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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight, the president says he's having a lot of fun in an interview with the Atlantic, |
0:05.4 | while new polls show Americans are deeply worried about the economy, almost 100 days into his |
0:11.2 | administration. Then a steep decline of shipping in American ports, why a former Trump advisor |
0:16.9 | says that could mean empty shelves in the weeks ahead. Plus, Elon Musk may be stepping back |
0:22.4 | from Doge, but that does not mean Doge is going anywhere as the 11th hour gets underway on this |
0:28.4 | Monday night. |
0:36.2 | Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and it is a 99 of the second Trump administration, |
0:42.4 | and we're starting this evening with money power politics. According to Donald Trump, |
0:47.2 | he runs the country and the world. That is what he told the Atlantic about his view of his second |
0:52.4 | term in office. In the interview, Trump also pushed back on the idea that economic chaos would make him |
0:58.2 | roll back his tariffs. |
0:59.7 | He said, well, it always affects you a little bit. |
1:02.6 | There's no red line or a certain number that would make him change course. |
1:06.6 | But it is not just Wall Street of the business community that's currently uneasy about Trump's economy. |
1:11.9 | Recent polls are showing that most Americans disapprove of how Trump has handled the economy. |
1:17.8 | Of course, Trump's team in public is brushing off all the polls and the worries, saying Trump is focused on putting Americans first. |
1:25.6 | And while the business world is very concerned about the trade war with China, |
1:29.2 | Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, he says the ball, well, it's in China's court. |
1:34.1 | I believe that it's up to China to de-escalate because they sell five times more to us than we sell to them. |
1:43.0 | And so these 125, 145 percent tariffs are unsustainable. |
1:49.2 | Meanwhile, Congress is back after two weeks off, and now Republicans in the House and the Senate |
1:54.5 | have got to figure out how they're going to actually deliver Trump's agenda, |
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