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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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News, President, Congress, War, World, Policy, Politics, Information, Political, Government, Campaign

3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Stocks down amid countdown to new tariffs; How tariffs could impact price of Nintendo Switch 2 console; Urgent search for survivors after roof collapse in the Dominican Republic; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight the trade war set to explode in just hours.

0:04.3

The major market rally in the morning fades.

0:06.8

The day ending with another big loss on Wall Street.

0:10.1

After President Trump said he'll raise his tariffs on goods imported from China to 104 percent,

0:16.2

what that could mean and how China is reacting, and Christine Romans on the countdown to midnight.

0:21.6

And the price you could pay, Tom Yamas breaks down how everything from sneakers to

0:26.6

smartphones to the popular new video game console could surge in cost.

0:31.6

The moment the roof of a nightclub in the Dominican Republic caved in, killing dozens of people inside, including

0:38.5

a one-time Major League Baseball star, the desperate search for survivors.

0:43.6

The Supreme Court hands President Trump wins on two key issues, saying he does not have

0:48.9

to reinstate fired federal workers and can keep using wartime powers to deport alleged gang members to a prison

0:56.4

in El Salvador. Plus young men and online sports betting the growing concerns over the risks

1:03.0

of addiction. When I say severe, I'm talking, gambling eight hours a day, compulsively betting,

1:08.5

waking up, thinking about the bets that you placed the night before.

1:12.4

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

1:17.2

Good evening and welcome. The Trade War, escalating to new heights tonight as President

1:21.9

Trump's latest round of terror threats are hours away from becoming reality, including the latest tit-for-tat levies on

1:29.0

Chinese goods, which at midnight will bring tariffs on Chinese products entering the U.S. to a

1:34.6

cumulative 104 percent. And with the clock also ticking down on President Trump's across-the-board

1:40.8

tariff against dozens of other countries, the White House is signaling there are

1:45.1

potential deals to be made, saying many of those countries are already reaching out. A wave of optimism

1:51.4

sent markets soaring at the open before a day's long sell-off resumed. The Dell losing 320 points

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