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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is back in the White House and making a lot of moves very quickly. Keep track of everything going on in Washington with the NPR Politics Podcast. Every day, we break down the latest news and explain why it matters to you. The NPR Politics Podcast, listen every day. |
| 0:17.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:21.6 | President Trump today signed a memo calling for reciprocal tariffs on major U.S. trading partners, including longtime allies. |
| 0:30.4 | The exact tariffs, countries, and products will be determined in the coming weeks by Trump administration officials, |
| 0:35.9 | including his Commerce Secretary nominee, Howard |
| 0:38.3 | Lutnik, and Jameson Greer, his global trade representative. Officials say they will have recommendations |
| 0:44.0 | by April 1st. Trump says one way to avoid the tariffs is to move manufacturing to the U.S. |
| 0:50.4 | If you build here, you have no tariffs whatsoever, and I think that's what's going to happen. |
| 0:54.8 | I think our country is going to be flooded with jobs. |
| 0:58.1 | And he says he doesn't expect to offer exemptions or waiver, something he has offered in the past. |
| 1:03.4 | Tariffs are taxes paid by U.S. companies that import goods and that could result in price hikes for U.S. consumers. |
| 1:09.5 | Trump says prices could rise in the short term, |
| 1:11.5 | but he says he thinks they will ultimately go down. The acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Danielle |
| 1:17.5 | Sassoon, has resigned. The move comes three days after the Justice Department ordered her to |
| 1:22.8 | drop the criminal case against New York City mayor, Eric Adams. And peers Ryan Lucas reports. |
| 1:28.3 | Danielle Sassoon was appointed last month as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of |
| 1:32.2 | New York, arguably the country's most prestigious. But now, a spokesperson for the office says |
| 1:37.1 | Sassoon has quit. Her resignation comes just days after the Trump Justice Department leadership |
| 1:41.8 | ordered her to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. |
| 1:46.6 | The DOJ leadership said in a memo that it was directing the case be dropped but had not assessed the strength of the evidence. |
| 1:53.7 | Instead, it said the charges were brought too close to the city's mayoral election and that they interfered with Adam's ability to help the Trump administration |
| 2:01.6 | with immigration enforcement. Ryan Lucas NPR News, Washington. |
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