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President Trump on Monday issued an order to federal agencies to deny birthright citizenship to children of parents who are unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders, seemingly defying the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson joins CBS News 24/7 on the legality of that order and some of Mr. Trump’s other executive actions.

Mr. Trump is set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States, CBS News has learned. 

OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, according to multiple people familiar with the deal. 

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is expected at the White House Tuesday afternoon, along with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle.

Executives from the companies are expected to say they plan to commit $100 billion initially and pour up to $500 billion into Stargate over the next four years. Other details of the new partnership were not immediately available. 

Read more here. 

President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

The executive action was part of a slew of measures signed by Mr. Trump in the hours after he was sworn into a second term in office and is one of his first steps he has taken to target those he considers political opponents now that he has returned to the White House.

Mr. Trump said in his order that the signers of the letter “willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions.”

“This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Community to suppress information essential to the American people during a presidential election is an egregious breach of trust reminiscent of a third world country,” the order states. “And now the faith of Americans in all other patriotic intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect the nation has been imperiled.”

Read more here. 

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan was ousted by the Trump administration Tuesday, on Mr. Trump’s first full day in office. In 2022, Fagan became the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military. 

Fagan was relieved of her duties Monday night in a workforce-wide message by Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamin Huffman. 

“Under my statutory authority as the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security I have relieved Admiral Linda L. Fagan of her duties as Commandant of the United States Coast Guard,” the brief message read, in part. “She served a long and illustrious career, and I thank her for her service to our nation.”

The Coast Guard commandant is appointed for a four-year term, and Fagan had served two years.

Read more here. 

 The Trump administration has issued guidance to U.S. border officials instructing them to call migrants “illegal aliens,” reversing a Biden-era move to stop the use of that term, two U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources tell CBS News.

The term is found in U.S. immigration law, but advocates argue it is dehumanizing. The Biden administration had instructed agents and officers to use “migrants” or “undocumented” individuals instead. 

Border officials have also been directed to stop most releases of migrants, requiring agents to get approval from headquarters before releasing migrants into the U.S. with court notices, the CBP sources said.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would defend birthright citizenship following an executive order by Mr. Trump, as California officials gear up for what is expected to be many legal challenges involving the new administration.

The order, signed hours after Trump was inaugurated, seeks to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally or on temporary visas.

“Birthright citizenship is a right expressly guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. It is disappointing, but unfortunately unsurprising, that the President chose to disregard the constitution and attempt to invalidate this right as one of his first acts in office,” Bonta said in a statement Monday.

The U.S. government has long interpreted the Constitution to mean that those born on American soil are citizens at birth, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

Read more from CBS Bay Area here. 

Attorneys for both Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have both been released from prison following Mr. Trump’s pardon. 

Tarrio, who was not at the Jan. 6 riot, was serving a 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and other crimes. Rhodes was serving an 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and other crimes. 

Tarrio was expected to return to Miami on Tuesday night, a family spokesperson told CBS Miami. 

Ed Martin, a champion of the Jan. 6 defendants and a speaker at a Jan. 5, 2021, “Stop the Steal” election rally has been named acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 select committee, and he will now be overseeing the Justice Department requests to dismiss Capitol riot cases. 

Mr. Trump headed to the National Cathedral on Tuesday morning, where he will attend the national prayer service. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told CBS News on Tuesday about the Jan. 6 pardons that Republicans are “not looking backwards, we’re looking forwards.” 

Thune pointed to former President Joe Biden’s pardons at the end of his term, saying “Biden laid forth the most massive use of the pardon power that we’ve seen in history … and I think you guys should probably be asking the same questions.”

Mr. Trump’s inauguration speech promised a “golden age” and outlined his priorities for a second term. CBS News political contributors Joel Payne and Terry Sullivan join “CBS Mornings” to break down what his speech means for the country’s future.

Mr. Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended three inaugural presidential balls to celebrate his 2025 inauguration Monday evening: the Commander-in-Chief Ball, the Liberty Ball and the Starlight Ball. 

After delivering several speeches earlier in the day and signing a series of executive orders — including one on granting clemency to Jan. 6 defendants, several on immigration policy, and another on his plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement — Mr. Trump headed out to celebrate with supporters and deliver brief remarks at each of the three balls.

Read more here. 

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is facing senators’ questions on Tuesday as she defends her record and qualifications to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. 

Stefanik, one of Mr. Trump’s most reliable allies in Congress, goes before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for her confirmation hearing less than 24 hours after Mr. Trump was sworn into office. Mr. Trump hopes his key Cabinet picks will sail through confirmation and take their posts once he’s president on Jan. 20. Stefanik is likely to be confirmed when the full Senate takes up a vote. 

Stefanik, 40, would be the youngest-ever U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The New York Republican has served in a leadership position as Republican conference chair, and she was on the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. And that skillset honed in Congress will serve her well, said John Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

Watch her confirmation hearing here. 

Marco Rubio, confirmed unanimously by the Senate Monday as secretary of state, said his “singular focus” will be to ensure American interests are at the center of State Department priorities.

“Our foreign policy, once again, needs to focus on the national interest of the United States,” Rubio said on “CBS Mornings.”

Rubio represented Florida in the Senate since 2011 and resigned Monday. He was officially sworn in as secretary of state Tuesday morning.

Rubio sidestepped questions about Mr. Trump’s far-reaching pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, saying his focus is on his new role and the nation’s foreign policy approach. 

“I work for Donald J. Trump, the new president of the United States, the 47th president who has a clear mandate to reorient our foreign policy to one that, once again, puts America and our interests at the center,” Rubio said. 

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, said his entire life and career has been influenced by his parents’ decision to come to the U.S. in 1956, with nothing but “dreams of a better life.”

 “I think it reminds us that this remains the one place on earth where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything,” Rubio said. 

Vice President JD Vance swore Rubio in as secretary of state on Tuesday morning, after the Senate confirmed him Monday night in a 99-0 vote. 

Rubio said Mr. Trump has “given us a very clear mandate,” saying “everything we do must be justified” by whether it makes the nation stronger, safer or more prosperous. Rubio said that is the promise his government will help him keep. 

The secretary of state said “it’s a transformational moment,” adding that the U.S. is “heading into a new era that I think will make the world a safer place.”

“Yesterday, President Trump made clear in his inaugural speech that one of the primary goals of American foreign policy is the promotion of peace,” Rubio said, adding that includes “peace through strength” and the promotion of peace without “abandoning our values.”

Mr. Trump on Monday granted clemency to roughly 1,500 defendants who had been convicted of crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, following through on his longtime promise to absolve those who participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol of wrongdoing. 

The president’s action comes on his first day back in the White House and just hours after he was sworn in for a second term. Mr. Trump has repeatedly sought to downplay the events of Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from reaffirming Joe Biden’s victory over him in the 2020 presidential election. 

Mr. Trump extended clemency to those convicted of violent and serious crimes, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. He also ordered the attorney general to dismiss all pending indictments related to the Capitol riot, essentially eradicating the Biden Justice Department’s massive effort to hold accountable those who participated in the assault.

“These are the hostages, approximately 1,500 for a pardon, full pardon,” Mr. Trump said during remarks from the Oval Office. “This is a big one.”

Read more about the Jan. 6 pardons here. 

— Melissa Quinn, Rob Legare 

Mr. Trump delivered his second inaugural address Monday, vowing a “revolution of common sense” and announcing “we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.”

In the 30-minute speech in the Capitol Rotunda, he promised a “tide of change” and salvation from what he said was the “decline” brought on by the policies of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. 

To that end, he’s expected to sign about 200 executive orders, actions and proclamations following his address. 

“The golden age of America begins right now,” Mr. Trump said. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”  

Read the full transcript here of Mr. Trump’s second inaugural address, provided by the Associated Press, and watch the full speech in the player below.

Mr. Trump signed roughly 200 executive actions, memoranda and proclamations on his first day in office, undoing Biden administration mandates and implementing his “America first” policies. 

Mr. Trump signed executive actions related to immigration, including invoking presidential powers to launch a sweeping crackdown on immigration, tasking the military with border enforcement, designating cartels and gangs as terrorist groups and shutting down asylum and refugee admissions,  declaring a national emergency at the southern border, ordering the Defense Department to more heavily involve military resources there, tasking officials to deploy additional troops to the border. 

Mr. Trump also moved to dismantle birthright citizenship, which the U.S. government has long interpreted the Constitution to mean that those born on American soil are citizens at birth, regardless of their parents’ immigration status, meaning the executive action is likely to be challenged legally.

Mr. Trump also signed executive action ordering federal workers back to the office, ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within the federal government and telling the Justice Department not to enforce the TikTok ban for 90 days.