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Speaker 1: Foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.

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Speaker 1: We had an American dream that you don't hear so

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Speaker 2: But it is not going to happen anymore. It's not

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Speaker 3: This is a forty seven Morning Update special edition with

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Speaker 4: Good Thursday morning. Ben Ferguson with you. It's signs to

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Speaker 4: have you on the forty seven Morning Update, and this

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Speaker 4: morning will be a special edition dealing with all things

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Speaker 4: tariffs and the President calling it Liberation Day. The moral

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Speaker 4: of the story with Donald Trump was this, they charged us,

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Speaker 4: so we're going to charge them. I'll explain exactly how

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Speaker 4: the tariffs work, what it means for you, and how

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Speaker 4: long this could last. It's the forty seven Morning Update

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Speaker 4: and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: President Donald Trump on Wednesday revealed they charted detailing the

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Speaker 4: reciprocal tariffs that he will impose on other countries, wanting

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Speaker 4: to make it very clear to the American people that

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Speaker 4: these countries are charging us first, so now we are

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Speaker 4: going to charge them back. China sixty seven percent tariffs

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Speaker 4: charged to the US, including currency manipulation and trade barriers.

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Speaker 4: Was a perfect example of what Donald Trump was talking about,

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Speaker 4: and that's exactly why he announced his trade policies on

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Speaker 4: what he has deemed Liberation Day. Here's the President in

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Speaker 1: We have some very very good news today, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of good things are happening for our country. Please

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Speaker 1: sit down, my fellow Americans. This is liberation Day waiting

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Speaker 1: for a long time. April second, twenty twenty five will

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Speaker 1: forever be remembered as today American industry was reborn, the

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Speaker 1: day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began.

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Speaker 2: To make America wealthy again, going to make it wealthy, good,

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Speaker 1: For decades, our country has been looted, pillage, raped, and

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Speaker 1: plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.

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Speaker 1: American steel workers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen. We

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Speaker 1: have stolen our jobs. Foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories,

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Speaker 1: and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.

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Speaker 1: We had an American dream that you don't hear so

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Speaker 1: much about. You did four years ago and you are now,

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Speaker 1: But you know too often, and for many years and

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Speaker 2: But it is not going to happen anymore. It's not

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Speaker 4: The President also making it clear he knows how the

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Speaker 4: media is going to play this doom and gloom. But

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Speaker 4: the reality is there's quite a few important groups in

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Speaker 4: is exactly why the President made it clear to the

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Speaker 4: is behind the President well, The Coalition for a Prosperous

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Speaker 4: America chairman put out a statement saying, this a permanent,

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Speaker 4: addresses the destructive legacy of decades of misguided free trade policies.

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Speaker 4: President Trump's decision to implement a baseline tariff is a

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Speaker 4: game changing shift that prioritizes American manufacturing, protects working class jobs,

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Speaker 4: restore its industrial leadership. Today's actions will deliver lasting benefits

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Speaker 4: the US economy and working class Americans, submitting President Trump's

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Speaker 4: taking action to address numerous trade barriers that prevent consumers

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Speaker 4: saying today's trade action prioritizes domestic manufacturers and the American workers.

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Speaker 4: These hard working men and women have seen unfair trade

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Speaker 4: and supply chain challenges. These are just some of the

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Speaker 4: major industries that are backing the president's move. Now, of course,

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Speaker 4: that it's going to hurt our economy, that it's starting

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Speaker 1: In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive

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Speaker 1: order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world. Reciprocal.

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Speaker 1: That means they do it to us and we do

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Speaker 1: it to them. Very simple. Can't get any simpler than that.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the most important days, in my opinion,

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Speaker 4: President Trump wasn't the only one excited about what this

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Speaker 4: deserve it nothing less. And the President wasn't done there.

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Speaker 4: He also had this to say about the reciprocal tariffs

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Speaker 1: The tariffs will be not a full reciprocal I could

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Speaker 1: have done that, yes, but it would have been tough

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Speaker 2: We didn't want to do that. I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: So if you look at that China first row, China,

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Speaker 1: Words, they charge us, we charge them, we charge them less.

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Speaker 1: Thirty nine percent. We're gonna charge them twenty percent. So

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Speaker 1: The problem is they charge us ninety percent. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: So the big takeaway from the President of the United

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Speaker 4: at a much higher rate. We are not going back

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Speaker 4: But remember the people that I told you about earlier

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Speaker 4: America long term. That is exactly why the President's calling

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