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🗓️ 5 August 2025
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0:00.0 | With new tariffs set to take effect on Friday, President Trump continued to negotiate with several countries today. |
0:07.1 | The president of Switzerland flew to Washington in a late attempt to stave off tariffs of 39% on her country. |
0:13.8 | Earlier in the day, President Trump threatened to raise tariffs on India, saying he was upset over that country's purchase of Russian oil. |
0:21.0 | In fact, the president has said the new purchase of U.S. energy is key to some of the biggest |
0:25.6 | deal struck so far. But as Stephanie Sai tells us, there are questions about whether those |
0:30.7 | pledges will live up to the president's claims. |
0:34.1 | That's right, Jeff. Energy agreements are a big part of the latest announcements. Japan said it will |
0:40.1 | invest $550 billion in American energy infrastructure and production. And South Korea agreed to |
0:47.2 | buy $100 billion in liquefied natural gas over the next four years. But the deal really raising |
0:53.6 | eyebrows is with the European Union, |
0:56.1 | which apparently agreed to buy $250 billion worth of U.S. energy a year for the next three years. |
1:03.8 | David Goldwyn, a former top State Department energy official in the Obama administration, |
1:08.6 | and now president of Goldwyn Global Strategies joins me now |
1:12.5 | to break all of this down. David, so good to have you on the news hour. You know, there are people |
1:17.8 | in your field who have crunched the numbers and they are calling this deal with the EU unrealistic, |
1:25.0 | even delusional. Do you agree? Can Europe buy that much American energy in that amount of time? |
1:32.2 | And can we export that much of it? Well, the short answer is no. The numbers really are fantastical. |
1:40.9 | I think it's an aspirational agreement. I think it's a strong political signal, |
1:44.7 | but the math really doesn't work. The total U.S. exports of energy last year were 165 billion. |
1:51.4 | If we sent them all to Europe next year, it wouldn't approach $250 billion. And commodity prices |
1:58.3 | are lower in 2025 than they were in 2024. And Europe itself, |
2:03.1 | if they backed out all of all of Russian gas, that might be another, you know, that might be another |
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