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Speaker 1: I mean, it is remarkable out to your point. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're talking about this. You go where I'm from, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: that is, and and you know his poll numbers are

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Speaker 1: a little lower this time. But Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: we talked about impeach, it is not very much on

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Speaker 1: the radar. Two quick points. First of all, if those

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Speaker 1: gonna win a lot more states than the three that

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Speaker 1: you just mentioned. He's gonna have a bigger electrical college

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Speaker 1: victory next year than he did over Sectary Clinton. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: we Democrats have a problem getting two caught up in personalities.

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Speaker 1: I remember in two thousand and four, everybody, all the

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Speaker 1: Democrat elites thought, well, George W. Bush is is he's

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Speaker 1: not that smart? Well, who cares whether he's smart or not.

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Speaker 1: He understand understood what it took to get elected twice

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Speaker 1: in America. President Trump understood what it took to get elected,

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Speaker 1: albeit by very narrow margin, and he may do it

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Speaker 1: again if the Democrats overlook his political strength. Alright, coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna check in with what's on the panel's radar.

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Speaker 1: Brendan buck al Matter, I'm Kevin Sirelli. You're listening to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg Sound On with Kevin Surreley on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg and one oh five point seven F M H

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Speaker 1: D two. I'm Kevin CEREALI Chief Washington co respondent for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio. Brendon bucks Here, former spokesman

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Speaker 1: at seven Letter, al Matter, partner at Brown Steen, Hyatt,

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Speaker 1: Farber and Shrek. Your first time on the program, l

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Speaker 1: what is it like? It's been fun, enjoyed. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. So I discovered that both Brendan and

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Speaker 1: al have something in common. Both of you have a

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Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy connection. Both of our fathers, both of your

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Speaker 1: father's worked for Ted Kennedy. How about that? Wow, I'd

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Speaker 1: feel like I didn't even put that part together. Apple

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Speaker 1: did fall far from the tree? And uh in Brendon's

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Speaker 1: did they know each other? What we're gonna have to so? Okay, wait,

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Speaker 1: what's your best Ted Kennedy do any of you have

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Speaker 1: a good Ted Kennedy story, I don't. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: an he was an incredible guy. I remember going to

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Speaker 1: and I told him. He said, give me your phone,

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Speaker 1: and he called my dad, who was some babysitting my kids,

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Speaker 1: the larger than life personality. That's that's a good story. Alright,

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Speaker 1: it's time now on a peach mean eve. As we're

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Speaker 1: talking Ted Kennedy on a peach ben Eve, it's time

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Speaker 1: now for my favorite part of the show, which is

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Speaker 1: what is on the panel's radar, Uh, Brennan. Since I

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Speaker 1: know you're struggling to come with, you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot going on this week, I'm gonna let you go second,

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Speaker 1: al go first. Sure. So there's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: still running for president of Democratic son, tell me about it.

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Speaker 1: And despite the cries by some that they're being excluded.

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Speaker 1: This is the most diverse, UH and competitive field we've

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Speaker 1: fact that the Democratic Party's rules are set up in

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Speaker 1: a way that we may end up having what's called

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Speaker 1: a broker convention. This is the talk of the town

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Speaker 1: everywhere I go, you know, when when the convention comes up.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna play Devil's advocate here because this was

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Speaker 1: also something that Republicans said would happen. But the back

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Speaker 1: in now, before you correct me, the Republican rules and

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Speaker 1: the Democrat rules are very different. The only similarity I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is that that was something that came up in

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Speaker 1: the differences between the Republican rules and the Democrat rules

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Speaker 1: So in twice sixteen UH, the campaigns that were still

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Speaker 1: competing eventually came together and supported the nominee than Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: What happens this time under our rules is that if

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Speaker 1: anyone gets fifteen percent of the delegates in a nominating

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Speaker 1: state the vote in a caucus or primary, they get delegates,

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Speaker 1: and that is a lower threshold, and as a result,

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Speaker 1: the race. Also, you may have uh two, three, even

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Speaker 1: four different winners of the first four states, again encouraging

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Speaker 1: each of them to propel forward and compete. If you

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Speaker 1: end up having then Mike Bloomberg enter and with his

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Speaker 1: money able to get more in several states, it's very

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Speaker 1: difficult to see a path where by one candidate can

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Speaker 1: I hear that argument, but my questions and follow up

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Speaker 1: to that are that assumes a lot. That assumes that

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Speaker 1: the momentum heading out of Iowa and New Hampshire and

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Speaker 1: South Carolina is not momentum, that it won't matter at all,

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Speaker 1: and that the elector that the voters voting on Super

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Speaker 1: the law that that we in Washington, we talk about

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Speaker 1: this all the time, but to most folks you know,

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Speaker 1: who have to pay their bills, who have to send

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Speaker 1: their kids to school. They feel that if you vote

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Speaker 1: in a primary, whoever wins won the state, and so

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Speaker 1: that development of a brokered convention could backfire. Well, here's

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Speaker 1: the real problem is they set these rules up to

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Speaker 1: be more democratic, more inclusive, and they took the superdelegates

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Speaker 1: vote away on that first ballot. Remember Bernie was very

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Speaker 1: upset about the superdelegates, and so they took the vote away.

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Speaker 1: They come in on the second ballot, Well, who are

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Speaker 1: who are those people? Remind us what the superdelegates for

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Speaker 1: superdelegates are about seven hundred institutional Democrats, members of Congress,

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Speaker 1: or Democrats, governor's, former governor's, mayor's party, operatives around the country,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden has the delegates Bernie sandersent Liza with warrens Uh,

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Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg has twelve percent. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: no one as a majority. If the superdelegates come in

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Speaker 1: and say, well, we want Joe Biden because he's our

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Speaker 1: kind of guy, what about the folks who were for

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. People thought it was bad in sixteen. There

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Speaker 1: will be literally riots in Milwaukee. If again, if and

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Speaker 1: I'm not you know, if Iowa means nothing, if you

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Speaker 1: Hampshire means nothing, if South Carolina means nothing, Brenni, come

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Speaker 1: in here. You're like, you see, I'm just sitting here

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Speaker 1: thing with Donald Trump with think if you're sitting there

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Speaker 1: watching that and the revolt about it happening. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a dream scenario for him. So uh, you would hope

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Speaker 1: that they would be smart enough to go because first

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Speaker 1: time on the program giving us a dizzy ing what's

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Speaker 1: on his radar, and the debates on Thursday, looking forward

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Speaker 1: to it. I will be there in l A. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be there too. We can have some what is

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Speaker 1: l A? We can have in an Altburger. That sounds great.

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Speaker 1: Every time I go to l A, I gotta have

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Speaker 1: it in olt Burger. Do they serve alcohol? Well I

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Speaker 1: don't drink so I but do they serve alcohol? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'll eat I'll eat it up in an

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Speaker 1: insider the debate, I mean, the day after the impeachment

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Speaker 1: U s m U, s m C. I vote. It'll

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Speaker 1: have a good night. How do you choose? She's done

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Speaker 1: great on all these so far. And they figured out

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Speaker 1: the rule thing, the rule think the union, the baccle

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Speaker 1: we were talking about yesterday, Perez chairman Perez talked about

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Speaker 1: it's going the debates going on. And just as a disclaimer,

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Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg is the founder a majority owner of Bloomberg LP,

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Speaker 1: the parent company of Bloomberg News. Brendon Buck what is

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Speaker 1: on your radar? So what would normally be I think

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Speaker 1: passing what we call an omnibus spending bill, basically funding

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Speaker 1: the entire government all in one foul swoop, which is

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Speaker 1: um not the normal way of doing business, but I

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Speaker 1: think it actually is. Uh. If there's a few interesting

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Speaker 1: of how legislating works these days. One is we're not

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Speaker 1: just funding the government all at once. They have packed

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Speaker 1: all kinds of other legislation on this bill. We're raising

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Speaker 1: the minimum age to buy tobacco. We are repeat, really

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know this. We're repealing a bunch of taxes,

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Speaker 1: we are reauthorizing the Export Import Bank for for seven years.

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Speaker 1: We are Fred Hackberg. That's that's Fred Hackberg's Holiday Presidents

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Speaker 1: Present right there. Fred. So this is not happy, it's

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Speaker 1: you know, on one hand, it's a it's a demonstration

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Speaker 1: normal order. And so people think that a spending bill

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Speaker 1: get something into law, and that's how you end up

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Speaker 1: with something like this. But what is actually the funniest

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Speaker 1: thing to me is that when I was last on Congress,

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Speaker 1: sign another spending bill. And so what Congress has done

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Speaker 1: this time is they've written an omnibus spending bill and

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Speaker 1: cut it in half, and they're passing it in two pieces. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're going to send it to the President at the

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Speaker 1: same time and just hope that he doesn't notice or

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Speaker 1: doesn't care that his act really one big omnibus, but

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Speaker 1: he's signing it into two pieces of legislation and it's

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Speaker 1: going to keep the government upen through next September. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah. It's just a remarkable bit of legislating

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Speaker 1: and policy making. Not exactly how you learn how things

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Speaker 1: of ways. Um, the appropriations process how we funded the

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Speaker 1: you could fund the government one department, one agency at

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Speaker 1: a time. Those days are long gone, and we end

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Speaker 1: how the the in and out burger gets made in

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Speaker 1: Trump's Washington. That's a good one. You know what's on

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Speaker 1: my radar very quickly. Boeing has been in the news

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Speaker 1: recently because of their decision to halt the seven thirty

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Speaker 1: seven Max production, but that's not what's on my radar today.

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Speaker 1: Boeing Starliner capsule could be ready for a historic test

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Speaker 1: flight to the Space Station. You guys know that I'm

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Speaker 1: a big space nerd Boweing. I'm reading from CBS News

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Speaker 1: Boeing star Liner capsule carrying an instrumented astronaut test dummy

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Speaker 1: nicknamed Rosie. I wonder how they got that is on

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Speaker 1: track for launch on Friday on an unpiloted test flight

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Speaker 1: to the International Space Station. Mission managers said on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: So a big development for Boeing star Liner capsule and

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Speaker 1: commercial space travel. Hey, I'll go bowing. If you're listening,

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Speaker 1: send me to space. I'm happy to go. That does

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Speaker 1: it for me. Thank you to Brendan Buck. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to Al Matter on impeachment. Full coverage tomorrow. I'm Kevin Sirelli,

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Speaker 1: Chief Washington correspondent Fromloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio. Al you

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Speaker 1: have fun, to Bloomberg