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Donald Trump will become the 47th
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president of the United States I want to
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thank the American people for the
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extraordinary honor of being elected
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your 47th president and your 45th
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[Applause]
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president so I think we should start off
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by just saying what's happening and then
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my big question is going to be how
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should we be thinking about this we now
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know that Donald Trump is returning to
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the White House American voters have
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seen what Trump had to offer and at
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least a critical mass of them decided
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they want to do the same thing again I
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called up some colleagues at Vox to ask
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what we should be making of this moment
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and I ended up spending a long time
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talking to Zach I'm Zach beum I'm a
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senior correspondent at Vox Zack writes
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about reactionary Politics the rightwing
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basically and the thing that he really
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wanted me to understand is that even
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though the outcome of this election is
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the same as the 2016 election the Trump
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who is about to become president is
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different Donald Trump is much more
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organized he knows what he's doing has a
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series of distinct policy objectives
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that he's reiterated again and again it
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will be in a lot of ways fundamentally
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different than what we all lived through
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4 years
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ago lock up the bbes lock up
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Hillary lock up the first time Trump was
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President he wanted to do all sorts of
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very controversial things and a lot of
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times he didn't actually end up doing
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them one big example is wanting his
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critics and political opponents to be
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prosecuted he was constrained by other
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parts of the political system the guard
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rails of democracy I'm Andrew proo I
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cover Politics the guard rails Encompass
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first Congress and the courts but also
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within the executive branch you have
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Trump's own appointees for top positions
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who often last time around proved
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unwilling to carry out some of the
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things he wanted to do then you also
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have the permanent Civil Service career
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employees that he can't fire at will
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first of all the courts have grown more
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conservative and more Trump friendly
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since he put three of his own appointees
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in the Supreme Court Congressional
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Republicans have grown much more prot
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Trump trump and the people around him
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want hardcore magga true belie bels
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Staffing the government who will not
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have these pesky qualms about legality
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or ethics or things like that and
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regarding the Civil Service Trump wants
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to use an executive order to reclassify
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thousands of people with civil service
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protections against firing as political
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appointees who he can fire to then put
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in a lot of magga loyalists in their
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place instead he's had four years to
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basically stew over you you know what he
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didn't get to do last time and uh what
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um he would do differently if he was
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given another chance and now he will
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seemingly get that
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chance we're going to have the largest
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deportation in the history of our
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country the Mantra that Trump had on the
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border on 2016 was build the wall that
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was his centerpiece of his immigration
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platform that sort of changed over the
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course of his presidency and
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increasingly he wanted to turn his
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intention not to the Border but to the
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interior of the US the undocumented
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population here I'm Nicole Mara and I
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cover politics and immigration for Vox
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under Biden there were record levels of
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people arriving on the border we've seen
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those numbers come down significantly in
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2024 but when Americans are pulled large
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portions of them say that they want Mass
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deportations they might be thinking
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about people being deported immediately
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after they arrive on the border um but
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that's not what Trump's contemplating
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he's trying to go into communities
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across the US and and we're talking
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about people who have lived here you
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know for years and decades that would
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sort of involve huge investments in in
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law enforcement and also the cooperation
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of local law enforcement agencies which
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I'm not sure we would see necessarily in
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Democratic states but let's say in
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States like Texas in Florida certainly
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you might find law enforcement willing
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to cooperate with Federal immigration
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authorities
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there a landmark decision in American
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history as it relates to Presidential
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Power when Trump initially took office
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the median vote on the Supreme Court was
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a moderate conservative someone who
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would draw the line somewhere then Trump
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appointed a third of the United States
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Supreme Court I'm Ian milhiser I cover
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the Supreme Court at Fox trumpy United
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States is the decision that came down
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last July concerning special prosecutor
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Jack Smith's um indictment of trump for
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trying to steal the 2020 presidential
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election ction Trump made this really
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outlandish argument that he could not be
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charged with the crime for any official
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acts he committed while President pretty
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much everyone thought that that argument
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was silly and ridiculous and there was
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no chance that the court would ever
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adopt it and then all six of the
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Republican justices adopted it what that
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decision said it said that Donald Trump
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is immune from Criminal prosecution for
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crimes that he commits using the
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official powers of office Trump is
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allowed to give any any order he wants
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to the Department of Justice the basic
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matter is just that anything he does can
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potentially be beyond the scope of the
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criminal justice
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process more than 40,000 Palestinians
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killed since the October 7th Hamas
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Massacre right now the situation on the
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ground in Gaza is an extraordinary
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humanitarian crisis and a moral stain on
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the United States uh for enabling so
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much of this to happen happen but it can
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always get worse Trump has a blank check
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approach to Israel he and his advisers
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don't believe in any of the even feeble
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restraints that the Biden administration
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had put on Israeli conduct there are
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factions inside the Israeli government
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that have different visions of how to
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conduct the war the extreme right on
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netanyahu's flank people like bezel
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smotrich and itamar benir believe that
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Trump will let them do what they want
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based on what he said what his advisers
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say and what his political Coalition at
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home wants are you on board with the way
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the IDF is taking the fight to GA in
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Gaza you've got to finish the problem
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these people have a maximalist vision of
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what they want the war to be actually
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seizing and taking Gaza for Israel and
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returning to settlement right to
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rebuilding Israeli outposts moving
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Israeli Jewish citizens in to make sure
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that its control over the area never
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slips that would mean not just temporary
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eviction of gazin from their homes and
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their cities which would be bad enough
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it would mean creating a massive
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permanent Refugee population outside of
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Gaza in the West Bank we can only
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imagine previous American position has
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been you shall not under any
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circumstances Annex parts of the West
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Bank it would be Israel declaring in
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essence its willingness to rule over the
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Palestinians in perpetuity what I do
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know for sure is that a trump
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Administration would do nothing to
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punish them for
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it okay let's make this quick I'm Adam I
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produced this video I think it is fair
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to say this is a historic moment and one
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thing it shows is that we truly do not
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know uh what the future holds in these
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next four years journalism is going to
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be important uh things will be confusing
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thanks Trump declared he would veto a
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National Abortion ban if he's reelected
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Trump winning the presidency is not good
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for abortion rights I mean he's been out
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there claiming that he's the father of
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IVF that he's going to be great for
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women's rights but he surrounds himself
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with lots of people who absolutely you
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know do not have that as their goal I'm
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Rachel Cohen I cover social policy at
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Vox and I've been really focused on
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abortion rights for the last two and a
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half years since R was overturned
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something that has been confusing for
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voters is that I don't think we're going
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to see a federal ban coming out of
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Congress the biggest way that Trump
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could I think use his executive power to
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restrict abortion rights is to push for
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the enforcement of the comto act on the
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federal level the comto Act was this law
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passed in 1873 and among other things it
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banned mailing anything associated with
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abortion when the Supreme Court
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legalized abortion Nationwide the comto
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Act was rendered moot it didn't matter
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anymore but Congress never actually
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repealed it now that row has been
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overturned you have a bunch of
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conservatives including jdance who are
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saying now is the time actually to
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enforce this zombie law that's been on
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the books for decades that people forgot
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about and we should ban anything
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associated with abortion from being sent
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in the mail so that could include not
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only abortion pills which are used in
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the majority of abortions in the US but
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it could also mean any medical equipment
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associated with you know surgical
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abortion like dilators or speculums that
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would effectively mean a nationwide ban
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on
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abortion some might say it's economic
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nationalism I call it common sense the
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thing about tariffs is that the
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president has a lot of unilateral
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authority to impose them without
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congress's will I'm Eric Levitz and I
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write about politics and policy a tariff
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is basically a tax on an imported good
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usually the producer passes on the cost
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of that tax to Consumers um by charging
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higher prices to compensate for the tax
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Trump's signature proposal on tariffs in
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the 2024 campaign was a 10% tariff on
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All Foreign imports regardless of what
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country they come from and regardless of
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of what kind of good it is which
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includes things that the United States
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cannot possibly produce there's no tax
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that you can put on foreign coffee beans
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that will make it possible to grow them
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in New England the general consensus
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from economists is that this is going to
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significantly increase prices for
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Americans as well as actually
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potentially undermining American
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manufacturing I think that in general
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voters tend to be sympathetic to any
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protectionist trade policy but I think
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that in practice as we've seen in the
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Biden years voters are very sensitive to
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increases in consumer prices on the
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other hand though this is something that
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Trump really genuinely seems to believe
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and hold as a as a core economic
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principle really since the late 1980s we
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let Japan come in and dump everything
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right into our markets and everything
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it's not free trade put a 25% tax on
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Products that come into the United
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States so that means that Trump
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plausibly could enact this tariff even
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if a majority of republicans in Congress
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do not want him
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[Music]
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to it's time to put the divisions of the
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past four years behind us it's time to
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unite and we're going to try we're going
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to try we have to try in any democratic
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system of government you need
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nonpartisan civil servants whose job it
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is to follow and implement the law a lot
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of that stuff is technical from National
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Parks Administration to the way the
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defense department has run to the way
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that we um protect and store our nuclear
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weapons Trump doesn't like this neutral
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rules of governance obstruct his ability
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to govern like a kind of machine
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politician who uses government as a
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tools of rewarding his friends and
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punishing his enemies that's why he
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hates what he calls the Deep State
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demolish the Deep State obliterate the
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Deep State dismantle the Deep State we
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could be in a world where very swiftly
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because there are no legislative
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guardrails against this what if the IRS
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is now a fully political agency and
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audits start coming in along political
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lines businesses or media organizations
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that are critical of trump start being
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harassed using the tax code as a means
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of punishing them think about everything
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that you rely on government to do and
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now imagine those tasks being bent
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towards political
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ends Donald Trump is going to be the
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next president of the United States
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again and this time around we'll make
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the first time look like Child's Play
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