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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s promises to religious voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump making promises to religious voters, Trump denying writing a letter to Jeffrey Epstein, administration officials wearing many different hats and RFK Jr.'s appearance on Capitol Hill. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

President Trump makes promises to religious voters, denies writing a letter to Jeffrey Epstein,

0:06.0

and has some members of his team wearing many different hats.

0:09.0

It's time for Politics Monday with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:16.0

Great to see you both.

0:17.0

Good to be here.

0:18.0

So as you both saw, President Trump was at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. earlier today. He announced upcoming action from the Department of Education

0:24.8

to protect prayer in public schools. Tammy was also talking about other actions. His administration

0:30.5

has taken investigating what he calls anti-Christian bias, pardoning anti-abortion rights activists.

0:36.5

Why this message and why right now?

0:39.0

He created this Religious Liberty Commission through executive action earlier this year,

0:44.3

and this is a regularly scheduled meeting. They have more meetings coming up of this commission,

0:50.2

which includes a wide range of mostly Christian people, pastors, as well as administration officials.

0:59.0

And this is part of keeping the promises he made when he was campaigning.

1:04.3

Evangelical Christians, white evangelicals are very important to his base.

1:09.2

They are very important to how he got elected.

1:11.7

He said he wants more prayer in school.

1:14.4

He made a lot of promises when he was campaigning.

1:18.8

And, I mean, we have seen this with any number of issues that he campaigned on.

1:22.7

He is checking the boxes.

1:24.5

He is going down the list.

1:25.9

He is going through and trying to deliver on

1:29.1

promises he made to key constituencies, which now the midterms are a little bit more than a year

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