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PBS News Hour - Segments

Stephen Miller's rise to prominence and influence on the Trump administration

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is one of Washington's most polarizing power brokers. A chief architect of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, his portfolio has expanded to include foreign policy as well. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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Now to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who is one of Washington's most polarizing power brokers.

0:07.5

He's a chief architect of the administration's immigration crackdown, and his portfolio has expanded to include foreign policy as well.

0:15.5

Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has this closer look.

0:20.4

The U.S. military is repatriating illegal immigrants at a pace and a skill that has never occurred

0:25.5

before in American history.

0:26.5

One of the brains behind all of President Trump's second term policies, Deputy Chief of Staff

0:32.3

for Policy, Stephen Miller.

0:34.5

To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.

0:39.3

And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing

0:44.9

a felony.

0:46.1

The 40-year-old hard-lined conservative grew up in Southern California and became politically

0:50.4

active at a young age.

0:52.0

I do like that he's really good about voicing his opinions, but I don't like the way he does it.

0:56.3

That's clear in this video made by his classmates at Santa Monica High School, which has

1:01.1

excerpts from the speech Miller delivered while running for student government.

1:04.8

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors

1:14.1

for a baby that do it for us.

1:16.5

Witnesses say those comments got him escorted offstage.

1:20.6

Miller went on to Duke University, which was thrust into the national spotlight in 2006

1:25.3

when white members of the school's lacrosse team were

1:28.5

accused of raping an exotic dancer who was black.

1:31.6

You're a student, pretty much the only person will talk to us.

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