How Rebels Gained Control of Syria
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
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Summary
President-elect Donald Trump stopped by 'Meet the Press' on Sunday for his first network sit-down interview since winning back the White House. During his hour-plus conversation, he reaffirmed his promise to pardon most of the people who violently stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, possibly on his first day back in office. And he said every person who sat on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack "should go to jail." Those kinds of comments are exactly why the Biden Administration is reportedly weighing preemptive pardons for people who might become targets of Trump's Justice Department. Kim Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and author of the book 'Pardon Power,' explains the significance of the presidential pardon.
Plus, we talked with Pod Save The World's Tommy Vietor about how a Syrian rebel militia group gained control of the country.
And in headlines: Trump says he can't guarantee Americans won't end up paying more for goods under his tariff plans, The U.S. Department of Agriculture orders testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu, and Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral held its first mass on Sunday since a 2019 fire partially destroyed it.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 9th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday. The show that wonders, |
| 0:06.5 | is this the best argument Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen can come up with for Fox News |
| 0:11.6 | host and embattled Defense Secretary candidate Pete Heggseth. |
| 0:14.6 | There's a lot of politicians that have a drinking problem, Jake. Yes, of course. But I guess |
| 0:19.3 | my question is... Yeah, and there's probably a lot of media that |
| 0:22.1 | has a drinking problem, too. Pete Hegsef. Hey, lots of politicians and media figures have drinking |
| 0:27.5 | problems, too. On today's show, we talked to Pod Save the World's Tommy Vitor about the toppling |
| 0:34.5 | of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, and the USDA has also announced mandatory testing of milk for the bird flu virus. |
| 0:41.4 | Good times. |
| 0:42.5 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:44.1 | President-elect Donald Trump stopped by Meet the Press on Sunday for his first network sit-down interview since winning back the White House. |
| 0:50.4 | He said a lot of stuff about his plans for tariffs, the border, and his messy cabinet picks. |
| 0:56.4 | He spoke with host Christian Welker for more than an hour, and we'll tell you more about the interview highlights later. |
| 1:01.6 | But one of the major stories coming out of Trump's interview was that he reaffirmed his promise to pardon most of the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6th to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 |
| 1:11.3 | election. And he says he'll do it immediately. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm going to look at everything. We're going to look at individual cases, yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay. |
| 1:17.7 | But I'm going to be acting very quickly. |
| 1:20.1 | Within your first 100 days, first day? |
| 1:22.9 | First day. |
| 1:23.9 | First day. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah, I'm looking first day. |
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