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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann discuss whether Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for secretary of defense, can make it through the nomination process. Plus, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are on Capitol Hill touting their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – but how much power will they really have?

Then, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter last weekend. Does that represent a final departure from the norms Biden promised to uphold?

And who's really president right now? President Biden is on a foreign trip, but Capitol Hill and foreign leaders are all focused on Trump.

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0:00.0	We got this. We got to do this.
0:04.0	Make America great again. How can you be against?
0:08.4	We are not going back.
0:14.5	Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, and I am here today with James Homan and Rhonda Colvin.
0:24.7	We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday and it's so good to see both of you.
0:28.7	We've been away for only two weeks, which already in this new Trump era feels like a millennia or something.
0:36.3	Welcome back.
0:37.3	Rhonda, I'm so relieved you made it back from Ohio
0:39.1	and all the snow. Yes. Those who are in Ohio and in the Great Lakes region have like feet
0:45.3	that they are shoveling out of their driveways right now. And an Alberta Clipper that just came
0:50.2	and added more snow. So winter is certainly there in Ohio. And I was able to get back, though.
0:55.5	I had a small window to drive back.
0:58.2	A good burden helped you out?
0:59.5	Yes, I got stuck, even though I have, you know, four-wheel drive.
1:02.9	And I'm usually able to, you know, drive well in Ohio.
1:06.4	That's where I'm from.
1:07.2	I know the landscape.
1:09.0	But no, it was really tough, actually. So my thoughts are with
1:12.9	the people up there because it is kind of, you know, it's hard to get groceries, you know, things
1:17.4	are closed. I mean, you say your family's home has like now is like seven feet of snow?
1:21.1	Yeah, when I left, it was about five. I mean, guys, that's like how tall I am. I'm like, how tall eye? I say it very, I'm like five something.
1:28.0	That's a Libby's worth of snow.
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