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Facebook. Com cspan and on x as i mentioned, but the president ial field narrowed with nikki haley deciding to suspend her campaign. Here are some of her comments on wednesday morning announcing the suspension of her president ial campaign as well as offering some harsh words for donald trump. I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we have received from all across our great country. They time has come to suspend my campaign. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard and i have done that. I have no regrets. Although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the thingeve in. Our national that will crush our economy and it is necessary for our survival. The road to socialism is a road to ruin for america. Our congress is dysfunctional only getting worse. It is still filled with followers, not leaders. Term limits for washington politicians are needed now more than ever. Our world is on fire because of americas retreat. Standing by our allies in ukraine, israel, and taiwan is a moral imperative. It is also more than that. If we were treated further there will be more wars, not less. As important while we stand strong for the cause of freedom we must bind together as americans. We mustmm turn away the darkness of hatred and division. I will continue to promote all of those values and that is the right of every american. I sought the honor of being your president but in our great country, it a private citizen is privileged enoin that is a privilege i very much look forward to enjoying. In all likelihood donald trump will be the republican nominee when our Party Convention meets in july. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. I have always been a conservative republican and always supported the republican nominee. On this question, asy others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said quote never just follow the crowd, always make up your own mind. It is up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. I hope that he does that. It is best, politics is your cause, not turning them away. Our conservative cause, badly needs more people. This is now hisr choosing. Some of the other big newsatia hdoyjooo higher gear with those air drops. The state of the Union Address was on thursday night and during that speech President Biden highlighted the american economy. One of the pieces we news we have relating to the economy this week included the latest job numbers. Here is a story from the washington post, the u. S. Job market remains resilient 39th consecutive month of gains unemployment rises as workers lose leverage. The u. S. Economy added 275,000 jobs in february, a sign of strength for the jobs market and this is despite higher interest rates. In january to 3. 9 according to the labor departments drop report job reports, the longest stretch of unemployment below 4 beat expectations, this is the 39th straight months which a court must which economists consider a strong economy. We start off with ray in ithaca new york and republican line. Good morning. Caller number one history of the week is the Supreme Court with a 90 decision that allows press donald trump to be on the ballots, you had a lot o n la morning. Caller good morng. Ddd to bits and pieces. To see what the news had to say. I tell you, as far as im concerned, joe biden knocked it out of the park. I was i was on the fence nikki haley supporter, i never in a million lifetimes would ever vote for that donald trump that guy makes me sick, i cannot stand even to look at him. He makes me mad. He wants to ruin our country and to be a dictjoe did a good job but i am throwing in my support behind him. As a perfect . No. Is the Democratic Party perfect . Not by a long shot. He is the lesser of two evils and i will vote for joe. The stat union was the top story of the week for me. Host thank you, on x mlbou, an election state of the Union Address was the most significant story, an election game changer. Revenge versus decency, bind and strike the contrast with a truck, he made it clear that he sees the election as an existential struggle between democracy and extremism. President biden used his state of the Union Address on thursday to a larger series of fiery attacks against donald trump, a competitor who he did not mention by name but made clear was a dire threat to american democracy and stability in the world. The televised speech bind brought the energy that people had hoped he would display to one ofuld happen should ukraine lose ground to russia invoking an overseas war are the top of his address, an unusual introduction to his speech that was in many ways a political argument for his biden at his state of the Union Address did make tha contrast in his vision for the country versus the former president and here is a portion of those remarks. President biden i was told i was too young. [laughter] they were not going to let me on the elevators to vote sometimes, not a joke i told im too old. Whether young or old, i am always known that i have known what indoors, are northstar, the very idea of america, we are all created equal commenters are thebe treated equally throughout our lives and we have never fully lived up to that idea. We have never walked away from it either. I will not walk away from it now. I am optimistic. [applause] i really am, im optimistic. My fellow americans, this is the face of our nation, it is not how old we are, it is how old are . You cannot lead america with ancient ideas only to take us back, you lead america to the land of possibilities, you need a vision to the future at an of what can and should be done. Host by was President Biden at next up we have tyrone in new york, new york, on our democratic line. What is your top news storiy of the week . Caller where donald compass getting this money from, donald trump is getting this money from. He is running for president , not running, but could win. The people who just gave him this money in theha hi ifix in this country and we need to Pay Attention to the people that we are putting in office. I hopehost thank you. Want to give more information thatnt to give more information, donald trump secures a 90 million bond for the definition case. He also had a notice of appeal in the case. It says former President Donald Trump has secured a 91 mil billion dollar bond for his Defamation Case brought by e. Jean carroll the appeals body from the virginiabased federal Insurance Company totaling 91 million to the 83 million judgment and the case plus interest according to a court filing friday morning. A notice of appeal of the judgment to the United States court of appeals second court circuit. Paying the judgment or pos a full amount was required for him to move ahead with the appeal. Let us go back to your calls mary is in fort washington, maryland, on our democratic line. What is your top news story . Caller good morning. Said, number 45 is so bad and dangerous, we did not have any issue voting against him. My rest of the year is the unnecessary genocide going on in gaza right now. T. I ainrucoco t cal eytethat is what is needed. Like i said, from the river to the sea, Everybody Needs to be free and that does not make me antisemitic. That is all i have to say. This war needs to stop. The killing needs to stop. American needs to vote blue to make sure that the animal we have running for office does not get in. Thank you. Host i want to provide more information, President Biden also brought up a to gaza during his state of the Union Address and one of the announcements he made is that there would be a new temporary aid port set up in gaza and here is the story from the Associated Press about that, biden orders the u. S. Military to set up a temporary aid port for gaza. It was ordered to set up an temporary report for the coast of gaza at 20 International Partners and trying to carve out a seaver food and other aid to desperate palestinians cut off from the hamas israel war and by access by land. Reiterating his support for israel, biden used the announcement and the brightest spotlight of the state of eech to renew months of calls to israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change how we conduct the war including more aid to gods and do more to protect humanitarian workers there. There is also a testament textbes. O his dropped aid is almost as deadly as the weapons he gives to israel. That is referencing news that one of the air drops although not clear which country the airdrop was from, one of the airdrop skilled some people in gaza killed some people in gaza this morning. Drawn from our independent line john from our independent line. My top story is right now the rnc is being controlled by donald trumpers. Up getting laura trump as a cochair. There is my top story come evidently that happened over the last few days over the last week or so. Host thank you so much. Next up we have susan in massachusetts on a republican line. Good morning. Caller morning. I want to say Charles Barkley who is an idiot anyways, hethat if he sees anybody in a donald trump tshirt he will punch them in that is how you liberals are joe biden is trying to put donald trump in jail, he should be in jail. Tara reid, we never heard her story but she will become the assault from joe biden. Those documents are in the capitol of what she said, when we get them . Show the americane what a great joe biden really is. They are saying all of this crab, host thank you susan, let us go to hudson, florida on a republican line. Caller i went like to congratulate the president on his speech on the state of the union, he touched on all of the things that the American Public are concerned about. Immigration, sentinel, Energy Problems fentanyl, energy columns, all of those things he talked about he is going to fix but he fix things that are broken on his watch. Thank you for taking his call. Host we have sam in michigan on the democratic line. Caller hello, the big story is Global Climate change and everybody think about it. My story is the state of the Union Address, i think you did a wonderful job. I have been a straight democrat, on the side note, i ne in america could tell me who voted who the gray hair woman was that seem to be leaning into the president in the House Chamber she was always right up near the camera and joe biden was behind her . She towards the camera and i do not know who she is but i was curious if anyone knew. Host i do not know the answer to that off of the top of my head. Alvin is in virginia on the republican line. What is your top new story . Caller good morning. I watched the biden speech and he touched on a couple of good things, the creditards, a couple of Different Things. As far as the war and stuff and the fentanyl and everything came in, this country, illegals are coming in across the border, he is the one allowed this to happen and he is givinetting on therd republicans fault although it has all been broken his watch. The little girl who got. He did not know what to say when the lady told him that she got killed on his in and he is talking about the republican blocking his bill opposing the border. He is saying all of this stuff now that it is time for another reelection. Why was this not done in the now . There are Different Things and he is too old to be running, he has got to be coached every little word that he says. He is not doing it on his own. Of course he will say wha people want to hear. Im going to vote donald trump all the way the economy was good, the gas prices were down, wage got raised up and every time they raised minimum wage or Something Like that they tripled your groceries and it took up grass prices gas prices. How can he say the economy is going good and people in our country who are hungry and starving and homeless. I was working you cannot go out and get at 100,000 vehicle. What about my grandkids going down the road . Host i want to bring in some comments from the former President Donald Trump speaking to his supporters after his very strong showing on super tuesday earlier this week. He did take some shots at President Biden during that speech as well. Thank you very much, they called it super tuesday for a reason. They tel me there has never been one like this, anything so conclusive, it has been an amazing item or day, an incredible period of time. It has been sad in so many ways, i think it is going to bel do something that frankly nobody has been able to do for a long time. [applause] we have watched our country take a great beating over the past three years, nobody thought a day like this would be possible. We were not have pressure attacking russiasrael being attacked, iran is broke when i was running things, they were broken they did not have money for hamas or hezbollah. We had no inflation. Inflation is destroying the middle class, it is destroying everything. Inflation if you look back over the history of hundreds of years back inflation is called the country buster. That is what it is doing to our has happened with inflation has been unbelievable. A lot of people say that the stock market is the only thing that is doing well and that is doing well our poll numbers are so much higher than joe bidens. Host there is news also from the Republican National committee after super tuesday here is the story in washington post. The rnc installed Donald Trumps chosen leaders in merger of his campaign and top advisors from the Donald Trump Campaign will steer a Party Committee facing a shortfall. Donald trump who is again likely to be the republican nominee the Central Committee and seeks to make up a fundraising effort and for birthday partyss appointment in recent elections. The National Committee elected Donald Trumps choices of Michael Watley and laura trump the former president s daughterinlaw who wasaccompanied by her husband eric and two highranking officers at a meeting friday. The rncs operations will be ran by the top campaign. And we scroll down a little bit further into this story, it mentions now with the rncs3 merger with the Donald Trump Campaign advisors hope to quickly make up the deficits in joint fundraising by being allowed to collect larger checks and the rnc will be working with the Donald Graham campaign on Field Operation in swing states get out to vote efforts, and legal challenges to voting procedures and potentially contesting outcomes. The last bit from this article the rnc paid millions of dollars of Donald Trumps legal bills in 2000 2022 until he declared his canada see for 2022 2023 and he declared his candidacy. Next up we will hear from richard in newport, north carolina, on our independent line. What is your top news story . Caller good morning. First of all, it is not the democratic or the falsehoods, it is the Democratic Party they have always been known as the Democratic Party. That needs to be straightened out. Joe biden, i wonder how much drugs they pumped into him to make him walk around like that on a stage, not walking host that is your top new story . News story . Caller no. Host what is your top news story . Caller joe biden should be charged with accessory to murder for letting all of these illegals come over with a om speech at the state of the union. He spoke faxpeople who complain about the illegal aliens coming into this country, unless these peop are native americans, they have no room to talk because they came here and took and bought stolen land from native americans and they really do not have anystanding to talk issues. Host ok, thank you. From texasony give donald trump an issue to run on. Jamess in meridian, mississippi on our independent line, go ahead with our news story your top newsry i was a trump lover and feel is up fuel is up, first year with joe biden it was doubled. The consumer at the Grocery Stores they will pay for this diesel fuel. They will pay for joe biden raising the diesel fuel, diesel fuel is four dollars a gallon. Building materials, ople stopped buying houses or quit remodeling houses. Railroad cars, all of the lumber were sitting on the side tracks because nobody could afford the lumber. I see firewood under joe biden 100. In mississippi. When donald trump was in office it was 20. If you want to keep paying high prices on consumers, in Grocery Stores, vote biden. The good lord is in charge of this country anyway. It is a Democrat Party not Democratic Party, it is rats. Thank you. Host harold is in livingston, tennessee on our democratic line. Caller yes maam. Can you hear me . Host yes. Caller thank you for taking my call. One of my big issues is the es axu. Vie se nv and have a good day. Host kevin on x says democrats or in the fight against illegal alien crime. The vote passed overwhelmingly 251170. Only 37 democrats joined all republicans in support. Mike is in humboldt, texas on our republican line. Caller good morning. How are you doing . I just had a comment about the border. This all started when biden went up on his Inauguration Day march up to his office and signed a bunch of bills that did all of trumps work. And they could stop him now. Just signed an executive order right now and fix this. So thats my comment, thank you. Host thank you for calling. Roxy is in alabama on the republican line. What is your top news story . Caller in regards to what that meant said you are voting for rapist if you vote for donald trump, you are voting for a murderer if you vote for biden because he is for abortion and thats murder. Nothing is proved against donald trump. The woman accusing him of rape how she is going to spend millions she is going to get. She could not tell them any details, could not hardly remember nothing about it. I want to remind everybody that trump did everything he could make this country go. Heas getting along with foreign leaders, everything was cheaper and better. You need to think about that. Are you idiots to vote for an idiot . Think about what you are doing. Host patty is in indianapolis , indiana, on our independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank that are main topics. In indiana, we have limited keep asking what we have women keep asking, what democracy have we lost . We have not lost any democracy. One, the bills that have been passed for ivf or roe v. Wade belong at the state level, not the fe level, for our tax dollars to pay for something that we do not accept. Two, the media is the main cause of saying democracy is being lost. When donald trump was in office, we did not lose democracy. What democracy did we lose with donald trump as president . Stop saying that. That is a media frenzy. Stop saying that. My third thing is, when you talk about democracy being lost, that was done on biden. Dont forget we were forced to take vaccines. We lost our jobs and eligibility. The other things lost with joe democracy was biden, parents were not allowed to express what they wanted what their children to learn in schools. If we are going to talk about loss of democracy, we need to talk about biden versus trump. There was no loss withdrawn no loss with trump. We lost it with biden. Host ok. Patty mentioned the debate going on over ivf. Speaker johnson was asked about alabamas move to protect ivf services in that state during an interview thursday morning with cbs morning. Here is a clip from that exchange. [video clip] i know you said you support ivf, but theres this question of embryos. In the process they are destroyed, disposed of. If you believe life begins at conception, fertilization, and i know you do, do you see that as murder . It something we have to grapple with. Its a brave new world. Ivf has only been invented in the early 1970s. Theres an estimated 8 million americans who have been born because of that technology. Of life and ivf and access to it. We know friends of ours you have beautiful families because of that. Alabama is a good example of that because they have gone to legislate to protect that and make sure theres ethical handling of those things. In some states, like louisiana there is a limit on the number of embryos that can be created because they are sensitive to that issue. Its something every state has to wrestle with. I think alabama has do it headon early on. But i have not resolved this question. If life begins at fertilization, and an embryo practitioners hospitals, until you clear them from the disposal process, if you are saying thats a child, and if you dispose of that child, its a death, they are uncomfortable with that. Can you clarify that point directly . Policymakers have to determine how to handle that. We have to look at the ethics surrounding that issue and its an important one. Some of these questions and issues are unprecedented so it takes debate and consideration but we do believe in the sanctity of life, and if you do believe life begins at conception, its an important question to wrestle with. It is not one congress has to wrestle with. I think its a state issue and states will be handling them. Host we will go to eddie in massachusetts on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I was disappointed that the president kept the congress, the Supreme Court. Waiting 20 minutes. He was so harsh and he kept we need to listen to that. Social security could be raised from 150 thousand dollars to 400,000. Yes, Corporation Stock options. They could be taxed but that wont do it. You have to have Something Like a carbon tax. With a carbon tax you could get the solar panels built here. I think it is such a send all our scrap metals and plastics and cardboard all the way to asia and then have it sent back as solar panels. We could subsidize our own manufacturing here. Thank you. Host thank you. Next, penny is in camden, delaware on our line for democrats. Caller good morning. Like to congratulate the president for coming out strong. He usually takes a lot of abuse and he did a great job. Secondly, i would like to point secondly, i would like to point out that everyone seems to be shortsighted. While they were believing that President Biden will also be in georgia for a Campaign Event in atlanta. Thats at 6 00 p. M. Eastern live at cspan. Org and at cspan now. If you miss either event live you can see them again later in our schedule. Ronald is in oyster bay, new york on our independent line. Caller good morning. I must say that its disturbing to me to hear so many people being so terribly unfair to President Trump without any recognition or appreciation of ecent or good that he has done. For example, we had peace in theworld during his administration. Isnt that better than what we have now with wars going on . And President Trump did not take money for being president , like his predecessors, including Franklin Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. They took theirbutrump gave unprecedented amounts of m universities but has not gotten credit for that. And we did not have the high she inflation thats really hurting so many people during his administration. Also its terribly ironic that democrats are worried about trump being a threat to democracy when on thnd democrats have wanted not to have trump on the ballot. Is that not a tremendous threat to democracy . Its terribly ironic and unfair. Finally, i watched a film about the 2020 elections and i urge all americans to watch this film because it shows how the election was rigged and it was s responsible for election interference and a fraudulent election . At the very least, biden should apologize for this. Host another development in the campaign is that no labels group thats been talking about potentially fielding a candidate, has voted to move forward with a bipartisan president ial ticket. Here is the story from abc news. No labels Nancy Jacobson said finding the right candidate is thparty president ial movement no labels voted friday to move forward with the ticket, though a hunt for candidates to lead the ticket continues. After flirting with a thirdparty president ial bid over the last year, no labels 800 delegates in 50 states met virtually to discuss the future of the movement and whether it would enter the 2024 president ial election. The group deliberated if a unity ticket consisting of one republican and one democrat would be a viable option. No labels chief strategist was on this program after super tuesday. Heres his answer when asked about criticisms that no label will act as a quoteunquote spoiler in that race. [video clip] the thing is, you have got to look at past elections and certainly over the course of the last decades, independents typically dont get much traction. For you to think they could get traction, you have to believe that this time is different than previous elections, and we believe that and voters believe that. We have never you can go down the list of metrics, but we have never been in a situation where both parties arenominees are this unpopular, where people are this pessimistic about the future of the country. When we started first thinking there was an inkling of an opening for this was two years ago. Nt poll question we have been asking over time, if it were trumpbiden and a moderate independent alternative, would you be open to voting for that independent . The firsth1 time we asked, 59 of voters said they would be open to voting for that ticket. Why is that important . Its not because we think an independent would ever get 59 of the vote, but its because in a multicandidate race, they dont have to get close to that. The Electoral College is winner take all. If youre in a multicandidate race, you are getting 34 35 of the vote in a state, you get 100 of the votes that come with it, electoral votes. Host another comment related to no labels comes from kent in norfolk, virginia. Biden did well to twist the state of the union into a Fiery Campaign speech. I want to hear who the no label campaign will run. Bradley is in clear fork, West Virginia on our line for democrats. Caller good morning. Good mor i have been a democrat since i was 17, 18 years old. Im ashamed of the party. I dont know how long i will be in it. Im a vietnam veteran and these people thats raising cain about us being in israel, support against gaza, if your child or grandchild got stuck in an oven and got baked, cooked alive they would change their mind. Another thing. These people, women and men, bi about trump tching sorry, these people that host we will go to brian. Go ahead. Caller i have been a republican all my life and there would be no way i would vote for donald trump. You people that are thinking about voting for donald trump, you have to remember just four years ago how he was complaining about Hillary Clinton getting rid of 30,000 emails and here he is convicted of four felonies, actually 91 counts of committing we need to save america from donald trump. Lets make America Great again by putting donald trump in jail. And you people that think its ok to tell a woman what to do with her body, what if the government comes down and says you are 21, we are going to take you driving license away and you ask why, and they just say we are going to do it. We have to let these women make their decision, whether it is right or wrong. The day they go in front of god is the day they have to answer for what they do. But ones that are thinking about voting for donald trump, think about the felonies and crimes. He brought this on when he was president , he was told by the attorney general and all the attorneys in the white house not to do this because are going to commit crimes and you are going to jail. He did not listen to them. Now hes whining and crying to the American People to bail him out and all you losers and suckers that want to vote for donald trump, go ahead, because you are voting for sucker that calls your military men and women in uniform losers and suckers . Come on. We are not losers host thank you, brian. We have attacks from ej that says even gop zealots have to give kudos to President Bidens overwhelming fitness for the job, especially his knowledge and finesse. Great state address by President Biden. Nikki haley aside, the gop must somehow stand up to trump and support our democracy. Give them hell. Joe. Michael is in minnesota for our democrat line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I would like to set something straight. The Illegal Immigrants have been coming into the country since Ronald Reagan. I have worked for a company that was the largest producer of ready mix trucks and wreckage trucks and we had a workforce of bbabout 2800 people and i would say probably 700 or 800 of them were Illegal Immigrants. So to say that biden is the country is partially true, you know, it is a fact, but Ronald Reagan is the one that started this after he destroyed the labor unions because he was doing it for cheaper labor. Thank you. Host thank you. S is in lakeland, florida on our line for republicans. Good morning, james. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I got a couple comments. First of all, when donald trump was in office, on his watch, we had no military soldier killed. We brought them home. Goocery store, you could get what you needed. Now that biden got in office all these people thats been killed and all thats on his hands. Another thing, he dont even know where hes at half of the time. I think if we can get donald trump back in office, we can get our United States of america, we can get it straightened out again, get everything back like it should be. I will be honest with you. Some of the callers that call him that dont like President Trump, let me tell you something. When he was in officecommanderinchief, i made more money and took care of my family. I had no worries. And another thing. All these leaders in these different countries, it was not that he was friends with them. He was firm with them and they knew he meant business. China was payi they ever paid. They aint never paid nothing. He has been paying boucoups of money. So, you know, as americans, we all need to come together and quit arguing. We need to figure out we need to get our country back because were so close to being a third world country. And i just want to tell everybody, you know, i love everybody in the United States. God said love everybody so we need to quit judging and pointing fingers and Everybody Needs to sit down and realize what biden has done to this country. We are so close to being a third world country. And i just want to host thank you, james. James was referencing President Bidens age and this is something that has been a big topic heres a story from the hill. A protrump super pac ad questions if biden can survive a second term. A super pac aligned with former President Trump debuted an ad thursday that attacked President Biden over his agent questioned whether he could survive a second term in office. Make America Great again inc. Aired the ad titled jugular ondens state of the Union Address. Here is that ad by make America Great again inc. Call jugular. We will watch it now. [video clip] i guess i should clear my mind here a little bit. We can all see joe bidens weakness. If biden wins, can even survive until 2029 . The real question is can we . Make America Great again inc. Is responsible for the content of this advertising. Host and a comment from text message. Terry says are these the best choices we have . Think about all of the people in the country and these are the best two shirley is in bloomington, illinois on our democratic line. Good morning, shirley. Caller yes. Good morning, cspan. I would like to bring up a subject that nobody has touched. With this climate change, they want everybody to eventually have an electric car. Number one, nobody can afford them, they are too expensive. Number two, in case people didnt know, the lithium they need for bteries for these electric cars, what is needed is thousands and thousands of gallons of water to process that lithium to make the batteries for these electric cars. Now, in the years to come, when everybody owns an electric car all that water thats taken out of our lakes and our streams are all poured backed into the lakes and streams. How safe is our Drinking Water going to be and how safe is the fish for us to eat is going to be . So that is my comment and thanks for cspan. I love you all. Host thanks for calling in. Donny is in Kill Devil Hills north carolina, on our independent line. What is your top new story of the week . Caller my top new story is the fact that this country according to our constitution, article four, section four, the United States shall guarantee to every state in