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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. Over the last few days, President Trump has repeatedly questioned the right to do process, a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution that protects people against arbitrary government actions. |
0:13.4 | The president's attacks come as the courts increasingly warned that the president is exceeding the scope of his authority. |
0:20.6 | Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has this report. |
0:24.4 | At an event today announcing Washington, D.C. as the host city for the 2027 NFL draft, |
0:30.7 | President Trump again doubted the need for due process under the Constitution. |
0:35.1 | It's a very difficult thing with the courts because the courts have all of a |
0:38.4 | sudden, out of nowhere, they said, maybe you have to have trials, trials. We're going to have |
0:45.3 | five million trials. Doesn't work. Doesn't work. You wouldn't have a country left. |
0:51.3 | Ramping up its pressure campaign today to get undocumented immigrants to flee the U.S. |
0:56.2 | The Homeland Security Department said they'll pay people $1,000 if they self-deport to their |
1:01.3 | home country voluntarily. |
1:03.0 | What we thought we'd do is the self-deport, where we're going to pay each one a certain |
1:07.1 | amount of money, and we're going to get them a beautiful flight back to where they |
1:11.9 | came from, and they have a period of time. |
1:15.2 | And if they make it, we're going to work with them so that maybe someday, with a little work, |
1:20.1 | they can come back in if they're good people. |
1:22.0 | The administration said it will also pay for travel assistance and deprioritized removal |
1:27.1 | by ICE for those who use the |
1:28.8 | CBP Home App to say they are leaving. On Sunday, in an interview on Meet the Press with Kristen |
1:34.0 | Welker, the president questioned whether he had to uphold the Constitution. Your Secretary of State |
1:39.9 | says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens deserve due process. Do you agree, Mr. President? |
1:44.8 | I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. Well, the Fifth Amendment says us much. |
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