Trump’s ‘Execution’ Post, Ukraine Peace Plan Backlash, AI Executive Order and more

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

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We begin with reactions to President Donald Trump’s social media post, calling for the execution of a group of Democrats over “seditious behavior.” The US-drafted peace plan for Ukraine would mean ceding territory to Russia. A judge has ruled on Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC. A state has voted to ban books about being transgender from the youth sections of public libraries. Plus, why a draft executive order on AI is raising concern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, from CNN. I'm Josh and Chana with the Five Things You Need to know for Friday, November 21st.
0:08.0	Just to be clear, does the president want to execute members of Congress?
0:12.0	No.
0:13.0	That's what a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, after President Donald Trump made a series of posts suggesting a group of Democrat
0:22.2	lawmakers should be put to death for, quote, seditious behavior.
0:26.7	It stems from a video made by six congressional Democrats telling military members and intelligence
0:31.7	officials that they don't have to follow orders if they are illegal.
0:35.6	The group all have some sort of military or national security background, and there's no
0:39.8	indication of what specifically led to the creation of the video.
0:43.4	The Posts caused a huge outcry from Democrats, and CNN's Kristen Holmes has more on
0:48.4	how the White House responded yesterday.
0:50.3	Leavitt was asked, does President Trump believe that these Democratic lawmakers should be executed?
0:57.1	She said no, but any other questions about this topic were deflected to essentially place blame
1:03.4	on the Democrats, saying that Democrats were telling the U.S. military to defy the commander-in-chief,
1:09.4	to work around the chain of command.
1:12.8	So it certainly seems as though this is now a White House position, but I will say we heard
1:17.3	from a number of Republicans, high-ranking Republicans who said President Trump went too far,
1:22.4	who tried to distance themselves from those remarks.
1:25.7	More news coming up, including details on the US's peace plan for Ukraine.
1:30.3	This episode is brought to you by Vanta.
1:35.3	Security and compliance done wrong is a headache.
1:38.3	Done right, you build trust and grow faster.
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