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Welcome to the lean. I'm Jake Tapper and you have been listening to President Donald

Trump speaking in the Oval Office about a range of topics in the Oval Office,

asking, being asked questions by reporters about many matters, including Russia's war on Ukraine, the border, and on and on.

Let's go straight to CNN's Jeff Sallany. He's at the White House Force.

Jeff, walk us through. What stands out to you?

Well, Jake, one of the things that stands out is the president responding for the first time to that ruling by the federal judge in Seattle about his executive order on birthright

citizenship.

The president said, obviously, will appeal.

And he suggested that this was taken to a certain judge in his words of course that is a

judge appointed by Ronald Reagan but look I mean it was always clear that this was going to be

be a litigated in the the courts likely the Supreme Court in the ultimate end so he did not express

surprised by that he was also asked about the Republican senators Susan Collins

and Elisa Murkowski voting against Pete Higgs, his defense secretary nominee. He said he's not

surprised by that, but expressed support for him. He was in the Oval Office to sign about five

executive orders. This is one of the things that he has been doing during his first week

in office. These executive orders were not nearly as consequential or as weighty. We don't believe,

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