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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News now I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Prisoner. We begin with a risk of military confrontation

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Speaker 1: between the US and Iran. A vast array of American

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Speaker 1: forces are now stationed in the Middle East. This would

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Speaker 1: include two aircraft carriers, fighter jets, and refueling tankers. Earlier today,

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Speaker 1: President Trump said he would decide his next move on

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Speaker 1: Iran within days.

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Speaker 2: Now, we may have to take it a step further,

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Speaker 2: or we may not.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we're going to make a deal.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be finding out over the next probably ten days.

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Speaker 1: Needless to say, the heightened risk of an attack sent

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Speaker 1: crude oil prices higher today WTI for March delivery, which

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Speaker 1: expires tomorrow. Incidentally, it was up one point nine percent

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Speaker 1: today to settle at sixty six forty three. Here is

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News Senior editor Eric Wiener.

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Speaker 4: What is OPEC's reaction going to be? How much has

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Speaker 4: to be extracted from the US, how much more development

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Speaker 4: needs to go on to make up for that demand?

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Speaker 4: It opens up a Pandora's box of questions that you know,

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Speaker 4: the market doesn't really want, the market which really really

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Speaker 4: likes certainty, really likes to know what's coming next this

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Speaker 4: and introduces a whole variable that you want, you can't

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Speaker 4: really plan for.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg Seric Wiener. Meantime, President Trump is reportedly

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Speaker 1: weighing an initial limited military strike to force Iran to

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Speaker 1: meet his demands for a nuclear deal. The Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal reports and opening assault would target a few military

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Speaker 1: or government sites. The journal also reporting that if Iran

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Speaker 1: still refuses to comply, the US would respond with a

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Speaker 1: broad campaign against regime facilities. Also today, President Trump hosted

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Speaker 1: the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace. Representatives of

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Speaker 1: at least forty countries attended. Trump said the board received

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Speaker 1: roughly seventeen billion dollars in pledges toward humanitarian and reconstruction

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Speaker 1: efforts in Gaza. Trump also said his son in law,

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Speaker 1: Jared Kushner, would be a member of the Board of Peace.

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Speaker 1: Here's Kushner and.

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Speaker 3: Muslims work together Israelis and Palestinians, with Americans and English

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Speaker 3: and Bulgarian and people from all the around the world.

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Speaker 3: Then we can kind of join on a common goal,

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Speaker 3: which is peace and togetherness. And that's really what we've

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Speaker 3: done now.

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Speaker 1: The goal is to train an initial five thousand police

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Speaker 1: officers to deploy in Gaza within sixty days. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,

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Speaker 1: the brother of King Charles the Third, was arrested earlier

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Speaker 1: today on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Now. The

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Speaker 1: move followed more details on mount Batten Windsor's relationship with

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Speaker 1: convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Today, the former prince was

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Speaker 1: questioned by police. He wasn't charged, and by the evening

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Speaker 1: police said he was released from custody under investigation. King

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Speaker 1: Charles issued a statement. It said the law must take

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Speaker 1: its course and authorities will have the Royal families full

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Speaker 1: support and cooperation. Netflix says its proposed acquisition of Warner

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Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery will lead to more films and movie theaters.

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Speaker 1: This addresses a key concern from Hollywood. Netflix co CEO

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Speaker 1: Ted Sorrando said it's likely there will be even more

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Speaker 1: high quality films for theaters if this deal goes through,

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Speaker 1: and Serrando said is highly confident the deal will close.

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Speaker 1: Here is Sorrando's speaking earlier to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: This process opened up Warner Brothers Discovery. That's determined that

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Speaker 2: we in their strategic best interest to sell these assets.

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Speaker 2: He entered into a negotiation with a very very clear

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Speaker 2: bidding process that they laid out for us, which we

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Speaker 2: followed and won that bid. I think in the alternative,

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Speaker 2: each guy has gone, you know, missed every deadline. They've

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Speaker 2: been taking nine runs of this bid, and they was

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Speaker 2: you know, they're not seem they accepts outcome.

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Speaker 1: That was Netflix co CEO Ted Sorrando, speaking earlier to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: In the stock market today, Walmart gave a conservative outlook.

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Speaker 1: The retailer sited the need for flexibility in unpredictable times

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Speaker 1: for consumers. Shares and Wall we're down today by one

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Speaker 1: point four percent. Separately, Amazon officially dethroned Walmart as the

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Speaker 1: largest global company by revenue. The milestone attests to the

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Speaker 1: massive scale of Amazon's e commerce and cloud computing unit. Today,

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Speaker 1: shares and Amazon were a little changed. Earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: former President Obama was a guest on a popular podcast

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Speaker 1: hosted by Brian Tyler Cohen, and during the conversation, Obama

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Speaker 1: talked about aliens.

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Speaker 3: Are aliens real?

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Speaker 1: Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're

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Speaker 1: not being kept in.

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Speaker 4: Fifty one. There's no underground facility.

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Speaker 1: And today President Trump reacted to those remarks, PA.

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Speaker 2: Class of right information.

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Speaker 4: He's not supposed to be doing that. The aliens are real.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I

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Speaker 2: can tell you he gave class of fed information.

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Speaker 3: He's not supposed to be doing that. Well, he made

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Speaker 3: a big for sake, he took it out a class.

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Speaker 1: Of fight information interest. Later in the day, President Trump

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Speaker 1: directed federal agencies to release government documents related to extraterrestrial

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Speaker 1: life and other unidentified flying objects. At the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Winter Olympic Games, the US won its third Olympic

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Speaker 1: gold medal in women's hockey, defeating Canada two to one

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Speaker 1: in overtime. The total medal count now has Norway in

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Speaker 1: the lead with thirty four, the US has twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: and Italy is now in third place with twenty six.

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Speaker 1: And that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisoner, and this is Bloomberg