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Speaker 1: News when he wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 1: The US, along with the UK, and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada,

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Speaker 1: and the Netherlands, launched airstrikes and missiles at Houthy rebel

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Speaker 1: targets in Yemen. Sixty targets were attacked overall, including radar installations,

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Speaker 1: missile launchers, and storage sites. The raid was carried out

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Speaker 1: by fighter jets based on the US S. Eisenhower aircraft carrier,

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Speaker 1: along with submarine and surface ship launched Tomahawk missiles. President Biden,

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Speaker 1: in a statement released by the White House, said that

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Speaker 1: he would quote not hesitate to direct further measures to

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Speaker 1: protect our people in the free flow of international commerce

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Speaker 1: as necessary. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he welcomes

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Speaker 1: the strike and that the President's decision to use military

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Speaker 1: action is overdue. McConnell also says he's quote hopeful these

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Speaker 1: operations marken and enduring shift in the Biden administration's approach

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Speaker 1: to a run in its proxies. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,

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Speaker 1: who has faced bipartisan criticism for not telling anyone, including

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Speaker 1: the White House, for days that he was hospitalized for

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Speaker 1: complications from surgery to treat prostate cancer. Also said in

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Speaker 1: a statement that quote this action is intended to disrupt

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Speaker 1: and degrade the Huthi's capabilities, to endanger mariners and threaten

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Speaker 1: global trade in one of the world's most critical waterways.

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Speaker 1: Earlier in the day, in a television appearance, the leader

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Speaker 1: of the Iron Backtoothy rebels had vowed a big response

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Speaker 1: against the US and allies if they launched military action

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Speaker 1: against them. Abdul Malik al Huthi said, quote, any American

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Speaker 1: attack won't go unpunished. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to

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Speaker 1: federal tax charges in Los Angeles. The president's son has

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Speaker 1: been accused of nine felony and misdemeanor tax offenses of

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Speaker 1: trying to skip out on paying one point four million

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Speaker 1: dollars in taxes over a four year period. Biden had

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Speaker 1: originally thought he had a plead deal that would have

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Speaker 1: spared him a criminal trial as his father's running for

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Speaker 1: re election, but the deal collapsed due to differences on

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Speaker 1: blanket immunity. Biden is also facing charges in Delaware of

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Speaker 1: lying on a federal form for gun purchasers. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: did speak during closing arguments. It is nearly eleven week

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Speaker 1: fraud trial in New York, ranting on for five minutes

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Speaker 1: even before being granted permission by the judge, Trump was

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Speaker 1: finally cut off when the judge told Trump's attorney to

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Speaker 1: control his client. The former president claimed the case was

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Speaker 1: a political witch hunt against him. Trump is accused of

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Speaker 1: inflating his assets to get more favorable terms on hundreds

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars of loans. New York Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Letitia James is arguing for Trump to have to pay

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Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy million dollars for ledged to legal profits.

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Speaker 1: James says Trump isn't above the law.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, the point is simple,

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Speaker 2: no matter how powerful you are, no no matter how

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Speaker 2: rich you are, that no one is above the law,

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Speaker 2: and that the law applies to all of us equally

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Speaker 2: and fairly.

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Speaker 1: That's New York Attorney General Letitia James. Former Maryland Governor

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Speaker 1: Larry Hogan has stepped down as honorary national co chairman

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Speaker 1: of No Labels, a centrist advocacy group, leading to speculation

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Speaker 1: that the Modern Republican is looking to run as a

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Speaker 1: third party candidate. Back in October, Hogan told Bloomberg he

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Speaker 1: was not shutting the door on a possible presidential run.

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Speaker 1: According to an October Gallup poll, americans interested in a

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Speaker 1: third party kid candidates such as West Virginia's Joe Manchin

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Speaker 1: or Robert Kennedy Junior, is at its highest levels in

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Speaker 1: twenty years. President Biden wants a half million electric vehicle

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Speaker 1: charges across the country by twenty thirty, and is deploying

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars to meet that goal. Bloomberg's Amy Morris

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Speaker 1: reports from Washington.

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Speaker 3: The Biden administration is rolling out six hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: three million dollars in competitive grants to states to help

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Speaker 3: build out a nationwide EV charging network. The spending comes

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Speaker 3: as the government faces criticism for a slow start on

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Speaker 3: federally funded EV chargers. Breaking ground winning projects include EV

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Speaker 3: charging stations at apartments in New Jersey, charging docks for

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Speaker 3: e bikes and eastcooters in Arizona, and hydrogen fueling stations

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Speaker 3: for trucks in Texas. Electric vehicle sales grew by only

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Speaker 3: one point three percent at the end of last year

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Speaker 3: in Washington. Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Amy herts Is shrinking its electric vehicle fleet by

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Speaker 1: one third that's roughly twenty thousand cars, and adding more

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Speaker 1: gas power vehicles. It blames a lack of customer demand

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Speaker 1: and high repair costs. Add Google to the list of

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Speaker 1: tech companies shedding workers as twenty twenty four begins. It's

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Speaker 1: laying off hundreds of people from its digital assistant, hardware

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Speaker 1: and engineering teams. Google Search business is feeling the heat

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Speaker 1: from AI offerings for Microsoft and Open Ai. After twenty

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Speaker 1: four years in six Super Bowl rings, the New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick have agreed to part ways.

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Speaker 1: The seventy one year old won a total of two

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety six games, including the playoffs while head

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Speaker 1: coach of the Pats, Belichick, along with Tom Brady, led

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Speaker 1: the team to our record seventeen division titles, nine conference championships,

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Speaker 1: and nine Super Bowl appearances. That's news when you want

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