal over our country. there is no doubt donald trump did this. the republicans are raving that it's a campaign donation, it's not. it is actually a case of host: a case of what? caller: i want to say they are finding him for lying on business papers. it's not the contribution that is a problem here. it's that he doctored his is newspapers. what i want to say is, now that

trump is screaming about the mar-a-lago documents that he was really did, he had 1.5 years to turn over the documents and didn't do it. he is the only one that says the documents belong to him and should not be returned. the man is a criminal and it really hurts me being an independent to know that i can vote for a republican already who takes a criminal over the word of law and order. host: did you ever vote for the former president in 2016 or 2020? caller: no, ma'am. since he came down the escalator, i knew he was a criminal then and i will not vote for a criminal. they want to say that the justice department is after trump for this and that. he has been indicted for other

things by the house of representatives. the republicans took party over country once again there. i just hope -- i was watching fox news -- they are getting ready to lose 1.6 dollars for lying, they are lying again. i thank you for taking my call and i hope the republicans will look up and not take a criminal over country. host: ginger, kentucky, democratic caller, you are next. caller: thank you, you are a great host. let's all remember the little

babies and those people that killed by guns. i will rent -- i will remember all the soldiers that got killed in helicopters. it seemed as if you've got to money to pay your way out, you will be free in this country. that's one thing about it. if you are guilty, i don't care if you are democrat or republican, you should go to jail. we have to remember our babies. it's been over and over, our babies are getting killed. host: ginger talking about what happened at that private school in nashville. that is a debate that is happening here in washington around the country as well. this morning, we are talking about the front page news that

broke yesterday. the former president indicted, the first u.s. president in u.s. history to be criminally charged. the wall street journal had this story last night, and exclusive -- conrad in pennsylvania, republican, go ahead. caller: good morning. i haven't called for quite a while. i think we are on another witchhunt. it's unfortunate our former president trump has put up with this for six years at least.

it's costing us taxpayers a lot of money for the democrats to keep prosecuting him. it's a real shame. allegedly, it was $38 million for the russian hoax. we've got to stop them from just arbitrarily punishing people with no real rights. i think what somebody, maybe even speaker mccarthy might have to do is get a bill passed that if you want to bring in a camp somebody like donald trump, great president, i think what they should do is if you lose the case, in this case the democrats, they would have to pay the fees involved instead of the taxpayers paying it. this is really a ridiculous situation. host: why do you think this potential charge for these charges are ridiculous? do you think he paid the money

or do you think even if he did, it's not a crime? caller: we already heard about two months ago that money was paid. he may have had an affair but we don't know what goes on really. the media doesn't really publish truthful information. the point was, was it paid from the campaign funds. in his case, one of his attorneys said it was paid personally. cohen is lying that it was paid from the campaign funds. we can only judge what's going on from what we get from the media. of course, you are pretty good. host: we don't know.

we don't know all the details. i told you that cnn reported there are 30+ county fair. politico notes on that number of 30 counts, they add up quickly. for instance, every one of the 11 checks he wrote to his former lawyer to allegedly reimburse him for the hush money payment could be a separate count. that's where maybe that number in this indictment comes from. a couple of pieces i want to share with you, opinion pieces -- the washington post editorial. this is their view -- this is what they write --

then you have this piece written today in the wall street journal -- presumably he had a detail in the record keeping practices and

that role became much more limited once he entered the white house. it's thus unclear how the prosecution would prove beyond a reasonable doubt mr. trump knew how the payment to ms. daniels would be recorded in the trump organization's books. they go on to write this, mr. trump's most favorite defense will likely be a factual one and his lawyers will undoubtedly argue no jury should believe anything mr. cohen or daniels says, any defense attorney would salivate at the chance to cross-examination these star witnesses. mr. cohen has been convicted of making false statements and lying on his federal tax forms. his inconsistent statements about the daniels matter makes staking a conviction on mr. cohen's claim a challenge for the prosecution. mrs. daniels will be portrayed for a person of unbelief because

of her statements and trump will say she's been paid to tell different stories and why should she be paid now in a circus like trump trial. eric, independent, good morning. go ahead. yeah, thank god for c-span. it's a bad day for america. this is a bad precedent. i remember back when the supreme court nominees were brought in with respect and as long as they were all a fight, they came in and they were not right or left and now it's almost a war every time. this is unprecedented. criminally charged political enemies especially former president's, the bob guy had it right. he's a crook but they don't know why, they just want him in jail.

i washed my hands of trump after january 6. but now, i'm back on board. host: because of these charges? caller: yeah, he was in idiot on january 6. he let his ego get out of control in my opinion. he needs to keep his mouth shut and let the lawyers do the work and is no way he's going to get 12 people to convict him no matter what. the first thing he said way back when, if i shot somebody in the street in new york, they wouldn't do anything. and they are trying to get them on these charges? this is really bad. host: when he said that he was referring to his poll numbers and his poll numbers have gone up since his indictment. he's been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars off of this, what was then a potential indictment and yesterday, and indictment coming down. caller: this is all stuff that

preceded his presidency. this is just bad news. it's a bad call and it will have bad results. host: what do you make of the fact that this was an indictment by 23 manhattan nights, the majority of them had to vote in favor of an indictment. you said 12 people will not convict him but a majority of 23 said there should be an indictment. caller: i had always heard the d.a. could indict a ham sandwich. host: that's what they say. caller: i don't put too much credence in that. especially -- we don't know what the charges are yet but if it is some creative attempt to expand the normal use of the law, this is not the time to do that. the supreme court could be the one to rule on this.

then people will say the supreme court is not legit. the whole thing going on withbrix now, congress or make sure they get the money paid. if we default, the dollar could crumble. this is not a good time for this to be going on. host: a republican lawmaker plans to hand out ham sandwiches today. norm in grass valley, california, democratic caller, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: doing well so what is your take on this? caller: he is guilty and he will go to his grave on any subject that arises. i didn't do it, they are going after me, i'm not a criminal, i will survive. when somebody asked me what i thought of trump as he announced his campaign, what kind of

person do you think he is, i had to think about it for a moment and a couple of weeks later, i came to the determination that he is a snake oil salesman, nothing more than that he goes from town to town selling his product, knowing is not good but he doesn't care because it's all for me, it's all my family, i don't care about anybody else. nobody has used the term " moral turpitude." i haven't heard those two words yet applied to trump. i tried to become a teacher years and years ago. i had something in my past that was considered moral turpitude. man, he has manipulated his bank accounts, his real estate holdings, heat sets them up for his personal gain and is minimal loss.

he only cares about himself. he will carry as many [indiscernible] in his pockets as possible but once they turn on him, their i commend michael cohen for telling the truth. if in fact it is true and i believe he's telling the truth. host: what you think about the charges? do you think this case should go forward? you heard from a previous caller who said he doesn't think this is worth charging the former president on and this is just political. caller: nobody is above the law. that's a given fact. it should go through, never give up, it should go through and may

the cards fall where they may. donald trump is a flimflam man. he is a misogynist. , egotistical megalomaniac. if you look at his fan base, the dominions that follow him, they are not of the highest intellectual group standing. look at the people that rush the capitol building on january 6. . you cannot go into a public library with a pistol but these people showed up at congress with automatic weapons using tactics only the military uses. host: i will go to eric, columbus, georgia, your turn. caller: thanks for taking my call. i know i'm not the only one who thought this were the only one

who said it but i knew this was coming. i knew it was coming with a tried to get them on one thing and he got away and another thing and he got away. i knew it was coming and i will tell you why. i didn't know much about donald trump before he ran for office. i was fooled by the fact that they said the man was a racist. i just came out and i said no, i saw exactly what was going on. the fact that they are after him and they have been after him since he got on that escalade -- the escalator, i'm sorry. the fact that they are after him only proves that he is not on the inside. he's not one of these corrupt politicians on the inside.

all of them are after him. that shows you he's somebody on the outside. they don't want that man in there because they know he's going to push a lot of them out of their 501's. i think they will try to get him locked up. if other people didn't know, they know it. that man believes in revenge. what i suspect is if he gets back in office, people will be punished. he said that about hillary clinton but he didn't do anything about it. he said she needs to be punished. he will get back in office and these people are afraid. i know i'm not the only one that is thinking this. i hope he gets away because you all eat him so much -- you all hate him so much. host: from the new york times -- >> there is consternation the barrier document would cause

something as unseemingly as paying hush money to cover up a sexual romp given the department has been involved in far more earth shattering events like trying to overturn an election and inspiring an attack on the capitol to prevent the transfer of power. the allegations by manhattan prosecutors seem less than apocalypse. if it is accountability it could redraw the line and make it less prosecuting for those in georgia to go for serious crimes. since they will not have to bear the burden of justifying action never taken before. leave it to the only president ever impeached in congress twice to face so many prosecutions that lawyers need a scorecard just to keep track. referring to the investigation in georgia and the former president's role there in trying to overturn the election and referring to a case in washington on those classified

documents brought to mar-a-lago. frank, an independent in poughkeepsie, new york. we'll go to you, frank. for the u for your opinion. they keep talking about him innocent. you're innocent when you come out of the womb, that's the only time. you are wasting our time with this criminal who needs to face justice like everyone else does, he has to go to court and you have to do the same thing like any ordinary citizen. these maga people say the country will be destroyed as going to be corruption across the nation.

they frighten children with a kind of language, you don't frighten grown men and people that know right from wrong. as far as desantis, i will not ship them to new york because i'm the governor, that's as far as it will get. host: referring to the florida governor saying he would not extradite the former president. some reaction from republicans across the country this morning, we will share that with you this morning onthe "washington journal" as we take your calls and reaction to the unprecedented indictment against the former president. let's start with his former vice president, mike pence. he was on cnn for a scheduled interview before this news broke. here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> i think the unprecedented

indictment of a former president of the united states in a campaign-finance issue. is an outrage it appears to millions of americans to be nothing more than a political prosecution that's driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on the pledge to indict the former president. >> excuse me for interrupting, it wasn't just the prosecutor or the district attorney in new york, this was a grand jury of 23 people, a majority of 12 to go ahead and criminally indicted. >> i understand that and it's been a long time since i've been in law school but i remember the old saying, you can indict a ham sandwich. the burden of proof is very low. prosecutors make decisions about what they bring all the time. federal prosecutors passed on this. manhattan d.a. initially delayed it and passed on it. when you have an attorney

general in new york, a manhattan d.a. that targets one particular american in their campaign, i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness, who believe in equal treatment before the law and this appears to be just one more example of the kind of two-tier justice system that the american people have had enough of. >> the trump-pentz justice department charged trump's former attorney michael: over these very same payments. i'm quoting from the trump justice department -- in coordination and at the direction of donald trump. he spent more than a year in prison, was that a crime? >> i can see that lying to congress is a crime. >> that wasn't the only charge. >> i'm traveling around the country a lot and we are going

through the process of making decisions about our future. >> we will get to that. >> i was in i would yesterday and i was in three different cities and even though this has been in the news over the last two weeks, and issues about me and another investigation were in the news, not one person raise this issue to me. the media obsession about these investigations into donald trump, i think it's being lost on the american people who are struggling under the weight of the failed policies of the biden administration. i think the american people will look at this and see it as one more example of criminalization of politics in this country. it's one more example of the drama the captures washington, d.c. >> you are a law and order politician. if trump is convicted of these crimes he's being charged with, should that disqualify him from

being a republican presidential nominee or should he drop out? >> it's a long way to that decision. i promise to answer that decision if that approach happens. host: the former vice president reacting to the news last night on cnn. on that last question, can the former president run for president in 2024? the washington post says, is never been attempted by another candidate for major party before, resin trump is allowed to run for president under indictment or if he is convicted of a crime. reaction from democrats -- here is the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer of new york. you had adam schiff which is part of the team of democrats who attempted or impeached the

former president. we want to know your take on this news this morning. the former president indicted. brian in buffalo, new york, democratic caller. caller: thanks for having me. good morning. i think we just need to strip the politics away from this and look at it for what it is, if he committed a crime, he should have the book thrown at him. i know tensions are high and he's a controversial figure but that's how it works. you commit a crime, you get charged. host: given a crime like this? his lawyer argues that he was

trying to hide his faithlessness from his wife, not from the public. what you think of that argument? -- what do you think of this argument? caller: he won the election any money he could have spent is a campaign-finance issue. the problem is, people like you and me, it's supposed to be a fair playing ground but we are not billionaires and cannot spend 100 grand toward our own reputation during an election. that's a crime, you can't do that. not to mention, there was already -- he was already an unindicted co-conspirator for michael: going to jail for this -- michael cohen going to jail for this. whether it's political or not, we don't know. this isn't the first time a major politician has been indicted.

i'm pretty sure rick perry was running under indictment in 2016 and it didn't hurt his campaign. the thing that crashed his campaign was not knowing what three agencies of the government were even though he was running. i don't think this is evidence of a banana republic or system failure. it shows it's working and if he did the crime, he has to do the time. host: mark, california, republican. caller: hello, can you hear me? host: we can, go ahead. caller: good morning. i don't know, i think about the past headlines in the winning streak of the democratic party going after trump. it was early on in the presidency when it was the rush of collusion and then there was stormy daniels and they said

they had the proof there on a cd and they showed a blank cd on the news. the big headlines that usa news had today was impeached and not too much longer later, usa today said acquitted. the new york times, when trump went to north korea in the best they could do was print a picture for their front page of kim jong-un with the small of his hand on the small -- his hand on the small of donald trump's back like they had a bromance. this is just something to stir the pot. it's been a long time since something juicy has been in the news. this is not going to hurt trump. it will boost his popularity. i would like to see what comes of this. he has already embarrass the court system by predicting the

arrest. he took the thunder away from that so they have to do something. host: it doesn't sound like he will be arrested but his lawyers have negotiated with the das office that he will surrender on tuesday, april 4, 2 p.m. eastern time is what we've learned to a court in manhattan. it doesn't sound like he will be in handcuffs. he will not be arrested but there will be fingerprinting and mugshots taken according to news reports. he will have his appearance in court as well. tom, ohio, independent, good morning. caller:. good morning i'm just glad there are people with open minds. i'm a 61-year-old retired veteran. i believe in the courts and not hearsay. i don't believe cnn and all of

votercrap. one thing i've learned about the democratic party is when they accuse you of something, this will backfire on them. they say he will clean house. the individuals on both sides. they allow us to choose the lesser of two evils every year and every year we choose the lesser of two evils. if trump is so people, why are you trying to get rid of him? because he's going to change washington which deserves to change. they talked about the mueller report and russian collusion. we wasted almost $100 million to try to put this guy in jail. what a return our sites on the real evidence of joe biden and his corrupt family? we had the doj that was put in the position and he's not gonna charge his own boss.

we the people have to start opening up to realize the problem is washington, d.c. itself. host: when the former president appears at a manhattan courtroom on tuesday, the first court proceeding, according to the washington post after an arrest or surrender would be an arraignment hearing. a judge within determine if he would pay bail or adhere to certain restrictions pending a trial or whether he can be released without bail or restrictions. one of those restrictions according to vice news this morning is that a judge could issue a gag order.

steve in michigan, texas says kathy in kansas, democratic caller, good morning. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. i just have to say that i felt a lightning in my whole body when i saw this. i've just been so distressed ever since this man has gotten into office. he is so crooked. he is so misogynistic. he is just a fully and he is a criminal. this charge is the least offense. i don't know why that man was not thrown in jail when he

incited the insurrection. you republicans can sit there and say all you want -- it wasn't an insurrection -- i watched the whole thing and his speech from beginning to end. the whole thing with trying to send the electors back and everything, saying they would not accept him. he is trying to overthrow our constitution. why is this man not in jail for treason already? no one should be above the law and especially this man. that's all i have to say. i hope he is charged with everything but mostly i hope he's charged with treason and trying to overthrow our government. if he gets back in office, don't think for one minute this man will not do everything he can to try to become a fascist dictator like putin. then all you republicans, when your rights get stripped away, you will be sorry voter this man back in. that's all i have to say, thank you. host: from twitter --

bill, a republican in ohio, what do you say? caller: let trump be trump, let trump be trump. republican say that all the time. folks, we should not be rejoicing about the president of united states being indicted for a crime. it's an embarrassment. here's what i wonder -- with these justices, mr. trump wants to be tried, the one that we currently have for the one that he advocates for which is no constitution which lets the mob decide. it gets me that the republicans want kamala harris to decide the next election. why are we counting michael

cohen and stormy daniels lies but no one says anything about trump lies? we are talking about a cult of personality. one more thing -- if you see a republican today with a self phone, thank them for being a regressive -- a progressive. host: granville, ohio, independent area caller: good morning. i thought it was interesting we have had a couple of callers this morning that talked about a russian hoax and the multitude and millions of dollars that perley cost the american taxpayers. i believe this is old news when that story was the hot topic. it wasn't enough to cover the entire investigation so it's interesting hearing these cries

coming from what supposed to be the law and order party this morning. i hope these callers have the dictionary ready and look up the word pariah. this is only the beginning. have a good day. host: on fox news last night, eric trump reacted to his father, the former president ing indicted. take a listen. [video clip] >> my father's only crime was winning the election. i lived that book every single day. we got subpoena after subpoena and would have people go out and campaign on the promise to take down a person, not knowing anything about them or their family. they said i will go after his family and sue the hell these people are wicked. you have hunter biden who has

pictures on his laptop and bill clinton paying paula jones. you have hillary clinton who hid 33 million emails and no one says a thing about those people. when my father is leading by 35% in the polls and they know he will be the guy joe biden will beat, that's who they go after against the statute of limitations or a couple of years after. they will do anything to take the man out. they will do anything they can to imprison the main and attack his family and imprison all of us. they have shown their cards time and time again. we did not so much as a speeding ticket before we -- before my father got into office.

i went into cvs the other day you cannot buy tylenol because it's locked behind glass counters because there is some was theft and looting and homelessness and crime. yet, their attention is going after donald trump. the girls are getting shot in times where and they are going after donald trump. give me a break. host: eric trump, the former president's son defending him on fox news last night after the news broke that for the first time in u.s. history, a former president has been only charge. the manhattan district attorney filed an indictment against the 45th president. he will show up in court on tuesday in manhattan around 2 p.m. eastern time for his arraignment. we are asking all of you this morning to give us your reaction to the news. pennsylvania, democratic caller, go ahead. caller: good morning. this is a very sad day for america.

and law enforcement. innocent people are once again going to be rich because of this dangerous, evil man, the trouble he will cause in our country. the senate and congress republicans who supported him, they know he's wrong that they refused to stand up to him. mike pence who could have lost his life because of him still supports him. ted cruisers wife was so -- ted cruz, whose wife was so insulted by him still supports him. they say it's political but they -- but that's exactly what they are trying to do to president biden. he is just so people. i don't know why any decent person would support him. he is making so much money. if he is so great, why doesn't he help the storm victims in the

south with all of the billions of dollars that he has been accumulating because of this? thank you. host: philadelphia, republican, hi there. caller: how are you doing? i am a republican and i've listened to all the callers and their opinion. as of -- they are a bunch of phonies and there's no way this man can be considered running for president of the united states again. it's all because of january 6. this guy is not one of them because he used to be a democrat. they don't like donald trump. they like his followers. it's not about donald trump. it's about his base they want. they will do anything to get his base to get them votes but the

republican party and the democrats are full of crap. host: joel in north carolina, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to make this straight -- i was a democrat and i left the marxist mcrib party to become an independent and now i will be calling on your republican line from this point on. to watch this atrocity that's been put on america is political prosecution. it's the same thing we see in north korea, china, russia. you cannot be a democrat and be a christian. that is incompatible like water and oil. for all you democrats calling in, watch the 2012 election in charlotte when the democrats denounced god to be in their platform. a thunderstorm came up and blew their power out. they did not listen.

this is a warning. the third horseman is writing in the fourth one is coming up and if you don't get back to god, america's lost forever. host: arnold in welcome, new york, democratic caller. what was your reaction when you heard this news yesterday? caller: i was not surprised. let me say this, michael cohne, his lawyer and cfo all went to jail for this man. if you listen closely, he was on tv last night, they had recordings, they have receipts. michael cohen went to jail for this thing. they know nothing about the southern district here in new york. these are the same people who took down john gotti. they don't bring the case unless

they can win. this black man who is leading this charge, he knows what he was up against. you've got to believe he's got every i dotted and every t cross. he had 23 people that looked in -- at the evidence and said we have a case. i am sick to my stomach to watch mike pence to be begged to be testify when this man ran with his wife and kids and was so scared that he would not even get in the limousine. he is a coward. he could never run for office ever in my eyes. host: i want to share this headline with you and others -- one of the callers product fundraising.

carey in boone, iowa, hi there. caller: good morning, please don't cut me off. this is a joke. america needs to wake up and quit watching the dnc news channels and get some real information out there. first off,cohen went to jail for lying to congress, not for paying off a point star. he lied to congress and that's why he went to jail. everybody can quit saying that he went to jail and therefore trump should go to jail for the same thing. trump has not lied to congress yet celeste just see how that goes down. i would like to give you a moment, the last bit of my time to apologize to america for your russia collusion and also your

hunter biden laptop cover up that you keep ignoring. every time it's brought up, you drag at a piece of paper and say we've covered this and talked about that. you spent as much time on hunter biden and joe biden's crime as you did on trump, joe biden would be out of office right now. joe biden would be the one scurrying away, worrying about what him and his party will do. i see you smirking and you think it's all cute. you really need to get a new job because your colors are showing every day you get on here. host: go to www.c-span.org and check it out for yourself what we have covered. michael cohen from the associated press article -- this was from november, 2021. >> michael coe help, president trump's long time permanent lawyer until his 2018 arrest said monday a three year prison

sentence mostly spent in home confinement was over as he took another swipe at his former boss and vowed to continue to cooperate with enforcement. cohen was sentenced after pleading guilty to finance charges and lying to congress among other crimes. in all he spent about 13 .5 months behind prison walls and a year and a half in home confinement and his time was further reduced by good behavior. he helped arrange buyouts to keep the porn actress mcdaniels and others for parietal affairs with the former president. the president denied affairs and he implicated trump on campaign finance charges and did monday when he said his release from home confinement no way negate the actions i took and in the benefit of donald j. trump and said he was cognizant of my responsibilities and will not cease my commitment to law enforcement.

larry, lewisville, texas, democratic caller. hi, larry. good morning and thak you for taking my call. there is so much i would like to say but i will keep it short. these were people that look like you and i that indicted trump. they made based solely on evidence. the republicans want to attack the district attorney, saying it was weaponized. what about the white house being weaponized when trump incited those people into felonies. what about blocking the full investigation of the russian incursion. what about trumpeting the fifth amendment where hilary did not take the fifth in three days of testimony. the fact that republicans want to believe what they want to

believe and look -- and not look at the truth. hunter biden is a u.s. citizen. we don't care about him. if you want to investigate someone trump couldn't -- trump put people in the white house that should not have been in the white house. people have made up their mind to overlook all of that evidence plus all of the people that trump blocked from testimony. what if that was hillary or any republican that was blocking people from testifying, blocking the truth being told. it's a sad day for america and i'm so sorry for this country. thank you for taking my call. host: john in maryland,

republican, your turn -- caller: you are my favorite one on c-span. you probably will agree with the just with me that this country has a mental problem. people are sleeping on the street, you have people that cannot figure out and they are shooting up people. you got trump syndrome going full blast. i don't know how you can sit there all day and listen to this craziness calling in there. other than the second coming of jesus, i don't see any help for this country. as far as the indictment, maybe some truth will come from this. so far, we haven't heard anything, just insinuations and a bunch of nothing. as far as the trials and all host: let's go to rich in wisconsin, independent.

caller: good morning. just keep smiling. that is all you can do. as far as donald trump, i was not a supporter at first. i voted for bill clinton twice. i voted for hillary clinton wants when she ran against obama. i started doing due diligence on politics and what was going on because of all the accusations, i wanted to find myself politically. rudy giuliani represented him/ donald trump was loved. hillary clinton, the most crooked individual to hold office. the clinton foundation was a money laundering operation from the beginning.

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