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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

NBC News

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

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Markets rebound on tariff exemption for some auto imports; Deadly winter storms battle states nationwide; U.S. Pauses Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, a temporary truce in the growing trade war. A one-month pause for automakers has markets rising again, but warning signs remain when and why the price of some staples at the grocery store are going up. As President Trump acknowledges, there could be, quote, a little disturbance. The cross-country severe storms from white-out conditions to the crash

0:21.9

shutting down an interstate. Three dead from severe storms as at least 13 tornado spin-up across

0:28.6

the plains and deep south.

0:30.4

I've never prayed so hard in 15 seconds in my life. Plus a potential thaw with Ukraine,

0:35.9

new signs of progress after the major reversal. The Trump

0:39.3

administration pausing the sharing of intelligence and halting shipments of weapons and equipment

0:44.7

already en route. The fallout after the longest presidential address to Congress in history,

0:50.4

the divisive message digging into culture wars, the president touting progress on illegal immigration,

0:57.2

and the congressman poised to be censured after being removed.

1:00.8

Our investigation of the toxic smoke and ash left behind on homes after wildfires,

1:07.1

and the owners now battling insurance.

1:09.6

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

1:14.0

Good evening and welcome. Tonight, turmoil over tariffs. In a notable policy walkback,

1:19.7

President Trump granting U.S. automakers a one-month reprieve on new 25 percent tariffs imposed on

1:26.4

Mexico and Canada. The announcement sending stocks higher in the

1:30.1

hopes that the trade war ignited this week will cool. But no thaw on the ice with Canadian

1:35.1

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who spoke with the president today. In his address to Congress

1:40.5

last night, President Trump mostly holding firm on the new tariffs imposed on America's three biggest trading partners, and he made it clear there are more to come.

1:50.5

Retailers now warning of higher prices on everyday grocery items from avocados to fish.

1:56.9

Senior business correspondent Christine Roman starts us off tonight with the deep impact so many are expecting just days from now.

2:05.3

A new protectionist era in America, and the president acknowledging Americans will feel it in their pocketbook.

2:12.2

Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again and it's happening and it will happen

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