Tonight: Trump’s First Address To Congress Since Returning To Power

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

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A look at what to expect at Trump’s first address to Congress in his second term, including what special guests are expected to attend as well as who is boycotting the speech. Plus, Trump’s long-threatened tariffs on Mexico and Canada took effect today and concerns of a global trade war grow as the DOW Index fell 670 points. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A historic night ahead on Capitol Hill, the lead starts right now.
0:06.8	Tonight, the president's first address to Congress for Trump 2.0, what to expect, what special
0:12.5	guests will attend, and who is boycotting the speech? And Trump's long-threatened tariffs against
0:18.2	Canada and Mexico took effect at midnight today.
0:21.9	Concerns of a global trade war as the Dow fell 670 points.
0:26.1	Plus, Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky now calls his Oval Office showdown with President Trump last Friday.
0:32.6	Regrettable and says Ukraine is ready to negotiate peace.
0:36.3	This comes a day after Trump paused U.S. military aid to
0:39.7	Ukraine. Will this latest move by Zelensky move the needle at all in this three-plus year war?
0:51.6	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start our politics lead with President Trump's address to Congress, a joint session of Congress, just hours away. The focus is in on Pennsylvania Avenue. The president currently at the White House is expected to depart with First Lady Melania Trump at about 8.30 p.m. Eastern, heading to the Capitol, just 44 days into his second term.
1:12.6	Mr. Trump's robust pace as supporters cheering, opponents seething, and plenty of average Americans just
1:17.8	trying to keep up. And those average Americans, many of whom, of course, voted for Mr. Trump
1:22.7	to lower prices and strengthen the economy, woke up to some opening shots of what could,
1:27.7	could be a trade war with the United States closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
1:32.0	The 25 percent tariffs, which went into effective middite, led the conservative Rupert Murdoch
1:37.1	owned Wall Street Journal to publish this House editorial today titled,
1:40.6	Trump takes the dumbest tariff plunge, unquote, and garnered these strong words from Canada's
1:46.7	outgoing Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
1:49.8	Now, it's not in my habit to agree with the Wall Street Journal. But Donald, they point out that
1:56.7	even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do.
2:03.1	A major goal of tonight's address on Capitol Hill is for the president to connect his early
2:07.3	frenetic pace of moves to the lives of everyday Americans, according to one advisor.
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