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

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Speaker 1: Doug Krisner. Top anti trust officials at the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice have decided to ask a federal judge to force

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Speaker 1: Google to sell off its Chrome browser. That story from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 2: It would be a historic crackdown on one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest tech companies in the world, sources tell Bloomberg. The

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Speaker 2: Department will ask the judge who ruled in August that

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Speaker 2: Google illegally monopolized the search market to require measures related

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Speaker 2: to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system. The

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Speaker 2: sources say, anti trust officials, along with states that have

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Speaker 2: joined the case, also planned to recommend Wednesday that federal

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Speaker 2: judge Amidmeta imposed data licensing requirements in New York. Charlie

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Speaker 2: Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now staying with the DOJ. Last week, representatives of both

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Speaker 1: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Jutiburn Networks met with anti trust enforcers.

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Speaker 1: This was a final effort to persuade the DOJ not

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Speaker 1: to challenge the Companympany's proposed fourteen billion dollar merger onto

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Speaker 1: the work of the Trump transition team. The President elect

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Speaker 1: has named former Wisconsin Representative Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary.

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Speaker 1: Duffy is also a former sports commentator and a reality

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Speaker 1: TV star. He's currently a co host on Fox Business.

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Speaker 1: The Dust seems close to settling in President elect Trump's

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Speaker 1: choice for Treasury Secretary. We're told the transition team is

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Speaker 1: considering former Fed Governor Kevin Walsh, now another candidate for

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Speaker 1: the role. Hedge fund manager Scott Besson was offered the

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Speaker 1: role of Director of the National Economic Council. However, we

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Speaker 1: are told Besson told Trump he wouldn't accept until he

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Speaker 1: knew who the Treasury secretary would be. Worsh has been

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Speaker 1: invited tomorrow Lago to be interviewed by the President elect

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Speaker 1: in the coming days. Even so, there are a number

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Speaker 1: of folks expressing concern over whether he is loyal enough

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Speaker 1: to Trump's economic agenda. Trump was expected to make the

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Speaker 1: decision on Treasury secretary last week, how we are told,

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Speaker 1: in fighting between Bessant and Howard Lutnik, the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Canter Fitzgerald, irritated mister Trump and delayed his decision. A

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Speaker 1: meeting is back on for the House Ethics Committee as

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Speaker 1: it faces growing pressure to release the findings of its

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Speaker 1: report on Attorney General designate Matt Gates. More from Bloomberg,

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hager and Washington.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg News has learned the panel we'll meet behind closed

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Speaker 3: doors on Wednesday after abruptly canceling a planned meeting last week.

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Speaker 3: Both Republican and Democratic senators are pressing for access to

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Speaker 3: the Ethics Committee's findings on sexual misconduct and drug use

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Speaker 3: allegations against Gates. He resigned his House seat hours after

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Speaker 3: President elect Trump nominated him to lead the Justice Department,

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Speaker 3: two days before the Ethics Committee was due to deliberate

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Speaker 3: its findings. Gates has denied any wrongdoing. How Speaker Mike

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Speaker 3: Johnson is urging the committee to keep its report confidential.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Axios is reporting that Trump is

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Speaker 1: personally calling senators to press them to confirm Gates as

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Speaker 1: Attorney General. President elect Trump has confirmed his plan to

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Speaker 1: use the US military for a mass deportation program. We

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Speaker 1: have more from Bloomberg's Ammy Morris in Washington.

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Speaker 4: Trump wrote true on his Truth social network in a

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Speaker 4: reply to a post from the president of the conservative

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Speaker 4: legal group Judicial Watch, who said Trump was reportedly prepared

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Speaker 4: to declare a national emergency and use military assets for

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Speaker 4: a mass deportation program. While on the campaign trail, Trump

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Speaker 4: did pledge to secure the border with Mexico by finishing

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Speaker 4: construction of a wall and carrying out mass deportations. Trump

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Speaker 4: and his team have not outlined how they'll carry this out.

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Speaker 4: It will take substantial funding from Congress and cooperation from

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Speaker 4: other countries. It may face legal challenges in Washington. Amy

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Speaker 4: Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: We go to Business News next tomorrow before the opening bell,

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Speaker 1: will get earnings from the world's largest retailer. Bloomberg's Tom

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Speaker 1: Busby has a preview of what we may here from Walmart.

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Speaker 5: With a lot of Americans pulling back on their discretionary

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Speaker 5: spending this past quarter, investors ex inspect Walmart's core shoppers

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Speaker 5: and newer, higher earning customers to give a boost the

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Speaker 5: sales of groceries and other essentials. Also in focus the

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Speaker 5: outlook for holiday spending and consumer health. Bloomberg consensus calls

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Speaker 5: for comp sales at US Walmart stores to rise one

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Speaker 5: point two percent, revenue of one hundred and sixty seven

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Speaker 5: point five to one billion, and adjusted earnings per share

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Speaker 5: of fifty three cents. Tom buzzby Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Arthur Fromer has died. Fromer created a global brand with

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Speaker 1: his travel guide books, serving millions of budget conscious tourists,

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Speaker 1: with three hundred and fifty titles selling two and a

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Speaker 1: half million guides annually. Fromer believed in affordable travels, saying

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Speaker 1: the less you spend, the more you enjoy. Arthur Fromer

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Speaker 1: was ninety five and that is news when you want

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Speaker 1: it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Derek Prisoner and this

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