Start Here: Casualties of (Trade) War
The Investigation
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3.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Investigation. I'm Senior Executive Producer Chris Vlasto. We're going to take a couple weeks off for the holidays. In the meantime, we hope you give a listen to something else we're working on here at ABC News. It's our daily podcast called Start Here. In just 20 minutes, host Brad Milkey will get you caught up on all the stories that will be driving your day. If you like what you hear, don't forget to head over to start here. |
| 0:22.9 | Hit subscribe, and we'll be waiting for you in the podcast feed every weekday morning. |
| 0:27.7 | We'll be back with a new edition of the investigation in the new year when the impeachment proceedings against President Trump begin. |
| 0:36.2 | It's Tuesday, December 24th, and every war has casualties. |
| 0:40.5 | We start here. |
| 0:43.6 | A lot of the shots fired this year were with dollar signs, not bullets. |
| 0:47.4 | My life would be a lot easier if I didn't take China on, but I like doing it because I have to do it. |
| 0:51.9 | Today, we're taking a closer look at the trade war that is shaped lives across America. |
| 0:56.3 | When it comes down until you can't pay your bills, it's a little harder to stick to your guns. |
| 1:01.0 | And how a last minute twist. |
| 1:02.4 | This makes for a much greater amount of clarity. |
| 1:05.8 | Could change 2020. |
| 1:08.2 | From ABC News, this is a special edition of Start Here. I'm Brad Milkey. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey, Merry Christmas Eve. Happy Hanukkah, night three coming up. Happy Tuesday. Welcome |
| 1:24.5 | back. This week, we are taking a look at some of the stories that have made the biggest impacts in 2019. |
| 1:29.3 | And we're going back to the people who watch them play out in real time for their perspective. |
| 1:34.3 | And yesterday we talked about natural disasters, but lives get shaped in lots of ways, particularly when it comes to economics and jobs and, yes, trade. |
| 1:43.3 | Right now, U.S. farmers are feeling the pinch because of the escalating trade war with China. |
| 1:48.4 | And as good as the news was, for the stock market and the unemployment rate this year, |
| 1:52.6 | President Trump's trade war with China really defined the year for a lot of Americans. |
| 1:57.0 | Some of them might not even know how much it defined their year. |
| 2:00.4 | And today we're going to dive deeper into this. |
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