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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight, a stress test for the economy. |
0:04.0 | The president unleashes his most sweeping tariffs yet, escalating a trade war that impacts |
0:10.0 | every U.S. trading partner and every American. |
0:13.0 | Plus, is Trump looking to cut Elon Musk loose? |
0:16.0 | Questions grow about his political future after Democrats score a decisive victory at the polls. |
0:21.6 | Then? |
0:22.6 | When I talk to Democrats right now, the thing I say to them is you're not helpless. |
0:28.6 | You have agency. |
0:30.6 | You've got power here. |
0:33.6 | My keynote conversation with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night. |
0:43.9 | We got work to do tonight. Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl and welcome to the midweek nightcap. It is day 73 of the second Trump administration. And everybody who said he's not going to do it, it's talk, |
0:55.4 | it's positioning. You are wrong. All eyes right now are on the markets tomorrow morning to see |
1:00.5 | how they will respond to Donald Trump's tariffs on the entire globe. Futures for the Dow, |
1:06.5 | NASDAQ, and S&P absolutely cratered after Donald Trump's big announcement, which was conveniently |
1:12.5 | right after the market close. It could completely upend the economy here and in the United |
1:18.8 | States and around the globe. My colleague Gabe Boudierrez has the details. |
1:25.1 | Just minutes after the day's market closed, President Trump walking into the Rose Garden. |
1:30.2 | My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. |
1:34.1 | Announcing a new 10% tariff on every American trading partner. |
1:38.0 | But that's not all. |
1:39.1 | China, 67%. |
1:41.1 | That's tariffs charged to the USA. So we're going to be charging a discounted reciprocal |
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