Thursday, January 23, 2025

The 7

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

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Thursday briefing: Trump’s interview with Sean Hannity; Laken Riley Act; Hughes Fire; coffee and tea cancer study; and more

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0:00.0	President Trump is preparing to send troops to the border.
0:06.8	A new wildfire broke out in Southern California,
0:10.9	and someone in Greece tried to ditch an ancient goddess.
0:15.3	That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post.
0:19.1	I'm Hannah Jewell.
0:20.2	It's Thursday, January 23rd. Let's get you
0:22.9	caught up with today's seven stories. Number one. President Donald Trump sat down for his first
0:32.2	TV interview since his inauguration. Trump had a wide-ranging chat on Fox News yesterday with Sean Hannity, who's one of his
0:40.1	closest TV allies.
0:42.1	He used it to elevate exaggerated claims about immigration.
0:46.1	He defended his pardons of capital rioters.
0:49.1	He advanced attacks against his political opponents.
0:52.2	And he made this threat to withhold federal aid from
0:55.0	fire-ravaged California.
0:57.1	I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down into there.
1:01.4	From the north to the south.
1:02.7	This is a political thing.
1:03.9	I don't know what it is.
1:04.8	Trump was repeating a false claim he has made several times before, that California's
1:10.2	Democratic leaders have refused to allow
1:12.5	water from the northern part of the state to flow down into the Los Angeles area. In reality,
1:18.2	L.A. does not get its water from the Northern California systems that Trump described.
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