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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Prisner. Today,

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Speaker 1: members of Congress were allowed to review unredacted files on

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. Some key lawmakers are now pushing for more

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Speaker 1: information on the sex trafficking probe of Epstein, and they're

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Speaker 1: raising the prospect of new criminal prosecutions. Republican Thomas Massey

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Speaker 1: and Democrat Rocanna said they believe there are six men

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Speaker 1: whose names have not been revealed who could face criminal charges.

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Speaker 1: Massey said he is willing to give the DOJ more

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Speaker 1: time to make their names public.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what we're after is the demand who Jeffrey

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Speaker 2: Epstein trafficked women too? We want those names published. We're

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Speaker 2: not out to embarrass people. And the problem is we

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Speaker 2: went in there hoping to see that in three or

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Speaker 2: two forms. What we found out is those three or

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Speaker 2: two forms were redacted before they got to the DOJ.

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Speaker 1: That is Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey. Earlier in the day,

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Speaker 1: Geelane Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of Epstein, refused to answer

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Speaker 1: any questions from a House panel investigating his activities. She

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Speaker 1: asserted her Fifth Amendment rights. Now, the fallout from the

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Speaker 1: release of the Epstein files is spreading overseas. UK Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Keir Starmer is facing a call to resign. Starmer

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Speaker 1: had been advised to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to

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Speaker 1: the US. Later it was revealed Mandelson had ties to Epstein.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, quit,

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Speaker 1: saying he took full responsibility for recommending Mandelssohn. But today

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Speaker 1: several of Starmer's cabinet members voiced support for their Prime minister.

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Speaker 1: Alphabet is going global to finance its ambitions on artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: The company is raising twenty billion dollars from a US

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Speaker 1: dollar bond offering. This was more than five times oversubscribed.

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Speaker 1: Alphabet is also pitching what would be the first ever

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Speaker 1: offerings in Switzerland and the UK. Here is Bloomberg's Caroline Hide.

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Speaker 3: They're tapping the Swiss market and the Sterling market. In fact,

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Speaker 3: they're looking to sell a really rare one hundred years

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Speaker 3: Sterling bond as well. So Alphabet is out there across

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Speaker 3: every type of part of the debt market.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Caroline Hide. Now the four largest US

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Speaker 1: tech companies are planning to spend a total of six

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion dollars this year on building out

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Speaker 1: AI infrastructure. President Trump said his picked to lead the FED,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Walsh, can get the American economy to grow at

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Speaker 1: a rate of fifteen percent. Here is Trump speaking earlier

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Speaker 1: to Fox Business.

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Speaker 4: If our new head of the FED, who I think

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Speaker 4: is going to be great, and he's he's a really

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Speaker 4: high quality person. But if he does the job that

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Speaker 4: he's capable, we can grow at fifteen percent. I think

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Speaker 4: more than.

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Speaker 1: That, President Trump, speaking earlier to Fox Business. He went

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Speaker 1: on to say that during the search for a new

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Speaker 1: FED chairman, he wanted a candidate who would lower interest rates.

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Speaker 1: Trump also said he would not have picked Wash if

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Speaker 1: he had the raising rates. Novo Nordisk is suing Hymns

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Speaker 1: and Hers Health for making knockoffs of Novo's obesity medicines,

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Speaker 1: even though Hyms already scrapped plans to sell a copycat

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Speaker 1: version of Novo's Wolgovi pill. Here is Bloomberg's Madison Moller.

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Speaker 5: Nova is suing on the grounds of patent infringement, which

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Speaker 5: is something we haven't seen before. Nova and Lily have

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Speaker 5: both filed lawsuits against compounding pharmacies, telehealth companies, medspots that

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Speaker 5: are selling these knockoff versions of the drugs, but they

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Speaker 5: haven't gone after anyone for patent infringement yet. So this

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Speaker 5: is actually the drug semaglue tide, which is the active

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Speaker 5: ingredient in both ozepic and wagov. Nova is saying that

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Speaker 5: Hymns is violating that patent in the United States.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Madison Moller wall Street is looking ahead

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Speaker 1: to Wednesday's jobs report. We have a preview from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 6: Typically this report does come out on a Friday, but

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Speaker 6: it was delayed because of the government shutdown. Michelle Meyer

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Speaker 6: is chief economist at MasterCard International.

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Speaker 5: Extremely important would be looking at wages, the trend in

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Speaker 5: terms of purchasing power, which informs overall consumer spending.

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Speaker 6: The jobless rate has seen holding steady at four point

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Speaker 6: four percent, and Bloomberg Intelligence says technical adjustments to the

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Speaker 6: BLS's birth and death model will make the January jobs

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Speaker 6: report tricky to decipher, but they are expecting hiring in

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Speaker 6: the zero to thirty k range in New York. Charlie Palette,

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Speaker 6: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're keeping track of the metal count at the Winter

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Speaker 1: Olympic Games. Italy leads with nine, Japan has seven, and

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Speaker 1: Norway with six. And that is news when you want

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