Trump Holds First Press Conference Since Election
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:45.0 | Fort Riley, Kansas. |
| 0:47.0 | Not too far from where I grew up. |
| 0:49.6 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Sarah McCammon. |
| 0:51.8 | I cover politics. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm Frank Ordonez. |
| 0:54.0 | I cover the White House. And I'm Mara Liason, |
| 0:55.4 | senior national political correspondent. Earlier today, President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference |
| 1:00.8 | at his Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida, his first such event since winning the 2024 |
| 1:06.1 | presidential race. We're going to talk about some of the big takeaways today. Franco, let's start |
| 1:12.3 | with immigration. What did Trump say about what he has planned there? Did we get any further insight? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, I mean, he basically doubled down on threats to launch a trade war against Mexico and Canada, |
| 1:24.5 | essentially over his claims of the number of migrants that are arriving from the |
| 1:30.3 | south and northern borders. I mean, he said it before, and he said again that he'd impose |
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