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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 Los Angeles. Ukraine President Vladimir Zelenski has

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Speaker 1: urged the US to break a deadlock over sixty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in AID. In a visit to Washington, he warned

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Speaker 1: that the funding fight only benefits President Vladimir Putin and

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Speaker 1: risks Ukraine's ability to fight back. It's not just Moscow

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Speaker 1: trying to split Europe again.

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Speaker 2: It's Putin.

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Speaker 1: Putin attacking that big seat that happened back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine, Vladimir Zelenski. There's no sign so far that

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Speaker 1: a vote on the aid will happen before lawmakers break

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Speaker 1: for the holiday. The US Supreme Court has agreed to

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Speaker 1: hear the case regarding presidential immunity in the Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: election interference trial in Washington. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has the story.

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Speaker 3: Special Council Jacksmith filed the motion, saying it goes to

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Speaker 3: the heart of democracy, whether Donald Trump or any other

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Speaker 3: president what Trump has claimed as absolute immunity. Trump filed

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Speaker 3: an appeal that would go to an appellate court, but

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Speaker 3: Smith petitioned the highest court in the land to try

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Speaker 3: to get an expedited ruling, it would end up there

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Speaker 3: in any event, the fighting mikes the first time the

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Speaker 3: Court has been asked to intervene in one of these

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Speaker 3: cases on election interference regarding mister Trump. Smith has asked

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Speaker 3: for the Court to rule during this term, which ends

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Speaker 3: in June. Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Dallas resident Kate Cox says she can no longer wait

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Speaker 1: on a court's final decision on her abortion case. Cox

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Speaker 1: has challenged the Texas abortion ban. She says she will

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Speaker 1: leave the state to terminate her pregnancy to protect her

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Speaker 1: own health and fertility. Cox's announcement came after the state

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court on Friday blocked a trial court's decision to

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Speaker 1: authorize an emergency abortion. Former US Representative George Santos is

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Speaker 1: in plea talks with prosecutors. He was expelled earlier this

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Speaker 1: month after prosecutors said that there was substantial evidence that

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Speaker 1: he broke the law. Santos was hit with federal charges

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Speaker 1: back in May. He's accused of stealing public funds and

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Speaker 1: lying on federal disclosure forms, and in October, prosecutors filed

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Speaker 1: a revised indictment with additional fraud charges. Santos is scheduled

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Speaker 1: to appear out of hearing in his criminal case on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday in federal court in Central Islip on Long Island.

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Speaker 1: Central bank meetings are in focus. This week. We have

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Speaker 1: policy decisions from the Fed, the ECB and the Bank

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Speaker 1: of England. Next week we'll be hearing from the Bank

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Speaker 1: of Japan. The BOJ is likely to keep its monetary

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Speaker 1: stimulus settings unchanged, where told, BOJ official scy little need

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Speaker 1: to rush into changing policy. China is said to have

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Speaker 1: begun its annual Central Economic Work Conference. The aim is

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Speaker 1: to discuss China's growth targets for next year twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four Bloomberg yvon Man with more from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 4: The high profile meeting is usually closely watched by market

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Speaker 4: participants on how China handles monetary, fiscal, and various industrial policies.

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Speaker 4: Neither the Chinese government nor state run media has announced

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Speaker 4: the start of the conference, but reports say the two

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Speaker 4: day meeting will conclude today. The meeting follows top leaders

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Speaker 4: pledging to strengthen fiscal support at a Politburo meeting on Friday.

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Speaker 4: The leaders also emphasize the importance of economic progress. Expectations

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Speaker 4: are high that China will set a new growth target

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Speaker 4: similar to this year's goal of about five percent. In

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Speaker 4: Hong Kong, I'm Von Mann Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, Chinese President Shi Jinping is expected to visit Vietnam

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Speaker 1: today for the first time in six years. Bloomberg's Joan

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Speaker 1: Wong has that story from Hong.

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Speaker 2: Kong president she is looking to upgrade relations with Vietnam

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Speaker 2: and counter US influence. The trip comes just three months

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Speaker 2: after US President Joe Biden visited. On that trip, Biden

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Speaker 2: forged agreements with Hanoi on everything from semiconductors to security.

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Speaker 2: For China's part, is moving to provide funding to upgrade

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Speaker 2: railway lines in the country. These are arteries considered crucial

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Speaker 2: for Vietnam's exports. The fans, and maritime issues are also

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Speaker 2: expected to be discussed. For some time, Vietnam has been

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Speaker 2: worried that China is moving to a certain more control

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Speaker 2: in the South China Sea in Hong Kong, Join Long

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: A federal court in San Francisco has decided that Google's

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Speaker 1: Android app store has been protected by anti competitive barriers,

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Speaker 1: and those barriers have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers.

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Speaker 1: The lawsuit in the antitrust trial was filed by Epic Games,

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Speaker 1: the maker of the popular Fortnight video game. And that's

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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. This is Bloomberg