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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight, the president says he's sticking with his tariffs as they continue to rattle the stock market and the global economy. |
0:08.5 | What's next as the Dow slides another 350 points? |
0:12.5 | Then what we're hearing from some anxious Republicans in Congress about the economy. |
0:16.6 | Plus, we'll talk to the small business CEO fighting back against the tariffs. |
0:22.0 | What she's arguing in her new lawsuit against the White House as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night. |
0:33.3 | Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl, and it is day 78 of the Trump administration. And what a day it has been. It is the day three of the president's tariffs causing chaos in the markets. The markets were all over the place today. The Dow fell. |
0:49.1 | 0.95 percent after a wild day of trading, it saw a nearly 2,600 point swing, the largest in the |
0:57.0 | stock indexes history, according to CNBC. Despite the volatility, President Trump does not |
1:02.1 | plan to pause the next round of tariffs, set to go into effect on Wednesday. He spoke about |
1:07.1 | it during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today. |
1:11.3 | Here's a bit of it. |
1:13.2 | Would you be open to a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiations? |
1:17.5 | Well, we're not looking at that. We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals |
1:23.4 | with us and they're going to be fair deals and in certain cases they're going to be paying substantial |
1:29.6 | tariffs. There'll be fair deals. There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations |
1:35.5 | because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. Trump also, I see Ron shaking his head, |
1:41.2 | also threatened to slap another 50% tariff on China this Wednesday |
1:45.1 | if they do not remove a retaliatory tariff. That would put the total tariffs on the country |
1:51.0 | at 104%. The escalating trade war has heightened economic uncertainty overnight. And here's why |
1:57.9 | all of this matters. Even if you're not an investor, for all those who say, damn Wall Street, they've been |
2:02.5 | screwing us for years, I don't own stocks. |
2:05.2 | The stock market is not the economy. |
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