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Speaker 2: And this is News when you want it with Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: News Now, I'm at Baxter. NASA's SpaceX crew eight launch

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Speaker 2: is moving along with its countdown BaseX.

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Speaker 1: We see four seats in the launch position, the trip.

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Speaker 2: To the International Space Station with an international crew. US

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Speaker 2: Congression leaders have revealed a plan to fund parts of

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Speaker 2: the government into September. Also includes provision to prevent oil

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Speaker 2: sales from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserved of China. OPEK Plus, meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: has extended cutbacks and oil production to avoid a global

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Speaker 2: supply glut. On paper that cuts total roughly two million

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Speaker 2: barrels a day. They'll be in place until the end

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Speaker 2: of June. For the most part, the market expected the

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Speaker 2: curbs to be extended. They're viewed as necessary to offset

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Speaker 2: a seasonal lull and global fuel consumption. The cutbacks also

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Speaker 2: a reaction to soaring production from US shale drillers, the

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Speaker 2: key rivals to OPEKI plus. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is

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Speaker 2: out today saying President Biden needs to enact executive action

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Speaker 2: on the border. Abbot and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcas

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Speaker 2: on cn OF to day totally disagreed. President does not

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Speaker 2: need new laws. The president needs a backbone to make

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Speaker 2: sure that he enforces the immigration laws that are already

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Speaker 2: on the books.

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Speaker 3: Couldn't be more wrong. And as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: former President Trump tried to close the border and it

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Speaker 3: was enjoined in the courts and never saw the light

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Speaker 3: of day. This coming from an individual who is purposefully

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Speaker 3: refusing to coordinate, communicate, collaborate with other officials and trying

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Speaker 3: to wreak havoc.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy is one of the senators

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Speaker 2: and negotiated a border security deal that fell through at

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Speaker 2: the last minute, and he's charging today that Republicans really

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Speaker 2: do want chaos because they feel it helps Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Republicans block the bill because they knew only the legislation

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Speaker 1: would be effective in controlling the border. They want the

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Speaker 1: border to be out of control because it helps him politically,

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Speaker 1: and they know the President has limits to what he

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Speaker 1: can do through executive order.

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Speaker 2: Now, Murphy on ABC has heard on Bloomberg says it's

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Speaker 2: time for Democrats to go on the offensive. Hamas is

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Speaker 2: sending a delegation to Cairo today to talk sees fire.

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Speaker 2: Israel has agreed, but now says it may not go

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't get information on how many and in

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Speaker 2: what medical condition the hostages are before going, and Congressman

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Speaker 2: Tom Swazi today urged full support from the US.

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping that the President can get his way with

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Speaker 3: the bb NET and Yahoo and with the Saudis and

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Speaker 3: make a deal here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we need, a deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, humanitarian crisis on Gaz at a stage where the

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Speaker 2: UN is warning hundreds of thousands of people are at

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Speaker 2: high risk of starvation. US did put together some aid

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Speaker 2: air drops, but chefjose Andress of World Central Kitchen on

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Speaker 2: ABC's has heard on Bloomberg says there has to be

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Speaker 2: collaboration if anything is going to get done. Why are

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Speaker 2: we doing the air Why people are doing thinking about

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Speaker 2: coming by the sea. Because the political situation is not

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Speaker 2: allowing to bring safely enough tracts.

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Speaker 3: Therefore we need.

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Speaker 1: To be bold.

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Speaker 2: Israel, meanwhile is insisting that most of the deaths connected

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Speaker 2: to the convoy were killed in the stampede, not by

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Speaker 2: Israeli soldiers. China's poise to announce it's twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: growth target at the start of the nation's annual political gathering.

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Speaker 2: We get more here from Bloomberg's Joann Wog and Hong Kong.

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Speaker 4: The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference kickstoff today. The spokesman

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Speaker 4: of the advisory bodies that the long term positive trend

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Speaker 4: in the Chinese economy will continue. The economy is expected

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Speaker 4: to be the top priority. The National People's Congress, or NPC,

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Speaker 4: starts tomorrow. That's when the body will deliver the government's

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Speaker 4: work report and budget. Beaijing is expected to announce an

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Speaker 4: annual growth target of around five percent. Generally, economists to

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Speaker 4: expect the NPC to announce growth friendly policies, but no

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Speaker 4: bazooka like stimulus. In Hong Kong, I'm joining long Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Hi Jo, and thank you. In California's High Country from

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Speaker 2: north to south has been pummeled by blizzard conditions, meteorologists

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Speaker 2: saying that it's as bad as it can. Get a

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Speaker 2: brief break today more than tomorrow. And that's news when

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