The Supreme Court's Big Tariff Ruling
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
After a year of build-up, the Supreme Court has ruled on President Trump's signature Liberation Day tariffs, and it's not the result the president wanted. So, what will happen next? John Carney describes how the president still have many options to impose tariffs and pursue his protectionist plan, and explains what will happen with the $300 billion in tariffs that have already been collected. Then, veteran reporter Mark Halperin dissects the political ramifications of the decision, the White House's strategic pivot to domestic issues, and the Administration's difficulty in converting its biggest wins into long-term polling strength.
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| 1:09.1 | All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is February 20th, 2026. Today's lead is sometimes |
| 1:16.0 | you have to come up with a lead and sometimes the lead finds you. Sometimes it is thrust upon you |
| 1:20.6 | with great anticipation. And that is, of course, the tariff decision that has come down from |
| 1:26.1 | the Supreme Court. Now, we spent the morning |
| 1:29.0 | pouring over this. We've got Jonathan Carney from Breitbart, who's kind of the resident |
| 1:34.2 | tariff expert. He's going to be joining us any moment now, so I'm told. But this was a |
| 1:40.5 | blockbuster decision that we had been waiting for. Now, just to set the terms, this was |
| 1:45.4 | any tariff that had been established by President Trump under what's called the IEEPA, which is |
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