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Ryan Bridge: This is Trump unleashed · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: In the space of twelve hours, the whole world has changed.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is Trump back, baby, but he's more powerful
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  Speaker 1: than ever. Republicans have flipped the Senate and they are
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  Speaker 1: on track to retain the House of Representatives that gives
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  Speaker 1: them enormous power to set budgets, start or stop funding wars,
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  Speaker 1: and post tariffs on anyone they like. Basically and KeyWe
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  Speaker 1: farmers and primary producers, our exporters, the backbone of this
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  Speaker 1: trading nation, will be waking up this morning with a
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  Speaker 1: pit in their stomach. America is our second largest export market,
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  Speaker 1: overtook the Aussies last year. Tariffs on our meat and
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  Speaker 1: dairy could be a brutal blow. Plus, our number one
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  Speaker 1: trading partner in China is about to be whacked even
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  Speaker 1: harder by Washington. Trump's Washington. A trade war could wipe
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  Speaker 1: they reckon almost one percent of global growth in the
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  Speaker 1: next year, and global growth is tipped to be just
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  Speaker 1: three point five percent. That is massive and it will
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  Speaker 1: send shockwaves around the world and we will feel it here.
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  Speaker 1: Add to that Trump potentially pulling support for U Train's
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  Speaker 1: war and his bullish comments on the Middle East, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got yourself a highly unpredictable, and to use a
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  Speaker 1: couple of overused terms, unprecedented and consequential set of variables.
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  Speaker 1: For all the handwringing pre election that Trump was an
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  Speaker 1: existential threat to democracy, that very system has elected him
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  Speaker 1: the forty seventh president of the United States, serving his
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  Speaker 1: last term with more power than he's ever had. This
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  Speaker 1: is Trump unleashed. Buckle up, brace yourselves. Everything we knew
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  Speaker 1: yesterday about the global economy and global conflicts is about
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  Speaker 1: to change. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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