Good morning.
It's Monday, December 8th.
I'm Shimi Tabasu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, the Supreme Court hears a major case on presidential power,
what the Netflix Warner Brothers merger means for Hollywood and your streaming services,
and why Trump is already regretting one of his pardons from last week.
But first, President Trump has unveiled his vision for America's role in the world.
On Friday, the administration dropped its national security strategy,
an official document that's normally delivered once a term.
It offered a window into the thinking behind the administration's evolving foreign policy.
On Saturday,
Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth celebrated the four priorities laid out in the document at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California.
First, defending the U.S.
homeland and our hemisphere.
Second, deterring China through strength, not confrontation.
Third, increased burden sharing for US allies and partners.
And fourth, supercharging the US defense industrial base.
Hexeth presented Trump's thinking as a follow to the Monroe Doctrine,
the 19th century policy that declared the Western Hemisphere as part of the US sphere of influence,