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PDB Situation Report | January 25th, 2025: The Border Crackdown Has Already Begun & Trump Cleans House in DC
25 Jan 2025
In this episode of The PDB Situation Report: President Trump begins his second term with sweeping actions on the southern border, including executive orders to restart the border wall and reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy. Mark Krikorian from the Center for Immigration Studies joins us to break it all down. In the national security realm, President Trump removes General Mark Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and revokes security clearances for 51 intelligence officials, signaling a major shake-up in Washington. Steve Yates from The Heritage Foundation joins us in unpacking the implications. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. Now, you may have noticed I'm back from the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Jordan sooner than anticipated. The epic trek from northwest Saudi to Aqaba in Jordan, it continues on behalf of the UK Special Forces Club Benevolent Fund. But I was pulled due to injury. I'm on the injury list now.
Torn ab muscles, abdominal muscles. Honestly, I had no idea I still had abdominal muscles. But the rest of the team, and it's an amazing team, continues on this terrific effort to raise awareness and funds for the UK's military veterans and their families. Look, if you have a moment, and I hope you do, please visit www.sfcbf.org. Let me repeat that, www.sfcbf.org.
You can learn more about the track, and if able, and I hope you're able, maybe donate something to the fund. They do vital work and they really need your support. And I know everybody asks for things these days and I feel bad doing it, but look, it is an important, important charity fund. And so if you have a chance, maybe just donate the price of a cup of coffee, one cup of coffee, what's that?
Five bucks. Maybe if you buy really fancy coffee, it's 10 bucks. But anyway, you get my point. Collectively, we can make a real difference. Let's get ourselves briefed. What do you say? Today, we're taking a look at Donald Trump's first days back in office. Now, he wasted no time getting to work, starting with sweeping actions on the southern border.
Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, well, he'll join us to break it all down. And then later in the show, we're turning to the National Security Front. From the purge of General Mark Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the revocation of security clearances for 51 intelligence officials,
Well, President Trump is shaking up Washington's defense and intelligence establishment. Senior Research Fellow for China and National Security Policy at the Heritage Foundation and good friend of the show, Steve Yates, he'll join us to unpack what it all means. But first, our Situation Report Spotlight.
Well, in his first days back in office, President Trump has, as they say, hit the ground running, focusing on one of his hallmark priorities, border security. He's already signed several executive orders to bolster enforcement, including resuming construction of the border wall, expanding support for Customs and Border Protection, and reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy for asylum seekers.
And it's not just policy on paper. Look, immigration enforcement has already kicked into high gear. Reports are emerging of coordinated ICE raids in cities across the country, targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records. I'm not quite sure who could argue against that concept. Joining us to break it all down is Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mark, thanks very much for being with us here today on The Situation Report. Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Let's start from the top. Inauguration Day was Monday. So when it comes to U.S. immigration policy, what's changed? What do you expect to change? And what do you think might stay the same?
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