Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 08:04)
Advice and Consent: Why Do Some Presidential Appointees Require Senate Confirmation?

Part II (08:04 - 19:27)
Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing: The Defense Hearing of Trump’s Choice as Secretary of Defense Gets Interesting Fast

Part III (19:27 - 23:55)
The Disappearing Middle of American Media Consumption: The Major Shift of Viewership From Older Media to Social Media Influencers

Part IV (23:55 - 25:33)
A Look at the Adversary Press: The Media in Disagreement with Leadership in the White House Tends to Grow Its Base in Its Opposition

Part V (25:33 - 28:16)
The Left is Lawyering Up: President-Elect Trump is Not Afraid to Sue for Defamation, and It’s Destabilizing Liberal Media

News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From Trump by The New York Times (David Enrich and Katie Robertson)
New York Times v. Sullivan by The Supreme Court of the United States

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, January 15, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.3	Well, a very important process is now underway in the United States Senate.
0:18.3	Respective committees are going to be holding hearings for President
0:22.9	Trump's intended nominations for significant appointed positions that require Senate confirmation.
0:28.7	Most importantly, cabinet positions. And so you're looking at the Attorney General in the United
0:33.1	States, plus several secretaries, and this begins with some of the most important, including the hearings
0:38.5	that began yesterday for the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense,
0:44.1	and Pam Bondi as the next Attorney General of the United States.
0:48.6	Now, here's an interesting point.
0:50.5	These individuals are not yet actually, in a formal sense, nominees for these offices. They are not yet actually in a formal sense nominees for these offices they are not
0:56.6	yet appointees to these offices and that's because only a president of the united states can make
1:02.1	these appointments and that means that president trump president elect trump former president
1:07.0	trump about to enter a new term cannot officially make these nominations or appointments
1:12.3	until he assumes the office with the oath of office on inauguration day next week.
1:18.2	But nonetheless, over the course of the last several decades, the Senate has begun holding
1:22.8	these hearings in anticipation of a formal nomination, and especially when it comes to some of the most important
1:28.7	positions in the Cabinet, Attorney General and Secretary of Defense are very much on the front line
1:33.5	of that priority simply because of the needs of national defense and, of course, of law enforcement
1:39.0	and the regulation of law in the United States. So it's understandable why those positions came first. Today, in the
1:45.9	United States Senate, the respective committees will also be considering other nominees, including
1:51.0	for to Senator Marco Rubio, as the intended next Secretary of State of the United States.
1:57.6	As I said before, the Secretary of State has first among equals rank in the
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