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Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Congress

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Trump uses his political muscle to keep attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz on track for confirmation. Congressional Republicans ban the first transgender House member from using the women’s bathroom. And an E. coli outbreak prompts concern about organic carrots.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, November 21st, and defy Donald Trump at your own risk.

0:05.0

We start here.

0:06.0

Congressional Republicans agree to keep a report on Matt Gates sealed for now.

0:14.0

The Trump team is prepared to play hardball on this one.

0:18.0

President-elect Trump is using every piece of power he has to push this nomination through.

0:23.6

Meanwhile, the language hurled at transgender Americans is now hitting the halls of the Capitol.

0:28.6

I am proud to be a woman and today women won.

0:32.6

Is this common sense or cruelty?

0:34.6

Either way, one member is caught in the crossfire.

0:41.3

And the joke, What's Up Doc, stops being funny when you actually have to call your doctor.

0:44.1

Health officials are warning, clear your fridge and freezer.

0:49.3

Why are carrots being linked to an E. coli outbreak and doesn't matter that they're all organic.

0:54.6

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey.

0:59.2

We've always thought of Donald Trump as a fighter.

1:02.1

When he knows what he wants, he goes after it, it appears, by any means necessary.

1:06.0

And yet, there are hills he's not willing to die on.

1:09.9

This summer, he was campaigning for North Carolina

1:12.0

Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. This is Martin Luther King on steroids, okay, now. But when reports

1:18.9

came out claiming that Robinson had posted incendiary messages to a porn site, Trump just kind of

1:24.2

faded out of the picture. When Trump nominated the White House physician Ronnie Jackson to be Secretary of Veteran Affairs back during his first term,

1:32.2

and Jackson faced a raft of allegations of personal misconduct, Trump didn't swoop in to save him.

1:37.3

He withdrew that nomination.

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