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Speaker 1: Dan Mitchison's a US correspondent with US this afternoon. Dan,

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Speaker 1: good evening, afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Rabe, Hey, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what it's basically down across the bord, isn't that,

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Speaker 1: Mike at wise the reaction to these tariffs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. In fact, you know what, do you have

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Speaker 2: your do you have your your mobile phone right next

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Speaker 2: to you? I'm assuming in the studio I want you

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Speaker 2: to put this in your calendar for the final week

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Speaker 2: of this year. I think the Oxford University Press Word

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Speaker 2: of the Year will be tariffs. If it's not number one,

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Speaker 2: it's definitely got to be number two, because I think

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Speaker 2: that's all we're going to be talking about for the

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Speaker 2: foreseeable future. Right now. Looking at the market here, dows

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Speaker 2: off about two hundred points and the Nasdaq futures down

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Speaker 2: about half a percent. But I got to tell you

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Speaker 2: it was rough today. Across the board. We saw the

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Speaker 2: biggest drop that we've had since about two thousand, at

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Speaker 2: the start of the pandemic. Economists are saying these tariffs

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Speaker 2: could lead to a global recession, and I thought this

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Speaker 2: was kind of interesting. After the market closed, the White

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Speaker 2: House posted a tweet showing the President walking and his

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Speaker 2: hair and his suit jacket and all blown back. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was a very like model looking picture in the wind.

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Speaker 2: And they had a message to sit almost Friday, and

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Speaker 2: after everything that happened, I thought that was a really

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Speaker 2: weird message for the White House to kind of send out.

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Speaker 1: Have we had any polling on this yet.

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Speaker 2: Not yet, per se, although there was a poll that

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Speaker 2: did come out about the overall economy and the fear

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Speaker 2: of not just day to day spending but medical costs,

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Speaker 2: and about sixty percent of American sixty four percent are

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Speaker 2: concerned about this right now. And I think you've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of mixed messages in the White House after today.

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Speaker 2: You've got some White House aids that are insisting that

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Speaker 2: the tariffs were not negotiable. Then you've got the President

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Speaker 2: coming out and saying, you know what, I might be

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Speaker 2: open to negotiating with other countries about the duties on this.

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Speaker 2: And I think people are concerned because you don't want

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Speaker 2: to look at your retirement fun on a daylight today.

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Speaker 2: And you've got the President saying, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 2: playing the long game here. It's going to hurt for

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Speaker 2: the foreseeable future. But he said down the road. This

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Speaker 2: is going to make the country stronger because more people

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Speaker 2: are going to buy us products TikTok.

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Speaker 1: We've been here before where the thing was going to

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Speaker 1: be you know, band and would go dark over It's

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Speaker 1: appundly going to happen again over the weekend. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: give it basically a stay of execution last time. Are

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Speaker 1: we going to get another one of those? Or is

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Speaker 1: there a deal to be done here?

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Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, we've got so many people now,

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Speaker 2: everybody's thrown in their hats. Now. Just a couple of

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Speaker 2: days ago, you've got Amazon, You've got the founder of

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Speaker 2: only Fans, You've got this market platform app Love, and

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Speaker 2: that just announced a short time ago that it was

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Speaker 2: submitting a bid for for TikTok. And you know, basically

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Speaker 2: the President has said, I want to find a non

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Speaker 2: Chinese buyer for this app. It's used by one hundred

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Speaker 2: and seventy million Americans. Of course, there's you know, concern

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Speaker 2: about the security issues on this, and he says, you

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Speaker 2: know what, maybe I'd consider a deal for this where

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Speaker 2: China agrees to approve the sale of this by byt

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Speaker 2: dance in exchange for some relief from tariff. So once again,

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Speaker 2: we're kind of circling back to that that that big

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Speaker 2: topic here that I think is going to involve more

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Speaker 2: than just you know, the economy here.

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Speaker 1: Of course, all of us have very real world consequences,

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Speaker 1: and people are always there's a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: are already doing it tough because the cost of living thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's gone away for some people have had a pay increase,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. For others, that's still a problem.

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Speaker 1: Easter eggs are so expensive some people are dying potatoes

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Speaker 1: to have faced. Is this right?

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Speaker 2: They are? I thought at first this was maybe an

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Speaker 2: April fool's joke that had been let you know, let

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Speaker 2: to wonder for a couple of days or two. But no,

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Speaker 2: they're not. I mean, eggs here are going for nine dollars,

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Speaker 2: ten eleven, twelve dollars a dozen. They are in short

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Speaker 2: supply because of bird flu. California is a major producer

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Speaker 2: of bird eggs or of these eggs as well, and

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Speaker 2: PETA among a number of other groups, not just PETA,

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Speaker 2: but they're one of a group that have sent a

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Speaker 2: request to the White Housing please use potatoes instead of

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Speaker 2: eggs during the annual Easter egg role event. Now as

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Speaker 2: you might imagine the Trump administration said, yeah, that's not

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Speaker 2: going to happen. But there are a lot of people

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Speaker 2: that are saying, you know what, we're going to have

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Speaker 2: to find creative ways. I can't see anybody in my

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Speaker 2: neighborhood we have a lot the kids doing this. Plastic

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Speaker 2: eggs though, I can imagine those are going to be

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Speaker 2: more popular and maybe maybe people using fewer real eggs

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Speaker 2: in their Easter egg hunt. But I don't think we're white.

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Speaker 1: I see. I thought that the story was about actually

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Speaker 1: chocolate Easter eggs that were too expensive for people. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to figure that out. So it's the ones

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Speaker 1: that and then you play hide to seke with basically

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Speaker 1: a fond eg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, you just you die them. You put

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Speaker 2: them in the grass, kids go out and they hunt

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Speaker 2: for them. That being said, you're not wrong about chocolate

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Speaker 2: because the price of chocolate has gone up thirty percent too,

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Speaker 2: So buying those Easter those chocolate Easter eggs or bunnies

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Speaker 2: are also going to be a lot more expensive this year.

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Speaker 1: But who wants to find an egg like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a hot boiled egg or just a roar eg? Even

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Speaker 1: rules you want to find a chocolate egg, don't you.

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Speaker 2: I understand you do, but you know, you know now

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Speaker 2: that you put it like that, I don't know. That's

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Speaker 2: all we've ever done. Growing on. People used to put

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Speaker 2: real eggs all over the ground.

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Speaker 1: I've been ripped off since childhood? Have hey? Thank you?

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