White House correspondent April Ryan reacts to Democratic protests during Trump's speech and Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha explains how Democrats can get the people back on their side.
The Jim Acosta Show
Jim Acosta
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Thank you Julie Bogart, Denise Wakeman, Bill Wong, Baz, Kevin McSpadden, and many others for tuning into my live video with April Ryan and Chuck Rocha! Join me for my next live video in the app.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | all right welcome everybody to the jim costa show it is wednesday uh the day after the big trump speech i wouldn't |
| 0:07.3 | call it a big beautiful trump speech judging by some of the reactions out there but uh you can see on |
| 0:12.3 | screen with me right now as chuck rocha veteran democratic strategist worked on the burney campaign |
| 0:17.2 | lots of other campaigns and has lots of thoughts on everything that took place last |
| 0:22.3 | night and what the Democrats should do, quite frankly. |
| 0:24.4 | But a couple of headlines, and there are some breaking news to tell everybody about the |
| 0:27.5 | White House just announced a one-month exemption on some of the tariffs for the U.S. |
| 0:33.1 | automakers that are manufacturing cars in Canada and Mexico. The automakers went to the White |
| 0:40.0 | House, asked for this. The AP was reporting earlier today that the Commerce Secretary Howard |
| 0:44.7 | Lutnik was predicting that there would be carveouts coming to the 25 percent tariffs placed on |
| 0:49.9 | products coming in from Canada and Mexico. And as you heard last night, during Trump's speech, |
| 0:56.1 | the president tried to play down the possible economic harm that is going to be caused for lots |
| 1:01.5 | of Americans saying it's going to be a, quote, little disturbance. That is an indication that they |
| 1:06.7 | know full well inside the White House that this tariff policy is going to have some major |
| 1:12.6 | consequences for Americans out there. Let's talk about this with Chuck. Chuck, great to see you. |
| 1:18.6 | And it sounds like this is your first substack. Is that right? Yes, ever. We're making history here. |
| 1:25.6 | It wasn't that hard. If I could figure that, anybody can do it. |
| 1:28.5 | I was just saying, you know, listen, one of my rules in TV is do not let the correspondent or the |
| 1:33.7 | anchors handle the equipment. So if I can do this and I can get this going here, and you can see |
| 1:39.5 | some of the comments on the bottom there below, folks are saying hi to Chuck and so on. He's got little hearts coming up to him like social media cocaine, but we will get into that right now. |
| 1:50.4 | But Chuck, it's great to see it. I guess first of all, you know, just your initial reaction to the |
| 1:55.9 | White House already packing off on these terrorists. Trump gets out there and beats his chest as if these terrorists are like, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jim Acosta, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jim Acosta and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.