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The 7
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
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Friday, November 14. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:00.0 | Some of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters are mad at him. |
| 0:07.3 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Hannah Jewell. |
| 0:11.9 | It's Friday, November 14th. |
| 0:14.2 | And today is our third birthday. |
| 0:16.9 | Let's celebrate by getting you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:22.9 | President Trump is facing heat from his MAGA base. |
| 0:27.0 | He is battling on multiple fronts with the conservative movement that launched him to power. |
| 0:32.9 | This week, MAGA leaders erupted after Trump said this, speaking to Laura Ingram on Fox News. |
| 0:39.4 | If you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. |
| 0:46.1 | But you also do have to bring in talent. |
| 0:48.6 | We have plenty of talented people here. |
| 0:50.6 | No, you don't. |
| 0:51.0 | We don't have talented people here. |
| 0:52.4 | No, you don't have certain talents and people't. We don't have talented people here. No, you don't have certain talents and you have to, people have to learn. |
| 0:56.7 | That exchange caused some in Maga Land to question Trump's commitment to America First policies. |
| 1:03.6 | And on another front, a congressional push to release the government's files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein moved forward against the wishes |
| 1:12.0 | of the White House this week. That issue has persistently split Trump from his base, though Republicans |
| 1:18.5 | have mostly dismissed newly released emails written by Epstein, including some about Trump. |
| 1:25.0 | And Trump is in a war of words with Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, |
| 1:29.9 | his longtime ally. She's mad because she thinks the administration is focusing too much on foreign |
| 1:36.2 | affairs. Taken together, this criticism from Trump's base shows the limits of his authority |
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