The Daily Signal - Auto Tariffs, Sensitive Information, and Yelling in Congress | March 27, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 President Trump talks tariffs and women's rights. Jeffrey Goldberg reveals the top secret war plans he witnessed, and there was a lot of yelling in the House of Representatives. I'm Tony Kennett from the Daily Signals's Tony Kenned cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Thursday, March 27, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. The President of the United States began yesterday by issuing a new series of automotive tariffs. A 25% tariff was imposed on the following imports, passenger vehicles including sedans,

Starting point is 00:00:36 SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans, and light trucks, key automobile parts, such as engines, transmissions, power train parts, and electrical components. Here's President Trump explaining. And this is very modest. And what we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're made in the United States, it's absolutely not tariff. We start off with a 2.5% of a 10% tariff.

Starting point is 00:01:00 base, which is what we were at, and we go to 25%. And basically, as you know, and as you've been saying, not reporting as it should be reported because it's a massive story. Business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs. Two of the automotive manufacturers who have announced they are moving back production to the United States as a result of Trump's tariff threats include Rolls-Royce and South Korea's Hyundai. Hyundai announced announced $20 billion in new U.S. investments. President Trump also delivered a few comments at a White House Women's History event yesterday in which he criticized the Biden administration's policies and views on gender transitions, as well as hormonal treatments and medications in the pursuit

Starting point is 00:01:47 of gender transitions. For four long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology. Maybe you heard something about that. They destroyed women's spaces and even tried to replace the word mother with the term birther person. A mother became a birther person. What's that all about? Then you wonder why they lost. They're trying to figure out why did they lose. I saw a congressman today for the Democrats. He was having a big fight on television early this morning trying to make it so that really he thinks men should play in women's sports. He hasn't given that up yet. He was fighting like crazy. I said, This guy is going to lose, he's going to lose badly.

Starting point is 00:02:32 The whole party is still into that. They haven't learned. And we don't want them to learn, frankly. We want them to keep fighting. Let's not tell them. Under the Trump administration, we're ending the Marxist war on women, and you had a war on women, and we're protecting women's rights, defending women's dignity, and standing up for the American moms and daughters. So many are represented here of great people in this room.

Starting point is 00:02:55 American women have never had bigger champions than all of us. us in the White House. I mean, it's me, but it's the group of men and women. When day one, I made the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Is there

Starting point is 00:03:18 anybody, seriously, is there anybody that disagrees with that in this room? I was thinking maybe somebody from the press might raise the end. I don't think so. There aren't too many people. You know, it's amazing. It's got to be like a 98%

Starting point is 00:03:33 issue, right? So what are they doing, Marjorie? What are they doing? They're fighting for a 2% issue. That's good. Let them keep doing it. No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you're born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman. You're not going to be a woman. And that's why last month I proudly signed a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women's sports and it was very popular and very very popular we had a track meet and I it was so disparaging to great women athletes I've known so many great women athletes I gave Anika sorenstam the Medal of Freedom here not so long ago and these are unbelievable athletes but it's so ridiculous they had a track meet and you heard me talking about long a long

Starting point is 00:04:29 distance track meet the man won by five hours and 14 minutes and 12 seconds And I said, this is not good. And you want to see worse? Take a look at the weightlifting records. Take a look at the boxing. Take a look at this. The whole thing is ridiculous. And frankly, it's demeaning to women.

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Starting point is 00:05:14 After saying he would not release what he described as war plans for the sake of national security, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, released the remaining messages of the Signal group chat scandal. After Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsetth claimed, that there was no classified war plan information in this signal group chat among top officials that Goldberg was added to. The messages in question that Goldberg ended up releasing anyway didn't show the names of targets, target locations, take off points for the FAA 18s, take off points for the Reaper drones, names of the pilots and or operators, their flight, squadron group, wing, ship, ship group, flight return points, explosive poundage, or any information which could put U.S. troops in danger other than,

Starting point is 00:06:02 in two hours, F-18s will be in the air, and the Navy will shoot a couple Tomahawk missiles. The Atlantic has since walked back its claim that the messages were war plans, then calling them attack plans in a following article. Democrat senators like Elizabeth Warren have stepped back even further, now calling the supposed messages sensitive information. That didn't stop Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut from claiming that it was a miracle U.S. troops weren't killed and that boats weren't sunk, defending Goldberg. Congressman, how was an American life put into jeopardy?

Starting point is 00:06:34 We will find out. How? Because. You've made a claim. Tell me how an American life is put into jeopardy. Because in an insecure channel, in what was acknowledged as a mistake, before, whether it was a day or two hours or five hours, in a signal chat that we know. Do you want an answer to your question? In a signal chat that we know that the Russians could intercept, they might have told the Houthis in an hour.

Starting point is 00:06:57 And in half an hour, they're moving their anti-aircraft stuff around. it is by the grace of God that we don't have dead pilots or sunken ships right now. And I will tell you whether it's a big mistake or a small mistake, to then go and attack Jeffrey Goldberg, without whom we wouldn't even know about this mistake. Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic have repeatedly published false and heavily embellished reports, including a discredited rumor that President Trump had referred to D-Day veterans as suckers and losers, denied by those present at the alleged time both friendly and very much not fans of President Trump, not to mention the numerous Russian collusion claims and election interference claims that never bore fruit or evidence.

Starting point is 00:07:39 That brings us over to the fair amount of yelling in the House of Representatives committees yesterday. In a hearing regarding the polling of federal funding for public media stations and corporations, Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, Texas, started to get a little bit amped up over her claims that Republicans didn't care about those in rural communities. And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullsh-s. We need to stop playing because that's what y'all are doing in here. You don't want to hear the opinions of anybody else. And the Constitution states, Congress shall make no law respecting or establishing of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the... The gentlewoman's time has expired. On the flip side, Brandon Gill, representative of Texas 26th

Starting point is 00:08:30 congressional, grilled NPR head Catherine Mayer over prior discriminatory views, which mayor completely denies any knowledge of, though they came from her own Twitter account. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I don't believe that, sir. You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, the case for reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir. You tweeted about it.

Starting point is 00:08:57 You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020. Do you think that white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.

Starting point is 00:09:19 Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Our political editor Bradley Devlin got a chance to sit down with Representative Gill in an episode of The Signal Sitdown that is well worth the listen.

Starting point is 00:09:42 We'll link that in the description below. And Democrat Representative Ayanna Presley, representative of Massachusetts 7th Congressional, made a couple of interesting claims about the racial makeup of the Trump administration and then some very specious policy claims following. The Trump cabinet is on track to be one of the whitest cabinets in modern history. And when the government is given unchecked authority, civil rights are often the first to be sacrificed without this amendment. Nothing in this bill stops an administration from using its reorganization powers to weaken the enforcement of civil rights and anti-discrimination protections.

Starting point is 00:10:24 You may say, but Tony, you haven't talked about the Supreme Court rulings on ghost guns or the latest rulings from District and Appeals Court judges on the Trump administration's Article 2 Authority. I hear your concerns, but rest easy. Check the description below to make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnett cast and join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern to get the latest on these courtroom calamities. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been The Daily Signals, Top News in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Auto Tariffs, Sensitive Information, and Yelling in Congress | March 27, 2025

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