The Nightcap: Trump threatens courts that attempt to block his trade policies

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This Nightcap tackles Trump’s threats against courts that might try to block his trade policies. Then, the advocacy group “Democracy Forward” files a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the FBI, seeking to force them to release records about the handling of the Epstein investigation. Plus, the Texas redistricting dispute continues as Republicans escalate threats of FBI involvement to locate Democratic legislators who fled the state. Gillian Tett, Alex Wagner, Mark Joseph Stern, and David Jolly join The 11th Hour this Friday.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and welcome to the nightcap. It is day
0:09.6	201 of the second Trump administration, and this week it finally happened. President
0:15.0	Trump's tariffs went into effect on more than 60 nations around the world, pushing the average
0:20.5	tariff rate to 18.6%. Now remember,
0:24.1	Trump campaigned on making America great again. What he has done here is take America back to the
0:30.2	1930s, which is when we last saw tariffs this high, and there could be more to come on countries
0:35.4	like China and India, not to mention tariffs
0:38.2	on semiconductors and pharmaceutical products. In a little over six months, President Trump is
0:43.7	reordering the entire global economy with significant impacts here at home. So let's get into it
0:49.8	with our nightcap. Jillian Tet is here, a columnist and member of the Financial Times editorial board.
0:55.8	My dear friend Alex Wagner, who I have not seen in ages, and I'm thrilled to be with her tonight,
0:59.8	MSNBC, senior political analyst, Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer covering courts and law,
1:05.3	courts and the law at Slate and former Republican Congressman David Jolly.
1:09.3	He is running for governor of the state of Florida as a Democrat.
1:13.2	Jillian, you know you're getting the first question.
1:16.3	Trump fashions himself the tariff man.
1:18.8	His dream is coming true.
1:21.0	But how fixed are these tariffs?
1:22.5	Nothing has been signed.
1:25.0	Nothing is fixed.
1:26.4	And what we know is normally when when countryside train deals they have a huge
1:31.3	amount of pages of documents that actually lay out all the details but you know between them
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