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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 3: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, we begin with a big blow this morning to

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump's tariff policies. Bloomberg's John Tucker joins us

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Speaker 2: with the latest. Good morning, John, Good morning, Nathan.

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Speaker 4: Republican led House has passed a resolution to rescind President

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Speaker 4: Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans joined nearly all Democrats

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Speaker 5: On this vote, the Yas are two nineteen and the

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Speaker 5: Naser two eleven. Their joint resolution is passed without objection.

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Speaker 5: The motion to reconsider is laid on the table even

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Speaker 5: if it does pass the Senate. Now, President Trump would

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Speaker 5: veto it, so this is all about sending a message.

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Speaker 5: The House vote signals a growing rift within the Republican

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Speaker 5: Party with the midterm elections approaching. The GOP and those

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Speaker 5: members who voted for it have to face their constituents

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Speaker 5: who are increasingly worried about affordability. That Wednesday's vote happened

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Speaker 5: at all actually represents a blow to House Speaker Mike Johnson,

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Speaker 5: a top Trump ally who had spearheaded a block on

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Speaker 5: bringing tarn related bills to the floor for months, and

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Speaker 5: the passage also comes as the president is privately waing

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Speaker 5: quitting the US Mexico Canada trade pack that he signed

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Speaker 5: during his first term. Following the vote, Trump wrote on

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Speaker 5: social media, any Republican in the House or the Senate

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Speaker 5: that votes against tariffs will seriously suffer the consequences come

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Speaker 5: election time. That includes primaries in New York. On John

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Speaker 5: Tucker Bloomberg Radio, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, John, thank you well. House Republicans have also approved

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Speaker 3: legislation that would impose strict new voter ID requirements ahead

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Speaker 3: of the midterm elections. The bill is a Trump administration

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Speaker 3: priority aimed at scrutinizing ballot access, but it faces blowback

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Speaker 3: in the Senate. The legislation requires Americans to present proof

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Speaker 3: say it's needed to prevent voter fraud. Democrats sworn it'll

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Speaker 3: make it harder for millions of Americans to vote.

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Speaker 6: Yah Elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: On Capitol Hill, Karen Attorney General Pam Bondi had a

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Speaker 2: contentious hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the Jeffrey

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Speaker 2: The committee's top Democrat, Jamie Raskin, accused Bondi of turning

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Speaker 2: the Justice Department into an instrument of revenge.

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Speaker 7: You replace real prosecutors with counterfeit stooges who robotically.

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Speaker 3: Do the president's bidding.

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Speaker 6: Nothing in American history comes close.

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Speaker 2: And Democrat Jamie Raskin accused the Justice Department of redacting

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Speaker 2: the names of abusers and co conspirators in the Epstein files,

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Speaker 2: not just as victims. Bondi apologized for what Epstein's victims experienced,

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Speaker 2: but Democrat Primila Jayapaul asked if she would turn to

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Speaker 8: Mister Chairman, why I have asked see austinar at Garland.

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Speaker 3: This I'm reclaiming.

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Speaker 8: I will claim my time.

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Speaker 6: Reclaimed.

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Speaker 2: Get in the gutter for her theatrics. Attorney General Pam

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Speaker 2: Bondi flipped through a binder throughout the hearing to deliver

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Speaker 3: Nathan. Federal agents are looking along roadways in the Catalina Foothills.

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Speaker 3: This is the search for the eighty four year old

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Speaker 3: mother of Today's show host Savannah Guthrie continues. They're looking

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Speaker 3: near Tucson as part of the investigation into the disappearance

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Speaker 3: so that they are following up on eighteen thousand tips

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Speaker 3: and here's retired FBI agent Richard Frankel.

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Speaker 5: Eighteen thousand and what a week and a half.

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Speaker 3: That number is staggering. After nine to eleven, we had,

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Speaker 3: retired FBI agent Richard Frankel. The FBI has also released

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Speaker 3: images of a masked person on Nancy Guthrie's porch the

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Speaker 3: night she went missing their Tucson. Guthrie was reported missing

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Speaker 3: on February first.

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Speaker 2: Trained to Geopolitics Now Caring, the death toll from the

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Speaker 2: in counting deaths during previous rounds of unrest in Iran.

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Speaker 2: The rise in the death toll comes as Iran tries

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Speaker 3: Nathan, President Trump's energy chief, has arrived in Venezuela to

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Speaker 3: Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with Acting President Delci Rodriguez

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's and Marie hor Dern is traveling with the Energy

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Speaker 3: Secretary and has more. Secretary Chris Wright.

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Speaker 9: Of the Energy Department met with Acting President Delci Rodriguez.

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Speaker 9: The two discussed business ventures and how how't you collaborate

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Speaker 9: further when it comes to energy, mining and electricity in

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Speaker 9: the country. Secretary Wright said he came here the message

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Speaker 9: from President Trump was that he wants to make the

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Speaker 9: Americas great again and he wants to transform this relationship.

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Speaker 9: He continuously talks about you can transform a relationship with

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Speaker 9: commerce instead of boots on the ground. I'm Amina Herdern

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Speaker 9: in Caracas, Venezuela, and this is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: All right, Emory, thank you. We turned to the markets now.

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Speaker 2: Futures are higher this morning after yesterday's declines, with shares

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Speaker 2: of Cisco are sinking. They're down nearly eight percent. In

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Speaker 3: Nathan sales and the US for McDonald's grow at the

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Speaker 3: improve in the fourth quarter. Abby Roach is a senior

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Speaker 3: portfolio analyst at all Spring Global Investments.

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Speaker 8: I'd say they're doing a couple things. While they're leading

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Speaker 3: Abby roach at all Spring Global Investments and Shures. The

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Speaker 3: McDonald's are down a third of up percent this morning.

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Speaker 2: Karen Ai Company Andthropics nearing completion of a deal to

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Speaker 2: raise more than twenty billion dollars. Bloomberg News has learned.

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Speaker 2: The funding round is co led by investors including Peter

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Speaker 2: and Thropics set to be valued at about three hundred

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Speaker 3: Nathan Applied Materials will pay more than a quarter of

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Speaker 3: improper exports to China. Settlement ending a year's long saga

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Speaker 2: Now we got some moretal news this morning. Karen Neuveen

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Speaker 2: The acquisition creates one of the world's largest active asset managers,

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Speaker 2: This ends more than two centuries of independence for the

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Speaker 3: Time now for look at some of the other stories

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Speaker 3: for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr.

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Speaker 6: Michael, good Morning, Good morning, Karen. Canadian authorities say the

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Speaker 6: suspect in the school shooting in British Columbia was an

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Speaker 6: said the suspect, Jesse Van Rootseller, first killed her mother

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Speaker 6: resulting in eight fatalities. Dwayne McDonald is with the British

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Speaker 10: Suspect was not related to any of the victims of

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Speaker 6: Dwayne McDonald with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Van

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Speaker 6: New York City hospitals ratified their new contracts, ending a

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Speaker 6: four thousand nurses at New York Presbyterian. Some nurses there

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Speaker 6: The San Francisco teachers strike enters its fourth day. Teachers

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Speaker 6: The strike closed public schools for more than fifty thousand

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Speaker 6: I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Karen.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Michael. Time now for our Bloomberg Sports updating. For that,

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Speaker 7: Thanks Karin. Second straight day at the Olympics where the

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Speaker 6: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager. President Trump's signature economic policy has just

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Speaker 2: taken a blow on Capitol Hill. The House has voted

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Speaker 11: We should have these debates, Let's have the discussion.

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Speaker 9: Let's do so in front of the America and people.

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Speaker 11: That's what you know representative government is all about.

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Speaker 2: I was California Republican Kevin Kylie joining us now as

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Laura Davison and Laura, we know that Congressman Kylie's

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Speaker 2: facing a pretty tough reelection fight in California. Politics definitely

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Speaker 11: Yes, this vote wasn't so much about actually being able

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Speaker 2: Getting to those affordability concerns that the President in the

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Speaker 11: Laura, Yeah, this is the fight that we're likely to

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Speaker 2: And of course this comes at a time where Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: I mean, what could that mean in terms of ongoing

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Speaker 11: This would really be a huge trade shift. You know,

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Speaker 11: that you know Trump, you know, as he goes into

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Speaker 2: In our last minute, Laura, let's talk about the hearing

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