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Speaker 1: Morris and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, We begin in Washington with a major story out

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Speaker 2: of the US Treasury. The Treasury Department says it was

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Speaker 2: hacked earlier this month by Chinese based cyber attackers. In

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Speaker 2: a letter to Congress, Treasury says the major cybersecurity incident

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Speaker 2: led to unauthorized accessing of workstations and unclassified documents. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: John Harney says the news is likely to further complicate

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Speaker 3: US China relationship whi's cover a vast bass scope for

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Speaker 3: issues and agendas, etc. Has been improving somewhat, but this,

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Speaker 3: as a trumpet administration is about to take office, suggests

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg editor John Harney says the hackers gained access via

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Speaker 2: a third party software provider, Beyond Trust, which has contracts

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Speaker 2: with the Defense and Justice Departments. In a statement, the

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Speaker 2: Chinese Embassy in Washington called the claims smear attacks against

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Speaker 2: China without any factual basis.

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Speaker 1: Well Lamy over on Capitol Hill, the House votes Friday

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Speaker 1: on the speaker of the next US Congress, but Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson's reelection bid remains uncertain. Yesterday, President elect Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: one GOP vote, and yesterday, Arizona Representative Andy Biggs told

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Speaker 1: Fox News he has not publicly or privately committed to

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Speaker 1: voting for Johnson, and GOP representatives Andy Harris of Maryland

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Speaker 4: When it comes to the legislature, this is an incredibly

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Speaker 4: a majority of one, and good luck renegotiating the tax

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Speaker 1: Bloomer's Joe Matthew shes the Republicans who have signed possible

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Speaker 2: Elsewhere in Washington, President Biden marked Thursday, January ninth as

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Speaker 2: a long standing American tradition. Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall has more

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Speaker 5: We are expecting there to be a funeral procession first,

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall says President Biden has also expected to

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Speaker 1: Well in politics overseas, amy German leaders are expressing anger

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Speaker 1: German Chancellor Oloff Schultz said German citizens alone will decide

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Speaker 1: Other major parties attacked Musk after he expressed support for

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Speaker 1: the AfD party. With less than two months until the election,

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, over in Asia, we are seeing positive signs from

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Speaker 1: Well elsewhere in Asia, amy a South Korean court as

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Speaker 2: Let's turn out to markets. On the final trading day

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Speaker 2: Anna wrathbund Cio at SEBIZ says, with the FED expected

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Speaker 7: We need to revisit that and we need to really

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Speaker 2: To be price volatility and our wrathbund Cio at Sea

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Speaker 1: And finally, amy as we ring in the new year,

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Speaker 1: We get more on that with the Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 6: Those estimates say the global population increased by more than

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Speaker 6: seventy one million people in twenty twenty four, representing a

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Speaker 6: The nation is expected to have one berth every nine

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Speaker 6: January of twenty twenty five, in New York, Charlie Pellett

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Speaker 6: Bloomberg Radio, it.

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Speaker 1: Is time now for look at some of the other

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Speaker 8: Morning, Good morning, Karen Sight. Securities plan for New Year's celebrations,

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Speaker 8: but no specific threats. According to law enforcement, Times Square

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Speaker 8: come here to visit and enjoyed the ball drop will

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Speaker 8: be safe. In Atlanta, large crowds are expected for the

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Speaker 8: Peach Drop returning this year after a hiatus in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 8: It's the oldest continuous Folk Day parade and a New

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Speaker 8: congestion pricing on communities in New Jersey. Lisaid Daglian is

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Speaker 8: But New Jersey lawmakers disagree. New Jersey Congressman Josh Gotdheimer.

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Speaker 11: And the way New Jersey's lawyers are responding is when

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Speaker 8: The judge set a deadline of January seventeenth for New

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Speaker 8: York to respond. President elect Donald Trump lost a bid

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Speaker 8: sexual abuse and defamation. A federal appeals scored uphill the

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Speaker 8: damages awarded to e Gene Carrell. The columnists hailed the

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Speaker 8: a department store dressing room about thirty years ago. Global

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Speaker 8: News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want

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Speaker 8: it with the Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Michael Barn. This

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Speaker 3: Karen.

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael Barn, thank you time now for the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by tries Dade Audie.

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Speaker 1: We bring in Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 12: Dan, good morning, Good morning, Karen. The line's improving to

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Speaker 12: playoffs resuming tonight in Glendale, Arizona, with the first to

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Speaker 12: four quarter final matchups as the third seed Boise State

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Speaker 12: Kickoff is scheduled for seven thirty pm Eastern time. Light

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Speaker 12: schedule on the NHL Rangers, though lose their fifteenth game

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Speaker 12: Metropolitan Division. That's your Bloomberg Sports update. I'm Dan Schwartzman,

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Speaker 12: Karen and Amy.

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Speaker 2: And the Treasury Department says Chinese hackers have remotely accessed

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Speaker 10: Good morning, Amy. So Beyond Trust is that third party

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Speaker 10: as well. It's a contract that's worth more than four

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Speaker 10: million dollars. That's according to data compiled by Bloomberg. But Amy,

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Speaker 10: I think what's scary here is that this is a

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Speaker 10: kind of notification that Beyond Trust gave to the US

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Speaker 10: they also Beyond Trust also does business with other departments

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Speaker 10: So it's uncleared the extent to which this has been

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Speaker 10: But so far, all we know is that Beyond Trust

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Speaker 10: had notified the Treasury that a certain amount of kind

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Speaker 10: of data and contact information, et cetera from an undisclosed

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Speaker 10: number of Americans was accessed by this hacker that they

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Speaker 10: have now traced back to China.

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Speaker 2: Now, this is coming right after US officials dealing with

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Speaker 2: the fallout of another cyber espionage campaign access in those

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Speaker 2: Are we going to see more of this? What's going

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Speaker 10: I mean, we don't know if we're going to see

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Speaker 10: the pattern that the Chinese government is trying to get

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Speaker 10: kind of being very outspoken about this, saying, quote, spare

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Speaker 10: to stop using cybersecurity to smear and slander China and

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Speaker 10: stop spreading all kinds of disinformation about the so called

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Speaker 10: embassy in Washington, which really speaks to this trend. Amy,

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Speaker 10: as you said that this has been coming out of

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Speaker 10: There's just clear that the US government is exposed in

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Speaker 2: A broader look at this, as you said very rightly,

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Speaker 10: They absolutely aren't at a time when we know not

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Speaker 10: mention some of the kind of spyware and cybersecurity threats

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you mentioned that other agencies that use this

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Speaker 2: third party vendor maybe at risk. It isn't clear yet,

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Speaker 10: This, It absolutely could. And remember we are not only

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Speaker 10: several kind of data and cybersecurity providers with CrowdStrike led

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Speaker 10: to a global outage, a grounding of flights that the

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Speaker 10: that's getting a little bit scarier. And Amy are sure

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Speaker 2: You talk about AI.

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Speaker 10: This is just another element where cybersecurity has to be

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Speaker 10: kind of intertwined with that story. But in terms of

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Speaker 10: using the software, you also have to talk about what

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