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🗓️ 4 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, as 25% tariffs on imported auto parts take effect, what will they do to the prices of new and used cars? |
0:14.9 | Then the daring American women who flew combat aircraft in the skies over England in the Second World War. |
0:22.7 | And we explore a loneliness crisis that's taking its heaviest toll on young adults. |
0:29.7 | One of the trickiest things about loneliness is that the lonelier you are, the more negatively |
0:34.9 | you see social situations, and therefore the less likely you are to put yourself in social situations. |
0:52.3 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. Today, President Trump seemed to shrug off worries that his trade tariffs will raise prices on everyday items for Americans and for some to make do with less. |
1:04.1 | In an interview broadcast today on NBC's Meet the Press, moderator Kristen Welker asked him about predictions that prices on children's toys will go up. |
1:13.5 | I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. |
1:26.8 | We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China. |
1:31.7 | When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, |
1:34.4 | are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves? |
1:38.8 | No, I'm not saying that. |
1:40.6 | I'm just saying they don't need to have $30. |
1:42.7 | They can have three. |
1:43.4 | They don't need to have $250 pencils. They can have five. Prices on new and used cars are likely to go up because of the |
1:50.1 | 25% levies on imported auto parts, which took effect this weekend, and on imported cars, which have been |
1:56.7 | in place for nearly a month. Aaron Keating is executive analyst at Cox Automotive. |
2:02.4 | Aaron, the tariff on auto parts is going to affect even cars made in the United States |
2:06.5 | using components that are from foreign countries. |
2:09.4 | Is it possible to say how soon and by how much prices are going to start to increase? |
2:15.0 | Sure. |
2:15.3 | I mean, we've heard that from most automakers, they're going to |
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