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CSPAN Washington Journal August 20, 0622

Youre an independent, 2027488002. Good sunday morning, the First Official start of summer and we wish you a happy fathered to the dads and grandfathers. Well get to your calls in a moment but the president taking aim at former Vice President joe biden. The speech lasting one hour and 15 minutes with the president s remarks alone. Heres part of what he had to say. President trump when biden first ran for president over 33 years ago, remember, i used to call him 1 joe, he never got more than 1 until obama took him off the trash heap but he blatantly copied the speech of a british politician, even ripping off the mans personal biography and Family History and claiming it as his own. He forgot to say he was born in america. Joe biden is a shameless hypocrite. Nce 2003, he has delivered fanning eulogying to the funerals and the funerals three leading supporters of segregation, including a former member of the kkk and yet biden is now smearing his racist, tens of millions of people like yourself, decent, hardworking americans who hes never met and frankly probably doesnt want to meet. America should not take lectures on Racial Justice from joe biden, sleepy joe. A man who prays and partners with segregationists, shipped millions of black american jobs overseas and everyone elses jobs, too, by the way. If i didnt come along, were building auto plants, were building everything and theres never been a comeback like were making right now. Never been. Cheers and applause] President Trump he hollowed out our middle class, including our black middle class with open borders, trapped Young Children in failing government schools, built cages. Those cages were built by obama and biden. Look it up. 2014. And the fake news doesnt want to remember the picture of a cage, a cage for children. Remember the picture of the cage . And they said President Trump, and then they realized it was in a newspaper 2014, the same. Built by obama and biden. Host from the rally last night in tulsa, oklahoma, this is the headline from washington post, the president banks on a show of defiance. Lets get to your phone calls. Jeffrey, first up from beltsville, maryland. Good morning. Caller how are you doing this morning . Host fine, how are you, jeffrey . Caller all right, sir. He called them obama and biden hypocrite. Hes the most biggest hypocrite of all. Hes standing up there lying about barack and biden and everybody and what i seen yesterday, i looked at it for a little while and the last song they played when he goes off, you cant always have everything, he like that. He always find people doing good jobs, he hurting peoples careers that have been long time career people in the government and other agencies, i just dont understand this man, you know. I dont have no hate for everybody. God says love everybody even when you disagree with them. But i wish our president would act like a president and stop smearing peoples names. En people calling yall, you all fail for the democrats and republicans but yall want to blame yall, yall talking about this and yall talking about everybody. I like your show and hope yall keep doing it, putting your opinion out. But i hope the president stops doing what hes doing and sals calling out bright supremacist and an tearfula and the right ring extremist people who killed those cops in mexico the other day. I hope things change for the best of us. Black and white. Im a black man. I love everybody. Thank you, sir. Host next to robert from joining us from hazard, kentucky. Good morning, robert, what was your reaction from what you heard from the president in tulsa . Caller id like to give a comment about the first caller. Im in hazard and for black people, also. I think people should come to hazard and check out what were doing. We get along here so good, the whites and black. I think mr. Trump had the rally pretty good. Hes got to focus on china. That first caller, thats sort of what the problem is, i think, together were not getting the real truth out there. And i think he needs to focus on commean is what mr. Trump needs to do. I thank you for letting me talk morning. Host thank you. Going to eric next from rome, georgia. Eric, did you watch the speech last night . Caller i watched it, but i have to quit watching the sickness of donald trump. What gets me about the media, its things like you people are love this type of foolishness and racism and this rally like he had in tulsa, the same way Ronald Reagan with philadelphia, mississippi. A lot of you white people, you know, you sit there and dont have nothing to say, you act like this doesnt involve you, were all citizens of this country. Black people really have built this country and the senses of this country. Can you imagine what this country would be all you white people treating each other this is the reason world wars happen because you get people like trump in office, mussolini and stalin and these different type of people, hitler. He keeps hitlers speeches on his nightstand. When obama was president , you went to change the birth and trump continue to tell and brought it on tv and the lies he tells you to spread with him. Just think about the path of the people who followed him. Thats all i have to say. Its sickening. Host thank you for the call. One of the headlines from euters in one of the statements, the president s commenlts regarding covid19 and testing, reuters writing, President Trump told thousands of cheering supporters he asked the u. S. Officials to slow down on the testing of novel coronavirus. Later his administration and his Campaign Spokesperson saying, quote, he was just kidding. Heres that moment from the rally last night. President trump its a disease without question has more names than any disease in history. Can name kung flu, i 19 different versions of names. Many call it a virus, which it is, many call it a flu, what difference . Think we have 19 or 20 versions of the name. Host thats from the president last night. Well get back to your phone calls, robert from sarasota, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I watched it. Facing ee the movie the crowd . Host go ahead with your comments . Caller did you ever see that movie . Host i have not, no. I have not, no. Caller shoe see it from the 19 50s, Andy Griffith played magnificent. Deserved an Academy Award if he didnt win one. Donald trump host in other callers referred to that. Robert, thanks for the call. Well go to matt in damascus, maryland. Good morning. Caller i just wanted to say trump didnt do too bad. Im not particularly democratic or republican but trump didnt just do that bad last night. He got up and spoke fine and made his talking points and people rallied behind him. I wanted to say the media presents the democrats astute and well speaking and they present the republicans like clowns and we should be embarrassed to them and really gets us opposed to each other and we really should be focused on working together and right now with the coronavirus and black lives matter, we could rally together and get some sort of change. I dont know exactly what because i dont im not educated about these topics but again, the media is presenting things onesided and turning us against each other when we actually have the opportunity for reform and change and nobodys taking advantage of it. B. L. M. Isnt helping anybody. Thats my opinion. Host thanks for the call. Tina is next, huntington, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning, how are you . Host good, how are you, tina . Caller very much more energized this morning than i have been in the past two weeks. I was on the fence. Im an independent but last night to see people like me get behind someone who has been slapped down at every possible chance for the 3 1 2 years hes been in office made me realize what this country really is about. Now, when i saw all the people come in and start with their violence, im sick of the violence. B. L. M. Is a great movement, of course black lives matter. Everybody matters. My point with that is, before we get change, before we see anything change, there has to be conversation, not confrontation. Im tired of seeing our buildings, our monuments, everything destroyed. Im tired of seeing people get hurt. Thats not the way we make change. If you cant sit down and have a conversation if i dont agree with you, i dont agree. Its agree to disagree, move on, meet in the middle. Im tired. I cant walk into a store these days, and im from a blue family, and not get some sarcastic comment because im wearing a little rubber bracelet that says blue lives matter. My husbands life matters. You know, its a profession. You make choices. Just comply. God, i pray for the floyd family, i do, every day. That was horrible. But it does not mean that everybody who puts a uniform on is bad. That doesnt mean lets take, for instance, two or three years ago that group, that raped that white woman, just because those five black men hurt her and cut her up so bad doesnt mean we should hate the entire race. The reform needs to host how long has your husband been a Police Officer . Caller a little over 17 years. And hes thinking about retiring because its not worth it. His life matters. We have 15 grandchildren. You know, we are proud. Hes a veteran. They do more good than bad. Yeah, theres bad apples. Theres bad apples everybody where. Look inside the b. L. M. Movement. We have people burning our cities down. And who do you think is going to pay for it . Not them. We are as the taxpayers. I would like to see average people, im not saying me but id be willing to be in on that discussion, to sit around a table and just talk. Theres no need for this occupying cities. Theres no need for the violence. Talk like normal human beings. The problem is the generation that is leading this movement is the generation that got participation trophies and dont understand the american dream. We need to teach host thank for you sharing your story. Were moving on. Thank you very much. Good luck with your husband. Certainly Police Officers on the frontlines and doing a very important jobo often under difficult circumstances so we thank for you that. The president making reference to the coronavirus in that excerpt we shared a moment ago calling it kung flu getting that response from democratic congressman ted lieu tweeting the following, dear at real donald trump and g. O. P. , Asian Americans make up 11 of the electorate in nevada, 5. 5 in texas, 4. 7 in georgia. Enough to be the margin of victory. Keep saying that racist and using the f word like kung flu that e reason your racism the Asian Americans now trend towards democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to say its the same old rhetoric hes been spewing out of his mouth the last four years. I just watched it. Theres no substance. He just wants to cut down biden and hes not really giving us a ath. Theres no path to what his next four years is going to give us. Hes riding on the coattails of obamas economy. He gave me nothing. Host thank for you the call. Jonathan martin of the New York Times reporting last month at the Biden Campaign and the d. N. C. Racing upwards of 80 million, much of it for ad campaigns now on the air including this from the biden ampaign titled unite us. Joe i know america is suffering. The country is crying out for leadership, leadership that can unite us, leadership that brings us together. Thats what the presidency is. The duty to care. The duty to care for all of us, not just those who vote for us but all of us. I promise you this, i wont crack in fear and division and fan the flames of hate, ill seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gains. Ill do my job and take responsibility. Wont blame others. Were in the battle for the soul of this nation. We believe most importantly who we want to be. Its all at stake. We stand together, finally as one america. Well rise stronger than we were before. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Host that new ad from the Biden Campaign p. If you missed the rally with the president , its posted on our website cspan. Org. Well go to joyce, good morning, republican line. Caller good morning. First let me say i am a Senior Citizen grandmother. Im 87 years old. I voted for trump the last time. Im voting for him again. I listened to the whole speech and it was strictly fantastic. I really want to talk specifically to my Black Brothers and sisters. For 50, ted democrat 60, 70 years. Biden has been in politics for over 40 years. If hes going to do so much for us today, why hasnt he done it in all those years plus . He was the Vice President under black president and we are still suffering and its stated we are underserved p. Who underserved us . We have been controlled by the all that are and 25 cities in trouble. All of them mostly are run by democrats. If democrats have been so good for us, why are we still saying why are the democrats still saying we are underserved. And yes, blacks have been underserved all these years but we have voted straight democrat for years and we have our schools are in trouble. Our communities. I live in the most Dangerous Community in houston, texas. Its run by democrats. We will not vote a republican in, and we are suffering and blacks to go to the polls this november and vote for biden. Its going to be the same thing in the next years. Were still going to be underserved, and we got to understand black america. And im a black american, no africanamerican, ive never been to africa. But weve been underserved by democrats. Let me tell you black listeners how they control us by our anger and our emotion and they keep bringing up the past and keeps us mad and under control. Stop letting the democrats control you. If you keep on doing what youve always done, you will keep on getting what you always got. Please, black america, dont put this man biden in office because were going to have the same thing. Stop letting democrats control us. Wake up. Host ill leave it there. Thank you for the call from houston, texas. A lot of attention yesterday on the crowd because brad tweeted the president was going to for the first time hold a rally outside the venue of the b. O. K. Center which by the way stands for bank of oklahoma, and inside that was quickly scrapped because there was no crowd. This is from Abby Phillips who tweeted, this is what it looks like at the trump rally in tulsa right now. Scheduled to speak out in 10 minutes and people streaming in, but not nearly the number of campaign they said they were expecting. That from Abby Phillips. The venue outside was nearly empty and the stage was taken down and the president and Vice President scrubbing plans to do the outdoor rally and instead staying inside where there were still Seats Available at the time the rally got underway, 7 00 local time and 8 00 eastern and we carried the whole thing live on cspan. Joseph is next in boston. Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Whats on your mind . Caller im calling from massachusetts, boston is my home. Im a black man and support President Donald Trump 100 . I think america is in trouble because they cant see the goodness in the man. Ive been trying to tell black people, this man is doing more for black people since any other president of abraham lincoln. Lets break it down. They raided tennessee as a chicken Processing Plant and they arrested, detained 600 undocumented workers. Im not a hater but lets be realistic. In 1950 these plants is where black workers worked. They took it to the state Supreme Court and they changed that. Black people started working in the chicken Processing Plant. Now the Illegal Immigrants working there, no blacks are working there. I feel immigration now theyre starting to hire black people. I grew up in the crack addicted era in new york city. I live in texas where george floyd lives. And i lived there and i see how the crack epidemic destroyed the black city and i lived there in atlanta, on urban avenue and downing street, third ward of houston and in washington, d. C. I seen with my eyes how young black men go to jail for 25 years, maximum, minimum, rockefeller drug war, three strikes and youre out and other people pushing drug, America Fighting for the world population, 60 of illicit street drug and deliberately target the young black man like george floyd. I dont care what anybody says, donald trump is doing a perfect job and i hope to hear the whole speech, i only hear half of it. Joe biden is an old democrat that take the blacks for granted because over 90 of black people vote democrats and hopefully theyll wake up. I call it a problem with the negros in high places and call them the overseers, black people feel the good job donald trump is doing for them, first chance, he released over 4,000 inmates, aa lot of them africanamerican and 800,000 black men locked up, more than the country of brazil with 80 million black peek and more than nigeria with 200,000 black people. America has 40 million black people. The black people are breaking up. Moynihan said the biggest problem in the black american, 20 out of wedlock and now 72 . Donald trump is doing a good job and nobody can tell me any different. Have a nice day. Host joseph from boston, thanks for adding your voice to the conversation. By the way, we welcome our listeners on cspan radio an every sunday morning carried on potus, channel 124 and those watching in Great Britain on the Bbc Parliament channel, were getting your reaction from the president s speech in tulsa, oklahoma, the first of the maga rallies in more than three months. The president this week traveling to phoenix, arizona, meeting with students this tuesday. Of course a number of events with former Vice President joe biden that well

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