President Donald Trump's tariffs and other policies are causing quite the stir, and we're seeing

conflicting views on what he's calling Liberation Day tariffs. Large-scale protests against Trump's

policies were organized across the United States this weekend, all 50 states. But at the same

time, according to polls, Trump's approval ratings are actually up. And meanwhile, Trump's

tariffs are being framed as the final nail in the coffin for globalism. But is that really the case?

I'm the Epic Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

Conflicting events are sweeping over the United States over Liberation Day and the whole

tariffs with that. On one side, you can look maybe on the streets where you live. Large-scale

protests against President Donald Trump's policies, They were organized in all 50 states.

On the other side, Trump's approval rating actually went up. And analysts are raising questions on,

well, is the impact on the stock market really reflective of the wealth of the average American?

Do these things actually correlate or not, right? Now look, some update in what's happening,

Kevin Hassett, director of the U.S. Economic Council, he told ABC News's This Week program that already

50 countries have reached out to the Trump administration to work out deals, to reduce, or maybe

even get rid of the tariffs. And he added that he did not expect a big hit on consumers

because exporters are likely to lower their prices.

I got a report from the USTR last night that more than 50 countries have reached out to the

president to begin a negotiation.

But they're doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the

tariff. And so I don't think that you're going to see a big effect on the consumer in the U.S.

because I do think that the reason why we have a persistent long-run trade deficit is these people

have very inelastic supply. They've been dumping goods into the country in order to create jobs,

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