Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Aaron Gilchrist in Washington on the first full day of the new Trump administration,

and it is a busy one.

At this hour, we're awaiting remarks from the president that the new White House

Press Secretary said would be a, quote, massive announcement on infrastructure. They would expect it

will be about investment in AI infrastructure from private companies. We will bring you those

remarks when they happen. But it has already been an extremely consequential first 24 hours

for the second Trump administration,

with the president signing a flurry of executive orders, action, and memos, many of which

push the historic limits of presidential authority.

Now, we've seen nearly 50 presidential actions.

It is such a long list.

It's probably pretty hard to read on your screen there.

They include renaming the Gulf of Mexico, emergency measures on energy, making it easier to fire federal workers, pulling out of the

World Health Organization, and proclaiming there are only two biological sexes. Many of these

initiatives will face legal challenges. We begin, though, with two areas where the president is

perhaps making the biggest statement about his authority by directing sweeping action on border security and pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 1,500 January 6th defendants, including those sentenced for assaulting police officers.

Let's start with the border. Here are just some of the actions President Trump announced yesterday, declaring a national emergency at the border,

directing the military to come up with a plan to repel what he calls an active invasion,

and ending birthright citizenship despite that right being enshrined in the Constitution.

Now, in both scripted and unscripted remarks yesterday, President Trump laid out his far-reaching vision on these issues.

All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning

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