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that makes sure you have access to chips, we have access to our clients.
Did you find yourself instead more drawn to these American folks who said, wait a minute, these should be American jobs, or we did not sign up for this building in our community?
So I think, Peter, this brings us to the most important and most existential question of all to emerge from this reporting you did, which is, did all of the rigmarole involved in getting this project complete, did it make this a template for the reestablishment of manufacturing in the United States at a massive scale, or does it loom
as the cautionary tale for why it's just too hard to do this in the U.S.
that would send similar companies, and perhaps those not getting a multibillion-dollar check from the U.S.
government, running in the other direction?
Right, and if it's this hard for the most successful maker of computer chips in the world, how hard will it be, dot, dot, dot, for anybody else?
Here's what else you need to know today.
On Sunday, the Trump administration defended its decision to remove more than a dozen photos related to Jeffrey Epstein from a government website just hours after thousands of files had been released to the public on Friday evening.
The official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, said that the photos, including one featuring President Trump, had been removed to address complaints from Epstein's victims, not to protect President Trump.
And over the weekend, the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, its second such interception in the past month.
The Coast Guard is currently pursuing yet another tanker linked to Venezuela, whose crew had refused to let American guardsmen board the vessel.
It's all part of a growing pressure campaign against the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro, that has increasingly been focused on oil.
Today's episode was produced by Shannon Lin and Mary Wilson, with help from Astha Chaturvedi.
It was edited by Mark George, with help from Devin Taylor.
Contains music by Alyssa Moxley, Alisha Ba'itu, Pat McCusker, and Dan Powell.
And was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.
That's it for The Daily.