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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: News when you want it With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Russian President Vladimir Putin has

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Speaker 2: delivered another warning on nuclear weapons. We get the story

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Speaker 2: from Bloomberg's Lisa Mateo.

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Speaker 1: This came from an interview with the Russian State television.

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Speaker 1: He said he will use nuclear weapons if there is

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Speaker 1: a threat to russia statehood, sovereignty or independence. He described

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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden as a politician who understands the dangers

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Speaker 1: of escalation and that he doesn't think that the world

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Speaker 1: is heading to a nuclear war. But he did stress

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Speaker 1: that Russia's nuclear forces are in full readiness and that

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Speaker 1: they are prepared.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Lisa Mateo. The latest warning comes days before Putin

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Speaker 2: is expected to win another six year term in this

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Speaker 2: weekend's election. Former President Donald Trump is no longer facing

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Speaker 2: as many election interference charges in Georgia. Fulton County Judge

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Speaker 2: Scott McAfee has dismissed six of the charges that were

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Speaker 2: in District Attorney Fannie Willis's indictment, including three for the

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Speaker 2: former president. We get the details here from Bloomberg's Wendy

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Speaker 2: Benjaminson in Washington.

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Speaker 3: The charges that were dismissed were the charges involving that

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Speaker 3: quote unquote perfect many one of his many perfect phone calls,

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Speaker 3: so quote unquote to the Secretary of State of Georgia,

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Speaker 3: the administer of the elections, who you know who heard

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Speaker 3: Trump say to him, I just need you to find

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Speaker 3: me eleven thousand votes. So that the charge was interfering

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Speaker 3: with ancted official or solicitation of you know, bad acts.

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Speaker 3: So those charges were.

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Speaker 2: Dismissed Bloomberg's Wendy Benjaminson. The racketeering charges at the center

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Speaker 2: of Willis's indictment are still on the table. The judge

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Speaker 2: also says prosecutors can seek a new indictment on the

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Speaker 2: charges that he tossed aside earlier today. Well, with Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: the presumptive nominee in the GOP, Bloomberg's had backs to

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Speaker 2: reports he's having converseas with potential cabinet members.

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Speaker 4: These are described as informal talks. A familiar name has

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Speaker 4: come up on the financial sector, hedge fund titan John

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Speaker 4: Paulson as Treasury secretary. Now Trump has talked about Paulson,

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Speaker 4: saying this is a quote John Paulson, the Great John

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Speaker 4: Paulson made plenty of money in Nevada, doesn't live there,

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Speaker 4: makes a hell of a lot of money. He makes

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Speaker 4: money everywhere he goes. Actually, so money machine. Maybe we'll

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Speaker 4: put you know what, him at treasury. You want to

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Speaker 4: make a little money. Nothing, of course, is set in stone,

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Speaker 4: and mister Trump has been known to change his mind,

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Speaker 4: Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Chinese Premier Lee Chong has made a rare visit to

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Speaker 2: Baidu and other Chinese chip and AI firms. State media

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Speaker 2: say Lee called for forward looking planning to push for

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Speaker 2: technological breakthroughs ll. He said that AI is an important

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Speaker 2: engine to develop new productive forces. That's the slogan used

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Speaker 2: by President Chijinping in order for China to attain the

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Speaker 2: high quality growth. President Biden is planning to express concern

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Speaker 2: over the proposed takeover of US Steel by Nippon Steel.

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Speaker 2: We're told Biden will issue a statement about the deal

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Speaker 2: before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

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Speaker 2: next month. We spoke earlier with Joe Doe Bloomberg Medals

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Speaker 2: and Mining reporter. He says President Biden's support may sway

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Speaker 2: negotiations in favor of the United steel Workers union.

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Speaker 5: The steel workers just had their first meeting with Nippon Steel,

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Speaker 5: which is supposed to be the beginning of talks or

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Speaker 5: discussions or maybe eventually outright negotiations as to Nippon Steel

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Speaker 5: taking over the labor agreement of the steel workers. The

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Speaker 5: steel workers themselves can't block the steal, but they do

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Speaker 5: hold a lot of political sway, and the political sway,

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Speaker 5: of course, is Joe Biden's support of unions, in particular

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Speaker 5: the steel Workers.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, a document seen by Bloomberg News shows Nippon has

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Speaker 2: offered at least one point four billion dollars in capital spending. Well.

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Speaker 2: The US House has passed a bill to ban TikTok

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Speaker 2: in the US unless it's Chinese owner sells the app,

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Speaker 2: and President Biden said he would sign the legislation if

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Speaker 2: it comes across his desk. We spoke earlier with Mark Ginsburg,

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Speaker 2: president of the Coalition for a Safer Web. He says

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Speaker 2: convincing Bite Dance to sell will be tough since data

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Speaker 2: is at the heart of TikTok success.

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Speaker 6: The magic potion that makes TikTok TikTok is its unique algorithm,

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Speaker 6: and you can't force the Chinese to divest the algorithm

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Speaker 6: if it owns the company. And so no matter what

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Speaker 6: happens here, I don't know who is going to want

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Speaker 6: to put up billions of dollars if the Chinese refused

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Speaker 6: to provide you the secret gateway of what makes TikTok TikTok.

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Speaker 2: That's Mark Ginsburg, president of the Coalition for a Safer Web.

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Speaker 2: After the vote, TikTok told employees there were no plans

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Speaker 2: at the moment to change its approach to protecting user data.

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Speaker 2: That's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News now,

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Speaker 2: I'm Brian Curtis. This is in Berg