PDB Afternoon Bulletin | November 12th, 2024: Trump's Cabinet Spells Trouble For China & Riots Engulf Amsterdam
The President's Daily Brief
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a recipe for starting your mornings off right. Step one, well, get yourself an empty coffee cup. |
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| 0:26.1 | It's Tuesday, 12 November 20% closer to them. It's Tuesday, 12 November. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 0:46.3 | Let's get briefed. |
| 0:47.3 | First, in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump is gearing up to make some major cabinet announcements, |
| 0:53.1 | with reports indicating that Florida's |
| 0:55.1 | Senator Marco Rubio will be asked to serve a Secretary of State, while South Dakota governor, |
| 1:01.1 | Christy Noam, will be selected to head the Department of Homeland Security. Then, violence |
| 1:06.3 | has once again broken out in the streets of Amsterdam as the city grapples with a wave of |
| 1:12.0 | anti-Semitic attacks following last week's soccer match where Jewish fans were targeted and |
| 1:17.6 | organized assaults across the city. Now I always thought of Amsterdam as a fairly chill spot. |
| 1:23.5 | Who knew that they had so many anti-Semites hiding in the shadows? But first, our afternoon spotlight. |
| 1:29.4 | Donald Trump's second-term cabinet is rapidly taking shape, |
| 1:33.4 | with the president-elect expected to name as choices for the critical posts of Secretary of State |
| 1:37.7 | and Secretary of Homeland Security. |
| 1:40.4 | As we've been tracking, Trump has wasted little time since last Tuesday's election, already selecting a border czar, the UN ambassador, and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. |
| 1:51.2 | Now, he's turning his attention to filling out the most senior roles in his second administration. |
| 1:56.8 | While I want to stress that his selections have not yet been made official, reports indicate that Trump |
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