Evening Wire: Trump Imposes Global Tariff & USA Hockey Scores Big | 2.20.26
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance for Secure AI. |
| 0:05.0 | We're a coalition of patriotic Americans who want to stop AI from taking our freedoms. |
| 0:10.0 | Big Tech is propping up AI-powered mass surveillance and exploiting our children online. |
| 0:16.0 | This is not the future we want. |
| 0:18.0 | The Alliance is working hard to ensure that we put Americans first. |
| 0:23.8 | Join us at SecureaI.Now.org to learn more. |
| 0:27.7 | Paid for by the Alliance for SecureAI. |
| 0:32.7 | The Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs. |
| 0:36.4 | Trump orders the release of all info on aliens and UFOs, |
| 0:40.5 | and Team USA picks up more golds. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley. |
| 0:46.9 | It's Friday, February 20th, and this is Evening Wire. |
| 0:50.6 | In a major blow to Trump's economic agenda, the Supreme Court has struck down most of the |
| 0:55.9 | president's tariffs. Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more on the seismic decision. |
| 1:01.1 | The High Court ruled 6'3 today that Trump's use of tariffs under the Emergency Powers Act went, |
| 1:05.6 | quote, beyond the president's legitimate reach. Chief Justice Roberts was joined in the majority |
| 1:10.1 | opinion by the court's three |
| 1:11.3 | liberal justices, along with Trump appointed justices Comey Barrett and Gorsuch. Conservative |
| 1:16.1 | justices Thomas Alito and Kavanaugh dissented. The court ruled that the International Economic |
| 1:20.9 | Emergency Powers Act, passed by Congress in 1977, makes no mention of tariffs or duties in the, |
| 1:26.7 | quote, lengthy list of powers given to the president. |
| 1:29.4 | Quote, that omission is notable in light of the significant but specific powers Congress did go to the trouble of naming. |
| 1:35.3 | The court stated, not all of Trump's tariffs were struck down in the ruling, as the president did not invoke the Emergency Powers Act to impose certain tariffs on aluminum and steel. |
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