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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

So Donald Trump will be our next president.

There will be plenty of time in coming weeks to analyze what to learn from this election, but for now we're going to start by looking at what Trump's presidency will look like at the outset.

Trump's spokesperson Caroline Levitt went on Fox News and flatly declared that Trump has a mandate to govern as he campaigned. That's pretty alarming since Trump

campaigned relentlessly on a platform of explicit threats of authoritarian retribution and violence.

Today we're discussing all this with David Kurtz, executive editor of Talking Points memo,

an author of a good new piece for his morning memo, arguing that voters

chose Trump in full awareness of the cruelties he's planning to inflict on untold numbers of people.

Great to have you back on, David. I just wish it were a happier occasion.

Good to be with you, Greg. I do too.

All right, so let's start with Caroline Levd's appearance on Fox News on Wednesday morning just after

Trump won. Listen to this. And the American people delivered a resounding victory for President Trump.

And it gives him a mandate to govern as he campaigned, to deliver on the promises that he made,

which include on day one launching

the largest mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris has allowed into this

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