Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The focus on nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court shows that what is at stake is less about whether people born in the U.S. are citizens and more about whether a circuit court can put a hold on a new rule for the entire country, or whether Donald Trump can assert his will in different regions of the U.S. if he finds friendly judges willing to indulge him, even if he is blocked in other parts of the country. Jen Psaki reports.

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0:00.0	It's pretty clear there are two very different worlds right now.
0:03.3	I mean, one world for Donald Trump and his family and his billionaire buddies and his cabinet secretaries too.
0:09.7	And the other for just about everybody else.
0:11.6	I mean, just take a look at some of these headlines.
0:13.9	Here's one.
0:14.8	It reads, Trump wants a new plane.
0:17.2	Now so does Homeland Security Secretary gnome.
0:20.4	I mean, who doesn't?
0:21.6	That's right.
0:22.0	It's not just Trump and his $400 million jet from Qatar, not just that one, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome.
0:28.8	He already has access to a Gulfstream jet paid for by the government, by the way.
0:33.0	She wants a new one.
0:34.5	Why wouldn't she?
0:35.9	A plane that a top Democratic lawmaker says would actually
0:38.7	cause the U.S. taxpayers roughly $50 million. So that's how Trump and Christy Noem think
0:45.6	they deserve to travel and navigate the skies. Now here's the headline from today that
0:50.6	applies to, I guess, the rest of us. Denver air traffic control went dark for
0:55.6	90 seconds. And here's another one. Newark Airport passengers warned of possible measles exposure by
1:02.8	New Jersey health officials. So Trump and Christy Noem are basically demanding new planes. And I guess,
1:09.8	I mean, the rest of us are just hoping we land
1:11.7	safely and also avoid infectious diseases in the process. That's, I guess, what's happening right now.
1:18.7	And then there are Trump's tariffs. ProPublica just broke the news that on the day Trump announced
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