World Leaders Line Up to Negotiate, Trump Ovation at UFC, Cognitive Test Results： AM Update 4⧸14
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Trump gets a standing ovation and a lot of love from celebrities at a UFC event in Miami, as Senator Bernie Sanders draws record crowds with AOC in California, and the results of President Trump s annual physical are in. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, April 14th, 2025, and this is your AM
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Update. People are coming to town with great, great offers. Foreign leaders are lining up to
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renegotiate trade deals with President Trump's economic team. It's a great honor to have that
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kind of ovation, really, because it says we're doing a good job. President Trump gets a standing
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ovation and a lot of love from celebrities at a UFC event in Miami, as Senator Bernie Sanders draws
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record crowds with AOC in California. And the results of President Trump's annual physical are
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Countries all over the world lining up to renegotiate trade deals with the Trump
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administration. Later today, the European Trade Commissioner set to hold talks with White House
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officials. The EU initially responding to President Trump's Liberation Day tariff plan with retaliatory
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measures of their own, later paused in return for a 90-day renegotiation window. Italian Prime Minister
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Georgia Maloney also set to visit the White House on Friday to discuss trade policy. Director of the
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National Economic Council Kevin Hassett telling CNN the White House is negotiating with more than 130
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countries. Vice President J.D. Vance is expected to visit India next week, a diplomatic outreach as trade
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negotiators work out a new deal with Indian counterparts. On Friday, the White House exempting some Chinese
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electronics from the 145% tariff rate, which many in the tech world celebrated. But Commerce Secretary
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Howard Lutnick warned that some items, like semiconductors, will be facing new tariffs within
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the next two months. Mr. Lutnick explained that the levies are needed to encourage U.S. production of
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these chips, which are currently made mostly in East Asia.
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Those products are going to be part of the semiconductor sectoral tariffs, which are coming. So you're going to see
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this week there'll be a register in the federal registry, there'll be a notice put out. That is different
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types of work. So we're going to do that. We did that in autos. The president's going to do it for pharmaceuticals and
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he is going to do it for semiconductors. So all those products are going to come under semiconductors and they're going to have a
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special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get reassured. We need to have
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semiconductors. We need to have chips and we need to have flat panels. We need to have these things made in America.
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We can't be reliant on Southeast Asia. Senior counselor to the president, Peter Navarro, on NBC, breaking it down
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further. When we have a flood of imports being dumped into certain key strategic sectors, steel, aluminum, chips,
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pharmaceuticals, as we learned during COVID, we have to take specific actions. So what we're doing
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with chips, the problem, interestingly, for chips, because it's very complex stuff,
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is that we don't buy a lot of chips like in bags. We buy them in products.
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So what Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik is going to do, is doing it as we speak, is an investigation of
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the chip supply chain. The goal is stability and resilience. And you will see actions taken based on
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those investigations on copper. We've already have steel and aluminum. We already have autos. There
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will be pharmaceuticals and there will be chips. In other news, the president of El Salvador,
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Nayib Bukele, set to visit the White House later today to discuss further cooperation with migrant
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deportations. Mr. Bukele agreeing to accept and hold deported illegal aliens in his Supermax prison
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in exchange for a relatively small fee. More than 200 have been sent so far. Under President Bukele's
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leadership, El Salvador transforming from the murder capital of the world into one of the safest places
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to visit. Mr. Bukele using emergency powers to implement a military crackdown on gangs, locking up
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more than 76,000 Salvadorans. Many human rights groups decrying the move, saying detainees are denied due
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process. President Trump praising Mr. Bukele ahead of the meeting. I think he's doing a fantastic job
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and he's taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we really wouldn't be able to take
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care of from a cost standpoint. And he's doing really, he's been amazing. We have some very bad
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people in that prison, people that should have never been allowed into our country, people that
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murdered. Last week, the Supreme Court ruling the Trump administration must facilitate,
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but not effectuate, the return of mistakenly deported Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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The administration claims Mr. Garcia is a member of MS-13 based on earlier findings of two immigration
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courts. In 2019, a judge allowed Mr. Garcia to not be deported to El Salvador, saying he faced threats
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of gang violence if returned. The DOJ acknowledges Mr. Garcia was mistakenly deported to the one country
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that the immigration court had said we cannot send him to, El Salvador, and there he currently sits
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in the Supermax prison, quote, alive and secure, according to our State Department. What to do with
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Mr. Garcia likely to be a topic of conversation in today's meeting. President Trump did not mention
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Mr. Garcia specifically, but posted to Truth Social on Saturday, quote, these barbarians are now in the sole
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custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up to President B and his
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government. Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran kicking off a nuclear negotiation. The Iranians
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seeking sanctions relief. The U.S. seeking to prevent the world's largest state sponsor of terror from
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ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. President Trump announcing last week that the talks would be
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direct, the Iranians insisting they would not be. They want indirect and coordinated through Oman.
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Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff did speak directly with the Iranian foreign minister at the conclusion
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of Saturday's talks. President Trump responding to the initial discussion on Air Force One.
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You're going okay. Well, I can't because it doesn't, nothing matters until you get it done.
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President Trump in 2018 withdrawing the U.S. from the Iranian nuclear agreement,
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reached under the Obama administration. That agreement gave the regime sanctions relief in
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exchange for purported limits on Iran's nuclear program. President Trump argued the deal failed
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to provide any meaningful prevention of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. The Iranians maintaining
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their nuclear program is purely civilian in nature. However, the International Atomic Energy Agency
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reporting the Iranians have enriched enough uranium to make at least six nuclear bombs. The New York
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Times reporting on Friday, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, agreeing to initiate the
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talks at the request of his top advisors. The Times reporting, quote, if Iran refused talks or if the
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negotiations failed, the official told Mr. Khamenei, military strikes on Iran's two main nuclear sites
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would be inevitable. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth backing that up Sunday on Fox.
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President Trump is dead serious on this issue. He's dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear
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weapon. He's said that for 20 years. He's been consistent. That is clear. He's dead serious that
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he wants it done at the negotiating table. He wants it done peacefully. And that's why he's going
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straight to these talks. He set that deadline. These were productive talks. He's also dead serious that
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if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table, then there are other options to include my
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department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb. The U.S. and Iran are set to meet again this
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Saturday for another round of talks. Coming up, President Trump greeted by a packed crowd at a UFC
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fight as Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to the Coachella elite. And the results of President Trump's
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On Saturday, President Trump, accompanied by several members of his administration and granddaughter Kai,
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stepping into a packed Miami arena for a UFC fighting event, greeted with thunderous applause from the
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crowd. Mr. Trump spending the evening shaking fans' hands, mingling with UFC President Dana White,
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podcaster Joe Rogan, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, RFKJ and his wife Cheryl Hines,
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and NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal, to name a few. The president on Air Force One reacting to the
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I thought it was great. I thought they were all great.
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Yeah, they all said. Every one of them came up at the end and they were great. I mean,
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they're all warriors. You know, modern day warriors.
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It's a great honor to have that kind of ovation, really, because it says we're doing a good job.
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If we weren't doing a good job, we'd get the opposite.
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Democrat Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, making a series of appearances this weekend,
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part of a fighting the oligarchy tour. You know, the one to which AOC has been flying first class.
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And speaking of AOC, on Saturday in Los Angeles, the New York Congresswoman
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Billionaires like Elon Musk dumped billions of dollars in this election to elect Trump.
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That our political system has slowly but surely become dominated by big money and billionaires.
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Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable.
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Musicians Neil Young, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers also joining the progressive leaders at the event.
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The Sanders team reporting a crowd of about thirty six thousand people, their largest ever.
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Senator Sanders telling attendees the Trump administration is paying attention to the size of these events,
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saying, quote, you are scaring the hell out of them.
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Special envoy and L.A. County resident Rick Grinnell posting on X, quote,
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more than 10 million people live in Los Angeles County.
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It's the largest county in the United States of America.
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This is a very low turnout for Democrats, Los Angeles and California.
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The one party rule in California is clearly coming to an end.
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Senator Sanders also popping up at the Coachella Music Festival in Southern California.
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As a surprise guest, Senator Sanders ranting to the friendly, albeit captive audience.
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This country faces some very difficult challenges.
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And the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.
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Now, you can't turn away and you can ignore what goes on.
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But if you do that, you do it at your own peril.
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To fight for economic justice, social justice and racial justice.
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The general admission tickets to Coachella starting at $649,
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though they can go upwards of $10,000 a piece for a luxury safari glamping experience,
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including air-conditioned tents and a private concierge.
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On Sunday, the results of the president's annual physical
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relieved by Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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President Trump on Friday telling reporters aboard Air Force One he expected to pass with flying colors.
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I took, I wanted to be a little different than my, I took a cognitive test.
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And I don't know what to tell you whether or not I got every answer right.
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I took just a lot of different tests having to do with the heart, having to do with other things.
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I said, I think you'll find that, they're going to release their report on Sunday.
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The report, backing that up, the president achieving a 30 out of 30 on a screening tool
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designed to detect early signs of dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
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Mr. Trump losing 20 pounds since his last presidential checkup in 2020,
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the head, ears, nose, and throat section revealing, quote,
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no significant abnormalities with the exception for scarring on the right ear from a gunshot wound.
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The physician, Captain Sean Barabella, writing, quote,
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President Trump remains in excellent health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the
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