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Seated Standoff: Trump Speaks to Divided Congress

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Amid Democratic lawmakers’ protests, President Trump outlines his vision for the year ahead. Mexico brings a lawsuit against American gunmakers to a skeptical Supreme Court. And Fyre founder Billy McFarland argues with local officials’ claims that his resurrected festival “does not exist.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, March 5th, and the other side of the aisle never looked so far away.

0:05.0

We start here.

0:07.0

President Trump speaks to a divided nation and a visibly divided Congress.

0:13.0

I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy.

0:21.2

One member had to be escorted out and that wasn't the only contentious moment.

0:26.2

American gun manufacturers are put on trial by Mexico.

0:30.0

They choose to allow them to sell to traffickers.

0:35.3

An argument over cartel firepower goes to the Supreme Court, and he promised no more fraud.

0:41.5

Fire 2 is real.

0:42.6

So why is the place supposedly hosting FireFest 2 saying it doesn't exist?

0:49.4

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

0:53.1

I'm Brad Milky.

1:07.0

The last time President Trump stood in front of Congress was early 2020.

1:09.8

COVID was not even an acronym we understood yet.

1:11.6

We were describing this novel coronavirus. The president had just been acquitted in his first impeachment trial.

1:15.6

It would be nearly a year before his own supporters trashed that same building in the wake of his electoral defeat.

1:21.6

Well, last night, Donald Trump walked into the Capitol triumphantly.

1:25.6

Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States.

1:30.2

With a Republican-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate,

1:34.1

the Trump agenda has never had more legislative support than it did last night.

1:39.0

An agenda that has been enacted faster and more forcefully than many Trump allies even imagined.

1:45.5

Of course, a big chunk of this room was still occupied by Democrats who were under pressure from their own constituents to do

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