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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on Trump’s trade deals and the economy

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

NPR’s Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump's trade deals, the debate over the Jeffrey Epstein files and Vice President Vance hits the road to sell the administration’s signature legislative achievement. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Trump traveled across the ocean to make trade deals while spending some time at his golf club in Scotland, but he can't seem to escape the growing debate over the Jeffrey Epstein documents back here at home.

0:12.1

All while his vice president hits the road to sell the administration's signature legislative achievement.

0:17.8

It's a perfect time for Politics Monday with Tamara Keith of NPR and Jasmine

0:22.5

Wright of Notice. Amy Walter is away. Great to see you both. Thanks for being here.

0:26.3

Good to be here. Great to see you. As you saw, President Trump's able to announce this big trade deal,

0:30.7

Tam. It's a huge deal with their largest trading partner, one that's been described as lopsided

0:35.2

asymmetrical in the U.S.'s favors by many who've looked at the early contours.

0:39.8

So we didn't get 90 deals in 90 days exactly, but you have now deals with the UK, with the Philippines,

0:45.7

Japan, now the EU. Is the president's approach here working?

0:49.4

Well, the president is certainly getting to make a lot of big, splashy announcements,

0:54.0

and he's able to declare victory.

0:56.6

I think one thing to watch for, though, is many of these deals aren't as fully baked as they

1:02.3

seem when he's making the announcement.

1:04.1

There's still a lot of questions underneath about exactly what is being agreed to

1:09.3

and whether that might change going forward.

1:11.9

That's certainly been the case with some of the other deals that have been announced.

1:15.0

For instance, with the UK deal, which they have literally signed,

1:19.0

Trump said that there would be some refining happening on his trip that's underway right now.

1:24.3

So also, there is this issue that six or whatever number we're up to is not 90.

1:31.6

And there's something like 160 countries that were given tariff numbers on Liberation Day.

1:38.6

I've asked the White House what happens with those.

1:40.9

Trump has said maybe they get 15 to 20 percent tariffs.

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