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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Good morning, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: We begin in Washington, where a bill aimed at forcing

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Speaker 2: a sale of TikTok is moving forward on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 3: The House passed the.

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Speaker 2: TikTok Divestment Bill by a vote of three point fifty

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Speaker 2: two to sixty five. Republican Dan Crenshaw says there's a

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Speaker 2: simple reason why he voted for it. TikTok is owned

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Speaker 2: by Byte Dance. Byte Dance is in China, and when

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Speaker 2: Communist Party says you have to do. That's according to

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Speaker 2: the National Intelligence Slot pass in twenty seventeen. But fellow

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Speaker 2: Republican Thomas Massey says the bill could do more than

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Speaker 2: just ban TikTok.

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Speaker 4: It could also be named the Facebook Protection and Enhancement Act,

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Speaker 4: because it's not the American people are going to benefit

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Speaker 4: to go up if this bill should pass the Senate.

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Speaker 2: Now, the bill does now head to the Senate, where

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Speaker 2: its prospects are less clear. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has

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Speaker 2: only said he'll review the bill. Democrat Marie Cantwell has

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Speaker 2: before her Commerce Committee.

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Speaker 1: Well Nathan, the CEO of TikTok, says he is disappointed

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Speaker 1: with the vote in the House.

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Speaker 3: Showed Chu posted this video on.

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Speaker 5: X Over the last few years, we have invested to

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Speaker 5: keep your data safe, an all platform free from outside manipulation.

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Speaker 5: We have committed that we will continue to do so.

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Speaker 5: We will continue to do all we can, including exercising

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Speaker 5: our legal rights to protect this amazing platform that we

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Speaker 1: And the memo seen by Bloomberg, TikTok reiterated its plan

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Speaker 2: Karrol Let's turn to presidential politics now. Donald Trump may

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Speaker 2: be looking to Wall Street to fill some key cabinet

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Speaker 2: the story from Bloomberg's Jeff Bellinger.

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Speaker 6: Bloomberg News has learned Trump as Tall talked about hedge

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Speaker 6: fund titan John Paulson as Treasury Secretary if he wins

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Speaker 6: the November presidential election. Sources say Paulson hosted a fundraiser

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Speaker 6: in three weeks with Cantor Fitzgerald's Howard Lutnik. The sources

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Speaker 6: the conversations were informal, and any discussions about a possible

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Speaker 6: Biden include former Trade Representative Robert Leitthheiser and Susquehanna International

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Speaker 6: Group founder Jeff Yass Jeff Bullinger Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, all right, Jeff, thank you well. Speculations for also

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Speaker 1: about John Paulson taking a role in Treasury. The current

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Speaker 1: it's quote unlikely that market interest rates return to levels

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Speaker 2: The busy week for economic data continues this morning with

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Speaker 2: month of February. Let's get a preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.

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Speaker 7: Fed officials and investors will get two more key pieces

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Speaker 7: A strong rebound is forecast for February retail sales, which

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Speaker 7: On the one hand, that would reassure Fed officials that

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Speaker 7: Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, thanks well. In company news, the hunt

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Speaker 1: is on for Disney to pick an eventual successor to

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Speaker 8: And Karen Disney has struggled with its succession planning in

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Speaker 8: the past, and now they're making a stronger push to

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Speaker 8: find somebody to replace CEO Bob Iiger. Eventually, Disney's board

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Speaker 8: focusing on four divisional heads that the TV chief Dana Walden,

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Speaker 8: ESPN's Jimmy Peterro, the theme parks boss Josh Tomorrow, and

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Speaker 8: Alan Bergman, who heads the film business. Igers spending time

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Speaker 8: This is happening under the glare of dissident shareholders like

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Speaker 8: Nelson Peltz, who are seeking board seats at Disney's April

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Speaker 8: third annual meeting. Iger's contract runs through the end of

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Speaker 8: twenty twenty six. No decision on a successor is expected

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Speaker 8: this year. John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio, All right, John.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to other C suite news this morning, under Armour

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Speaker 2: says its founder executive chairman Kevin Plank is returning as CEO.

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Speaker 2: That story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 3: Stephanie Lenartz departs after she led just over a year

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Speaker 3: of fitful efforts to reinvigorate the athletic brand. Plank will

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Speaker 3: return to the CEO job on April first. Lennart's will

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Speaker 3: remain an advisor to the company through April thirtieth. Lead

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Speaker 3: director Mohammad al Aarian and economists and columnists from Bloomberg

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Speaker 3: Opinion will succeed Plank as chairman in New York. Charlie

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Speaker 3: Pellett Bloomberg Radio, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Charlie, thanks, We'll investors await the highly anticipated IPO

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Speaker 1: from Reddit. The social media company is giving guidance on

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Speaker 1: investors that it expects revenue in twenty twenty four to

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Speaker 2: Karina Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with one of the largest

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Speaker 2: stock offerings in recent years. Bloomberg News has learned the

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Speaker 2: Kingdoms and Tucks to add top Wall Street banks for

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Speaker 2: a secondary share sale in oil giant a Ramco. Sources

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Speaker 1: And Nathan a bullish forecash from the world's largest assembler

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Speaker 1: of iPhones, Han High Precision Industry, reported its second straight

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Speaker 1: quarter of strong profit growth. The company says lucrative AI

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Speaker 3: That it is time nowf for.

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Speaker 1: A look at some of the other stories making news

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Speaker 9: Morning, Caaron. Ukrainian drone attacks all the three oil refineries

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Speaker 9: deep within Russian territory in an assault President Vladimir boo

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Speaker 9: Putin again threatening to use nuclear weapons if his country

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Speaker 10: Russia's nuclear rhetoric has been reckless and irresponsible throughout this conflict.

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Speaker 10: It is Russia that brutally invaded Ukraine without provocation or justification.

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Speaker 9: of vocal critics of congestion. Pricing in Manhattan meant to

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Speaker 11: What is the point Because New Yorkers didn't mess.

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Speaker 7: Up the streets of New York.

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Speaker 5: We have bike lanes and places that were not prepared for.

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Speaker 3: We have trucks that are too big.

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Speaker 9: Congestion pricing is expected to take effect in June. Jury

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Speaker 9: deliberations resumed this morning in the case of James Crumbley.

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Speaker 9: He is the father of the Michigan teen Ethan Crumbley,

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Speaker 9: who opened fire at his high school in Oxford in

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Speaker 9: twenty twenty one, killing four students. A jury will decide

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Speaker 9: whether Ethan's father is responsible for enabling his son to

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Speaker 9: carry out the deadly attack. The defense says argued James

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Speaker 9: Crumley could not have foreseen his son's deadly shooting rampage. However,

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Speaker 9: prosecutors say he was complicit in downplaying the troubles his

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Speaker 11: Right, good morning care and the Yankees have had more

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Speaker 11: not missed a single start due to injury. Now he's

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Speaker 11: the question now is if the Yankees pursue a free

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Speaker 11: agent pitcher in Blake Snell, last year's NLCY Young Winner,

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Speaker 11: remains unsigned, as is the ex Yank Jordan Montgomery. Yanks

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Speaker 11: were said to be interested in trading for Dylan Cease

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Speaker 11: Joe Flacco was apparently retired at age thirty nine, came

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Speaker 11: out of it, joined Cleveland quarterback the Browns of the playoffs.

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Speaker 11: Was the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Flaco has

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Speaker 11: signed with Indianapolis. Another QB, Kirk Cousins introduced in Atlanta.

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Speaker 12: And I really believe as I looked around at opportunities

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Speaker 12: for me in free agency that when the coach told

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Speaker 12: me this when I was a young player in the league.

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Speaker 3: Coach I have a lot of respect for. He said.

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Speaker 12: When the owner, general manager, head coach and quarterback are

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Speaker 2: What comes next in the effort to force a sale

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Speaker 2: Alex Webb is here now with more on this Alex.

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Speaker 2: There had seemed to be a fair bit of momentum

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Speaker 13: I mean, clearly that helps, but there are a lot

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Speaker 13: of complicating factors here. As you say, is pass through

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Speaker 13: number of concerns. Firstly, of course, we're heading into an

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Speaker 13: And that's something actually some Democrats have agreed it's sort

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Speaker 13: So there are a number of different complicating factors. There is,

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Speaker 13: that there's a major Republican donor, Jeff Yass, who co

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Speaker 2: Interesting angle there, because we've got Bloomberg News reporting as

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Speaker 2: well that former President Trump is considering yes among others,

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Speaker 2: But putting that aside, there's also this concern that's been

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Speaker 2: raised by supporters of this bill that TikTok's data is

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Speaker 13: So there are two ways of considering this. There's the

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Speaker 13: data about people's browsing patterns, what they look at, what

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Speaker 2: What's the potent shall impact Alex if this bill were

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Speaker 13: Yeah, because that's the key thing here. It's like is

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Speaker 13: to be divested. Don't forget that this did come up

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Speaker 13: were lots of potential buyers in the US. We had

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