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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. Dan Schwartzman,

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Speaker 1: US Special envoice Steve Wickcoff said Trump administration officials held

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Speaker 1: court productive and constructive meetings with Ukraine and European counterparts

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Speaker 1: in Florida. In a post on X, Wickoff said the

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Speaker 1: topics discussed included further developing the existing twenty point plan,

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Speaker 1: a US security guarantee framework, and the economic development plan

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Speaker 1: for Ukraine. Here's Bloomberg's Michael Heath.

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Speaker 2: It's still sort of this discussion of what would a

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Speaker 2: US security guarantee involve for Ukraine in terms of peace,

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Speaker 2: you know, in terms of a ceasefire and from Ukraine site, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what it could what it could rely on in terms

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Speaker 2: of ensuring that you know, if there was a ceasefire,

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Speaker 2: that Russia wouldn't wide a period, you know, rebuild its

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Speaker 2: own its own forces and come back again, which is

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Speaker 2: what everyone's been worried about.

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Speaker 1: That was Bloomberg's Michael Heath. The US is still in

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Speaker 1: pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela. That is,

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Speaker 1: according to a US official, as President Trump intensified and

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Speaker 1: oil blockade on Nicholas Maduro's government. We're told that tanker

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Speaker 1: being pursued is flying under a false flag and under

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Speaker 1: judicial seizure order, and that it is believed to be

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Speaker 1: the below one tanker, a Panamanian flag vessel sanctioned by

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Speaker 1: the US. Meantime, Oklahoma Republican Senator James Langford spoke about

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Speaker 1: the Trump Administration's policy toward Venezuela. He spoke on CNN's

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Speaker 1: State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: If you break it, you buy it. We've seen that

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Speaker 3: when we pushed out the leadership in Libya, and it's

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Speaker 3: just a collapsed, failed state at this point. We want

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Speaker 3: the people of Venezuela to be able to have the power,

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Speaker 3: to be able to choose their own leaders and for

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Speaker 3: them to be able to control their own destiny on it.

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Speaker 1: That's Oklahoma Republican Senator James Langford speaking on CNN's State

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Speaker 1: of the Union. The pursuit of the tanker comes after

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Speaker 1: the US administration announced Saturday it had seized a tanker

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Speaker 1: for the second time in less than two weeks. In

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Speaker 1: the past forty eight hours, the Justice Department released thousands

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Speaker 1: of pages of documents from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. However,

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Speaker 1: many of the pages were either part actually or fully redacted,

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Speaker 1: which the DOJ says is to protect the more than

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred victims and their families identified in them. Now,

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Speaker 1: Congressional Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of trying to

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Speaker 1: hide the information and violating the law. Here's California Democratic

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Speaker 1: Congressman ro Kenna speaking on CBS's Face the Nation.

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Speaker 4: The redactions were excessive, and even Harvard law professions who

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Speaker 4: have looked at that have said, you can't redact internal communications,

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Speaker 4: you can't redact workforce product, and the courts are going

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Speaker 4: to find that these were excessive.

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Speaker 1: That was California Democratic Congressman Rokenna speaking on CBS's Face

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Speaker 1: to Nation.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: The Justice Department made a decision to remove over a

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Speaker 1: dozen photographs on Saturday that have been released that includes

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Speaker 1: images of President Trump, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and

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Speaker 1: sists had nothing to do with protecting Trump.

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Speaker 6: You can see in that photo there's photographs of women,

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Speaker 6: and so we learned after releasing that photograph that there

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Speaker 6: were concerns about those women and the fact that we

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Speaker 6: had put that photo up, so we pulled that photo down.

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Speaker 6: Is nothing to do with President Trump.

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Speaker 7: There are dozens of photos of President Trump already released

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Speaker 7: to the public seeing him with mister Epstein. He has

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Speaker 7: said that in the nineties and early two thousands he

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Speaker 7: socialized with him. So the absurdity of us pulling down

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Speaker 7: a photo, a single photo because President Trump was in

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Speaker 7: it is laughable.

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Speaker 1: That's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanchett NBC's Meet. Depressed Americans

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Speaker 1: are bracing for a surgeon health insurance premiums as the

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Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. In January, the House is set

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Speaker 1: to vote on extending the credits three more years, with

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Speaker 1: that bill expected to pass, but Senate Majority Leader John

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Speaker 1: Thune says it would be dead on arrival. House Minority

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Speaker 1: Leader Hakim Jeffries spoke about this on ABC's This Week.

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Speaker 8: Pass a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax

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Speaker 8: credits so we can keep healthcare affordable for tens of

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Speaker 8: millions of Americans who deserve to be able to go

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Speaker 8: see a doctor when they need one.

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Speaker 1: That's pass. Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries speaking on ABA this Week.

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Speaker 1: Republicans must advance more of President Trump's agenda if they

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Speaker 1: want to vote a quote disastrous twenty twenty six mid

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Speaker 1: term election. Bloomberg's Aamy Morris explains from Washington.

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Speaker 5: South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mays told Bloomberg Government that

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Speaker 5: Republicans need to make a Congressional stock trading ban, term limits,

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Speaker 5: and national voter ID law top priorities. She also advocated

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Speaker 5: for other measures like deporting violent undocumented immigrants and infrastructure improvements.

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Speaker 5: Mace is leaving Congress to run for governor of South Carolina,

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Speaker 5: and she warned that Republicans could lose the House in

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Speaker 5: a quote bloodbath if they don't implement President Trump's agenda.

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Speaker 5: In Washington, Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: It's a holiday shortened trading week ahead, but there's still

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Speaker 1: items to watch on the economic calendar. Bloomberg's Karen Moscow

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Speaker 1: has more.

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Speaker 9: We get the bulk of the data on Tuesday, and

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Speaker 9: that's when we get her report on third quarter gross

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Speaker 9: domestic product that was delayed by the government shutdown. We'll

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Speaker 9: also get a look at industrial production, durable goods order,

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Speaker 9: and consumer confidence. Wednesday, the US and most European financial

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Speaker 9: markets will close early for Christmas Eve, and markets who

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Speaker 9: are remain closed Thursday for the Christmas holiday. While trading

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Speaker 9: in the US resumes on Friday, some markets in Europe,

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Speaker 9: as well as the UK and Canada are closed for

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Speaker 9: a boxing day. Karen Moscow Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, and that's news when you want it with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman, and this is Bloomberg