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🗓️ 4 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowaf. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the Daily. |
| 0:09.0 | These aren't people that work. |
| 0:12.0 | These aren't people that say, let's go, come on, let's make this place great. |
| 0:15.0 | These are people that do nothing but complain. |
| 0:18.0 | During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump delivered perhaps the most blatantly |
| 0:23.6 | xenophobic public remarks of his political career. |
| 0:27.6 | And we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. |
| 0:33.6 | Attacking Somali Americans in Minnesota and calling them garbage. |
| 0:38.3 | You know, they came from paradise and they said, this isn't paradise. |
| 0:42.3 | But when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, |
| 0:49.3 | we don't want them in our country. |
| 0:51.3 | Let them go back to where they came from and fix it. |
| 0:58.1 | Today, my colleague Ernesto Landaño on the story of how Somalis became the president's latest target |
| 1:04.9 | in his ongoing effort to reshape America's relationship to its immigrant communities. |
| 1:12.3 | It's Thursday, December 4th. |
| 1:18.6 | Ernesto, the president's comments about Somali immigrants this week were, I think, for a lot of us, |
| 1:24.2 | truly shocking, even for a president who's known for making extreme comments |
| 1:29.8 | about immigrants. He called an entire group of people garbage in a nationally televised |
| 1:36.1 | cabinet meeting. You're in Minnesota as a national correspondent. So tell us, how were these |
| 1:42.4 | comments received there? |
| 1:47.9 | I think people here have been shell-shocked by the comments. |
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