What to expect from Trump’s address to Congress
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And for more on the president's address to a joint session of Congress tonight, let's bring in our White House correspondent, Larborough-Nopez, and our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin, both of them on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:11.7 | Laura, let's begin with you. Give us a preview of what we should expect to hear from President Trump tonight. |
| 0:17.4 | Omna, we expect President Trump to address this ongoing effort to strike a peace deal between |
| 0:23.6 | Ukraine and Russia. |
| 0:24.6 | Now, one thing to watch for is whether or not President Trump decides to continue to criticize |
| 0:29.1 | Ukraine. |
| 0:30.1 | The president in the past has repeatedly said that Ukraine started the war, which is false. |
| 0:35.1 | And the other thing that we're watching for is how he talks about his deportation plan. |
| 0:39.9 | That is something that is expected to be a part of his speech. |
| 0:42.0 | The president has been frustrated with the pace of deportations by his administration. |
| 0:46.5 | And Bordersar Tom Homan, the president's Borders are said today that the administration |
| 0:50.5 | needs more money from Congress for flights and for beds to carry out |
| 0:54.4 | their deportation plan. |
| 0:56.0 | The president is also expected to continue his attacks on transgender people as he moves |
| 1:00.8 | to roll back rights for them across the states. |
| 1:03.2 | This is a population that represents roughly less than 1% of the American public. |
| 1:07.7 | Omna, and all those themes, those policies are represented in the guests that |
| 1:12.4 | the president has invited tonight, which include the mother and sister of Lake and Riley, a young |
| 1:17.1 | female nursing student who was killed by an undocumented immigrant. And the president has also |
| 1:22.2 | invited January Little John, a mother from Florida, who alleged that her kids' school allowed her daughter to socially |
| 1:29.4 | transition without her parental consent. At the time, the school's guidelines allowed this, |
| 1:35.0 | and she sued the school district, but ultimately a federal judge dismissed that. |
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