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Hello!
Slightly later newscast than normal.
I'm sitting in broadcasting house in the newscast studio on Wednesday evening, the 2nd of April,
and it's 10.37 in Faisal's here after a very lively 10 o'clock news and a very lively 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock.
It was indeed,
it was indeed extremely lively and we're still filtering through some of the detail of what is an extraordinary change proposed by the Americans unilaterally to the entire world economy.
And we will dive into the details in the body of the episode,
but just before we start, just the theatrics of what we saw.
So Trump was at a very big event in the garden of the White House.
There was senators there, the whole cabinet was there,
lots of people who work in the American car industry was there, as will become clear why.
And he did a big, quite classic Trump speech, weaving in all sorts of different directions about trade,
and then he got to the meat and drink of it,
which was a huge increase in the tariffs that the import taxes that America will charge its trading partners,
which he illustrated with this big cardboard charts.
China, first row, China, 67%.
That's tariffs charged to the USA, including currency manipulation and trade barriers.
So 67%, I think you can for the most part see it, those with good eyes, with bad eyes.
We didn't want to bring, it's very windy out here.