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

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Speaker 2: News When you wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm med Koalanki.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has secured yet another primary victory in his

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Speaker 2: quest for the Republican presidential nomination. The former president has

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Speaker 2: been declared the winner in Saturday South Carolina contest, where

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Speaker 2: Trump has secured his fifth consecutive win this primary season.

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Speaker 2: Trump easily defeated former two term South Carolina Governor Nikki Hanley.

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Speaker 2: Even before today's loss, Hanley had vowed to stay in

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Speaker 2: the race at least through Super Tuesday on March fifth,

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Speaker 2: although questions about her candidacy's viability will now be raised

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Speaker 2: considering today's loss at her home state. Donald Trump should

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Speaker 2: tap Christy Noam or Vivek Ramaswami as his running mate

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Speaker 2: ahead of a likely November rematch with President Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: This according to attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference NOME.

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Speaker 2: The South Dakota governor in Ramaswami and Ohio businessman who

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Speaker 2: ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination, tied with fifteen percent

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Speaker 2: support among Sea Pack attendees at the conference, held outside

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Speaker 2: of Washington. When asked in a strawphole who Trump should

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Speaker 2: pick as his vice presidential candidate. The US and its

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Speaker 2: allies conducted a new round of strikes against several targets

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Speaker 2: and Hoothy controlled areas of Yemen Saturday, seeking to disrupt

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Speaker 2: the group's ability to threaten global shipping. The strikes targeted

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Speaker 2: eighteen sites, including Hoothy underground weapons storage facilities and missile

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Speaker 2: storage facilities, as well as one way attack unmanned aerial

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Speaker 2: systems and air defense systems. This according to a joint

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Speaker 2: statement by the US, Australia, Bahrain, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and the UK. Despite repeated strikes by the

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Speaker 2: US and its partners, the m And based militants have

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Speaker 2: continued their attacks against vessels in the Red Sea, ostensibly

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Speaker 2: as a means of pressuring Israel to end its warring

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Speaker 2: Gaza against Hamas. The assaults have helped push oil prices

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Speaker 2: and upended trade through the waterway. KKR and Company is

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Speaker 2: near a deal worth about four billion dollars to buy

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Speaker 2: a software business from Broadcom. This according to people with

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Speaker 2: knowledge of the matter. The acquisition could be announced as

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Speaker 2: early as Monday. According to the people who asked not

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Speaker 2: to be identified, as the tales have not yet been

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Speaker 2: made public. Broadcom is selling the so called end user

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Speaker 2: computer unit, which it inherited as part of its sixty

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Speaker 2: one billion dollar acquisition of software maker VMware in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three. K Kar declined to comment. Broadcom did not

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Speaker 2: immediately respond to a request for comment. President Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: and fellow leaders from the Group of Seven are trying

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Speaker 2: to assure Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky of their support as

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Speaker 2: Russia's war against this country enters its third year. More

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Speaker 2: from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 1: The leaders held a video conference to mark two years

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Speaker 1: since Russia's full scale invasion. Kiev's weapons stockpile is running

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Speaker 1: low and the prospect of a protracted stalemate on the

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Speaker 1: battlefield is intensifying. President Biden and Zelensky were joined by

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Speaker 1: the leaders of Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany and the UK,

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Speaker 1: plus the Ford Minister from Friends and several high level

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Speaker 1: EU officials, and they pledged to step up assistance to

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Speaker 1: Ukraine as USA to Ukraine remain installed in Congress by Republicans.

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Speaker 1: The European Union, Japan and Canada have promised more aid

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Speaker 1: and the G seven said it would also impose fresh

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Speaker 1: sanctions on Russia, and it paid tribute to the late

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Speaker 1: Russian dissident Alexi Navalni Denise Pelgrity Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Congress returns from its President's state break this week with

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Speaker 2: one big task to fulfill. Bloomberg's Nathan Hager reports from Washington.

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Speaker 3: The task is to head off yet another government shut

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Speaker 3: down deadline. The Senate returns Monday. The House is back Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: but agencies will start to run out of funds on

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Speaker 3: Friday unless Congress acts. Several lobbying firms tell Bloomberg Government

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Speaker 3: the risk of a partial shutdown is real with a

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Speaker 3: novice speaker, a divided House, GOP and appropriations bills locked

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Speaker 3: in debate over culture war writers like abortion in Washington.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: And if you thought checked bag fees were already high,

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Speaker 2: brace Yourselfloomberg's Nancy Lions reports they're going even higher.

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Speaker 4: United is the latest carrier to increase fees for checked bags,

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Speaker 4: going from thirty five dollars for your first bag to

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Speaker 4: forty dollars. It's already taken effect the fee for a

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Speaker 4: second bag. Is now fifty dollars. You will receive, though

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Speaker 4: a five dollars discount if you prepay. United's announcement came

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Speaker 4: just days after American said it was adding a five

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Speaker 4: dollars bump to its bag fees, with frequent flyers being excluded.

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Speaker 4: JetBlue also raised fees this month. Airlines have seen increasing

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Speaker 4: costs for labor and jet fuel, and unions have seen

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Speaker 4: double digit pay increases. I'm Nancy Lions Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: There's a way around it. We're nineteen layers of clothes.

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Speaker 2: When you're flying. You don't even need to bring a bag.

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Speaker 2: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now

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