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Speaker 1: and that actually an independent UK is good for the UK,

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Speaker 1: conversation here Alexandra Phillips, she's a Briggs and Party politician

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Speaker 1: So why why, why are those people wrong? I mean,

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Speaker 1: And actually, as a G five economy with a pivotal

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Speaker 1: But what do you make of Speaker Pelosi and what

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Speaker 1: Friday Agreements. Now, the Good Friday Agreements is the peace

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Speaker 1: eaments and leaving the EU and the UK pursuing independent

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Speaker 1: trade policy doesn't risk it at all. And there's already

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Speaker 1: an invisible border between the North and the South on

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Speaker 1: that is easily traversed with offsite smart borders, trusted trader schemes,

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Speaker 1: So the E were very cynically playing this card, and

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Speaker 1: I would even go as far as saying stoking up

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Speaker 1: tensions quite wilfully and cynically exploiting as a sort of

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Speaker 1: trade union with them. Interesting stick around coming up much

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Speaker 1: more from what's on the panel's radar. We're across the pond.

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Speaker 1: We're here in impeachment waters as well. I'm Kevin Cirelli.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg Sound On

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Speaker 1: with Kevin Currelly on bloomberde and one or five points

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Speaker 1: seven f mh D two. I'm Kevin CURREALI Chief Washington

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Speaker 1: correspondent with Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio. It's time now

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Speaker 1: for what's on the panel's radar. Miranda Green, congressional reporter

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Speaker 1: at The Hill, Brand Ben shrek and Er national political

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Speaker 1: correspondent at Politico. And Alexandra Phillips she's a Brexit Party

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Speaker 1: politician here visiting from across the pond. Alright, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: kick things off first because today was job's Day in

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Speaker 1: case he didn't know, and uh look, I mean solid

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Speaker 1: unemployment rate number. The unemployment rate dropped to three point

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Speaker 1: five percent. That's the lowest and fifty years three point

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Speaker 1: dropped to three point five percent from three point seven

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Speaker 1: percent this month. According to numbers from the Department of Labor,

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Speaker 1: employers added a hundred and thirty six thousand jobs last month.

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Speaker 1: That's slightly less than the one hundred and forty five

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Speaker 1: thousand jobs that economists expected, uh and below the hundred

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Speaker 1: sixty eight thousand pace from August. Larry Cudlow was on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Television with my colleague Jonathan Barrow earlier today. Let's

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Speaker 1: take to listen to what Mr Kudlow had to say

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Speaker 1: earlier today. Here he is, I think the economy is

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Speaker 1: a soft two quarters, but I think now we're going

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Speaker 1: So you know, uh, solid jobs numbers, that's what's all

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Speaker 1: my radar, And the blue murderer of me is looking

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Speaker 1: at the job's members. Mariana Green, what's on your radar? Well,

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Speaker 1: Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry maybe out of a

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Speaker 1: job soon. So I am following that. This is of course,

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Speaker 1: he's been caught up in kind of the Ukraine controversy.

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Speaker 1: He led the US delegation to uh the ukn President's

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Speaker 1: inauguration in May. So I will be following all that

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Speaker 1: news and to see whether you know he is potentially

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Speaker 1: leaving been in the air. The reports are between November

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Speaker 1: and December. But of course this is not the first

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Speaker 1: time the reports have gone out that Perry has been leaving.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the longest serving cabinet members on President

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Speaker 1: Trump's committee. Actually he's he's outlasted quite a few numbers,

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Speaker 1: so this is not the first time that we've heard

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Speaker 1: Stars before Sean Spicer. But aside from that, he's been

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Speaker 1: pretty boring. Yeah, he has not gotten embroiled in any

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Speaker 1: private jet travel or any used mattresses. Um, like you

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Speaker 1: know previous secretaries have. Um, he's gone in one or

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Speaker 1: two red flag raisings with him trying to prop up

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Speaker 1: the coal industry, but he's largely been kind of under

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Speaker 1: the radar and quiet. Alexandra Phillips or Brexit friend, I'm

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Speaker 1: also looking at jobs, really most importantly my own job,

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Speaker 1: because I am hoping to not have one after the

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Speaker 1: thirty one of octape but books it should be delivered,

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Speaker 1: I should be out on my ear no longer sitting

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Speaker 1: in the European Parliament. So you don't even want a job.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of an interesting kind of like if you're

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Speaker 1: what would you okay? So by October thirty one, Halloween,

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Speaker 1: this could all be settled, this Brexit issue. Sadly, I

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Speaker 1: didn't think it is. I think that's always the impossibility.

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Speaker 1: And now I which means I get to keep my job,

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Speaker 1: which is what I don't want. And the first politician

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Speaker 1: that you'll probably have met who actually wants to be

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Speaker 1: booted out of office. Interesting? All right, Ben, Shrek and Jr.

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Speaker 1: What's on your radar? The quarterly fundraising results are in

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Speaker 1: for the Democratic presidential candidates, and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie

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Speaker 1: think that's quite a big deal. So how does Biden

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Speaker 1: campaign world respond to that? Because you're saying and the

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Speaker 1: evidence suggests that Warren and Sanders are killing it in

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Speaker 1: the in the populace fundraising battles. They they had a

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Speaker 1: soft quarter. Biden's fundraising hall is actually down. Uh. There,

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Speaker 1: going to have to come up with a good answer

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Speaker 1: because fundraising was supposed to be one of the advantages

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Speaker 1: lost that advantaged a louse for now. Yeah, And of

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Speaker 1: course everyone is looking to see kind of, if you know,

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Speaker 1: especially as polling numbers show that they are, you know,

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Speaker 1: So we we Americans, as we like to say Alexandra Phillips,

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Speaker 1: think that, you know when whenever we watch what's going

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Speaker 1: on over there, we're like, wow, we think Congress is

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Speaker 1: a mess here just to look at them. What do

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Speaker 1: you think of this impeachment chatter? Uh here in the

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Speaker 1: United States? Well, look, I mean ever since Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: The Democrats have been trying to stop that from happening,

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Speaker 1: and they haven't accepted the election results, and it's conspiracy

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Speaker 1: just seems like the same old say. Well, but the

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Speaker 1: with the Sun What's he been doing? Why is all

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Speaker 1: something very fash. Yeah, what's what's been going on? It

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Speaker 1: it's quite confusing that everyone's up in arms about the

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Speaker 1: President's Trump's phone call. Where's all the heat on? Hunter? Biden?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of Elizabeth Warren? Because she's perceived

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Speaker 1: as a populist here. Yeah, I don't know. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: And I've been told by some of my American friends

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Speaker 1: but you know, in terms of the Democrats over here,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't really know if there's a standout candidate.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't really name many. Very very interesting, all right.

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Speaker 1: Our thanks to Alexandra Phillips. She is a British politician.

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Speaker 1: She was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the

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Speaker 1: European Parliament for the Southeast England constituency at the European

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Speaker 1: Parliament elections in May. Of course, our thanks to our

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Speaker 1: friends Miranda Green, Congressional reporter at The Hill and Ben Shrekinger,

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Speaker 1: national political correspondent at Political. That does it for me?

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