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The Beat with Ari Melber

Coast-to-Coast Protest Erupt Against Trump's Policies

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, April 7, and reports on the nationwide “Hands Off” protests against the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Trump’s tariff-driven market meltdown and the escalating legal battle over his deportation flights. Andrew Ross Sorkin, Leah Greenberg and Maya Wiley join.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. Our top story is about this, as markets shed trillions of dollars with more volatility today over the tariffs.

0:09.9

And also this, these massive protests against Trump over the weekend, hundreds of thousands, the largest single day of coordinated action against Trump in this young second term.

0:25.5

Wall Street trading and grassroots protests may seem like very different lanes.

0:32.0

And yet they both reflect, when you think about it, the views of very large groups both rejecting this Trump agenda,

0:42.0

having seen it play out in reality across these 75 days or so.

0:46.0

The $6 trillion market slide is a clear rejection of Trump's economic and tariff plans.

0:52.0

The protests reflect opposition to a much wider set of policies, including maybe

0:57.2

economics, but also clearly from listening and watching and covering these protests to immigration,

1:02.4

to slashing government, to lawless acts. And public opinion shows many people oppose Trump's

1:08.2

actions and governing approach in this rocky beginning of the second

1:11.4

term. We're tracking all of these forms of opposition tonight. And I'm going to walk through with you

1:17.8

right now, the evidence, what we have, what we're seeing, about how this could actually reshape

1:22.7

this young presidency, how these lanes of very different groups of people all speaking, though,

1:29.4

towards one direction, towards trying to combat what Trump is doing, to stop or change some of

1:35.6

his actions to see, can he really get away with this, like this, for this long?

1:40.0

This could all catalyze even more powerful pushback.

1:43.0

It's been in that vein another wild day

1:45.3

on Wall Street to start the week, Trump on defense over the flagging trade war, which is hurting

1:49.8

America more than it's helping America. There's no real disagreement about that fact.

1:55.2

And there are concerns tonight the worst could still be yet to come. The tariff failure, risking a full-blown recession.

2:05.7

Markets have been extremely volatile all morning, plunging, surging, and then tumbling again.

2:11.4

Asian and European markets are also reeling from the Trump tariff stocks in Hong Kong

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