>> good morning, it's thursday, november 20, 2024. control of the house in the 119 congress remains uncertain as

republicans will control the senate. in the wake of vice president kamala harris' concession speech yesterday, president-elect is donald trump is already preparing for his return in january. we're spending all three hours getting your thoughts. phone lines split by political party. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. you can also accepted us a text, 202-748-8003. name and where you're from. otherwise, catch up on social media. on x, it's @cspanwj. on facebook, it's facebook.com/cspan. very good thursday morning to you. start calling in now. we're expecting president biden to address the nation about the 2024 election results this morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, from the white house, is what's

been reported. of course, we'll take you there on c-span when that happens. it was yesterday, yesterday afternoon, that vice president kamala harris gave her official concession speech. here's a portion of what she had to say. >> now, i know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. i get it. but we must accept the results of this election. earlier today i spoke with president-elect trump and congratulated him on his victory. i also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition. and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power. a fundamental principle of american democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. that principle, as much as any

other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny. and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. at the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the constitution of the united states. and loyalty to our conscience and to our god. my allegiance to all three is why i am here to say, while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign. host: vice president kamala harris yesterday. that was from howard university, her alma mater, here in washington, d.c. she talked about the transition.

transition efforts already underway by the incoming trump administration. the story from politico noting that the trump campaign team turned into transition mode yesterday, huddled in west palm beach. trump's adviser hurried ironing out transition plans, particularly how to handle the questions about people and policies that will help shape a second trump white house. after his election night rout, trump advisors have made clear his day one priorities include executive orders on border, security, and oil drilling and other measures to promote energy independence. with congress potentially under full republican control, trump team is emboldened, they write, to push aspects of his america first agenda as soon as he re-enters office. unclear officially yet who will control the house of representatives. republicans have a distinct advantage with 38 states, 38 races yet to be decided.

as a reminder, heading into this election, democrats would need to net four seats to take control of the house. republicans have so far netted four seats. and again, the playing field is getting shorter, just 38 races left on the house level. that's our c-span results map that you can check yourself and click around. on the senate side, there's four senate races yet to be called. republicans will have at least 52 seats in the in the. we're talking about all of this this morning, spending all three hours of our program today getting your reaction, your thoughts, a day after the official announcement and official concession from kamala harris on the 2024 campaign and donald trump moving forward. this is engineer any detroit, michigan, a democrat up first this morning. jerry, go ahead. caller: good morning, john, and greetings yet again from detroit.

being a 59-year-old black man, i want to commend kamala harris for the job well done. she gave it her all. it might not have been the result that i was hoping for, but at least i hope it will make her a whole -- her and those of us who support her, i think a whole lot stronger. to take on donald trump and his bigoted supporters. also would like to say, we have to take very seriously one of donald trump's more scarier threats, and that is to pardon the people who attacked our capitol nearly four years ago. i want to add that i hope that never happens, because it will be a slap in the face to all of

those brave capitol police officers who defended the building from those trump supporters. and one last thing, if i may, before i go. to those trump supporters who want to compare january 6 and black lives matter, it wasn't black lives matter that rioted, but those were trump supporters who attacked the building. it wasn't f.b.i. or b.l.m. or antifa. host: stick around for one second. i want to show two headlines and bounce the second one off you. first, on january 6 defendants, this from today's metro section of "the washington post," the election of donald trump brings hope, the headline notes, donald trump has promised to pardon at least some of them. that's in "the washington post" today. but this from "usa today," you mentioned that you're a middle-aged black man. you used the term bigoted when referring to donald trump's campaign. this headline, a shift in black and latino voters was key for trump this election cycle.

he won support from about 13% of black voters nationwide and 45% of latino voters, according to exit polls. how do you explain that, jerry? caller: well, my answer to that is it's not the overwhelming majority of black and latino voters. you have to keep in mind that in terms of demographics, the overwhelming majority of donald trump's supporters are still predominantly white, and for me, as a black man, i feel that those white trump supporters do have personal animus and hatred towards those who are different from them. host: that's jerry in detroit, michigan. this is kelly in ohio, republican. good morning. caller: hey, john. hey, i called on october 7, there were so many things i would like to say. only get to call in 12 times a year.

this is something really heavy on my heart, john, for all americans, i pray that trump does something about it. supposedly there's over 300,000 children missing. now, john, i'm telling you, this is breaking my heart. what's going on? why can't we get these people who have done this and these kids and find them? john, i'm telling you, this is killing a lot of us in this country, because these children are innocent. who did this? i know when trump was 4,000 children, but he made sure that they were safe and brought back to where -- now under this administration, john, what do you say about that, please, respond to what i'm saying. host: that's kelly in ohio. this is jeff in new york, independent. good morning. caller: good morning, john. trump had said on tv that he intends to appoint r.f.k. jr. in a common position to public health. i would like bring it to the attention of everybody that

mr. kennedy is a known vaccine conspiracy theorist. he's responsible for a terrible situation that occurred in samoa. i would like to quickly read from the annenberg public policy center, a few episodes from that episode. this is what's in store to scale in the united states if kennedy was to become secretary of h.h.s. or f.d.a. or some other agency. kennedy also played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory. in 2018, two instances in american samoa started when a nurse accidentally prepared the combine m.m.r. vaccine with expired muscle rec lance ant rather than water. the samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccine program, and anti-vaccine advocates, including kennedy and his

nonprofit, flood the area with misinformation. the vaccine rate dropped to a dangerously low level. the next year, measles was on the island, the disease tore through the population, sicking more than 5,700 people and killing 83 children. host: jeff, did you happen to see r.f.k. on -- i think it was on msnbc yesterday. he gave an interview. here's the headline from that interview. after trump wins, r.f.k. jr. says that he won't take away anybody's vaccines. what do you think about that? caller: well, it's not a question of -- first of all, what he says, because he is a pathological liar, and that's been shown over and over again in fact checks. even if that's the case, his influence as a vaccine denier and vaccine misinformation person is going to drop the vaccine rates in the country further than it already is dropping. and once he gets below herd immunity, for example, with

mousse he feels it's required to be 893% to prevent outbreaks. if you drop below that, the danger becomes outbreaks killing children, just like happened in samoa. and it's scale compared to a country with 50 million people, compared to the united states with 350 million people. you're talking about a tremendous outbreak and loss of life. and this is absolutely catastrophic if this was to happen. host: florida, david, democrat, good morning. caller: hey, john. i want to say a great many voters showed fear and resentment for kamala harris because of the color of her skin. and as a 75-year-old black military veteran who sacrificed 23 years of life for this country, i know systemic racism when it is employed.

here's what i have for all of the prognosticators. there is no fix for a people with a racist d.n.a. that's all i have to say, john. host: richard, georgia, republican. good morning. caller: good morning, john. i haven't talked to you in a while. i've been watching since 1979. you'll remember me, i'm the guy that asked you with brian stetter about michael avenatti a long time ago. i just wanted to say, the first thing i wished trump would do on the first day is going to the white house press briefing room and get rid of all the media. because for years they've been lying to the people. replace them with podcasts, which is the new way, the modern way. and replace them with podcasts like joe rogan, when he endorsed, he's a very liberal

man. when he endorsed trump on monday, that took him over because of 25 million people that listen to him, ages of what 20 to 30-year-old men. but i would like for the media to be out of the white house press briefing room. they have lots of people. they have misrepresented for so long. we need to get like megyn kelly's pod can, rogan, tucker carlson's podcast in there to do some real news. the people that watch msnbc and cnn, for the last decade, i've noticed that -- and i really appreciate you, but the people that watch those two channels especially, they're just too stupid to know they're stupid. host: when you say get rid of the media and bring in the podcasters, and you mentioned megyn kelly and joe rogan, what are they in your mind? are they media personalities?

how would you describe what they do? caller: they just literally talk to people and tell you the truth. it's not one-side. it's not their opinion. they're listening. like trump went on for three hours with rogan. rogan is the most liberal guy in the world, but they talked for three hours, and we got to understand, you know, each side. megyn kelly, even though she worked for fox one time, she's wide open. she was a trump hater, and now look at her. r.f.k., democrat. i mean, all these people that were on the democrat side to side with trump, time-outs make america great. but the people that have the podcast, look at the audiences they have, 30 million, 20 million, 25 million. that's what i think right now, we don't need cnn and msnbc. they just lie to people. i mean, it's daily. but i appreciate you, john.

host: the two people you mentioned, megyn kelly and joe rogan, gave their opinion about who they thought voters should vote for, and it was donald trump. you said they don't give their opinion, though. do you think that they don't give their opinion over the course of their podcast? whether that's a good thing or bad thing is up to you. caller: well, do you think msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs, nbc give their opinion on a daily basis? of course they do. everybody's got an opinion. but i would like to change the white house press conference briefing, for because four years they attacked trump daily. and then for four years we've listened to nothing but softball from cbs, nbc, abc, to the lady that was the white house press secretary for biden. it's just ridiculous. host: what do you think those press briefings are going to look like in a second trump administration, if he doesn't do what you're suggesting, if it's the media as it stands now,

maybe a few changes in seats in the brady briefing room. but what do you think those look like? do you think trump shows up in the briefing room as much as he did in the first trump administration? caller: i appreciate you asking me that, because i definitely do not ever want to see him in that press briefing room, except maybe the first day to say to the people that been lying about me, my family, destroying america's minds, y'all are out. and then i don't care if it's fox, msnbc, cnn, all of them, i don't care who it is. but the media has destroyed this countri' minds and thoughts. i definitely do not to want see donald trump in that press briefing root. i want him working to take care of you and me. host: richard, thanks for the call from georgia. talk to you again down the road. this is ann in jamaica, new york, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i happen to be a 80-something year old african-american woman,

and i'm very sad, but this is life that has to go on. i was hoping that some little girls would wake up and see that we could have a woman president, and unfortunately it's not the way it is. america is, this is sad we do not have a woman president. to me, it's really, really sad, because we should have a woman president at this time in american history. we should we have a man president? i'm 80-something years old. this, i would hope before i leave this earth, that we would have a woman president. and it's really, really sad. let a woman -- we've had two women who have ran for president who truly have been qualified to be a president, and america is

such a racist society, and one of the main reasons that she did not win is because she was a woman. she was a woman of color. and that's one of the main reasons that she did not win this presidency. and it's very, very sad. host: do you think we'll have a woman president any time soon in this country? caller: no. because of the way -- i've lived in america all my life, and i have always said, people say how great this country is. and i say america could be great. but it's not that great because of the fact of its racism. host: what do you think it would take to have a woman president in this country, ann? caller: america is just too racist, because when we go back in our history, from slavery to what they did to the indians, america is a very racist country.

and i've been here all my life. i'm almost 85 years old. and this is, when you look at the history of this country, just look at the history. america is a very racist place, and this is all i know. i grew up in the south, in the jim crow era. america is very racist. just look at the history of this place. and that's why she did not win. this is what america is. host: that's ann in new york. this is joe in dayton, ohio, republican, good morning. caller: good morning from a sunny day in ohio. hey, john, the reason my call, i want to really compliment c-span, and i want to compliment you, john. you guys do an excellent job. i'll tell you something. you guys showed the truth of all these rallies with trump and kamala harris. you showed them in their entirety. you didn't dub them. you didn't change the wordage. you didn't do anything. you guys showed the truth.

i got a lot of respect for you guys. the gentleman from georgia is correct. the media has destroyed this country. msnbc, cnn calling donald trump hitler and fascist. john, i don't believe we have one person anymore living in this country that ever lived under fascism. my parents did. they lived under mousse lynnee. that's why they came to the united states for a better life. but the reason i'm saying this is you guys showed donald trump's mini rally there at mar-a-lago two weeks ago, it was about an hour long. i flipped over to c-span. you guys showed the entirety of it. i flipped it over to cnn. they showed the first two minutes, and as soon as donald trump had this angel mom, that her 13-year-old autistic daughter was raped and killed by a venezuelan gang, c-span shut it off. they went to commercial break,

didn't even to want show that. but c-span showed the facts. host: c-span did not shut it off. c-span, assist you point out, showed it. joe, just to put it in the numbers for you. 1,700 campaign 2024 events going back to 2021, some 2,869 hours of campaign 2024 programming over that time since our very first campaign event on c-span. on this program, on the "washington journal," 541 campaign-related segments that we've had, just to put in context our efforts to show what happened on the campaign trail and give you a view on it. caller: no, john, my mistake. c-span showed everything. my mistake. i was saying cnn locked it. i didn't mean anything by that. c-span did an excellent job.

i'm just saying that c-span wouldn't show it. that was my point. host: no, joe, i appreciate it. it's what we try to do, to give people a window on the campaign, as much access in a national campaign as you can have from your television at home. but joe, thanks for the compliment. caller: thank you, john, bye-bye. host: susan in new york, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, john. i was listening to a lot of your callers yesterday about who they voted for or why they didn't vote. my message really is to those who either opted out because they didn't like either candidate or voted for jill stein on the basis of the genocide in palestine. you're very naïve people. because trump is sticking like glue to bibi netanyahu. and if you think he's going to do anything, anything at all to

help palestine, you are very misguided. it's not going to happen. at least with kamala, there was a chance that she could have enacted something more. donald trump will not go in that direction. and you will rue the day for not opting in voting for kamala harris. that's really my comment. host: new jersey, independent line, joe, good morning. caller: hi. i just wonder why the democrats are crying blues because they lost. they put the worst person in to run for president. four years ago, nobody voted, wanted her to be in any way. she dropped out the first time. and why are these people call up and say they're african-americans? i didn't call up and say i'm a white american. it's a person.

that's all. you don't have to go and say what nationality you are. host: joe, people choose to identify themselves however they want when they call in this program. some of them do it to say this is why i'm talking about this topic or some people will talk about their jobs or where they're from, how they grew up. we don't mind people identifying whatever aspects of themselves they want to identify. lost joe. to thomas in florida, republican, good morning. thomas, you with us? then we'll another joe. willow springs, illinois, independent. good morning. caller: hey, good morning. how are you? host: i'm doing well. caller: ok. i'm a lifelong chicago resident, now in sufficient suburbs. i've seen the democrat party over the years, when they talk about chicago politics, they talk about dirty politics.

so i have no real love for the democrat party. and i voted for trump because i don't want anybody that's been in politics all their life. i want somebody who can run a business. the government can't run a business. look at the post office. look at the railroads. look at things that they control, terrible, terrible. even musk, he was the only one that could get things off the earth and into space. in a short time. the whole u.s. government needs a remake. and anybody that thinks that the democrats are for the black or anybody else, they're mistaken. the blacks have forever been haunted by the democrats. the democrats owned all the

slaves. woodrow wilson created a ku klux klan, and he was a democrat, and he created jim crow laws. and then in the 1960's, along comes l.b.j. who breaks up the black family and creates, you know, slaves again. if you vote democrat, you're wrong. host: that's joe in illinois. a lot of discussion of the future of the democratic party within the party, within the opinion pages of major newspapers. let me take you to two of those examples. bernie sanders with this statement yesterday. the independent from vermont saying it should come as no surprise that a democratic party which has abandoned working class people would find the working class have abandoned them. while the democratic leadership defends the status quo, the american people are angry and want change. bernie sanders says they are

right. the statement goes on from there. but that's putting that statement out yesterday via social media. this from the pages of today's "new york times" columnist brett stevens, who acknowledged he voted for kamala harris, though often a conservative voice in the usually liberal pages of the "new york times." he says liberals thought the best way to stop trump was to treat him not as a normal if obnoxious political figure with bad policy ideas, but as a mortal threat to democracy itself. whether or not he is such a threat, his style of opposition led democrats astray. he goad them into their own form of anti-democratic politics, using the courts to try to get trump's name struck from the ballot in colorado or trying to put him in prison on hard to follow charges. it distracted them from the task of developing and articulating superior policy responses to the valid public concerns that he was addressing. it made liberals seem

hyperbolic, if not hysterical, particularly since the country had already survived one trump presidency, more or less intact. today the democrats have become the party of priggishness, pontification, and pomposity. it makes them feel righteous, but how is that a winning look? right now my larger fear is liberals lack the introspection to see where they went wrong, the discipline to do better next time, and the humility to change. brett stevens in today's "new york times." this is dennis in corona, california, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: i'm doing well. caller: good. well, i had a couple of small items. i watch your show all the time, and you do a great thing. one of the questions that i do have and have always had is what point in time when donald trump's maga party said make america great again, what part

in american history are they referring to? for the country and all of its citizens. and secondly, secondly, i want to know, we're spending billions of dollars helping these other countries fight wars. why isn't money spent in our country to help our homeless people, homeless veterans, people losing their homes, prices are sky high, and we're spending billions of dollars supporting other countries. and their problems are not taken over by another country or was assaulted by another country. and we're over here, citizens who pay hard-earned taxes are being evicted from apartments, going to the streets, losing their homes, can't buy food, and no one seems to be addressing that.

it doesn't matter if donald trump doesn't like kamala, and he calls people names, like he did with hillary and pocahontas and crooked march row rubio and little short marco rubio. we need to focus on our country and make sure that our citizens are being taken care of. host: on your first point, do you think there was a moment in our recent or long ago history where this country was great? caller: no. host: you don't think america's ever been great? caller: i think america has been good, but not great. when i think great, i think how it helps everybody, not a chosen few, not some that inherit, but everybody should be getting a fair shake at life. in this country, that doesn't happen. host: and then another question

we occasionally ask on this program, is america the greatest country in the world? what would you say to that question, dennis? caller: depends on when you say the greatest what it pertains to. america has some atrocities in its own history. yeah, we're prosperous. this country is rich. and if that's what they're gauging by making america great, making that statement, then yeah, it is the greatest country in the world as far as other finances. but not great as it is to its people. host: that's dennis in california. it's just after 7:30 on the east coast. we're spending all three hours of the "washington journal" today getting your responses to the election, to the ongoing uncertainty about who will be in control of the house in the 119th congress. plenty going on in washington

yesterday and, of course, today as well. president joe biden set to address the nation, 11:00 a.m. eastern, the address from the rose garden, and we'll, of course, show it to you on c-span. also want to show you some of the head lines from major newspapers that americans are waking up to. these are the front pages, the first chance of the physical newspapers to have the front pages on this after the race for the presidency was called. it was about 5:30 a.m. yesterday, so it didn't make the front pages yesterday. here's the front page of the "washington journal" today, trump try ups again. republican former president is the first in more than a century to reclaim the white house after losing it. and this is the front page of "usa today," same thing, trump reclaims the white house, overcoming political obstacles, he witnesses a second term. the headline from "the washington times," trump's decisive win upsets the political landscape. this is the front page of the "new york times" today, trump storms back. he defeats harris and caps his resurgence from outcasts, from

felony to president-elect. those are some of the national headlines. we'll get into some of the local papers and international papers throughout this program. we, of course, want to hear from you all morning long. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. john in mississippi, independent, go ahead. caller: i just want to say that if the democrats were ever going to get back in office, they got to get rid of this identity politics. america has decided that it doesn't care about the way trump expresses himself or anything. what it cares about is that men are playing women sports, that you aren't pushing this transgender thing. i mean, first of all, if you're going to have the government pay for people's college education, how about starting with the descendants of slaves who built

this country? everybody's backs are still riding on. the whole world, basically. we built europe twice. i mean, come on now. you need to have a marshal plan for african-americans. and until the democratic party realizes that they need to pay their debt, that this whole country, actually trillions of dollars in debt that's done to my people, they want to give us free education, you understand? that tells me that there's a -- i don't know if all the racists have got together in a private room or something and decided that we're all going to keep black people down by red lining banks and things of that nature, not giving them g.i. bills. this is historically long, america and the world knows what happened. so if you're not going correct this by not giving us reparations or not even giving us free education, i mean, you

want to even the playing field. you don't want to even the playing field, up to the bring people into our community, people come to this nation, they don't go to donald trump's neighborhood or joe biden's. they come and the black neighborhood with their drugs. they have to have a place to stay now. they have to have food now. they take that out of a black person's -- just like every other racist that came here. when it came here, the woods were already filled. everything was already cleared. things were already built because the capitol, the white house, all because of african-americans. and if you don't feel like african-americans need reparations, while you're worried about transgender, while you're worried about this, fix that first. and then the world will have a little bit more respect for you, and then you would be able to keep the black vote. i voted for trump because i missed the platinum plan. don't black americans don't know about the platinum plan, kamala harris didn't have anything on

the table for african-americans. didn't have no -- until the last two weeks. i mean, come on now. i love this country. i put my life on the line for this country. i would die for this country. but it needs to be a little bit more fair. and america knows that it hasn't been fair. host: this is tom in woodbridge, virginia, republican. good morning. caller: hey, good morning, john. wow. these last several callers, i couldn't agree more, even with a little bit with regard to the reparations thing. i think the sentiment is very clear that the democrat party has, for all intents and purposes, they've annihilated the black family in the united states. and i do believe that some people met in a back room and they decide that had they were going to erase black men from the black family, that they were going to incarcerate them and put them in prison and deny their children having fathers, and all those agenda items were

democrat agenda items. but i wanted to really speak specifically to the black americans in this simple regard. i think that the real damage that has been done is the psychological damage that has been done to the black community. i have a six-figure job. i work for the department of defense. and i've got a black co-worker who is a liberal and was voting for kamala. of course, i've been actively fighting for trump to win. so we had a conversation last week before the election, and he told me that we're literally sitting in the exact same office, sitting side by side in the exact same cubicle with the exact same job. we both have master's degrees. both of us are veterans. and he sits there and tells me that he does not have the same opportunities that i have. because i'm white. and it just brought me to tears.

because the reality is even when they're faced with it directly, perfect example, they still think that somehow they don't have the same opportunities. and i would argue that the reason that donald trump not only won the electoral college, but he just dominated in the popular vote is because of what your last caller was saying, is that the inflation, the inflation that is crushing us, the illegal immigrants, the 20 million illegal immigrants that were invited into the country, that are filling up houses and filling up schools, that are being given federal taxpayer dollars, and they've left behind everybody else, but this is what i would say to all of the americans that voted for donald trump. you are not black americans. you are not vietnamese americans. you were not chinese americans. you are americans. and they want us divided. our enemies want us divided.

we are all americans. and if we can put away the red american and the blue american conversation or the white american and the black american conversation, this country is the greatest country in the world. but in order for us to be even greater, we have to rip away those labels, and we have to deny them the ability to divide us, and the parties do it on purpose to win in congress and in the senate. they do it to us. the speaker pro tempore: got your point. -- host: got your point. make sure you're calling in once a month. i do feel like and you i chat more than once a month. i don't know when the last time you called in, but do try to stick by the rules here, because once a month. can you do that for me, tom? caller: thanks for calling me out, john. it's been a really crazy last couple of years. i try to give you guys substance. i appreciate you having me up.

host: i appreciate having conversations with you, tom, but let's do it once a month, just so folks can actually call in and get their calls in. that's tom, woodbridge, virginia. this is caroline in tyler, texas, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. a couple of things that i'd like to take just a moment to address. people keep saying the same thing about the democratic party's political party, and of course it was, but democratic party of today is not the same democratic party from back during slavery time. neither is the republican party that abraham lincoln was a part of, who freed the slaves. it's not the same republican party of today. kamala harris' presidential speech, her concession speech,

was excellent. it was very presidential, because she is very presidential as opposed to donald trump. he's anything but. presidential. someone said they hoped a caller called in said they hoped one of the first things that donald trump does is to get rid of the media. of course we all know that was one of the first things that hitler and the nazis did, was to get rid of the media. they keep saying he's not a nazi, but, you know, people keep calling in with information as if maybe he is a nazi. i think you read an article, john, that said something about 13% of black men, and i forget the numbers, 45 to 50-something percent of hispanic men voted for trump. host: i think it was 54% of hispanic men voted for donald

trump. i'll get the exact number for you. go ahead. caller: knowing you're exactly right. but 13% of black men. host: 13% of black voters, and 45% of latino voters. 54% of latino men. i don't have the number specifically for black men, but those are some of the numbers from the exit polls that are out there. caller: i just want everybody to know that 80% of black men voted for kamala harris. 90% of black women voted for kamala harris. it's mainly white men and white women who voted for trump still. that hasn't changed. host: i guess the point of the article was that 92% of black voters voted for joe biden in 2020. it was down to 86% in 2024.

there was a shift. not saying that it's a majority, but that donald trump was able to get more support in the black community. when it comes to l.a. afternoon owe voters, in 2020 joe biden also did much better with latino voters than donald trump did. caller: he did, i agree. but he didn't do much better with black voters. he did not do much better with black voters. i'm speaking of trump. i just cannot believe that this man was ever -- first of all, was ever allowed, i'm speaking of donald trump -- to run for the presidency. so now we wake up yesterday morning with a multiple felon who is head of our country and head of the military. thank you for taking my call. host: that's caroline in tyler,

texas am coming up, this is pennsylvania republican, good morning, robin. caller: good morning. urn, this is why the democrats lost, just listening to that lady. this is ridiculous. and they're still going on about nazis. this is totally unacceptable. and want a woman president, too, just like everybody else. but kamala harris was not the one t. she is no way could she run the country. no way. approximate and i got one more thing to say. why is it that the democrats tried to tell people who to vote for? it's none of their business. you want to ask people to debate each other? that's fine. but don't go on tv and on your show calling in and say we're nazis, we're racist. all the people that go to

trump's rallies are decent, wonderful people. you don't see them out there rioting, do you? i don't want to hear about john wary 6. host: did you watch kamala harris' concession speech yesterday? what did you think about it, if you did? caller: well, i really didn't get nothing out of it, to be honest with you. but i do to want say that her campaign at the convention, oh, joy, joy, joy, joy. and then after the convention, it was evil. and that's why they lost. host: robin in pennsylvania. here's more from kamala harris' concession speech at howard university in d.c. yesterday. >> to the young people who are watching -- to the young people who are watching, it is ok to feel sad and disappointed. but please know it's going to be ok.

on the campaign, i would often say, when we fight, we win. but here's the thing. here's the thing.mes e fight taa while. that doesn't mean we won't win. that doesn't mean we won't win. the important thing is don't ever give up. don't ever give up. don't ever stop trying to make the world a better place. you have power. you have power. and don't you ever listen when anyone tells you something isn't possible because it has never been done before. you have the capacity to do extraordinary good.

in the world. so everyone watching, do not despair. this is not a time to throw up our hands. this is a time to roll up our sleeves. this is a time to organize, to mobilize, and to say engaged. for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together. host: that was kamala harris yesterday at howard university. back to your phone calls. this is ruby in richmond, virginia, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes, ma'am. caller: i'm just waiting to see what trump does, because he doesn't know how to designate authority and let other people -- nobody can do jack of all trades and master of none. eth going to be interesting to see how he operates. i mean, the last time, a lot of

his people resigned. secretary of this, secretary, you know, it's just going to be interesting to see. host: and the editorial board of the "new york times" speaks to potential members of a second trump administration in their op-ed, in their lead editorial, you should say. the headline of the lead editorial, america makes a perilous choice. perhaps the most important responsibility, they write, lie with those who will serve in a second trump administration. those he appoints as attorney general, secretary of defense, and other top leadership roles should expect he may ask them to carry out illegal acts or violate their oath to the constitution on his behalf, as did he in his first term. we urge them to recognize that whatever pledge of loyalty we may demand, their first loyalty is to their country. standing up to mr. trump is possible, and it is the duty of every american public servant when appropriate. the editorial board of the "new york times." america makes a perilous choice

is the headline there. let me show you also the op-ed pages, the opinion page of the "wall street journal" today. here's just the three headlines on that page. top left corner, voters reject the party of scolds. and then the top right column, the finger will point at joe biden. and then below that clinch democrats need a recovery plan. that's what you can read on the pages of the "wall street journal" today. from one column, a writer active in democratic national politics for decades, he writes, president-elect donald trump and his party's victory shouldn't come as a surprise. we've seen this type of realignment before. in the late 1960's, many working class middle american democratic voters became dissatisfied with their party and began to move their support to other candidates, including richard

nixon. this change intensified with the election of ronald reagan in 1980 when the so-called reagan democrats sent him to the white house. a similar realignment happened in mr. trump's 2016 election and again on tuesday night. it could have been otherwise, he writes, i thought president biden would be a transitional one-term president preparing the way for new leadership in 2024. instead he made a botched attempt at reelection before withdrawing his bid late in the game. then he designated vice president kamala harris, one of the most unpopular politicians in the country, his successor and handed her his campaign treasury are you. ms. harris almost certainly wouldn't have well the nominee in an open process. mr. trump and republicans won because they were more in tune with the average citizen's thinking and goals. democrats now can either bathe in defeat or begin a necessary reassessment of their party. the latter is what happened after jimmy carter's 1980 defeat. that's "the wall street journal." this is richard in golden,

colorado, republican. good morning. caller: yeah, enjoying the democrat assessments, and i think from my perspective, they put up a flawed candidate. they did not address the issues. which was, what was the inflation that had occurred under the biden-harris administration? what were they going to do about it? because simply bringing the inflation rate down to 2% when you already had it 20% to 30% increase, the increase has not gone away. those prices are still there. and then this lame so-called policy she came up with about price gouging took me back to

nixon, his price, his price controls that he tried, which never worked. of course, never really explained what this price gouging was and what percent supposedly of the food prices it was and so on and so forth. and i think one of the big things, well, she only had 100-some days to introduce herself. well, first off, that was on the democratic party making. if they would have primaried joe biden, they would have had a full year primary where everybody would have been able to participate, go through the process, and best candidate would have came out. that's no excuse. and then additionally she took no press conferences. she had some questions at times, but they were scripted.

i mean, it was even to the point where her surrogate, or not her surrogate, her handlers were coming out saying this is who's going to ask the question, what question. i mean, there was no attempt to press her to answer these questions, especial on the flip-flops. so they weren't twisted words, her own words from her 2019-2020 campaign about all these policies. and maybe you might change on one or two policies over time, but in the in order i believe it was 10 to 12 different policies, and she changed on all of those policies. i think people found that hard to believe. host: is there a democrat you could have seen yourself voting for this year, if there had been a primary process? is there somebody who you think could have won your vote?

caller: yes, well, i can't say that without really -- yes, gee manchin. joe manchin. i think he switched to -- he might have switched to independent. i'm not sure. i can't remember. host: he did, richard. caller: yeah, but he did start in the democrats. i've always thought that he was a centrist democrat with common-sense ideas. interesting enough, another one that i liked out of the 2020 democratic primaries was tulsi gabbard. i thought that she was a real deal, intelligent, i think she's articulated what's going on with the wars very well. she served, so she has a correct

understanding, still serves, in fact. host: on joe manchin, the news organization punch bowl news, they're mostly focused on the united states capitol and leadership. they interviewed joe manchin and have in their wrapup today of democrats looking back on campaign 2024, what joe manchin said in an interview, joe manchin, who left democratic party earlier this year, noted that he was scolded by president joe biden and other democrats going back to 2021 over his concerns on inflation, rising cost of living, and economic fears of the middle class. trump, he noted, promised to take on those issues directly. when i first warned about inflation, they all said i was crazy. no, it's transitory, manchin told punch bowl news. i think the president even said i got 17 notice belle laureates backing the build back better package, which manchin you ultimately helped kill over his

kill of the inflationary impact. manchin was later able to help pass the inflation reduction act, but he clashed with the white house on the implementation of that measure. basically what trump said, his message was able to hit home, it made them more comfortable voting for him over harris, manchin added, and he noted that independent voters make up most of the election. electorate. in west virginia they don't feel comfortable voting for washington democrats, that from the interview with punch bowl news. caller: right. that's why i say, i think he was centrist. he hit everything right on the nail there. about the inflation. i just happened to pull this up. 2024 budget. it's going to have a deficit, as much right now, who knows what it will really end up as of

this, now maybe it's going to change with trump hopefully, $1.83 trillion. we can't continue to run deficits. close to $2 trillion a year. this is totally unsustainable. just forget the debt of the $35 trillion that we got to pay almost a trillion dollars of interest on currently. but just take this $2 trillion that's going to have to be funded by selling treasuries and bonds and paying interest on. there's no way anybody with any kind of common sense -- i asked you personally. would you be able to run an equivalent type of budget in your house where you overspent by this amount and you can't

borrow very much and you got your income coming in, and all the sudden now your income is all going to this overspending. that's not sustainable, is it? host: richard, the u.s. national debt, $35 trillion and counting. as you noted, the budget deficit this year, over $2 trillion tip point, according to the u.s. u.s. debt clock. the largest budget items include medicare and medicaid spending at $1.ly trillion. social security at $1.5 trillion. defense spending at just under $11 trillion. -- $1 trillion. interest on the debt is also right there at about $1 trillion a year. one of the largest budget items each year in the united states budget. caller: this has to be addressed. one of two things are going to happen.

you don't dress it, and you're going to go, the economy is going to go off a cliff. it's already starting. someday people will wake up, and you won't be able to sell your bonds. and then what happens? you know, they're already moving russia, china, other countries are already moving, trying to go away from the dollar. there's this economic disaster that's on the horizon that addr. at least i like the idea of musk coming in and forming efficiencies, cutting government spending. there is just no doubt about it. as you just write off the numbers, i am on medicare and social security. i don't want any of it cut.

but they are not sustainable. a shortfall of income in the future, social security has a built-in maximum cut on it. it is already in the bill, operating requirements, whatever. host: richard, we will take your comments. 8:00 on the east coast. it is a three-our washington journal this morning getting your reaction to the results of campaign 2024, and what happens next. we expect president joe biden to make comments today from the rose garden at 11:00 eastern. we will show that to you on c-span when it happens. we mentioned the results of campaign 2024. former president donald trump, set to be president-elect trump, we know that the house remains uncertain. still about 38 races left to be

called in the house all the republicans are on track to maintain control. four seats left to be called in maine, nevada, arizona, and pennsylvania. three of those, pennsylvania, nevada, arizona, are some of the key swing states being targeted this year. just to show you where they stand in pennsylvania, dave mccormick, the republican, is up by 48.9% to senator bob casey. the race is very tight there. in nevada, jackie rosen, the democrat, trying to hold onto her seat, maintains her lead by less than 1% over sam brown, the republican. in arizona, ruben gallego with a larger lead over kari lake. just 69% of the vote counted in arizona. republicans possibly could be adding to their number, majority

in the senate, 119 congress. at least 52. we will see where the numbers shake out. yesterday on the hill, mitch mcconnell spoke about republican control in the 119 congress. this is what he had to say. [video clip] >> certainly a happy day for the gop. let me start by congratulating president trump. what he has accomplished has not been done since grover cleveland, which is a while back. i also want to commend the trump campaign for running a sharper operation this time, and i think chris acevedo, susie wilde deserve a lot of credit. they ran a spectacular race. with regard to the senate, you know how long i have been around.

i had really hoped i would be able to hand over to my successor the majority. i've been the majority leader, minority leader. majority is a lot better. i think based on the fact that we have not gotten all the results in, we certainly know we will be in the majority, hopeful that the might actually grow some. i want to give particular credit to steve daines. i was at the rnc a few years back. i have never seen a better performance. he focused on getting quality candidates, making sure they actually got the nomination, and as i said, with some criticism, candidate quality is absolutely

essential. host: mitch mcconnell yesterday on capitol hill. we want to focus on the senate and the 119th congress with the staff writer. we heard from mitch mcconnell yesterday. right now it stands at at least the majority of 52 seats or republicans. could creep up as high as 54, 50 five. what is the difference in the 119th congress of a 52-c republican majority compared to a 55-seat? guest: it is massive. whoever ends up being the majority leader, and for trunk, it will be huge getting their nominees through. it gives you that much more of a buffer than what you have now with susan collins, lisa murkowski being the moderates, can get you a lot more with the room, room to play with.

depending on who trump wants to nominate for secretary of attorney general, some of these other positions -- rfk junior, for example. it is really big as far as trump getting nominees through. the other thing, especially if they get full control of congress, whether they can move through a massive reconciliation package, how easily they can do that, how much push and pull they will have, and tax packages. the bill from 2017, the tax cut bill that paul ryan ushered through, expired by the end of the year. that is top of mind for republicans in both chambers. host: you mentioned leadership, mitch mcconnell, he will not be the majority leader. he is stepping down. your story in the hill today the headline, battle to replace mcconnell as gop leader heats up in the final sprint. remind viewers where we are on

who will cede mitch mcconnell. guest: three people running. right now, the leaders are john thune, senate minority whip right now, john cornyn, the former whip. they are also joined by rick scott. not really seen as a competitor, probably not going to get to a second ballot. it is really between thune and c ornyn. members like them a lot. there are some key differences in how they would manage the job but it will be interesting. that comes next wednesday the boat. tuesday night, for them on the hill. we will see how this goes. most people think it is thune with a slight edge but nobody is counting out cornyn. he is a strong fundraiser,

has been doing this a long time, has a lot of experience. host: what are john thune and john cornyn's relationship with trump and trp officials, how could that impact what happens in the 119th congress? guest: neither of them for a while had the greatest relationship with president trump but they have worked to repair that over the years. one of the blemishes of john thune is that he was supporting tim scott, working together on tax reform. john cornyn said that he was going to support the former president. but thune has gone out, attracted some of the bigger trump allies on capitol hill. steve daines, privately supporting him, have told members as such. mullins is another one. he has gone through that, he has met with them, trying to assuage

that relationship. cornyn met with him in the past month in nevada when trump swung through texas. they both realize there is work to do on that end because trump could either help them or sink them entirely. host: donald trump's political capital at an all-time high right now. what would happen if trump comes out for somebody like rick scott , who has an established relationship, and rick scott makes no bones with the fact that he is close to trump. guest: it would throw a monkeywrench into things, but at this point i don't think it will happen. unlike most elections, the constituency is maybe 53 people. i don't think rick scott can get a few dozen votes. i think this will come down to thune and cornyn. remains to be seen if trump weighs in on this. it is anyone's ballgame.

host: what do we know about a new members coming to the senate, who will be the leader of the party in the 119 congress? guest: that is one reason why it is very good for thune to have steve daines in his corner. he went on recruited dave mccormick in pennsylvania. he recruited sam brown in nevada, if he and submit=== -- if the ends up victorious. those things really matter. you have others that know they have been here for a while, such as jim banks from indiana. the congressman always seen as a ladder climber, in a good way, wanted to be in leadership on the house i. congrats, now you get a senate job. the daines thing cannot be understated. i think that is a shrewd move for thune. host: after the election, a lot

of reflecting on what went right, what went wrong. a lot of things went right for senate republicans the cycle, they had a great map. could be 54 seats in the next congress. in the days after the 2022 cycle, there were a lot of thoughts that republicans should have done better in the senate. where was that red wave that was supposed to emerge? what was different this cycle? one of the criticisms last cycle was candidate recruitment. was it better candidate recruitment cycle -- this cycle or was it just donald trump having enormous coattails that they could ride? guest: the coattails do matter in some of these states. eric hovde he ended up losing to tammy baldwin but not much. a lot of people were counting him out months ago. trump matters obviously. mcconnell said so in the press conference yesterday.

this candid quality question mattered. top republicans tried to clear a lot of these primaries. for example, hovde was able to escape without much of a challenge. mccormick, same thing in pennsylvania. brown, a little more of a challenge, but still. republicans really made an effort on that end, recruit these candidates they thought they could get across the finish line. the big thing now is how big the margin will be. if mccormick wins, that is 53. that is big heading into the next cycle when the map does not get easier. it is a lot harder next cycle, a lot of defense in these red states, maine, which is not a red state. not a lot of pickup opportunities. they need to get as many this cycle. host: the 119th congress, the

head of inauguration, besides the confirmation process for trump and his officials, what does the senate and the next congress, what do republicans focus on first? guest: the confirmations are the big one but it will be laying out how they go about the first 100 days. the big thing on the agenda this year is tax reform, how they will go about trying to reinstitute these tax cuts in 2017. republicans have said they want to go further if they can get all three branches of government. all three lawmaking entities. it will be interesting to see how far they are able to go on this. they don't want to just do tax reform, they want to do stuff on the border on the bill, but they are limited. usually has to be a financial offset of some sort, whether it is germane or not, whether they can do stuff in the bill.

they will try. it will be one of trump's priorities, but a big question of what they do. host: i want to play mitch mcconnell, one minute from yesterday, specifically on the issue of the filibuster. this is mitch mcconnell from the press conference. [video clip] >> one of the most gratifying results, the senate becoming republican, the filibuster will stand, there will not be any new states admitted to give a partisan advantage to the other side, and we will quit bringing it up to the supreme court every time they make a decision that we don't like. this shifting to the republican senate majority helps control the guardrails, keep people who want to change the rules in order to achieve something they think is worthwhile, is not

successful. i think the filibuster is very secure. host: mitch mcconnell yesterday saying he thinks the filibuster is very secure. what are other senate leaders saying about that? guest: it has become a big topic in this leadership push. republicans have the chance a couple years ago, at least trump tried to call them out and said we should scrap the filibuster, let's cut my agenda through. they said no. we don't know if trump is going to call for it. i know some members on the republican side have shifted where they were. some were willing to get rid of the filibuster years ago, now some are not, especially now that some democrats are saying that we want to get rid of it to codify abortion rights, things like that. thune and cornyn are very much in favor of keeping it intact. i think they share mcconnell's

enthusiasm of keeping the boat threshold in place. host: all of these things we are talking about you can find in the hill newspaper. longtime newspaper of capitol hill, al weaver, thank you so much for your time. back to your phone calls. taking your calls about aery busy week on capitol hill and for the countr phone lines, democrats(202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 74800 independents, (202) 8-8002. robert has been waiting in lynchburg, virginia on the line r independents. go ahead. caller: good morning, john. i have a few things i would le to discuss. first of all, i have voted for republicans and democrats before. i voted for reagan, nixon

because of their military -- and i'm a retired military man. i am a little upset about how in the world can we put a felon in charge of the military when you have all of those secrets? trump, when he took those secret documents to mar-a-lago, i don't trust him. he will do anything for money. all of you people voting for him? they have got to be a little concerned about him selling the secrets to russia or to china. i will tell you, when you take an oath to defend the constitution, you take that seriously. i don't think he takes that too seriously when he took this oath of office. then you take these guys talking

about msnbc, cnn telling lies, but he never mentions fox, how they tell all kinds of lies, got charged for the lies, but cnn and msnbc, abc have not gotten charged for telling lies like these guys. everybody that says trump is not fit for office was republicans, and they worked for him. general kelly. he didn't tell a lie about trump. he is a communist. he likes to cozy up to dictators. i don't trust trump as far as i can throw him. one other thing, how are we going to vote when we print our own money? host: that is robert in virginia. covington, louisiana.

lauren, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. always a pleasure to have c-span. speaking the truth, not favor either side. the sad thing about it, depending on how this fall plays out with how many house seats are going to go either way, nothing gets done unless they will be compromising and cooperation. that is what i think a lot of people are very afraid of. well that happen? will that, in fact, happen? it is sad -- some of the collars have been saying on both sides, you know, trump will never live done what he did in not conceding, having a peaceful transition.

it will be interesting how this is going to work when they do this inauguration, how they cooperate, when he didn't. it is very sad. again, when one side does a poor job, whether it was the border -- the economy really is not controlled by the president, ok? the economy is a separate thing. in fact, the poor job on certain things like immigration, crime, they always go for people's individual rights which is always a good thing. in retrospect, i think it is why so many people didn't vote this time. it is simply that you have these choices, and they are so polarizing. it is kind of sad. like i said to friends, look,

the sky will not fall, the sun will rise, his country goes on. it is the american people that run this country, not the politicians. we hope and pray, of course, that this turned out to be a good decision and we can start moving forward. stop putting the blame. that is the one thing i don't like, when people like trump are always doing one of two things. there is a conspiracy, they are blaming people, either blaming somebody or making excuses when things do go wrong. host: lawrence in the louisiana. mark in pennsylvania. republican. tell me the name of the town you are in? caller: philadelphia. host: not what is on my screen. go ahead. caller: what the democrats tried

to do unsuccessfully was make this a referendum on trump, rather than biden, and i think that was the big mistake there . to be honest, i don't think harris had much of a chance with biden. the thing that gets me about biden, been in politics over 50 years, a political master, so to speak, he worked as vice president for the deport or in chief, what they called obama, and obama got elected twice by being tough on the border. friends of mine who voted twice for obama voted three times for trump because of the border issue. biden left the border wide open for almost four years, that he kept on telling everybody that the border is not open and then you watch fox cable news and they show people lining up at the border like it is disney world or something. don't lie to us and play us as

chumps. that is why harris lost. biden was the worst democrat president in my mind since jimmy carter. host: mark in pennsylvania. let show you how this election is playing across the pond in great britain. a few papers from the english -- the british isles. from scotland, the star-spangled spanner is the headline at the daily record. the daily mirror, what have they done again? also ,the you are re-hired. the irish examiner. here is donnie, the headline there. back to your phone calls. (202) 748-8000, for democrats. (202) 748-8001, republicans. independents, (202) 748-8002. dearborn, michigan.

matthew is a democrat. good morning. caller: talking about the press here a lot. disappointed that a lot of bad polls. you were saying how the press was calling trump a fascist. host: i apologize, your line is going in and out. give me a call back and we will try to get the line cleared up. gary. greenville, texas. caller: good morning, john. thanks for taking my call. i don't like the way that you guys are doing opinions on editorials. that is what they are, they are not the news. they are opinions of that writer. across mainstream media also, it is their opinion, folks.

it is not news. host: you are talking about sharing op-ed from today's papers? i guess but we are trying to do is show you across the spectrum how this is being played out. that is the idea of showing you beds from multiple papers to give you different perspectives on what people are saying. you don't want to hear any of that? caller: you guys are giving a lot of opinion editorials. that is what they are. and is opinion editorials. that is just my opinion. another thing -- host: just so you know, we are not endorsing any particular one. here is what people are saying about this election, to give you a few things to perhaps spark discussion or put it in perspective of different writers around the country. i am not saying that these are

my opinions or c-span's opinions, we are just trying to give you a sense of what is being said out there. caller: i understand that. what people are getting in their heads is this is fact, and it is not a fact. host: you don't think people can separate fact from opinion? caller: i do think they can, but a lot of people are taking these as facts. just like the trump abortion ban. here is going to be a national abortion ban. this worked out exactly the way it was supposed to work out. he put in conservative judges, the supreme court, they kicked out roe v. wade. it took it back to the states. now everybody is saying there is going to be a national abortion ban. there is not. three states voted to have an abortion. host: it is actually seven

states, was on the ballot in 10 states. abortion ballot initiative is passed in seven states, failed in three states. caller: that is fine. i am just saying it worked like it was supposed to work, like donald trump wanted it to work, back to the states. the people voted on it. i am against abortion. i will always vote against abortion. but if the majority of a people of a state voted for it, so be it. state law. that is exactly what it is. that is just me, john. i hope america gets better, i do. i hope we can unite. i just wish people would be understanding about opinions, editorials versus fact. whenever you read about senator manchin, that was his words. that was a fact, that was news. opinions is really not news, in all honesty.

host: that is gary in texas. usa today with a wrap up of how 10 states voted on the issue of abortion. arizona, colorado, florida, maryland, missouri, montana, nebraska. nevada, new york, south dakota all being able to vote on various ballot measures having to do with abortion. the good wrap up of those ballot measures on our website, c-span.org/results. if you click on ballot measures, you can go through your individual state, links to those ballot measures. if you have not checked out that c-span.org/results page, it's incredibly helpful as we look at the remaining races. four senate races, 38 house races left to be called. hope you continue to check that out. michael in oklahoma city, a democrat. good morning. caller: the sooner state.

host: yes, sir. caller: i would ask you to pull up wikipedia and the definition of fascism. i think it is a perfectly good english word that has a definition. i don't call trump a nazi or hi tler, but that is a word with an english definition, and i think it is the one that general kelly was confronted with when asked to determine him. i cannot see if you are looking it up. have you done that? host: wikipedia, not always the best place to go. how does the oxford english dictionary work for you? caller: that would probably be good. the definition they read to general kelly was the one from wikipedia. pretty good one. host: how do you define fascism?

caller: it is not a public policy, it is a mechanism to attain power. i am the coffee and c-span addict that called a few months ago. i ordered my c-span washington journal coffee cup, drinking my coffee, watching c-span religiously. host: appreciate you doing that. the oxford english dictionary, authoritarian, nationalistic system of government which emerged after the end of the war in 1918. the definition goes on from there. that is from the oxford english dictionary. you can find your own dictionary of choice. how do you think the term fascism is being used today in this country?

caller: it is a good word, has a lot of meaning. it describes the maga movement. they have been trying to destroy trust in every institution since reagan and gingrich, we have been talking about the mainstream liberal media. they destroy trust and every institution we have. half of our government does not believe in government. they believe in the strongman. they don't want democracy, they don't want our input, they want to do what they do. he has now achieved that power in our country. i am really concerned. host: michael in the sooner state. we will go to the pine tree state, bangor, maine. keith, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. first time caller. i really have not listened to

your show for a long time, however, i have been listening lately, been paying attention to the news media on all sorts of channels. i cannot believe what i am hearing. i am a disabled veteran myself, served in germany during the cold war. i pointed a tank at what is going on here in america as far as the media goes. being from maine, and living in academic scores would say is the dumbest state in the nation, and i think my leaders reflect that. point being, our secretary of state making decisions all by

herself, to make a congressional decision all by herself to take trump off of our balance -- ballots. that being said, i am sick of all of that stuff. i want to ask a question for the silent majority. who is doing all the drugs there in the capital, when are you going to send me my free crack pipe? host: harry in conyers, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning, john. thanks for taking my call. i am a vietnam veteran, two tours in vietnam, temporary duty in thailand, served tours in germany, england, served from

texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, and florida. i am really disturbed about the example that is being set. the highest position in our country. now, when i was in the military, i was informed we are ambassadors, examples of our country when we go overseas. we had a lady running for president against a felon, a criminal, who is going to be in the highest position in our country. what kind of example --what is wrong with this picture? that is all i have to say. host: before you go, drawing on your veteran service for this

country, what will you be doing for veterans day? caller: i will be calling all of my fellow veterans and buddy checking them, for one thing. then i will eat dinner and celebrate with my wife. host: what is a buddy check, for those that don't know? caller: looking out and checking on fellow veterans. host: what do you say when you check in with them? caller: i say, buddy check, how are you doing, do you need anything? host: do people buddy check you, harry? caller: yes, they do. host: what do you say, do you need anything? caller: i say, i am fine, i am making it. what do you need? host: harry, happy veterans day. this is gail, louisiana,

republican. good morning. caller: i appreciate you taking my call. i did not expect to be on. i debated since yesterday whether to make this call or not , but besides just being represented as a republican, i am a 65-year-old white christian woman, and i'm going to tell you, i have to laugh when we are called garbage, when we are called fascist, when we are called nazis, racists, bigots, whatever else we are called. if people want to label me, please label me as a child of god. i listened to harris's

concession speech, and in my opinion, it was not a concession speech. she talked about fighting, you know, fight, fight, fight. that did not sit well with me. because i thought, here we go, it will be more of the same. host: what does more of the same mean? caller: well -- i think when she says "fight," i don't think they are going to be cooperative. we need unity. in our land and in our country. and i don't think they are going to unify with the rest of us, to try to do what we need done in this country. host: you are not saying you

have concerns about the people transition of power, you have concerns about whether democrats will enact parts of the trump agenda, promises that he made? caller: well, you know, democrats have never been very cooperative with the republicans to begin with. when i was 18, register to vote for the first time, i registered as a democrat. but the reason i registered as a democrat was not because i knew enough about the party, it was because my family have been registered democrat for years. well, that is no reason to register as a democrat or as a republican. harris was not the one to vote for just because she was a female. everybody wanted to see a woman

as president of this united states. that is no reason. what does she stand for? host: if i can anticipate maybe some calls after this, you say democrats have not been cooperative with republicans. what would you say to the caller who will say republicans have not been cooperative with democrats? caller: i agree. nobody has been cooperative, that is why we are in the position we are in. but i got disillusioned with the democratic party a long time ago, so i switched to the republican party. and i know everyone thinks trump is bad. i don't like his personality. i think when he speaks, you know --

i didn't vote for him because i like him as a person. i voted for him because i voted for him in 2016, and he did a good job for the four years he was in there. i know his mouth got him in a lot of trouble, so i hope that he has become a more humble man. i hope that he can watch his mouth and not say the stupid things that he said in that first four years. but i do know that the economy was better, everything was better. people could afford to eat, they could afford to buy gas, get back and forth to work, maybe take a trip with their family. in my opinion, it was just better back then. host: have you seen anything to indicate to you that he has become a more humble man than

2016, when he left in 2020? caller: i have just been listening to him and i just feel it in my spirit. i pray to god that what i feel is true. but now is not the time -- just because trump won, and praise god that he did -- but he is only in there because god allowed it. i lost my train of thought. but now is not the time to sit back on our laurels and eat bon bons on the couch and watch "the walking dead" or whatever you watch. host: gail, san diego, independent. good morning. caller: i have three or four things to say. i will be quick.

people think it will be a normal presidency, that we will have a guy represent us. the problem is he has immunity, he doesn't follow laws. he never has his entire life. he will march into the house and steal the checkbooks because he has immunity. the iris database with our bank account numbers, 401(k)s, ira, it is not safe anymore. he has immunity for everything he does. europe is appalled at what we have done, with good reason. he has immunity! the best thing i can say is that, god help us. because this man is the biggest, best con artist that ever lived, and we gave him immunity. host: let me just bounce this off of you. this is from usa today. this is how he begins his column. " i never want to hear the words

americas better than this again. i never want to be told about america's better angels. i want honesty, and admission of exactly who we are as a country, and let's be dam clear about the definition. we are a country that just elected, willfully chose one of the most cruel, unscrupulous and transparently self-serving political figures in modern history to be president again. we just elected someone who normalizes bullying like an industrial sprinkler and has shown us over and over again he sees laws that are irrelevant and self enrichment as sacrosanct. caller: i agree with the entire paragraph that you read. he has immunity for everything now. there are no checks on him. he can do whatever his whim takes him. he can go wherever he wants, and he is going to do it.

he showed us last time. the previous caller said that she voted for him but she doesn't want him to open his big mouth. i don't understand that. i don't understand, the supreme court gave him immunity, and everyone thinks it's going to be ok. i hope it is ok, i pray that it will be ok, but i really don't think, the con artist that he is, the lawyer that he is, the convicted criminal that he is, is going to come through for us. i'm sorry. i really hope that it does for the sake of our country and for peace in the world, that he comes through. host: same opinion page in usa today. the democratic party can only blame itself or the outcome of this election. a stronger, more thoroughly vetted candidate could have likely been trump. president joe biden failed to recognize he was not up to a

second term and democrats took too long to persuade him to drop out of the race. democratic leaders also betrayed the country's trust by hiding biden's true condition. their own deception prevented democrats from having a real primary with candidates a chance to compete for the job. rather, harris was anointed as the chosen one with zero input from anybody else. both of those columns from the same opinion page. this is steven in indianapolis, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, john. are you there? host: yes, sir. what have you got on your mind? caller: i want to speak about what i think are some bad times in our country that i much love. also let you know that i am one of those marines who fought in vietnam. now, let me get to my point, what i consider to be troubled times in this country, at least

bring about some troubled times. ross perot warned us about voting for sending our jobs overseas. he told us, if you vote for this program, all of your jobs will be leaving the country like a vacuum sucking it out. but the blue-collar workers in this country, they went to newt gingrich in the 1990's. newt gingrich had them believing that all of these jobs would be created, here at home. ross perot said, no, they will not be. your jobs will be going overseas. host: bring me to 2020 for. -- 2024. caller: i will get there.

first, i have to get to 2010. once again, you had a republican leader in congress who fooled the blue-collar workers again. we are going to bring all your jobs back home to the united states. when they were elected in 2010, republican put in office, nothing came home. now we drop down to donald trump, his first time running for president. who put him back in office? once again, the blue-collar workers. they put him back in office. millions of people died from covid. thanks to the blue-collar workers again. now here, tuesday, they put him back in the office again as the 47th president. and here is this young lady i heard speaking before me, saying

that she is a child of god. she is a blue-collar worker in this country who voted for a devil. i know it will pass right above the heads of the blue-collar workers out there. you are not going to understand a word of what i'm talking about. host: we will go way out to hawaii. sarah, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i have just a few points. what worries me about president trump is that, if the power of the presidency is being used too personally go after people or destroy them because they are your opponent, you don't agree with them, i think that is an abuse of power that should not be allowed. i think that lowers the office to such low levels that i don't see anybody should be able to do

that, number one. number two, republicans and democrats in the congress always vote based on party lines. i personally think that is a shame, considering that you are supposed to look at the bill, make up your own mind and vote. republicans had a former tell them how to vote on the immigration bill, because they could make up their mind, why am i paying as a taxpayer for these people to get a salary and get benefits when they don't do their jobs by looking at the bills and voting based on their own conscience, instead of listening to a third-party who tells them what to do, how to do it, and when to do it? that is not their job. if they cannot do that work, they should not be in that office. number three, inflation. everyone has talked about

inflation. inflation is not single created by the president of the united states. it is a lot more complex to that. one aspect of inflation has to do with the federal reserve and monetary policy. so we have borrowed money since the financial crisis of 2000 eight and pumped money into the economy and made free money available. because of that money creation, for every dollar they create, my value of my purchasing power of the dollar goes down, so inflation is caused to a large degree by monetary policy through the federal reserve. the more money we borrow, the less value your dollar has. so to blame it on biden is completely irrelevant. now, for the democrats, they created this mess for themselves.

and the reason i say that is -- i am an independent and fairly liberal, but i always have some conservative points where i thought trump had a point. immigration, when they started shipping all of these illegal immigrants to northern states, i thought that was a stroke of genius because it brought the issue home to new york and other states that always made just minutes -- judgments about the racist southern states. it is a lot more complex than that. it is an issue, when biden was elected, i remember seeing it on the news. they had these big caravans of people marching toward the border. i have talked to somebody who works in homeland security, one time when i was on a plane, and he told me you have people from 42 countries including china and the middle east coming across

the border illegally. someone has to explain to me how chinese people can walk across the border from southern america. i don't get this. we have to have a secure border. but i do pray for this country, and i do hope that as a country we can come together. because my personal experience has been, even if you are a conservative on the republican side, or you are a liberal democrat, when you talk to people one-to-one, i think we are a lot closer than we are. i think this division in some ways is made up. that woman who talked about being a child of god, i do believe in a god. i agree with her, we all are. but we will all be held accountable for our actions. host: coming up on 9:00. we are taking your calls all

morning long. hannah in upper marlboro, maryland. a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, john. i am disappointed but not surprised. trump ignited and anti-federal government movement and a pro-rights states in the republican party and he wrapped it in economic anxiety, bigotry, and hate, attacking dei, diversification, equity, inclusion for all people. today, democrats are the only people to fight for this idea because they fought for the 1964 civil rights act, the 1965 voting rights act. the republicans and the trumpcult followers will not fight for this idea for all people. another point. the republican today are the dixiecrat's of yesterday. they are not going to fight for

this idea of equity for all people. this country is not ready for a female president, black or white. before this country -- in particular, white men and white republican women vote for a qualified female of any color, black, white, green. they will vote for a 34-cap convicted felon, three times wife cheating pathological liar, narcissist in white skin. no other person could win this position doing these kinds of acts. 91% of black women, 87% of black men voted for kamala harris, and that is from the exit polls. host: not to dispute the numbers, but i think the number was 20% of black men voted for donald trump according to the exit polls i saw. caller: according to the exit polls i saw, 91% of black women, 87% of black men voted for

kamala harris. let me just mention this, women just got the right to get credit cards in their own names just 50 years ago in 1974. bank rate.com. hitler did not win germany by force. he was elected. america is heading for authoritarianism, unchecked power of the president led by, according to jd vance's own description of trump, america's hitler. we have seen this movie before in nazi, germany. this america under slavery, jim crow, and discrimination. and discrimination still exists and is still very much alive in rate states in america like mississippi, alabama, south carolina. nobody wants to talk about it but it is. host: mary in milwaukee, wisconsin. one of those swing states. republican. good morning. caller: thank you for having me on. i just want to say a few

positive things. i am very happy, in fact, relieved that president trump has regained his position as president. i am hoping that with his vigorous, aggressive even -- if he has to be, which i'm sure he will be -- and expeditiously starts to work on all of his priorities in this country. one of which, yes, the immigrants coming across. i am so worried about that. i think the description -- destruction they have caused already with families and people is awful. how this could have happened? as vice president, camelot, that was her priority -- kamala, that was her priority, to watch over the border, that is the priority of the vice president. it is like she ignored it,

didn't care about it, even when she was campaigning. she hardly mentioned it. to her it is like it doesn't exist. yet, it is such a concern for safety in this country. i wish that trump and his cabinet do very well this next four years, and that he stays healthy, and that he does what is best. i know he can be crass on the air, i understand that. a lot of people talk about that. but you know, i compare him to something that i was always taught. i was taught that a really good doctor who does his job well as a technician doesn't always have the best bedside manner, but he is the best. host: mary in the swing state of wisconsin. we have been shown you newspapers that americans are waking up to this morning, showing the results of the

election that was called early yesterday morning. the first chance for newspapers to get in their paper editions today. this is the atlanta journal-constitution. historic when. donald trump, the first since grover cleveland to be elected to nonconsecutive terms. he will be the 45th and 47th president. north carolina, independent tribune. trump retakes the white house, frustrating voters. from pennsylvania, the morning call. triumphant again. trump takes the white house in historic political comeback. the journal sentinel out of wisconsin. trump triumphs. wisconsin's vote puts the gop candidate over the top. in michigan, the detroit news, trump's path to victory unprecedented. trump won in rural areas and gained in democratic strongholds.

in nevada, las vegas sun. trump's victory signals a different kind of victory. the arizona republic. trump storms back to take the presidency in a stunning political comeback. some of those swing state newspaper headlines for you to see this morning. kingston, north carolina. lou, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. so happy to get on the line. i am just appalled that we are now the laughing stock of the world again and that the republican party could not find a better candidate than a 79-year-old convicted felon who tried to overthrow our government in the style of putin and other dictators. very concerned. he has been running for 10 years.

certainly, he will be adpet at -- adept at running a campaign compared to kamala who only had 100 days. i am concerned about the people who said that trump was very good. i am wondering where they were during the pandemic? we nearly died, over half of our relatives nearly died. therefore, our businesses shut down, kids were not allowed to go to school, we were wearing masks, we could not visit our families in the nursing homes, we couldn't even go to church. and these are christians that said it was so great. i am wondering because the people who are dead, i am sure they are saying what happened? we should be concerned because he does not have the experience to do anything as related to taking care of

host: : that's lou in the tar heel state. hector, good morning. caller: good morning, sir. i am a democrat but this time around, i couldn't trust came malla harris to take over and handle all the problems we have in the united states. i voted for donald trump, the reason being is he has four years of background experience of what he did and granted he tripped and fell and got himself back up and he's a fighter. he's not a politician but more of a businessman. i feel that now with the experience that he had, he will

make major changes to our country to provide us what we need as far as the economy, as far as immigration. just a bunch of stuff. and he's going to be on the right track. i feel it very strongly in my heart. host: hector in north carolina. it's just after 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. we've been chatting with you all morning long about the results of election 2024 and what happens next. we do know in what happens next is president biden expects to speak from the rose garden at 11:00 a.m. eastern to address the election results and watch it on c-span.org and the free c-span app. we still know there are a few races left to be called, four senate races and 38 house races

left to be called and to focus on what's happening in the house for the 119th congress we're joined by a capital hill reporter via zoom. when do you think we'll know the result of the final 38 races or at least when we can say who will be controlling the house in the next congress? guest: good morning. i've spoken with some operatives and they all noted, particularly in california, it takes a long time to count these and we saw midterms the last time around some of them took weeks. talking to those operatives, republicans feel like worse case scenario they lose one seat and feeling optimistic they pick up a couple. a lot of the democrats i've talked to have been pessimistic about their odds in a lot of those races and republicans seem to be on track for keeping the house majority. host: democrats would need to net four seats to take the house majority this cycle. where it stands right now, the republicans have net about four seats.

is there enough seats left in play to even try to overcome that hill for democrats at this point? guest: there's a few in the california races and people are watching arizona but right now the republicans are leading with a large percentage of those votes in. while it's not out of the realm of possibility, it's looking highly unlikely at this point in time. host: on the house time as you were watching election results, what was the most surprising race for you and what was the biggest story line if we just focus on the house as many story lines had to focus on the presidency and senate as well, what were you watching in the house? guest: having talked with a lot of g.o. leaders and speaker johnson on election night, the bellwethers they were looking at virginia and worried about the higgins seat and john bacon was another one where the democrats saw it as a sure thing there and he ultimately managed to pull that out. so they're feeling good right now and looking at these outstanding races and peopling

pretty confident. we saw the leaders last night, most of them kind of put out their letters asking for support to talk about the leadership races and they'll have their elections next week and feeling good about where they are with the majority. host: how much confidence is there the current leadership slate of the republicans will be the same slate to lead congress in the 119th? guest: the republicans i talked to are feeling good and if they hold the majority, things look that they'll likely stay in place. we've talked about stefanic tapped for the administration and could be a race over that and trump is standing behind speaker johnson and scalise and tom emmer stay in their positions as well. i know they want to change some of the rules packages to raise a motion to vacate and a couple other things to tamp down on the chaos scene during this

congress. we'll see how that factors in and if any conservatives rebellion that front. right now everyone i've spoken with expects a less chaotic speaker's race on the floor in january. host: not a 15-round speaker vote this time around? guest: we'll see but everyone seems to be unified and trump is behind johnson right now and is the standard play at this point in time. host: what about the democratic state, hakeem jeffries and his leadership team, are you expecting changes in the 119th congress? guest: i think they'll go pretty much in the same space and haven't heard of democrats wanting to oust him. it will be a close majority and think democrats still will have a large role in getting some of these big priorities. i think they'll have to work together given the margins. it looks like things will stay in the same slate of play in terms of the top of both parties

in the congress right now. host: in terms of immediate legislative goals for house republicans who seems likely will take over the house -- or continue with control of the house in the 119th, what are the top legislative priorities, what are they going to start with? guest: i know leadership has been working with trump officials for months to craft a legislative agenda for the first 100 days and they're really hoping to tackle border legislation which was heavy in the past and kind of a hard issue for the entire conference to get around and they managed to get some legislation out of the house during this congress but ultimately died in the senate. so i think they'll try and move forward with that now that they'll hold control of the senate. and tax cuts will be another big thing to watch out for. and the energy regulation. i think they'll try to cut back on some of that. those are the big things to watch right now. host: you mentioned the

republicans talking with trump administration officials. what is the relationship like between speaker johnson and president trump? we know speaker johnson flew from his home district to be at mar-a-lago in time for that donald trump victory speech late tuesday night and wednesday morning. what's it like? guest: we saw leader fly down there and speaker johnson has acknowledged it's been difficult waters for him to navigate given the slim majority but seems now he's standing fully behind him which should help him in the leadership race. host: a capitol hill reporter at axios. we appreciate you being here on

washington journal. and we'll hear a statement from president biden at the white house rose garden, his address to the nation in the wake of election 2024. tune in to c-span at 11:00 a.m. eastern to watch the c-span.org and the free c-span live app and back to your phone calls. split as usual, democrats, republicans andantents, the numbers on your screen and pamela waiting in dayton, ohio, republican. go ahead. caller: i voted for president trump. the reason i voted for president trump is harris was incompetent. she would not answer the questions asked of her. she talked around them, talking about coming from the middle class family. she has lied, also, and so has biden. and the threats they make, when you stand on the podium and tell people he needs to be brought down, that's not a very good representative of our country. you don't threaten, like biden said, somebody needed to take

him out. that was a threat on trump. and that is why trump had so many shooters shooting at him is because of the democratic party. i've never seen so much hatred in congress with the democratic party in all my life. host: that's pamela. this is rebecca, tailorsville, north carolina, democrat. good morning. caller: how are you? host: doing well. caller: i am calling, i'm a democrat in north carolina and i voted for josh stein for governor, our democratic governor. and i could not vote for came malla harris. i voted for donald trump. i had to vote my conscience and had to vote on someone i thought was best for my family, my business, for the economic situation with the country. i did not vote for him because i think he's a good person. i didn't vote for him on his

personality. i voted for him because the people who are surrounding him we are the best there is in the country. we've had an issue with leadership not being the best in our country. and i feel like he's finally putting people in position that will allow us to have good leadership, a skill set that belongs in those positions. instead of just having -- host: who are some of those people? caller: r.f.k. jr. and will take on food supply issue and ron paul, elon musk taking care of the financial issues we have with the country. those people are known for doing good in those fields and being representative of those fields. and i think it's about time we have people in the position that are qualified, not just people who have the money to be in those positions or have the

clout. and you know, the lobbyists backing them. so you know, i voted for trump. a lot of my friends didn't. a lot of women are shocked i would vote for him. there is some concern that trump took away women's rights. he didn't. he didn't have anything to do with it, number one. i don't know why he gets the rep for that. he didn't. the supreme court made the decision that that would go back to the states. and therefore, giving the people the democratic right to have their state allow what they wanted. the power is now back in the hands of the people. and that's a true democracy. even if you don't like what the people do. even if you don't like what they say or what they choose. that's a democracy. that's what we want. and that has been changed and taken away from us by representation that doesn't always speak the voice of the

people. host: are there other social issues that you think should revert back to states deciding individually and not this country nationally? caller: i think a lot of things need to go back. i believe that are a lot of things decided by the federal government that shouldn't be. you know, medical issues is a big one, obviously, with women's issues. i think that -- you know, some things -- it's hard. because a lot of things i feel are basic human rights and those things are being misguided by government and don't think they should be. but how you get government out of it, in my opinion, is you take things back to the state. you give the power back to the people. then the people get to make those decisions.

transpeople being in women's sports. that's an issue the federal government shouldn't be talking on. i think that's something that should be individualized, the power of the people. i don't think that the majority would have the same voice that the federal government would for those things. host: you said you voted for donald trump for yourself and for your business. what line of business are you in? caller: i work in transportation and own a freight brokage and the transportation industry has been hard the last four years. the rates do not match what they should be. you have drivers out here who are running at nearly cost because the competition is out there and people are taking -- they're so afraid not to have work, that they're taking things for rates that they normally wouldn't just so that they can

survive. host: what sort of freight do your truckers run? caller: they run dry goods, refrigerated goods, heavy haul equipment, things of that nature. and you know, everything that runs this country goes on the back of a truck. all your groceries, all your clothing, toiletries, your shampoos and conditioners. pharmaceuticals. everything goes on a truck at some point, it's either the product used to make it or the final finished product coming from the manufacturer to a facility to distribute it. it all goes on those trucks. host: what's the one thing -- the top thing you think donald trump will do to help your industry? caller: i think he'll reduce fuel prices and make sure that the prices in the stores come down based on things he's going to implement. i think if there are more

manufacturing facilities in the united states, there will be more work and therefore there will be less of a competition for each individual load. say, if you've got 10 trucks in one area and there's no industry there, those strucks have to travel out 100-200 miles to find a load and you have mass competition for those loads. so people -- you know, for your company to have those loads, they're not playing very well so trucks have to take what they can get so they can get to a area of better paid freight and a lot of it has to do with the manufacturing jobs not being in the country. host: one more question on tariffs. there are folks who disagree with tariffs who say that's just going to be passed on to average americans, it just means they're going to be paying more -- higher prices for the things that they want and need. what is your answer to that?

caller: i disagree with that. host: why? caller: i think what would happen is you're already paying that stuff. you're already paying taxes over and over again. by the time you get a product. so you've got people who are taking those jobs overseas because we can't compete with the prices that they're paying for the workers overseas. but how you get those jobs back is you put tariffs. so every country in the world, free market country, anyway, they have tariffs. i can't go to china and mass sell my product without having to pay a huge tariff but they can come here and not have to pay that. so i think there's so much incentive right now for the united states businesses to go overseas and build their companies and then what they're doing is shipping it back here, they're taking it to a

distribution center and they're doing one thing to it and market it made in america but it's not. i know it because i work in the transportation agency. i bring it from the port to the facilities and pick it up with a different marker made in america and i know it wasn't. if you have a tariff on products that are sold that are made in another country and you get around those loopholes that allow people to put made in america on their branding when it's not made here, number one. number two, if there's a tariff, it will be more economical for businesses to put their businesses here instead of overseas and in other countries. nafta has taken all the jobs out of these small towns. i've seen it. bel air, ohio. robinsonville, north carolina. those two towns have lost their manufacturing and really went downhill because of it. andrews, north carolina, used to

be a wonderful little town. beautiful valley out there. they have no manufacturing jobs. they can't even keep a mcdonald's open in this little town. and it's because the jobs that were there, like the lee plant was there and it closed and went overseas because there was so much incentive, economical incentive and nafta for these jobs to go overseas. host: i've got to get to a few more callers but thanks for chatting. i appreciate it. caller: you're welcome. thank you. host: christy from chesapeake, virginia. caller: how are you doing? host: doing well. caller: i was hoping donald trump's first act was to unite the country and pray the media will allow our country to heal by kind of supporting coming together. now that the election is over, i hope both parties can work together and that we will stop

whipping up division among the people. host: chrissy, what could the media do to support coming together? caller: i think they're gas lighting and using words like hitler, facism, all these different things and i think that's terrifying people. i think the majority of people find themselves somewhere in the middle like the caller before me, rebecca. i think we have a lot of common ground and a lot of differences, too, but the majority of americans look at things the same way. if we can find that common ground and start promoting that and if the media could report the facts, not their opinions on the situation, but the facts, i think most americans can come together and find that common ground and hopefully the parties can come together and find that common ground and not fight each other on policy. host: bill, district heights, maryland, good morning. democrat.

caller: good morning. good to hear you guys. the democrats dropped the ball on these elections but not focusing on the economic achievements. president-elect trump is licking his chops when biden dropped out of the race because they knew kamala was not going to be elected. we had a female as qualified as came malla a few years ago and they didn't -- cam allah -- kamala a few years ago and they didn't elect her. and this guy is a convicted felon and hasn't been convicted and the one conviction in new york is a lot involved in this.

they didn't want to vote a woman, especially a black asian american. host: good morning. caller: i want to thank for you taking my call and the most important, the fact you of all moderators listen the most to hear people. i can appreciate that. i'm a 81-year-old doctor and i'm jewish. i voted for john kennedy because he represented the youth movement. i didn't vote on personality but based on the issues and platforms and policies. if george collin -- george carlin were here he'd talk about word salad. we had affirmative action and now we have d.e.i.

make i'm looking at is not an opinion but i'd like to see positive contributions. one, i was appalled before this election that we spent over $20 billion on elections when you have our veterans, when i watch the commercials on tv without any limbs and we treat them with less respect than we do others trying to come into this country illegally. i would like to -- and i've had the privilege to travel around the world. the canadians had it right. only 90 days of campaigning and 30 days before the election, nothing. i think people have a brain, that if they use it, can do their own research and make their decisions. i don't need my local newspaper to take a stand and tell me how to vote. if i'm looking at those issues.

and the last thing i want to say is i don't mind having a democrat or republican administration. what i mind is something more important, the dominance of islam spreading through the world and it's right here in our government. and so whether you have a republican or democrat, if we don't look at organizations like care that infiltrated our college campuses -- host: would you ever vote for a muslim? caller: yes, i would. yes, i would. host: how does that square with what you just said? caller: how does it square? because there's such a thing as radical islam and you have moderates. do you know anything about the koran where you've read to see what your choices are in their world? you either convert and you a pay

a tax, you subjugate, or you die. those are the three choices and this is what radical muslim islam is teaching. host: harvey, would you say folks who point to the old testament and the new testament and find parts of the old and new testament that talk about violence and parts they disagree with? caller: this is how our history has gone. we're a judeo-christian country. we have principles. i heard a lecture that people use the term "nationalism" like it's a dirty word. one of the greatest nationalists was moses. he believed in the land of israel and believed in one common language. if it wasn't for that scenario, judaism would not have survived through the centuries where all these powers try to impose upon

them. they stuck to their faith which is another thing. i think our country has to get back to their faith. we have it too good in this country. too good. be appreciative for what you have, not what you want. and again, i like to look at issues for building and making things more positive. an we can have all the opinions when they call in for the various reasons. again, i voted for the policies. what i'm looking for is a healing process. i lost part of my family members because we had a difference in opinions to the point we don't talk about politics. host: harvey in texas. phillip is next in jackson, mississippi. independent. good morning. caller: john, you really got yourself in trouble listening to our comments because basically we're all individuals and all have a individual perception on the madness going on. but my perception has been --

host: it's not trouble, it's a privilege to be able to do it. caller: see, that's a good point. it should be. but be honest, how can it be a privilege in this world when we have so many things we have to accomplish to keep it going and staying out of war that would be a good help. but my point in calling is we don't sit down and talk to each other. we're talking to the phone but not to each other. my big score in life is what i wanted to do is be a race relations consultant to bring people together to talk so we can iron out the realities, the truth from the mistruths and misinformation and we haven't gotten to that point. so when i heard your program this morning and i agreed with a lot of the callers' points. but one of the things we don't --

host: be a race relations consultant for america right now. you talk about how to advise how to bring people together. what would you say to the condition -- to the country if the country were your client. do that. caller: what i would say is we start these small group workshops, these school-aged kids all the way to the churches or the synagogues and wherever you meet, and just logically sit down and address the problems. and i believe if we were doing that on a consistent basis, we wouldn't have such negativity in america but also go forward in attacking or dealing with the issues that really are affecting us. and i'm telling you, climate change, they're not even talking hardly about it. it's always about something

else, the food prices are so high, this or that. we won't have any food if we don't get it together in that regard. race relations, i've been trying to bring it to the table but people don't want to talk about it. they claim it's no problem. i've been talking about it for about 40 years. run in my shoes is what i try to do in terms of leaving a legacy to help this society become better is what i've been trying to to do almost all my life. host: in jacksonville, florida, line for democrats. good morning. are you with us? stick by your phone. this is larry from iowa, a republican. good morning. caller: i want to talk about the energy deal. we have 50 years to resolve this problem. we had the oil embargo back in

the 1970's and had 50 years to resolve this problem. now we're going back to drill, baby, drill. yes, i voted for trump. we do need cheap fuel but we need research and development to wean ourself off this to have cleaner energy. and also, i voted for trump because of the immigration problem. we do need to have a mass deportation because it's getting out of hand. again, too, i would not have voted for kamala harris. but we do need to have a woman in the white house at some point in time. al sharpton and joy reed need to be taken off the air because of

the inflammatory remarks they make about racism. it does exist but not like it did back in the 1960's or even in the 1950's. just because i'm a white republican does not mean i'm a racist. so it needs to stop. kamala, don't give up. retool. maybe some day you'll become president. that's what i'd like to say. host: larry in iowa. dave in chicago. independent. good morning. caller: thanks for having me on. so i've got a few things. i'm a very independent voter, generally i'd say a very left wing voter but i have a combination of views. one thing i wanted to say is i think bernie sanders was dead on target when he addressed the democrats really alienating

their base, alienating the progressive base of the party, alienating the working class. i'm totally befuddled by why the democrats would have their candidate in the closing weeks of the election parading around with liz chaney. speaking as a millenial voter, we've seen mistake after mistake on the foreign policy front from our political class and i think clearly, the democrats have deeply alienated and confused their base when they're running another republican. you know, where i think trump gets this win is where the left goes wrong is we really cannot be calling regular people deplorable or garbage or facist. the democrats campaign was

advised again and again voters do not want to hear that trump is a threat to democracy or a facist, whether it's right or wrong. voters didn't want to hear that. it didn't make sense to them. and the democrats continued to use that approach and gave trump life, as the kids would say, continued to give him life instead of ignoring him which is what they should have done. another potentially -- a final point i would make is people talk about another thing i think voters are alienated, people talked about russiagate and all these hoaxes from the democratic party. we do have foreign influence in our government. i would encourage the listeners to go see the apex record they funded and participated in, they have a good track record for controlling our foreign policy and our elections. i do think the democrats have a long way to go to get back the

working class and get back regular people. host: on foreign policy we showed viewers yesterday the congratulations that came in fairly quickly after donald trump was declare the victor and was at 35 -- 5:30 when the associated press made that and comments coming from officials around the world and downing street, a spokesperson put out this statement yesterday in the wake of a call between president-elect trump. the prime minister spoke to the president-elect to congratulate him on his victory and offered him his hearty congratulations and said he looked forward to working closely with mr. trump in all areas with the special relationship between the u.s. and great britain. from defense and security to growth and prosperity, the relationship between the u.k. and u.s. was incredibly strong and would continue to thrive for

many years to come. the leaders agreed. the prime minister also reflected on the situation in the middle east and underscored the importance of regional security. the leaders fondly recalled their meeting in september and president-elect trump's, quote, connections and affinity to the united kingdom and look forward to working with one another. that's the readout of the call between the prime minister and president-elect trump. a democrat from pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning to everyone. i am so sad we have elected by the majority of the country a man of such poor integrity. a person with such hate and vitriol in his heart and was elected by a majority of christian people.

these people, sold out. and it's ok for him to hold the bible upside down and say what he said. but what upsets me is what's in people's hearts. i look around and think most of the people in my neighborhood have voted for trump and what is in their christian heart? host: janet, did you stay up late on election night and watch donald trump declaring victory? it was about 2:00 a.m. our time? caller: no, i went to bed around midnight and woke up around 4:00 and thought maybe there's still some hope, you know. then when i saw the results i went back to bed. host: there's been a new statement from him since but did you watch yesterday at some point his comments that night? caller: my heavens, yes. i watched his speeches as much as i can stomach, the way he speaks to people and speaks down

to his followers. he speaks at a sixth grade level to these people and he's dumbing down his message to basically, i'm good, she's bad. and people are buying it. the people are so simple-minded and so focused that they were willing to trade off so much for our environment, so many issues down the line to get somebody in there who wants to legislate what a woman can do with her body, basically. they're more worried about saving babies that haven't been born to feeding the children that already have been born, you know. it was the republican congress that stopped the budget created in one of the last sessions because the legislators wanted to reduce the women, infant, and children program, the w.i.c., by 70% and the legislators wouldn't let them do it. so you know if we get a

republican house and senate and president, that all those followers that put their faith in this man are going to be discarded because he owes a lot of money to millionaires and billionaires. host: that's janet in pennsylvania. we're talking about donald trump's comments late on tuesday night declaring victory, speaking to his supporters at mar-a-lago. i'm going to play you a little bit of that now. [crowd chanting "u.s.a."] mr. trump: i want to thank you. these are friends. we have thousands of friends in this movement. this is a movement like nobody has seen before. frankly, i believe this was the greatest political movement of all time. there's never been anything like this in this country.

and we knew the level of importance because we're going to help our country heal. we're going to help our country heal. we have a country that needs help and it needs help very badly. we're going to fix our borders. we're going to fix everything about our country. we made history for a reason tonight and the reason is going to be just that. we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible. and it is now clear we've achieved the most incredible political thing. and look what happened? isn't this great? but it's a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this. i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th

president. and every citizen, i will fight for you, for your family and your future every single day, i will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body. i will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous america that our children deserve and that you deserve. this will truly be the golden age of america. that's what we have to have. this is a magnificent victory for the american people that will allow us to make america great again. oh, we're going to do it. and in addition to having won the battleground states of north carolina -- i love these places. georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin.

we are now winning in michigan, arizona, nevada, and alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes. but that it's easier doing what the networks did, they called it, because there was no other path to victory. we also won the popular vote. that was great. it was incredible. host: donald trump very late tuesday night and early wednesday morning. we've been taking your calls all morning long talking about the campaign of 2024 and what's ahead and what may come. 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001.

independents, 202-748-8002. about 20 minutes left in our program for you to call in. just a reminder that president biden is set to address the nation to speak about the results of election 2024 from the rose garden. that's at 11:00 a.m. eastern. you can watch that here on c-span, c-span.org and the free c-span now app. this is pamela waiting in grand prairie, texas. republican. pamela, thanks for waiting. caller: hello there. good morning. host: good morning. caller: i voted for trump and something i listened to yesterday on fox, and i have been listening to all the different media stations, but particularly this was 6 interest to me because it was bill barr they had interviewing and his assessment of the red wave basically was he felt most of

americans were making a statement of how they felt that the 34 felonies were farcical. i have a j.d. that i don't practice law, but it was something that every time i hear someone who opposes trump say 34 felonies, it just makes me boil because i do agree that if the way that the current administration used the department of justice and weaponized what they call lawsayer, it's the most

mind-blowing asset of how we've changed in america. and i totally agree, one, i think that if we really had a wonderful world, biden would pardon trump on every fictitious charge and put it as bill barr advocated was put into this. and that's my comment. host: in texas, fairfax, california, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. i get really nervous and wrote down what i wanted to say. i appreciate you and greta in particular and anyway, i'd like to say that the caller who said we won't have any food if we

don't change our ways is correct. and also, i'm sorry. i can't read my own writing. but basically i feel like what's been created by the indigenous people, brothers and sisters who we killed and took their land and then the black people who slaved for 200 years and built the wealth of the country with cotton and all the crops, you know. they're living in the streets up here in the san francisco area and elsewhere. and then the chinese, you know, worked the railroads. and we're sitting happy up here and i think mainly the people

care about the grocery prices and understand that. a friend of mine that run a little hotel spent $9 for oil for the car where it was $5 before. that's the bottom line. but all this is flim-flim issues in my mind because we're not getting anywhere with this kind of thinking i don't think. you have to go back to the things you've done maybe and repair that. and these people brought people like you had a senator on from nebraska and he said he couldn'e black people should get reparations but didn't see a way to do it. just cut people a check, what is so brilliant about that? why do people have to jump through hoops and have all the admin people played and nothing going into this and that. give them some money or give them some land. it's ridiculous in my mind.

host: chris in hickory, pennsylvania. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. my daughter-in-law is from mexico. she took 21 months to get her green card. she did things the right way. possible for people to enter the country and we want them to. but we're just asking people do things the right way. and we need to become a country of unity, a country that accepts people. and i do not see that. i do not see that we're getting the unity that both sides should really be focused on. but more importantly, it's the people who want to name call.

it's a time now for us to all come together and for us to find the strength within each other and to build upon that. and not to divide but to bring together. we know what the election results are. i was a democrat. and i became a republican. and i became a republican years ago. and the reason that i became a republican was because i saw that we were going in the wrong direction as a country. and i wanted different leadership. host: what year was that you saw we're going in the wrong direction? caller: gosh, i believe it was when bill clinton was president. after that.

and the reason -- i did vote for obama the first time i absolutely would say i want to have a woman in there in the presidency, i think they'd do a phenomenal job. it has to be the right person. that's all. it has to be the right person, somebody who can truly lead this country and give us the ability to govern over the top of foreign leaders, to govern over -- host: who do you think is a woman now in this country that could do that in your mind? caller: i like actually gabbert, i think she's phenomenal and part of president trump's transition team. i think she's a wonderful person and a strong leader. i think that there are other

leaders. i think candice ellen is a great person to model things after as well. i think there are leaders out there who are females who do not have a hidden agenda, and i think there was too much hidden agendas and not a focus on what would be in the best interest of this country. host: chris in pennsylvania to california. this is louisa, good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. my concern regards president trump and soon to be president trump's campaign agenda. on immigration. he's made it the pain of his campaign and been very negative about those individuals.

i also want to address those who voted 40% of them, the latinos, who voted for him. i do not understand because he has discussed deportation and many people think that will never happen. but it already has happened twice in history. little known story, first time was in the 1930's with president hoover as a leader and he ousted approximate two million mexicans across the border. and the majority of those people were citizens. again, in 1954, president eisenhower created a program dubbed operation wetback which is a very derogatory term to latinos and he ousted one million mexicans and 2/3 of them were citizens. the epicenter was los angeles, 75,000 individuals were removed and shopping on broadway which

swept them up along with people that weren't latino and taken on trains and buses and taken across the borders and some took months and even years to return. those two are noted and people can research and find them. host: since you bring it up, we had a program last saturday on american history tv on the great depression, our lecture and history series where we go to a college classroom and essentially set up a camera in the back of a college classroom and film one class and the class was on the great depression and the professor, her speech was the effort during the depression time to remove mexicans from this country and send them back to mexico in an effort at the time it was to get jobs for americans during the great

depression. but she gets into the history you're talking about specifically during that depression era. caller: right. so this is something he actually will do because he made it the center of his campaign. he will follow through. maybe not 11 million but one million or two can easily be supported and he will do that. and i do want to point out people are saying latinos are taking jobs away. but they take the agricultural. there is no one else that can do the agricultural work, there are h2-a visas where workers go to washington and pick apples but the rest is undocumented and apparently it's not a very attractive job for other americans. so without these people americans will have absolutely nothing to eat because the majority of the crops have to be hand-picked. i think there are only three or

four that are mechanically harvested. all these people are necessary. as americans don't understand that but they will because if these people disappear, he'll be on a diet and we'll needosis empick -- need ozempic. host: i'm running out of time. we have a call from new york. good morning. caller: my name is marcus. i just want to say the reason why i decided not to vote this year is because of the lesser of two evils. the biden administration was the weakest of all time, i believe. and russia would never have invaded ukraine if we had a stronger president. biden sat on his hands and did

nothing to help ukraine get invaded. also, the democrats, i saw the films and pictures of them busing 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning illegal immigrants into our cities. and i know there's no way they did any background checks on any of these people. who are they letting in here? and what crimes have already been committed? host: marcus, you didn't vote for donald trumpets? caller: no, i didn't vote at all because he's against abortion and i'm saying if a woman gets raped, she's supposed to carry that baby full term and then have to take care of that child for the rest of her life? and she don't even know who the father is? what woman would want to have a rapist's baby? i don't understand this.

host: who is the last president you voted for? caller: the last president i voted for was obama. host: marcus in new york. here's dominic in michigan, independent. good morning. caller: hey, how are you doing today? host: doing well. caller: so i honestly think chase oliver should have won this election because i think he got robbed. i don't think trump or kamala would have done a good job. i thought chase oliver would change this country, if i'm being totally honest, pro gun, pro police reform. and also he's gay, openly gay and i'm openly gay. host: do you think a third party candidate will ever have a real chance of winning the presidency in this country? caller: i really do. host: what would it take?

caller: it would need a lot of support right now. host: does that mean money? caller: they would need money but also they would need a really big crowd. the reason why a lot of third party candidates don't win is just because of the money but also just because of the -- no one really knows them. they only cover kamala or trump. but we believe trump is our president. host: dominic in michigan. this is miller in philly, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: i'm doing well, sir. caller: i'm 83 years old. i've gone through difficult times and come along when black people couldn't even vote. and we look at all the children and we're not being taught. i would like to say this,

ukraine would settle and split by ronald reagan. we have to support ukraine because if we don't, putin will control all of the resources in the universe. ukraine supplies quite a bit of food for this country and around the world. that's why we're there. and i would like to say something else, too. i looked at the resurrection of george wallace. i don't know if you can remember him or not. and our own kids don't know their own history. and it should revert back and people talk about the dems. the republicans are the ones that abandoned the democrats because they didn't want us to vote. i came along when you had to sit in the back of the bus. and i come along and the age of emmitt till and they killed him and bombed arthur king's house

and the whites haven't learned anything yet. but i'd like to say this, next year after donald trump went over there and started that war in israel by moving tel aviv to jerusalem, it's going to get worse. it's not going to get my better. they are combining now to start a war and they voted their best assets out because when i came along, a black person couldn't do anything at the white house. i just wanted to say these few words. you haven't seen nothing yet. if a man can lie to you about things, you can't trust him with anything. host: this is linda, stanford, north carolina, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i wish that we could all acknowledge the fact with this many people voting the way they did, that is the majority.

people that didn't vote at all, they forfeited their rights to say anything. people that got out and voted their conscience and their real feelings expressed what they believed. and that was the thing to do. now we've got to move on. and i blame the media for a whole lot of our division because they have twisted a lot of things that we have had access and made it totally different than what it was. even watching the different programs that you watch, they leave out part of what the story was about. on both sides.