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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there from CNN. I'm Christobo Polanco with the five things you need to know for Friday, May 22nd. |
| 0:07.6 | A Republican revolt against President Donald Trump is brewing as the parties divided over his anti-weaponization fund, the White House ballroom, and more. |
| 0:15.5 | Two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN the Trump administration has no plans to make any imminent changes to the president's |
| 0:21.8 | $1.8 billion fund. It would use taxpayer money to compensate people who claim they've been |
| 0:27.1 | treated unfairly by the Justice Department, possibly including January 6th defendants. And some Senate |
| 0:32.8 | Republicans are not happy about it. But I just don't know how this puppy dog will work. |
| 0:37.5 | I do not support the Webination Fund, as it has been described. |
| 0:44.6 | I mean, this is just stupid on stilts. |
| 0:46.9 | This is bad policy, it's bad timing, and it's bad politics. |
| 0:50.9 | That last senator you heard was Tom Tillis, |
| 0:53.1 | who Trump lashed out on in a truth social post this morning. |
| 0:56.4 | He called the North Carolina senator a quitter and accused him of, quote, screwing the Republican Party. |
| 1:01.5 | This Republican rift could complicate other aspects of Trump's agenda. |
| 1:05.2 | The Senate left Washington yesterday without passing a bill for immigration enforcement funding, |
| 1:09.5 | and the GOP is also up in arms about funding for Trump's ballroom. |
| 1:13.0 | A provision for $1 billion in security funding that includes the ballroom is now expected to be stripped. |
| 1:18.6 | We gotta take a break, but when we come back, an update on the Ebola outbreak and Stephen Colbert's replacement, |
| 1:24.9 | plus someone close to Jeffrey Epstein named-dropped new alleged abusers to Congress. |
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| 1:41.8 | They're so easy to throw on and pair with everything in your closet. |
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| 1:51.0 | online and in stores. |
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