Friday, January 24, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
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Friday briefing: Trump’s executive orders; Elon Musk; Pete Hegseth; Los Angeles wildfires; Oscar snubs; NFL playoffs; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is facing pushback on his executive orders. |
| 0:07.3 | There were some surprising snubs in the Oscar nominations. |
| 0:10.9 | And America's newest pandas make their public debut today. |
| 0:15.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Christina Quinn in for Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:20.6 | It's Friday, January 24th. Let's get |
| 0:22.9 | you caught up with today's seven stories. Number one, a federal judge has temporarily blocked |
| 0:31.5 | President Trump's birthright citizenship order. On Monday, shortly after his inauguration, Trump signed dozens of executive orders. |
| 0:40.5 | One of them was aimed at ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented |
| 0:45.2 | immigrants and foreign visitors. But yesterday, a federal judge called this move from Trump |
| 0:50.8 | blatantly unconstitutional and issued a two-week restraining order. The decision |
| 0:56.7 | came in response to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of states. It's part of a growing round |
| 1:02.3 | of pushback against Trump's executive orders. Legal experts say some of Trump's moves are probably |
| 1:08.4 | beyond the reach of the president's pen and could be tied up in courts for years. |
| 1:14.0 | Yesterday, Trump signed another high-profile order. |
| 1:17.4 | He moved to declassify records on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, |
| 1:22.9 | former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1:28.4 | Here's the moment in the Oval Office when Trump signed the order. |
| 1:31.6 | That's a big one, huh? |
| 1:33.8 | A lot of people are waiting for this for a long for years, for decades. |
| 1:44.0 | And everything will be revealed. |
| 1:46.8 | Trump said he wants the JFK files to be released within 15 days. |
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