Meet the Press NOW — June 27
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today, President Trump tout a historic Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for his administration |
| 0:07.7 | to renew its push to end birthright citizenship and plow ahead with other legally questionable actions |
| 0:14.3 | in a major win for the White House and its expansion of executive authority. |
| 0:19.1 | Plus, Republicans in Congress race against the clock to decide what's in and what's |
| 0:23.3 | out of President Trump's so-called big beautiful bill as some House lawmakers balk at the |
| 0:28.5 | Senate's revisions, and President Trump prepares to stay in Washington through the weekend to try |
| 0:33.2 | to seal the deal. |
| 0:34.7 | And President Trump says he's terminating U.S. trade talks with Canada without reaching a deal |
| 0:39.6 | as new data shows inflation ticking up and consumer spending ticking down. |
| 1:01.3 | Welcome to meet the press. Now I'm Kristen Welker on an historic day right here in Washington as the Supreme Court delivers another major victory for the Trump administration, expanding its |
| 1:07.0 | executive authority by placing new restrictions on federal judges and their ability to |
| 1:12.3 | rein in executive overreach. In a six three opinion, the High Court allowed the Trump administration |
| 1:18.0 | to move forward with its push to end automatic birthright citizenship, even though it did not weigh |
| 1:24.5 | in on the legality of the plan, and it could still be blocked by the courts. |
| 1:29.7 | Instead, the court ruled that federal judges and lower courts did not have brought authority |
| 1:34.5 | to issue nationwide injunctions against the government like it had in this case. |
| 1:39.3 | Justice Amy Coney-Barrant, a Trump appointee writing, the majority opinion saying, |
| 1:43.6 | quote, when a court concludes |
| 1:45.5 | that the executive branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power |
| 1:51.3 | to. The full impact of the ruling remains unclear, but the liberal justices in their dissenting |
| 1:56.7 | opinions warned that it represented an existential threat to the rule of law because they said it |
| 2:02.7 | hamstrings the judicial branch's ability to quickly intervene in cases where the executive |
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