Fox correspondent lays out bad news for Trump's tariffs: “Basically everything” has been found to be “illegal in some way”
Peter Doocy: “So, if you're keeping score at home, basically everything that they've been trying to do here has been determined by various federal judges throughout the country to be illegal in some way”
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From the May 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' America Reports
JOHN ROBERTS (ANCHOR): But first of all, we go live to the briefing room for our Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy. What justification did the court use to block most of the president's tariffs that happened early this morning?
PETER DOOCY (CORRESPONDENT): Basically said, John, that he cannot consider that an emergency, and so we expect to hear next steps about that. But just as we were coming to air -- this is going to sound repetitive, but it's not, it just keeps happening -- another federal judge here in Washington, D.C. struck down some, or at least blocked, some of the executive orders related to tariffs and China that President Trump signed around liberation day. And so now those are on hold, too. So, if you're keeping score at home, basically everything that they've been trying to do here has been determined by various federal judges throughout the country to be illegal in some way. And so they are really making the White House counsel's office earn their paychecks the last couple weeks. We hope to hear what is next for these tariffs, that are now the center piece of President Trump's economic agenda if the tariffs might not be legal and if they wind up going away. How does that affect negotiations? Karoline Leavitt should tell us in a couple minutes.