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

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Speaker 1: Doug Chrisner. The embattled president of Harvard University is stepping down.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Claudine Gay resigned after less than seven months on

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Speaker 1: the job, and one of her harshest critics says the

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Speaker 1: move is long overdue. Here's Bloomberg's head Baxter with that

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Speaker 1: part of the story.

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Speaker 2: Congresswoman Elis Stefanik says Gay in the December hearing never

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Speaker 2: condemned calls for genocide against Jews as a violation of

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Speaker 2: university policy. This is part of what Gay said at

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Speaker 2: that December hearing. We embrace a commitment to free expression,

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Speaker 2: even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. Stefanica is

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Speaker 2: a Harvard alam who said Gay's statements were morally bankrupt.

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Speaker 2: And Bill Ackman now who's also gone after Gay posted

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Speaker 2: at two Sally an apparent reference to the president of

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Speaker 2: MIT at Baxter.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio, AMAS is saying Israel killed one of the

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Speaker 1: group's senior leaders in Beirut. Lebanon state run news agency

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Speaker 1: says Salail A Leori died in an Israeli drone strike.

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Speaker 1: He is the deputy head of the militant group's politbureau,

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Speaker 1: also known as the mastermind behind its armed wing in

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Speaker 1: the West Bank. Here is Bloomberg's Larry Libert.

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Speaker 3: It's sort of a no brainer. If they had a

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Speaker 3: senior hamas leader, they could find an attack who wasn't

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Speaker 3: in some underground hiding place wherever he was, that they

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Speaker 3: would go after him. So now Israel is its usual

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Speaker 3: policy isn't confirming this, but there'll probably be some background

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Speaker 3: confirmation and some rye remarks from Israel about this hit.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Larry Liebert. By the way, if confirmed,

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Speaker 1: it would be Israel's first such attack on Berout in

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Speaker 1: nearly two decades. This news has raised new concern about

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Speaker 1: a regional escalation of the war in Gaza. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has filed a lawsuit seeking to restore his name to

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Speaker 1: the presidential primary ryballot in Maine. The story from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 4: The move comes after the state disqualified him over his

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Speaker 4: attempt to reverse the result of the twenty twenty election

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Speaker 4: he lost to Joe Biden. The lawsuit challenges of decision

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Speaker 4: last week by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who

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Speaker 4: held that the former president is ineligible for another term

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Speaker 4: because of a section of the Constitution's fourteenth Amendment. The

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Speaker 4: provision bars from federal office those who have sworn an

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Speaker 4: oath to support the Constitution and then quote engaged in

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Speaker 4: insurrection against the US. In New York, Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now the latest on the earthquake in Japan. A new

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Speaker 1: magnitude five point five earthquake struck Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture. The

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Speaker 1: region has already been hit by a series of powerful

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Speaker 1: quakes earlier in the week. Local reports are now saying

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Speaker 1: the death toll has gone up to at least sixty two.

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Speaker 1: Here is Bloomberg's Erika Yokoyama in Tokyo.

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Speaker 5: So rescue work is still going on intensively under the

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Speaker 5: harsh weather. It's been below ten degrees celsius. It's really

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Speaker 5: cored and at the same time it's raining there, which

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Speaker 5: may increase the risks of the landslide, making it difficult

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Speaker 5: for rescue clue to do their operations. And another concern

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Speaker 5: is then after shocks. So nearly five hundred after shock

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Speaker 5: hit the area since the first quake on the New

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Speaker 5: Year's Day, and some of them are being actually as

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Speaker 5: large as MAGNETUD five.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Erica Yokoyama. We go to Business News next.

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Speaker 1: In Tesla, the company delivered more vehicles than expected in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. However, it wasn't enough for the company

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Speaker 1: to stay ahead of its Chinese rival BYD, Tesla delivered

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Speaker 1: about forty two thousand fewer vehicles than BYD. Here's Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: ed Ludlow.

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Speaker 6: BYD, the Chinese TV maker delivered five hundred and twenty

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Speaker 6: six four hundred and nine thousand evs in the court

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Speaker 6: of Gone, meaning it now holds the crown as the

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Speaker 6: stand the lone biggest maker and seller of electric vehicles,

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Speaker 6: and of course it has many more cheaper model variants

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Speaker 6: in that domestic Chinese market.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's ed Ludlow. And that is news when

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Speaker 1: you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Prisner

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Speaker 1: in New York, and this is Bloomberg