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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I

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Speaker 1: met Kalenki. Justice Department lawyers have asked a judge to

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Speaker 1: dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams,

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Speaker 1: carrying out an order that several other prosecutors had refused.

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Speaker 1: The Friday filing in Manhattan Federal Court camped off a

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Speaker 1: tumultuous week for the Justice Department, which began with Acting

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Speaker 1: US Deputy Attorney General Emil Beauvet ordering Manhattan's chief federal prosecutor,

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Speaker 1: Danielle Sassoon to drop the Adams case. Sassoon resigned rather

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Speaker 1: than carry out the directive, and Justice Department officials asked

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Speaker 1: to take over the case also step down. The Environmental

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Speaker 1: Protection Agency said Friday it had fired three hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty eight workers, part of a wave of terminations across

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Speaker 1: the federal government this week, spurred by Elon Musk's Department

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Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency. The agency added that the probationary workers

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Speaker 1: were terminated after a thorough review of agency functions and

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Speaker 1: accordance with President Trump's executive orders. Union officials and environment

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Speaker 1: mental groups said the decision would hamstering the functions of

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Speaker 1: the agency, whose air water, chemical, and biofuel regulations touched

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Speaker 1: nearly every sector of the US economy, from mammoth oil

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Speaker 1: refineries to family farms. The Energy Department is seeking to

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Speaker 1: bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of

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Speaker 1: workers that their jobs were eliminated. This, according to two

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Speaker 1: people familiar with the matter, the employees responsible for designing

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Speaker 1: and maintaining the nation's cache of nuclear weapons at the

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Speaker 1: National Nuclear Safety Administration where part of a larger wave

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Speaker 1: of workers dismissed from the Energy Department, drawing alarm from

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Speaker 1: national security experts. Between three hundred and four hundred NNSA

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Speaker 1: workers were terminated. The agency's quick reversal was announced Friday

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Speaker 1: in an all staff meeting. Investigators are scrutinizing whether a

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Speaker 1: misst instruction from Air Traffic Control and faulty readings from

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Speaker 1: a critical flight instrument may have contributed to a US

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Speaker 1: Army helicopter colliding into an American Airlines Regional jet near

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Speaker 1: Washington and Lay Jail January. National Transportation Safety Board Chair

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Hamandy the instructions from ATC were to pass behind

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Speaker 1: the CRJ that transmission was interrupted. It was stepped on.

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Speaker 1: Hamandy spoke to reporters at a press conference on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Leaders spoke Friday at the Munich Security Conference. The key

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Speaker 1: focus was Russia's war in Ukraine. Bloomberg's Francine Lacroix moderated

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Speaker 1: a panel with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski. The Ukrainian president

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Speaker 1: said he's ready to engage with a US led peace initiative,

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Speaker 1: and he delivered a message to President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: I see the order of meetings and decisions. First of all,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to ment just with Russians, just to

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Speaker 2: meet for what. Now we see the order of meetings,

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Speaker 2: As I said, the order is United States, Europe than Russia.

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Speaker 1: President Trump seeks himself as the peacemaker for Ukraine, but

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Speaker 1: in a Bloomberg interview, Melinda Herring of the Atlantic Council,

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Speaker 1: who has just been in Ukraine, says he faces an

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Speaker 1: implacable foe in Moscow.

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Speaker 3: I don't see desire on Houton's part to seek a

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Speaker 3: cease fire. He thinks he's winning. He's still taking territory,

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Speaker 3: and there's no reason for him to jump ship. He's

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Speaker 3: trying to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign, independent country. It's

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Speaker 3: really a question of when Putin has decided that the

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Speaker 3: costs exceed the benefits.

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Speaker 1: Melissa Herring of the Atlantic Council. President Trump says he

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Speaker 1: would unveil new tariffs on automobiles, adding to a wave

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Speaker 1: of sweeping import levies as he seeks to remake global

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Speaker 1: trade relationships and pressure companies to move production to the US.

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Speaker 1: Trump explained to reporters in the Oval Office Friday, why

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Speaker 1: he chose April second as the date.

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Speaker 4: I'd say, over the next subtimer, maybe around April second.

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Speaker 4: I would have done him on April first. I'm a

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Speaker 4: little superstitious. No, literally, We've had a plan for April first.

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Speaker 4: I said, let's make it April second. You know how

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Speaker 4: much money that costs. That costs a lot of money

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Speaker 4: just that one day.

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Speaker 1: The move is the latest a rapidly widening trade war,

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Speaker 1: as Trump delivers on his campaign pledges to institute sweeping

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Speaker 1: tariffs on US allies and rivals alike. The White House barret,

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Speaker 1: a credentialed Associated press reporter and photographer from boarding the

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Speaker 1: presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: saying the news agency's stance on how to refer to

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Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion.

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Speaker 1: The administration has blocked the AP from covering a handful

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Speaker 1: of events at the White House this week, including a

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Speaker 1: news conference with India's leader and several times in the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office. It is because the news outlet has not

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Speaker 1: followed Trump's lead in renaming the body of water, which

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Speaker 1: lies partially outside US territory, to the Gulf of America.

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Speaker 1: The Dow fell one sixty five, NaSTA gained eighty one.

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Speaker 1: The S and P was a fraction lower. That's news

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Speaker 1: when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I made Kleggy.

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