Speak for Yourself: Trump Set to Address Congress, Gaslight America

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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4.5 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki explains that while Trump will offer his own version of how the country is doing tomorrow in his address to a joint session of Congress, it's important to trust what you've been seeing with your own eyes. She is joined by Dan Pfeiffer and Ben Rhodes to preview what to expect from Trump's speech as he continues to cozy up to Russia and gut the federal government. Next, Jen is joined by Chrystia Freeland, who's in the running to be the next liberal leader and Prime Minister of Canada, to discuss her plans to push back against Trump's tariffs. Then, Jen is joined by Representative Ilhan Omar to discuss why she and other Democrats are bringing fired federal workers as their guests to tomorrow's joint session to highlight the devastating impact of Trump's mass firings. Later, Jen brings out the receipts to show how DOGE is actually creating more problems than it's solving. Finally, Jen is joined by Stephanie Ruhle to discuss Trump's plans to build a U.S. crypto reserve and how his allies stand to benefit from this.

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0:00.0	Okay. Donald Trump seems to be doing a lot of things right now that are making Vladimir Putin very happy.
0:15.7	I mean, just in the last half hour, we learned that the Trump administration is pausing all military
0:20.8	aid to Ukraine.
0:22.0	And at the very same time, he's doing a lot of things that are making our closest allies very
0:26.9	angry. Just hours ago, Trump confirmed that tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect
0:31.9	at midnight tonight, just a few hours from now. And I'm going to talk to Krista Freeland,
0:35.9	who could very well be the next prime minister of Canada, about all of that in just a minute. And ahead of Trump's joint address to
0:42.3	Congress tomorrow night, I'm also going to talk to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar about how Democrats are
0:47.2	pushing back and how they will tomorrow. Well, the thought Donald Trump, walking into the House
0:52.3	chamber again may make you want to crawl into
0:54.9	the fetal position, which I totally understand, that speech is actually where I want to start.
0:59.4	And here's why. Because tomorrow night, he's going to give you his version of events. And I want
1:06.0	to give you mine. Now, I could sit here and tell you all about the inner workings of how a big speech like this typically comes together in a White House,
1:14.4	how the writing process typically works, how the preparation typically works, how the strategy typically works,
1:20.5	what a president is thinking about in the days ahead, all of the things, I could talk about all of that.
1:25.2	But the thing is, in this moment, that would all be pretty useless.
1:29.4	Because this is not a normal speech.
1:31.9	It's not a normal presidency.
1:33.2	It's not a normal reality.
1:34.7	We are all living in to state the obvious.
1:37.6	And I think it's important to remember all of that heading into tomorrow night.
1:41.6	Because Trump is going to have a big platform. And he's definitely going to try
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