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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here

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Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today and Karen.

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Speaker 3: Oil is trading in near a six month high this

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Speaker 3: morning on concerns the US is moving closer to a

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Speaker 3: war with Iran. The military build up continues in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East, and President Trump says Iran has days to

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Speaker 3: agree to a deal over its nuclear program.

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Speaker 4: Now we may have to take it a step further,

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Speaker 4: or we maybe we're gonna make a deal. You're gonna

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Speaker 4: be finding out over the next probably ten days.

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Speaker 3: The US now has more forces in the Middle East

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Speaker 3: than at any point since the Iraq War.

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Speaker 2: As far as his domestic agenda, Nathan, President Trump is

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Speaker 2: declaring victory in the fight over cost of living concerns.

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Speaker 2: He paid a visit yesterday to the crucial battleground state

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Speaker 2: of Georgia.

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Speaker 4: What word have you not heard over the last two

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Speaker 4: weeks affordability? Because I've won, I've won affordability.

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Speaker 2: This signals a new approach by the President. He denied

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Speaker 2: problems with his economic agenda while touting stock market gains

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Speaker 2: to insist that is tariff playans have been a success.

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Speaker 3: Turning to the UK now, Karen, former Prince Andrew has

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Speaker 3: been released after he was detained on suspicion of misconduct

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Speaker 3: in public office. Let's go to London and get the

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Speaker 3: very latest from Bloomberg's Tiwa out of Bio.

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Speaker 5: Good morning Tia, Good morning Nathan, Karen. While the fallout

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Speaker 5: is continuing here in the UK after the unprecedented arrest

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Speaker 5: of former Prince Andrew mount Batton Windsor yesterday, the latest

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Speaker 5: is that he has now been released from police custody

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Speaker 5: under investigation. That was yesterday evening, Thames Valley Police confirming

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Speaker 5: the release of a man in his sixties in Norfolk,

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Speaker 5: not naming him as his per the national guidance here

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Speaker 5: in the UK. This arrest coming, of course, after revelations

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Speaker 5: about mister mount Batton Windsor's ties to convicted sex offender

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Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein. He has denied all wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

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Speaker 5: Just in terms of the latest from the rest of

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Speaker 5: the royal family, Whilst this news was breaking yesterday, the

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Speaker 5: King was taking part in a public engagement at London

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Speaker 5: Fashion Week. He also released an official statement in which

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Speaker 5: he said the law must take its course in London

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Speaker 5: to you, added by Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Tiva, thank you. There is more fallout from

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Speaker 2: the Jeffrey Epstein case right here in the US. The

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Speaker 2: late sex offender's estate has agreed to pay up to

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Speaker 2: thirty five million dollars to resolve all outstanding legal claims

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Speaker 2: from women who have not already reached settlements. This proposed

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Speaker 2: settlement covers at least forty women who say they were

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Speaker 2: sexually abused or trafficked by Epstein between nineteen ninety five

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Speaker 2: and August tenth, twenty nineteen, the day he was found

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Speaker 2: dead in his jail cell. Their lawsuit was originally filed

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four against the Epstein estates two co

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Speaker 2: executors as longtime lawyer Darren Indike and accounted Richard Kahan.

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Speaker 2: Both men have not been accused of abusing women or

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Speaker 2: witnessing abuse. They've denied all liability to Epstein's victims and

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Speaker 2: agreed to the settlement terms without admitting fault.

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Speaker 3: A federal judge still has to approve Karen. Let's turn

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Speaker 3: now to the latest in the search for Nancy Guthrie.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow will be three weeks since the mother of today's

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Speaker 3: show host Savannah Guthrie was seen at her home near Tucson.

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Speaker 3: The FBI has received more than twenty thousand tips, and

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Speaker 3: p mccounty Sheriff Chris Nano says every lead helps.

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Speaker 6: When those tips dry up, this case goes cold.

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Speaker 7: We believe somebody out there knows who did this.

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Speaker 8: We need that person to call us.

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Speaker 3: P mccunty Sheriff Chris Nano spoke to the ABC station

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Speaker 3: in Tucson. He says DNA evidence found at Guthrie's home

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Speaker 3: is still going through lab analysis and several hundred personnel

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Speaker 3: Investigators have also identified an Ozark brand backpack the suspect

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Speaker 3: where he bought other items. The FBI reward for information

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Speaker 3: that leads to Nancy Guthrie's return is up to one

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Speaker 2: Let's turn to the markets now, Nathan, and futures are

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Speaker 2: higher as we close out the trading week and company news.

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Speaker 2: Netflix said it's proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery will

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Speaker 2: lead to more films in movie theaters is a key

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Speaker 2: concern from Hollywood. In an interview with Bloomberg, Netflix co

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Speaker 2: CEO Ted Sorrandos says he is highly confident he will

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Speaker 2: win the battle against Paramount sky Dance for Warner Brothers.

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Speaker 9: I think in the Alternative East, guy has gone, you know,

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Speaker 9: missed every deadline. They've been taking nine runs of this

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Speaker 2: And Netflix's Ted Sorrandos made the comments earlier in an

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Speaker 2: interview with Bloomberg, and you can catch that interview as

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Speaker 2: well as live streaming news, all our Bloomberg TV shows, documentaries,

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Speaker 2: Forward Slash videos. For the first time in decades, the

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Speaker 2: US imported more from Taiwan than China. In fact, US

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Speaker 2: purchases of goods from China plunged almost forty four percent

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Speaker 3: And US and Chinese fighter jeds briefly faced off Karen

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Speaker 3: above waters near the Korean Peninsula, marking a rare confrontation

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Speaker 3: US planes did not enter China's air defense identification zone,

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Speaker 2: Time now for look at some of the other stories

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Speaker 2: making news in New York and around the world, and

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Speaker 2: for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael bar Michael, good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Karen. Forecasters are keeping an eye on a

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Speaker 6: developing coastal storm that will move up the eastern seaboard

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Speaker 6: Sunday into Monday. How much snow depends on its truck.

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Speaker 6: Bloomberg Media religis Rob Carolyn has the latest.

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Speaker 4: Michael.

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Speaker 10: We're still watching the potential for a coastal storm Sunday

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Speaker 10: into early Monday. The models are still in disagreement. The

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Speaker 10: US model brings the storm closest to the coast and

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Speaker 10: by tomorrow the models will start to get an idea

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Speaker 10: exactly where the system is headed. I'm Rob, Carolyn Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Rob. President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies

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Speaker 6: to release government documents related to extraterrestrial life and unexplained

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Speaker 6: aerial phenomenons. President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of

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Speaker 6: giving away classified information when he discussed the idea of

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Speaker 6: it knew about unidentified flying objects spotted by military pilots

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Speaker 6: over the past several decades. The National Governor's Association is

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Speaker 6: the White House today. Police Idaho are searching for a

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Speaker 6: Bastercha says then the suspect tried to set a fire,

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt this building would have been burned,

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Speaker 6: For Chris, no one was injured. Actor Eric Dane has died.

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Speaker 2: Time now for our Bloomberg Sports update, and for that

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Speaker 7: Thanks Darren. US Olympic drama and all of it from women. First,

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Speaker 3: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Ten to fifteen days. That's

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Speaker 3: how long President Trump says Iran has to strike a

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Speaker 4: Now is the time for Iran to join us on

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Speaker 4: that'll be great too, but it'll be a very different path.

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Speaker 3: coverage for Bloomberg News Stuart, what does the path look.

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Speaker 8: Good morning, Good morning, Nathan. So it's a little bit uncertain,

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Speaker 3: That is one of the ultimate questions, isn't it Whether

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Speaker 3: it is going to be enough When we've heard from Israel,

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Speaker 3: go for regime change potentially in Iran.

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Speaker 8: That's quite right. What we don't know, and what's not

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Speaker 8: the nuclear file. You know, these are all very big

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Speaker 8: questions regime change. That is really up for debate about

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Speaker 8: whether you can achieve that with the amount of military

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Speaker 8: not necessarily, but you would presume that it would require

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the build up that we have seen

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Speaker 3: at this point. You mentioned that it's the kind of

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Speaker 3: What kind of firepower is in the region at this moment.

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Speaker 3: With that kind of firepower a massed in the region,

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