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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

'He's not going to be president forever': Pritzker vows accountability for Trump officials

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with Jen Psaki about resisting Donald Trump's power grabs, protecting the people of his state, and holding Trump officials to account once they are not longer under his protection.

Transcript

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0:00.0

is all in on this Tuesday night. The briefing with Jen Saki starts right now. Good evening, Jen. Chris, it's so hard to summarize the hellscape we've all lived through over the last year since it's one year. And I just watched your entire show. Incredible job doing that and also touching on the news that we're living in. I'm going to try to do my best with that. I have some big help from Governor Pritzker and Governor Moore. Oh, that's great. That's great.

0:23.8

Yeah, so I'm going to try to do my best with that. I have some big help from Governor Pritzker and

0:20.8

Governor Moore. Oh, that's great. That's great. Yeah, so I'm going to get right to it. But lots to

0:26.2

talk about looking forward to seeing your book events too. Have a great night. Thanks, Jen.

0:32.5

Okay. As I just noted, as I think you were all probably tracking. It has been one year since Donald Trump returned to the White House and began his absolute assault on what most of us believe in fundamentally.

0:46.0

And to mark the occasion, he decided to hold a press conference where he did what he always does.

0:52.1

Rumble incoherently for approximately 80 minutes before taking some questions.

0:57.0

Now, it was clear from the outset that this was supposed to be some kind of a special appearance,

1:03.0

where Trump would list all of the things his White House considers his biggest accomplishments

1:07.0

one year in.

1:09.0

They announced it in advance.

1:10.0

There was a whole lead-up, countdown on the briefing.

1:12.5

He had a big stack of paper.

1:14.7

They wanted him to basically go out there and sell his first year, as insane as it was.

1:20.7

But that idea went straight into the waistbin as soon as Trump started talking.

1:25.1

And I don't mean that as some sort of figurative turn of phrase.

1:30.3

Here's the book on accomplishments.

1:34.9

Here's the book.

1:35.8

These are all things we have, I'm going to read a few of the samples, but look at this.

1:40.6

These are all, each line is something that we did.

1:43.4

Nobody did that before. And it's, it's

1:46.6

big stuff, too. Look, we have the hottest country in the world. I mean, some poor White

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