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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump Hits the Road to Counter Affordability 'Hoax'

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

President Trump kicks off a tour looking to shore up his messaging on affordability, which he still calls a "Democrat hoax" ... Chuck Schumer describes as "very unsatisfying" his meeting with Pete Hegseth amid a bipartisan effort to release the video of the double-tap attack on an alleged drug boat ... Newly released bodycam video shows the moment police confronted Luigi Mangione just days after a health care CEO was shot and killed on a Manhattan sidewalk ... Ukraine's president is expected to send an updated peace proposal to US officials later today, as the White House pressures him to accept a deal soon, even if it means giving up land to Russia.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now, President Trump seems to be back in campaign mode as he kicks off a tour meant to shore up his messaging on affordability.

0:09.0

He still calls it a Democratic hoax.

0:12.0

Plus, very unsatisfying. That's how Senator Chuck Schumer describes a meeting with Defense Secretary Hegseth and other top national security officials,

0:20.0

as Democrats and Republicans demand that video of a deadly double-tack,

0:24.6

attack on an alleged drug boat be released. And then newly released body cam video showing the moment police confronted Luigi Mangione just days after a health care CEO was shot and killed on the Manhattan sidewalk.

0:38.3

Also, a plan for peace.

0:41.3

Ukraine's president is expected to send an updated proposal to the United States to U.S.

0:46.3

officials later today as the White House pressures him to accept a deal soon,

0:51.3

even if it means giving up land to Russia. Plus, a world first.

0:56.0

Australia now banned social media for kids under 16.

1:01.0

Could other countries follow suit?

1:03.0

And emergency landing.

1:05.0

A pilot searching for a safe place to land ends up on someone's car.

1:10.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

1:14.6

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. We begin with President Trump, strongly defending his economic record amid rising frustrations

1:31.3

at a campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania last night.

1:35.3

He tried to reassure anxious Americans that the U.S. economy is healthy and talked up lower prices

1:41.3

and bigger paychecks under his administration.

1:45.0

But as the White House's record faces mounting attacks from Democrats and a lot of unease,

1:50.0

even from Republicans, the President's affordability message quickly gave way to a long list

1:56.0

of profane insults and grievances.

2:00.0

We had a meeting, and I say, why is it we only take people from

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