Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favra. I'm John Lovett. I'm Tom Evitor.

On today's show, Donald Trump sits down for his first major interview since winning the election and lays out his plans on deportations, tariffs, health care, political retribution, and more.

The killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson crosses the barrier from cultural fixation to political debate,

though it's still a cultural fixation. And in some incredible news, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

flees to Moscow, ending two generations of his family's sadistic rule. We'll get into what this

means for the world and for America's new president. But first, President-elect Donald Trump sat down with Kristen Welker and meet the press for a pretty newsy and substantive interview that lasted one hour and 16 minutes.

I wonder how long his staff was trying to call it?

30 minutes?

20 minutes?

I didn't know it was that long and I just started reading the transcript and I was like, why does this keep going?

It must have budgeted an hour.

It's crazy.

It's very long.

There were a few big topics they win in depth on and we're just going to take them one at a time,

play some clips so you can get a feel for what it was like without having to suffer through

the whole thing like we did.

Yeah, that's a service we provide.

That is a service we provide. You do not, we watch the whole thing so you don't have to.

Let's start with immigration. They covered a lot here, including big questions on deportations and

citizenship. Here's a sampling. If they come here illegally, but their family is here legally,

then the family has a choice. The person that came in illegally can go out or they can all go out together.

You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan? Yeah, absolutely.

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