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So if we raise the price, yeah, there's going to be people that say, you know what, I wanted to buy three of these for my grandkids.

That's just out of my fixed income ability to buy.

A toy manufacturer says tariffs will cost him and his customers.

It's Monday, April 7th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

I'm Ashley Locke, in for Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, a former head of the National Security Agency reacts to President Trump firing his NSA chief, Timothy Hogg.

And, ever since his stage 4 cancer diagnosis, singer Raul Malo says he has witnessed a world of kindness and understanding. It's like, oh my God,

does everybody need to have cancer to see this side of humanity? We catch up with the frontman

of the Mavericks. But first, markets in the U.S. fell again today, as uncertainty continues

over what President Trump's tariffs will mean for economic growth.

One concerned business owner is the creator of the Talking Jesus Dolls. They sound like this.

Peace be with you. Treat others the way you want to be treated. David Morrow manufactures these

small plush toys out of China, and he figures

tariffs will hit him and his customers hard. He told Scott Tong that he has a container headed

toward the U.S. with his dolls on it right now. And because he is the American importer, he has to pay

the tariffs. We've got a container on the way right now. It's

just leaving port there. And we didn't expect this when we paid our supplier and we made this

order. But when that about $60,000 worth of goods comes to America, we're going to be on the hook

for anywhere from $20 20 to 30 and maybe more

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