NPR News: 01-20-2025 6PM EST
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eric Glass. |
| 0:01.3 | On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens. |
| 0:06.1 | If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say, |
| 0:11.9 | holy, what are you kidding me? |
| 0:13.2 | Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well. |
| 0:17.6 | I just don't want one balloon to a car. |
| 0:19.4 | Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week. |
| 0:25.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th |
| 0:32.7 | president of the United States today. As NPR's Barber Spunt explains, the inauguration ceremony took place inside the U.S. Capitol instead of the United States today. As NPR's Barbara Spron explains, the inauguration ceremony took place |
| 0:38.8 | inside the U.S. Capitol instead of the traditional West Front due to frigid temperatures. |
| 0:43.7 | President Trump marked his historic comeback in an inaugural address that strongly resembled his campaign |
| 0:48.5 | speeches, where he listed a litany of grievances about the previous administration and promised |
| 0:53.1 | to restore American greatness. |
| 0:55.1 | He spoke about the failed assassination attempt in July during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:00.0 | But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. |
| 1:06.5 | I was saved by God to make America great again. |
| 1:11.5 | Trump called the election a mandate for his agenda and said he will declare a national emergency on the southern border and deport millions of immigrants without legal status. |
| 1:20.2 | He also said he will impose tariffs on foreign goods and expand U.S. drilling. |
| 1:24.3 | Barbara Sprint and Pierre News, Washington. |
| 1:26.3 | Trump plans to take scores of executive |
| 1:28.5 | actions today, including 10 related to immigration. MPR. Stroll Rose reports that's according to a call |
| 1:34.3 | with incoming White House officials this morning. The Trump administration is expected to declare a |
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