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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Happy Monday and welcome to another week of the Trump administration. |
0:07.6 | We are getting awfully close to the 100-day mark. |
0:10.6 | And just to put this in perspective, think about how tumultuous this first 90-plus days has been on the American economy, on the American judicial system, on the American democracy, on foreign affairs. |
0:26.0 | Just think about the things that have happened that we have not had follow up on. |
0:31.7 | I think about here as a D.C. person who uses National Airport a lot, I'll be honest with you. I'm still, would like to know |
0:40.8 | what happened the night that we had that deadly plane crash where a military helicopter |
0:48.7 | was essentially got in the way of the landing of a commercial airliner. We've not gotten the |
0:56.2 | after-action report. There's not been the congressional investigations that you would expect yet. |
1:02.4 | We really haven't had anything. And part of this, you can maybe chalk up to the news cycle. |
1:08.8 | Part of it is the whole Trump administrations throw a thousand things at the wall and things get lost. And you sit there and it appears as if we only have the band, generically, the media only has the bandwidth to do one story at a time. So when we were in the middle of the rescue |
1:27.6 | operation, we got a lot of details on everything we could figure out in the 72 hours in |
1:32.4 | and around that plane crash. But we haven't had any good reporting since. Congress, as usual, |
1:38.2 | has been sitting on its hands. I mean, look, we have an issue here where we have a very tumultuous |
1:43.0 | period in American government and in American history. |
1:46.4 | It's a busy executive branch and a busy judicial branch. The legislative branch is sitting on its hands. |
1:51.8 | It doesn't appear to be doing anything other than figuring out how to not, at least the Republican majorities, not to alienate Donald Trump or Donald Trump's MAGA base. |
2:02.4 | Beyond that, it doesn't look like Congress is doing much. |
2:06.8 | There's some rhetoric about things that they could be doing or should be doing. |
2:11.9 | I think we're all waiting for the oversight hearing on Signalgate and exactly what did peak heggseth declassified to put on |
2:19.9 | vulnerable private communication systems we think we have the backstory is how the national |
2:26.6 | security advisor put a reporter on that group but we still don't know why there was so much |
2:31.5 | ease with which the Secretary of Defense shared what was classified information on that. |
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