Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. There are more developments on this transition to the Trump

administration as we begin the week. President Biden bolstering formal support for Ukraine,

including military operations that go against Russia and Putin. And that is being done specifically

amidst concerns that foreign policy against that region, how we deal with Putin, could change

with President-elect Trump taking power in January. So that's a big story, and we have that

coming up, as well as right now, this news from President-elect Trump, that he intends to proclaim

emergency powers when he does enter office, that he would declare a, quote, national emergency in order to deploy the

military to conduct mass deportations. This news is now setting the expectations for the way that

President Trump plans to govern on that and potentially other issues. I will say it to you as

straightforward as possible. It is a much more assertive approach

than his first term, which was often controversial on many matters. I'm sure you remember,

but this is also exactly the kind of plan that Donald Trump campaigned on. So he's drawing

headlines today about both the method, emergency powers, military action, and the policy itself, these type of

deportations. And it builds on Donald Trump's often stated view that undocumented immigrants

must be forcibly removed, that harsher policies would dissuade the long-term and ongoing

flow of migrants into the nation. So part of this story tonight, which

matters, and if you're keeping track of the news right now, what you're learning tonight is very

relevant to what's going to be happening in the months ahead. So it matters now and for the future.

But part of the story is policy. How should this incoming president make policy based on

the vows he's made, the campaign pledges he's made on

immigration. The other part of it is about law. How can a president, any president, wield

emergency powers? And for how long? And what are the limits? And who decides? And all of that

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