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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here
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Speaker 3: Karen, we begin with the latest on the standoff between
Speaker 3: the US and Iran. With the US blockade of Iran
Speaker 3: sports still in effect and the Strait of Horror moves
Speaker 3: at a near standstill, President Trump says the US will
Speaker 3: begin guiding some neutral ships through the strait starting today.
Speaker 3: The President announced the effort, dubbed Project Freedom, in a
Speaker 3: social media post. We get more from Bloomberg's Jumana Borsecci
Speaker 3: in Dubai.
Speaker 4: Certainly there is a humanitarian necessity to get some of
Speaker 4: those vessels out of the Persian Gulf. They've been stranded
Speaker 4: there since the beginning of the wars. Estimated that they're
Speaker 4: about eight hundred ships just sitting there, twenty thousand seafarers
Speaker 4: facing pretty dark conditions, extreme stress, fatigue, food and water shortages.
Speaker 4: So yes, most certainly there is a humanitarian needs to
Speaker 4: help those that are chopped there.
Speaker 3: Bloombergs Jumana Burssecci reports the President did not give specifics
Speaker 3: on how the US would help ships through the Strait,
Speaker 3: but US Central Command says it will provide military support,
Speaker 3: and Iranian official posted on x that any US interference
Speaker 3: in Horror moves would violate the ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Well, Nathan, President Trump is suggesting Around's latest proposal to
Speaker 2: end the war, it might not be enough to satisfy him.
Speaker 2: Oxio supports The plan would set a one month deadline
Speaker 2: for a guilt to reopen the strait of Horror Moves
Speaker 2: and end both the US blockade and fighting in Iran
Speaker 2: and Lebanon. And after that another month of discussions could
Speaker 2: begin on around's nuclear program. And again more from Bloomberg,
Speaker 2: Defense reporter Jen Judson.
Speaker 5: Iran wants sanctions relief and reopening shipping first, and that
Speaker 5: does not want what the US wants. They want to
Speaker 5: see a resolution when it comes to nuclear concessions. So
Speaker 5: we're really in a very tough spot right now.
Speaker 2: And Bloomberg Jen Judson appeared on Bloomberg this weekend. Treasury
Speaker 2: Secretary Scott Besson says the US can keep waiting around out.
Speaker 6: We're running a marathon over the past twelve months, and
Speaker 6: now we are sprinting towards the finish line. And I
Speaker 6: can tell you that we are suffocating the regime, and
Speaker 6: they are not able to pay their soldiers. This is
Speaker 6: a real economic blockade.
Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Scott bess And tells Fox's Sunday Morning Futures
Speaker 2: the pressure may force around to start shutting in oil
Speaker 2: wells in the next week as its fruit storage fills up,
Speaker 2: and pressure may be building in the US as well.
Speaker 2: Triple A says the nationwide average for a gallon of
Speaker 2: gasoline is four dollars forty six cents. That's the highest
Speaker 2: since July twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: Two, Karen.
Speaker 3: Another major story we're following this morning involves the health
Speaker 3: of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He is
Speaker 3: in critical but stable condition at a hospital. This morning,
Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Michael Barr joins us with the latest from New York.
Speaker 8: A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former mayor remains
Speaker 8: in critical but stable condition in a floor a hospital. However,
Speaker 8: spokesman Ted Goodman did not specify by Giuliani has been hospitalized.
Speaker 8: In a social media post, President Trump called Giuliani, who
Speaker 8: will turn eighty two later this month, a true warrior
Speaker 8: and the best mayor in the history of New York
Speaker 8: City by far. Giuliani became America's mayor while serving in
Speaker 8: office in the aftermath of the September eleventh, two thousand
Speaker 8: and one terrorist attacks. However, in recent years, Giuliani served
Speaker 8: as Donald Trump's lawyer.
Speaker 9: I voted for Trump, but mostly I voted for America
Speaker 9: to save us.
Speaker 8: He also aided in efforts to overturn the result of
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty presidential election won by President Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: In twenty twenty five, Giuliani agreed to pay two Georgia
Speaker 8: election workers one hundred and forty eight million dollars in
Speaker 8: a defamation case in New York. Michael Barr Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: Hurray Michael, thank you. Authorities have determined that book shot
Speaker 2: from the gun of the man charged with trying to
Speaker 2: storm the White House Correspondence Association dinner struck a Secret
Speaker 2: Service agent. Janine Piro, the US Attorney for the District
Speaker 2: of Columbia, is the federal prosecutor overseeing the case, and
Speaker 2: she spoke with CNNX Jake Tapper.
Speaker 10: We now can establish that a pellet that came from
Speaker 10: the buckshot from the defendant's Mosburg pump action shotgun was
Speaker 10: intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret
Speaker 10: Service office.
Speaker 7: So it's definitively his fault.
Speaker 10: Is definitively his bullet he hit at that Secret Service agent.
Speaker 10: He was had every intention to kill him and anyone
Speaker 10: who got in his way on his way to the
Speaker 10: killing the President of the United States.
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutor Janine Piro says a suspect called Thomas Allen
Speaker 2: has been charged with attempted assassination of the President and
Speaker 2: faces up to life in prison if convicted of the
Speaker 2: assassination count alone.
Speaker 3: Turned out to the markets, Karen Tech stocks continue to
Speaker 3: lead equities higher. Nasdaq futures are up once again after
Speaker 3: rising almost one percent Friday. Both the Nasdaq and S
Speaker 3: and P five hundred closed it record highs. Liz Anne
Speaker 3: Sanders is chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
Speaker 11: SMP sitting at an all time high right now, but
Speaker 11: only seven percent of the index members are at fifty
Speaker 11: two week highs, and it's only fifteen percent of the
Speaker 11: index that's even just at a four week high.
Speaker 7: So we're again we're.
Speaker 11: Developing a little bit of that concentration problem, and it
Speaker 11: would be a better backdrop for the market medium to
Speaker 11: longer term if we had some better breadth.
Speaker 3: Not yet, Charles Schwab, Chief investment strategist Liz Anne Sanders
Speaker 3: notes the SMP five hundred index has risen for five
Speaker 3: straight weeks.
Speaker 2: Well, Nathan, game Stop is proposing to buy eBay for
Speaker 2: about fifty six billion dollars in cash and stock. We
Speaker 2: get the story with Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.
Speaker 7: It's a bold attempt by Ryan Cohen to take over
Speaker 7: a storied e commerce name several times larger. The gaming
Speaker 7: retail chain offered one hundred and twenty five dollars a
Speaker 7: share in cash and stock for the online retailer, or
Speaker 7: about a twenty percent premium to its Friday close. Game
Speaker 7: Stop is built a roughly five percent stake in eBay
Speaker 7: and says it has secured a commitment from TD Bank
Speaker 7: to provide about twenty billion of debt financing to help
Speaker 7: bankroll the deal. In New York, Charlie Pellets Bloomberg.
Speaker 2: Radio, Charlie, thank you. Shares an eBay up nine and
Speaker 2: a half percent in early trading, and shares a game
Speaker 2: Stop they're lower. They're down about eight tens of a percent.
Speaker 3: Well after the collapse of Spirit Aviation holdings Karen. Transportation
Speaker 3: Secretary Sean Duffy says he does not think the government
Speaker 3: needs to provide financial lifelines for now to other low
Speaker 3: cost carriers. Duffy blames the Biden administration for Spirits failure.
Speaker 7: Spirit I tried to merge with.
Speaker 9: Jet Blue, the Joe Biden pe put to judge administration.
Speaker 7: And DOJ tanked that deal.
Speaker 2: Immediately after that they filed for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on ABC's This Week Heard
Speaker 3: Every Sunday on Bloomberg Radio. Spirit CEO Dave Davis says
Speaker 3: the low cost carriers succumb to crushing fuel prices.
Speaker 2: Well, we have new developments, Nathan. On the global trade front,
Speaker 2: China has ordered its companies to ignore US sanctions. Beijing
Speaker 2: is now directed companies not to abide by US sanctions
Speaker 2: on private refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade. China's
Speaker 2: move will test the US sanctions system and comes ahead
Speaker 2: of a plan meeting between President Trump and China's sheeshin Ping.
Speaker 2: Time now for a look at some of the other
Speaker 2: stories making news in New York and around the world,
Speaker 2: and for them, we're joined by Bloombergy's Michael Barr Michael,
Speaker 2: good Morning.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Karen. United Airlines flight landing at Newark on
Speaker 8: Sunday struck a light pole on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Speaker 8: The plane, en route from Benic, Italy, was carrying two
Speaker 8: hundred twenty one passengers and ten crew. Official said no
Speaker 8: one on the airplane was heard, but the light pole
Speaker 8: struck a truck injuring the driver. Officials say he'll be okay.
Speaker 8: After the plane landed, air traffic controllers on ATC dot
Speaker 8: com send a ground vehicle to inspect the runway.
Speaker 12: They felt something over the threshold and there's a hole
Speaker 12: in the side of the airplane.
Speaker 8: Retired Marine Corps pilot Steve Ganiard says everyone on board
Speaker 8: the plane was fortunate.
Speaker 6: This aircraft was literally inches from disaster.
Speaker 8: United says its maintenance team is now evaluating the plane.
Speaker 8: There are calls to protest the met Gala tonight in
Speaker 8: New York City over the events ties this year to
Speaker 8: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The critics call the Galatone deaf
Speaker 8: for its lavishness during a time of economic uncertainty for many.
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Speaker 8: this is Bloomberg Karen. Thanks Michael.
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Speaker 1: Are a pair of game sevens in the NBA's Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference and wins by the home team. Detroit came back
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Speaker 1: combined for sixty two points. Cleveland Toronto won fourteen one
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Speaker 1: games were decided by one goal. Montreal, with only nine
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Speaker 3: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Nearly a month into the ceasefire,
Speaker 3: where Iran President Trump says the US will kick off
Speaker 3: a humanitarian effort today to guide stranded ships through the
Speaker 3: Strait of horror moves. That's, as he suggests to Ron's
Speaker 3: latest proposal to end the war might not be enough.
Speaker 3: Joining US from Tel Aviv this morning is Bloomberg News
Speaker 3: Israel Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner.
Speaker 7: Ethan, good to have you with us. What do we
Speaker 7: know about the.
Speaker 3: US plan to guideship through the Strait at this point?
Speaker 7: Good morning, Good morning, Nathan.
Speaker 9: Well, we don't know a lot. We know pretty much
Speaker 9: what you've just said, which is that there is this plan.
Speaker 9: He's calling it an enhanced security area. It's not at
Speaker 9: all clear. It doesn't seem like the A ship US
Speaker 9: ships are going to actually accompany anybody. Seems to be
Speaker 9: a matter of coordination. It's really not very clear, but
Speaker 9: that is what he has announced.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what could a potential Iranian response to something
Speaker 3: like this be When we've heard from a number of
Speaker 3: Iranian officials over the last few weeks that interference in
Speaker 3: the Strait could constitute a ceasefire violation.
Speaker 9: Indeed, so in theory, we could certainly see drones being
Speaker 9: shot at tankers by Iran. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 9: certainly possible. You know, They've has been a fairly muted
Speaker 9: response so far from Iran. I mean, as you said,
Speaker 9: they did say such a thing would be a violation.
Speaker 9: We really I don't have any think, have any clarity
Speaker 9: about what either side is about to do, you know.
Speaker 9: And meanwhile, in theory there there there's a great distinction
Speaker 9: difference of opinion about how it's going for Iran, whether
Speaker 9: they can last for many weeks or not. You know,
Speaker 9: the broad consensus abroad is that Iran can last a
Speaker 9: long time. In Israel, there is a more a more
Speaker 9: hawkish view, which is that Iran is in trouble and
Speaker 9: if I'd say it's going to hold on for six
Speaker 9: or ten weeks, Iran will be in deeper trouble.
Speaker 3: Well, we've heard from a Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant as
Speaker 3: well that the naval blockade that's in place against Iranian
Speaker 3: ports is strangling the Iranian economy. Are we seeing evidence
Speaker 3: of that? And how would Iran be able to respond
Speaker 3: militarily if it's economy is being choked off, So I.
Speaker 9: Think it's difficult for really for me to speak with
Speaker 9: any clarity about whether they're being choked up or not.
Speaker 9: There is that sense that they really do need the
Speaker 9: income that's not going to come in. But I don't
Speaker 9: think these drones are very expensive. I do think they've
Speaker 9: been able to continue to produce them, so it is possible.
Speaker 9: It seems to me that they could still challenge the
Speaker 9: great American military bi a moth with these thousand dollars drones.
Speaker 9: I mean, I think that is what could happen.
Speaker 7: But we really don't know.
Speaker 9: And you know, I mean either side, it's a game
Speaker 9: of chicken, and we don't know where it's going.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, President Trump has been suggesting that the
Speaker 3: latest Iranian offer to end the war outright might not
Speaker 3: be enough to meet his parameters. What is the sense
Speaker 3: of what the Iranian offer is now and where does
Speaker 3: it leave things in our last minute?
Speaker 9: So we only have some elements in public about what
Speaker 9: that offer is. That they're asking for a month to
Speaker 9: sort of stop it, then a month of negotiation, and
Speaker 9: they want there's some talk of some years of no enrichment,
Speaker 9: uranium enrichment then to a low percentage. I mean, it
Speaker 9: doesn't seem like it would have made the war worth
Speaker 9: it from the American's perspective and sense that the goal
Speaker 9: was zero and Richmond and removing those nine hundred pounds
Speaker 9: of a highly enriched uranium. So I still see a
Speaker 9: very very strong confrontation at least political, and I don't
Speaker 9: know where it's going militarily.
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