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Okay, here we are with another Molly mashup where she talked politics.

I talk news and we try to figure it out together.

This is like maybe half a dozen or something, but our first since November 5th, I think.

So kind of gruesome and a lot of stuff to

talk about. How are you, Molly? I'm good. I'm good. You know, just another day in almost

Trump's America. So let's talk. Actually, I would love you to talk about this. So Trump World has a bunch of like executive orders all lined up.

And we don't exactly know the structure of them, but we know that there are going to be a lot of them.

And a lot of them are going to focus on immigration.

And probably a lot of them are going to focus on these kind of, I want to say, federal government

smashing, you know, kinds of things.

Like maybe he doesn't take apart the Department of Education like he says he wants to.

But there's going to be some kind of.

So I'm wondering if you could talk to us about the sort of legality of executive orders and what can happen and what can't happen in them.

Yeah.

So first, you're totally right.

My sense is a whole part of the workshop of Project 2025, maybe like third subterranean, is these

executive orders.

The law on it, Molly, is they really only control what the executive branch does.

But the executive branch, like the federal government, has its hooks in everything.

So you can really influence quite a bit, even if you're just giving commands to the executive branch.

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