Trump 2.0: A Cabinet Full of Surprises and an Awkward Visit With Joe Biden

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language. In his first week as president-elect, Donald J. Trump moved at breakneck speed to fill out his cabinet with a set of loyalists who were both conventional and deeply unconventional, the U.S. Senate chose a leader who could complicate Trump’s agenda, and President Joe Biden welcomed Trump back to the White House. Times Journalists Michael Barbaro, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, sat down to make sense of it all. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who covers politics for The New York Times. Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow.
0:03.8	This is the Daily.
0:08.4	Today.
0:10.5	In his first week as president-elect...
0:13.4	We begin tonight with breaking news and a lot of it.
0:15.8	The appointments are coming pretty fast and pretty furious.
0:18.7	Donald Trump moved at breakneck speed to fill out his cabinet
0:23.1	with a set of loyalists who were both conventional. We have just learned that the president-elect
0:28.2	Donald Trump is officially naming now Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state.
0:33.9	And deeply unconventional. Matt Gates as attorney general. well, that'll knock you right off your feet.
0:39.9	The United States Senate chose a leader who could complicate Trump's agenda.
0:44.3	We have a new leader in the United States Senate.
0:47.1	It is John Thune, the Republican from South Dakota.
0:49.8	There was some acrimony between Trump and Thune over the years.
0:53.4	The hatchet was buried.
0:54.9	And President Biden welcomed Trump back to the White House.
0:58.7	The reason that this scene is so striking is because there is no actual warmth between those two men.
1:05.9	I gathered three of my colleagues to make sense of it all.
1:10.2	Julie Davis, Peter Baker, and Maggie Haberman.
1:18.3	It's Thursday, November 14th.
1:24.7	Friends, welcome to the first post-election daily roundtable which we are taping at around
1:34.5	2.45 p.m. on Wednesday. We always disclose that in case something happens during or after
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