Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on Trump’s European tariffs, next step for birthright citizenship, and the Americans who think they could take on a grizzly bear.

President Donald Trump is threatening Europe with a 200 percent tariff on alcohol.

The warning comes as an attempt to have the EU remove a tariff held on whiskey.

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson talks to Ryan Bridge about the latest tariff threat, why Trump’s heading to the Supreme Court, and the Americans that think they can beat a grizzly bear in a fight.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now. Dan Mitchison is a US correspondent. He's with US Now.
Hi Dan, Hello, Dan, come in from the United States.
There you are, Hey, bad news for your champagne consumption, Dan.
Trump wants to put a massive tiff on it.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I know. And during the World Wire as your producer,
Laura was just asking if I was contributing to this
massive amount that we import here, and I said, absolutely not.
I'm a teetotaler.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
But you're right.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
He plans to put this two hundred percent two hundred
percent tariff on on the alcohol that we're importing from
the EU, and I mean bad for a lot of
people over there. They're seeing good for the wine and
champagne business here in the US. But I don't see
how that's possible because if you're a high end drinker,
we know that while California does produce a lot of
the good wines that are not just here but also internationally,

(00:47):
a lot of the stuff comes from overseas, and just
with the economy in the market the way it is
right now, I don't know if people are going to
want to buy it, whether it's from here or there.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, good point. Now Trump is going to the Supreme
Court to get permission to end birth citizenship.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, and here's the issue. I know we've talked about
this this before, and we're trying to keep this as
simple as possible because it is confusing. But for one
hundred and fifty some odd years that the courts here
have said the Fourteenth Amendments text is basically guaranteed citizenship
to anybody that's born or naturalized here in the US.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Here is the issue.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Though Conservatives have argued that those views are wrong because
they say there's a phrase there that says the benefit
applies only to people who are subject to the jurisdiction
of the United States. Immigrants here in the country illegally,
the theory goes are subject to the jurisdiction of their
native homeland, not the US. So that is the sticking point.
So the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to

(01:43):
do these emergency appeals and allow them to move forward
plans to end birth right citizenships. This has been knocked
down before. I have a really hard time to see
this moving forward, but we'll see what happens. I mean,
he's just thrown everything he can at the court to
get this to move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Dan, what's the story about Americans thinking that can beat
a grizzly bear in hand to hand combat.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, all right, there's a percentage of us. I
shouldn't include myself in this because I've come face to
face with a grizzly before, but six percent of Americans
think they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight.
And this is something that's made the rounds before that
we've heard it's back on social media and according to
a bearwear dot com, male grizzlies which can weigh up

(02:24):
tow one thousand pounds and are strong and basically you're
not going to win a fight. But the poll asked
Americans if they believe they could beat them in a fight,
and six percent said yes, in a fight to the death.
Probably even more thought they could than admit it. But
you have to question how valid this survey is because
eight percent of those surveyed so they could also beat
an elephant, a gorilla, or a lion in a fight.

(02:47):
So hopefully we're hoping these people are just joking around
and they're not taking this too seriously.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Hopefully not. Maybe all those six percent of people are
drunk on all the cheap booze from the Au. Maybe
that's giving them some confidence.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, some Dutch courage, as they say, yes, I think
you're right.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Hey, what happened when you met a grizzly bear?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
We were up at a cabin in the mountains and
we opened the door. We heard something and there was
a grizzly standing on its hind legs. But it must
have been ten twelve feet tall, and that door. We
shut that door immediately. I have never been more scared
in my life.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Was it was it quite beautiful or just scary? It was?
It was both.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean, it wasn't like it was just I think
it was rummaging for food right outside the cabin, and
you know, it was stormy and it was it was noisy,
and it was just looking for someplace dry. So it
came up onto the porch and that's how we heard
the noise, and so we opened the front door and
there it was. I don't know if it would have
done any harm, but you know, we didn't really want to,
you know, stick around to ask.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
It no, take a photo and take in its beauty. Dan,
thank you for Dan correspondent, nineteen minutes away from five
YEWS talks. You'd be what's the saying about fighting beers
like brown. If it's brown, laid down, if it's black,
fight back, and if it's white, take flight or something
like that, you know, I mean to the white ones,
and then you should probably not fight any of them.

(04:06):
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