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🗓️ 14 April 2025
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Monday briefing: Tariff confusion; Josh Shapiro arson attack; Rumeysa Ozturk; home price changes; Rory McIlroy; and more
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0:00.0 | The tale of President Trump's tariffs continues. |
0:06.0 | The governor of Pennsylvania was targeted in an arson attack. |
0:10.2 | And I'll tell you what happened when Paris cracked down on cars. |
0:14.9 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
0:18.7 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, April 14th. Let's get you caught up with |
0:23.1 | today's seven stories. Number one. President Donald Trump's tariffs are causing chaos for |
0:32.7 | U.S. manufacturers. It's been 12 days since the president announced he would enact sweeping tariffs |
0:39.6 | on imports from virtually the entire world. Since then, the global economy has been on a |
0:46.4 | roller coaster ride, and some of the passengers getting the most queasy on that ride are U.S. manufacturers. |
0:57.1 | Trump has said that tariffs will usher in a new golden age for American manufacturing, but his shifting policies are making it tougher for |
1:02.9 | companies to make and sell goods. Their costs are rising and demand is slowing. Customers in the |
1:09.9 | U.S. and abroad have been spooked by shifting policies |
1:13.0 | and are slamming the brakes on spending. The fallout has been most pronounced for companies that |
1:19.0 | buy or sell from China, which last week got hit with a 145 percent tariff. Commerce Secretary |
1:26.4 | Howard Lutnik defended the president's moves on ABC News yesterday. |
1:30.5 | We can't be the holden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need. |
1:38.5 | We can't be relying on China for fundamental things that we need. |
1:42.9 | But speaking to the same program, |
1:44.8 | Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, |
1:47.0 | a Democrat, slammed the chaos. |
1:49.5 | Look, there is no tariff policy. |
1:52.8 | It's just all chaos and corruption. |
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