Clip: Cabinet Appointments, Provocative Picks, and Trump’s Return to The White House

friends welcome to the first. postelection daily round table which we. are taping at around 2:45 p.m. on. Wednesday we always disclose that in. case something happens during or after. our taping that's significant that we. don't cover here it turns out there is. enough News Post campaign to Merit a. return to this glorious format in fact. there's so much news happening that we. did this very last minute which explains. why none of us are in the same room. which is the idea of a round table and. you're all spread out across uh.

I believe the city of Washington DC in. different tiny rooms with phones held up. to your face Maggie Julie Peter thank. you for making time for us thank you. Mich thanks for having us thanks for. having us I think we have to start with. the blizzard of appointments that. President elect Trump has made over the. past few days seemingly an appointment. every hour and just to begin with the. pace of it correct me if I'm wrong is. unusually fast I went back and checked.

the clips many of you wrote the stories. from four years ago Biden was elected. and it took him about a week or so to. make his first appointment Chief of. Staff it feels like Trump has filled. half his cabinet in that same weeklong. period is that right I don't know about. half but he's he's he's filled certainly. the a number of the top roles and it's. not just faster than what Biden did it's. faster than what Trump did uh the first. go around Trump uh announced his chief. of staff along with uh his chief.

strategist Steve Bannon on November 13th. which was 5 days after election day this. was two days after election day that he. announced his chief of staff he has. announced picks uh for Secretary of. Defense for DHS uh you know the list. goes on and on but that's a a huge. number of major appointments filled very. fast what's the rush. Peter well clearly he doesn't want to uh. sit on his Laurels here he has he's. eager to get going he knows what he's. doing this time in a way he didn't know. eight years ago right uh he's thought a. lot about who around him he trusts last.

time he had to be introduced to a lot of. Republicans he didn't know and then. think about how they fit into a. government which he had never served in. uh so he has the advantage in effect of. of doing this from scratch in a way that. frankly no second term president's ever. done most second-term presidents are. already in the office they're not having. you know a whole new government started. from scratch in effect after an election. the way this one has but he has the. advantage of the having had four years. of experience in that way all right well. we can't cover all these appointments. there are simply too many of them so. we're going to focus on just a few that.

really begin to tell us about Trump's. priorities in the second presidency and. his approach to governing so I want to. begin with two people whose portfolio. will be heavily focused on immigration. Stephen Miller and Tom homman Julie you. know a lot about Steven Miller because. you covered immigration heavily during. the first round presidency right and. Steven Miller was really sort of the. architect of a lot of the immigration. policies and really the the whole sort.

of language and vision for um. immigration that Trump brought not only. during the campaign but in the very. beginning of his first term of his. presidency when you know Miller led a. very sort of aggressive all-encompassing. effort to try to get a bunch of. executive orders and a bunch of policy. on the track before Trump came into. office um we all remember the Muslim ban. there were executive orders that had to. do with Sanctuary City and cracking down.

in various ways and then of course um. starting the initial stages of um this. build the wall plan that never actually. um reached fruition but he really made. it his uh his business to figure out. ways to pull the levers that Trump would. need to pull in order to massively. change the way immigration happens in. this country and what we saw at the. beginning of his first term was he ran. into a lot of obstacles and it was very. clear very quickly that some of the. stuff just couldn't happen in the way.

that Miller was trying to make it happen. and that Trump wanted to see um but he. has all of that experience under his. belt from the first term um and I think. we could expect that to be you know very. much his portfolio again he's learned a. lot of lessons about um how government. works and how you would go about. implementing those things Peter Miller's. job in the first term was senior adviser. to the president now he's got a big. promotion right Deputy white house chief. of staff so given what Julie just said. should we expect that everything she.

just said is going to basically be on. steroids well yeah I mean again what. they can do first of all is is click. back on a lot of the things that Joe. Biden clicked off right they they went. through four years worth of crafting. orders and crafting policies that um. took him time to figure out took him. time to lawyer took him time to to you. know understand how the bureaucracy. worked and of course Joe Biden comes in. he didn't change all of them but he did. change a lot of them and they can they. have the advantage now on January 20th.

of being much more ready to do what they. wanted to do the the Muslim ban that. Julie just referenced was such a. disaster the first time around because. they had no clue what they were doing. lawyers were talking to each other but. they weren't talking to the justice. department which normally vets these. kinds of things they suddenly announce. they're going to do it at the Pentagon. because he like the symbolism of it but. they were literally still crafting and. editing this order as they were driving. in the mcade over to the Pentagon at the. last second you know one of his AIDS. actually is handwriting adjustments to. the order he's going to sign by pen on.

the order before he puts his his. signature on it so it's not going to. hopefully or from their point of view. hopefully it's not going to be as. chaotic as that they have a better sense. of how to do it this time uh but we'll. see obviously you know chaos does tend. to follow Trump wherever he goes but. they have the advantage of that four. years experience now let's talk about. Tom homman and I think the best way to. introduce our listeners to him uh he's. going to be Trump's borders are is to. play a piece of tape from an appearance. he made last last year at the.

conservative political action. committee's annual meeting just outside. Washington where he talked about his. Zero Tolerance policy which he created. with Steven Miller in the first Trump. presidency and in particular he had just. been asked about child separation which. was a component of the zero to policy. this is what he said I wake up every day. pissed off because this Administration. destroyed the most secure board in a. lifetime and and I'm sick and tired. hearing about the family separation and. know I'm still being sued over that so. come get me I don't give a right bottom.

line. is we enforce the law Maggie what do we. make of this kind of rhetoric that was. during a campaign where he wanted Trump. to become president and he's critiquing. Biden's. policies that rhetoric is now the man. who's overseeing the border and. defending child separation which a. federal judge struck down during Trump's. presidency as illegal he's saying.

I have no problems with it Julie's point. about Steven Miller's role I think is. the right one Michael he he is running. all of this he will work very closely. with Tom homman homman is is a hardliner. he is very clear about this he was very. Pro uh family separation as a policy he. pushed it for years before Donald Trump. was in office and then once he was in. office saw it as a very effective. deterrent um Donald Trump moved off of. that after negative press and frankly. negative press coverage may still be one. of the few guard rails that Donald Trump. is responsible to I think that that.

could stay the same in this white house. but Homan is moving very quickly he. talked about this on Fox news earlier. this week that they are going to go. after uh Sanctuary cities to try to have. an impact there such as New York which. has faced a big influx of migrants and. which mayor Eric Adams has been very. vocal about and much more on the side of. Donald Trump than President Biden. surprisingly so for a Democrat correct. but I think that you will see there are. a number of Democrats uh who in in major. cities in blue States who are concerned.

about this and so I think that you are. going to see H and maybe he won't be. quite so uh colorful as he was in that. speech but I think that you are going to. see him lean in to what he plans to do. because the feeling in the incoming. Trump Administration is unlike 2016. where he certainly campaigned on a ban. on Muslims entering the country but Mass. deportations came pretty late as a. concept in that campaign he talked about. a border wall mostly Mass deportations. were fall of 2016 on this campaign he.

has been talking about the largest mass. deportation operation in US history for. over a year and and he won uh with he. won the popular vote and he won the. Electoral College and so they believe. that they are going in with a majority. of people voting for this Vision that. Trump has articulated and Homan is going. to talk about that and try to implement. it as aggressively as possible.