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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Paul, I'm trying to understand the

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Speaker 1: significance of this story that came out earlier today. The

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Speaker 1: United Nations experts now weighing in saying that Saudi Crown

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Speaker 1: cell phone of Amazon dot Com CEO Jeff Bezos. And

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Speaker 1: this was revealed after an Amazon investigation. This has to

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Speaker 1: do with a What's App account that was infiltrated according

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Speaker 1: to investigators back in ten Greg Farrell here to give

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more clarity. He's an investigative reporter

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Speaker 1: for the Legal enforcement team here at Bloomberg News. Greg,

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Speaker 1: can you just sort of set the stage of what

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Speaker 1: actually is alleged to have happened here well from what

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Speaker 1: we know, um, after Jeff Bezos you know, photos from

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Speaker 1: you know a year ago came out. Um, they his

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Speaker 1: everything is like, clearly he had been hacked. Clearly stuff

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Speaker 1: So Greg is there do we have any sense of

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Speaker 1: with that fascinating story of Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say great, but certainly solid housing data. What

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Speaker 1: much for being with us. Don Duncan, always wonderful having

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Speaker 1: we're gonna protect him, we're gonna protect our party gains,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a clear, unified message that they

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Speaker 1: they can't control, which is why I still think it's

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Speaker 1: In very good Wendy Chiller, thanks so much. For joining us.

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Speaker 1: Wendy is the professor of political science and public policy

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Speaker 1: at Brown University, giving us her thoughts on the impeachment process.

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