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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

More confusion over White House mixed messaging on tariff exemptions

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

NBC News

Politics, Washington, News, President, Policy, Government, Senate, Congress, Msnbc

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration flip flops on exemptions and teases more new tariffs. Then, El Salvador's President says he will not return the Maryland father who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration. And, a conversation with filmmaker Alex Gibney about “Dark Money” and the role it plays in elections. Tyler Pager, Susan Glasser, Nick Timiraos, Ron Insana, Justin Wolfers, Joyce Vance, and Alex Gibney join the 11th Hour this Monday.

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0:00.0

Tonight, tariff whiplash with the on-again-off again exemptions for some businesses,

0:06.0

as the White House teases even more tariffs around the corner.

0:10.0

Then China hits back hard, halting exports of critical rare earth minerals to the U.S.

0:15.0

Plus, El Salvador's president says he will not return the Maryland father who the Trump administration says

0:21.7

who's deported by mistake while the president again floats the idea of deporting U.S.

0:27.4

citizens as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night.

0:37.4

Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Rule. It is day 85 of the second Trump administration.

0:43.3

And we are now 12 weeks in and starting tonight with money, power, politics.

0:49.6

The markets finish slightly up today. But investors are still struggling to keep up with the president's

0:54.7

chaotic tariff announcement. The president is now saying he's looking to help some car companies,

1:01.0

but he also teased more tariffs, higher ones, and possible exemptions. Try to plan your business

1:07.1

around that. Watch this. Ormaceuticals we're going to do. We have, we don't make our own drugs, our own pharmaceuticals.

1:15.9

The drug companies are in Ireland and they're in lots of other places, China. And all I have to do

1:23.4

is impose a tariff. It's inversely proportional.

1:27.8

The higher the tariff, the faster they come.

1:30.1

I have a timeline.

1:30.9

Yeah, not too distant future.

1:32.8

Look, I'm a very flexible person.

1:34.8

I don't change my mind, but I'm flexible.

1:37.3

And you have to be.

1:38.1

You just can't have a wall and you'll only go.

1:41.2

Sometimes you have to go around it, under it, or above it.

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