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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 1: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, we'll get back to the markets in a moment,

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Speaker 2: but we begin with breaking news in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: Israel says it has eliminated the head of Hamas's military wing.

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Speaker 2: In a post on x, the Israeli military says it

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Speaker 2: has confirmed Hamas's second in command, Mohammed daff was killed

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Speaker 2: in a strike in Gaza on July thirteenth. Bloomberg Middle

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Speaker 2: East anchored Jumana Bursecci has the latest from Dubai.

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Speaker 3: From Israel's perspective, it is a major diplomatic coup for

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Speaker 3: the Israeli Prime Minister Natanie who because they have said

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Speaker 3: from the very beginning that they wanted to exact revenge

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Speaker 3: on the perpetrators of October seven and on Hamas, and

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Speaker 3: so from their perspective, this actually works towards the goal

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Speaker 3: of eliminating and neutralizing Hamas's military capabilities.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Middle East ankardjuam Mona Bersaci says this latest killing

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Speaker 2: leave ceasefire talks with Hamas even more uncertain.

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Speaker 1: Nathan, this latest development out of Israel follows the two

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Speaker 1: air strikes this week that killed Hamas's political leader Ishmael

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Speaker 1: Hania and Tehran and senior Hezbola commander Fuad Shuker in Beirut.

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Speaker 1: Israel is not confirmed it was behind Honia's death, but

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Speaker 1: The New York Times reports around Supreme Leader has ordered

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Speaker 1: a direct attack on Israel. In response, Secretary of State

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Speaker 1: Anthony Blenkin is urging all sides to de escalate.

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Speaker 4: It all starts with the ceasefire and to get there,

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Speaker 4: it also first requires all parties to talk to stop

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Speaker 4: taking any escalatory actions.

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Speaker 1: Despite that determination from Secretary of State Blank and sources,

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Speaker 1: Tol Bloomberg Knews that the Biden administration and knows getting

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Speaker 1: to a ceasefire is harder than ever. After Ishmael Hania's death.

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Speaker 2: Trained to politics back home, Karen. Former President Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: was in Chicago for the National Association of Black Journalists

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Speaker 2: conference and he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris's racial identity.

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Speaker 2: We get more from Bloomberg Zamy Morris. In Washington, the.

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Speaker 5: Former president got booed and some laughs when he said

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Speaker 5: during a roundtable discussion that he questions Vice President Kamala

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Speaker 6: She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only

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Speaker 2: Known as black.

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Speaker 5: Trump also defended old comments from his running mate, Senator

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Speaker 5: jd Vance that disparaged women without children as quote childless

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Speaker 5: The National Association of Black Journalists says they're also in

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Speaker 5: talks to have Vice President Harris virtually address their convention.

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Speaker 5: Amy Morris Bloomberg Radio, all.

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Speaker 1: Right by me, thank you. As Vice President Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: gets closer to picking a running maid, her team has

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Speaker 1: met with Pennsylvania Governor John Shapiro. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has

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Speaker 1: that story.

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Speaker 7: They have said all along he's on the shortlist, which

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Speaker 7: now includes Shapiro, Senator Mark Kelly, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,

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Speaker 7: and say that it was just part of the selection

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Speaker 7: process and not to read anything into it. Sources as

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Speaker 7: well say several unions have made their concerns known about Kelly. One,

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Speaker 7: the Transport Workers Union, said he is not pro trade

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Speaker 7: union enough. In fairness, other unions have supported him. Harris

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Speaker 7: did pick up the endorsement of the United Auto Workers,

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Speaker 7: influential in Michigan. She plans to campaign with her pick

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Speaker 7: next week. Ad Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay and thanks. Let's turn back to markets now, the

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Speaker 2: barrage of earnings around the world. We'll start with Meta Platforms.

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Speaker 2: Those shares are up six and a half percent in

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Speaker 2: meticell more targeted and personalized advertisements. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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Speaker 8: They're all the jokes about how all the tech CEOs

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Speaker 8: get on these earnings calls and just talk about AI

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Speaker 2: Horizon, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms reported sales of thirty nine

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Speaker 2: point one billion dollars that topped estimates by eight hundred million.

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Speaker 1: Well, Nathan. While Zuckerberg's personal wealth will rise if those

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Speaker 1: gains and Meta shares hold, it may pale to the

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Speaker 1: day in Vidia CEO Jensen Wong had shares of Nvidia

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Speaker 9: The rally was linked to an upbeat forecast from competitor

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Speaker 9: Advanced micro Devices. AMD's outlook pointed to improved demand for

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Speaker 9: its AI accelerator, a market dominated by Nvidia. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 9: Nvidia added a record three hundred and twenty nine billion

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Speaker 9: sixty nine million dollars in June, the most he's netted

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Speaker 2: All right, Doug, thanks and high tech will remain and

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Speaker 2: focus this afternoon when Apple and Amazon report earnings. But

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Speaker 2: let's check some key results overseas. This morning, shares of

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Speaker 2: Shell are up one point two percent. The oil giant

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Speaker 1: We're higher earlier, now they're lower. In London, the British

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Speaker 1: Wall Street operations. Barclays will also repurchase as much as

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in shares now.

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Speaker 2: We turned to the US Economy Karen in more hints

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Speaker 2: Following FED shared Jpal's comments, interest rate swaps showed traders

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Speaker 1: Also in focus overseas, the Bank of England makes a

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Speaker 2: And back on Wall Street caring it as a blow

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Speaker 2: for Bill Ackman. In just a matter of weeks, the

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Speaker 2: Pershing Square founders planned to steer a new investment fund

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Speaker 1: It's time now for a look at some of the

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Speaker 1: other stories making news in New York and around the world.

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Speaker 1: For that, we're joined by A Bloomberg's John Tucker.

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Speaker 11: John, Good Morning, Good morning, Karen. The man accused of

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Speaker 11: being the main plotter in al Qaeda's nine to eleven attacks,

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Speaker 11: Kaleide Shaik Mohammad and two accomplices in the attack are

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Speaker 11: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to avoid the death penalty. The US

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Speaker 11: agreement with him and comes more than twenty years after

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Speaker 11: militants flew commandeered commercial airliners into buildings, killing nearly three

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Speaker 11: thousand people. Some family members of nine to eleven victims

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Speaker 11: say that's not justice. Andrew Ensborough, as president of the

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Speaker 11: Uniform Firefighters Association.

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Speaker 12: They're allowing these three terrorists and mass murderers to continue

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Speaker 12: to live well. On average, three New York City firefighters

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Speaker 11: More than three hundred and forty members the EMPTNY died

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Speaker 11: in the attack on the World Trade Center. The US

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Speaker 11: says the world should acknowledge that Venezuela is opposition one

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Speaker 11: last weekend's election against President Nicholas Maduro. Brian Nichols, the

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Speaker 2: The irrefutable evidence based on the act.

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Speaker 7: As everyone can see, it is clear that in Mundel

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Speaker 11: Meanwhile, Maduro doubled down on his claims of victory, saying

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Speaker 11: his opponent should be jailed for decades. American Cancer Society

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Speaker 11: According to the research published in the journal Lancet. They

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Speaker 11: the decline. Forty five percent of American adults say they've

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Speaker 11: it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm John Tucker and this

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Speaker 1: Sorry, John, thank you. Time now for the Bloombergy Sports

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Speaker 13: John, good morning, Good morning, karens for the rough season

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Speaker 13: for dj Lemayeu, the Yankees veteran infielder has struggled with

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Speaker 13: latest Yankee wins six ' five in Philadelphia all about

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Speaker 13: Today Yanks five straight wins start a nine game homestand

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Speaker 13: tomorrow is the Mets began a ten game road trip.

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Speaker 13: They lost in City Field to the Twins eight to three.

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Speaker 4: I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 2: We are watching for the prospect of further tensions in

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Speaker 2: from Tel Aviv once again this morning is Bloomberg News

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Speaker 2: Israel Bureau chief Ethan Bronner. Ethan, good morning. What is

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Speaker 12: Hi, Nathan, So this is a hit that occurred actually

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Speaker 12: more than two weeks ago, and at that time Israeli

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Speaker 12: said they were pretty sure they got him. Hamas denied it.

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Speaker 12: They said, he's fine. He's laughing as he listens to

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Speaker 12: Prime Minister Nutaya, who claims to have killed him. Today

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Speaker 12: simply based on their ability to do some kind of

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Speaker 12: intelligence assessment to the Israeli military, As officially announced that

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Speaker 12: diff was eliminated on the thirteenth. I think it was

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Speaker 12: this other news, but it's not actually new. It's from

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Speaker 2: But still for two Israel to make that confirmation, I

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Speaker 2: would think is a pretty significant development when you think

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Speaker 2: military chief, the second in command eliminated, the political chief,

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Speaker 2: the top leader of Humas eliminated. Does this bring Israel

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Speaker 12: I think it does, But I mean, I think this

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Speaker 12: is the eternal question about these guerrilla organizations and about

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Speaker 12: the policy of targeted assassinations and so on this. You know,

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Speaker 12: there's a kind of eternal battle of theories that you

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Speaker 12: just create more terrorists when you go after them in

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Speaker 12: this way, or no, yes we can kill them, we

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Speaker 12: know where we're headed. There's no question that progress has

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Speaker 13: You know, another.

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Speaker 12: Argument that is being booted here is that this all

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Speaker 12: of this action is a prelude to there being a

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Speaker 12: notice if that's true. What I do know is that

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Speaker 2: And with all that in the background, Ethan, we're continuing

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Speaker 2: to hear this determination from the US side. A Secretary

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Speaker 2: I mean, what is the prospect for ceasefire talks when

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Speaker 12: Well, to be fair, it has always been only one

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Speaker 12: It's a complicated process to negotiate because the messages and

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Speaker 12: They don't do it electronically. There so I mean, to

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Speaker 12: be honest, Honey played a role the man who was

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Speaker 12: of Sinoar. That doesn't strike me as the problem. The

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Speaker 12: problem is that I think that they're going to pull

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