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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News Now I made

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Speaker 1: Kalgi insurgents stunning march across Syria accelerated Saturday with news

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Speaker 1: that they had reached the gates of the capitol and

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Speaker 1: that government forces had abandoned the central city of Hams.

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Speaker 1: The government was forced to deny rumors that President Bashar

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Speaker 1: al Assad had fled the country. The loss of Hams

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Speaker 1: is a potentially crippling blow for Assad. It stands at

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Speaker 1: an important intersection between Damascus and Tartus, the Syrian leader's

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Speaker 1: base of support and home to a Russian strategic naval base.

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Speaker 1: The pro government sham FM news outlet reported that government

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Speaker 1: forces took positions outside Syria's third largest city, without elaborating.

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Speaker 1: Rami Adurahaman, who heads the Britain based Syrian Observatory for

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Speaker 1: Human Rights, said Syrian troops and members of different security

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Speaker 1: agencies have withdrawn from the city, adding that rebels have

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Speaker 1: entered parts of it. President Elike Donald Trump said Saturday

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Speaker 1: that the United States should avoid engaging militarily in Syria

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Speaker 1: amid an opposition offensive that has reached the capital suburbs

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Speaker 1: and the gates of the capitol, declaring in a social

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Speaker 1: media post, this is not our fight. He argued that

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Speaker 1: Syrian President Bashar al Asad did not deserve US support

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Speaker 1: to stay in power. The US is committing an additional

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty eight million dollars to help Ukraine

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Speaker 1: fight Russia's invasion, including munitions for rocket systems and unmanned

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Speaker 1: aerial systems. This according to the Defense Department, The aid

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Speaker 1: by President Joe Biden's administration is meant to ensure Ukraine

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Speaker 1: has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight

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Speaker 1: against Russian aggression. The Pentagon said this in a statement Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It's the administration's twenty second package of security assistance to Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: The announcement came on the same day that President elect Trump,

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, and French President Imanuel Macrone met

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Speaker 1: in Paris during Trump's first foreign visit since he won

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Speaker 1: re election in November. A great backpack retrieved in New

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Speaker 1: York Central Park, matching the description of one carried by

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Speaker 1: the suspected killer of Health Insurance Executive Brian Thompson, contained

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Speaker 1: a jacket but not a gun. This, according to people

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Speaker 1: with knowledge of the matter, only a jacket was found

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Speaker 1: in the backpack, said the people, who asked not to

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Speaker 1: be identified without authorization to speak publicly about the case.

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Speaker 1: They offered no further details Saturday on the guardment, such

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Speaker 1: as whether it was similar to one captured on surveillance

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Speaker 1: cameras around Manhattan. Prospect Capital's private credit fund has been

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Speaker 1: cut to junk by S and P. We get more

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Speaker 1: in that from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 2: S and P Global Ratings is citing losses and deteriorating

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Speaker 2: credit quality as reasons for lowering Prospect Capital cores rating

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Speaker 2: to double B plus, saying the fund has a higher

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Speaker 2: proportion of income from certain payment in kind arrangements and

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Speaker 2: more debt on a non accrual status compared to peers. Also,

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Speaker 2: Prospects Stock Trade set a discount to its net asset

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Speaker 2: value that limits its ability to raise funding from equity

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Speaker 2: markets to support growth, according to some last month, to

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Speaker 2: fund cut the dividend it distributes to investors for the

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Speaker 2: first time in seven years. Prospect has publicly defended its

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Speaker 2: twenty year track record, saying it has access to diversified

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Speaker 2: sources of funding and it sees its payment and kind

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Speaker 2: arrangements as appropriate for some borrowers. Denise Pellgritty Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: The lead up to the twenty twenty four election was

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Speaker 1: all about cat owners, but in the end, the dogs

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Speaker 1: had their day. Bloomberg's Amy Marris reports from Washington.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump won more than half of voters who owned

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Speaker 3: either cats or dogs, and he had a big assist

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Speaker 3: from dog owners. That's according to ap vote Cast, a

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Speaker 3: survey of more than one hundred and twenty thousand voters.

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Speaker 3: Dog owners were much more likely to support Trump over

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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. Cat owners were evenly split between the two candidates,

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Speaker 3: but Harris did end up decisively winning support from women

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Speaker 3: who own a cat but no dog. Passed. Comments by

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Speaker 3: Trump's running mate Jade Vance about childless cat ladies briefly

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Speaker 3: became a campaign issue in Washington. Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio, and.

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Speaker 1: If all you have is a hamster, you're on your own.

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Speaker 1: South Kurry is brush with martial law is a reminder

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Speaker 1: that democracy is not self sustaining the end of passive democracy.

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