Presidential Transition, Trump First 100 Days, January 6 Pardons
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He catch up, avoid chaos of his last ansip afforded.

That's a Martina. And this is the first from N. P. R. news. Trumps campaign promises include expanding oil drilling, replacing the civil service with parties and loyalists and deporting millions of immigrants. He demonizes as criminals.

On day one, I will launched the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of a what might his .

first one hundred days look like?

And nearly four years ago, the house of representatives in peach trump, or incitement of interaction after a mob attacked to the capital, will he make good on his promise to part in the january six writers? As we got all the news.

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President elect Donald mp has made his first big announcement. He's chosen his campaign manager to the walls to be his White house chief of staff.

In his Victory speech, trumps single out wiles for praise and said she's known for working behind the scenes .

so he likes to stay sort of in the back. Let me tell you the ice story we call the ice.

Wires will be the first woman ever to hold the job as one job failed, but there are about four thousand political positions to fill in any new administration.

and there are already questions about whether transition on track M, P, R, senior White house core respond tamer keh is here to tempts only been what a few days, three day, hints trump one, how can the transition possibly be behind?

These plans are supposed to start over the summer, well before it's clear which candidate will win. By law, each team is invited to sign formal legal agreements with the gsa, the general services administration, to get things rolling, and that gives them access to everything from office space and government email addresses to detail information about agency Operations. They haven't done IT yet.

The White house says they are keeping the lines of communication open, and president biden said yesterday that he has told his team to do what they can to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. He said, quote, that's what the american people deserve. Spokesperson for the trump team says they're still having conversations with the gsa about these agreements. And they said, quote, we will update you once a decision is made.

Okay, but how big of the ellis the agreements .

aren't sign yet? Well, in twenty sixteen, the trump teen did sign them. Former new jersey governor chis Christie spent months building the transition plan for trump in close coordination ation with the outgoing obama administration. And then two days after the election, Christie was fired and all those plans were thrown out time.

I remember there were were cameras, tb cameras trained on the elevator or in front tower. They were were watching people going for interviews with drop of me was TV show like one .

of his shows that was quite the reality show. And there was a long list of people picked for jobs during that period who didn't last very long because IT turns out they didn't agree with thumps. Vision for the country, rex tellers in the secretary of state, former general James mattis, as defense secretary. But at a lower level, hundreds of political appointments were not made, so there were a lot of obama holdovers and high ranking acting positions when trump took office. Chris Christie told the transition lab podcast that the trumpet administration never fully recovered from that rough start.

You have people there who are hostile to the president, personnel and hostel to his agenda that he had just been elected on. And then he would wonder, why couldn't get things done?

So is history repeating itself here?

I spoke with max dire. He heads the partnership for public service, which has assisted past transitions, and he says that this delay sends a very bad signal.

The truth team did not understand the process or the importance of understanding that process, and did not respect that process and paid a real Price. And I fear that we might see something similar again.

So what's the trump teams saying about this?

Well, a week before trump, on the coach of his transition, Howard lta. Ck, said they were ready, have lots of candidates, and IT would be completely different than twenty sixteen. A campaign advisor tells in pr that the jacking for jobs in the administration is already intense loyalty to trump and a desire to disrupt washington. Our top qualifications this time and P.

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President mcDonald, trump and his transition team are working vigorously to pick political appoint, who will Carry out his .

agenda he has promised on his first day in office within the first few hours, in fact, to close the border .

and more launched the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of america.

Trump has also promised to take a hatchet to president bitings climate agenda in supercharge .

energy exploration. So let's see how feasible this is within P. R. White or franco Frank trun, what can we expect to see a hundred days from then?

Yeah, I mean, you mention the border and drilling. He also plans to get climate subsidies and offer tax brakes to oil and gas producers, is promising to change the effort, will care, act and impose big new terrorists on us imports. There's also been a focus on the culture war issues, with trump planning to ban trans gender women in sports and critical race there in schools. But basically, trump wants to return and resume where he left off after his first term in office. Clearly the top priority of immigration.

So as we heard, is calling for deporting record numbers of immigrants. What might that look like?

Yeah, I mean, it's really complicated. I mean, there are so many Operational and legal chAllenges here. IT would take a huge investment and resources, manpower to the millions of people.

I will know trump tweet his language a bit the last few weeks. As you heard in the clip, he added, quote, criminals, it's the mass deportation of criminals that is a key distinction that does give him some flexibility. But he's also planning to invoke a war time authority is called the aliens enemies act of seventeen ninety eight to depot for n nationals without a hearing. I spoke with leon fresco about this. He was pointed to serve on transport ming and security advisory council in .

his first administration. You have to show that a specific country invaded or intended to invade you to cause instability. And so president truman is going to say that certain countries like that is way, and others are intentionally authorizing criminal elements to come into the country.

Fresco S, A democrat. He says trump is trying to create a, quote, shock in all type of environments that people will take matters into their own hands and basically self support.

Now I keep hearing that trump won't have the same guard rails this time around. How do is them?

I mean, IT won't be the same guard rails, but that doesn't mean there won't be any. I mean, he will need congressional approval for some things, such as for tax breaks. And I make changes to the affordable, correct? Republicans did win the senate, so a lot will depend on who wins the house.

There is also dealing with the government bureaucracy, but his team has experienced with that. Loyalty is a big deal to trump. He hired susie wiles as chief of staff, who was his campaign manager. So he's obviously looking for the people he trust. And one thing will be watching very closely as trump ones that we classify tens of thousands of federal workers and turn them into political positions for people who need, who will be more invested in Carrying out his policies .

that that who trump s has called the deep state that stopped, slowed him from Carrying out some of his more extreme ideas.

yeah, more god roles. Trump actually did this at the end of his last administration buying, resented IT and posed a rule to make IT harder for him to do IT again. The reality is any rule that can be made, can be presented. The question is, how long will that take?

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IT was almost four years ago that a mob of donal trumps supporters stormed the U. S. capital.

Federal authorities have charged more than a thousand people in connection with the j twenty six attack, and now trump is headed back to the White house after promising to part in the people charged.

And P. R. Just to correspond, ryan luis has covered the january six investigations.

right? Let's with trump and potential partners. What has he said about clemency for capital rioters?

Well, the first off, for years, trump has tried to rewrite the history of january six. He talks about IT as a peaceful day instead of what IT actually was, which is the violent attack on the us. Capital by his supporters, attack that injured more than one hundred and forty police officers who were defending the build.

In that day, I was an attack that the FBI director, a trip point tea has called, uh, domestic terrorism. Trump tho has called the people who are facing federal charges for january six. He's called them hostages. He called them political prisoners. And over the past few years, including very much so during the twenty twenty four campaign, trump has promised pardons for january six rioters, if you were to win back the presidency, he said that he would absolutely part in them. And now he said at to the White .

house that federal investigation into the general six ride. Where does that?

San, well, look, this is a massive investigation in one of the largest in the history, the justice department IT started on the day of the right, and IT is still going on as of today. So far, more than fifteen hundred people have been charged, almost a thousand have pleaded guilty. Many of those are for misdemeanors, but a lot of a morsel for violent offences, things like assaulting police with a deadly weapon.

Around two hundred people have been convicted at trial that includes members of too far extremist groups, the earth keepers and the proud boys, ten members of those two groups have been convicted, a trial of sadness ous conspiracy, in other words, of opposing the authority of the U. S. Government by force.

I know the justice department is not going to wind down the special council's cases against another drop. Now that is now going to be president. Does that affect the the o jays work against the capital writers?

So the decision to unwind special council jx most cases against truck, that stems from a justice department that says that a sitting president can't face and ditech or trial. That policy does not apply to anyone else, full stop. That said, I did ask the justice department whether the potential for mass pardons of january six defendants has changed its approach to these cases. The department declined to comment on that, but I will say that prosecutors have been bringing a new january six cases this week. So IT does appear to be business as usual.

So the defendants then, are they angling for pardon? I got to imagine that probably that's true.

They definitely are. They're certainly aware of trumps promises for pardon, and they are angling for them that goes for non violent offenders and also goes over folks convicted of attacking police and other serious charges. Start roads is an example of this.

He is the founder of the earth keers group that I mentioned earlier. Roads was convicted by a jury in dc of sadness, ous conspiracy and other crimes in connection with january six. The judge sentenced him to eighteen years in prison, called him an ongoing threat to the country in its democracy.

Rose's trial is one that trump kept a close icon, i'm told. Now rose's atterley leave right tells our college kerry Johnson that he's going to personally urge trump to do the right and honour thing in pardon roads. I have asked the trump campaign whether trump with pardon riders convicted to violent crimes or just non violent ones, the campaign did not respond.

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