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🗓️ 20 April 2025
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0:00.0 | All right, good morning and happy Easter. |
0:10.4 | It's Sunday, April the 20th. |
0:12.0 | It's day 91 of the second Trump administration. |
0:15.0 | In the three months since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he hasn't not a lot to ease his critics' concerns, whether it's |
0:21.2 | tariffs or mass deportations or the attempt to eliminate federal agencies. His policies have caused |
0:26.6 | chaos and confusion at every turn. There's also legitimate concern about his disregard for the |
0:32.3 | law, the Constitution, and civil liberties. And the speed with which his administration has been making these changes has been destabilizing |
0:40.2 | to the country and the world. |
0:42.0 | Now, for a while, people, you know who you are, all of us really, we're trying to figure out |
0:47.7 | how to fight back. |
0:49.1 | And there hasn't been, like there was in 2016, one big unified response, but there are very, very clear signs |
0:58.3 | that momentum is building. You'll remember Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York |
1:03.2 | Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they've got this fighting oligarchy tour that has received |
1:08.4 | tremendous support. Look at these large crowds they've been |
1:12.9 | drawing. This is not an election year. It's not even close to an election year. And they've been |
1:17.5 | doing this since last month, drawing attention to the billionaires' influence in and control |
1:22.8 | of government. In just the past week, tens of thousands of people from California to Montana have turned out for their rallies. |
1:30.8 | Meanwhile, separately, constituents have flooded town halls all over the country, Democratic and Republican. |
1:37.5 | Many people have been angry. They want to get answers from their representatives. |
1:40.9 | They want to hold them to account. And in many instances, they want them to fight back against this administration. And more often than not, especially with Republicans, |
1:47.8 | they're just not showing up to these town hall meetings. There have been individual actions from |
1:52.9 | some members of Congress, again, almost overwhelmingly Democratic members of Congress that have |
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