Trump’s birthright citizenship comments
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump gave his first network television interview since the election, speaking with NBC's Kristen Welker for Meet The Press. During the interview, Trump said he would seek to end birthright citizenship, possibly through executive action, calling the practice “ridiculous” and saying the U.S. is the only country that grants the right. Legal experts doubt that the president has the power to curtail birthright citizenship, but Trump’s transition team has indicated it will attempt to do so as one of his first executive actions when he returns to office.
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| 1:00.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, This is Tangle. |
| 1:20.1 | Good morning. |
| 1:21.9 | Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some |
| 1:27.7 | independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's |
| 1:32.4 | episode, we're going to be talking about the birthright citizenship debate. That's right. Donald |
| 1:37.7 | Trump is pushing to end birthright citizenship. We're going to break down the history of that in the 14th |
| 1:43.5 | Amendment and share some arguments |
| 1:44.9 | about his proposal from across the political spectrum. |
| 1:48.9 | Before we do a couple of quick notes. |
| 1:50.4 | First of all, I want to shout out Will Kayback, our editor who manned the podcast yesterday, |
| 1:56.1 | Will sent me a note saying, you know, he lives in New York. |
| 2:00.3 | He had a lot of thoughts about this issue. |
| 2:02.1 | He had seen me write about it twice already. And he wanted to offer his thoughts about it to |
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