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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here

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Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today. Karen, we begin with

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Speaker 2: controversy in the Middle East. President Trump says the US

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Speaker 2: should take control of the Gaza Strip. The President spoke

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Speaker 2: during a White House news conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Benjamin NATANYAHUO the.

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Speaker 3: US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will

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Speaker 3: do a job with it too. We'll own it and

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Speaker 3: be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs

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Speaker 4: The reaction has been swift to President Trump's Kaza proposal.

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Speaker 4: Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Wesley Clark warrens

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Speaker 4: it would be exceptionally challenging to deliver.

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Speaker 5: There are huge problems at the bottom, not to mention

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Speaker 5: strategic consent at the top. So look, he's the President

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Speaker 5: of the United States, better listen to him. But I've

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Speaker 5: done these things. I can tell you how difficult this is.

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Speaker 5: This is unimaginability difficult.

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Speaker 4: Former NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Wesley Clark, spoke

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Speaker 4: as Saudi Arabia reiterated its support for a Palestinian state

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Speaker 4: with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Saudis are rejecting

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Speaker 4: any infringement on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

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Speaker 2: Well Nathan new Development's new developments this morning. Involving Trump's

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Speaker 2: trade war, the US Postal Service has temporarily suspended the

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Speaker 2: acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong. According

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Speaker 2: to its website, letters and flat packages from the region

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Speaker 2: will not be impacted. The move comes after President Trump

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Speaker 2: and post ten percent tariff increases on Chinese goods.

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Speaker 4: Karen China may be looking at ways to fire back.

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg News has learned Beijing's antitrust watchdog is laying the

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Speaker 4: groundwork for a potential probe into Apple. We get more

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Speaker 4: from Bloomberg News Global Tech editor Peter Elstrom.

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Speaker 6: We see these tensions between the two countries rising. The

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Speaker 6: Right now, we have the investigation into Google, and just

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Speaker 6: to be clear, the Apple investigation was not announced. This

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Speaker 6: is a sources based story where we're reporting that We

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Speaker 6: understand the regulators at SAMR are taking a look at Apple.

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Speaker 6: They've informed the Apple executives in the country that they're

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Speaker 6: concerned about some of these practices that they have in

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Speaker 6: the app store. These have been issues globally. Really it's

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Speaker 6: not just in China, but they're taking a thirty percent

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Speaker 6: cut of revenue from the app store in certain cases,

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Speaker 6: and they're also limiting your payment options so that you

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Speaker 6: run through the Apple Store.

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom says if Apple resists making changes, the

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Speaker 4: Chinese government may launch a formal investigation on.

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Speaker 2: Nathan Donald Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to slash the

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Speaker 2: federal workforce have taken a new turn Bloomberg. John Tucker

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Speaker 2: is here with more. John.

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Speaker 7: What's the latest, Well, Karen, Most employees of the US

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Speaker 7: Agency for International Development they're going to be placed on

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Speaker 7: administrative leave. This starts Friday. The staff members stationed overseas

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Speaker 7: they have to return within thirty days, with exceptions to

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Speaker 7: be considered on a case by case basis. This all

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Speaker 7: comes after Trump ally Elon Musk signaled out USAID repeatedly

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Speaker 7: on X and even Trump described the agency as run

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Speaker 7: by a bunch of radical lunatics. Secretary of State Marco

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Speaker 7: US lawmakers the agency might be abolished altogether, and it

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Speaker 7: doesn't stop there. The CIA has ordered staff buyouts. That

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Speaker 7: move comes after two million federal workers were given similar offers.

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Speaker 7: That move initially excluded national security agencies in New York.

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Speaker 7: IM John Tucker Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 4: All right, John, thank you, and his controversy swirls around

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Speaker 4: Elawn Musk's role and power in the Trump administration. The

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Speaker 4: Treasury Department says Musk's Government Efficiency Team has been given

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Speaker 4: read only access to coded data of the government's payments system.

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Speaker 4: Democratic lawmakers had raised concerns about that system's integrity stemming

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Speaker 2: Well Nathan, President Trump's cabinet continues to take Shaye pam

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Speaker 2: Bondy has won a full Senate vote to be the

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Speaker 8: On this vote, the yaser fifty four, the nays are

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Speaker 2: And that was the final tally for Pama Bondi in

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Speaker 2: the US Senate. The new Attorney General now get a

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Speaker 4: I Meanwhile, Karen Moore cabinet nominees are moving closer to

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Speaker 4: faced questions about his past efforts to link vaccines to

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Speaker 4: Syrian President Bashar al Assad and refused to call NSA

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Speaker 2: On Nathan, Now, we want to turn to the latest

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Speaker 2: on the plane crash investigation in Washington, d C. The

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Speaker 2: remains of all sixty FI seven victims have been recovered

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Speaker 2: from the collision between the American Airlines flight and the

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Speaker 4: Turning the markets now, Karen futures are lower, led by

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Speaker 4: tech shares following some disappointing earnings after the bell. Shares

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Speaker 4: On the company conference call, Alphabet CEO Soon darp Shi

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Speaker 10: There's been a lot of observations on Deep Seek. First

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Speaker 4: Alphabet CEO Sun Darbishi also announced seventy five billion dollars

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Speaker 2: Nathan Chairs of AMD also taking it on the chin.

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Speaker 2: This morning, they're down more than eight and a half percent.

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Speaker 2: Is it struggled to catch up with AI computing leader Nvidia.

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Speaker 4: And shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill are down more than

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Speaker 4: six percent. The fast food retailer sales rose less than expected.

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Speaker 4: Chipotle had stood out as one of the few chains

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Speaker 2: Well for season. Nathan Nissan is reportedly pulling out of

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Speaker 2: plans to combine with Honda. The NYK newspapers reporting talks

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Speaker 2: plans were first announced in December. Without Honta is backing,

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Speaker 2: Nissan's future is unclear, with the company facing chronic issues

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Speaker 2: such as an outdated product lineup and bloated dealership incentives.

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Speaker 2: Time now, if we look at some of the other

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Speaker 2: stories making news in New York and around the world,

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Speaker 2: and for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 9: Good morning Karen. In New Orleans, security preparations are underway

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Speaker 9: ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. The US Department of Homeland

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Speaker 9: Security Special Agent in Charge for New Orleans, Eric Delonde,

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Speaker 9: is the lead federal coordinator for Super Bowl fifty nine.

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Speaker 9: He says visitors to the city are going to see

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Speaker 9: a heavy police presence this weekend.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be the safest city in America

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Speaker 4: more state local law enforcement, probably than any other Fruit

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Speaker 9: Delan's comments come after the January first Bourbon Street terrorist

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Speaker 9: attack that killed fifteen people. Sweden's worst mass shooting has

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Speaker 9: an adult education center, as officials warned that the death

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Speaker 9: classes for adults. Police say one person is dead. Five

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Speaker 9: people have been wounded in a shooting at a cosmetics

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Speaker 9: belongs to a company that makes products including toiletries. New

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Speaker 9: Albany Police Chief Greg Jones. We believe we may know

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Speaker 5: We don't have any reason to believe that they are

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Speaker 2: It appears at this point to be a targeted type

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Speaker 9: Chief Jones did not immediately provide the tales of the

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Speaker 9: circumstances surrounding the shooting. Global News twenty four hours a

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Speaker 9: day and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 9: I'm Michael Barr, and this Isloomberg Kearn.

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Speaker 2: All right, Michael Barr, thank you time now for the

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Speaker 8: John, Good morning, Yim morning, Karen. Busy Tuesday for New

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Speaker 8: York area teams. The Knicks, Nets, Devils, Islanders, and Saint

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Speaker 8: John's all played. They all won. The Knicks in Toronto

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Speaker 8: won seven of their last eight games and eight in

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Speaker 10: But like this last forty dollars just one month, Like

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Speaker 2: So emotionally it was really hard.

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Speaker 11: But very day that I like today was much better.

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Speaker 11: You know, I'm just very happy to be here.

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Speaker 8: The Islanders made it eight wins in the last nine games,

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Speaker 8: two to one over Vegas. Devils won three two in

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Speaker 8: win of the season. It's so far been a terrific one.

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Speaker 8: The Red Storm atop the Big East. They beat Marquette

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Speaker 8: seventy to sixty four. The Yankees have re signed lefty

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Speaker 9: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: I'm Nathan Hager. And it could be a dramatic shift

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Speaker 4: in the Middle East. President Trump says the US should

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Speaker 4: as Bloomberg News Managing editor Derek Wallbank and Derek to say,

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Nathan, it was really interesting watching that press conference

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 11: Trump went out and said a whole range of things

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Speaker 11: You know, as I say, it was bombshell comments from

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Speaker 4: We if this idea is a sort of a bull

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Speaker 4: Oh well, we think through this potential volatile and Middle

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Speaker 4: Now this word from Bloomberg News that China is considering

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Speaker 11: it's a very it's very much a breaking news story,

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