Trump Increases WH Control Of Independent Agencies

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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President Trump slaps Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the title of “dictator” without applying the same label to Vladimir Putin. Plus, after some federal workers have been fired only to be rehired, what is going on with federal workers and who is overseeing the chaotic termination process? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.6	Word of the day, dictator. The lead starts right now. President Trump slapping Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, with the title of dictator.
0:58.0	But applying no such label on Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia with an iron fist for more than 20 years.
1:04.0	Trump also is pushing a Kremlin lie that Ukraine started the war.
1:10.0	The remarks have even some Republicans calling him out.
1:13.6	Plus, fired only to be rehired, what's really going on with critical government workers?
1:18.6	Who's overseeing this chaotic termination process?
1:21.6	Is it time for Congress to step in and provide some oversight?
1:25.6	And fresh on the job, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge already to examine
1:33.0	childhood vaccines, what parents need to be on the lookout for before any changes come to a community near you.
1:49.8	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with President Trump seeming to upend the domestic and global world order. Let's start with the global world order. This
1:55.8	morning, President Trump sending shockwaves throughout Europe when he called Ukrainian President
2:00.5	Volo Demer Zelensky,
2:01.9	a, quote, dictator parroting Russian talking points. This comes on the heels of President Trump,
2:08.0	falsely accusing Ukraine of starting the war and invasion of Ukraine and excluding Ukraine from the peace talks
2:16.0	held in Saudi Arabia earlier this week between Russia and the United States.
2:19.8	This is more than just upending the normal way of doing things.
2:25.2	This is more than him just breaking with tradition.
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