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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: ind Kleggi. President Trump's Saturday evening posted on Truth's social

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Speaker 1: that Iran has forty eight hours to fully open the

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Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. He posted quote, If Iran doesn't fully

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Speaker 1: open without threat the Strait of Hormuz within forty eight

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Speaker 1: hours from this exact point in time, the United States

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Speaker 1: of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants,

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Speaker 1: starting with the biggest one first. The US military says

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Speaker 1: it has been able to degrade Iran's ability to target

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Speaker 1: ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz. As President Trump

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Speaker 1: Friday flirted the idea of winding down military efforts in

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Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf, more than one hundred people were injured

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Speaker 1: Saturday evening in Israel by multiple Iranian strikes in the

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Speaker 1: country south, as Tehran sought to retaliate for an earlier

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Speaker 1: attack on its own nuclear facility. The president's comments hinting

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Speaker 1: at a de escalation came shortly after he ruled out

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire and kept the door open to deploying ground troops,

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Speaker 1: highlighting how the president continues to send wildly diversion signals

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Speaker 1: of his objectives and plans for the US and Israeli

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Speaker 1: war on Iran. President Trump says he is ready to

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Speaker 1: deploy ICE agents to US airports as soon as Monday

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Speaker 1: if Congressional Democrats don't agree to a plan for funding

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Speaker 1: parts of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump said Saturday

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Speaker 1: in a social media post that the ICE agents would

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Speaker 1: not only assist the tessay in handling normal airport security,

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Speaker 1: but added he would direct them to arrest anyone suspected

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Speaker 1: of immigrating illegally to the US. The president posted quote,

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Speaker 1: I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to

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Speaker 1: the airports, where they will do security like no one

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Speaker 1: has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants who have come to our country, with heavy

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Speaker 1: emphasis on those from Somalia. And a later post, he

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Speaker 1: updated his plan to say that he looked quote forward

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Speaker 1: to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told

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Speaker 1: him to get ready. No more waiting, no more games.

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Speaker 1: Senate Majority leader John Thune says negotiations have been productive.

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Speaker 2: At some point the Democrats are going to have to

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Speaker 2: take yes for an answer. I know they think this

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Speaker 2: is politically good for them. It's not it's not politically

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Speaker 2: good for anybody. They have literally tens of thousands and

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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people out of work, and important

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Speaker 2: functions of our government not being carried out on a

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Speaker 2: daily basis, and functions that are important to our homeland

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Speaker 2: security and our national security.

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Speaker 1: ICE reforms have been a sticking point for Democrats. This

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Speaker 1: is Virginia, Senator Mark Warner. This needs to be result.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're genuine spewed about ICE reflamps. I think

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Speaker 1: no one wants to see a return of comunity what

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Speaker 1: we saw in Minneapolis, New Jersey Senator Corey Booker. There's

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Speaker 1: still massed agents jumping out of unmarked cars, violating the

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Speaker 1: dignity of our communities, taking actions that are violating people's

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Speaker 1: civil rights. Senators hope to hammer out a deal before

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Speaker 1: going on Easter holiday recess on the thirtieth. Until then,

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Speaker 1: thousands of TSA employees will keep working without pay. Robert Muller,

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Speaker 1: the FBI director who transformed the nation's premier law enforcement

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Speaker 1: agency into a terrorism fighting force after the September eleventh,

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Speaker 1: twenty one attacks, and who later became Special counsel in

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Speaker 1: charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential

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Speaker 1: campaign has died. He was eighty one. President Trump on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: after learning the news, posted on truth Social Robert Muller

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Speaker 1: just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no

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Speaker 1: longer hurt innocent people. The US has allowed the sale

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Speaker 1: of Iranian oil and petrochemical products that have been loaded

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Speaker 1: onto tankers to counter rising oil prices due to the

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Speaker 1: war in the Middle East in an effort to ease

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Speaker 1: a fuel supply crunch that's led to a search in prices,

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Speaker 1: But Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike mcgloone says crude could

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Speaker 1: spike again come Monday. I think the key thing is

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Speaker 1: when we wake up Monday morning or Sunday night, and

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Speaker 1: again if we have another day with the lack of

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Speaker 1: Iran to have offensive capabilities, this is the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the end. Crudell's probably peaked at one twenty. And here's

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Speaker 1: a key thing. By the time we get to the midterms,

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Speaker 1: the December crude oil contract is one going to mean

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Speaker 1: Its matters that one right now is at seventy eight

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Speaker 1: dollars a barrel. I fully get expected to be down

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Speaker 1: by fifty. By the time we get to midterms, Burgs

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Speaker 1: might be glown on Bloomberg this weekend. Brent closed on

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Speaker 1: Friday above one hundred and twelve dollars a barrel, the

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Speaker 1: highest since mid twenty twenty two. United Airlines CEO Scott

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Speaker 1: Kirby ward of one hundred and seventy five dollars oil

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Speaker 1: prices that would dramatically drive up jet fuel expenses, outlining

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Speaker 1: worst case scenarios even as the aviation industry benefits from

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Speaker 1: current record travel demand. Kirby told staff and a memo Friday,

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Speaker 1: the already elevated price of jet fuel is prompting the

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Speaker 1: airline to cut five percentage points of capacity in the

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Speaker 1: near term, where routes are temporarily unprofitable. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: he said the carrier is strong enough to weather a

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Speaker 1: crisis and won't defer investments or furlough workers. The Senate

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Speaker 1: on Saturday blocked and amendment that would ban transgender athletes

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Speaker 1: from playing in women's sports. It marks the rejection of

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Speaker 1: one of President Trump's priorities as he pressures Congress to

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Speaker 1: act in a broad voting bill. Senators were holding a

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Speaker 1: rare weekend session to debate the voting legislation, which would

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Speaker 1: put in place strict new requirements for voter registration and

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Speaker 1: require photo IDs at the polls in an effort to

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Speaker 1: prevent people in the country illegally from casting ballots. The

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Speaker 1: House passed the bill earlier this year, but the President

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Speaker 1: has since said he wants additional priorities added to the legislation,

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Speaker 1: including the sports ban for transgender athletes and a ban

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Speaker 1: on all mail in voting. The Financial Times reports open

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Speaker 1: ai plans to expand its workforce this year. Bloomberg's Monica

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Speaker 1: Ris has details.

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Speaker 3: OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end

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Speaker 3: of the year to about eight thousand workers as it

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Speaker 3: works to fend off competition from companies such as Anthropic

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Speaker 3: and Google. The new hires will largely work across product development, engineering, research,

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Speaker 3: and sales, mostly in San Francisco, where OpenAI just leased

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Speaker 3: new office space to accommodate its growing staff. The chad

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Speaker 3: GPT makers in a race with competitors to will more

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Speaker 3: corporate customers, with Bloomberg reporting last week that the firms

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Speaker 3: and talks to form a joint venture with private equity

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Speaker 3: firms focused on adopting its AI software Monica Rix, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now,

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