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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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Tuesday briefing: Trump’s inauguration speech and executive orders; presidential pardons; winter storm; Ohio State; and more
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0:00.0 | I was saved by God to make America great again. |
0:06.6 | Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. President. |
0:11.1 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:14.0 | I'm Christina Quinn in for Hannah Jewel. |
0:16.3 | It's Tuesday, January 21st. |
0:18.6 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
0:23.6 | Number one. Donald Trump kicked off his second term in the White House with a campaign-style speech. |
0:30.7 | Yesterday's inauguration ceremony was unusual in many ways. For the first time since 1985, it took place indoors because of the brutal |
0:39.4 | cold in Washington, D.C. And Trump's inaugural address |
0:43.2 | was also not from the standard playbook. Many |
0:46.2 | incoming presidents have used this speech to call for unity |
0:49.5 | and set an optimistic tone. Trump instead painted a |
0:53.4 | portrait of a nation badly in need of rescue. |
0:57.2 | My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal |
1:04.2 | and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, |
1:13.0 | their wealth, their democracy, |
1:15.5 | and indeed their freedom. |
1:18.2 | From this moment on, |
1:20.7 | America's decline is over. |
1:27.4 | Elsewhere in the speech, Trump railed against what he called an invasion of criminal migrants |
1:32.7 | across the border. He attacked the Justice Department for alleged weaponization against him, |
1:38.4 | and he said the federal government was too inept to properly handle natural disasters. |
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