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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | If it's Wednesday, swift and unrelenting action. The president and Elon Musk meet with Republican |
0:09.0 | lawmakers on the future of the Trump agenda after last night's fiery and partisan address, |
0:14.2 | while Democrats face divisions over how to respond. Plus, the White House temporarily rolls back |
0:19.7 | tariffs on automakers as the administration |
0:22.0 | signals more rollbacks could be coming as it faces rising market volatility and growing |
0:27.8 | concerns about prices and the economic fallout of a trade war. And President Trump cuts off |
0:33.5 | U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine, further hampering Keeves' fight against Russian aggression, |
0:39.1 | as President Zelensky now looks to salvage what remains of U.S. support. |
0:57.4 | Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker and Washington. As President Trump and Elon Musk press ahead with that swift and unrelenting agenda, |
1:03.5 | after last night's polarizing address to a joint session of Congress left Republicans cheering and Democrats boiling at At the White House President Trump met with |
1:12.3 | members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus today as leadership tries to corral the |
1:17.4 | votes it needs to avoid a government shutdown next week. At the capital, Elon Musk met with |
1:23.2 | Senate Republicans ahead of a meeting with House members tonight as tens of thousands of federal |
1:28.8 | workers are put on the chopping block. The latest cuts coming for the Department of Veterans Affairs |
1:33.9 | where according to an internal memo, the agency is looking to terminate more than 60,000 |
1:40.1 | federal workers. It comes after the president's fiery address to Congress last night, |
1:45.1 | focusing on right-wing culture war issues and criticizing his political rivals. |
1:50.4 | This is my fifth such speech to Congress. And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, |
1:57.6 | and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make |
2:03.4 | them stand or smile or applaud. |
2:06.3 | Nothing I can do. |
2:07.3 | The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. |
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