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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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0:00.0 | And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett, live from Washington. |
0:18.3 | Out front tonight, the breaking news, the Trump presidency is in full force. |
0:22.4 | President Trump just wrapping up that rally in Washington, where he signed nine executive orders, promising to pardon those who attack the Capitol on January 6th. |
0:30.2 | The president now on his way to the White House, where he promises to sign even more executive actions. |
0:34.7 | They've said there will be many more tonight. Just moments ago, he signed |
0:37.8 | orders, including revoking nearly 80 of Biden's executive orders and actions, and they may count that as |
0:44.0 | 80, as well as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty, freezing all federal hiring, requiring |
0:49.1 | federal workers return to the office five days a week, and that is in addition to orders Trump is |
0:53.1 | expected to sign later tonight. Those include the formal declaration days a week, and that is in addition to orders Trump is expected to sign later |
0:54.2 | tonight. Those include the formal declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, |
0:59.9 | and ending birthright citizenship. That, of course, is a right in the Constitution that if you |
1:05.0 | are born in the United States, you are a citizen. Terminating diversity programs and declaring |
1:08.8 | the federal government will only recognize two genders, male and female, which reverses protections that had been put in place for transgender |
1:15.8 | people. And as I mentioned, Trump is expected to also pardon members of the mob that attacked the |
1:21.8 | Capitol on January 6th, 2021 when he returns to the White House tonight. That has been something that has |
1:26.4 | been at the core of all of his talk today, and there is so much to get to tonight. Jeff Zellini is at the rally |
1:32.2 | where Trump just spoke. Caitlin Collins is live outside the White House and Evan Perez is in Washington. |
1:37.5 | Ellie Reeves is outside of Washington prison where January 6th defendants are waiting to be released |
1:42.1 | after being pardoned by Trump all with us through the hour. |
1:45.4 | And Jeff Zedlundle, let me start with you just coming from that arena, as I just came from |
1:50.4 | where you are. You watch the signing of those executive orders. Walk us through exactly what |
1:56.0 | Trump just did. Well, Aaron, it was a bit of campaign theater meets political promises. |
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