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Tariff Twist: Global Rates to Take Effect Thursday; Women-Only Dating Safety App Hit by Massive Data Leak. Aired 6-6:30a ET
Aired August 01, 2025 - 06:00 ET
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TOM CLEMENTS, DIRECTOR, SAVANNAH RIVER SITE WATCH: -- contamination of vegetation. I'm just not aware of a survey near to these high-level waste tanks.
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And actually, there's a third thing. There's an environmental impact statement process going on about this plutonium pit production. And the draft EIS on that is going to be out next year. And the public can comment.
M.J. LEE, CNN ANCHOR: All right.
CLEMENTS: So people need to be aware about that.
LEE: Tom Clements in South Carolina. We are out of time. But thank you so much.
And thank you, everyone, for joining us here on EARLY START. I'm M.J. Lee in Washington, D.C., and CNN THIS MORNING starts right now.
AUDIE CORNISH, CNN ANCHOR: The time for negotiations is over. President Trump lays out his tariffs for countries across the world. What's it going to cost you?
CNN THIS MORNING starts right now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now everything is just up in the air.
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CORNISH: The countries hit the hardest. And when the new import prices will take effect.
Economists say the labor market looks solid. But does that paint the full picture? Why some people are being left behind.
And Kamala Harris sits down. Her first interview since losing the 2024 election. Why she is not looking to return to office just yet.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Warning signs were ignored or just not known. (END VIDEO CLIP)
CORNISH: And will we finally know the cause of that deadly midair collision in D.C.? The warning that never came before the passenger jet and Black Hawk helicopter crashed into each other.
Justin Timberlake reveals a shocking diagnosis. The relentless, debilitating illness he's been living with.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Tea app is really the ones giving the tea.
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CORNISH: And women felt dating apps weren't keeping them safe, so they turned to Tea, an app to dig up dirt on the men they were dating. Now, a data breach has left them in real danger.
It's 6 a.m. here on the East Coast. A live look at New York City, where markets are set to open. Good morning, everybody. It is Friday, August 1. I want to thank you for waking up with me. I'm Audie Cornish, and this is CNN THIS MORNING.
And here's where we're going to start. President Trump's tariff deadline, which is more or less in place. They were supposed to kick in overnight. Now they're on hold after an 11th-hour change from the White House. The administration wants to give border officials time to prepare for the newest import tax rate, so the delay won't last long. Just until next week.
Here's where things stand. Canada faces tariff increases right away, going from 25 to 35 percent, with exceptions for goods under the old U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement.
In a statement early this morning, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, quote, "While the Canadian government is disappointed by this action, we remain committed to that agreement."
But in the background is this question: can a president use emergency powers, as Trump has, to launch new tariffs? Federal judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals seem skeptical.
There was a hearing yesterday where judges grilled government lawyers asking, quote, "Can the trade deficit be an extraordinary or unusual threat when we had trade deficits for decades?"
Joining me now in the group chat, Alex Thompson, CNN political analyst and national political correspondent for Axios; Sabrina Singh, CNN political commentator and former deputy Pentagon press secretary; and Melik Abdul, Republican strategist. Welcome to the chat. Welcome to the group chat.
MELIK ABDUL, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Thank you.
CORNISH: OK. Maybe I'll start with you, Sabrina, because your background is defense.
SABRINA SINGH, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Mm-hmm.
CORNISH: So, is this a national emergency? Because this is the question that the courts are considering now in terms of why these tariffs might be legal.
SINGH: Yes, I think the administration is making the case that it's a national emergency. But the reality is, you know, the way these tariffs are being impacted and put on different countries, there are different ways to have done this. And certainly, using different levers of government to do it in a more sustained and approachable way over time.
So no, I would disagree that it is a national emergency.
I do agree with this administration that, you know, the United States has, I think, had unfair trade policies. And there should be -- they should be looked at and renegotiated.
But I don't think that warrants some of the powers and overreach that this administration is using to put these in place.
CORNISH: Now, because we've been talking about tariffs -- tariffs for so long, people are reacting to them. We're seeing Republicans in town halls who are starting to face some questions about them. And I want to play this exchange. It happened just last night between a voter and Congressman Bryan -- I think it's Steil -- last night in Wisconsin.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My main concern is the tariffs that are coming up. I would like to know what dire economic circumstances put Trump in a position of throwing tariffs on over 190 countries.
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REP. BRYAN STEIL (R-WI): This really, at its core, needs to be an opportunity to make sure that other countries are treating the United States fairly.
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STEIL: The United States --
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CORNISH: That's actually followed by some loud booing. That's in my notes: loud booing.
It's interesting, though. There's that guy, like an average person kind of asking the same question, which is we get that you wanted to change things, but does that justify the scale with which you've done it? Melik, how are you seeing how people are responding to this?
ABDUL: Well, what I'm listening to there that I think it feeds into the uncertainty that people have around tariffs.
Everybody has talked about many times before that Donald Trump's plan for tariffs, his economic policy being related to tariffs, this is something that he has thought about or at least felt for quite some time. It is the implementation of those that we're now dealing with.
CORNISH: But what do you tell Republicans that you might be advising? Right? We're going to -- we're going to head into that midterm period. How do you talk about this?
So far, the tone has been, This is great; victory. It has solved a lot of problems. It's been talking about it as a point of pride. Are there weaknesses there?
ABDUL: Of course there are weaknesses, because we -- there are unknowns. Right now, you know, I live in Washington, D.C. And in my neighborhood, I remember earlier in the year when I was going to the supermarket, I was paying 8.99 for eggs. I went to my local Lidl and my Giant. The eggs were $2.72 and, I think, $3.49.
There are certain pockets of the industry that the prices actually have remained stable, but some of those big-ticket items, that's going to be a problem.
And you asked about what the -- what the message is for Republicans. We're going to have to go into -- we can't dodge those town halls. We're going to have to go in and answer some of those questions, because there are.
The economic anxiety -- and I talk about this a lot. The economic anxiety that existed when Biden was in office and that economic anxiety that, you know, elected Donald Trump, it still exists.
CORNISH: Yes, we're going to talk --
ABDUL: And so Republicans aren't --
CORNISH: -- about that later in the show also. It comes to unemployment.
ABDUL: Yes.
CORNISH: That's something that people have been talking about, as well.
Alex, I want to turn to you. I know Lutnick and others are out there saying this is a victory lap. They're also out there saying, this is Trump's economy.
ALEX THOMPSON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes. Well, I mean rolling tariff uncertainty is a feature, not a bug, of this presidency. And I think -- CORNISH: A feature, not a bug.
THOMPSON: And it will continue to be.
CORNISH: Yes.
THOMPSON: And they would argue that we were being ripped off for so long and everything else.
But, you know, the Republican message, as you noted, Lutnick is going to say, Hey, we've just got to deal with the E.U. We've just got to deal with Japan.
But the problem is that they're announcing these before they've actually worked out the details. There already have been friction between Japan, between the E.U. of like, actually, what do you think that we agreed to? And there's disagreements over the agreement, even just in the first two weeks.
So, even after they announced deals, there is going to be more tension.
Now the question is, does that affect the larger economy? The Trump team would also say that they've instilled more certainty with passing the tax code so fast.
CORNISH: And bringing in tariff revenue.
THOMPSON: Yes. And whether or not that affects the larger economy and offsets, we still don't know.
SINGH: Well, and to -- to Alex's point, though, when they talk about stability, the Asian markets are already reacting.
CORNISH: Yes.
SINGH: We're seeing the South Korean market is already down 4 percent today. You know, we're going to see markets open here in the United States soon. And you know, the S&P 500 is where so many people in the United States have their retirement accounts, you know, based out of.
And so, I think there's going to be a lot of volatility that this administration has injected. And at the end of the day, that's throwing global markets into incredible uncertainty.
CORNISH: Yes. But we have been talking about this for a while. So it will be interesting to see how people actually do react in the moment.
You guys stay with me. We're going to talk about a lot this hour.
Coming up on CNN THIS MORNING, paying their respects. Hundreds of NYPD officers come together to remember one of their own.
And remember that sit and reach we all had to do in gym class? Well, it's back. President Trump is reviving the Presidential Fitness Test.
And Kamala Harris explains why she isn't running for governor or any other office, at least at the moment.
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KAMALA HARRIS, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Why is it, then, when we think we want to improve the system or change it, that we're always on the outside, on bended knee or trying to break down the door?
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CORNISH: It's now 13 minutes past the hour. And here is your morning roundup.
Hundreds of NYPD officers gathering at a mosque in the Bronx to honor murdered Detective Didarul Islam. He was killed by a gunman in a mass shooting Monday inside a Manhattan high-rise.
Islam leaves behind two young children and a pregnant wife. Yesterday, a message was delivered on her behalf.
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FAMITA BEGUM, SPEAKING FOR WIDOW OF DET. ISLAM: "Though my heart is broken, I find comfort knowing that his sacrifice may have saved others in that lobby. People who were able to go home to their families that day."
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CORNISH: The police commissioner announced that Islam had been posthumously promoted to detective, first grade.
President Trump's White House remodel plans are in full swing. Construction will begin next month on a $200 million, 90,000-square- foot ballroom on the South Lawn.
New renderings show the president's vision. And of course, that means a lot of gold: chandeliers, ceilings, lamps, you guessed it. The new ballroom will hold 650 people.
And Justin Timberlake reveals he's battling Lyme disease. In a post on Instagram yesterday, he said it has been, quote, "relentlessly debilitating" but says he's glad he kept performing despite his struggles.
Timberlake has been on tour since last year. He performed his final show on Wednesday.
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Still ahead on CNN THIS MORNING, former President Biden warning of, quote, "dark days." His intense criticism of President Trump as his former top aides testify about his mental fitness.
And millions of women spilled "tea." But now they're the ones being exposed.
We're going to say good morning to the Gulf Shore, Mobile, Alabama, looking at very high temperatures today.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The C.R. got leaked? Well, well, well. Guess what, ladies? You know what we just learned? God don't like ugly.
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CORNISH: OK, so what's the "T" on Tea? Millions of women burned by the Tea dating advice app, which was hacked not once but twice, exposing their personal information.
Now the app is supposed to let women dish and seek feedback on potential partners, including background checks, a search for criminal records.
But they can also post reviews and even note red and green flags they noticed on their dates.
It's all supposed to be anonymous, but you have to verify your identity to join, and that means uploading a selfie, a government I.D.
Now, back-to-back data breaches leaked millions of those pics and driver's licenses, as well as private messages online.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They got y'all good. I guess the Tea app is really the ones giving the T.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because how is an app that was designed to keep people safe putting women in more danger?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Imagine downloading the app, thinking you're about to get some "T" when you're actually in the kettle. Ladies, y'all was trying to be nosy, and this is what happened to you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Y'all are literally showing us why we needed this app in the first place.
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CORNISH: Joining me is Faith Nill with "The Atlantic."
You wrote an article about this. Welcome to CNN THIS MORNING. Thanks for being here. FAITH HILL, STAFF WRITER, "THE ATLANTIC": Thanks so much for having
me.
CORNISH: So, this is not the first time there's been this kind of thing. Like there were Facebook groups, like, are we dating the same guy? There was an app called Lulu. Basically, you could swap notes right on the dating pool. What made this different and, therefore, kind of a target for hackers?
HILL: Yes. I mean, I think it's really similar in function to some of these platforms, you know, where women have been trying to find ways to kind of share information about men that they've dated, that they're dating; and come together in that way.
But I think this one really just blew up recently, and that caused it to get a lot of attention. I think, you know, were really in a moment where clearly a lot of women were interested in something like this.
You know, it's already scary to sort of be dating strangers in this era of online dating. But I think especially, you know, in 2025, were in the sort of moment where a lot of women are feeling a sense of anger towards men.
Something in the culture, you know, this sort of post-MeToo moment where there's a backlash to some of the sort of things they had taken for granted about the -- the place of women in the world.
CORNISH: We heard that divide as we were kind of searching for tape there, and I think it was illustrative. Right. You had dudes cackling over this and women being like, this is the problem in the first place.
And you write about the fact, you said, "men are so hell-bent on revenge against Tea's users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well. And the leaks demonstrate how insufficiently women are protected by tech companies that shape their romantic lives."
There's a lot to unpack there, so help me understand what you hear right in the response to the breach.
HILL: Yes, absolutely. I mean, I think it just does demonstrate, you know, all of these different ways that women are sort of being failed in their dating lives.
Of course, it's obvious that, you know, there are these sort of angry men on 4chan, and it's horrible to see how they have kind of spread women's images on social media. They're making websites to rank their images, you know, very publicly making fun of women. And in this second breach, you know, it's very sensitive information that is being shared in terms of women's personal conversations with each other.
But I think, you know, it's not just those men on 4chan who have let these women down. It's also, you know, the tech companies that are really, really powerfully shaping women's romantic lives.
There's -- you know, companies behind dating apps and, you know, they have security protocols in place. But there are still, you know, sexual assaults happening all the time. And clearly, a lot of women aren't feeling safe.
And then it's just ironic that a lot of women, you know, who weren't feeling safe, sort of flocked to Tea. And then Tea did not protect their data and have left these women in even more danger.
CORNISH: So, it's back to the drawing board. Is there anything else people can do to kind of feel safe as they're trying to do online dating?
HILL: Yes. You know, I mean, I think one thing that I've been thinking about here is, of course, there is physical, you know, fear of physical danger for a lot of women when they're going out on dates. And there are ways to kind of keep safe in that sense, like, you know, meeting in public places.
But I also just would love for people to kind of keep in mind how much, like, emotional vulnerability it also takes for women to be going out and meeting strangers.
And, you know, that's true for anyone, like dating strangers is hard for men, too. But I've been kind of struck by, you know, in this conversation, just sort of like the anger people have about the idea of something like Tea. And I think this is kind of reminding us to think about why so many women wanted this in the first place and, like, what it is like to be a woman dating in 2025.
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CORNISH: Faith Hill. You can catch her writing in "The Atlantic." Thanks so much.
HILL: Thank you.
CORNISH: Ahead on CNN THIS MORNING, the July jobs report release is just 90 minutes away. So, will the numbers ease concerns of a tariff- induced recession, or do just the opposite?
Plus, President Trump's top negotiator is in Gaza for a firsthand look at the humanitarian crisis.
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