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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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Monday briefing: Congress to certify Trump’s victory; winter storm snow forecast; Golden Globes; NFL playoff bracket; and more
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0:00.0 | Donald Trump's election victory is about to be made official. |
0:06.0 | A winter storm is burying parts of the country in snow. |
0:11.0 | And it turns out that tuna can taste like a million bucks. |
0:15.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:19.0 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, January 6th. Let's get you |
0:22.8 | caught up with today's seven stories. Number one, Congress is set to certify Trump's election |
0:32.4 | win. On Capitol Hill today, a newly sworn in Congress will meet in a joint session. |
0:39.2 | Members will finalize Trump's victory ahead of his inauguration on January 20th. |
0:44.7 | The process is largely ceremonial, but it's mandated by federal law. |
0:49.7 | It will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris. |
0:53.0 | That's because of her constitutional role as |
0:55.4 | President of the Senate. Security is on high alert in Washington, D.C. But aside from a winter |
1:01.8 | storm, it will probably be an uneventful day, unlike in 2021. That's when a mob of Trump |
1:08.7 | supporters staged a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. |
1:16.1 | Some members of Congress also challenged the results. |
1:20.0 | Since that day in 2021, about 1,580 people have been federally charged over the riot. |
1:27.4 | Their fate could now depend on Trump. |
1:30.3 | He is pledged to pardon many of them during his first hour in office. |
1:35.2 | The U.S. Capitol Police Chief told the Post that he opposes pardons for assaults against police officers. |
1:44.4 | Trump aides are preparing universal tariff plans. That's number two. |
1:50.4 | As a candidate, Trump called for universal tariffs of as high as 10 or 20 percent on everything |
1:57.0 | imported into the U.S. Many economists warned that such plans could cause price shocks. |
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