Will Trump tariffs tear MAGA apart?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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160 years ago today, Ulysses Grant led the Union army to victory in America's civil war. The 2025 American civil war is shaping up to be less bloody - but still brutal. How long are Trump's followers going to turn a blind eye to the economic mayhem he’s inflicting on them? And can the Democrats find six Republicans to vote with them to stop the chaos? We talk to the Congressman leading the charge, Sean Casten.
Meanwhile, as measles break out across Texas, where does the famously anti-vax Health Secretary now stand on vaccination?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. There's been some public sparring between Elon Musk and the |
| 0:16.4 | President's Trade Advisor Peter Navarro on some of these tariffs. Musk actually referred to Navarro today as being, |
| 0:21.2 | quote, dumber than a sack of bricks. Are you what or is the administration, the president, |
| 0:26.3 | all concerned that this is maybe impacting the public's understanding of these tariffs. It might be |
| 0:30.9 | messing with the message on it. No, look, these are obviously two individuals who have very different |
| 0:36.2 | views on trade and on tariffs. |
| 0:39.0 | Boys will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue. |
| 0:43.1 | And you guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history. |
| 0:47.6 | And I think it also speaks to the president's willingness to hear from all sides, |
| 0:52.2 | that he has people at the highest levels of this government |
| 0:54.8 | in this White House who have very diverse opinions on very diverse issues, but the president takes... |
| 1:00.0 | That was Caroline Levitt, Trump's press secretary. She's not hiding the fact there are deep divisions |
| 1:05.5 | in the administration right now over this cataclysmic new policy of Donald Trump's. But when she says |
| 1:13.2 | boys will be boys, she's not talking about a spat over a football in a playground. She's talking |
| 1:19.5 | about something that is destabilising the entire world. And on one side of it, you have Elon Musk |
| 1:26.0 | calling the architect of Donald Trump's signature policy |
| 1:30.8 | tariffs a moron. Musk is close to saying this is moronic. So how does the US administration |
| 1:39.6 | carry on when there are such deep splits over such a fundamentally important subject. |
| 1:47.6 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:55.0 | It's John. |
| 1:56.2 | It's Emily. |
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