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The Daily Punch

The Readback: A huge moment for Trump’s tariffs — and for Congress

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Laura takes you behind the scenes of what it was like to report on the Supreme Court hearing on President Trump's tariffs. This story was featured in The Readback, our weekend digest featuring the best of Punchbowl News this week. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.1

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0:27.0

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bull News Readback Podcast.

0:31.5

I'm your host, Max Cohen.

0:33.1

I'm joined today by Laura Weiss, who covers all things economy for the vault and is also helping

0:38.5

out on all things leadership coverage as we approach, as we endure this government shutdown,

0:44.1

shall I say.

0:45.0

Laura, thanks so much for joining with me.

0:47.2

Today we're going to be talking about tariffs and the Supreme Court, which isn't what we

0:51.6

normally cover a punch bowl, but there was a big case in

0:54.8

front of the high court this week. I want to ask you about your experience covering the deliberations.

1:02.3

Yeah, thanks for having me, Max. It's great to be with you as always. It was a really interesting

1:07.4

week this week, a little bit unusual for me. You know, I've covered Congress

1:12.9

for some years now, and it's always interesting and cool when you get to leave the halls of Capitol

1:18.6

Hill and cover things around D.C. So I've done White House. You know, I've been there. I've

1:24.8

been over to the Treasury Department, but I hadn't covered Supreme Court oral arguments before.

1:31.2

And so it was very interesting to get to do that.

1:35.3

It is interesting.

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