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🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight, dealmaker in chief or not. The president returns from his Middle East trip with promises of investments but no deals for peace in Gaza or Ukraine. |
0:11.0 | Then, a supreme setback for the White House as the High Court blocks their effort to deport migrants without due process. |
0:18.0 | And trouble in the skies, the growing crisis in the nation's air traffic |
0:23.3 | control system as the 11th hour gets underway on this Friday night. |
0:33.8 | Good evening. I'm Michelle Norris. I'm sitting in for Stephanie Rule. It is day 117 of the second Trump administration. |
0:42.2 | Tonight, President Trump is back in the U.S. after his trip to the Middle East, and he returns with some major investment announcements from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but he did not get the peace deals in Gaza and Ukraine he repeatedly promised during the |
0:55.7 | campaign. He's also backtracking on his promise to make 90 trade deals in 90 days. Now the |
1:02.1 | president says his administration will simply set the rates for tariffs for trading partners |
1:06.5 | in coming weeks. New data shows that we have at the same time 150 countries that want to make a deal, |
1:15.5 | but you're not able to see that many countries. |
1:17.2 | So a certain point over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard, |
1:21.9 | we'll be sending letters out essentially telling people, it would be very fair, |
1:26.3 | but we'll be telling people what they'll be |
1:29.9 | paying to do business in the United States. New data shows Americans are increasingly worried about |
1:37.2 | how tariffs will affect them. The University of Michigan's latest consumer sentiment index hit |
1:42.3 | its second lowest reading ever. |
1:45.1 | Meanwhile, President Trump was hoping to come home and find some progress on what he calls the one big, beautiful bill containing his domestic agenda. |
1:52.6 | And by the way, that's the actual name of that bill. |
1:54.6 | But the bill didn't even make it out of the House committee today. |
1:58.1 | Five Republicans joined with Democrats to block it. |
2:02.2 | Those Republicans say there aren't enough spending cuts and it would add too much to the deficit. They aren't the only ones |
2:07.5 | worried about America's growing debt. Today, Moody's downgraded the United States credit rating |
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