Inside the strategy as Trump meets with Senate Republicans today
The Daily Punch
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a message from Google. The spirit of innovation is deeply ingrained in America, |
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| 0:23.1 | This is a new era of American Innovation. Find out more at G.co'm Anna Palmer. And I am Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, |
| 0:45.2 | brought to you by Punchable News. It's Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. A big shoutout. Happy |
| 0:50.8 | birthday to my mom, Joyce in North Dakota. Now let's get into the mix. Here are your |
| 0:57.1 | Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Trump and Senate Republicans are set to meet. |
| 1:02.8 | What's going to happen? Number two, House Dems are eyeing working with Trump's Washington. |
| 1:08.3 | Yes, you heard that right. And number three, Republican tension on the upcoming |
| 1:12.9 | TikTok ban. All right, Jake, before we get into the top three stories of the morning, you have |
| 1:17.3 | something you want to talk about. Yeah, this is a slight mea culpa. Yesterday, I said the Laken, |
| 1:24.6 | this is very minor, but gives me an opportunity to just say a couple things. |
| 1:28.3 | The Laken Riley Act, which would allow ICE, I believe, to detain undocumented immigrants who are accused of crimes, who are arrested for crimes, would be under suspension. |
| 1:44.1 | It was not. It was under a rule because they |
| 1:46.4 | included this in the rules package for the 119th Congress and they passed it. And you know what? |
| 1:51.3 | We'll talk about this in a minute here. They had a bunch of Democrats, I think 48 Democrats |
| 1:57.6 | voting for this bill, which is 11 more than voted for it last Congress. |
| 2:02.2 | So that's it. I wasn't thinking, you know, we record this early, Anna, as you know, because we're |
| 2:07.5 | recording it right now and it's early. And you, and sometimes my brain is not at full |
| 2:13.8 | throttle. But, but anyway, that's where we are. We live to fight another day. That's right. That's right. |
| 2:23.4 | There you go. All right. Let's get into it. There is a lot happening here in Washington. And the number one story, we are leading Punch Bull News a.m. with is a look at how Senate Republicans are set to meet with |
| 2:35.8 | President-elect Donald Trump tonight. They're going to meet on Capitol Hill. And it's an |
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