September 10, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Briefing, Jon Decker breaks down major political and global developments shaping today’s headlines. President Trump’s call to deploy the National Guard in response to rising crime sparks debate over public safety and federal authority. Decker examines the international fallout from Israel’s targeted airstrike on Hamas leaders, the Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on Trump’s tariffs, and the mounting legal disputes over the Federal Reserve’s authority. The White House Briefing Room can be heard daily on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Wednesday, September tenth.
I'm John Decker. President Trump makes the case for deploying
the National Guard to bring down crime rates in cities
across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We have to respond with force and strength. We have
to be vicious, just like they are. It's the only
thing they understand.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt gives the President's reaction
to Israel's airstrike on Hamas leaders in cutter.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The President views Qatar as a strong ally and friend
of the United States and feels very badly about the
location of this attack.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Supreme Court agrees to fast track President Trump's bid
to save his tariff's policy, and some breaking news as
a federal judge blocks the President from removing Fed Governor
Lisa Cook. But we begin with the President laying the
groundwork for sending National Guard to hoops to some of
(01:01):
America's most crime ridden cities. The President on Tuesday released
a video from the Oval Office in which he focused
his attention on a local crime committed in North Carolina
that is getting national attention. The President spoke of Irina Zerutzka,
who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while
(01:23):
riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was
back on the night of August twenty second. She sat
in an aisle seat directly in front of a suspect
who in the video is seen in a window seat
wearing an orange sweatshirt. That suspect is now facing federal
charges that would make him eligible for the death penalty.
(01:46):
The suspect is to Carlos Brown Junior. He was arrested
on that same evening after he fatally stabbed the twenty
three year old, and he's been charged by the US
Attorney's Office in the Western District of North Carolina. The
President in that video focused on this horrific murder.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
She was slaughtered by a deranged monster who was roaming
free after fourteen prior arrests. We cannot allow it depraved
criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction
and death throughout our country.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The recent release of that attack on video has caused
national outrage. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a
statement that if mayors can't keep their trains and buses safe,
they don't deserve the taxpayer's money, and the President also
focusing on the leadership of America's cities. Let's listen to
(02:43):
the president right here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Twenty four of the top twenty five most dangerous cities
in America are run by Democrat mayors. Fifty people were
murdered in Chicago in recent weeks, with hundreds being shot,
and it's time to stop this madness. The people of
our country need to insist on protecting safety, law and order.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The President says. The blueprint for how to bring down
the crime rate in American cities is Washington, d C.
Where he deployed the National Guard back on August the seventh.
The President says, what he did in Washington, d C.
Can be done in other cities across the country. Let's
listen to the president right here.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We have proven that it can be done because we
did it right here in d C. In District of Columbia.
The capital of America was a blood Thursday, horrible, dangerous place,
one of the worst. And now it's a crime free
city and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
As for Zarutska, she worked in many places after coming
to America following her life living in a bomb shelter
because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. She worked at
a senior citizen center, she worked at a pizza place,
She took care of animals in her neighborhood, and she
(03:58):
had recently moved in with her partner. She will be
buried in the United States. Her family said that she
loved America and she'll be buried here. Just a very
sad story. It was a very busy Tuesday, as international
news also in the forefront at the White House Press briefing,
specifically Israel's airstrike on Hamas leaders in Cutter. Israeli Prime
(04:23):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu targeted a residence in Cutter used by
Hamas figures in the northern suburbs of Doha. That's the
same place where those leaders celebrated the October seventh Attext.
More than ten Israeli jet fighters fired long range munitions
at this house, causing explosions that were heard all around Doha.
(04:47):
At the White House Press Briefing, the first question asked
of Caroline Leavitt by one of the reporters in the
front row in the briefing room had to do with
the President's reaction to this air strike. Let's listen to
this statement read by Caroline Levitt. Following that question.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This morning, the Trump administration was notified by the United
States Military that as Israel was attacking Hamas, which very
unfortunately was located in a section of Doha, the capital
of Qatar. Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and
close ally of the United States that is working very
hard in bravely taking risks with us to broker peace,
(05:29):
does not advance Israel or America's goals. However, eliminating Hamas,
who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza,
is a worthy goal. President Trump immediately directed Special Envoy
Whitkoff to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which
he did. The President views Qatar as a strong ally
(05:49):
and friend of the United States and feels very badly
about the location of this attack. President Trump's wants all
of the hostages in Gaza and the bodies of dead
released in this war to end now. President Trump also
spoke to Prime Minister Netanyah, who after the attack. The
Prime Minister told President Trump that he wants to make
(06:11):
peace and quickly. President Trump believes this unfortunate incident could
serve as an opportunity for peace. The President also spoke
to the Emir and Prime Minister of Qatar and thanked
them for their support and friendship to our country. He
assured them that such a thing will not happen again
on their soil now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The President said in a post on social media truth
Social that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminetnya, who
after the strike, which, according to the post, does not
advance Israel or America's goals. The President said in the
post eliminating Hamas was in his words, a worthy goal,
(06:51):
but he added that he felt very badly about the
location of the attack. And then later on Tuesday, the
President told reporters that Israel did not notify him in
advance of this strike. He added that he was, in
his words, very unhappy about every aspect of this operation.
For the President, this presents a dilemma in the sense
(07:15):
that America's closest ally in the Middle East is Israel,
and he wants to refrain from criticizing openly one of
America's closest allies. At the same time, Cutter is also
a strong ally of the United States. America has a
very important military base based in Cutter, and that relationship
(07:38):
is quite important. It's one of the reasons the President
visited Cutter during his Mid East trip several months ago.
Back here at home, some legal news that certainly is
making a lot of news that impacts the president. The
Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to quickly hear the Trump
administration's effort to save it's sweeping global tariffs, and now
(08:02):
that sets the stage for a final ruling on the
cornerstone of the president's economic agenda. This is the first
time that the Supreme Court has decided on the legality
of a major policy from President Trump's second term. The
case itself will be heard in early November, and that's
(08:23):
a schedule that could actually deliver a ruling by the
Supreme Court before the end of the year. This case
is all about the president's unilateral power to impose these
so called reciprocal tariffs. The president is relying on a
nineteen seventy seven law that gives him broad powers to
impose these tariffs on virtually every country. Several courts have
(08:48):
so far found that the law, which is the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not authorize President Trump to
impose these tariffs. The reason it's come to the Supreme
Court is because a wine importer and other small businesses
have challenged the tariffs. They have asked the Supreme Court
(09:09):
to rule quickly on this matter. They say they are
suffering severe economic hardships as a result of the price
increases and supply chain interruptions which have been caused by
these terroifts. The Trump administration, meanwhile, says the ruling against
the president would have dire results. The Treasury Secretary, Scott
(09:29):
Bessant said in the government's petition to the Supreme Court
that it expects to have collected between seven hundred and
fifty billion and one trillion dollars in tariff's revenue by
next summer, and if it's forced by the Supreme Court
to unwine the tariffs, the consequences, in his words, would
(09:49):
be catastrophic. When asked in recent weeks, the President has
expressed optimism that the Supreme Court will ultimately rule in
his favor. He of course, had a super conservative majority
at the Supreme Court, and he feels that super conservative
majority will hand him a victory. The other legal news
happened late Tuesday. A federal judge block President Trump from
(10:14):
removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
That's while a lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds in the
federal court system. The decision, coming from a federal judge
in Washington, d C. Comes just days before the fed's
next meeting that's set for next week September sixteenth and seventeen.
(10:37):
The judge said that Cook is substantially likely to succeed
on her lawsuit that President Trump violated the Federal Reserve
Act because her termination, according to the judge, didn't comply
with the statutes requirement that officials can only be removed
for cause. The President says he's firing her for cause,
(11:00):
and he cited allegations that have not yet been proven
that Cook submitted fraudulent information on two separate mortgage applications.
Lisa Cook's lawyers say in their lawsuit that the President
is just using these allegations as a pretext to remove
Lisa Cook in order to vacate her seat on the FED,
(11:24):
and that would allow President Trump to fill her seat
with a FED governor that is more likely to support
his position on interest rate policy. This lawsuit will take
some time to get resolved, it likely will ultimately be
decided by the US Supreme Court. They will rule whether
the President had the cause to fire FED Governor Lisa Cook.
(11:48):
As for what we can expect on Wednesday, the President's
schedule is rather thin. According to the schedule, we will
just see the president one time today and that's at
seven o'clock PM Eastern time. He's hosting a dinner right now.
It's closed press. It will be in what the White
House calls the Rose Garden Club. That's the Flagstone patio
(12:10):
just outside the Oval Office. We don't know yet who
the people are who will be entertained at this dinner,
invited to this dinner in the Rose Garden, but we'll
keep our eye on that, and we'll also keep our
eye in terms of what the latest reaction is to
some other late breaking news. Poland said it shot down
(12:30):
Russian drones over its territory following a Russian attack on Ukraine,
and that incident led authorities in Poland to close down
the Warsaw airport for the first time since the war began. Now,
these Russian drones, they've increasingly crossed into Polish airspace from
(12:51):
Ukraine in recent weeks. That says Moscow has expanded its
drone strikes and its missile strikes on numerous Ukrainian cities,
so we'll see what the reaction is, not only from
the White House, but also coming from NATO as well.
That's it for the White House Briefing Room for Wednesday,
(13:11):
September tenth. I'm John Dekker. Have a good one.
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Wednesday, September tenth.
I'm John Decker. President Trump makes the case for deploying
the National Guard to bring down crime rates in cities
across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We have to respond with force and strength. We have
to be vicious, just like they are. It's the only
thing they understand.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt gives the President's reaction
to Israel's airstrike on Hamas leaders in cutter.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The President views Qatar as a strong ally and friend
of the United States and feels very badly about the
location of this attack.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Supreme Court agrees to fast track President Trump's bid
to save his tariff's policy, and some breaking news as
a federal judge blocks the President from removing Fed Governor
Lisa Cook. But we begin with the President laying the
groundwork for sending National Guard to hoops to some of
(01:01):
America's most crime ridden cities. The President on Tuesday released
a video from the Oval Office in which he focused
his attention on a local crime committed in North Carolina
that is getting national attention. The President spoke of Irina Zerutzka,
who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while
(01:23):
riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was
back on the night of August twenty second. She sat
in an aisle seat directly in front of a suspect
who in the video is seen in a window seat
wearing an orange sweatshirt. That suspect is now facing federal
charges that would make him eligible for the death penalty.
(01:46):
The suspect is to Carlos Brown Junior. He was arrested
on that same evening after he fatally stabbed the twenty
three year old, and he's been charged by the US
Attorney's Office in the Western District of North Carolina. The
President in that video focused on this horrific murder.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
She was slaughtered by a deranged monster who was roaming
free after fourteen prior arrests. We cannot allow it depraved
criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction
and death throughout our country.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The recent release of that attack on video has caused
national outrage. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a
statement that if mayors can't keep their trains and buses safe,
they don't deserve the taxpayer's money, and the President also
focusing on the leadership of America's cities. Let's listen to
(02:43):
the president right here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Twenty four of the top twenty five most dangerous cities
in America are run by Democrat mayors. Fifty people were
murdered in Chicago in recent weeks, with hundreds being shot,
and it's time to stop this madness. The people of
our country need to insist on protecting safety, law and order.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The President says. The blueprint for how to bring down
the crime rate in American cities is Washington, d C.
Where he deployed the National Guard back on August the seventh.
The President says, what he did in Washington, d C.
Can be done in other cities across the country. Let's
listen to the president right here.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We have proven that it can be done because we
did it right here in d C. In District of Columbia.
The capital of America was a blood Thursday, horrible, dangerous place,
one of the worst. And now it's a crime free
city and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
As for Zarutska, she worked in many places after coming
to America following her life living in a bomb shelter
because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. She worked at
a senior citizen center, she worked at a pizza place,
She took care of animals in her neighborhood, and she
(03:58):
had recently moved in with her partner. She will be
buried in the United States. Her family said that she
loved America and she'll be buried here. Just a very
sad story. It was a very busy Tuesday, as international
news also in the forefront at the White House Press briefing,
specifically Israel's airstrike on Hamas leaders in Cutter. Israeli Prime
(04:23):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu targeted a residence in Cutter used by
Hamas figures in the northern suburbs of Doha. That's the
same place where those leaders celebrated the October seventh Attext.
More than ten Israeli jet fighters fired long range munitions
at this house, causing explosions that were heard all around Doha.
(04:47):
At the White House Press Briefing, the first question asked
of Caroline Leavitt by one of the reporters in the
front row in the briefing room had to do with
the President's reaction to this air strike. Let's listen to
this statement read by Caroline Levitt. Following that question.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This morning, the Trump administration was notified by the United
States Military that as Israel was attacking Hamas, which very
unfortunately was located in a section of Doha, the capital
of Qatar. Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and
close ally of the United States that is working very
hard in bravely taking risks with us to broker peace,
(05:29):
does not advance Israel or America's goals. However, eliminating Hamas,
who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza,
is a worthy goal. President Trump immediately directed Special Envoy
Whitkoff to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which
he did. The President views Qatar as a strong ally
(05:49):
and friend of the United States and feels very badly
about the location of this attack. President Trump's wants all
of the hostages in Gaza and the bodies of dead
released in this war to end now. President Trump also
spoke to Prime Minister Netanyah, who after the attack. The
Prime Minister told President Trump that he wants to make
(06:11):
peace and quickly. President Trump believes this unfortunate incident could
serve as an opportunity for peace. The President also spoke
to the Emir and Prime Minister of Qatar and thanked
them for their support and friendship to our country. He
assured them that such a thing will not happen again
on their soil now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The President said in a post on social media truth
Social that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminetnya, who
after the strike, which, according to the post, does not
advance Israel or America's goals. The President said in the
post eliminating Hamas was in his words, a worthy goal,
(06:51):
but he added that he felt very badly about the
location of the attack. And then later on Tuesday, the
President told reporters that Israel did not notify him in
advance of this strike. He added that he was, in
his words, very unhappy about every aspect of this operation.
For the President, this presents a dilemma in the sense
(07:15):
that America's closest ally in the Middle East is Israel,
and he wants to refrain from criticizing openly one of
America's closest allies. At the same time, Cutter is also
a strong ally of the United States. America has a
very important military base based in Cutter, and that relationship
(07:38):
is quite important. It's one of the reasons the President
visited Cutter during his Mid East trip several months ago.
Back here at home, some legal news that certainly is
making a lot of news that impacts the president. The
Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to quickly hear the Trump
administration's effort to save it's sweeping global tariffs, and now
(08:02):
that sets the stage for a final ruling on the
cornerstone of the president's economic agenda. This is the first
time that the Supreme Court has decided on the legality
of a major policy from President Trump's second term. The
case itself will be heard in early November, and that's
(08:23):
a schedule that could actually deliver a ruling by the
Supreme Court before the end of the year. This case
is all about the president's unilateral power to impose these
so called reciprocal tariffs. The president is relying on a
nineteen seventy seven law that gives him broad powers to
impose these tariffs on virtually every country. Several courts have
(08:48):
so far found that the law, which is the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not authorize President Trump to
impose these tariffs. The reason it's come to the Supreme
Court is because a wine importer and other small businesses
have challenged the tariffs. They have asked the Supreme Court
(09:09):
to rule quickly on this matter. They say they are
suffering severe economic hardships as a result of the price
increases and supply chain interruptions which have been caused by
these terroifts. The Trump administration, meanwhile, says the ruling against
the president would have dire results. The Treasury Secretary, Scott
(09:29):
Bessant said in the government's petition to the Supreme Court
that it expects to have collected between seven hundred and
fifty billion and one trillion dollars in tariff's revenue by
next summer, and if it's forced by the Supreme Court
to unwine the tariffs, the consequences, in his words, would
(09:49):
be catastrophic. When asked in recent weeks, the President has
expressed optimism that the Supreme Court will ultimately rule in
his favor. He of course, had a super conservative majority
at the Supreme Court, and he feels that super conservative
majority will hand him a victory. The other legal news
happened late Tuesday. A federal judge block President Trump from
(10:14):
removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
That's while a lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds in the
federal court system. The decision, coming from a federal judge
in Washington, d C. Comes just days before the fed's
next meeting that's set for next week September sixteenth and seventeen.
(10:37):
The judge said that Cook is substantially likely to succeed
on her lawsuit that President Trump violated the Federal Reserve
Act because her termination, according to the judge, didn't comply
with the statutes requirement that officials can only be removed
for cause. The President says he's firing her for cause,
(11:00):
and he cited allegations that have not yet been proven
that Cook submitted fraudulent information on two separate mortgage applications.
Lisa Cook's lawyers say in their lawsuit that the President
is just using these allegations as a pretext to remove
Lisa Cook in order to vacate her seat on the FED,
(11:24):
and that would allow President Trump to fill her seat
with a FED governor that is more likely to support
his position on interest rate policy. This lawsuit will take
some time to get resolved, it likely will ultimately be
decided by the US Supreme Court. They will rule whether
the President had the cause to fire FED Governor Lisa Cook.
(11:48):
As for what we can expect on Wednesday, the President's
schedule is rather thin. According to the schedule, we will
just see the president one time today and that's at
seven o'clock PM Eastern time. He's hosting a dinner right now.
It's closed press. It will be in what the White
House calls the Rose Garden Club. That's the Flagstone patio
(12:10):
just outside the Oval Office. We don't know yet who
the people are who will be entertained at this dinner,
invited to this dinner in the Rose Garden, but we'll
keep our eye on that, and we'll also keep our
eye in terms of what the latest reaction is to
some other late breaking news. Poland said it shot down
(12:30):
Russian drones over its territory following a Russian attack on Ukraine,
and that incident led authorities in Poland to close down
the Warsaw airport for the first time since the war began. Now,
these Russian drones, they've increasingly crossed into Polish airspace from
(12:51):
Ukraine in recent weeks. That says Moscow has expanded its
drone strikes and its missile strikes on numerous Ukrainian cities,
so we'll see what the reaction is, not only from
the White House, but also coming from NATO as well.
That's it for the White House Briefing Room for Wednesday,
(13:11):
September tenth. I'm John Dekker. Have a good one.
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