as we discuss and break down what's been happening and why. we're here in studio today, myself and courtney subramanian isjust so much happening that we didn't want to risk our down and have a chat, isn't it? it's story after story brenda, isn't it? it is. i mean, i've only...| can only compare it to biden, of incredible to me. i mean, just how many stories come out every single day out

of every single time he speaks, you know, there's multiple storylines that come out. yeah. and comparing it to the last trump presidency, the first couple of weeks were less about policy and action but this is literally executive order and action and action. and of course, this week absolutely dominated by the horrific tragedy, that mid—air collision just down the road from us here over the potomac and really thrust and crisis where the nation is really looking for

of consoler—in—chief position that the president is often in during a moment of national tragedy. but for trump, i felt actually it not necessarily as a president offering his opinions on what we have a full investigation on what the actual cause was, and going as far as to blaming some of his predecessors, biden

but he's really doubled down on that. towards making those political points, because he came very prepared to the press conference yesterday. i was. and, you know, ithink there was a kind of a sense but he came prepared. you know, he had remarks prepared. he had an old...he was reading from an old faa website about hiring practices. to use current events.

was the crash, to kind of reinforce some of the points making is not something he started talking about yesterday. it's something he started talking about on the campaign trail. and then, you know, on onjanuary 20th but i think it was telling how quick he was to pivot already been kind of making. and there was quite, i thought, a tight relationship with him yesterday, sean duffy and pete hegseth, weren't they, praising president trump it was and i think it's interesting, you know, really for an audience of one.

leadership, we've responded to this crisis very well. so it was very much focussed on trump before they spoke about, you know, the possible possible causes of this and, in the past and pivoted to that dei point. it started with trump first, which i thought was quite the other thing that struck me was there's been so much conversation about these dei, to people who may not have had access there before. and they've been incredibly successful. of the standards or anything like that. order the previous week specifically about the federal aviation agency. but another specific one about ending these

sorts of policies. i told you there was action here. we don't know anything. what happened in this crash yet? to hearfrom the president of the united states, commander in chief, you know, who is blaming, you know, his own military and the policies of of of his own federal government at a moment that should be trying to figure out what exactly happened and how this can be prevented in the future. yeah, i thought it was... it was quite jarring, when he gave those remarks, it was quite jarring, really, because, i mean, really, because, i mean, especially yesterday especially yesterday when he gave those remarks, they're very much, even today,

they're still kind of looking for remains in the river, for him to take that political point, i thought just shows that he's still to a certain extent, even though he does seem to be come in, came in more prepared than in his previous administration. he still works on instinct. you know, he...| mean, it was almost reflexive for him to turn this into a political point rather than, you know, wait for the investigation to happen before he commented on what may or may not have happened. it was almost kind of he just went with it to a certain extent, which i think shows, you know, a lot about his personality, which is, you know, kind of hearkens back to the first administration. it's something we saw many times that he spoke, and then everything kind of followed after that rather than, you know, things happening and then him reacting to them. it's interesting you mentioned the families because it feels like the whole conversation has moved very fast on from

on to the politics of it all, and not even the dei stuff, but, you know, should all of these flights have been it feels like in some of the commentary. yeah. and this isn't the first time. right? of course, that he has employed, you know, if we look back to earlier this month, which feels like a year ago. but the california wildfires, too, he, you know, he raised issue about, dei and, you know, blaming the democrats and, you know, california being a democrat run state,

right? and you're right. a moment to reflect on, you know, the victims and, surrounding the incident. all the details and we still are waiting, yeah. and it will be a while. to a year to get the final report from the national it was a passenger plane, but it was a military helicopter as well. investigation into that side of things.

i mean, all the while, immigration is really still that main push of president trump. and actions have been about. and the department of defence now is going to be working potentially up to 30,000 migrants in guantanamo bay, pushback to that as well, hasn't it? there has. and it's not exactly a novel idea, because other in guantanamo bay. but the scale of it, i think, kind of caught a lot of people by surprise. in the us is about 40,000, and then you add another i mean, to be able to ramp up immigration raids

you know, they're having dea officers, for example, go after migrants. really been to do that. i mean, tom homan even said they promised shock and awe. and that's exactly what they've what they've done. they're not sending children to school. so i think it's having the exact effect that i think part of it too, you know, shock and awe is, is right on the money, but also just flooding to really, you know, push his messaging, tuning in to every little development with the

they got him elected. but, you know, it's a matter of messaging for this administration, understanding that some of these orders and that's following through on that, that campaign messaging that he had been pushing. it's interesting you mentioned the messaging because i think, you know, in karoline leavitt's briefings, the messaging is quite effective. individuals that have been caught up in these raids that, for example, today she started with, you know, so and so is a citizen of mexico. i think that really plays to the people in his supporters that were concerned about this.

and i think kind of the messaging is speaking thought this through. particularly about economic issues, to the population. this weekend as well. you can expect there'll probably be some more raids and something else going on there as well. they really like selling home. this is what i'm doing. yeah. they really pushed off

as long as they could. in the news is a day we've won. he was elected on immigration. this election, we've largely talked about it and so following through on some of those day one promises was was certainly the priority. and that he's made that clear over the last two weeks. and the other big promise that he had was around tariffs. not quite drill baby drill. but you know he'd talk about how tariffs was the most beautiful word in the english language that he was going to be the tariff king. and here we are as say it's friday night. 25% for goods coming

from canada and mexico. just in the last couple of minutes he's been for you as well. of these issues where he's promised he's going to do it. there hadn't been much formal notification we saw the markets tank once the announcement you know, the outgoing canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, that they're going to push back. and it's really the potential that it's the american people yes. from his first administration and we're learning now is that is on the paper, right?

about carve outs for oil. and he said, well, maybe we'll, and mexico to io%, right. there's going to be some of these back channel and obviously has huge implications for the american people, for the countries involved and their economies but i think we still don't entirely know what exactly there's going to be tariffs on until we see the paperwork. of classic donald trump. tactic, i guess one could call it is to be unpredictable. so like courtney said, i don't think we know but i think, you know, having that message out there in his eyes is, you know, perhaps giving him leverage.

i also think, i mean, if this does happen tomorrow, i think that'll be kind of one of the first major tests of the white house is how they explain to americans, because that was one thing he campaigned on. because today, when the white house was asked about that, they didn't really offer much in terms of answers, in terms of how this will impact american people and businesses. and of course, in his first term, there was this tit and the eu responded. who will be involved in these tariffs. and he said, you know, he doesn't, and president trump doesn't

favour singular product tariffs that they favour big blanket bans because they're more used on a short—term basis to get what they want, of what we saw at the weekend with colombia as well. yeah, i think i mean, that's again, part of his of sweeping generalisations about tariff everything. on his campaign promise. i mean, he said, you know, there's no, like you said, there's no more beautiful word than tariffs. explain the minutia of a tariff on a particular good. and the one thing you mentioned, catriona, you know, i think is really important is timeline. would it be a matter of days or will it be and then we start looking at disruptions to supply chain,

right? and consumer prices and it really hurting the us economy. so i do think timing also is an element here of, tariffs and whether they'll be, you know, there's a long term effect there. the economy and everything else so far. press briefing. i mean, it's similar in a way, to what they did the first time the norm in recent times. and substance and the amount of interest. three briefings this week, the two with karoline leavitt and the one with

president trump yesterday. i mean, there's 49 seats in there. and then, you know, i thought it was interesting because i never felt that in the biden administration that karine jean—pierre was kind of performing for biden first. biden's message across. for an audience of one, the entire time. and i think she was quite effective in terms of getting you know, she's been getting rave reviews from his supporters. you can come out of those briefings going, oh, i didn't learn anything.

voices in there. how's that going to work? yeah, no, it's something i'm... board, and it's something that we have talked about over the last few months. we've talked with the administration about. ideas about what the briefing room would look like and decided that they wanted to introduce a new media seat, which ultimately means, you know, giving access to podcasters, and more new media outlets. which is hardly, you know, something we would call a podcaster. been around many, many years. yes, exactly. he's been around.

brought back, you know, new life into the briefing room because people are interested. again, as bernd mentioned, it was wall to wall. and i think part of that was the uncertainty and we saw that this week. did during the covid briefings. he would come to the briefing room and hold court for a couple hours at a time. he would do it at like 6pm. so, you know, that is one thing that i think is, she's calling on different news organisations. organisations that is tradition in the briefing room.

which is to be welcomed. i mean, especially, you know, not working for one of the us broadcasters. it has at times been very difficult during the obama and biden administrations to get a question. whereas during trump's first administration and now bringing in other voices, having other perspectives, having other questions is to be welcomed. would that be the concern? everyone�*s interested in. yes, absolutely. i mean, i think they're... they can grant a hard that's at the discretion of the white house.

you know, in its standing is doing itsjob is, you know, the president in the way that they have been traditionally. then, you know, we're 0k. you'll be in there elbowing your way through. the last two weeks is how accessible he is himself, which almost kind of takes kind of the onus away from the press briefings to a certain extent. i mean, on last friday alone, he stopped and took questions from reporters, him personally, five times in one day. wow. today he did it in the oval office again. and yesterday he gave that press briefing. and, you know, that was i mean, frankly, much more. i saw him answer more questions in his first week and i think that's something that the white house is itself very proud of.

this is going to be the most transparent administration in history, just because of the amount of access with the president. i think that's kind of a big departure, at least on the campaign trail. ifeel like time and again, we're saying the president said he would do this. at the. . . it's not fully his second week until monday. and we will continue to do that every week. so, thanks, guys for being here, stopping by for a chat. thanks for having us. thanks so much to you for watching as well.

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