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Next Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference to discuss the U.S. economy after a Board of Governors meeting where officials will decide whether to cut interest rates. | |
| We'll have that live at 2.30 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 3, C-SPAN now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Here to let us know what to expect from the White House this week is Taylor Populars of Spectrum News. | ||
| He serves as their national political reporter joining us from the White House. | ||
| Mr. Popolars, good morning. | ||
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Hey there, Pedro. | |
| Great to be with you. | ||
| We saw a lot of the president talking about Charlie Kirk last week. | ||
| What's expected from the White House this week concerning the death of Charlie Kirk? | ||
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Yeah, so this White House is continuing to react very publicly and very strongly to Kirk's assassination. | |
| The president has confirmed he's going to fly out to the Phoenix, Arizona area next weekend. | ||
| There's a big celebration of life, essentially a public funeral set to take place in Glendale, Arizona, where Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, is based. | ||
| The president says he will be there. | ||
| Today, actually, Vice President JD Vance, who was a close personal friend with Kirk, is actually taking a pretty unprecedented step as a sitting vice president and will be guest hosting Kirk's daily radio show from here in Washington. | ||
| That's set to start at 12 o'clock Eastern Time. | ||
| And we know last night here in D.C. at the Kennedy Center, which of course has kind of been taken over by the Trump administration in recent months, there was a vigil for Kirk that a lot of high-ranking administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, not only attended but spoke at. | ||
| A lot of members of this administration were personally affiliated with Kirk and his group, had a lot of personal relationships with him, so they're both publicly and privately mourning and grieving. | ||
| I was going to ask you if that was the driving force besides what we've seen from the administration as far as their outpours of support following his death. | ||
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Yeah, it definitely plays a factor. | |
| I was here at the White House all last week when the shooting first took place. | ||
| Obviously, the tragic news came that Kirk did not survive it. | ||
| And a lot of White House officials behind the scenes were genuinely emotional and mourning this because some of them have worked for Turning Point USA. | ||
| Some of them knew Kirk personally. | ||
| He was a big fixture on the campaign trail for President Trump and for Vice President JD Vance. | ||
| So this White House is in mourning and trying to acknowledge both an international and national loss, but also somebody they considered to be a close friend. | ||
| Mr. Popolars, the president later on heads to the United Kingdom. | ||
| What's the purpose of the trip? | ||
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So initially this trip was meant to be more of a celebratory one. | |
| King Charles did a very unprecedented step, but also something that totally caters into what President Trump likes and invited the president back for what is a second official state visit. | ||
| President Trump is the first president, at least in recent history, first U.S. president to get two official state visits to the U.K. | ||
| So he's going to head to meet with King Charles. | ||
| He's going to get kind of the full trappings of a state visit, a lot of pomp and circumstance. | ||
| But then we know he's also going to be meeting with the UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, going to continue everything from trade talks to negotiations about trying to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. | ||
| So a bit of glitz and flair for the first part of the trip and then a bit more business in the second part of the trip. | ||
| But the president is slated to leave tomorrow morning for that. | ||
| Is it designed to highlight what's been known historically as the special relationship we have with the United Kingdom? | ||
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100%. | |
| And I think the folks in the UK, the leadership, they know what President Trump likes. | ||
| He enjoys these big kind of royal visits. | ||
| He loves interacting with monarchs around the country. | ||
| He loves to be able to do that. | ||
| We'll leave this here to take you live to the U.S. House on this Monday, September 15th. | ||
| Members are considering legislation related to veterans and small businesses. |