UNBIASED - UNBIASED Politics in UNDER Five Minutes: Are Trump's Tariffs Reciprocal? New Job Growth in the U.S., How Goldberg Got Added to the Yemen Chat, and More.

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the first and possibly last episode of Unbiased Politics in five minutes or less. So my idea to do this stemmed from my own busy schedule. Obviously, I know a lot of us don't always have the time to sit down and listen to a 40 minute podcast episode, but I did still want to offer an opportunity, you know, for all of us to be informed because at the end of the day, that's what I'm passionate about. So obviously with just five short minutes, it's hard to give a lot of the context that I feel like these stories deserve but it's the only way I know how to do it and you know if you ever want to know more about a story you can go and listen to the prior episode where I cover all of these stories in more

Starting point is 00:00:36 detail. So please give me feedback after you hear this episode let me know if this is something that you want me to start doing or if this is something you could do without. It's essentially the day before's episode in five minutes or less. So without further ado, let's get into it. We learned Friday that the US economy added 228,000 new jobs in March, which well surpassed economists' expectations. What this number tells us is that there was economic confidence in March because when

Starting point is 00:01:04 businesses hire more workers, it says they're confident about future demand for their goods and or services. Now of course we have to mention the fact that March numbers don't take into account the tariffs that were announced last week so economists were sure to note that the numbers in March were strong but could very well be upended by the new uncertainty in the market. So economists will be keeping an eye on the job reports and other economic reports over the next few months to see how the tariff announcement

Starting point is 00:01:30 starts to have an impact. President Trump announced on Friday he would extend the TikTok ban for another 75 days while he considers various purchase proposals from American companies and investors. Oracle currently hosts TikTok data on its servers. So Oracle is reportedly being looked at as the frontrunner, but other bidders include Amazon and Walmart. A new report from the White

Starting point is 00:01:51 House Information Technology Office revealed how the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was added to the Yemen group chat last month. It all reportedly started when Jeffrey Goldberg emailed, who is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, emailed the campaign back in October and Goldberg's email was forwarded to then-Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes. Hughes then copied and pasted the content of the email, including the signature block which had Goldberg's phone number, into a text message that he sent to national security advisor Mike Waltz. The iPhone algorithm then apparently suggested Waltz update Hughes's contact with Goldberg's number, which Waltz did, and the mistake went unnoticed until last month when Waltz meant to add Brian Hughes's number to the Yemen group chat but added Goldberg's number instead. On Friday, a federal judge

Starting point is 00:02:34 ordered the Trump administration to return a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador due to an administrative error, and after the appellate court denied the administration's appeal, the administration went to the Supreme Court. Since last night's episode the supreme court has paused the lower court's order which means the man does not have to be returned to the united states and that order which was issued by chief justice roberts ordered the case paused pending another order from the justices so we can expect that in the next few days. And now a little tariff update more specifically. Are the new tariffs reciprocal or not? That is what everyone's arguing about. Here's the short answer. The Trump administration argues the tariffs are reciprocal because they're equivalent to a

Starting point is 00:03:15 reciprocal tariff, whereas opponents argue that the tariffs are not reciprocal because they don't match other countries' tariffs on us. Back in February, the president actually issued a memo called reciprocal trade-in tariffs. And in short, what that memo said is that the administration would work on countering non-reciprocal trading agreements with trading partners by determining the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to each foreign trading partner. And in determining what that tariff would be, the administration was to take into account various factors, which would include the tariffs imposed on U.S. products, but also many other things. So while the administration calls the tariffs reciprocal, it also acknowledges that the tariffs are not exactly reciprocal tariffs by definition and instead equivalent to reciprocal

Starting point is 00:04:00 tariffs. Now, the irony here is that this is exactly why critics say the tariffs are not reciprocal, because the tariffs don't say the tariffs are not reciprocal. Because the tariffs don't mirror the tariffs other countries have on us and in some cases are actually higher than the tariffs we face from some of these other countries. To be reciprocal, they have to match. Let's end with some quick hitters per usual. The Supreme Court denied a challenge to a recently enacted gun restriction in New York and also put on hold an order that would have required the Education Department to reinstate more than

Starting point is 00:04:26 $65 million in grants. Two border inspectors in California have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the US without showing documentation. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the second measles-related death in the state after the child passed away from measles pulmonary failure. Over the weekend more than 1,200 protests took place across all 50 states to rally against the Trump administration and Elon Musk in speaking to Italy's right-leaning League Party said he would like to see a zero tariff situation between the US and Europe. That is what I have for you in today's edition of Unbiased Politics in Under 5 Minutes. This one went a few seconds over because I had to give you that intro, but please give me your feedback.

Starting point is 00:05:10 Let me know what you thought about this shortened episode. Of course, tune in to yesterday's episode for a ton more detail on all of these stories, and I will talk to you again on Thursday.

UNBIASED - UNBIASED Politics in UNDER Five Minutes: Are Trump's Tariffs Reciprocal? New Job Growth in the U.S., How Goldberg Got Added to the Yemen Chat, and More.

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