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What Biden is leaving Trump

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

President Biden today announced a hostage and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the war in Gaza. This comes as Biden is making a string of policy decisions to make it harder for the incoming administration to undo his legacy. We’ll explain. And, when the world feels like too much, how do we cope? Plus, a touching photo essay that zooms in on the work of hospice nurses makes us smile.

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0:00.0

Mm-hmm.

0:01.1

My goodness.

0:03.5

My goodness.

0:06.3

Hey, everybody. I'm Kyle. Rizel. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today make sense.

0:11.6

And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. It's January the 15th.

0:16.2

Halfway. If you can believe it. Today, we're going to do some news and some smiles. We will start with the news. Kimberly Adam, do you get to go first because I am newsless for reasons which I will explain later.

0:26.0

There's so much happening. That's my point. Obviously, there's been breaking news today about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which, thank goodness, because what a tragedy that's been going on there. The details are

0:40.0

still coming out. I'm sure it's going to be everywhere, but I just wanted to flag it in the context

0:45.3

of what Biden is kind of leaving for Trump. And it reminds me, and I guess it's top of mind because

0:51.8

Carter recently died, you know, Carter sort of negotiating that

0:55.7

hostage agreement on the way out and a lot of the things that sank his own presidency, um, ended up

1:03.2

being a boon for the next administration. And you have some very similar parallels here, you know,

1:09.4

negotiating the release of some hostages. Um, and, you know, negotiating the release of some hostages and, you know,

1:14.2

the economy being in much better shape and, you know, some of the issues around the border,

1:20.4

kind of getting under control that is in many ways these were very damaging things for Biden

1:27.2

and then Harris as she was running,

1:29.5

but are now kind of improving in a way that will be a boon to President-elect Trump as he comes into office.

1:38.9

And there have been a couple of really interesting stories in the New York Times and elsewhere

1:43.2

about all of these sort of last minute executive orders and laws being, bills being signed into law that Biden is trying to do to put some guardrails around the incoming Trump administration or at least attempt to make it harder to undo his legacy.

2:03.5

So, you know, this idea about the ban on coastal drilling that Biden announced last week, you know, can Trump undo it?

2:11.2

Sure, but it'll be a hassle. It'll take some time. Creating new national monuments, the U.S. steel stuff, Ukraine, extra funding, tons of things that

2:23.3

it's interesting. They're trying to tie the hands of the Trump administration with paperwork

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