Canada's Prime Minister Meets Trump, Abortion Lawsuit Surprise, Film Tariffs
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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| 0:50.8 | Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting the White House today. |
| 0:54.9 | Carney ran and won promising to fight Trump on tariffs and musings about taking over. |
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| 1:07.5 | The Justice Department is moving to dismiss a case restricting access to abortion medication, |
| 1:12.4 | which puts them on the same side of the issue as the Biden administration was, and most Democrats are now. |
| 1:17.9 | I would say the jury is still out, essentially, of how aggressive the Trump administration is going to be on medication abortion. |
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