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Donald Trump Today April 13, 2025 · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Trump is demanding that UK universities, which get funding from
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  Speaker 1: the US, a similar thing has happened here in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: They have to prove that they're not on the woke train,
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  Speaker 1: that they don't have all this d I nonsense. So
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  Speaker 1: we're talking, you know, at major British universities, who had
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  Speaker 1: universities here running around like headless chucks, going oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have to ditch our pronouns and all
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  Speaker 1: of this. But Trumps serious is reshaped. He's taking the
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  Speaker 1: war on woke around the world.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Rowan, with all due respect to Australian universities or
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  Speaker 2: British universities, I don't know why we are supporting them.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, American.
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  Speaker 2: The American people are not crazy about supporting American universities.
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  Speaker 2: The things are going so I guarantee you they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be behind Trump if he wants to cut back
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  Speaker 2: on the support that we're giving to foreign university reader.
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  Speaker 4: Oh dear, well, yeah, this is the whole part philosophy
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  Speaker 4: of doge, isn't it. Why are Americans backing this stuff?
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  Speaker 4: How do you see the relationship with Elon Musk and
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump? There was a lot of conjecture in the
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  Speaker 4: past week that Elon wants to exit the administration. He's
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  Speaker 4: got into significant business interest that he should be focusing on.
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  Speaker 4: What is his life span in the administration, because surely
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  Speaker 4: you can't expect the world's richest man to continue to
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  Speaker 4: work for free for the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Elon Musk was hired as a special government employee
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  Speaker 2: with I believe one hundred and thirty day tenure. Now
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  Speaker 2: I suppose that could be extended or whatever, but it
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  Speaker 2: was never intended that Elon was going to be a
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  Speaker 2: long term employee of the federal government. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he's done an enormous amount of good in a short
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  Speaker 2: amount of time. Obviously, he has other interests he needs
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  Speaker 2: to tend to. What I hope is that his DOGE
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  Speaker 2: team remains and the DOGE work continues, because it is
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  Speaker 2: vitally important. The amount of waste, the amount of outright
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  Speaker 2: fraud and corruption that they are breaking to light is
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  Speaker 2: just unbelievable, and that effort really needs to continue.
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  Speaker 5: John.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to mention in the beginning of the show
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  Speaker 1: that your pronouns President and editor of Power. Great as
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  Speaker 1: always to chat to you. John Henderreika and thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for coming on and we'll speak again. So thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 6: The spotlight is on President Trump's health today as he
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  Speaker 6: undergoes his annual physical I have never felt better, he
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  Speaker 6: wrote on Truth Social But nevertheless, these things must be done.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's tariff war is surely raising his stress levels as
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  Speaker 6: the Chinese retaliate big time.
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  Speaker 7: Beijing is hitting back with new tariffs.
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  Speaker 6: Chinese social media accounts are trolling the president with AI
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  Speaker 6: generated memes depicting Trump Elon Musk and Veep jd Vance
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  Speaker 6: making Nike sneakers. This means war goes this headline. The
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  Speaker 6: tariff crisis is not the only mayhem at the White House.
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  Speaker 6: Head Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Deocy was
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  Speaker 6: attacked by a piget live on Fox and France. It's
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  Speaker 6: not easy being a White House reporter.
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  Speaker 1: Day.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciated head.
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  Speaker 6: Meanwhile, four new books are coming out that offer new
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  Speaker 6: insight into the twenty twenty four election. Uncharted, How Trump
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  Speaker 6: beat Biden, Harris and the Odds and the Wildest Campaign
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  Speaker 6: in History is by Chris Whipple.
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  Speaker 5: The heart of my book is the story of how
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  Speaker 5: the inner circle around Biden was in a fog of
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  Speaker 5: delusion and denial.
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  Speaker 6: He says, even though most Americans realized Joe Biden's campaign
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  Speaker 6: was over after the disastrous debate.
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  Speaker 8: We finally beat Medicare.
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  Speaker 6: His campaign continued to believe he could emerge victorious.
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  Speaker 5: He looked like a deer in the headlights, as though
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  Speaker 5: he didn't know what planet he was on, and yet
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  Speaker 5: the Biden camp somehow thought that he could recover from
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  Speaker 5: this run for reelection and win.
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  Speaker 6: A week after the debate, Biden sat down with ABC's
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  Speaker 6: George Stephanopolis for damage control. You actually contacted George about that?
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  Speaker 6: What did you find out?
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  Speaker 5: I did? I reached out to him and I and
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to know what it was like in the room,
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  Speaker 5: and he replied, heartbreaking up close.
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  Speaker 9: And a worrying US Chauna tribbors in full swing. What
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  Speaker 9: happens from here?
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  Speaker 10: Well, this is really the biggest game in town globally.
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  Speaker 10: I think Treasury beat the analysis of what the trade
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  Speaker 10: remains for Australia of tariffs, and they concluded that eighty
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  Speaker 10: percent of the impact will come from disruption in China.
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  Speaker 10: Since that time, we've seen the US and China, the
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  Speaker 10: relations have deteriorated to the point where the tariffs are
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  Speaker 10: now at a point where trade is unsustainable. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 10: says he's waiting for Jijingping to pick up the phone.
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  Speaker 10: But there's a view in Beijing that the relations have
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  Speaker 10: broken down and there will be a completely coupling. If
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  Speaker 10: that happens, it will really dislocate global trade. Big impacts
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  Speaker 10: for everybody, particularly Australia.
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  Speaker 9: Grime. Thank youmed that four million dollars people from umployment.
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  Speaker 3: Initially, I think it's terrible.
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  Speaker 11: I just heard it from Laurie and I appreci and
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  Speaker 11: you heard it from Elon's people, right. Elon's done a
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  Speaker 11: fantastic job. Look he's sitting here and I don't care.
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  Speaker 11: I don't need Elon for anything other than I happen
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  Speaker 11: to like him. But I'm telling you this guy, this
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  Speaker 11: guy did a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need his car. I actually bought one.
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  Speaker 11: Because and they said, oh, did you get a bargain.
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  Speaker 3: No, I said, give me the top price. I've hid
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money for that car. But honestly, he
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  Speaker 3: makes a great car. You know what I do with it.
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  Speaker 3: I let the people in the office drive around in a.
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  Speaker 11: Bargo Natalie and they're all Chamberlain. They're all driving around
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  Speaker 11: the most beautiful car. It's gorgeous. But I did that
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  Speaker 11: as a sign of just a show of support. Numerous
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  Speaker 11: people have done that, just a show of support because
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  Speaker 11: you know, he's done a fantastic job, but he hasn't
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  Speaker 11: been treated properly, hasn't been treated.
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  Speaker 12: So for more reaction, joining me right now, we have
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  Speaker 12: Michael Hardaway, former communications director to Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and Margillespie,
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  Speaker 12: former advisor to John Bayner, and Adam King Singer.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to you both.
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  Speaker 13: Michael.
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  Speaker 12: The administration keeps trying to spin Trump's tariff moves, but
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  Speaker 12: our Americans buying it, are these new exemption seen is
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  Speaker 12: giving into pressure.
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  Speaker 13: No, they're trying to gaslight us into believing that he
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  Speaker 13: didn't surrender in this trade war. And here's the other
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  Speaker 13: thing we should think about. The war for consumers hasn't
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  Speaker 13: actually started, because the war happens in people to go
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  Speaker 13: to Walmart and Target and Amazon and everything they like
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  Speaker 13: to buy is forty percent more. So those things really
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  Speaker 13: haven't kicked in, and so that's when it begins, and
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  Speaker 13: that's when the pressure rises on Republicans and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 13: to do something when the prices of average goods rise.
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  Speaker 13: And so, from my perspective, as we look at what's
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  Speaker 13: happening here, seventy five percent of the things we buy
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  Speaker 13: from Walmart come from China in some capacity. Things we
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  Speaker 13: buy from Amazon or source from China in some capacity,
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  Speaker 13: and so that means when those prices rise, people angrily
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  Speaker 13: call their congressmen and say, get Trump on the line
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  Speaker 13: and fix this. That's when the trade war starts.
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  Speaker 12: I'm curious more, do you agree with what Michael's saying.
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  Speaker 12: Are Republicans going to feel the squeeze?
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  Speaker 7: They may come to midterms, but that's to be seen.
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  Speaker 14: I think right now, the largest issue at hand is
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  Speaker 14: the fact that the White House really fumbled on the
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  Speaker 14: messaging aspect of this and the rollout.
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  Speaker 7: It was very chaotic, very back and forth.
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  Speaker 14: And one thing that the business world can't really tolerate
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  Speaker 14: is the inconsistencies.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 14: They had to plan for that, They had to plan
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  Speaker 14: for volatility and to mitigate the risks there are likely
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  Speaker 14: to drive up costs because they have to plan for
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  Speaker 14: if these harrifs do actually go into effect. And so
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  Speaker 14: I think that having some of these chaos agents the
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  Speaker 14: White House. There's just too many cooks in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 14: If the President's plan itself had just gone rolled out
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  Speaker 14: with more diplomacy at the forefront and targeting China for
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  Speaker 14: the fact that China does steal our intellectual prop right,
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  Speaker 14: you talk about things on Amazon. Small businesses here in
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  Speaker 14: America will create something selisling on Amazon and Chinese actors
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  Speaker 14: will steal it, take it and sell it for cheaper.
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  Speaker 7: We need a way to push back on that.
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  Speaker 14: And so the idea about pushing back on China, about
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  Speaker 14: having fair trade policies around the world, having manufacturing brought
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  Speaker 14: home on certain products and things of that nature to
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  Speaker 14: make more Americans buy American made products. Those are all
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  Speaker 14: pretty sound objectives, right, But it was the rollout that
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  Speaker 14: I think was the biggest mistake. And again it's a
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  Speaker 14: matter of whether these short term pains will be able
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  Speaker 14: to actually accumulate those long term gains as the President's promised,
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  Speaker 14: and if Republicans can withstand that kind of pressure from
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  Speaker 14: their constituents.
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  Speaker 12: But you know, more you make a point, you're saying,
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  Speaker 12: too many cooks in the kitchen. I want to know,
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  Speaker 12: are they all making the same dish.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't seem like they are.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, you have Scott Bessett, who seems to be
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  Speaker 14: I guess the steady hand here, who's trying to say,
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  Speaker 14: whoa wo.
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  Speaker 7: Wo, let's pull this back a little bit.
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  Speaker 14: But then you have Peter Navarro and Steven Miller going
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  Speaker 14: out on camera and espousing different things. So I do
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  Speaker 14: think as though there is is a real concern of messaging,
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  Speaker 14: and the White House needs to get their ducks in
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  Speaker 14: a row, and they've been inconsistent.
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  Speaker 7: Even from the White House.
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  Speaker 14: Pressey carry one hour saying one thing and then the
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  Speaker 14: President says another. That inconsistency isn't helping their efforts. And again,
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  Speaker 14: the idea around what they've tried to do is something
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  Speaker 14: that most Americans would agree that we need to do
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  Speaker 14: these things, but the way they went about it was
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  Speaker 14: I think very chaotic and.
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  Speaker 7: Potentially damaging to our relationships around the world.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Michael, is there an off ramp? Do you see
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  Speaker 12: one here?
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  Speaker 13: No? I think he's got to be reasonable. Look, we
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  Speaker 13: do need a global trade deal in some way that
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  Speaker 13: neutralizes many of the trade issues that we have with China.
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  Speaker 7: But we had one.
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  Speaker 13: It was called the Transpecific partnership. It was negotiated by
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  Speaker 13: President Barack Obama, and Donald Trump withdrew from that deal,
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  Speaker 13: and that deal would have neutralized so many of the
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  Speaker 13: trade advantages that China currently has that Donald Trump currently
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  Speaker 13: complains about. And so look, the reality is that the
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  Speaker 13: multi tillion dollars can oates that gave millions of dollars
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  Speaker 13: to Donald Trump are exempt from many of the issues
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  Speaker 13: with this trade war. The small mom and pop stores
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  Speaker 13: are going to get crushed if Donald Trump doesn't turn
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  Speaker 13: around and undo these taxes that he's put on us,
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  Speaker 13: both from a consumer perspective as people who buy stuff
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  Speaker 13: at the store, but also the small business owners on
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  Speaker 13: the other side will get charged a lot more for
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  Speaker 13: the goods that they source from other countries.
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  Speaker 8: This is all on Trump, and this is on.
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  Speaker 13: Republicans if they can't figure out a way to fix
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  Speaker 13: this and fix the economy before the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 15: More executive actions from President Trump. Late last night, the
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  Speaker 15: President authorized the military did take control of federal lands
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  Speaker 15: along the US Mexico border to bolster immigration enforcement. The
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  Speaker 15: memo directs the Defense Department to use the military to
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  Speaker 15: take steps to secure the board, including construction of a
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  Speaker 15: border barrier. It comes as a White House is set
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  Speaker 15: to begin new nuclear negotiations with Iran and workout trade
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  Speaker 15: deals with dozens of countries during a ninety day pause
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  Speaker 15: on tariffs. Willie James Enman is traveling with the President
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  Speaker 15: in Florida. Willy, good morning.
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  Speaker 16: Good morning to you, Michelle. Following a week of market turmoil,
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  Speaker 16: the White House is pushing ahead with his plan for
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  Speaker 16: punishing tariffs on Chinese goods with no end in sights
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  Speaker 16: and with negotiations up in the air.
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  Speaker 8: The White House says the President is optimistic about a
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  Speaker 8: potential deal after b Jans slapped one and twenty five
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  Speaker 8: percent tariffs on American exports in retaliation for a one
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  Speaker 8: and forty five percent rate on Chinese goods set by
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  Speaker 8: the US.
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  Speaker 17: I'm very comfortable now, but I've always gotten ang well
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  Speaker 17: with President Shee. We had a good relationship, very good,
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  Speaker 17: and I think something positive is going to come.
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  Speaker 8: The trade tingons between the US and its trading partners
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  Speaker 8: sent the stock market into a spiral this week. Stocks
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  Speaker 8: briefly recovered after the White House announced a pause and
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  Speaker 8: retilatory tariffs, but market spiraled again after the Trump administration
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  Speaker 8: clarified tariffs on some Chinese goods would be one hundred
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  Speaker 8: and forty five percent. All three indexes ended the week
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  Speaker 8: in the green on Friday. The uncertainty with trade hitting
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  Speaker 8: main street businesses.
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  Speaker 5: Hard fertilizer, fuel, herbicides, machinery all have gone up.
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  Speaker 8: Some business owners who sourced their products from China worry
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  Speaker 8: they may have to increase prices.
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  Speaker 18: We have a merchandise line and a lot of components
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  Speaker 18: of that merchandise comes from China, and so we're really
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  Speaker 18: trying to figure it out. We don't want to have
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  Speaker 18: to significantly increase our prices.
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  Speaker 8: The White House says at least seventy five nations have
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  Speaker 8: come to the table for negotiations and that fifteen of
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  Speaker 8: those have already submitted offers.
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  Speaker 3: We can send the turf for.
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  Speaker 17: We can do it in a number of different ways,
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  Speaker 17: but it seems to be appropriate and they can pay
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  Speaker 17: it or negotiate it, or they can not pay it.
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  Speaker 8: The progress to strike deals with other nations may not
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  Speaker 8: be enough to cool nervous investors and business owners.
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  Speaker 6: I think the market was overall and over sold, and
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  Speaker 6: we're going to have some of these relief rallies from
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  Speaker 6: time to time. But a whole bunch of uncertainty in
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  Speaker 6: all the sessions in between.
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  Speaker 16: Today mark's the start of what the White House is
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  Speaker 16: calling direct negotiations with Iran for a new nuclear agreement,
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  Speaker 16: and those conversations are taking place in Oman, with that
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  Speaker 16: nation acting as the intermediary between US and Iranian officials.
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  Speaker 4: Dana, all right, Willie, thank you,