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Speaker 2: I'm Brian Curtis and I'm Doug Prisner. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 1: US officials have agreed on a plan to retaliate against

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Speaker 1: an earlier militant attack in Jordan. At Baxter has that

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Speaker 1: story more from San Francisco ed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Brion and Brian, and President Biden says

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Speaker 2: The whole response women responsible in the sense of the.

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Speaker 3: And former NATO Supreme Commander James Trevitia says that Biden

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Speaker 4: We've been trying to curtain this by pinprick attacks, by

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Speaker 3: The White House says it could be what they're calling

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much. Six and a half minutes past the hour. Now,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. First, Microsoft, what do you

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Speaker 8: You know, search has always been the reliable financial engine

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Speaker 8: At the moment, it's an integral part of Microsoft's future.

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Speaker 2: So before we let you go, Jackie, you mentioned the

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Speaker 8: For Microsoft, an outcome is expected to kind of yield

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Speaker 8: seem to be wanting to move a bit quicker. That

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Speaker 8: those short term impacts will be pretty hefty because their

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