1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: ad Kalki. President Trump told officials to fire Erika mcintarfer, 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: a report showed US job growth cooled sharply over the 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: last three months. I have directed my team to fire 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: this Biden political appointee immediately. Trump said this on social 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: media Friday, accusing her without evidence of politicizing the jobs report. 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: Friday's jobs report from the BLS showed payrolls increased seventy 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: three thousand in July after the prior two months were 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: revised down by nearly two hundred and sixty thousand. In 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: the past three months, employment growth has averaged a paltree 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: thirty five thousand, which is the worst since the pandemic. 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Skyler Woodhouse on the President's decision to fire the 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: head of Labor Statistics. He tends to do things, you know, 15 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: out of impulse, and this is clearly one of those 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: things where he got upset and is taking action. White 17 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: House economic advisor Peter Navarro told Bloomberg's Balance of Power 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: that better numbers are needed so that the Fed can 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: make better decisions and that he has and himself trusted 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: numbers in the BLS for a long time. A down 21 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: Friday and a losing week for the S and P 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: five hundred index, we get more from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: For the week, the S and P five hundred index 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 2: was down two point four percent. Wall Street saw a 25 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 2: broad flight from risk assets, with stock sinking amid mounting 26 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: signs of job market weakness. President Trump's latest volley of 27 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: tariffs and geopolitical worries also weighing on markets. An uninspiring 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: outlook from Amazon that spurred a route in megacaps. Friday, 29 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: Amazon was down eight point three percent for the week, 30 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 2: The Dow dropped two point nine percent, while Nazdak was 31 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: down two point two percent in New York. Charlie Pellett 32 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: Bloomberg Radio. 33 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Governor Adrianna Kugler will stemp down from her 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: position on the Central Bank's board. The Fed announce this Friday. 35 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Michael McKee says this brings up a huge issue 36 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: for the Fed and the Trump administration. 37 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 3: The President's issue is does he put somebody in who 38 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: he anticipates being the next chair when Ja Pall steps 39 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 3: down his chair in may or, does he hope that 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 3: poll steps down in may as a governor he can 41 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 3: stay on till twenty twenty eight and appoints somebody else 42 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 3: to the seat. Right now, the President's going to have 43 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 3: to make a decision. It appears fairly quickly. 44 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: The US Supreme Court indicated it will consider outlawing the 45 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: use of race and drawing voting maps, setting up a 46 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: blockbuster showdown with implications or dozens of congressional districts with 47 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: predominantly minority populations, expanding a Louisiana case already on their docket. 48 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: That Justice has said they will consider arguments that the 49 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act no longer provides a 50 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: legitimate basis for map drawers to intentionally create majority Black 51 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: or majority Hispanic districts. President Trump says the US is 52 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called 53 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: highly provocative statements from former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. Bloomberg 54 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: Intelligence senior defense analyst Wayne Sanders says the President is 55 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: using this as a tactic because. 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 4: It's very, very difficult to find out where these things 57 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 4: are anyway, and because of the stuff technology, because of 58 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,839 Speaker 4: what we use and how quiet they are, they could 59 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 4: be anywhere anyway. So it is it's an opportunity for 60 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 4: the President to say, Hey, this thing is over there, 61 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 4: that is an overway versus some of the clandestin way 62 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 4: that these things move anyway. 63 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: Hear more from Wayne Sanders on the Bloomberg Balance of 64 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: Power podcast. A space X capsule carrying astronauts in the US, Japan, 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: and Russia launched to the International Space Station Friday, the 66 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: start of a planned six months stay in orbit for NASA. 67 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: A Falcon nine rocket topped with the Cruise Dragon capsule, 68 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: lifted off at eleven forty four am Local time from 69 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying NASA astronaut ZENA. 70 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: Cardman and Mike Fink, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencies Kimaya Yui, 71 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: and Roscomos cosmonaut oleg PLOTNOVOLV. Four people were killed at 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: a shooting at a Montana bar Friday, as a manhunt 73 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: continues for the suspect. The shooting hap at around ten 74 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: thirty am on Friday at the Owl Bar in Anaconda. 75 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: Four people were pronounced dead at the scene. The suspector 76 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: was identified as forty five year old Michael Paul Brown 77 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: lived next door to the bar. Authlready said his home 78 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: was cleared by a swat team and that he was 79 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: last seen in the Stumptown area, which is just west 80 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: of Anaconda. The Friday numbers on Wall Street the Dow 81 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: dropped five forty two. Nasdaq fell for seventy two, nearly 82 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: two and a quarter percent. The S and P dropped 83 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: one oh one, its biggest one day drops since May. 84 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: The ten year Treasury yield is at four point two 85 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: one percent, the two year at three point six eight percent. 86 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: I'm in Kleggy. This is Bloomberg