Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
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Wednesday briefing: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons; Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy; Prince Harry tabloid settlement; winter storm; and more
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| 0:00.0 | They've served years in jail, and if you look at the American public, the American public is tired of it. |
| 0:10.5 | President Donald Trump defended his decision to pardon nearly 1,600 Capitol rioters. |
| 0:17.5 | That's where we're starting the 7 from the Washington Post. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Wednesday, |
| 0:22.6 | January 22nd. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Yesterday, Trump gave |
| 0:32.2 | the first news conference of his second term in office. He defended his grants of clemency to January 6th rioters |
| 0:40.5 | who were convicted of assaulting police officers and of seditious conspiracy against the U.S. |
| 0:46.5 | He called the sentences of the leaders of the far-right proud boys and oathkeepers groups |
| 0:51.7 | ridiculous and excessive, and he dodged a question about his decision |
| 0:56.3 | to pardon a man who drove a stun gun into a police officer's neck. The response from Republicans |
| 1:02.2 | to these pardons has been strikingly muted. Several senators even came out in support of the move. |
| 1:08.7 | Trump's pardons have alarmed experts who say they could breathe new life into extremist |
| 1:13.6 | movements. |
| 1:14.6 | Earlier yesterday, Trump attended a prayer service at Washington National Cathedral. |
| 1:19.6 | It was the last of his inauguration events. |
| 1:22.6 | Episcopal Church Bishop Marianne Buddy made a direct appeal to the president on behalf of immigrants and LGBTQ people. |
| 1:31.1 | In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country. |
| 1:39.9 | We're scared now. |
| 1:43.1 | There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. |
| 1:52.6 | Some who fear for their lives. |
| 1:56.1 | Trump didn't speak at the service. |
| 1:58.2 | But this morning on social media, he demanded an apology from Buddy. |
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