Countdown 2024 from KNX News

55 days to go until inauguration day ushers Donald Trump back into the White House for the second time ... thank you for counting down the days with me and Larry Perel, sitting in today for Margaret Carrero.

On today's Countdown 2024: Politics and family haven't been a good mix for generations ... but something about Donald Trump has turbo-charged those age-old family debates, and not in a good way. Today we'll hear about the various ways people are bracing for, or outright avoiding, talking politics around the holiday dinner table.

56 days left in our post-election transitional period until the second Trump administration gets going ... thank you for counting down with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: Democrats can't afford to spend too much time licking their wounds after losing to Donald Trump, as the president-elect is wasting no time putting together a potentially extremist cabinet and enacting a sweeping agenda. So we'll talk with an influential pair of Democrats ... a former U.S. Labor Secretary and the former co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign ... about what went wrong, and where they go from here.

59 days left in the transition from Democrats to Republicans in charge .... from Biden to Trump. Thank you for counting down with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: Nathan Hochman dispatched with George Gascon rather easily three weeks ago, on his way to winning the Los Angeles County District Attorney's race ... as voters here showed their strong preference for a more strictly law-and-order approach for the county's chief prosecutor. But now comes the hard part for the District Attorney-elect: delivering on his promises to bring down crime and make people feel safer as he oversees the biggest DA's office in the country. Nathan Hochman joins us on Countdown 2024.

60 days to go until Donald Trump is sworn back into office ... and if the next 60 days are anything like these last three weeks since election day ... you're going to want to stick with us on Countdown!

On today's Countdown 2024: Matt Gaetz is OUT as the nominee to become the country's next attorney general ... much more coming up on this big development. And ... normally reliable Democratic voters in big cities across the country voted for Trump in record numbers on November 5th, spooking Democrats and touching off some serious soul searching about how blue cities and states are being governed. We'll hear from one big city mayor about the lessons Democrats should learn from their wipeout election.

61 days to go until inauguration day and Donald Trump is sworn in as the nation's 47th president ... thank you for counting down the transition with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: President-elect Trump couldn't be more clear in his priorities when it comes to the nation's environment and energy policy. Trump believes climate change is a hoax, and he wants to "drill baby drill," even though the U.S. is already the chief global producer of oil and natural gas. So we'll DRILL down on both these issues today ... hearing from the Sierra Club and an oil and gas trader who's been helping the Trump transition team.

62 days to go in the country's transition to a second Trump presidency ... thank you for counting down with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: The incoming Republican controlled Congress will face several early tests from the Trump administration, all centered around one core, constitutional question: How much of their power are they willing to cede to President Donald Trump, who seems very eager to seize it? We'll put that question to the Republican Congressman elected to take over Kevin McCarthy's old House seat in Bakersfield. And ... how will journalists navigate their second tour covering the Trump administration, especially after they've been labeled the "enemy of the people?"

63 days to go until the transition is complete and Donald Trump is sworn back into the presidency ... thank you for counting down with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: Back in 2016 when Donald Trump first won the presidency and had a Republican House and Senate, conservatives were giddy ... but couldn't really pull off the sweeping transformation of the federal government for which they were hoping. This time both the president-elect and his MAGA faithful are determined to charge full steam ahead ... we'll hear from the CEO of The Federalist about how they'll execute their plans. And we'll talk with a former CDC investigator who thinks Robert F. Kennedy Junior might not be the disaster many fear as head of Health and Human Services.

66 days to go until Donald Trump officially re-takes the reigns of power at the White House ... thank you for counting down this complicated transition period with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: The promises from president-elect Trump and several other Republicans to kill off the U.S. Department of Education came early and often during the campaign ... so now that he's back in charge, can he actually shut down a sprawling federal agency overseeing the public educations of some 50-million American kids ... and WOULD he actually do that? We'll hear from a former Secretary of Education. And at the end of today's show: if Donald Trump is a reflection of the American people, what does that say about us?

The transition to a new president and a new controlling party in Washington D.C. marches on ... with 67 days left to go before Donald Trump is sworn back into office. Thank you for counting down this post-election period with us.

On today's Countdown 2024: Donald Trump's nomination of controversial Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz has a lot of people worried that Trump will follow through on his threats to use the Justice Department to exact revenge on his political enemies ... so we're talking with the ACLU today on its plan for resistance. And ... can Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy really root out trillions of dollars in government fraud and waste?

68 days to go until January 20th, when Donald Trump will be sworn into the presidency to serve a second term ... thanks for sticking with us as we cover this complicated period of transition.

On today's Countdown 2024: we're focusing on foreign and military policy under the incoming Trump administration ... which means asking about the fate of Ukraine, the fate of NATO and whether a Fox News host is up to the task of leading the world's biggest and most advanced military.