Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Trump's Liberation Day and the death of Richard Chamberlain

US President Donald Trump has coined Wednesday as 'Liberation Day', when he will roll out tariffs promised to free the country from foreign goods. 

The President says he will impose 25% tariffs on cars and car parts made outside of the United States. 

Tesla's are one of the only cars made entirely in the US. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold joins the show to discuss Liberation Day, and the death of Richard Chamberlain. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stateside.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Rich and Arnold, good morning, make Liberation Day Wednesday out time.
This is shaping airs quite a week, isn't it. Yeah,
this is the time that Trump tags his liberation Day
when tariffs take effect and lots of folks have the jitters.
Car dealers in many spots of being deluged right now.
One outlet NAR Chicago is saying they've just had the
busiest stay since they open several years back. Trump says

(00:22):
he will impose this week twenty five percent tariffs on
cars and car parts made outside the United States. In
an interview with NBC, Trump says he couldn't quote care
less if imported car prices increased because of tariff. Others
are saying that simply doesn't compute because, apart from say
Elon Musk's Tesla's if you can get through the protest lines,

(00:42):
virtually virtually no carmaker here pro used to vehicles that
are one hundred percent made in this country with only
American parts. Trump was asked about.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
This, said, Americans buy cars now if they want to
avoid higher prices. I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think you're going to have a country that's going
to boom boom when as soon as tariff are applied,
or maybe in I don't know, five or six years,
as car manufacturers perhaps changed their production systems. What about
the immediate pressure on consumers, says economist Diane Swan.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's just very hard to find things that are solely
produced in the United States, and even those carmakers that
are most insulated from tariff's do get some kind of
parts from abroad or steel that is going to increase
the cost of that vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, that makes sense to just about everyone except apparently Trump.
That's why car dealers are being swamped. Even in the
White House, conditions are being described as near panic with
the Trump tariff talk shifting constantly. As we've seen meantime,
there are big responses in the face of the Trump tariffs,
Canada's new PM Mike Conney mccannie saying over the weekend

(01:45):
this the.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Old relationship we had with the United States, based on
deepening integration of our economies and type security and military cooperations.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Is over so similar concerns as you've been tracking from
Europe and the Asia Pacific. While on Wall Street has
been wiped off investments in recent weeks, including another drop
on the Dow on Saturday, your time Friday here of
seven hundred points plus, so investors, consumers, most everyone here
has a case of the nerves. And Trump's Commerce secretary
Howard Lutnik refused today even to appear on the political

(02:18):
TV talk shows Interesting and Richard Chamblin not about run ninety.
That's right. He's died of a stroke in Hawaii. He
was a great actor over many decades on TV and
in movies, although he said he often struggled to feel
good about himself because his Hollywood life was so different
to the self respect he said he was seeking in
his offscreen life. He didn't acknowledge being gay until he

(02:39):
was into his late sixties. After a couple of years
in the military. Richard Chamblin became something of an overnight
star in This Yeah, Doctor Kildare, the TV series where
he featured alongside actor Raymond Massey as a young TV
doctor in the series that ran from nineteen sixty one
for about five seasons, and in that period he was

(03:01):
said to receive some twelve thousand fan letters a week
over that five years. That's a lot of letters, isn't it.
Then he took off for Britain to try more serious acting,
and he did a lot of Shakespeare plays there, returned
to la and began making movies like The Three Musketeers
in the disaster film The Towering Inferno. Did you change
any of Dunn's and electrical specifications? Then began his roles

(03:24):
as King of the mini series. Basically his first was
the original Shogun, playing in British Sailor captured by samurin
the seventeenth century.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Many Lands and the Americas have already been plundered by
the Spanish and their treasures taken back to Spain.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
There followed another huge hit, The Thornbirds, with Chamberlain as
that priest in Australia who struggles over his church vows
and young love. My life belongs to God off screen.
It was not until later in his life when he
began writing his memoirs Had a Love that he acknowledged
being gay, saying that in the thirties to fifties it
was impossible to acknowledge being gay, and saying that he faced.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Problem with my own self dislike and there was the terrible,
terrible danger of being outed because I was a romantic lead.
For God's sake, that was my whole career.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Break After his final role in the film Finding Julia
in twenty nineteen, he quit Hollywood for Hawaii, saying he
wasn't interested in being women, but he will be as
a prolific stage, movie and television actor who was exceptionally
good in all those arenas.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
We'll see your Liberation Day Richard Arnold back on Wednesday
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