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🗓️ 9 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast. I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen, and this week we're joined by one of our tech co-authors, Ben Brody, who wrote a great midday top on Thursday this week about what he termed a turbulent week in tech, which I think is a great way |
0:23.0 | to sum up all the developments happening right now in the tech world with tariffs, with chips, |
0:28.9 | with Trump going after the Intel CEO. So there's a lot happening, Ben, as you write about. |
0:34.1 | So I'll just turn it over to you, talk our audience through about this wild week and |
0:38.9 | what happened. Yeah, it was a little more than I think I expected for a recess week. So I think, |
0:49.3 | well, it depends where you want to start. We got the sense actually, we got word on Wednesday that |
0:55.8 | Tim Cook was headed to the White House and was going to be announcing $100 billion investment |
1:02.5 | in U.S. manufacturing. That's on top of $500 billion in promises. This is the kind of thing. |
1:09.8 | We see CEOs doing a lot. You go to the White |
1:12.0 | House and you announce that you're bringing jobs back and you're bringing investment back and you're |
1:16.2 | making things here in the U.S. and it's going to mean American jobs. And then Trump says, |
1:21.8 | what a great CEO you are, even if he's beefed with you on true social in the past. |
1:27.8 | And then maybe you get a little souvenir in the form of maybe an exemption from tariffs, |
1:33.9 | which is certainly the kind of thing that Tim Cook was looking for. |
1:39.8 | He, you know, Apple was all in on Chinese manufacturing when it became clear that the U.S. and China were going to |
1:46.4 | decouple economically. Apple pivoted to India and then Trump was hitting India with tariffs. And so |
1:53.7 | Cook has to go and kind of say, well, you know, Mr. President, we're making things in Kentucky |
1:59.4 | and we're making things in the states here. |
2:02.4 | And so we need a little help on that. |
2:04.8 | So that was the Apple events on Wednesday. |
2:10.3 | And let's not forget what Tim Cook did in the Oval Office, right? |
2:14.6 | He brought this, he write a gold statue memorializing the investment the company plans to spend in the Uval Office, right? He brought this, as he write a gold statue memorializing the investment |
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