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We’re Still Ready: Trump’s First 100 Days with Cecillia Wang

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4.8585 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We talk a lot on At Liberty about knowing our rights, but since Donald Trump returned to office, where do those rights stand? This week, the ACLU’s National Legal Director Cecillia Wang joins Kamau to make sense of Trump’s first 100 days, from the more than 140 executive orders he signed to the more than 100 legal actions the ACLU has filed since January. Plus, listeners share their questions on immigration rights, freedom of speech, and how we can stay prepared for what’s ahead. This episode was executive produced by Jessica Herman Weitz and Gwen Schroeder for the ACLU, and W. Kamau Bell, Kelly Rafferty, PhD, and Melissa Hudson Bell, PhD for Who Knows Best Productions. It was recorded at Skyline Studios in Oakland, CA. Our senior executive producer is Sam Riddell. At Liberty is edited and produced by Erica Getto and Myrriah Gossett for Good Get.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's me, W. Kamau Bell. Welcome back to the ACLU's podcast at Liberty. This show is our chance to ask the big questions on the big issues affecting our big country. And especially we want to know about how these issues are affecting our hardest hit and most vulnerable communities. And I say our, because even though I got a mic, I know you got questions too.

0:23.6

Thankfully, we've got a growing task force of ACLU experts to help guide us.

0:30.6

Last episode, we learned all about data privacy and what to do if Border Patrol agents seize your phone. That's the kind of question

0:38.9

that's on the top of many people's minds, especially since Trump took office. Same goes for

0:43.0

what are we supposed to do if ICE agents show up at our kids' schools? Or are we allowed to have

0:48.6

a pride flag on our company's website? We talk a lot in the show about knowing our rights,

0:53.5

but do we really have

0:54.5

those rights anymore? In his first 100 days back in office, Trump signed more than 140

1:01.5

executive orders, more than any other president in this time frame. And he's had more than

1:07.1

a hundred prior presidential orders revoked. Also in the hundreds, the number of legal actions that the ACLU has filed since January.

1:15.6

Say it with me, ACLU, ACLU, ACLU, ACLU.

1:21.6

Look, there's been a lot of changes in a short period of time.

1:26.6

And today we're going to take stock of all of it.

1:29.3

All right, let's take a breath.

1:32.3

You got this, and the ACLU's got you.

1:37.3

Now let's get into it.

1:40.3

Cecilia Wong is the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, also known as the ACLU.

1:47.0

Me and Cecilia have talked many times before.

1:51.0

We spoke in February from our inaugural episode as the official host of At Liberty, and I'm so happy to have her back on the show today.

1:58.0

I really think of her as my co-host.

2:00.0

She would be the host of this

2:01.0

show, but she's too busy trying to, you know, save the country. Anyway, hey, how's it going,

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