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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: We begin in Washington, where the federal government is less

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Speaker 3: than five days away from another partial government shut down deadline. Now,

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Speaker 3: the White House has set up a meeting to try

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Speaker 3: to raise the pressure. Not a major sticking point billions

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Speaker 3: of dollars in aid to Ukraine. Bloomberg z Ed Baxter

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Speaker 4: On the list of attendees a number of key congressional

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Speaker 4: leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys,

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Speaker 4: Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. Now, the White

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Speaker 4: House says Biden wants to discuss the urgency of passing

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Speaker 4: the sixty billion dollar request for US emergency Ukraine aid,

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Speaker 4: as well as the looming deadline to fund the government.

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Speaker 4: Speaker Johnson's grasp on the speakership is tenuous. Part of

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Speaker 4: his dilemma is he could lose it if he pushes

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Speaker 4: for Ukraine aid without border. The meeting is set for tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Aad Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Ed. Now to the latest in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says

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Speaker 2: he'll have a plan to move civilians out of the

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Speaker 2: southern Gaza city of Rafa before going into dismantle remaining

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Speaker 2: Hamaspitalians in the city. Netanyah, who says there's no disagreement

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Speaker 2: between Israel and the US on this point.

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Speaker 5: We agree on this. I mean, we don't have to

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Speaker 5: be prodded. We're on the same page with the US

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Netanyah, who was on CBS's Face the Nation.

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Speaker 2: We get more on this from Bloomberg Senior editor Bill Ferries.

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Speaker 6: The big deadline we have to keep in mind is

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Speaker 6: March tenth. That's when Israel says, if the remaining hostages

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Speaker 6: haven't been released, they will go forward with that ground

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Speaker 6: offensive in Rafa, and March tenth also coincides with the

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Speaker 6: start of Ramanan, so that would raise a lot of criticism,

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Speaker 6: additional criticism of Israel from much of the Muslim world

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Speaker 6: and the wider world as well.

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Speaker 2: Burg's Bill Ferries. Meantime, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority,

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Speaker 2: Mohammad Stea, says he and his government will resign, but

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Speaker 2: it's not clear if Palestinian President Matmouda Bass will accept that.

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Speaker 3: Turning to politics back home, Amy, first, Wall Street considered

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Speaker 3: Ron DeSantis, then it went for Nikki Haley. Now the

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Speaker 3: Republican donor class is confronting a reality. It's wealthy members

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Speaker 3: that hoped to avoid being limited to exerting their clout

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Speaker 3: in the election cycle only through state level races. Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump's victory in the South Carolina Republican primary has moved

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Speaker 3: the former president closer to claiming his party's nomination, and

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Speaker 3: now the powerful Coke network has announced it will no

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Speaker 3: longer fund Haley's campaign. This is a major reversal that

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Speaker 3: underscores traditional donors inability to slow Donald Trump's momentum.

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Speaker 2: Adding to that momentum for Donald Trump, another key endorsement,

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Speaker 2: John Thune, the second ranking Republican in the Senate, is

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Speaker 2: backing the former president in his bid for the White House.

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Speaker 2: The South Dakota senator had resisted joining Trump's allies until now.

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Speaker 2: This questioned Trump's strength as a general election candidate.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to markets now, Amy, Futures,

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, are lower as we begin a new

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Speaker 3: trading week. Both the Dow and the S and P

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Speaker 3: five hundred ended last week at records, while the Nasdaq

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Speaker 3: slipped from its all time high. Katerina Siminetti, Senior vice

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Speaker 3: president at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, says investors have

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Speaker 3: a tough dilemma during this market rally.

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Speaker 7: What we're seeing as the biggest trap to try to

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Speaker 7: avoid is when investors are starting to doubt their diversified portfolios,

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Speaker 7: starting to dowb asset allocation and are kind of saying like,

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Speaker 7: should we stay with blue chip stocks, should we stay diversified,

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Speaker 7: or should we switch direction into this highest growing stocks.

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Speaker 7: And that's what you know, These are the type of

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Speaker 3: Katerina Seminetti of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth says investors will

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Speaker 3: be focusing on a busy week of data, including the

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Speaker 3: federal reserves, preferred measure of inflation.

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Speaker 2: And stock markets may be hitting records, but Warren Buffett's

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Speaker 2: Berkshire Hathaway is having some trouble finding places to invest.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's John Tucker joins us with those details.

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Speaker 8: And Amy Buffett says there are no deals out there

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Speaker 8: that could deliver eye popping performance soul. He's keeping Berksher's

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Speaker 8: grown to a record one hundred and sixty seven point

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Speaker 8: six billion dollars. In his annual shareholder letter, the ninety

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Speaker 8: three year old Bumfitt says there remain only a handful

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Speaker 8: needle at Berkshire, and they have been endlessly picked over.

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Speaker 8: The company also reported fourth quarter operating earnings of eight

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Speaker 8: point four eight billion dollars that was held by an

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Speaker 8: increase in insurance underwriting earnings and investment income. Berkser shares

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Speaker 8: are up seventeen percent so far this year. They've touched

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Speaker 8: a record in each of the past seven trading days.

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Speaker 8: I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, John, thanks on The most actively traded stock

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Speaker 3: this morning is Intuitive Machines. We told you about the

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Speaker 3: moonshot the company's shares had on Friday following its lunar landing.

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Speaker 3: The stock surged as much as forty three percent before

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Speaker 3: ending Friday nearly sixteen percent higher. This morning, though Intuitive

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Speaker 3: Machines is crashing back to earth. The stock is plunging

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Speaker 3: more than thirty four percent. Officials now say that lander

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Speaker 2: And we do have some deal news this morning. Alcoa

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Speaker 2: has made a two point two billion dollar offer to

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Speaker 2: acquire its Australian joint venture partner Alumina. The deal would

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Speaker 2: give the US aluminum giant full control of Alcohol World

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Speaker 2: Alumina and Chemicals, one of the world's largest producers of

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Speaker 3: In Asia, Ant Group is said to have outbid Citadel

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Speaker 3: for Credit Suee's investment bank in China. Bloomberg Daybreak Asia

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Speaker 3: anchor Brian Curtis has the details from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 9: A big surprise. Sources say Ant made a stronger bid

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Speaker 9: than what Citadel offered back in December. The bid by

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Speaker 9: Ant to build a securities business using the Swiss Bank's

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Speaker 9: operations will face a serious review. In the past, China

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Speaker 9: we then have to decide, not knowing if regulators would

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Speaker 9: fray as well. In On Kong, Brian Curtis, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Brian, and Bloomberg News has learned the

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Speaker 2: Walt Disney Company has signed a binding pack with Reliance

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Speaker 2: Industries to merge their media operations in India. Disney's been

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Speaker 2: grappling with challenges in India like retaining subscribers and securing

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Speaker 2: media assets. Together, the two companies will make a formidable

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Speaker 2: media behemoth in one of the world's fastest growing entertainment markets.

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Speaker 3: Now it's time to take a look at some of

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Speaker 3: the other stories making news in New York and around

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Speaker 3: the world, and for that we bring in Bloomberg's Michael Barer.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Nathan. New York Governor Cathy

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Speaker 5: hokals mandate that state moves to zero emission school buses

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Speaker 5: Senator Stephen Rhodes spoke with other officials at gathering in

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Speaker 10: Some of the reasons why we're here encouraging the governor,

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Speaker 11: Until we have an actual plan to be able to

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Speaker 5: The measure, which passed in the twenty twenty two to

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Speaker 5: June of twenty twenty seven, we're learning more details about

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Speaker 5: a deadly fire in New York City that left one

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Speaker 5: Alabama Supreme Court ort's decision that frozen embryos should be

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Speaker 5: on a solution with GOP lawmakers to protect IVF access

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Speaker 11: In my case, when we have five fertilized eggs and

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Speaker 11: Republicans have put the rights of a fertilized egg over

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Speaker 5: Senator Duckworth spoke on ABC's This Week Heard Sundays on Bloomberg.

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Speaker 5: There are more details on what killed beloved Flacco. The

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Speaker 5: owl mourners in New York are now leaving flowers and

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Speaker 5: in Central Park. Flacco's flight stardom again in February of

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Speaker 5: One member of an animal rights group, Sat Flacco captured

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Speaker 5: I'm Michael Barr. This is Bloomberg Nathan.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Michael, thank you time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update,

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Speaker 3: It's Nathan.

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Speaker 12: The Rangers lost to the Garden of Vegas back on

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Speaker 12: January twenty sixth. Family lost February twenty fifth, Columbus. In

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Speaker 13: We needed to win a game tonight. There's no there's

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Speaker 12: Majors and Blue Jackets play again Wednesday at MSG where

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Speaker 12: yesterday Saint John's upset fifteenth rank Creighton eighty to sixty six.

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Speaker 12: The same Creighton team that had just beaten Yukon, the

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Speaker 12: That's the game that led our coach Rick Patino to

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Speaker 12: call the Saint John's players unathletic. Patino said then that

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Speaker 12: Patino wore a white suit seemed to enjoy the win. NBA,

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Speaker 12: the Warriors lost to Denver. The Wizards lost to Cleveland

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Speaker 12: and Tampa. Juan Soto in Penstrive for the first time,

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Speaker 12: Ballinger stayed with the Cubs three years eighty million NLMVP

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Speaker 12: Jake Knapp, twenty nine year old PGA Tour rookie, won

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Speaker 3: Okay, John, thank you. Now let's get back to what's

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Speaker 3: Senior Editor, Bill Ferries. So, Bill, it seems as though

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Speaker 3: Is there any evidence that it has that now?

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Speaker 6: Well, not really. You know, this is this Ukraine Aid

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Speaker 6: and there's still no sign of a political breakthrough that

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Speaker 6: that he shares with Russia. Now, so it's it's a

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Speaker 3: Does that raise the risk then that we could see

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think you know you've got this. It's you know,

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Speaker 6: let's say about half a dozen agencies that are involved

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Speaker 6: talks have always been contentious. This is I think I'll

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Speaker 3: That April thirtieth deadline, I believe, is when automatic cuts

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Speaker 6: Well as of yesterday on Sunday, the Biden administration said

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Speaker 6: There's still some optimism that talks and Paris might produce

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Speaker 6: Prime Minister Nenyaho has made clear he intends to send

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Speaker 3: And just to close things out. With a lot of

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Speaker 3: divert their resources from supporting Nikki Haley to down ballot races,

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Speaker 3: and now multiple reports that Ronald McDaniel, the chair of

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I think after the South Carolina primary, the stars are

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Speaker 6: You know, it was a big defeat for Haley in

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Speaker 6: There's still time. She does still have donors with her,

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