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PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 1/17/25

PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic - Full Show

Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden says goodbye to the nation with a warning, and Donald Trump is set to seal his status as the most dominant American political figure of the 21st century. Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News, Asma Khalid of NPR and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times to discuss this and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Joe Biden says goodbye to the nation, and Donald Trump cements his status as the most dominant American political figure of the 21st century.

0:08.9

On his way out, Biden warns Americans that the country is becoming an oligarchy.

0:13.3

And as if to underscore the point, joining Trump at the inauguration on Monday will be Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos.

0:21.6

Next.

0:26.6

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

0:29.6

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

0:32.6

Donald Trump has promised his fellow citizens a very busy Monday filled with executive orders

0:37.7

and radical course shifts.

0:39.7

What should we be paying attention to?

0:41.5

Joining me to answer that and other questions, McKay Coppins, my colleague and a staff

0:46.0

writer at The Atlantic.

0:47.7

Andrew Desiderio is a senior congressional reporter at Punch Bowl News.

0:51.9

Asma Khalid is a White House correspondent for NPR and a political contributor at ABC News.

0:57.6

And Zohen-Yung's is a White House correspondent at The New York Times.

1:02.4

Thank you all for being here, last show before inauguration.

1:07.5

So we're only a few very cold days away from Trump becoming president again.

1:12.1

And I have to ask, Zolan, let me ask you, the decision to move the inauguration inside,

1:19.5

that has to hurt a guy who really cares, as we know, about crowd size.

1:24.5

It's a tough pill to swallow, right?

1:26.0

I mean, look, about eight years till the day

1:29.9

when Sean Spicer came out and said one of the first,

1:34.0

for the first, one of the earliest times

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