Meet the Press NOW — January 17
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Friday, a major shakeup in plans for Donald Trump's second inauguration as the incoming 47th president prepares to take numerous executive actions on day one, with a cabinet of loyalists and a Republican-controlled Congress ready to pave the way. |
| 0:18.3 | Plus, President-elect Trump reacts to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a national ban on TikTok |
| 0:23.3 | that's set to begin one day before his inauguration, as the outgoing administration says it's up to him to enforce the ban. |
| 0:30.9 | And Israel's cabinet is meeting right now with a vote expected any moment on the ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas, paving the way for the first |
| 0:39.3 | hostages to be released from Gaza as soon as Sunday. |
| 1:03.1 | Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, a city that is preparing for Monday's presidential inauguration in more ways than one. |
| 1:12.2 | In a last minute shake-up to the inaugural plans, the decision was made today to move the swearing-in ceremony inside the Capitol with bitter-cold forecast for Monday. The traditional inaugural parade will also be revamped, with some version of it taking |
| 1:17.6 | place in the same arena set to hold Trump's final pre-inauguration rally Sunday night, which is |
| 1:23.3 | scheduled to feature everyone from the village people to Elon Musk. It comes as President |
| 1:27.9 | like Trump prepares to begin immediately implementing an agenda that if fully realized, would |
| 1:32.8 | fundamentally remake the American economy and dramatically reduce the size of government, while |
| 1:38.1 | potentially testing the limits of presidential power. We know many things he wants to accomplish on |
| 1:43.3 | his return to the Oval Office, but we don't |
| 1:45.4 | know where he will start or how far Congress and the courts will allow him to go, starting with |
| 1:51.1 | executive orders on day one. On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump brought up a lot of priorities for |
| 1:56.4 | his first hours in office, including ending the war in Ukraine, pardoning January 6 defendants, |
| 2:01.9 | beginning a mass deportation program, and ending birthright citizenship, which is, of course, |
| 2:07.2 | enshrined in the Constitution. But his team has been tight-lipped on the specifics. Here's incoming |
| 2:12.7 | Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaking to Fox News about Mr. Trump's early border priorities. Look. |
| 2:19.2 | The Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and all of the relevant law enforcement components therein will be given the assignment and the mission to interdict all contraband, to use all financial resources to strangle the cartels, and to end all illegal |
| 2:35.5 | immigration into this country as a top national security mission. |
| 2:39.0 | That is the president's duty, and he will fulfill it. |
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