The News Roundup For March 7, 2025

1A

NPR

News

4.4 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As President Donald Trump's trade war heats up, the stock market is going down. And his address to the joint session of Congress this week was the longest speech of its kind in the history of the presidency.

Following a turbulent meeting in the Oval Office, Trump says that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to make a deal. At a summit in Cairo, Arab leaders endorsed Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza, allowing over 2 million Palestinians to return to the Strip.

Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	When she teaches her students how to write a song, musician Scarlet Keys says they need to ask themselves certain questions.
0:06.9	What is the thing that keeps you up at night? What's the thing you can't stop thinking about?
0:10.8	As songwriters, we are repurposing human tropes and a new viewpoint with new words with new music.
0:17.2	The people and technology behind the soundtracks of our lives.
0:21.3	That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.
0:24.2	Hi, it's Tods Willick, your host for this episode of The News Roundup.
0:28.1	Just a quick heads up before we start the show, the news is rapidly changing.
0:32.6	And things may have changed by the time you hear this podcast.
0:36.0	Stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your local NPR member station and by visiting npr and it's time for another installment of the News Roundup.
0:58.2	Another gigantic week of news. And as always, our focus for the hour is on the signal, not the noise.
1:05.8	And we have an all-star panel here ready to do just that. Megan Scully is the Congress editor for Bloomberg News.
1:12.4	Welcome, Megan. Thanks for having me. Amanda Becker, you know the voice, is Washington correspondent at the
1:18.2	19th. Hi, Amanda. Great to be here. And Taylor Poplarz is here, national political reporter based
1:24.3	at the White House for Spectrum News. Hi, Taylor. Hey, Todd. Okay, I'm glad you guys are all here.
1:30.5	I can't just say it's been a fire hose. That's a cliche at this point. Every single week we're
1:34.2	drinking from it. So let's take some sips. Let's start with the state of the economy. And this headline
1:40.1	from the otherwise Trump-friendly Wall Street Journal. Here it is. Trump takes the dumbest
1:45.6	tariff plunge. And what followed was chaos. And markets don't like chaos. First, the president's
1:54.4	decision to move ahead with a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. Stocks tumbled on Wall Street, and that got the attention of
2:03.8	CEOs running some of the country's biggest businesses. Here's Target CEO, Brian Cornell,
2:10.0	talking to CNBC on Tuesday. We depend on Mexico during the winter. We're going to try to make
2:15.0	sure we can do everything we can to protect pricing, but if there's a 25% tariff, those prices will go up.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.