Richard Arnold: US Correspondent says Trump is running out of victories, and trading partners

A recent decision by the US Court of Appeal has ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal.  

The court has said it will leave the tariffs in effect for the next few weeks, giving time for Trump to appeal the decision.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that although the President has been given the chance to appeal, his team are likely shaken by this ruling.  

‘The back and forth shows the concern behind the scenes in Trump world. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the States. We go Richard Land, Good morning, What
do you Mike? He's going to running out of courts,
isn't he?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
But he's running out of court victories and US trading partners,
in the words of one analysts, must be dazed and
confused by it all. We're five months into this tariff
war and a US federal appeals court is ruled that
most of the Trump terriffs are illegal. This rule in
covering the tariffs announced at the start of April back
on Liberation Day, as Trump called it at the time.
The court finding also looks at specific tariffs against China, Canada,

(00:28):
and Mexico. The court says it will leave the tariffs
in effect for the next few weeks, so the Trump
team has the opportunity to appeal, but the back and
forth shows a concern behind the scenes in Trump World.
Trump has posted on social media that if the tariffs
go away, it would be quote a total disaster for
the country. The US Trade Rep. Jameson Greer is echoing.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
That it would be disastrous.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, but Greer is saying of the situation.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Now, we had four judges on that court agree with
a large part of President Trump's approach so this is
not over all. The tariffs are still in effect, and
this clearly is the best and most flexible tool for
the President to use for his reciprocal terror.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is he joking? The Appeals Court ruled against the Trump
team seven to four, so this Trump ate is hanging
out of the fact that four judges agreed with their
sidet ye at a minority in a seven to four opinion.
The court majority says the president does not have the
power to impose tariffs on the basis of some supposed
emergency under the IIPA Act International Emergency Economic Powers Act,

(01:29):
tariffs are the domain of legislators in the Congress, not
for the president, says the court, their attacks outside the
president's authority. Trump is slamming the Appeals Court as quote
highly partisan, and suggests the conservative majority Supreme Court should
take a different view. But just before the appeals Court
ruling came out, Trump cabinet members wrote letters to the
court saying it would humiliate the United States and Harma's

(01:51):
international standing if the court ruled against the Trump team.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson wrote it would lead to a
quote dangerous diplomatic embarrassment quote who the court quickly ruled
the tariffs I legal. If this stands, it could force
the US government to deal with demands for what hundreds
of billions in refunds on levies paid already so chaotic, confusing,
absolutely Meantime, another federal court has struck down a Trump

(02:15):
order on speeding up deportations without giving would be immigrants
in the asylum hearing, while Immigration ICE agents have arrested
two men fighting a raging bushfire at the Olympic National
Forest up in Oregon. Seriously, now, it turns out that
one of these men is on track for citizenship and
has lived in the US for nineteen years after arriving

(02:35):
with his family at the age of four.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Right, FDA, where are we at with the jabs?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh gosh? Robert F. Kennedy, who was approved as health
sick telling lawmakers that he was not a doctor or
a scientist and would never act like one if he
got the health post. Well, Now, with the northern winter
approaching here, two of the biggest pharmacy chains in the
land are severely limiting the availability of the newest COVID
vaccine because of Rfk's involvement. He long has condemned COVID

(03:01):
vaccines and other vaccines, even though he told lawmakers at
his confirmation hearing that he had his own kids vaccinated.
So what's up with that? After less than a month
on the job. The head of the CDC the Centers
for Disease Control, Susan Monaraz, was removed the other day.
Four other top CDC officials have resigned in protest. Now.
Former CDC Acting Director doctor Richard Bessi says he is worrying.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
We are still seeing two hundred children each year die
from COVID.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
And older populations and those with the health issues. It
is a much broader concern. Now. CVS Pharmacy, the biggest
chain in this country, says they're going to limit vaccines
in sixteen newer states. You might be able to get
the thing with a prescription from a doctor, and you
might have to pay for it at what cost We
don't know yet. So this is a massive rollback thanks
to the Health sec who, of course swims in raw

(03:51):
sewage and eats roadkill.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Good only month see Wednesday Richard Old stateside. We note
over the weekend the latest newspaper closed as at the
end of the year is the Atlanta Journal Constitution they'll
remain online, but the paper is a thing of the past,
and Taco bell I Note also is having a look
at their AI. They wanted it to power drive through
to make it more efficient and reduce technical mistakes, but

(04:14):
one bloke turned up and ordered eighteen thousand water cups.
Another person's increasingly angry. This is all on social media,
as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more and
more drinks to his order. Five hundred locations since twenty
twenty three. They're using the AI at Taco bell

Speaker 2 (04:31):
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