cnn's senior white house reporter, kevin liptak is joining us now. kevin, obviously, this rally is still ongoing. we see the big sign behind you. no tax on tips. what else are we hearing from the president yeah, he did just get to that subject in this speech. >> he's about 25 minutes into his rally here. the ostensible subject was that promise he made on the campaign trail, which was to eliminate taxes on tips. but what we've really heard the president doing in this rally is taking a victory lap of sorts, both for his presidential election win, which was helped in part by his victory here in nevada, but also running through the actions that he's taken in his first week in office and really trying to show this room of supporters, we're inside of a casino here, that he was serious about fulfilling what he said he would do as a candidate, ranging from things like immigration, a crackdown on immigration, but also, in his words, getting rid of all that woke crap, all of these items that he's been doing since taking office through executive action. of cours

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i'd like to bring in now cnn's senior white house reporter, kevin liptak. kevin. i mean, this has been a pretty busy first few days for the administration. what is expected today there where you are. >> yeah. you've really seen president trump test the bounds of his executive authority in so many areas to start reshaping the federal government to his will, trying to execute on some of the promises he made as a candidate on the campaign trail. and you have seen that continue all the way up until the end of this week, including overnight, this news that the white house had ordered the firings of these inspectors general at more than a dozen federal agencies. these are individuals tasked with investigating waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government. the white house telling them that because of changing priorities, their positions were terminated. its already drawn a backlash on capitol hill, including from the republican senator chuck grassley, who's questioning whether this act is actually legal. so you are already starting to see president trump really go

i'd like to bring in now cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak kevin, we're just getting word that oath keeper founder, stewart rhodes will be attending that event yeah, that's right. >> and you'll remember president trump on his very first day in office, commuted the sentence of roads in a number of other participants in the january 6th attack. that was in addition to the blanket pardons for the riders. on that day, he was released from prison. he was serving an 18 year sentence for seditious conspiracy, and i just asked him if he plans to meet with president trump while he's here. he said he would like to if he got the chance to thank him for releasing him from prison. and it just i think goes to show one of the many examples that president trump took this week to fulfill the promises he made as a candidate. he really worked with speed as soon as he took office, really to try and reshape the federal government with a degree of sophistication that you really didn't see during his first term. his officials and president trump himself now know how to pull the levers of power in

i'd like to bring in now cnn's senior white house reporter, kevin liptak kevin, a pretty busy first week. we're not even in the first full week for the trump administration and busy there from las vegas. but today really is going to be about hearing from his supporters, thanking them for his support and what else. >> yes. and this is really the president's first trip out into the country to talk to some of the people who helped elect him into the white house. and i think that has been a real theme of his first week in office, is trying to demonstrate to his most ardent fans that he is doing exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail. when you look at the scope of the actions that the president has taken over the last week or so, you really do see an attempt to reshape the federal government to his will, whether it's in staffing and personnel, things like ordering federal workers back to the workforce or whether it's purging employees from various departments and agencies like those inspectors general, you do see the president really testing the bounds of his executive authori

i'd like to bring in now cnn's senior white house reporter, kevin liptak. kevin, the president is going to speak to his supporters shortly. what do we know? >> yeah, well, the ostensible topic is that promise he made no tax on tips. obviously, trump events have a way of taking on a life of their own, but certainly he does want to talk about all these promises that he made his supporters on the campaign trail, which he has now started to fulfill now that he has entered office using his executive authority, reshaping the federal government, reshaping federal personnel, going after immigration in a very hard line way. but this is an issue, the taxes issue, that he will have to work with congress. and so it's not an area he can necessarily exert. his executive privilege. congress this year will have to rewrite tax policy once trump's 2017 tax cuts expire. and so this is an issue that will come up over the next year. as you mentioned, this is a promise he made first here in nevada on the campaign trail. obviously, this is a state with a high number of hospitality

. >> let's go now to cnn's kevin liptak for more. >> president trump used his event here in las vegas as a victory lap, both in his victory in last year's presidential election, fueled in part by his win here in nevada, but also a victory lap of his first week in office. discussing all of the executive actions that he said acted as fulfillment of the promises he made on the campaign trail. now, this speech was ostensibly meant to discuss trump's promise to eliminate taxes on tips, and he did talk about that. but it took him about 25 minutes into his speech before he arrived at that subject. he said that he was preparing to work with members of congress to write new tax policy, as his 2017 tax cuts prepare to expire, he will need to work with members of congress to write new tax code. and he said that this plan to eliminate taxes on tips would be a part of that. listen to what he said. >> i'll be working with congress to get a bill on my desk that cuts taxes for workers, families, small businesses, and very importantly, keeps my promise for a thing called. and i know you didn't hear an

kevin liptak cnn, las vegas. >> all right, kevin, thank you. and two more of the president's cabinet nominees were sworn in on saturday. pete hegseth was sworn in as the secretary of defense. and after vice president jd vance had to cast a tie breaking vote to get him confirmed. >> and kristi noem is now the homeland security secretary. she took the oath of office hours after a bipartisan senate vote this week. three of the president's more controversial picks will face senate committees. cnn's andy gray reports on what is ahead. >> well, ammar and victor this week is going to be another jam packed week for senators as they seek to rapidly confirm the rest of donald trump's cabinet. rfk, who's trump's pick to lead the department of health and human services, has hearings on both wednesday and thursday in front of two different committees. tulsi gabbard will also be back on capitol hill on thursday. gabbard is trump's controversial pick to be the top the nation's top intelligence official. and then you have kash patel, who's trump's pick to lead

cnn's kevin liptak is at the white house for us this morning. kevin, more executive orders on the way. we hear. >> yeah, that's right. sara, the new trump presidency now about 19 hours old president trump waking up in that building behind me for the first time in four years. and already we're getting a good window into what the next four years will look like. president trump, wielding his executive power in unprecedented fashion, really testing the bounds of his presidential powers, ranging from the highly symbolic like renaming some geographic landmarks to the highly consequential, like those blanket pardons for rioters. on january 6th, the president issuing 1500 full pardons. in his telling, including for 14 far right extremists, full clemency for people who are already convicted. these are individuals accused both of low level crimes, but also those accused of violence. on that day. in all, president trump revoking 78 biden era executive orders on issues related to sex and gender die. the president withdrawing from the paris climate accord and

i want to bring in cnn's senior white house reporter kevin liptak and cnn's political commentator kareninney. kevin, a lot of us remember that trump didn't attend biden's inauguration four years ago. but what are you learning about the former first lady and her decision to skip the event on monday? >> yeah, and it wasn't just donald trump who skipped that inauguration. melania trump skipped it as well. michelle obama's counterpart. so when you talk about inauguration, tradition kind of has to start there. but, you know, i think a lot of people were wondering last week when we didn't see michelle obama sitting in the pews at the funeral for jimmy carter, whether she would actually attend the inauguration this week, both of those events would have brought her face to face with donald trump. they said last week that scheduling conflicts prevented her from attending that event. they're not actually elaborating on why she won't be attending next week's inauguration, which i think probably tells you everything you need to know. you know, michelle obama has made no secret about her feelings to