President-elect Trump refuses to rule out military involvement in Panama Canal
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Then, Asma Khalid, Franco Ordoñez, and Domenico Montanaro look ahead to the first few days of Trump's presidency.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. This is Brett in Denver. I'm with my cat, Carl Sagan, on the way to the vet. |
| 0:07.2 | He's not super happy about it, but at least I've got the NPR politics spot to keep me entertained. |
| 0:13.4 | This podcast was recorded at 1.42 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, January 7th of 2025. |
| 0:21.1 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but Carl will still be pretty upset about |
| 0:26.0 | having to go to the vet again. |
| 0:28.5 | All right. |
| 0:28.9 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:32.8 | I feel like this is not the first Carl Sagan cat who's appeared on the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Lus Mahal. I cover the White House. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Frank O'Donias. I also cover the White House. |
| 0:47.5 | And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 0:50.6 | And just a bit ago, President-elect Donald Trump wrapped up another freewheeling news conference at his residence at Mara Lago in Florida, in which he railed against the Biden administration's plans to limit oil drilling, suggested he would rename the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:05.9 | We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful |
| 1:15.0 | ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. And it's |
| 1:20.9 | appropriate. And he suggested he wanted to expand American territory, taking over Greenland |
| 1:26.3 | and the Panama Canal. There was a lot in this |
| 1:29.8 | press conference. And it feels like we heard a lot of different complaints, a lot of different policy |
| 1:34.5 | plans. Franco, you were there in the room. So I want to begin with you. What stood out to you? |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, I thought you put it pretty well with the freewheeling. I mean, it really was |
| 1:44.5 | a rather lengthy, circuitous, just kind of route he took. It really started off on Biden's |
| 1:53.2 | new ban on offshore drilling, which Trump said he was going to reverse on his first day in |
| 1:59.7 | office. He also, you know, complained about |
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