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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 3: stories we're following today. Karen, it's over.

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Speaker 4: After forty three days, the longest government shut down in

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Speaker 4: American history has come to an end.

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Speaker 2: On this vote. The a's are two hundred and twenty two.

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Speaker 2: The a's are two oh nine. The bill has passed.

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Speaker 4: And after that vote in the House of Representatives, President

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Speaker 4: Trump signed the bill to reopen the government and put

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Speaker 4: federal workers back on the job starting today.

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Speaker 5: We're sending a clear message that we will never give

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Speaker 5: in to extortion, because that's what it was. They tried

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Speaker 5: to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.

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Speaker 4: The President spoke at an Oval Office signing ceremony heard

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Speaker 4: live on Bloomberg Radio. The new funding law does not

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Speaker 4: resolve the expiring health insurance subsidies that Democrats wanted to extend.

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Speaker 4: Senate Republicans have promised to vote on that next month.

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Speaker 4: And even though the government is reopening, getting it back

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Speaker 4: to normal could take a while.

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Speaker 2: As we hear from Bloomberg's Steric Wallbank.

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Speaker 6: We're going to be waiting for a couple of days

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Speaker 6: to get federal workers paid. It may take a couple

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Speaker 6: of days to get airlines fully back to their normal schedules.

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Speaker 6: We're still waiting to see about these economic indicators that

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Speaker 4: That's Bloomberg's Derek Wallbank. The White House says the October

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Speaker 4: to the shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has not

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Speaker 4: released a new schedule of data releases. The agency could

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Speaker 4: combine two months worth of data to get back on

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Speaker 3: Nathan asked for airlines getting back on schedule. That Trump

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Speaker 3: administration is hoping to bring that in for US smooth

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Speaker 3: and landing. The Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration are

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Speaker 3: rather than the ten percent previously planned. FAA Administrator Brian

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Speaker 3: The Airlines CEO ed Bashton tells Bloomberg that things should

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Speaker 3: keep improving heading into the holidays.

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Speaker 4: We know the importance of Christmas and Thanksgiving and the holidays.

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Speaker 4: That's our super Bowl, and that's what we rehearse and

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Speaker 4: plan all year long.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be in really good shape now.

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Speaker 3: The CEO, ed Bashton, spoke to Bloomberg from the floor

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Speaker 3: of the New York Stock Exchange. Get the full conversation

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Speaker 3: on the Bloomberg Podcast channel on YouTube. Airlines have canceled

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Speaker 3: almost ten thousand flights since restrictions were put in place

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 2: Well, Karen.

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Speaker 4: Another major story we're following this morning involves emails released

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Speaker 4: by Democrats involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bloomberg's John

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Speaker 4: Tucker joins us with the very latest, John and Nathan.

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Speaker 7: In the newly released emails, Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly discussed Donald

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Speaker 7: Trump with his co conspirator Gaylaine Maxwell Epstein, writing the

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Speaker 7: of his victims spent quote hours with Trump at Epstein's home.

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Speaker 7: California Democratic Congress and Robert Garci is the ranking Democrat

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Speaker 7: on the House Oversight Committee which released the files.

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Speaker 8: This email from Jeffrey Epstein saying that Donald Trump spent

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Speaker 8: hours with one of the victims, or that he knew

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Speaker 7: The White House says that House Democrats selectively leaked to emails,

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Speaker 7: creating a quote fake narrative. White House Press Secretary Caroline.

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Speaker 9: Levin this administration has done more with respect to transparency

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Speaker 9: when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein than any administration ever.

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Speaker 7: In another email, Epstein wrote of Trump, of course he

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Speaker 7: jail sale in twenty nineteen. Both Republicans and Democrats in

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Speaker 7: Congress have pushed for more information, pitting President Trump against

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Speaker 7: release all Epstein files. The emails also revealed that former

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Speaker 7: US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers wrote to Epstein complaining about

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Speaker 7: what he characterized as harsh treatment of an unnamed man

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Speaker 7: contributor to Bloomberg TV. In the Your Income, John Tucker Bloomberg.

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Speaker 3: Radio, All right, John, thank you. We now turn to

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Speaker 3: a Bloomberg exclusive. Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski says his country

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Speaker 3: survival rests on new funding from allies. The Ukrainian leader

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Speaker 3: Tom Bloomberg's Oliver Krook, European officials need to overcome their

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Speaker 10: They understand that we need their support and if I

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Speaker 10: hope God bless, we will get this decision. But they

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Speaker 10: will not have this decision. Of course, we together will

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Speaker 10: find out. We have to find our torment is the

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Speaker 3: And Ukraine's presidents. E went on to say Russia's Vladimir

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Speaker 3: Putin had waged a deliberate campaign of intimidation against Europe

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Speaker 3: with recent incursions by drones and fighter jets into NATO airspace.

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Speaker 4: Another geopolitical development this morning, Karen Chinese President Shi Jinping

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Speaker 4: is joining President Trump in skipping this month's G twenty

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Speaker 4: the world's two largest economies, along with fellow member Russia.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg News has learned the European Union is set to

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Speaker 3: propose a plan to the US NATHAN that would implement

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Speaker 4: Well back here in the US, Karen futures have moved

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Speaker 4: Jones Industrial average. Bloomberg Markets reporter Valerie Titel says the

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Speaker 4: end of the government shutdown has boosted sentiment.

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Speaker 11: This government shutdown coming to an end has been positive

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Speaker 11: And P futures this week, we're essentially on track for

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Speaker 11: is releasing liquidity back into the economy that had been

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Speaker 4: That's Bloomberg's Svalary Titel and checking gold. This morning, it's

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Speaker 3: Shares of Cisco are higher. They are up more than

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Speaker 3: six and a half percent this morning. The largest maker

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Speaker 3: an upbeat sales forecast. It's showing progress and its effort

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Speaker 3: to capture more artificial intelligence spending. Wu Jinho cover Cisco

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Speaker 5: They're playing both the enterprise side as well as on

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Speaker 5: They will be using Nvidia ironically and Vidia chips in

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Speaker 3: And Bloomberg Intelligence is Woujen host as Cisco increased its

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Speaker 4: And Karen the earnings continue this morning when the world's

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Speaker 4: biggest entertainment company reports ahead of the opening bell. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 4: Tom Busby has more and what to expect from Walt Disney.

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Speaker 12: A big concern for Disney subscriber growth at its various

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Speaker 12: streaming video services like Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu.

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Speaker 12: That's after a lot of customers canceled those services when

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Speaker 12: the company briefly suspended Jimmy Kimmel and over the content

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Speaker 2: Tom Busby Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, Tom, thank you. A new line of Cheetos

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Speaker 3: and Dorrito's won't leave anyone's fingers. Orange PepsiCo is introducing

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Speaker 3: The offerings, marketed as simply Naked spelled NKD, do not

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Speaker 3: Time now for a look at some of the other

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

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Speaker 3: And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Michael,

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Speaker 13: California Governor Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff has been

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Speaker 13: indicted in a corruption case. Federal prosecutors say Dana Williamson

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Speaker 13: White House is responding after President Trump said that he

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Speaker 13: They claim that Halligan, President Trump's former personal lawyer, was

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Speaker 13: not properly appointed to her position. A Baltimore police officer

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Speaker 13: Attorney Ivan Bates says Parks now faces chargers including attempted murder.

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Speaker 8: If found guilty of all charges, Officer Parks faces a

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Speaker 13: State Attorney Bates says after Parks struck a man in

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Speaker 13: two more times with his car. Global News twenty four

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Speaker 13: Bloomberg News Now Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg Karen.

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Speaker 13: Thanks Michael.

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Speaker 3: A time now for our Bloomberg Sports Update, and for

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Speaker 14: Hour as Darren NBA Stars with Big Games, denvers Na

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Speaker 4: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. After a divided vote in

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Speaker 4: the House and a wave of the pen at the

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Speaker 4: White House, the federal government is back open for business.

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Speaker 4: President Trump has signed the bill to end the longest

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Speaker 4: US government shutdown ever at forty three days, but not

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Speaker 4: without a dig at Democrats.

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Speaker 5: The extremists in the other party insisted on creating the

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Speaker 5: longest government shut down in American history, and they did

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Speaker 5: it purely for political reason.

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Speaker 4: That was President Trump at an Oval Office signing ceremony

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Speaker 4: heard live on Bloomberg Radio this morning. Were joined by

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Speaker 4: Tina Fordham, founder of Fordham Global Foresight. Tina, it's great

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Speaker 4: to have you back with us now that the government

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Speaker 4: is back open. What did either side gain by keeping

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Speaker 4: it shut down for so long?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 15: I'd like to give you a really deeply insightful answer

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Speaker 15: to that, but I'm really scratching my head on this.

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Speaker 15: It feels like a delay that resulted in very little

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Speaker 15: political gain for either side. The political calculus for Democrats

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Speaker 15: and having held out so long and then reopening an

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Speaker 15: exchange for seemingly nothing is a great surprise. But there

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Speaker 15: will be collateral damage from the shutdown, and of course,

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Speaker 15: of course, you know we're heading straight into the next

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Speaker 15: crisis on the back of this.

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Speaker 4: That crisis I think you're probably alluding to being the

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Speaker 4: expiration of the.

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Speaker 2: Health insurance subsidies. Is that what you're getting at? Well, No, but.

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Speaker 15: That is of course a huge importance to the American people,

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Speaker 15: and it's going to be a major issue for all

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Speaker 15: members of Congress. I'm thinking about the expiration on the

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Speaker 15: part of Justice releasing the Epstein files. I think that

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Speaker 15: is a crisis for the White House.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well let's get into that. Then, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: we had the discharge petition officially signed. Now, of course

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Speaker 4: we've had ahead of that the release of tens of

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Speaker 4: thousands of documents, some of which the Democrats have highlighted

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Speaker 4: showing potentially President Trump's links with Epstein.

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Speaker 2: How do you see this playing out?

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Speaker 15: It's not the sort of topic that, as a a

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Speaker 15: geopli strategist I would normally offer a view on, but

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Speaker 15: I think that it's relevant for three reasons. First of all,

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Speaker 15: the end of the shutdown means that these files can

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Speaker 15: be released. It's something that the White House has wanted

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Speaker 15: to avoid. The collateral damage from the Epstein case is

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Speaker 15: popping up everywhere in terms of what it means for

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Speaker 15: the White House agenda. Clearly, this is going to dominate

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Speaker 15: the news cycle and distract from the White House priorities,

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Speaker 15: and coming on the back of last week's off year

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Speaker 15: election results where we started to see evidence of some

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Speaker 15: pushback on the Trump agenda. In addition to what this

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Speaker 15: is doing to challenge the president's approval ratings and support

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Speaker 15: for Republicans as we enter this twelve month period head

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Speaker 15: of midterms. What really struck me about the petition was

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Speaker 15: I think this is the first time that some of

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Speaker 15: the Republican Party faithful in Congress refused to comply with

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Speaker 15: a direct entreaty from the White House, and that to

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Speaker 15: me is significant.

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Speaker 4: Does that point to a broader split then between the

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Speaker 4: President and his own base at a time where we've

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Speaker 4: seen evidence of splits in the Democratic Party as well?

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Speaker 2: In terms of how the shutdown was.

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Speaker 15: Handled, I think that's where I'm getting to with this.

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Speaker 15: I mean, we really didn't have enough data points, if

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Speaker 15: you like, before last week's elections to get a sense

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Speaker 15: of where the American people were. Of course, we see

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Speaker 15: the approval ratings being at historic lows, but let's always

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Speaker 15: remember that Democrats as a party haven't benefited to very

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Speaker 15: much from that fact. But if Trump starts to lose

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Speaker 15: the pretty ironclad support that he's had from his party

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Speaker 15: in Congress, and that is coupled with the American people's

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Speaker 15: frustration with the cost of living crisis in these other matters,

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Speaker 15: then that really signals a challenge ahead in the next

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Speaker 15: twelve months for the White House.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting at a time when, you know, coming

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Speaker 4: out of last week's elections where Democrats really seem to

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Speaker 4: focus on affordability, if the focus does turn to Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 4: what could that mean politically? Is there a risk that

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Speaker 4: things could go too far? We have about a minute left.

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Speaker 15: In very complex times, I think there's always the risk

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Speaker 15: that is story like this, which seems easier to understand

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Speaker 15: than the complexities of inflation and trade, for example, just

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Speaker 15: takes so it becomes quite a challenge to deal with.

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Speaker 15: There's also foreign policy angle, which is surprising the emails

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Speaker 15: released talking about you know, tell the Russian foreign Minister

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Speaker 15: Sergei Lavrov to talk to me. I can tell you

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Speaker 15: how to work with Trump. I mean, those kinds of

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Speaker 15: developments could really widen this challenge for the White House

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Speaker 15: at a moment when that's the last thing they want

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Speaker 15: to have happen.

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