Trump had a busy first day. Here’s what you missed.
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What happened on Trump's first day in office?
Good morning. It's Tuesday, January 21st. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, Trump's busy first day in office, remembering Cecile Richards, a champion of women's health care, and Prince Harry goes to court. Let's start in Washington, where President Donald Trump promised in his inaugural speech a packed day of executive actions.
With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.
Trump began signing executive orders within hours of retaking office, choosing to sign a number of them on a stage in front of a crowd of his supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
What executive orders did Trump sign immediately?
The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others.
When he wrapped up there, he headed to the Oval Office to sign more orders. Among them, pardoning hundreds of people charged with crimes related to the January 6th mob, withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, delaying the ban of TikTok, and issuing a series of measures on immigration. Meanwhile, his Republican colleagues in the Senate also went straight to work. They approved Marco Rubio to be our next secretary of state, and a committee advanced Pete Hegsett's nomination for defense secretary for a full vote. There is lots to talk about and lots of questions about whether these orders will stand or be challenged in courts.
Who received pardons related to January 6th?
But for now, just for today, let's look at three of Trump's executive orders, what he wants to do, and the immediate reaction we're seeing. Starting with the January 6th pardons. Trump granted broad pardons to more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to January 6th and commuted the sentences of several others. The decision appears to apply to both nonviolent and violent offenders. People like former Proud Boys leader Henry Enrique Tarrio, who prosecutors described as helping plan the insurrection and who was sentenced to 22 years for sedition. The longest sentence handed down in connection with January 6th. Here's CNN's chief legal affairs correspondent, Paula Reid.
Remember, Trump and Vice President Vance had suggested that they were not going to give clemency to people who were violent offenders. But the group that got pardons includes individuals like Julian Cater, who assaulted a U.S. police officer, Brian Sicknick, and later pled guilty to assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon. Devlin Thompson, who hit a police officer with a metal baton. And Robert Palmer, he's the Florida man who attacked police with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank, and a pole.
What were the reactions to Trump's pardons?
NBC News captured the reaction of one rioter, Gabriel Agustin Garcia, who was convicted of two felony charges for obstructing an official proceeding and obstructing law enforcement that day. Here he is as he cut off his ankle monitor.
I feel justice was prevailed today. And like I kept saying from the very beginning, it was a two-tier justice system under the Biden administration. He pardoned his own son. I just walked into Capitol to peacefully protest on my charge for the violence. I didn't hurt anybody. I didn't destroy property.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who was speaker of the House during the attack, called Trump's order an outrageous insult to our justice system and a betrayal of the law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol that day. Onto the second issue, the border. Trump signed a few executive orders to do with the border. Some of them revived policies from his first administration, like forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court. Minutes after Trump was sworn in, the app introduced by the Biden administration to assign appointment slots to migrants seeking to enter the U.S. legally disappeared. And so did people's appointments. The Washington Post spoke with migrants waiting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and captured the moment that some found out the appointment they had been waiting months for had suddenly been canceled. One person told the Post, if only I had had the appointment for three hours earlier.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What happened on Trump's first day in office?
0:05–1:00
2
What executive orders did Trump sign immediately?
1:00–1:51
3
Who received pardons related to January 6th?
1:51–3:00
4
What were the reactions to Trump's pardons?
3:00–6:03
5
How did Trump's immigration policies change?
6:03–7:51
6
What is the significance of Trump's stance on birthright citizenship?
7:51–10:28
7
How did the media react to Trump's inaugural speech?
10:28–13:05
Speakers
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