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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Prisner. President Trump said tonight he is ordering a

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Speaker 1: total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going

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Speaker 1: into and leaving Venezuela. Now, this will apply more pressure

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Speaker 1: on the regime of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. Trump also

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Speaker 1: said he was designating the Maduro regime as a foreign

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Speaker 1: terrorist organization. Warner Brothers Discovery is planning to reject a

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Speaker 1: hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skuidance. We are told there

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Speaker 1: are concerns about financing and other terms as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: the board at Warner Brothers is still viewing the existing

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Speaker 1: agreement with Netflix as offering greater value, certainty and terms

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Speaker 1: than those proposed by Paramount. Here is Bloomberg's Michelle Davis.

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Speaker 2: It already agreed to a deal with Netflix. So at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, it's still going to come

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Speaker 2: down to whether Paramount comes back with a higher offer,

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Speaker 2: you know, whether it is able to propose something that

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Speaker 2: does meet Warner Brothers' concerns. But until then, they have

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Speaker 2: this deal with Netflix and they'll be shepherding that through

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Speaker 2: the regulatory process.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Michelle Davis. Now, at the same time,

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Speaker 1: we are told that Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is leaving

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Speaker 1: this takeover battle. Affinity was helping to finance the offer

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Speaker 1: from Paramount. Affinity now says the dynamics of an investment

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Speaker 1: have changed since it became involved in the process. Amazon

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Speaker 1: is reportedly in talks to invest ten billion dollars or

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Speaker 1: more in open Ai. The Information reports this investment would

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Speaker 1: give open ai evaluation greater than five hundred billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The investment would also help open ai pay to rent

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Speaker 1: services from cloud providers, and that would include Amazon Web services.

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Speaker 1: This deal could also lead to open ai using Amazon's

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Speaker 1: Trainium ai server chips. We go next to the latest

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Speaker 1: on the shooting at Brown University. Authorities are still searching

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Speaker 1: for the gunmen who killed two students. Investigators have released

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Speaker 1: enhanced videos of the man who they think opened fire. However,

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Speaker 1: the man's face was still not visible in any image.

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Speaker 1: Here is Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez, and we.

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Speaker 3: Asked you to go back to least a week to

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Speaker 3: do that, and the reason for that because on Saturday night,

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Speaker 3: the day off, we actually learned that the individuals in

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Speaker 3: that neighborhood around the dirty in the morning. We also

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Speaker 3: know when this profession of the many criminals will pease

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Speaker 3: on an area weeks in days brier.

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Speaker 1: That is Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez. Now a fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars reward is being offered for information leading to

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Speaker 1: the arrest and conviction of the person who killed those

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Speaker 1: two students at the university. On Saturday, we go to

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, next to where authorities have charged Nick Reiner

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Speaker 1: with first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents,

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Speaker 1: actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. Here is

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald.

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Speaker 4: This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for

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Speaker 4: the Reiner family and their loved ones, but for our

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Speaker 4: entire city. We extend our deepest condolences to all of

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Speaker 4: those who are affected by this tragedy.

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Speaker 1: LAPD Chief Jim McDonald. Now, these charges carry a sentence

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Speaker 1: of life in prison without the possibility for parole. Prosecutors, though,

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Speaker 1: are still evaluating whether to seek the death penalty against

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Speaker 1: Nick Reiner. Moderate House lawmakers will not get a vote

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Speaker 1: on extending subsidies under the Affordable Care Act before they

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Speaker 1: expire at the end of the year. More from Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Sammy Morris.

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Speaker 5: In Washington, House Speaker Mike Johnson is blocking a Republican

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Speaker 5: push for a vote on renewing expiring Obamacare subsidies. There

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Speaker 5: are three discharge petitions aimed at forcing the vote. Republican

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Speaker 5: Representative Mike Lawler of New York says there should be

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Speaker 5: a vote, and he sounded off on the House floor.

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Speaker 6: Eleven Republicans have signed on to those discharge petitions. Now,

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Speaker 6: why is that necessary? Because House Republican leadership will.

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Speaker 7: Not allow a vote.

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Speaker 6: It is idiotic and shameful, and yet my Democratic colleges

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Speaker 6: will not join us.

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Speaker 5: Now, the House is set to vote on a consensus

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Speaker 5: GOP healthcare package, but an ACA fix is not likely

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Speaker 5: to be among what passes. In Washington. Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, President Trump will reportedly interview FED Governor Chris Swaller

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Speaker 1: as a potential candidate to become FED chairman. The Wall

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Speaker 1: for rate cuts. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Fox Business

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Speaker 1: early January.

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Speaker 7: It's at the president's pace that he has been very,

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Speaker 7: very deliberate. We had an an interview last week. We

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Speaker 7: next week, and then the President has been very direct

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Speaker 1: That is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson speaking earlier to Fox Business.

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Speaker 1: Also tomorrow, the President will deliver a prime time address

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Speaker 1: and we got a preview from White House how Press

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Speaker 8: It's going to be a really good speech. I was

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Speaker 8: just in the Oval Office with the President discussing it.

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Speaker 8: He's going to talk a lot about the accomplishments over

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Speaker 8: the past eleven months, all that he's done to bring

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Speaker 8: our country back to greatness, and all he continues to

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Speaker 8: plan to do to continue delivering for the American people

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Speaker 8: over the next three years.

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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking to reporters. And

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Speaker 1: that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisoner and this is Bloomberg