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

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. President Biden has responded to

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Speaker 1: charges in the Special Council's report that says he mishandled

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Speaker 1: classified information. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has more.

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Speaker 2: The report in part said that he had shared the information.

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Speaker 2: Biden flatly denies that. He says his regret.

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Speaker 3: I wish I had paid more attention to how the

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Speaker 3: documents were being moved and where I thought there would

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Speaker 3: be moved to the archives.

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Speaker 2: And during some tough question again shouting from reporters about

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Speaker 2: his mental fitness.

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Speaker 3: My memory, My memory is fine. My memory. Take a

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Speaker 3: look at what I've done since I've become president. None

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Speaker 3: of us thought I could pass any of the things

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Speaker 3: I got passed.

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Speaker 2: The Special Council did say that his activities did not

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Speaker 2: rise to the level of prosecution. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country

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Speaker 1: has not achieved its objectives in Ukraine yet. In video

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Speaker 1: from the Tucker Carlson Network, Putin told the former Fox

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Speaker 1: News hosts that he would consider negotiations if the US

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Speaker 1: were to stop supplying weapons to Kiev.

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Speaker 4: If you really want to stop fighting, you need to

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Speaker 4: stop supplying weapons. It will be over within a few weeks.

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Speaker 4: That's it, and then we can agree on some terms.

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Speaker 1: That was putin speaking in video from the Tucker Carlson Network.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time the Russian leader has given

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Speaker 1: an interview to a Western media figure since he ordered

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Speaker 1: the February twenty twenty two invasion of Ukraine. In other news,

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Speaker 1: North Korean leader Kim Jong un says that he has

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Speaker 1: the legal right to destroy South Korea. This is his

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Speaker 1: latest move to threaten South Korea after starting the year

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Speaker 1: by eliminating the concept of peaceful unification from his state's

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Speaker 1: national policy. Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is on his

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Speaker 1: way back to Washington after his latest whirlwind trip to

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Speaker 1: the Middle East. Blincoln faces a daunting task in trying

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Speaker 1: to rally Israeli leaders around the ceasefire and hostage release

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Speaker 1: deal with Hamas. Bloomberg's Israel Bureau chief Ethan Bronner has

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Speaker 1: more from Tel Aviv.

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Speaker 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ntanyahu was a dismissive of what Hamas

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Speaker 5: has offered in terms of how they want to move forward,

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Speaker 5: and I think that the sentiment in Israel right this

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Speaker 5: minute is yes, we want our hostages back, but we're

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Speaker 5: not not at any cost.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Ethan Bronner reporting from Tel Aviv. The European Union

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Speaker 1: is teeing up another round of sanctions against Russias. It's

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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine inches closer to the two year mark.

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Speaker 1: We get details from Bloomberg's Alberto Nardelli in London.

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Speaker 6: It's a fairly limited in scope package from the EU side. Basically,

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Speaker 6: it's about fifty five companies and more than sixty individuals,

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Speaker 6: mostly companies and individuals relating to the military sector, so

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Speaker 6: producers of weapons, missiles, etc. And individuals that work in

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Speaker 6: those companies. Are also proposals to target shipping firms that

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Speaker 6: have transported missiles and other weapons from North Korea to Russia.

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Speaker 1: The EU is moving to implement more limited sanctions after

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Speaker 1: missing last year's anniversary deadline due to disagreements within member states.

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Speaker 1: US regulators are monitoring risks from non bank mortgage lenders

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Speaker 1: think Rocket mortgage and quickened loans. Today, Treasury Secretary Jenny

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Speaker 1: Yellen said non bank lenders do not have the same

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Speaker 1: resources to tap when markets are strained here's Yellen speaking

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Speaker 1: before the Senate Banking Committee.

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Speaker 7: Non bank mortgage companies lack access to the deposits which

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Speaker 7: banks have. Their short term their reliant on short term

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Speaker 7: financing that may be a lot less stable than deposits,

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Speaker 7: and in stressful times, their credit lines can be They

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Speaker 7: don't have access to the kinds of liquidity backstops that

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Speaker 7: banks have as well, such as the Fed's discount window.

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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, that's news when you want it.

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Speaker 1: With Bloomberg News Now. I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg