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🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Despite widespread warnings about what economic havoc they could cause, Donald Trump announced his plan to put tariffs on nearly every nation in the world. Catherine Rampell, opinion columnist for The Washington Post and co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend, gives her instant reaction to Trump's plan. If history (and the current stock market) is any indication, we're in for a painful road ahead.
Catherine also discusses Elon Musk and how his Department Of Government Efficiency has created painful chaos as he dismantles the government’s workforce and essential services.
Read Catherine's writing in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/catherine-rampell/
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change, because my guest is Catherine Rampel. |
0:10.9 | You may know Catherine from her Washington Post column or her previous visits on her show. |
0:16.5 | Plus, we'll be seeing more of Catherine soon when she starts co-hosting MSNBC's The Weekend, |
0:22.4 | which will be in prime time. |
0:24.5 | We recorded this immediately after, immediately after Trump's Rose Garden speech, |
0:30.1 | announcing his new tariff regime. |
0:32.9 | So this is an historic conversation. |
0:35.8 | I'm essentially asking Catherine to explain what we had just |
0:38.8 | heard on the fly. But just for clarity's sake, Trump has put steep tariffs on nearly every |
0:45.9 | country in the world, which will cost Americans at least a couple thousand dollars a year each. |
0:51.5 | It will adversely affect low and middle-income Americans far more than high-income |
0:57.5 | Americans who will get a giant tax break. There. Before we go into my discussion with Catherine, |
1:04.6 | I want to talk to you about the special election in Wisconsin. It was a very important win for |
1:10.3 | the state Supreme Court judge. Susan |
1:12.5 | Crawford was elected by a 10% margin. Now, Elon Musk put $20 million in the efforts to support |
1:21.7 | the ultra-conservative candidate, but Wisconsin voters across the state came out and voted to elect Crawford. That's because |
1:29.0 | Democrats turned out and shifted the margins statewide when compared to Trump's narrow |
1:34.9 | victory there in November. After Crawford's win, Musk commented that he, quote, expected to lose, |
1:43.8 | which I guess is why he put only 20 million into the |
1:47.6 | race. At least he's accepted the results and isn't spreading election hoax lies. Still, we should |
1:54.1 | celebrate Crawford's victory with it. The liberal justices maintain a four, three majority, and will |
1:59.7 | be able to un-jgerimander the state's |
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