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Speaker 1: News when you want it with the Bloomberg News Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm ed Klengi. Punch Bowl is reporting that congressional leaders

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Speaker 1: have agreed to extend some government funding until March first,

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Speaker 1: and the rest until March eighth. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

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Speaker 1: remains hospitalized in good condition, with no date said for

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Speaker 1: his release. This according to a Pentagon spokesman. Austin's hospitalization

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Speaker 1: January first for complications from prostate surgery and delays in notification,

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Speaker 1: including to the White House, have prompted an investigation by

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Speaker 1: the Department of Defense's internal watchdog and criticism from lawmakers.

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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden called the delay a lapse of judgment,

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Speaker 1: but says he still has faith in Austin, who is

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Speaker 1: seventy He's in contact with senior staff, and Austin continues

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Speaker 1: to monitor DoD's day to day operations worldwide. Again. This

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Speaker 1: according to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder. Former President Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: trained his sites on vv Ramaswami, casting him as a

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Speaker 1: threat to his Make America Great Again movement and what

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Speaker 1: appear to be a shift in strategy. Two days before

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Speaker 1: the Iowa caucuses, vote for Trump. Don't waste your vote vvecks,

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Speaker 1: not MAGA. Trump said this as he arrived in Iowa

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. The comments, which appeared in a social media post,

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Speaker 1: ended what had been an informal marriage of convenience with

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Speaker 1: the thirty eight year old Ohio entrepreneur and first time

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Speaker 1: political candidate. Iowans on Monday will cast the first votes

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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four presidential nominating process during a

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Speaker 1: caucus that's likely to show depressed turnout because of historicly

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Speaker 1: frigid weather. Trump continues to lead the field by an

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Speaker 1: average of thirty four points. Bloomberg Radio will simulcast Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Television's Balance of Power Monday between five and six pm Eastern,

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Speaker 1: as well as between eight and ten pm Eastern. John Kerry,

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Speaker 1: the top US climate diplomat, intends to step down after

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Speaker 1: more than three years relentlessly pressing countries to get more

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Speaker 1: aggressive in the fight against global warming. This according to

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Speaker 1: people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to

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Speaker 1: be identified because the announcement was not public. They said,

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Speaker 1: the former US Secretary of State, senator from Massachusetts and

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Speaker 1: Democratic presidential nominee will transition outside the federal government in

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Speaker 1: coming weeks. Axio supports that Kerrie, who is eighty plans

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Speaker 1: to help the Biden reelection campaign. The White House didn't

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Speaker 1: comment on the development, and the State Department declined to comment.

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Speaker 1: Taiwan elected Lai ching Ta as president of the Global

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Speaker 1: Chip Hub, at the center of US China tensions, putting

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Speaker 1: in power man Beijing has branded an instigator of war.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Karishma of Aswani in Taipei says with Li's win,

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Speaker 1: the DPP had an extraordinary third strain presidential win. The

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Speaker 1: Light did not receive a majority of votes cast, and

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Speaker 1: the DPP also lost its legislative majority, which will make.

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Speaker 2: It very difficult at the presidential level to push through

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Speaker 2: with any dramatic changes to the way the island is governed.

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Speaker 2: But in another respect, another way of looking at it

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Speaker 2: would be to see that as a degree of stability,

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Speaker 2: because if you have two parties that are so opposed

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Speaker 2: in how they manage China, then having a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a difference or split within the executive the legislative

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Speaker 2: sort of ensures that neither can go too far, and

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Speaker 2: there's the checks and balances there which actually could provide

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Speaker 2: a degree of stability for Taiwan.

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Speaker 1: Kirishimavaswani reporting from tay Pei. There's a big sports team

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Speaker 1: up being talked about this weekend. More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 3: New York Post says ESPN and the NFL are in

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Speaker 3: advanced talks on the NFL taking an equity stake in ESPN.

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Speaker 3: Paper saus it's possible Disney owned ESPN would take control

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Speaker 3: of NFL media, including NFL Network, and the league would

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Speaker 3: receive equity in ESPN in exchange. We've had reports about

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Speaker 3: this before, but now the Post says discussions between Disney

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Speaker 3: owned DESPN and the NFL have advanced far enough that

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Speaker 3: owners and the players Association are being notified. Denise Pellegriney,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of football, it's Super wild Card weekend as

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Speaker 1: the NFL kicks off its postseason. In the first game

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Speaker 1: of the weekend, the Houston Texans defeat of the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns forty five to fourteen. The game in Buffalo scheduled

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow between the Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers, well

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Speaker 1: that's been moved to Monday afternoon at four point thirty

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Speaker 1: due to extreme weather conditions in western New York. That's

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