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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: in Kleggy. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation

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Speaker 2: into that scary Boeing seven thirty seven Max Alaska Airlines

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Speaker 2: flight where a piece of the door plug fell out.

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Speaker 2: We get more from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 1: Investigators have already contacted some passengers and crew on the

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Speaker 1: early January flight, and investigators have already interviewed pilots and

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Speaker 1: flight attendants. Alaska Airline says it's fully cooperating with the probe.

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Speaker 1: One thing Justice is looking at is whether Boeing has

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Speaker 1: been complying with an earlier settlement after those fatal seven

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Speaker 1: thirty seven Max crashes in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: If Boeing violated the terms of the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: deal over those crashes, it could face charges of defrauding

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Speaker 1: the US. Denise Pellegrine Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is launching a new television

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Speaker 2: add It's Poke Fun at His Age, part of a

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Speaker 2: thirty million dollar battleground state advertising by following the state

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Speaker 2: of the Union speech. The spot, which opens with the

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Speaker 2: President conceding with a grin that he's not a young guy,

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Speaker 2: appears as the President, who is eighty one, is seeking

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Speaker 2: to assuage voter concerns over his age that have threatened

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Speaker 2: his re election campaign. A Bloomberg News Morning Console poll

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Speaker 2: released last month found that more than eighty percent of

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Speaker 2: those surveying key swing states are worried that Biden is

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Speaker 2: just too old. At the end of the sixty second spot,

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Speaker 2: which also features footage of former President Donald Trump struggling

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Speaker 2: to flip through a binder, Biden returns to the age

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Speaker 2: issue with a stage outtake. He equips, quote, look, I'm

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Speaker 2: very young, energetic, and handsome. What the hell am I

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Speaker 2: doing this for? Unquote? General Electrics Aerospace Division sets plans

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Speaker 2: to return more of its profits to shareholders, including restoration

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Speaker 2: of a significant dividend as it accelerates earnings as an

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Speaker 2: independent company. GE CEO Larry Culp sat down with Wall

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Speaker 2: Street Week's David Weston to discuss the future of the division.

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Speaker 3: Now, obviously there's a little bit of political dysfunction relative

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Speaker 3: to the budget currently in Washington, but what we shared

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Speaker 3: with investors was very much that same geopolitical backdrop. Unfortunately

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Speaker 3: that may not get better before it gets more tense.

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Speaker 3: And again, both here in the US and around the world,

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Speaker 3: our business supports the warfighter, both in both configurations, and

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Speaker 3: we know that there are advanced technologies that governments want

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Speaker 3: to deploy or be ready to deploy over time, and

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Speaker 3: that's where we're investing from an R and D perspective.

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Speaker 2: You can hear David's interview with Larry Culp this weekend

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Speaker 2: on Bloomberg Radio and TV. Tesla's support among Wall Street

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Speaker 2: bulls is weakening, with the lowest percentage of analysts since

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Speaker 2: April twenty twenty one recommending that investors by the stock.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Karen Moscow has more yeaht.

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Speaker 4: Look for Elon Musk's electric car maker has been darkening

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Speaker 4: rapidly this year as demand for evs continued to deccelerate.

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Speaker 4: Over the last week, the backdrop worsen further as data

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Speaker 4: showed competition from other car companies in China is getting

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Speaker 4: fiercer and its production at Tesla's Germany factory was halted

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Speaker 4: amid a disruption. As a result, just twenty of the

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Speaker 4: fifty nine analysts covering Tesla have buy ratings on the stock,

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Speaker 4: and one long term bull. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas

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Speaker 4: thinks the company could even lose money in its auto

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Speaker 4: business this year. Karen Moscow Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: A Delaware judge won't stand in the way of a

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Speaker 2: March twenty second shareholder vote on a merger involving Trump

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Speaker 2: Media and Technology group that may provide a four billion

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Speaker 2: dollar windfall for former President Donald Trump. Delaware Chancery Court

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Speaker 2: Judge Sam Glascock the Third said Saturday he would not

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Speaker 2: hold up the vote because of complaints by Trump Media

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Speaker 2: co founders Andy Litinski and Wes Moss that the former

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Speaker 2: president seeks to dilute their eight point six percent stake

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Speaker 2: in the business as part of the merger. Key and

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Speaker 2: Moss ex contestants on Trump's TV show The Apprentice Remember

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Speaker 2: That allege the former president wants to increase the amount

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Speaker 2: of shares in Trump Media to water down their stake

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Speaker 2: and potentially generate billions to pay off. Legal judgments in

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Speaker 2: Europe's digital markets act as forcing tech giants to make changes.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports.

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Speaker 5: Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this past week got

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Speaker 5: some new choices for default browsers and search engines, where

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Speaker 5: to download iPhone apps, and how their personal online data

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Speaker 5: is used. It's all part of changes required under the

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Speaker 5: New Digital Markets Act European Union regulations that tech companies Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta,

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Speaker 5: Microsoft and ByteDance must now follow amymore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: And that's news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm d Kleggi and this is Bloomberg