News Wrap: Trump signs executive orders focused on military
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Also today, the Trump administration kicked off its second week with a flurry of activity involving his top team. |
| 0:07.0 | This evening, the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Mr. Trump's Treasury Secretary. |
| 0:12.0 | The hedge fund mogul will take a prominent role in implementing the President's economic agenda. |
| 0:17.0 | And President Donald Trump's newly sworn in defense secretary, Pete Hegeseth, arrived |
| 0:22.6 | at the Pentagon this morning for his first day on the job. He said Trump plans to sign |
| 0:27.5 | a flurry of new executive orders focused on the U.S. military and vowed to continue support |
| 0:33.2 | for Trump's immigration policies after the Pentagon sent 1,500 troops and other resources |
| 0:38.7 | to the border last week. |
| 0:40.3 | We helped move forward troops, put in more barriers, and also to ensure mass deportations, |
| 0:48.3 | support of mass deportations in support of the President's objective. |
| 0:51.3 | That is something the Defense Department absolutely will continue to do. In the meantime, the Air Force says it will keep the storied Tuskegee Airmen |
| 1:00.8 | in its curriculum for new recruits, along with the Women's Air Force Service pilots or wasps. |
| 1:07.0 | Over the weekend, authorities had removed materials that featured these groups. |
| 1:11.3 | Officials say it was only a temporary delay in order to purge diversity mentions from its training programs. |
| 1:17.8 | The acting U.S. attorney in Washington is reportedly opening an internal review of the Justice Department's January 6th prosecutions. |
| 1:26.5 | According to multiple outlets, Ed Martin, |
| 1:29.0 | who was appointed by Trump, has ordered prosecutors to turn over all files related to the |
| 1:34.1 | decision to charge hundreds of defendants with felony obstruction offenses. This follows |
| 1:39.4 | a Supreme Court decision last year which found the department had overstepped its reach |
| 1:43.8 | in bringing such |
| 1:44.6 | charges. Also today, the Justice Department fired more than a dozen employees who worked on |
| 1:50.0 | criminal investigations of the president. This included career prosecutors who worked on special |
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