Gary O'Donoghue
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Not as far as we know. And in many senses, I don't know the details of the agreement that the US has over that particular base, but it's not unusual for members of the administration to visit bases. But the wider context of this is clear, and it's that the US would like... for two reasons, more access to Greenland.
One is its natural resources, but also Greenland has been and is hugely strategic in its position. It's in the mid-Atlantic, it's on the edge of the Arctic Circle. We know that the Arctic is increasingly a place of great power politics for various reasons. So there are all sorts of reasons why geopolitically Greenland is of interest to all sorts of people.
And that's why you're seeing all this attention paid to it at the moment.
Global News Podcast · Putin agrees to pause Ukraine energy attacks during Trump call · 19 Mar 2025
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In a social media post, Donald Trump called Judge Boasberg a radical left lunatic, a troublemaker and an agitator, adding that he should be impeached, in other words, removed from office.
While not addressing the president directly, the statement from the Chief Justice, John Roberts, represents an unequivocal admonishment of the president's words and a significant intervention in what is shaping up to be a potential constitutional crisis. America's political system is based on three branches of government, the executive, congress and the judiciary.
And this separation of powers is designed to create a system of checks and balances so that no one branch can dominate the others. But in recent days, a number of senior administration officials have suggested the White House could simply ignore judicial decisions it doesn't like. with the border czar, Tom Homan, saying, We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think.
What concerns many is that it's far from clear what could prevent the White House from ignoring the courts if it chose to do so. After all, judges have no means of enforcing their decisions, no army at their beck and call. Congress could impeach a president who took such a course, but the bar for doing so is high, and Mr Trump has already survived two such attempts before.
I'm Gary O'Donoghue, the senior North America correspondent.
So an executive order covers a whole range of things from proclamations, just things the president thinks is true, right through to directions of the federal government to do certain things, right through to things that have constitutional implications. So all these ones he's issued right across that gamut. You said dozens, and then you're right.
And it compares to his first term when I think there was just four in the first five days.
Yeah, he could fall foul of something called the Impoundment Control Act, which is effectively Congress spends money in the US Constitution. He has the power of the purse, as they say. Presidents can hold up money being directed, but they can't really stop it as they can't really raise it without agreement of Congress. And that's one of those things that's going to be challenged in court.
Certainly that 370 million odd that he's stopped from the infrastructure spending, that's going to be challenged.
So on the censorship thing, that's quite interesting because Silicon Valley has already started to do some of that work for him. So conservatives would complain that their views were being marginalized on social media and things like that. Well, Elon Musk controls X, so that's okay for conservatives now. Facebook has stopped fact-checking, so that's much more of a
what they would describe as a free speech environment, First Amendment environment. So some of this stuff that was censorship-based is already being done. And on the common worker, well, one of the things that won Donald Trump the election was his talk about inflation, and that was what damaged Joe Biden right back in 2022 when it went through the roof.
And ironically, that's one of the things Donald Trump has done least about in his first week. There's been one kind of directive that says to federal departments, try and do what you can to get prices down. Well, yeah, sure. So let's see how that translates into the price of eggs in the shops, which I know is something you care about, Oliver.
All of it. I mean, eggs, bread, milk. I mean, the real sort of basics. And while the increases are slower than they were, prices haven't come down.
There's no chance of Donald Trump abolishing the federal death penalty. He doesn't have control over individual states and their decisions. But a lot of states don't have the death penalty, bear in mind. But the federal death penalty for federal capital crimes, he has decided to end. There was a moratorium on executions on that that was instituted by the Biden administration.
Donald Trump did execute, I think, around a dozen or 13 people on death row during his first administration. That was the most any president done for absolutely years. However, Joe Biden did commute most of those death sentences of federal capital crimes, the people that were on death row in December, 37 out of the 40 people who were on death row. He left three behind.
One is Zanaev, who's the Boston bomber, the Boston Marathon bomber. He's still on death row. The other one is Dylan Roof, who murdered a group of black worshippers in a church in South Carolina 10 years ago after having sat through the prayer service with them. And the third one is Robert Bowers, who was the man who murdered the worshippers in the synagogue in Pittsburgh back in 2018, I think.
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