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🗓️ 25 January 2025
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0:00.0 | We have a lot to get into in the next hour of the readout, including Donald Trump fast-tracking deportations as ICE agents scoop up an American military veteran during one of their raids in Newark, New Jersey. |
0:12.6 | Also, in what will come as a shock to his supporters in red states prone to natural disasters, Trump is saying that he just might eliminate FEMA altogether, |
0:22.4 | which, surprise, surprise, is spelled out on page 135 of Project 2025. |
0:28.8 | But we begin tonight with the sheer exhaustion of Donald Trump's first week in office. |
0:34.7 | It's only been five days, but so far, Trump has signed dozens of executive orders |
0:40.6 | since inauguration day on Monday. He's also issued pardons for over 1,500 people involved in the |
0:47.6 | January 6th attack on the Capitol. He commuted the sentences of individuals who are associated |
0:53.0 | with the proud boys, the oathkeepers, |
0:55.1 | those who were convicted of seditious conspiracy, among other charges. |
0:59.4 | And Trump has declared a national emergency at the U.S. southern border and has targeted a constitutional right that automatically grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States, |
1:10.5 | though that action has |
1:12.1 | already provoked court challenges. Trump is also threatening federal workers with punishment |
1:17.3 | for concealing any work related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now, of course, the chaos, |
1:24.3 | the cruelty, and the exhaustion, well, that's the point. |
1:27.6 | And it continues on through tonight, as critics say that one of Trump's earliest decisions |
1:33.2 | actually creates a major risk to our national safety and security. |
1:38.2 | Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host, |
1:42.2 | who Trump nominated to lead the Department of Defense |
1:45.1 | faces a Senate confirmation vote later tonight. That vote will occur amid Hegsett's own admission |
1:51.9 | that he made a $50,000 payment to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. |
1:58.8 | The revelation was one of the written answers that Hegsett provided to Senator Elizabeth |
2:03.5 | Warren in response to additional questions that Warren posed to Hegsteth as part of the vetting |
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