It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Well, it's August 1st, President Trump's latest tariff deadline day.

We'll talk in a little while with New Yorker,

economics writer John Cassidy, about what's in, what's out, and what Cassidy thinks it means

for prices and jobs and interest rates in this country. The July jobs report also just came out

this morning with a low number, lower than economists said they expected, 73,000 jobs created last month and an

uptick in the unemployment rate to over 4%. So we'll talk about that too and get his take on

Trump versus the Fed on interest rates as well. We'll also get a take on the local impact of the

tariffs and tariff chaos from New York City's

Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, Adolfo Carri-on, and talk to him about other things,

too. And we'll get a musical preview of WNYC's free Public Song Project concert with the winners

of Allison Stewart's annual musical competition,

the free concert coming up in Brooklyn tomorrow,

the sneak musical peak at the end of the show today.

But first, as much as President Trump wants the Jeffrey Epstein story to go away,

he seems to only be deepening people's suspicion that he's hiding something with the way he's been behaving.

I'll admit, I first thought the idea of a client list that would expose prominent people

as engaging in the kind of sexual abuse of minors that Epstein himself was convicted of and

charged with was a hoax being perpetrated by Trump to insinuate that Democrats were on the

list and fuel the rage against elites in general, so-called liberal elites in particular,

that has helped him so much politically. I thought the scandal in the announcement by Trump's

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