July 7, 2025: Tariffs, Texas, treaties and Trump

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

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Summary

For President Donald Trump, it’s a week of tests on several fronts. After deadly floods in Texas, his administration’s cuts to the NOAA and National Weather Service are receiving new scrutiny, with many critics calling for investigations into what went wrong — and wondering how to prevent more disasters in the coming hurricane season. Meanwhile, as the nation inches toward a new trade deadline and a wave of new tariffs, the economy is bracing for impact. And on the global stage, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to visit the White House this evening — his third such trip in the Trump 2.0 era. Playbook author Jack Blanchard and chief correspondent Dasha Burns walk through all you need to know to start the week.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:07.7	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:09.8	And I'm Dasha Burns.
0:11.0	It is Monday, July 7th.
0:13.0	And this is the Playbook podcast.
0:15.2	Dasha, how are you doing?
0:16.4	Did you have a good Independence Day weekend?
0:18.6	I did.
0:19.3	I was transformed.
0:20.5	I was transported by the one, the only Queen Bee.
0:24.9	I saw Beyonce on the 4th of July.
0:27.8	Oh, wow.
0:28.5	There is just nothing like a Beyonce show.
0:31.5	If you haven't been to one, you absolutely need to go.
0:34.2	It was absolutely extraordinary.
0:36.9	I took my husband. It was his first Beyonce show, and he also
0:40.9	was experiencing some transcendental dreams. It was everything that one could ever hope for out of a show.
0:49.8	There's a lot of news. We're going to talk about loads of big stories that are happening to say,
0:53.4	because there's a lot of news around. The big headlines of obviously what's happened in Texas, they are the trade tariff announcement that Donald Trump is going to announce today in a series of letters. And we've got Veneman Netanyahu in the White House as well. So there's loads of news happening. But before we talk about any of that, Dasha, I just want to squeeze this in in because we've got this amazing thing at the top of the playbook newsletter this morning. So we've had lots of political books out this year, right? There's another one coming tomorrow, which looks very interesting indeed by some of the White House correspondents. You'll know them well. Josh Dorsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf, have got a book out
1:27.8	tomorrow called 2024, how Trump retook the White House and the Democrats lost America. It's going back
1:33.9	through the 2024 election campaign. They have got their hands on this memo, which they've
1:38.3	very kindly shared with playbook. We've stuck it online this morning so people can read it.
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