"Dark themes": Trump pushes his agenda
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the dramatic shift in Washington has the White House issues sweeping new directives |
| 0:06.8 | on immigration, mass deportation, and ending DEI. |
| 0:11.0 | Then one of America's top CEOs defends Trump's tariff push and says consumers worried |
| 0:16.0 | about higher prices, they should get over it. |
| 0:19.2 | And just three days into the new administration, Elon Musk attacks the president's |
| 0:24.1 | $500 billion AI project as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night. |
| 0:33.9 | Ooh, good evening once again. |
| 0:35.7 | I am Stephanie Ruhl. |
| 0:36.7 | It is day three of the second Trump administration, and the president is moving quickly to test the limits of how far he can push his agenda. Just look at his actions on immigration already. Today, officials confirmed 1,500 active duty troops will deploy to the southern border to help customs and border patrol with logistics and transportation. |
| 0:58.2 | The military has fulfilled this role in the past, but Trump also directed the incoming defense secretary and homeland security chief to advise him on invoking the Insurrection Act. |
| 1:08.4 | That would allow those troops to be used in civilian law enforcement |
| 1:12.2 | on U.S. soil for the first time in many decades. Plus, Trump's Justice Department is now threatening |
| 1:17.7 | to prosecute state and local officials who defy his mass deportation plans. And on his order |
| 1:24.1 | ending birthright citizenship, which is already facing legal challenges, |
| 1:28.0 | the New York Times points out this. |
| 1:29.9 | It was something he pushed his administration to do in his first term right up until the 2020 |
| 1:35.2 | election. |
| 1:36.0 | But his White House lawyers and his attorney general told him he didn't have the authority |
| 1:40.0 | to nullify a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. |
| 1:43.8 | What a difference four years can make. |
| 1:46.7 | Also, despite Trump allies saying he would not issue a blanket pardon for January 6th defendants, |
| 1:52.1 | more and more are being released from jail after he did exactly that. |
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