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let's start with the pole, here is an aggregate of poles from real clear politics, you can see this graph, the black's approval and the red is disapproval. this goes back to march of 2022. you can see the trend there and here is a pbs newshour.com that says some democrats don't want biden to run again, why not?

in the article says overwhelmingly it is about age. we wonder what you think about that and we are taking your calls this morning on the

question about president biden's job performance and how you would rate that. let's hear from president biden, he was in milwaukee yesterday talking about policy investments in minority small businesses. [video clip] >> we are here to celebrate the progress that small black owned businesses are making around the country. when black businesses grow the community benefits. it gives hopes and prospects to people. since i have entered office there have been 15 million new job applications to start new businesses. 15 million. black business ownership is the

highest it's been in 30 years. black wealth is up 60% since the pandemic. and we're are just getting started. so many of you have the vision to open businesses and you bet on yourself. together we are transforming the economy by investing in all americans. when i said when i ran that when elected i would represent everybody, blue, red. think about it. think of all the businesses you know about throughout the midwest. they closed down because you had corporations that decided they could get cheaper labor and move somewhere else so they sent jobs overseas and set the products back home.

we have the jobs here and now were sending products overseas. from the time i got involved in public life, i've only been around a few years. o bless me father. anyway. we want to build the economy from the middle out in the bottom up. not a lot trickle down on my dad's table but when you increase the middle class, the poor have a shot in the wealthy still do well. we all do well. that is what we call bidennomic s. host: that was the president in milwaukee. we have john in oregon, a democrat. caller: i was calling to voice

my approval for president biden. i think he is doing a wonderful job. as a member of the carpenters union and a shot out to all of my union brothers in ohio, the president got our pension plan reinstated with the work he has brought to our state. i think we are fortunate to have someone with his experience. times are tough and he has the experience it takes to get things done. host: let's go to and in north carolina, and independent. caller: i agree with the first collar. i'm an independent i have been all my life. when i got old enough to vote i picked out the person i thought the most qualified and the most decent person. that's important to me.

i am not a raving religious lunatic but i believe in jesus christ and i believe in evil and good and i believe in the bible that there will be a forked tongue devil in the end days. this scares me because i have grandchildren and biden has pulled us out. i don't think the republicans realize how dumb trump was during the virus era. and biden had to pull us out of that. all of the stuff went on before he took over. people don't recall january 6. i have got to vote for biden. he is the most decent man. they have improved anything on him.

-- they have not proved anything about him. my father had a stutter and he would stumble but he was a steelworker that held the job and spoke all the time at meetings for the steelworkers union. host: let me ask you about what you think about his handling of the economy? caller: i think it's good because he did pull us out -- people would just think about what he had to go through to pull us out of the debacle. i have listened to every channel and they are on fox now

degrading his speech. they don't talk about anything about speech in the border. we have to get our country out of this negativity. i remember when i was young i didn't think i was english or irish. i thought i was an american. professing my love for the american flag and biden's mouth this not ugly. i'm sorry i just can't vote for trump with his ugly mouth. it has made me physically sick. he will get what is coming to him. he is getting away with too much. i agree biden needs to go back into office. my mom lived until 96 and she

was sharp as a tack. you can't control how your mouth works. i have arthritis so bad i could barely get around but i have a sharp mind. i think i dentist two. host: paul is next. caller: biden is the worst president this country has ever had. he is the worst man to step into that white house. lowest is 3.5%. that's not counting gas and food. biden walks around in circles trying to shake hands with the air. he doesn't know what he's doing. he's a traitor. he's an vil disgusted bald-faced liar. host: all right.

bellwood, ill joy, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, america. i want to confirm my support for president biden. i think he's doing a great job. we had up against him. we need to stay the course with biden. it's going to make a difference to me. i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. can you hear me? host: we are listening. caller: ok. my thing with biden he ain't too old, he ain't too young, if he's got the game. we are riding with bide kwrefpblt keep rocking, joe. bye. host: take a look at what we got on facebook here. lauren says let's give him a d. and that's mainly graded onboarder security and the economy, which him and the democrats have failed miserably. and dennis on facebook says he's

giving buchanan a run for his money. this is sean who says seven out of 10. middle east could be handled better. he's doing good work on the home front, though. against republican odds trying to solve him out. ruth in indiana, independent, good morning. caller: i probably voted mostly republican all my life. when trump came along i knew what he represented. there was no way i was going to vote for the man who was morally bankrupt and incompetent among other things. i think biden has done a good job considering everything that's been thrown at him. i appreciate his experience. his empathy for people. it is shown if you look at statistics things are far better. people don't remember -- i remember going through what we went through with trump who couldn't seem to get anything right. who inherited a decent economy from obama. then it went downhill.

he just covered covid terribly bad. i just really appreciate the adult in the room that we have with biden. he seems to have people around him who are competent. i vote for him again. i voted for him before. it makes me sick to hear people thinking that trump is almost god. my gosh, look at the background of the man. thank you so much. host: all right, ruth. take a look at what minnesota democratic representative dean phillips said on cnn state of the union. he is running against president biden for the democratic nomination. >> every single poll showing out, everyone is showing him falling further behind. his approval numbers at historic lows. i'm trying to generate a wake-up call to democrats that we have a real problem here. and rather than stifling and suppressing competition, we should be encouraging it. that's why i spent the better part of a year encouraging other

candidates to enter the race. the water is warm. we need to practice democracy now. i want to make something clear, the president is not a threat to democracy. but running and suppressing other candidates is a threat when you are behind in the polls, like he is, and frankly, to disenfranchise voters in florida and north carolina which is what has happened the last two weeks is a risk. i'm pointing out the fact we should be practicing democracy. >> just to be clear, you are saying because you think he's unelectable you believe he's a threat. so you are ultimately still calling him a threat to democracy. >> those who are propagating this delusion he will beat donald trump, they collectively are a threat to democracy. i call it like i see it. that's what the country is saying in every single poll. if we don't wake up soon, we are going to be in for a tragedy this. time we know it. 2016 we couldn't believe it. this time we better believe it. that's the truth. i want to make it clear. he is not a threat. a good man. it's delusion that he can win is

a threat to democracy, yes. >> can you have it both ways, i know you are being careful. can you have it both ways? why not just say it you think he's a threat because he's unelectable? >> i think he's being deluded by others telling him it's the only one who can win, if not him, who? we should be practicing a primary now. that's why we have them. to identify the candidate best positioned to win. that's why i'm saying let's get to may or june and see what the polls say. if they say that president biden is suddenly ahead of donald trump and i'm behind, i'll pack it up, get behind him 100%. conversely, if the polls show i am ahead of donald trump and president biden is behind, i think he should do the same thing. host: that was on nbc last week. we are hearing your comments. greg is a republican in mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. hi. caller: good morning. i'm a long-time viewer, way back at brian lamb time.

hopefully he's doing well. i haven't read anything about him recently. host: he is doing well. thanks for asking. caller: no news is good news. i'm happy to hear that. as to my grade for hunter's dad. yes, i call him hunter's dad. hunter is more likely to be running the country than his father. who knows, how could somebody watch the clip you should of him in milwaukee and then a clip of donald j. and say, which guy is telling you what he thinks as opposed to what others tell him to say. or the teleprompter. it's an issue that i don't -- it surprises me that c-span hasn't had a segment by somebody who knows about who does the teleprompter and how it's done. i have heard that he has a

pseudo oval room because the real oval room can't handle the huge teleprompter he needs, hunter's dad i'm talking about. i suggest that c-span look into that and say, is there anything to this common understanding that the current president is not telling you what he thinks, he's telling you what others tell him to say. i think it's scary that he's the president. make his own decisions. host: all right, greg. independent line in new york, new york, good morning. caller: good morning. host: what do you think about president joe biden? caller: everybody knows that. the economy is terrible.

he's not doing a good job. nothing is good. when nothing is good in new york, you know nothing is good in the united states of america, period. you people -- you can not tell the truth about israel. where israel is, the palestinian is palestine. where israel is is palestine. and israel is jew -- 1948. i was 9 years old. joe biden was 5 years old. i'm older than joe biden. i know about -- i was 9 years old in my country in africa. host: do you think since you're older than joe biden, what do you make when people say he's

too old to be president? do you agree? caller: no. it's only because -- they don't understand. he's not doing a good job. nobody's old to do something. joe biden doesn't do nothing. his employees do the job. host: you mentioned the israel-palestinian war. "new york times" says a poll finds wide disapproval on biden on gaza and little room to shift gears. it's split between those wanting the war to end and those pressing for a definitive israeli victory and a divided among older and younger generations. james, also in new york, new york, democrat, good morning. host: hi. names. did -- caller: hi. i'm a very happy man and i'm elated that there's something positive on c-span. i have been watching you guys since 1979.

joe biden with such a narrow margin has done phenomenally well with all of this anger, hate, and vitriol. he could go back to f.d.r. days. the america cares act, the infrastructure, the chips act. he's giving people jobs. the economy. unemployment is down. people are at work. and i just want to say something to people. they are talking about inflation. let's just ask ourselves this simple question. during the pandemic -- i live -- we got hit really bad as did a lot of other americans with the covid. why is it that general mills and a lot of the big manufacturing companies were showing record profits?

oh, it's called shrinkflation. they posted numbers higher. remember how much the can of lysol was, $20. it's called price gouging. it drives me nuts when nobody talks about that. joe biden, he is exciting as obama? no. is he as exciting as president clinton? no. you want to know something, he's been working. donald trump has done absolutely nothing with the exception of enriching wealthy people. and the last thing i want to say before i go, black people, white people, asian, hispanic, indigenous the biggest thing that republican elites are scared of is the unity of us all together. because i want to tell you something, republicans, the

republican elites do not care about middle income caucasians or lower income. we need to unite and stay strong. biden is going to go down as the greatest president -- is he an interesting speaker? no. one more thing about age, herman woke who wrote "war and remembrance" was writing a book at the age of 102. you got nancy pelosi who is 82. you got mitch mcconnell who is 81. you got chuck grassley who is 88. give me a break, guys. it's a beautiful, glorious day. let us support biden. he's a great president. thank you. host: you have a good day, too. let's look at what michigan democratic senator debbie dingell said about the biden administration needing to do a better job discussing matters of

the economy. >> this weekdy have a chance to talk to michigan. democratic voters who supported president biden in 2020 now two out of five of the voters i talked to say they are not so sure. they cite the economy. we can see that inflation is coming down, but we don't feel that in our pocketbooks. what do you say to those michigan voters? why should they vote for biden when they say they are struggle fog tkpwroerbies? >> i know they are struggling. when i'm home and out and about in the farmers market, in the grocery stores and people are having a hard time. gas prices are coming down. food prices are coming down. but we are going to do a lot -- there are a lot of things we have to do. people know we are a purple state. i can't always convince people of that. this year these polls are saying, debbie's right this time. i was right back in 2016. donald trump, we have to look at not words but actions.

when he was president he gave the rich tax cuts. it increased prices, too. we have to talk about the economy, the jobs that have been created, the increasements going in and show what's been doing. we have to show and remind them of the actions not the words. host: representative dingell on nbc's' "meet the press." earl is up next from reading, california. good morning. caller: good morning. first of all if you don't mind i like to wish the entire country merry christmas and happy new year. listen, we supposed to have they good pot out here in california, don't know what these democrats have been smoking. they got -- 61% are supporting what i call the old biden administration. because obama said i'm open in the office. i'd like to have three terms. he opened an office right down the street. i believe he's been -- let me

tell you briefly what i see when i turn on my tv. i channel surf all the time. i see us in two wars. the president of ukraine says he needs half a million new outfitted soldiers. who do you think he wants to pay for all that? i see north korea firing missiles, two in the last week. i see two wars. i see the middle east inflamed instead of ending the war's peace. a thousand illegal aliens yesterday crossing to the united states. i see them being shipped all over the country. it's not even fair to them what's happening. my economy, ail just tell you i have a fixed income, vietnam veteran, surgeries from agent orange. my income has decreased by 30% buying power, my fixed income.

i'm trying to go back to work part-time. i'm not going to be a wal-mart greeter because i'll get in trouble doing that job. all i'm trying to say is we have to stop this insanity. you either have to get a real candidate or i'm voting for donald trump again. if he goes to prison i'm voting for him. god bless america. host: texas, republican. good morning. caller: just bear with me. i'm voting for donald trump. host: barbara, what do you think of president biden's job performance? caller: i think -- i don't understand why colorado did that to donald trump. i mean that's election interference. i think the people should have the right to decide who they want to vote for. thank you.

host: all right. margaret, massachusetts, independent, good morning. caller: hi. i'll make an analogy between president roosevelt and president biden. when president roosevelt -- he had unbearable insults. it was heartbreaking to watch an elderly man when all of us are going to get elderly. when all of us are going to get elderly and the insults. they forgot the wisdom of president biden. president roosevelt, he stayed right for four terms in office. billian men, both of them are. i don't understand how the american people could insult that man like they have because young people fall.

we are all going to get old. he must be a wonderful person to bear what he's borne in his lifetime and keep going like he is with the fight in him. host: all right, margaret. we'll check in on our social media. scott on facebook says that he gives president biden an f. he's the worst president i have ever seen. and deb on xays, he's doing an ext job. he signed significant legislation. he brought us back to being a respected country on the world stage. he gott of the covid trash heap trump created. he's a kind and compassionate ma and mike on facebook says,'d give him a b. he's not the best. but he has accomplished a lot and brought us back from a global inflation after covid. great.therine said, he's doing what he was handed from trump,- unemployment is low. manufacturing is back.

wages are inflation is going down. and he is for the right biden accomplished more than trump ever d voting for biden. patrick in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, a democrat. od morning. caller: joe biden is a catastrophe on steroids. particularly when you look at the situation on the border. i'm an intellectual property specialist. i studies systems and how to forecast future environments. here's the reality. it takes roughly three to five years for a person to even get to a judge for them to evaluate them as a possible citizen. within five years every american will be able to have an autonomous artificial intelligent robot in their home. tesla is already producing them. imagine you have a.i., which is going to displace huge numbers

of the estimates are between 60% to 80% of working people in this country. add to that autonomous robots who can work 18-hour days without stop. and you have eight million, eight million illegal immigrants in this country. we have an exploding homeless population. we have two wars that we are subsidizing. one of them is completely illegitimate. the insanity of this president is beyond comprehension. host: sorry to cut you off. as a democrat, did you vote for him in 2020? caller: no. i didn't. host: who did you vote for? caller: i voted for trump. host: you still consider yourself a democrat? caller: why? host: ok. patrick mentioned the border,

this is on the front page of the "washington post." it says, a historic surge of migrants and few solutions in sight. the smugglers have sawed through the u.s. border wall so many times lately that parts of the barrier look like something out of a sculpture garden or mad max move sraoefplt scraps of metal have been woven to the bars at odd angles by repair crews. a segment standing about 100 feet of the border, the wall has been cut 41 times. the broader u.s. immigration system is in similar tattered shape after decades of congressional inaction and recurring migration spikes, including record numbers of illegal crossings this month. u.s. customs and border protection is surpassing 10,000 encounters as migrants along the southern border per day. an influx likely to exacerbate strains on new york, chicago, and other cities already have

new come. seeking shelter, food, and assistance. reggie is in cleveland, ohio. republican. hi. caller: good morning. how are you? i like to wish all those in america and the whole world, i wish them the peaceful and happy holiday season and a blessed healthy new year. host: what do you think about president biden? caller: i like to give him -- i say a minus, b plus, and give kamala harris b plus, she's doing a very good job as vice president. and, yes, i do consider myself a republican. i have been a republican for years. and i am ohio republicans. i still consider myself part of the g.o.p.

my grandfather made me a republican. he was an eisenhower man. that's one thing i got to say. host: what do you think when you said that you rate vice president kamala harris highly and president biden based on what? caller: i based biden on what he has done. how he got us out of things. ports was closed in california. and our rail during covid. had he to work with that. and all the different strikes this year. he helped. he was online. when you saw trump supporting people on the strikes and stuff? and employment. and the economy has got better. and i give kamala harris grade on watching everything. even the border, even though

it's not 100%. i give kamala harris watching over areas that biden can't watch or areas biden ask her to watch. or give some concern to. i give him credit. we have a team. they are not a great team but everything in. host: he did mention vice president kamala harris. here she is talking about recent polling and how she and president biden rated -- compared to former president trump. here's a portion. this is from last month. >> former president trump not only on the national level appears to be beating the biden-harris ticket, but uniquely in those five of the six key swing states. that seems to be the case. what do you think when you see the poll? >> listen, if i listened to polls i would have never run for my first office or second one

and here i am as vice president. there are fundamental freedoms that are at stake right now. the american people do understand that. again i will point out the mid terms and the most recent elections. when freedom was on the ballot, from kansas to california, ohio to virginia. the american people voted in favor. >> you think the polls are wrong? >> that's a little too simplistic, with all due respect. i don't think that we should use polling as our only measure of who we are as americans. and our values, and our principles, and our priorities. >> your ratings 38.5%, biden 40.4%. and trump is higher. ron says this, you have seen press about yourself over the years. he says that he believes that your popularity or unpopularity or whatever rating you want to put it as is a function of

sexism and racism. says that's part of the problem. she doesn't get the credit for all she's done. do you think it's true? >> the media or people? as it relates to the media, i'm sure some of that is true. host: that was the vice president. wonder what you think of that. mary in north carolina, independent line. hi. caller: hi. i would give president biden an f. and mostly because of the border. i don't understand why biden has fought so hard to keep this border open so people can flow any time they want to into this country. the only thing it reminds me of is the chinese spy balloons flying over the country. it flew anywhere it wanted to. and biden said nothing. they were screaming their heads off, do something, do something.

he did nothing. same situation at the border. the spy balloon was shot down when china said it could be shot down. the same way at the border. the border's going to stay like it is until china says it's enough. i think biden the only reason he's keeping it opened like it is, he wants me people coming in because he's taking money from someone where weather it be china or- whether it be china or group of people in mexico. host: i just want to clarify on the chinese spy balloon. the administration says they shot it once it got over water. that it wouldn't hurt anybody on the ground. take your point on frustrations. rashad in maryland, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i give president biden an a

plus, plus, plus. first and foremost for defeating donald trump who is the absolute worst president in modern history. trump gives andrew johnson is a run for his money. i'm 34. one of those middle-aged millennials. i consider myself a young voter. and i remember where we were in january, 2021. donald trump led an insurrection insurrection. in addition to president biden having to deal with that calamity. he came into office when we were in the depths of a worldwide pandemic that crashed our economy and took hundreds of thousands of lives. thanks to his leadership and that of vice president harris we now have record low unemployment. the inflation that was fueled by the covid recovery is coming down. we are drilling more oil than any nation in history. and our international policy is now devoted to supporting free democratic allies like ukraine, israel, taiwan instead of regimes like russia when trump

was president. he's been a tremendous leader for our country. i will enthusiastically, gladly, with so much joy and gratitude for his leadership of our country vote to re-elect him in 2024. then to the point about him being old, one, age confers wisdom. from someone like president biden who has been in public office for so long. not only that, but our average demographic in this country is getting older. all the candidates attacking president biden for being old,s look at the electorate, old people vote. telling them they are washed up and no use, people, president biden's age and what not, that's a really bad strategy in a country where senior citizens pretty much determine our elections. not only that, but we have a lot of people in major positions around the world who are senior citizens. the president of the church of jesus christ of latter day

saints, is 99, the pope is 87. queen elizabeth ii was 96. it's not anything unusual in a world in which people are getting older and living longer and having better quality of life as they age for them to continue to be in positions of power. i have no doubt that president biden in his second term will continue the tremendous record of leadership and commitment to democracy, to our -- the history of our country, the rights that we cherish. host: one of the -- one of the major criticisms of president biden as you heard on this program is the handling of the southern border. what do you think of that? caller: i think that the situation at the border that we have currently is not president biden's fault directly. the problem is that -- not the problem, but the issue is that we have international agreements under our laws that relate to

asylum. lots of people who are coming through the southern border, they are not getting around the border agents and going into the country disappearing. what they are doing is they are going to border agents to get themselves into the asylum pipeline. that is a loophole, if you will, that is challenging for sure. host: what do you think about what the solution might be? what would you be willing to see as far as policy changes on the border? caller: i think people who want to come to the united states and contribute to our country and make this country a better place should have legal pathways that are established by congress, which congress has the authority to regulate immigration law in this country, make legal immigration easier. the reason people seek asylum at the border is because they have no other way of coming to the united states legally. if we liberalized our immigration laws, let's face it,

we need the labor of the people trying to come into this country from -- through the southern border. especially -- people complain about the price of groceries. i wonder why groceries are so expensive. if you think deporting agricultural workers is going to help our grocery situation, prices of groceries, that's going to be a nonstarter. we need to grow up, first of all, and realize that we need immigrant labor who our prices as american citizens to be cheaper. host: got it. i got to move on. this is rashad mentioned a young voter at 34. this is the hill that says, young voters right now overwhelmingly prefer biden. according to the economist yougoff poll. you can see it here with the top number there in red for joe biden at 53%. donald trump at 24%. other at 10%. not voting or not sure, at 9%

and 4%. wally in aroara, colorado. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. we are listening. caller: ok. i think joe biden is absolutely the best. the democrat party could trot out. and the devil to destroy our country. host: why do you think that? caller: that's exactly what they are doing. caller: because i read my bible. host: you think that the democrats are trying to destroy the country by making joe biden the president? caller: absolutely. this isn't a democracy. it's not a republic we were given. it's way beyond all that. socialist state and worse. all these people coming across our southern border was prove sized a long time ago -- prove

sighed -- prophecied a long time ago. host: you think it's prove sighed in the bible? caller: it is. host: wane in maine, independent line, good morning. caller: hi. joe biden, if you look at every poll, every reputable poll, he is -- regarding one of the worst presidents we ever had. i heard a couple of delusional people before me who called up and were completely team biden. one of the persons talking about the bible. we have joe biden's in charge. joe biden is leading -- he has the -- world war iii -- host: the neon cons? caller: neoconservatives like the administration under george bush who have this crazy

imperialist foreign policy. we have nazi regime that's completely corrupt. in ukraine that biden is supporting and arming. we've got taiwan. we've got -- biden's supporting genocide in gaza. 10,000 children murdered. he's giving netanyahu a blank check. he's one of the worst -- we have homeless people -- homeless population in america is skyrocketing. he's done nothing about price gouging by corporations. that's what they call inflation. he's one of the worst presidents i have ever seen. i have seen reagan, bush, w. bush, i have seen horrible presidents in my lifetime. he is the worst. host: do we need to mention homelessness we are going to have a segment on the homeless rate in this country coming up later in the program. be sure to stick around for that. gary in new jersey. democrat, good morning.

caller: good morning. i'll tell you, i have a couple of concerns. one, i wish there was more diversity in our elections. i wish we -- the media have kept so much under wraps. i'm talking msnbc. i watch them all. cnn. abc. nbc. sunday shows, oh, my god. first of all nobody's getting the truth. nobody. these stations are protecting biden like i have never seen before. you know it, i know it, everybody knows t i have watched this man read postcards, literally postcards given by the news media that they know the answers already. they know how to ask the questions. it's obvious. so they are protecting him. and his numbers are still down because people are getting in. you got to be more honest with

people. i watched a rally last night on news nation, and they said biden is not going tonight candidate. he's going to pull himself out. i think he s i think he's not going to be the candidate -- host: who was that that said that? caller: bill owe riley -- bill o'reilly. he was saying that biden will pull out. and i wish the media would be more honest about this. he cannot run another term. he will not run another term. there's going to be hearings about his criminality. that's coming out. it's coming out leaking slow. the news media is quick to hide it. it's coming out. the border is killing this country. and news media, half of them don't play it. you know it, i know t c-span, with you, too, i'm extremely

disappointed with this station. i watch tefr morning. i see the slant, too. i see the people you put on as commentators and guests. you're trying. you're trying to protect biden. it ain't working. people are getting in. i'm a democrat. i like phillips. i like what he said. he's honest. i like kennedy. i really think that you got to give people more chances. it is not a democracy if you are hiding half the campaign. stop propping up biden, people. i hear them calling -- they are delusional. host: we got your point. tom in florida, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. everybody's talking about the border and everything. have you seen the news today? it's completely out of control. people just can't handle it.

i don't know. that along with giving billions of dollars to the ukraine and israel. a little bit of help is fine. don't have anything wrong with that. i spent my time -- i spent six years in the service. i just don't see where biden has done anything for this country except put it deeper in the hole. they talk about borrowing more money. how much money do they want to borrow? they sending trillions of dollars for israel and ukraine. when a lot of that money could go back to the people in this country for housing and to upgrade things that need to be upgraded. some of the schools. a lot of things that -- everyday things for our people.

host: all right. here is a text we got from john in vicksburg, mississippi. bin d a good job. now it's time for him to reti my vote will go to anyone but biden or trump. if they are on the ballot, i will vote dowot, only. kitty on facebook says, so pretty darn good. he is only do as much ashat this contentious congres let him. the economy has recovered. unemploy is way down. inflation is still coming down. right now congress is a do-nothing body. next up is rockaway, new york. independent line. caller: i want to wish you and your family a blessed christmas. you're one of my favorites. and i must say that president biden is doing the best he can.

in lieu of the congress we have. people can talking about the border. i don't hear anybody saying that the democrats, i'm voting democrat, democrat. democrats are working overtime, overtime right now trying to do something about the border. the democrats and the republicans in the senate. they are listening to the american people. they are trying to do something about the border that will give some kind of relief of the people coming over here. where's the house? where's the republican house? republicans are calling in, where's the republican house? and that's all i have to say. host: let's take a look at what nikki haley says in a new campaign ad talking about biden's age. a i'll just say t biden's too old. and congress is the most exclusive nursing home in america. washington keeps failing because politicians from yesterday can't lead us into tomorrow.

we need term limits. mental competency tests, and real plan to defeat china and restore our economy. we have to leave behind the chaos and drama of the past with a new generation, and a new conservative president. i'm nikki haley and i approved this message. host: charlie calling from california. democrat. caller: how you doing. caller: host: -- host: great. caller: you want my been about this biden -- host: i really do. go ahead, charlie. caller: well, biden projects no strength at all. he goes down to that catastrophe down in gaza an holds netanyahu's hand while he's killing a lot of people unnecessarily. he has no strength. we need a man like senator chris van hollen from maryland. and biden doesn't even enter the

new hampshire primary this year. and i'm spearheading a write-in for chris van hollen in new hampshire. and he's only entering the south carolina primary where he's got his good friend, clyburn, james clyburn down there. host: charlie, have you contacted senator van hollen's office about this? caller: yeah, i have. host: what do they say? caller: well, they don't discourage me. and chris van hollen, if everybody looked at youtube and wikipedia, they say, oh, my god. chris van hollen should be the president. in other words, the democrats all got together and they promoted this biden. he's infectionual. he's a projection of strength. he doesn't represent the united states' strength. he goes down to gaza and holds

netanyahu's hand. instead of saying cut this killing of these children and so tpo*frplt it's ridiculous to put biden in there. we have no choices there. of course you go biden before trump. trupl is a complete chaos. trump is a complete chaos. if everybody looked at chris van hollen from maryland, senator from maryland. he's 64. he's fantastic. host: all right. go to kelly in rome, georgia. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. merry christmas and happy holidays and happy hanukkah to everyone in the world. i'm going to give president biden a d going into an f. probably the main reason is the border. and mostly when i hear them wanting money for ukraine or

even for israel they don't -- it's to protect their borders. yet we leave ours opened. i did hear someone say earlier where are the house republicans, the senate is doing all this stuff. as far as immigration and stuff. well, the asylum seekers, about 70% i believe are turned down because it's not true asylum. we just got a hot mess. even the jobs that have come back after covid, those don't get biden's calling because he create add job. those jobs were brought back because the epidemic ended. and people went back to work. that's what caused every bit of unemployment to go back down. look at ennation. and i -- inflation. and i understand people don't like trump.

but 3 a.m. tweets don't bother me. more than seeing a man fall down steps. fall off a bike. it's not his age. it's his mental competency. he doesn't seem to know where he is half the time. he's shaking hands. and that's going to show strength in the world? host: all right. let's talk to john next in washington, independent. caller: i'm a 37-year-old veteran. i want to talk to you about several things. one is cease-fire. i was in the 1968 at the time offensive in vietnam -- at the time offensive in vietnam when they were going to agree to a cease-fire over there. guess what happened? who broke that cease-fire? my roommate was killed over there. i would have been with him if it hadn't been for my boss calling me down to the headquarters for a meeting.

cease-fire -- now you talk about ukraine getting out invade russia. russia invaded ukraine. gaza invaded israel. killed 1, it 200 in one day. beheaded babies, everything like that. the worst thing that ever happened. what israel needs to do is demolish hamas. demolish hezbollah. and even go after -- host: john, getting back to president biden's performance. how would you rate that? caller: f. i'll tell you why. trump has north korea not firing over the gentlelady from biden comes along, all at once, two or three times over japan now. he's weak. i don't want him in that office. and i'd rather have at least

trump is in there doing a lot of things for this country. biden is either at the beach or delaware. look at the stuff that's come out against him and hunter biden. i don't want him in office ever again. host: anthony in south carolina, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. yes. biden is the smartest, he's been in politics for over 40 years. he's the one that's trying as hard to get this country together. they talking about immigration and border and all that. that border, they have been kicking the can on that the republicans and democrats. they can't even try to solve no problems with the republicans doing everything but trying to solve some of these issues. and they always block, i don't care what democrat is in office,

they do this silly stuff. people act like they blind and can't see what's going on. you got to be -- stevie wonder could see what's going ofpblt biden is doing a tremendous job. host: i want you to respond to our previous caller that says that biden doesn't project strength. what do you think of that? caller: no. i think it's a big lie because biden, he goes and talks to all those people. and he tried to figure out the best solution. you put yourself, juxtaposition in biden's place with everything the republicans doing to tie his hands behind his back. santos and it -- they couldn't even get a house speaker for a month. ridiculous. i don't agree with -- giving this money to ukraine and israel. where's the reparations for the

slavery? that's the worst thing that happened over there in israel. but they enslaved black people for 400 years. host: got to move on to kyle in truth or consequences, new mexico. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you guys so much for taking my call. about biden, hi this joke i -- i had this joke i want to say before i forgot biden has made a bunch of democrats liz cheney supporters. it is really weird. i am 38 years on, am a combat veteran. i grew up in the 1990's. biden was key in the 1994 crime bill. biden voted for the iraq war. millions of needless suffering and death. he doesn't seem to honestly care about it.

there is a lot going on now but just looking at the history of this current presidency, i hate to say this to him -- system, it is not looking good. biden, recently in his term as president, calling a winter of death for the unvaccinated, suppressing medicine, which to me, as a former foreman, is despicable. we still have yet to learn covid truth. i don't necessarily put all of that on biden but he sure did do what he did. and then the genocide in gaza. the united states, we vetoed in the united nations security

council, we vetoed a call for cease-fire, and then what did we do? we voted against it in the general assembly. i am calling on the republican line. i consider myself a republican now. i considered myself a democrat for most of my life. i voted for trump in 2016. nonetheless, i have a tough time with this all because i don't think biden represents the dennis kucinich democrat that i always thought i was. it is disturbing to me, i hear so many people calling on the democratic line, and i love everybody, but there is just dissolution going on. there is something completely wrong. when barack obama was president -- i voted for him twice -- but he started the groaning -- dro

ning, trump continued it, but it is a disconnect. implied moving forward, if we are unable to connect to the truth and we are applauding people like liz cheney, i'm sorry. host: got it, kyle. that is the last call we can take for the segment but there is a lot more to come. coming up next, a discussion on the state of criminal justice reform with advocate kevin ring and colleen eren of reform nation. and then later, chief policy officer steve berg discusses the state of homelessness in the u.s. we will be right back. ♪

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