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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Rule, and what a day we are having. You are here for the nightcap, and it is day 110 of the second Trump administration. |
0:14.5 | And this morning, the president said he would be open to cutting the 145% tariff on China down to 80%, which is a huge change from just two days earlier when he said he would not lower them ahead of any talks this weekend with Chinese officials. |
0:30.0 | It has been a very long week, starting with an AI-generated image of the president as Pope. |
0:35.4 | He called for 100% tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands. |
0:40.2 | Canada's prime minister making it abundantly clear, Canada is not for sale. And the president's reply, |
0:46.8 | never say never. There was the announcement of a trade deal with the UK that was more of a |
0:51.3 | concept than an actual deal. Meanwhile, Republicans push forward |
0:55.1 | with their mega budget bill that includes huge tax cuts. There is just one glaring problem. |
1:01.5 | They cannot quite figure out how to pay for any of it. And let us not forget the president |
1:05.9 | calling to reopen Alcatraz. All that happened in the last six days. With that, |
1:10.5 | let's bring in our nightcap. |
1:12.0 | It is an excellent one. |
1:12.9 | Pablo Torre, who has had a very busy week, ESPN analyst and host of the Meadowlark |
1:17.3 | media's Pablo Torre finds out podcast. |
1:19.9 | Ron Insana, CNBC senior analyst, Mary Harris, host and managing editor of Slate's Daily News |
1:25.1 | podcast. |
1:25.7 | What's next? |
1:26.6 | And Jelani Cobb, staff writer for the New Yorker. |
1:29.0 | And he has a very hard job. Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, an important and hard job. |
1:33.5 | Ron, you know I'm turning to you first. |
1:35.3 | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent meeting with Chinese officials this weekend to talk about tariffs. |
1:40.3 | Before negotiations even got underway, the president is now saying they could drop down to 80%. To me, |
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