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The Beat with Ari Melber

Donald Trump sentenced as a felon

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, January 10, and reports on Donald Trump's sentencing in the New York hush money case and the California wildfires. Plus, Melber is joined by rapper Erick Sermon and MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin for the latest "Fallback" installment. Joyce Vance, Douglas Brinkley and Ellison Barber also join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Remember the shortage of semiconductors during the pandemic?

0:03.0

Those tiny little chips, computer chips, the size of your fingertip,

0:07.0

that power everything in our everyday lives from vehicles or refrigerators to advance weapons

0:12.0

through your cell phones.

0:14.0

American invented these computer chips.

0:17.0

But over time, we stopped making them.

0:19.0

And chip fractures were overseas for cheaper labor. So in the pandemic kit, we stopped making them. And chip factories went overseas for cheaper labor.

0:22.2

So in the pandemic hit, we found out how vulnerable America was.

0:26.5

Supply changed abroad shut down because of the pandemic.

0:30.0

We couldn't get the chips.

0:32.0

The price soared.

0:33.6

For example, takes over 3,000 of these computer chips to build an automobile today.

0:39.3

And when overseas factories making those chips shut down, the production stopped and the cost of new

0:44.8

cars soared.

0:46.4

It didn't have to be this way.

0:48.3

I was determined to change that.

0:50.6

And that's what we've done with the Chips and Science Act, which has attracted $350 billion.

0:56.8

Private sector investment in America, including from Korea and Taiwan and other countries.

1:01.9

These investments are building new fabs, they call them the place where they build these chips.

1:07.0

New fabs, massive chip factories, the size of several football fields on fields of dream all across

1:13.7

America creating so far 125,000 jobs in the construction side of this which are ultimately

1:20.1

create tens of thousands more jobs tens of thousands these jobs in these quote called fabs are paying over $100,000 a year and you don't need a college degree.

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