Hello, we can do hard things. This is a special day because Jessica Yelan and I have been coming to you

with the news you need to know this week for the last many

weeks because we're trying to save you from the tolment of riding the roller coaster all week long

while still staying engaged enough to know what you need to know to fight for what you need to fight for

and giving us tips to do that. And today is a very delightful day

because we have some good news and some hopeful news in addition to some that isn't. But this is a

step in the right direction. So thank you for being here. We promise to deliver you some little

shots of hope. Jessica Yellen, always a damn joy to be with you. Such a pleasure, Amanda. And I want to

wish you a very happy liberation day. Oh, yes. Are you feeling liberated? I mean, I feel liberated, a little liberated by Musk's humiliation, but I don't think that's what you're referring to.

No, but it is a good moment to take a beat and say Democrats for the first time had a good day this week.

Yes.

And we are recording on a day that Donald Trump has declared Liberation Day, and he will unveil why

at an event he is calling, make America wealthy again.

You can't make it up.

Yeah, it's like how many words can we fit after Make America Blank again?

They're going to run out of words because that's the move.

So this is the tariff day, right? This is the day where he's going to run out of words because that's the move. So this is the

tariff day, right? This is the day where he's going to tell us all of the reciprocal tariffs in

the world, which are. Yes. And that's gone well so far for America. I would say, yeah,

you know, it's like, I can't remember the stock market has lost some unprecedented amount of gains

this year. There's like a lot of talk in the business community that what Trump is really doing is

he's giving CEOs a chance to negotiate opportunities to have carveouts and tariffs,

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