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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to meet the press now. |
0:18.1 | I'm Kelly O'Donnell. |
0:19.0 | At the end of a historically volatile day of trading on Wall Street, it has been a wild ride with huge swings in both directions after stocks plummeted last week. The Dow alone experienced a 2,600 point swing today. It's biggest ever. Finally, ending the day down more than 300 points. The S&P 500 at one point |
0:40.0 | today hit what traders call a bare market down 20% off recent highs. This is a time lapse of |
0:46.7 | trading today as investors seem to be hanging on every word and every tea leaf from the president |
0:52.3 | and the White House, with tariffs at levels not seen |
0:55.8 | in 100-plus years about to go into effect, and conflicting messages about potential off-ramps, |
1:02.7 | negotiations, or even more tariffs. The president today, threatening to impose an additional |
1:08.4 | 50 percent levy on imports from China, unless it rescinds its retaliatory |
1:14.0 | tariffs on the U.S. The president also holding a meeting with his close ally, Israeli Prime Minister |
1:20.1 | Benjamin Netanyahu. After earlier today, touting on social media the possibility of, quote, |
1:26.4 | negotiations with other countries on tariffs. |
1:29.3 | Now, despite some White House officials saying just the opposite, moments ago, President Trump |
1:34.3 | told reporters that he is considering, he is not considering a short-term pause on the new |
1:39.5 | tariffs, but that he is willing to be engaged in negotiations. |
1:45.0 | We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and they're going to be fair deals. |
1:51.7 | And in certain cases, they're going to be paying substantial tariffs. |
1:57.0 | There'll be fair deals. |
1:58.1 | We're going to have one shot at this, and no other president's going to do this, what |
2:01.8 | I'm doing. |
2:02.8 | We'll be talking to China. |
2:05.1 | We'll be talking to a lot of different countries. |
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