Rachel has the night off, but she will be back tomorrow. I promise you that. And we're going to

begin tonight with how the day began, and that is with the opening bell. As you know,

every morning, Wall Street trading officially begins when someone rings the opening bell at the

New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan. We've all seen the images. It's quite important,

quite symbolic. The stock exchange

does have this long tradition of letting a different company ring the opening bell each day.

And in some ways, it is a way of celebrating some kind of milestone that the company has just

hit or a company that may have been going public. And today, because the news guides do have a sense of humor, the company with the distinct

honor of actually ringing the opening bell today, out of all days, to officially start trading

was the pro-Trump conservative media outlet, Newsmax.

Newsmax CEO, Chris Ruddy, did the honors surrounded by several of President Trump's long-time associates.

People you know, people like Rudy Giuliani.

You see him there in the front.

Trump's former Labor Secretary, remember that guy, Alex Acosta.

He was there as well, a little bit further back,

though. And they all clapped, and they cheered as it happens every morning. They rang tiny little

bells as they officially kicked off. What we now know was an especially terrible day on Wall Street.

Yeah, there's no sugar-coding it. This was the worst day on Wall Street

since the early days of the COVID pandemic. Traders and world leaders and yes, ordinary

Americans, people with jobs and 401Ks reacted to the tariffs that have been imposed by

President Trump just yesterday by pretty much freaking out. It was a massive

sell-off. The Dow dropped nearly 1,700 points, its worst single session since June of 2020,

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