Major Test of Presidential Power
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now a major test of presidential power, the Supreme Court case that could reshape the federal government. |
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| 0:40.1 | Disappointed. President Trump criticizes his Ukrainian counterpart as Donald Trump Jr. |
| 0:45.7 | says his father could abandon peace talks altogether. And the NFL playoff picture gets clear. |
| 0:53.0 | The major comeback by my Buffalo Bills in the snow. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. |
| 1:16.0 | Happening now, we begin at the U.S. Supreme Court where President Trump's executive power faces a major test. Right now, the justices are hearing arguments in a very closely watched |
| 1:22.1 | case challenging the Trump administration's effort to expand control of independent agencies and reshape the federal |
| 1:29.9 | government. CNN's chief Supreme Court analyst, Joan Buscupik, explains what's at stake and how the |
| 1:36.0 | president could be on the verge of gaining even more power. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm about to go inside the Supreme Court for a hearing that's underway over President Trump's ability to fire the heads of independent agencies. |
| 1:49.0 | This case is going to test more than what happens to Rebecca Slaughter, who's the woman that he fired from the Federal Trade Commission in March. |
| 1:57.0 | This case goes to the power and independence of special agencies that Congress has set up |
| 2:03.6 | with regulatory power over like the financial industries, labor, environment, places that are supposed to be independent |
| 2:11.6 | and the pressure, President Trump wouldn't be able to pressure them through firing. They should only be removed for some sort of misconduct. Now, this case tests a 1935 precedent of the Supreme Court in |
| 2:24.3 | which the Supreme Court held unanimously that then President Roosevelt could not fire a commissioner |
| 2:31.7 | on the Federal Trade Commission because of the way Congress had established the legislation, |
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