Bring in show music, please.

Today, on Squawk Pod, President Trump's tariffs ruled illegal by an appeals court.

More on where the case goes next.

I think Supreme Court may strike it down.

Yeah.

McDonald's is launching extra value meals and lowering menu prices.

We've got the Mick Scoop with CEO Chris Kimchinski.

The reality is that if you weren't using the app and you didn't buy McValue,

where did you find value on the menu?

And OpenAI rolling out new guardrails for ChatGPT after a tragic use case unfolded.

There are other people who are using these services and it's quite helpful to them.

I'm CNBC producer Zach Velisi. It's Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025. Squawk Pod begins right now.

Stand Becky by in three, two, one.

Cure, please. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We're live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Summer's over, folks. You're here. Back to work. This is when Back to work. This is it. The mad rush.

It takes us all the way into the holidays. We were both out. Yeah. I almost didn't come in this morning. Yeah. Why? Airlines now have carte blanche to do whatever they want. Yes, I've experienced this recently, too. Air traffic controllers. It's a, you know, when companies report earnings and they say it's weather. So I got in at 1 o'clock last night. Did you really? I did it on the way out. We were delayed by four hours. So I almost didn't come in this morning. But you felt you missed us so much. No, I figured if I didn't come in, no, I figured if I didn't come in that

people on Twitter would say I was dead. Or even worse, or even worse, even worse, that I was retired.

So neither of those things are true. You're here. You're just tired.

I am tired.

Many of President Trump's global tariffs now in doubt following a high-profile court ruling, Megan Kassela joins us with the latest.

Where are we?

Guys, good morning.

So to catch everybody up.

...