Good evening. This is John Batchel. The show begins in the markets, of course. The markets reacting to the

tariff announcement of Liberation Day, some six days before. They're declining for three days,

and then the appearance of a rally, what is called a relief rally, that did not follow through.

What does it mean? No one knows.

I spoke with Liz Peake.

We looked at the intentions of the Trump administration

to bring manufacturing home.

We then spoke of the fact that the manufacturing

of the near future and distant future

will be robots,

robotic everywhere. Robots here, robots there, sometimes called and romantic fiction.

And in any event, there will be human beings who need to build and service and watch over those

robots as they build vehicles as we use 3D printing

to construct missiles. All of that is in our future. Not huge factory employment, but manufacturing

power, yes. Our competitors use people where we can use robots. That is most promising.

Liz and I also speak of the Democratic Party, which is healthy enough to look for a rallying point around the recent setbacks.

Is it Cory Booker who spoke for 25 hours on the floor of the Senate?

Unknown.

To Judy Dempsey in Berlin, speaking of new polling that shows the AFD doing very well,

better than the CDU that won the recent election, if it forms a coalition with the Social Democrats.

In any event, the AFD out-polled in a recent Sunday. This is a

public opinion poll, not a vote. It's impressive. Mr. Market, we talked to Brett Arons, break

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