later with mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. c-span's "washington journal" is next. join the conversation. ♪ host: good morning. it is sunday, january 19, 2025. we are a day away from president-elect donald trump's inauguration. he will become the second

president to serve nonconsecutive terms after grover cleveland. this morning, a tenuous cease-fire in gaza begins with hamas releasing a list of the first group of hostages scheduled for release later this week. a pause in the conflict that has stretched for more than a year and cost tens of thousands of lives. this morning, we want to hear your thoughts on both stories. for republicans, (202) 748-8001. for democrats, (202) 748-8000. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . if you would like to text us, that number is (202) 748-8003. please be sure to include your name and where your writing in from, same for our social media. facebook.com/cspan and on x at @cspanwj. there's quite a bit of raking coverage about the cease-fire beginning in gaza. here is some from al jazeera, finding the israel-hamas

cease-fire took effect in gaza with a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas in the gaza strip has taken effect after a nearly three hour delay, causing a devastating 15 month war in the palestinian enclave. the cease-fire came into effect at 11:15 a.m. local time sunday after hamas handed over to israel a list of three female captives to be released as part of the deal. here is is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu -- israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu yesterday. >> until now, we have managed to bring back 157 hostages. of them, 117 were alive and the deal and agreement just agreed to recently, we will bring back another 33 of our brothers and sisters, most of them alive. this outcome is first and

foremost the outcome of the heroism of our soldiers and how we stood firmly on our goals and interests, withstanding heavy pressures domestically and from the outside. it is an outcome of cooperation between israel and the outgoing biden administration and incoming trump administration. since he was elected, he was good lately committed to the release of the hostages. we spoke wednesday. he congratulated me on the agreement and emphasized that the first stage is a temporary cease-fire. this is what he said, a temporary cease-fire. the next stage is a big agreement. we are holding onto some significant assets so we can bring back all of the hostages and accomplish the goals of the war. president trump and president biden have provided full backing to israel's right to resume

fighting and combat if israel reaches the conclusion that the negotiations over the second stage are pointless. i appreciate that. i appreciate the decision of president trump to lift the remaining restrictions on the providing of essential munitions and weapons to the state of israel. if we need to resume combat, we will do so in new ways and with tremendous force. host: coming back to washington, d.c., where the city is preparing for the inauguration, today there will be a rally in preparation for the event and elon musk is scheduled to be among the speakers that will precede president-elect donald trump at his pre-inaugural rally in washington, d.c. according to a source familiar with the planning. that is in the article on nbc news. elon musk spent more than a

quarter billion dollars on last year's campaign soon after his victory in november trump named elon musk to co-chair of an advisory committee dubbed the department of government efficiency, aimed at slashing government spending and the federal workforce. others who will speak before his evening address at the capital one arena include dana white, recently named to the facebook board, vice elect jd vance, retired professional wrestler hulk hogan, top trump aide stephen miller, and incoming middle east envoy steven witkoff. we will be covering that here on c-span. we will have the make america great again rally happening to celebrate trump's victory in the election at the capital one arena in washington, d.c..

you can watch it live on c-span at 3:00 p.m. eastern. it will also be on our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. we are looking for your thoughts on the cease-fire in gaza as well as trump's inauguration. our for democrats, (202) 748-8000. for republicans, (202) 748-8001. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . let's start with doug in ohio on our line for independents. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: good. can you turn down the volume on your tv? caller: yes. ok. how is that? host: it is good. go ahead. caller: i am talking about the inauguration of president trump tomorrow. is the united states ashamed of itself right now? it convicted felon taking the

office of the most important man in the world and the guy is totally a disgrace when he was president the first time and he is going to take as much for him and his millionaire buddies as he can over the next four years. all he does his name call people and all that. he is a terrible man. he is unfit to be president in my book. all i know is most people have to duck and cover for the next four years, especially poor americans. thank you very much. host: robert is in massachusetts on our line for democrats. caller: i would like to say lord have mercy on all of us. i miss jesse on sundays. i do not know what happened with jesse, but i really miss him.

monday is going to be dr. king's birthday. i am going to celebrate my black heritage. i am not going to celebrate donald trump. i fought for civil rights in the 1960's. dogs, ku klux klan. when i see it mimicking the 1950's to 1960's, i am disturbed of my country and i love my country. in massachusetts, yesterday i went to the store and this young white fellow had a donald trump hat on his head. i could not believe it. a donald trump hat. good thing i am a peaceful man

today. i want to know one thing. everybody celebrates monday as dr. martin luther king day. god bless us. everybody got rights but us. i fought for every right for every human being. gays, lesbians, homosexuals. the world has gone upside down and god -- if you bought a house today, you would have to sign it and date it. nothing is illegal unless you date and you sign it. today's date -- it has been 2025 years since the passing of jesus christ. that is what today is. have a great day. host: as we have heard from callers already got this

reporting in the hill follows up. the u.s. is split between excitement and fear over trump's return to the white house, according to a survey. this is a survey released tuesday. a new usa today poll found the incoming president has generated strong feelings right before his second foray into the oval office, with 31% of respondents saying they felt excited about him being commander-in-chief again while another 31% said they were afraid. president biden took questions from reporters this week on the incoming trump administration as well as his role in the cease-fire beginning in also. -- gaza. [video clip] >> the implementation of this deal will be on the next administration. how do you see the future and how much credit do you give to the trump team for this deal? trump is taking credit for it.

>> you know, this is the exact framework of the deal i proposed back in may, exact. and we got the world to endorse it. secondly, it is american support for israel that helps them badly weaken hamas and his backers and create conditions for this deal. thirdly, i knew this deal would have to be in cemented -- implement -- implement by the next team. -- >> how many americans will be released? >> the exact detail of how many people are being held and how many bodies will be returned to all be forthcoming.

thank you. >> what is your confidence that this deal will hold? >> who deserves credit for this? you or trump? >> is that a joke? thank you. host: the 100 70 million users of tiktok in united states got a different message when they log onto the app today. tiktok has gone dark for u.s. users, will trump signals he will save it. americans start losing access to the popular video sharing app as the law goes into effect. the app started halting service saturday night for 170 million users in its most important market shortly before a law took effect requiring it to shed its chinese ownership or close in the u.s.. march the first time the u.s. government has compelled the closure of such a widely used app and disrupted millions of

american businesses and social media entrepreneurs who use tiktok to connect with customers and fans. tiktok users started seeing a message late saturday saying, tiktok is not available right now. we have a screenshot of what that looked like for some users of tiktok in the united states. let's get back to your calls. joel is in arkansas on our line for republicans. caller: how are you doing this morning? yesterday, you had a caller call and complaining about the inauguration. he says something about other people was able to do it. on this one thing, a lot people will be walking on icy roads and everything and will fall and break a leg. this morning, you had a caller

call in, the first caller. he sounded like such a bitter man. he needs to get involved with something else. the last thing i want to say is biden pardoned 2500 people from jail this past week or so and he has dementia and should not have that authority. thank you for taking my call. host: mike is in ohio on our line for independence. good morning. >> good morning, america. kudos to the guy from arkansas, but i have an open mind and i was military police. so biden is taking credit for the cease-fire. that is kind of funny. he is going to take credit for everything on his way out the door. he has had four years to

accomplish this and what has he done? he has accomplished nothing. trump is coming in. he is going to clean that building out behind you and that building is going to start working for the people. we are tired of our money being flushed down the toilet. trump is going to come in. pam bondi will come in. there will be legal lawfare. i should know. i worked for the military of police -- the military police criminal division and corruption is widespread. tomorrow, we are going to turn the page back to america. our government is going to start working for we the people. host: mike mentioned pam bondi, who is president-elect trump's pick for attorney general. she was questioned about the existence of an enemies list and she was in some of her senate confirmation hearings and the idea of a list of people targeted for political retribution. here's the exchange.

[video clip] >> what you have hired someone into the florida attorney general's office who you knew had an enemies list? >> to cut to the chase, you are clearly talking about kash patel. i do not believe he has an enemies list. he made a quote on tv which i have not heard. i saw your sign or senator durbin's sign, but i know that kash patel has had 60 jury trials as a public defender, as a prosecutor. he has great experience in the intel department, department of defense. i have known kash patel and i believe he is the right person at this time for this job. you will have the ability to question mr. patel. >> i'm questioning you about whether you will enforce an enemies list he announced on television. >> there will never be an enemies list in the department

of justice. host: mark is in philadelphia, pennsylvania on our line for democrats. caller: i would like to say about the incoming trump administration i am in my mid-70's. i go back to eisenhower, a real republican, a real man of conviction and integrity. now look where the republican party is going to. look how far it has fallen. i have never had a sense of dread in my 70 plus years, a sense of dread of this incoming administration and it is just -- i am dumbfounded by this. but i have to say that -- i want to say one thing to all these working men and women out here that are singing trump's praises now. let's see the tune you will be

singing at the end of his second term in 2028. i guarantee they are going to be singing the blues because trump is coming right at them. apparently they do not know that. he is already talking about taking away medicaid expansion in the states that have expanded medicaid. a lot of trump voters and supporters are on medicaid expansion under obamacare. he is going to take away the only affordable health care they have ever known and their spouses and children and they voted for him. i do not know what to say except i am just totally and utterly depressed for the next four years for this country. have a good day. host: fred is in maryland on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i can see that trumped arrangement syndrome -- trump

derangement syndrome is still alive and strong. you are 70 years old and you have not figured out what is going on? host: it is a little hard to hear you. i want to make sure you're speaking directly into her phone. >> i am. 14 interviews joe biden has done. trump has done 24. he has had plenty of time. four years. you democrats thought he was sharp as ever. all the racist remarks he has made and he has never been held accountable. president trump finally got accountability. you cannot keep blaming trump for anything. these cities failed because of black violence and democrat politicians. he has nothing to do with it.

we are under constant tax-and-spend policies. they are taking the money and spending it. we do not even know what is going on. now we finally have a chance for accountability and the caller from ohio said it best. we finally got a president for all the people, not just pushing an agenda that nobody agrees with. we are finally getting back to what america stands for, opportunity for everybody. the affirmative action, federal workers who work from home and never show up and you are on hold on the phone waiting for them to answer, they are making you wait while they are making their coffee and doing their projects. that is going to end. start looking for a job because accountability is here. host: next is patrick in oregon on our line for independents.

caller: i like to have you look up how many homeless schoolchildren are in the united states today and how many homeless schoolchildren are going to be in united states four years from now. i am 82 years old. i do not hear anything. host: there's a delay between what you see on your tv and us, but go ahead. >> i think the united states lost its moral compass. and i hope everything goes well. as far as the middle east, they are killing their own cousins. it does not make sense. talk about the shining city on the hill. it is time we got back to our moral compass. that is all i wanted to say. host: the best numbers i was able to find quickly for the first part of your question on

the number of students in u.s. public schools experiencing homelessness is 1.4 million. this is according to schoolhouse connection. public schools identified nearly one point 4 million students experiencing homelessness in the 2022-2023 school year, a 14% increase from the previous school year, nearly making up for the drop in homelessness -- homeless student enrollment during school closures during the pandemic. many states at this point are reporting higher numbers in the 2023-2024 school year. brenda is in pennsylvania on our line for democratss. >> caller: i wanted to talk about donald trump keeps saying he had this landslide victory and has a mandate when the fact is he won by default. 6 million democrat voters sent home this election because

kamala harris got 6 million less votes than joe biden in 2020. so donald trump actually won by default. if you want to talk about a landslide victory and mandate, in 2008 president obama won by 10 million votes and he got a 362 electoral college votes, so that is a landslide victory mandate. to address the trump supporter the keeps talking about trump derangement syndrome, the people that attacked the capitol and january 6, the people that try to hang mike pence, their own republican vice president, a christian, god-fearing man, they did this at the behest of trump. they are the ones that have trump derangement syndrome.

thank you. host: a story in the new york times points to a poll finding support for trump's policies exceed support for trump himself. a poll found the public is sympathetic to his plans to deport migrants and reduce america's presence overseas, going on to say many americans who otherwise dislike president elect donald trump share his bleak assessment of the country's problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from the new york times. a little more than half the country expresses some desire to see mr. trump follow through with his harshest threat to deal with illegal immigration, deporting everyone living in the united states without authorization. here is a bit more of those numbers. which of the following comes closest to your opinion about our nation's political system, even if none are exactly right?

59% of u.s. adults say it has been broken for decades. 29% say it has been broken for the last few years. 9% say it is not broken, with similar numbers between democrats and republicans. 57% of democrats say it has been broken for years, 63% of republicans say it has been broken for years. alexander is in new jersey on our line for independents. caller: i am about to cross into pennsylvania on my way to the inauguration this morning. host: what do you think of the fact that it has been moved indoors? caller: i think it is a smart move. you do not want people falling on ice and old senators and heads of state getting sick and god for bid something would happen.

i think it is probably a little disappointing for people like me who actually scored a ticket from a congressman. i was lucky enough to get one, but i think it was the wise move also in light of what happened on january 6 it is just better to not have the conditions for any potential trouble, so the cold i think is a blessing in disguise. host: are you worried at the inauguration had been held outside we would see a repeat of january 6? caller: no, but you never know. it could be something. i think any time you get a crowd that big politically charged, i am not sure who was on before that lady saying that january

sixers had trump derangement. a very small crust of those people that day were loony maga people. the majority of what you call maga simply want to make america great. it is the again part that drives people mad because they see it as an indictment of democrats, politics, obama, and maybe both parties. trump has been critical of both parties. i want to say that biden is leaving at 38% approval rating, which is the longest in -- lowest in certainly modern american history. you can fact check on that. you know trump's policies are

actually rather popular, so i hypothesize the reason for the disconnect has a lot to do with how people consume their news and just -- host: i think you may be going through a tunnel. are you still with us? i think we have lost alexander, who is driving on his way to the inauguration in washington, d.c. let's go to david in texas on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: first think i want to address mandates. trump got the popular vote and his popularity, although higher than it has ever been, does not represent what you call a mandate by vote, but from the other hand his policies are

where his mandate is. he has people in favor of deportation and economic policies are very popular. that is the mandate. the popularity of him personally having nine years of 90% plus negative press coverage and all the other stuff that went along with that -- he has a personal popularity about 40%, but that will change now that social media will not be against him with government censorship. one other thing i would like to mention is all this talk about taxes. if not the most prominent economist, in 1817 -- i studied the economy for years. this guy david ricardo realized and wrote about taxes on businesses are paid by consumers

, by people who buy their products. no company makes a profit until they pay all their taxes. it is only the money they have left over after all the costs involved in everything they do before they have a penny to pay an employee anything or do anything with that money. it is the prophet left over after that that is spread among shareholders and provides funding for business. the point is there is no such thing as a tax that the people are not paying. it is not possible. it is simple enough possible, so any taxes raised on business are simply more things passed along to increase costs of what they are selling or to decrease the amount they pay staff or anybody else. that is a simple fact of life. that is one of the laws of economics and as far as trump

syndrome that the other fellow was talking about -- one last thing because i know you are going to push a button on me. all the politicians, the new york attorney general, manhattan attorney general forget the -- i forget the third one, atlanta. they campaigned against trump to begin with. that was in their campaign but they were going to get trump. that is just like soviet russia under stalin. show me the man, i will find you the crime. if anybody is going to end up being prosecuted as a result of the activities that have gone on over the last eight or nine years since the russia hoax, it is going to come out in an investigation about what happened cut whether there was collusion among all the attorneys with the lawfare, which there's plenty of evidence that shows there was or other issues like that.

there will be an investigation of wrongdoing associated with something that happened. if there is investigation answered and people show up in the investigation, that is when they would be involved in the investigation and that is the way it is supposed to be done. that is not an enemies list. that is accountability and there's plenty to be had. the democrats line for four years about biden and the border. they lied about the economy. host: you were mentioning taxes earlier, corporate taxes and the upcoming debate over the extension of the tax cuts and jobs act. i wonder what you think about president-elect trump's plans regarding tariffs. caller: he engaged china. he is the first president whose administration engaged china in the trade war and the portrayed

act -- the trade laws and rules that america has function under have been harming us more every year. his tariffs are going to be used as leverage in negotiations. canada and mexico, 75% of their exports come to america. most countries of the world have a higher -- their economies depend on america. china does not have a consumer economy. they cannot possibly win a trade war against us. canada and mexico -- no way we would win a trade war. we get 17% of what we get from them through trade.

we have a huge consumer economy. 70% of our economy is consumer based. that is the strength of our economy and trump knows how to use it in negotiation. host: for the folks like alexander coming in as alexander mentioned, the arctic blast that is coming to washington and other parts of the united states has moved that ceremony endorse. here's a story in cnn. an arctic blast will give trump the coldest inauguration in 40 years. the coldest air of winter so far will blast into d.c. as president-elect donald trump stands up in front of the capital to take his oath of office. this is before they announced this was going to be moved indoors, but the temperature on inauguration day at noon when the president-elect swears and is expected to be in the low 20's, about 20 degrees before

normal. there are quite a few events that we will be covering here on c-span including today, a wreath-laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery on c-span, our free mobile video app, online at c-span.org, and later this afternoon president-elect donald trump will appear at a pre-inauguration make america great again rally to celebrate his victory in the 2024 election at the capital one arena in washington, d.c.. we will cover that live as well on c-span. back to her calls, christina's in north carolina on our line for democrats. caller: i am calling into say that it is a sad day that america is going to put in a treasonous, corrupt traitor. a treasonous traitor.

he is a criminal. he is a racist. the things that he says make america great again, it is a ku klux klan banner saying. america has never been great. it was built off the backs of slaves. america is going down the tube. donald trump has dementia and everybody covers it up. all the crazy stuff that he says, he don't pay his taxes yet he wants to bully every other country. there are states and police officers he has not paid for their services. he has lawsuits. he is a con artist. he is the man behind the curtain and the republicans could have brought an end to this. he was impeached twice and all he had to do was just sent him on his way. every time a woman is running

for office, you go and put the dumbest man in the position. donald trump is not worthy of this. if you was legit, why did the republicans have to steal and draw new maps? look at north carolina. they are changing maps and refusing to give the democrat their seat. republicans are corrupt and they have pedophiles. they have matt gaetz. donald trump was with jeffrey epstein. they say they are going to get rid of the swamp, but donald trump is the swamp monster and he is bringing in men and women. ms. bondi in florida was paid $25,000 not to -- to dismiss the case of the university, all the parents who wanted to sue donald trump for the university that went down. donald trump is not worthy of office. and people are brain-dead and

shows trump -- chose trump over eggs and groceries those bills would have changed. it was because of the supply chain. every time america suffers, it is because a republican is in office and it takes a democrat to fix it. stay strong, america. we are going to come back and god is going to move trump or we will have to suffer for four years. host: next is vincent in maryland on our line for independents. >> to the last caller, the very party you are talking about that you belong to and support enslaved my ancestors and your ancestors. it started in 1958. america being built on the backs of slaves, the very party you are a member of.

no person -- no black person in my view can have anything to do the democrats. vote independent. god bless you, mike. yesterday, there was a lady on -- host: do you have thoughts on trump's inauguration or the gaza cease-fire? caller: don't do that to me. not just you. when you want to get off of a topic about democrats or anything else, you slide in a different type of question. host: i am trying to you to talk of the topics we have for this hour, the gaza cease-fire and president-elect trump's inauguration. caller: what i'm about to say includes all of that. the lady yesterday stated it. you are doing what she said you folks do. very nice about it. i am going to get off now because i was insulted.

you try to fool me like you do to all of us when you do not want to talk about certain topics related to the topic. host: kim is in ohio on our line for republicans. >> good morning. i would like to say in north carolina everything -- biden. i do not know where she comes up with a name trump. everybody that thinks trump is going to run this country, i do not believe they were here in the last term. that is all i have to say. host: bert is in alabama on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: i have been listening to everybody going back and forth

with each other. can you hear me? host: yes. caller: i am not going to be like the guy that told you you was rude. i do not think you are rude, but let me say this. according to this cease fire thing, biden is -- has been trustworthy. he got his start and he is leaving it over to trump and that is what trump is supposed to do. let me say this about trump. i do not hate trump. the thing i dislike about him -- he don't want nobody to never tell him nothing. somebody has to tell they meant something. he don't know everything. as far as make america great again, i want all of you to know one thing. god is the one that made america great again. god is the one that made america great again and i wish trump

would go in and say, this thing he is talking about retribution, he always used that. you have to get over that. tone it down and get this country going. for biden, i and got no problem with biden. i think he did a good job. he really did do a good job. he is not going to get credit for a lot of things he did because you know trump is going to step up and say -- he already said the economy is doing good right now. you do not have but one president at a time. thank you for letting me. have a wonderful day. host: he was mentioning the gaza cease-fire. the u.n. says age trucks are entering the gaza strip as part of a surge under the hostage she's fire -- cease-fire deal. trucks carrying humanitarian aid

entered gaza after a cease-fire between israel and hamas it into effect. trucks of supplies started entering minutes after the cease-fire took effect. the interim chief of the aid agency says a massive effort has been underway over the past days from humanitarian partners to load and prepare to distribute aid across all of gaza. he says it is part of the deal that will also see hostages freed and palestinian prisoners released from israeli jails. russell is in michigan on our line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to thank you. i do not know how you do it, with people that are very emotional, but i wanted to thank you for your patience in allowing people to call in on

this platform. the countdown to the inauguration i think it is a beautiful day in the united states where you get to see the process of our republican style government or representative democracy in action. a lot of people have been frustrated and think that the government is ineffective. if you read the federalist papers, this is all by design. humans are emotional characters and by having the slow form of government we have it takes the emotion out of things and makes things go through a process. that is all by design. on the gaza cease-fire, i think it is a good thing. i think people in the u.s. are just frustrated our money is going to other countries and they want to see stuff fixed back home before we start talking -- taking care of everybody else. i hope you have a blessed day. host: there is a wall street

journal editorial talking about trump's win and the second chance he has in his second term in office, saying that he owes his remarkable comeback victory over kamala harris to his personal resilience and biden's failures, among other thingsn this article. the wall street journal editorial board says if mr. trump makes a priority of eking revenge against his opponents, he will squander political capital and quickly lose whatever goodwill his victory ea him, ditto i focuses on responding to every crit insts him. we r asking mr. trump to act with self-restraint and political grace is the triumph of hope over hard experience. john is in new jersey on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. i used to be a democrat. with everything going on, i became a republican because the democrat party is not for the

minority. you always ask people to be on-topic, but it seems like when it is black rage you let them continue and continue and continue. even though it is totally off-topic and i have seen it a lot with you especially when it comes to that anger. i ask that you stay on topic. when it comes to black, you go off-topic and let them go on and on. that is not with this country is about and you should not let this be sidetracked like that. maybe that is your view also. host: robert is in arizona on our line for democrats. caller: hello. i am going to talk about the

inauguration. i am going to be watching it and taking notes because a friend of mine from st. louis who sold his business and spends about half the time in florida had three points that i had to write down because i thought they were a little bizarre. he believes since the majority of illegal immigrants as he called them are catholic that trump. the invasion of catholic church members invading the united states. he also wants to have the tax of church property removed after he believes that trump will talk with the pope and making a deal that if he does not support trump's immigration that he will stop the tax exemption for catholic properties and the third thing he believes is ice will start invading catholic

churches on sunday because the majority of immigrants are catholics and he believes this is a catholic invasion, so the man -- that is the main reason i am watching the inauguration and speech. i want to see if any of those particular three points, among others, are on the list. this guy is a real conservative, but i do not agree with him. i thought that is a new twist i had not thought of. but it has to do with immigration and the majority of immigrants are catholic. i looked that up, and that is true, so i will be watching. thank you very much. host: the washington post and other news outlets have been calling trump's plans or announced plans to do what he has called the largest immigration raid in u.s. history, some of the latest

reporting. trump officials have not decided on post inauguration chicago here. the incoming administration is reconsidering plans for an immigration enforcement blitz. after preliminary details of that plan leaked. president-elect trump's handpicked borders are -- border tsar said the immigrations reconsidering whether to launch immigration raids after details leaked out in news reports. he told the washington post the new administration has not made a decision yet and will make a decision based on this leak. it puts officers at greater risk. i system planning a large operation in the chicago area

that would start after inauguration day bring additional officers to ramp up arrests, according to two federal officials and a former official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. caller: how are you? i am from jamaica, queens. i watched him move from a juvenile delinquent to an adult who is incorrigible. though i like democracy, i am not as happy that the republicans win, but to see this man who promised nothing but make americans gangsters again

be the president, who i even think might be complicit in the start of the war in gaza and we said -- the day i get in power, it will be hello or hot water -- hell or hot water. how could he be so confident? any other republicans -- i would not have felt the way i'm feeling today. this is a repeat of what christians do, like electing -- supporting judas over christ. trump over biden. i do not know what i am going to do, but this guy -- it is not in

him to do it right. ask his family. we avoided driving anything close to his home. he never changed and he never will change. he is a madman marching toward monarchy. host: donald is in north carolina on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. host: can you turned on the boy monday were tv and go ahead? -- the volume on your tv and go ahead? caller: ok. i want to extend you and your c-span partners -- you guys are very professional and very patient with some of the people that call in. to be honest with you, they are rude and i want to defend you

from that and your coworkers. and i want to say that i was in the military for 22 years. i went to israel, or the ship pulled in and i gave a tour to the people who came to visit the ship. they took me to their home for three or four days and they were so overwhelming because these people did not know me from anyone. this was back in 1978 and then when i went out with a cabdriver, he was a palestinian and he told me his side of things and it was just an awkward situation. so i have seen both sides of it and it kind of gave me a flashback when i saw eisenhower

over the last year and as far as trump and the inaugurion the guy won. i am through with it. he will do what he will do what you got to do. he is supposed to be our president. these people get too emotional. i do not like the way they attack people. it seems like it is just attack, attack, attack. thank you very much. host: donald was talking about the way people support president-elect donald trump. cnn did pulling on this and found trump will enter the white house with more positive sentiment than his last term got going on to say donald trump continues to see some of the most positive ratings of his political career, according to a new cnn poll, which finds president-elect poised to enter his second term with far more positive sentiment behind him then when he was last in the white house. this article goes on to say

donald trump essentially wed personalulary betweennegative december020 and today among pendts. went from -22% to 35% favorable to a negligible minus five. among the group that typically swings elections. charlie is in new york on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. i have a couple comments i want to make about the inauguration. one reason i think trump moved to the inauguration indoors is i think he was afraid of small crowd size on the washington mall. i remember the last time he was inaugurated and he had that claim of having the largest crowd ever and that was not the

case. i think he is a little frightened of that happening again. another point i want to make is the coldest inauguration was for fdr and i believe it was in the low 20's and wind chill was about 10 degrees p he stood out there and made a speech and he is one of these people that trump makes fun of because they are handicapped people. remember the famous remark during the speech? another thing i want to mention is in this first inauguration trump talked about the brave revolutionary war soldiers in valley forge and he cannot even stand outside for an hour and a half in cold weather? same kind of thing when he went to france for the world war i anniversary and he does not go out to the actual site of the memorial because it was raining. the man is just an empty bag of

wind. and i thought this was a joke. i thought it was a joke, but he is selling inauguration bibles. i believe his name is on the cover of the bible. i thought this was a joke, but i went to the trump site and it is on back there. -- it is on there. any christian knows they can go to any church and get a bible for free. trump should be giving people bibles for free, not selling them. thank you for letting me express myself. host: i was trying to find the story about the trump inauguration bible but cannot quite find that quickly. andre is in alabama on our line for independents. caller: good morning. it is my first time listening to your program but i want to comment the latest on north carolina.

he made this statement about make america great again. he is absolutely right. the holy spirit confirms to me that she is right. thank you. host: that is all the time we have for callers this hour. we are going to have a conversation with two political veterans about donald trump's inauguration tomorrow and what it tells us about this moment in american politics. first we will be joined by pollster frank luntz and later david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones. we will be right back. ♪ >> a new chapter in u.s. history begins this monday with the presidential inauguration of donald trump. witness democracy in action.

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