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00:00Breaking overnight. Anger and frustration boiling over at town halls across America.
00:05Officials on both sides of the aisle drawing large crowds and harsh critique from
00:12constituents. Republicans continue to be blasted by voters demanding answers about
00:17President Trump and Elon Musk's gutting of federal jobs and programs and agencies.
00:23Now Democrats are feeling the heat as well for their inability to push back hard against
00:29the Doge purge. Though it was a different issue that took center stage last night.
00:33Pro-Palestinian protesters took over Illinois Democrat Dan Kasten's town hall
00:38in the wake of Israel's strike shattering the fragile ceasefire with Hamas.
00:42Kasten faced a barrage of vocal, borderline physical attacks. So much so,
00:47police stepped in and asked the congressman to end the event.
00:51What you're saying is I'm not going to get my way when my people are being slaughtered and I want you to stop funding them.
01:00If you would like to run for office, run for office.
01:01That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You are the most soulless piece of crap I've ever seen.
01:07That's your opinion.
01:07Soulless. Soulless.
01:10Sir, get off the stage right now.
01:15And in Wyoming, Republican Harriet Higdon was showered with booze after seeming to downplay
01:23the sweeping cuts to federal jobs at the hands of Elon Musk and Doge.
01:28Here's the only thing that Doge has done, which is, it's so bizarre to me
01:33how obsessed you are with federal government, but here's the thing.
01:45Calm down. Calm down.
01:50Calm down.
01:56All Doge is doing is, you guys are going to have a heart attack if you don't calm down.
02:03I'm sorry.
02:04We're already having heart attacks.
02:09What Doge is doing is, it's the closest thing to,
02:13it is the closest thing to zero-based budgeting that we've seen.
02:19Why would you be opposed, why would you be opposed to us looking on a line-by-line basis?
02:27From an immigrant from South Africa who wasn't elected. He wasn't elected.
02:39Well, CNN's Arlette Saenz is with me now.
02:42Arlette, this is a trend that we saw first really targeted at Republicans.
02:47It is growing now both to Republicans and Democrats, but over and over and over again,
02:52these town halls are getting really heated because constituents are fed up.
02:57Are officials, do you think, going to stop these town halls? I know the Republicans
03:00were told by their leadership to stop doing them, but some of them are doing it anyway.
03:05Yes, Sarah, and town halls have really been a staple in American politics,
03:09especially in the first year of a new administration, but decisions about whether
03:14to continue holding these kinds of events are likely to fall on a case-by-case basis.
03:19Democratic Congressman Sean Kasten at that town hall last night said that he doesn't want to stop
03:24holding town halls, but did say that some people may decide not to attend if they feel like they
03:31are not productive. As you mentioned, the head of the Republican, the House Republican campaign arm
03:36advised Republican lawmakers to hold virtual instead of in person. You have some lawmakers
03:42like Mike Flood in Nebraska and Harriet Hageman in Wyoming who have bucked that advice. Hageman
03:48herself is holding multiple town halls over a few days in Wyoming where they're really hearing a lot
03:53of frustration directed their way about the way that President Trump has handled his first few
03:58months in office and those doge cuts being made to the federal government as well. But it's not
04:02just Republicans who are feeling the heat from constituents. We have seen Democratic lawmakers
04:08like Kasten and others really hear a lot of the frustration that constituents are feeling at this
04:14moment. Now one thing that a lot of Democratic lawmakers had wanted to do over this recess was
04:20hold town halls to talk about the cuts that Trump and his team are trying to make. Talk about
04:25potential cuts to Medicaid that could be coming. Today officially marks two months in office for
04:30President Trump and new polls are revealing just how voters are feeling about the start of his
04:34second term. CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten is here to run the numbers for us. All right,
04:39how is Trump doing compared to where he was just after he was sworn in January? Very different
04:45numbers, I'm assuming. Yeah, they're very different. They're very different. I mean, look, here's the
04:50bottom line. Trump's net job approval rating. Look, in January 2025, he was on the positive
04:55side of the ledger. He was a plus two, plus seven points. Issues and that is what is dragging Donald
05:00Trump down. People came in with good expectations for Trump, better than for the first term. Yes,
05:05he's doing slightly better than he was during the first term at this point, but compared to
05:09everybody else, he's doing far worse. And the reason he's doing far worse is Donald Trump is
05:13not meeting the voters expectations on the issues that matter to them, especially, of course,
05:18there you go. This is the reason why a lot of people say he they voted for him and why he's
05:23in office right now. So that's a big deal. The whole kid in caboodle. And so you don't have to
05:28go shopping for cream soda. You are welcome. Thank you. Harry Enten. It is always a pleasure. Now go
05:34drink your cream. So I will. Wow. Reporting. So, Norm, let's go back to what we heard from
05:38Pam Bondi there. You have the attorney general singling out one federal judge. Have you seen
05:45this before? Aren't they supposed to be on the same team? Pam Bondi's comments on were of a piece
05:53with what we've seen in the first two months of the Trump administration, an assault on the
05:59Constitution. She is saying that Article three of the Constitution, which gives federal judges
06:07the power to do exactly what Jeb Bosberg is doing to oversee whether laws like the Alien
06:14Enemies Act are being followed. She's at the top of the justice. She's tearing up the Constitution.
06:21Look, now he has come back down. He is underwater, right? He's doing a little bit of the
06:27breaststroke, maybe doing a little bit of the butterfly. He's at minus two points. And it's
06:31not just in one poll. It's multiple. CNN, Fox, Ipsos, NBC and Quinnipiac University. Nine, nine,
06:38nine. The American folks are saying, oh, they I caramba. OK, well, that was a lot of different
06:44languages. Thank you. Yiddish and all. How unusual is it for a president at this point to have a net
06:50negative? Let's go back in the annals of history. I love going in history books. I did quite well
06:56on my SAT two in U.S. history. Presidents with negative net approval ratings at this point,
07:02a term since nineteen hundred and thirty seven, going back to the second term of Franklin Delano
07:07Roosevelt. Well, there are two men on the screen and the same two men, Trump in twenty seventeen
07:15and Trump in twenty twenty five. He only matches himself. I guess the good news is he's doing a
07:20little bit better than he was eight years ago at this point. But when you're only matching yourself
07:24and you're the only dude who's underwater at this point, not particularly good.
07:28Every single other president at this point in a term either first or second was above water.
07:33So Donald Trump likes to make history. But this is a type of history Donald Trump does not like to
07:39make. How is he doing when it comes to the issues? Because that seems to be the big thing for twenty
07:44twenty five, which is a little different than twenty seventeen. Yeah. So look, here are the
07:48issues. Sometimes I like lists. You know, I like lists. I like lists for writing out my groceries.
07:52Basically, it's a two line list. It's like cream soda and popcorn. But on this particular one,
07:57Trump's net approval rating on major issues, positive immigration. How about negative the
08:03economy, federal budget, foreign policy, health care tariffs underwater on all of these federal
08:10government employees? They're being reinstated by the courts. Just this week, we got a court order
08:16saying Elon Musk and Doge operated unconstitutionally when they tore down, as he put it,
08:23USAID through the woodchipper, a very important government agency. So Article three is pushing
08:30back. That's one guardrail. But you know what? They're starting to wake up the political class.
08:36We've seen a lot of energy from leaders around the country and the public is waking up with
08:43these demonstrations all over the country. So I don't think I hope and I don't think Donald Trump
08:51is going to achieve his objective of an imperial presidency because of this pushback. But we'll see.
08:57We'll see. He's going after judges. He's going after law firms. We've seen he's going after
09:03individual lawyers, including you. I don't know if you saw this, but here's what he said during
09:08his controversial Justice Department remarks last week. This guy named Norm Eisen, I don't even know
09:14what he looks like. His name is Norm Eisen. That is why it's another example of the hundreds
09:21of cases I've been involved in bringing or helping on a couple dozen of them.
09:26The hundreds of cases, over 100 cases that have gone to judges. And you know what? Democratic
09:33appointed judges about 80, over 80 percent of the time have ruled against Trump. Yes,
09:39it's unconstitutional. It's illegal. Republican appointed judges also over 80 percent of the time.
09:46And she's exemplifying it. That's the bad news. The good news is they're losing in court. And I
09:52think Judge Boasberg, who I've known for three decades since he was a young prosecutor, I was
09:58a young defense lawyer in D.C. Superior Court. Judge Boasberg is going to impose consequences
10:04and he should. You talk about the Constitution being your guiding light here. We're talking
10:09about the foundations of this very country and the Democratic system at stake here. Bigger picture,
10:14when you take a look at how this president, President Trump, is essentially trying to
10:18override so much of the division of power within the government, trying to take power from the
10:26other two branches. You have the DOJ that's supposed to be independent, not really operating
10:31that way right now. There's been little appetite in Congress. It's led by Republicans to fight
10:36back against this. So could Trump's efforts to expand his executive authority work? Could we end
10:44up with an imperial presidency? The genius of the founders of our country and the framers of the
10:50Constitution was that they put in multiple checks and balances. Yes, Congress is in the hands of
10:58the mega Republican caucus. The Republican constitutionalists of Trump's first term are
11:06no longer in control. But you have Article 3, the judiciary, that is acting as a guardrail
11:14on, in these cases, over 80 percent win rate. I know at my organization, State Democracy Defenders
11:21Fund alone, we've gotten court orders saying Trump can't target 6,000 FBI agents who worked
11:28on January 6th, that he can't, he wrongly fired over 20,000. The video covers the mounting political
11:36tension surrounding President Trump's second term, focusing on his legal and political struggles.
11:43One major issue discussed is the growing frustration among the public with both Republicans
11:48and Democrats over federal job cuts, which are linked to Trump's policies and Elon Musk's
11:54influence over government agencies. The video highlights protests, particularly in town halls,
12:00where constituents from both sides of the political spectrum are voicing their anger.
12:05These protests often escalate into heated exchanges, with some becoming borderline
12:10physical, as seen in incidents involving Democratic Congressman Dan Kasten and Republican
12:16Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. Additionally, Trump's approval ratings are addressed,
12:21with a comparison to his first term showing a significant decline.
12:25The video emphasizes that Trump's approval is underwater on major issues like immigration,
12:31the economy, and foreign policy, with a stark contrast to the expectations voters had at the
12:36start of his second term. The polling data reveals that unlike other presidents at similar stages in
12:42their terms, Trump is facing disapproval across the board. The video also discusses the constitutional
12:49implications of Trump's actions, particularly his attacks on the judiciary. Norm Eisen,
12:55a key figure in challenging Trump's legal maneuvers, points out how Trump's efforts
12:59to undermine the checks and balances of the U.S. government are a direct threat to democracy.
13:06Eisen highlights the judiciary's role in blocking many of Trump's unconstitutional moves,
13:11such as the firing of federal employees and the dismantling of critical government agencies,
13:16like USAID. The judiciary, although facing pressure from Trump, has largely resisted,
13:23ensuring accountability through court orders. Trump's approach to handling legal challenges
13:28is another focus. The video argues that while Trump attempts to bypass the courts,
13:34most judges, even those appointed by Republicans, have ruled against him on issues that defy
13:39constitutional norms. The video suggests that Trump's disregard for legal processes is alienating
13:46not only the public, but also his own supporters, particularly in red states, where many of his base
13:52rely on social programs now under threat. In addition, the video reflects on the broader
13:58implications of Trump's actions on American governance. Trump's attack on the federal judiciary,
14:04his handling of government shutdowns, and his disregard for court orders are all part of his
14:09attempt to consolidate power. Eisen and others express concern that these actions could pave
14:15the way for an imperial presidency, where the executive branch operates without regard for
14:21legal constraints. Overall, the video paints a picture of a president facing increasing legal,
14:27political, and public resistance, his approval ratings are plummeting, and even many conservative
14:33figures are distancing themselves due to his controversial actions. Despite his base's loyalty,
14:39the broader public and the legal system are pushing back, and the video suggests that this
14:45resistance could be a significant obstacle to Trump achieving his goals in his second term.