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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Way Too Early 4/7/25

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

Washington, Congress, Msnbc, Elections, Government, News, President, Politics, Versant, Ms Now, 2018, Issues, Versant Media, Analysis, Senate, Sunday

4.5538 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Stock futures fall as Trump continues to defend tariffs

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0:00.0

To solve our trade deficit with China, we have a trillion dollar trade deficit with China.

0:06.6

Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China, and unless we solve that problem,

0:11.9

I'm not going to make a deal.

0:13.2

Now, what's going to happen with the market?

0:14.7

I can't tell you, but I can tell you, our country has gotten a lot stronger.

0:19.6

And eventually, it'll be a country like no other. It'll be the

0:23.7

most dominant country economically in the world. That was President Trump last night on Air Force

0:29.9

1, defending his tariffs, which are sinking stock markets around the world. The question is,

0:35.2

will the president remain committed to these tariffs if markets

0:38.1

continue to tank? Also ahead, we'll go through the reaction from Republican lawmakers on Trump's

0:43.5

trade war after hearing from their constituents. The question is, can anyone in the GOP

0:48.4

change Trump's mind on this? Plus, we'll get insight on an alarming move by the Trump administration

0:53.7

to fire one of the top officials at the National Security Agency.

0:57.9

The question is, why was the leader of the country's cyber defenses let go in the first place?

1:02.7

It's way too early for this.

1:17.1

Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that hopes that what goes up,

1:21.5

what goes down, must come up again. We're really keeping our fingers crossed on that one.

1:25.7

I'm Allie Vitale on this Monday, April 7th, and we'll start with the news.

1:29.1

President Trump's tariffs have stock futures plummeting once again this morning. The Dow is down more than 1,200 points, while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have

1:35.5

both dropped by about 3%. This follows a market-free fall to end the trading week, capped off by the Dow

1:41.7

losing 2,200 points on Friday. It was the first time

1:45.6

the Dow had ever lost more than 1,500 points in back-to-back dates. The massive losses were also

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