Trump 2.0: Musk in the Oval, a Gift to Mayor Adams and a Win for Putin

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Over the past week, President Donald J. Trump dramatically ceded the stage to Elon Musk in the Oval Office, turned the Democratic mayor of New York City into a political pawn and ensured that Vladimir Putin begins peace talks with Ukraine on Russia’s terms. The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs sit down and discuss the latest week in the Trump administration.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily. Today.
0:10.0	Over the past week, President Trump dramatically ceded the stage to Elon Musk in the Oval Office, turned the Democratic mayor of New York City into a kind of
0:22.8	political pawn and ensured that Vladimir Putin begins peace talks with Ukraine on Russia's terms.
0:31.9	To make sense of all of that, I turned to three of my colleagues, White House reporters
0:37.3	Maggie Habman, David
0:39.1	Sanger, and Zolin Cano Youngs.
0:45.5	It's Friday, February 14th.
0:56.5	Friends, welcome back to the roundtable.
0:59.0	But first, happy Valentine's Day.
1:01.1	Happy Valentine's Day.
1:02.1	Happy Valentine's Day, Michael.
1:03.5	Happy to spend it with you.
1:06.8	I mean, who else would you spend it with?
1:09.1	I can think of one person.
1:10.2	I can, too. I can too.
1:12.6	You have a wonderful husband.
1:17.0	David, appreciate you joining us from Munich.
1:22.5	I was going to say from Paris City of Love, that was the plan, but you changed location since we... Well, that was two days ago with Vice President fans, yeah.
1:25.7	Yep.
1:26.2	You've been traveling with the Vice President.
1:27.8	Zolan and Maggie appreciate you coming to us from our studio in Washington, D.C.
1:33.1	I just want to set up this conversation.
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