Trump Celebrates a Big Beautiful 4th

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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3.6 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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President Trump is celebrating this 4th of July with a major legislative victory, signing into law his so-called big beautiful bill. Plus, the FBI and DHS issue a warning about potential "lone wolf" attacks today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening now, President Trump is celebrating this 4th of July with a major legislative victory in just hours.
0:08.0	This so-called big beautiful bill will be signed into law.
0:12.0	Plus, a warning now from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security about so-called lone wolf attacks
0:19.0	just ahead of your 4th of July celebrations.
0:22.5	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:26.7	I'm Wolf Blitzer. Pamela Brown is off today, and you're in the Situation Room.
0:42.8	Today at the White House Independence Day is the backdrop for President Trump celebrating the biggest legislative victory of his second term.
0:46.4	He will sign his newly passed spending bill for his very ambitious agenda.
0:50.9	And minutes ago, he completed a phone call with the Ukrainian president, Volodemir Zelensky.
0:56.0	It comes after what President Trump described as a very disappointing phone call with the Russian leader of Vladimir Putin yesterday.
1:03.0	President Trump says Putin is not interested in ending the war.
1:07.0	And after that phone call, Russia actually escalated its strikes, launching a record
1:12.3	number of drone attacks at Ukraine.
1:22.5	In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, the terrifying buzz of a Russian drone outside a residential window, followed by a massive
1:29.5	explosion. Let's go live right now to CNN senior White House reporter Kevin Liptack. Kevin,
1:34.9	what can you tell us, first of all, about this Trump Zelensky phone conversation?
1:39.9	Yeah, we understand it has just wrapped up, and certainly that barrage of missiles and drones that hit Ukraine overnight will be an important backdrop to this conversation.
1:49.4	The president just this week announcing that the administration would halt shipments of defensive weapons to Ukraine, citing concerns about dwindling stockpiles in the United States.
2:00.7	And in fact, some of the missiles
2:02.6	that Russia fired into Ukraine overnight can only be intercepted by U.S. Patriot missiles.
2:08.7	And so I think for Zelensky, a key objective of this conversation was trying to get more
2:14.0	clarity on what exactly this pause would entail. Just last night, President Trump
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