Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on tariffs teething problems, helicopter crash on the Hudson River, and the athlete getting a billion dollar contract

6 people have been killed after a helicopter crashed in New York City’s Hudson River.

Three adults and three children were on a sightseeing flight when the helicopter lost control and crashed.

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson talks to Ryan Bridge about the crash, teething problems arising from Trump’s tariffs, and the athlete getting a billion dollar contract.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Dan Mitchison, US correspondent with US Now.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi, Dan Usa Ussay, you.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Guys are just absolutely crushing it. Hey, let's start with
Donald Trump acknowledging finally that the couple of teething issues
with the tariffs.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, he did say there's some transition problems with the policies,
and his teams are working on some deals, and he
had this to say, we're doing very well.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Again, There'll be a transition cost and transition problems, but
in the end it's going to be it's going to
be a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, stocks were down today, although I'm just looking at
the futures right now ahead of the opening bell tomorrow
and it looks like they're up for the most part.
But you know, with the tariffs on all these good
sort of paused, except for China, which is now at
one hundred and forty five percent, which was higher than
we thought. And I guess that had to do with
tariffs that had been previously put on fentanyl, which is
a big drug problem here in the US. But we'll

(01:06):
see if this ninety day pause is for the better
for the worse, And honestly, Ryan, I don't know if
it's one or the other at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, not a thing anyone does today. What about the helicopter.
I watched this video of the helicopter crashing into the
Hudson River and it looked like it split apart in
the midia. What happened?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do we know it didn't know? They're still investigating this
right now. I mean, you know, the first thing people
think of is often as it is, an operator error
or weather. We had six people total, three adults and
three children that died this afternoon in Manhattan. This was
a family from Spain and it just lost control after
it turned at the George Washington Bridge to go along

(01:46):
the Jersey shoreline. And the winds were pretty mild. I mean,
it was you know, nine ten miles an hour, The
visibility was good. There'd been some rain but not at
the time of the flight, and the ceiling was like
it's seven thousand feet. So right now they're saying all
the data that they're getting for that flight shows that
the altitude was about a thousand feet at the highest,
so that's below the cloud ceiling. So nobody right now

(02:08):
exactly knows what happened, but it's just another tragic air accident.
We've seen quite a few of those here in the
US in the last few months.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Who's this athlete going to get a billion dollar contract?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That is the billion dollar question. We do not know.
Is there a ceiling when it comes to the amount
that a baseball player or a rugby player or a
soccer player can and should make. There was a Los
Angeles Dodger baseball player that just signed two seasons ago
for a ten year, seven hundred billion dollar agreement. There
was another one that got about seven hundred and sixty
five million with the New York Mets this past winter.

(02:42):
And so the former general manager of the Cincinnati Reds
over here he is projecting that the one billion dollar
threshold could be crossed in just a few years, by
twenty thirty. Now, we don't know where in the world.
Is it going to be a football player or soccer player? Well,
I don't think it'll be a rugby player. It could
be a basketball player. But the question is if that
player does cross that threshold, and it will be when

(03:04):
I mean, I mean who pays for these contracts? I mean,
obviously the teams do, but it gets passed on to
the fans, doesn't it. Ticket prices and broadcast rights in
parking a merchandise. So how much are fans willing to pay?
And I'm wondering, you know, as a fan, if these
paychecks turn off anyone, or if they say, you know what, hey,
we don't care as long as our team's winning.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, well exactly, And if you're winning, then they're worth
the money, right Dan, Thank you for that, Dan Mitchison,
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