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Erin Burnett OutFront

Trump Pauses Tariffs, Pulls Troops, Braces For More Epstein Docs

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Trump is facing mounting headwinds on some of his biggest priorities as he begins the second year of his presidency. Plus, backlash is growing against the Trump Kennedy Center as the Wicked composer who helped launch the center says he won’t even appear there.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Outfront next, President Trump facing mounting headwinds on some of his biggest priorities as he begins the second year of his presidency.

0:10.5

And tonight, some of his allies are raising concerns. He's lost focus.

0:14.9

Plus, the president insisting he is in perfect health after a bombshell new report from the Wall Street Journal raises serious questions

0:22.2

and one top Democrat calls for an investigation. And backlash is growing against the Trump Kennedy

0:28.2

Center as wicked composer Stephen Schwartz, who helped launch the Kennedy Center more than 50 years

0:33.1

ago, says tonight he won't even appear there. Let's go out front.

0:39.7

Good evening. I'm Brianna Keeler, and for Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, Trump's setbacks.

0:44.6

President Trump facing numerous headwinds on some of his key issues as he starts the second year of

0:49.9

his presidency tonight, tariffs, sending the National Guard into major U.S. cities, and health care,

0:55.9

as he still faces the ongoing Epstein-Files story, plus growing questions about his health,

1:01.9

which will have more on later in the show. Today, Trump making a very public plea to the Supreme

1:06.7

Court to keep his controversial tariffs in place, posting, quote, tariffs are an overwhelming benefit to our nation.

1:13.9

Losing our ability to tariff other countries who treat us unfairly would be a terrible blow to

1:18.9

the United States of America.

1:20.8

That's despite Trump himself backing down yet again on tariffs, announcing at the very

1:26.2

last minute that his self-imposed tariffs on furniture

1:29.0

and kitchen cabinets would be delayed a year. The Wall Street Journal hitting Trump with this

1:34.4

editorial, another Trump tariff retreat, which says rarely has a president worked so hard to cover

1:41.0

the damage from his policies without admitting it. Trump's tariff retreat

1:45.9

coming right after he stood down on another top agenda item announcing that he is polling

1:51.2

National Guard troops out of the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles. He still

1:57.7

plans to have troops in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Another thorny issue for Republicans tonight, health care.

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