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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 1: We begin with previously confidential documents related to Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 1: now made public in federal court in New York. This

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Speaker 1: follows a year's long battle over their release. The documents

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Speaker 1: were part of a twenty fifteen lawsuit against Epstein associate

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Speaker 1: Glene Maxwell, who's serving a twenty year sentence for sex trafficking.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg editor Tony Aaron says, most of these documents have

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Speaker 1: been seen, but there'd been redactions.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people had thought there'd be some massive

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Speaker 3: client list or a nice list of names that would

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Speaker 3: be easy for them to follow.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't anything like that.

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Speaker 3: We've been getting about so far, about forty of what's

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Speaker 3: probably going to be hundreds of documents, and in those

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Speaker 3: we've seen names like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew Britain, and

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Speaker 3: a few others that are all very very familiar.

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Speaker 1: And Bloomberg's Tony Aaron says former President Clinton Andrev denied

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Speaker 1: knowing about or participating in Epstein's appropriate conduct.

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Speaker 2: Well, Nathan. Ties to Epstein have led to career downfalls

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Speaker 2: for former Barclay CEO Jess Staley and Apollo Global Management

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Speaker 2: co founder Leon Black, and they've harnished reputations of other

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Speaker 2: high profile figures like Bill Gates and Leslie Wexner, though

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Speaker 2: all have denied knowing about or participating in an inappropriate

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Speaker 2: conduct with Epstein. Virginia Juphrey is the Epstein victim who

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Speaker 2: sued to have these documents released. Paul Pelletier is a

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Speaker 2: former federal prosecutor who's been following the case.

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Speaker 1: Part of the reason why Jeffrey Epstein was prosecuted in

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Speaker 1: New York, or at least was indicted in New York,

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Speaker 1: was because Virginia Giffrey would not stop.

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Speaker 2: And former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier was speaking there. Jeffrey

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Speaker 2: Epstein was charged with sex trafficking in July twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: but died by suicide in a Manhattan prison cell before

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Speaker 2: he could stand trial.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Karen, Let's turn to politics in the US now.

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Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump is now asking the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: to overturn the ruling and Colorado that has kicked him

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Speaker 1: off that state's primary ballot. Bloomberg Legal editor Eric Latterson

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Speaker 1: says this appeal has a number of possible outcomes.

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Speaker 3: The court could rule, for example, that the Colorado Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court didn't give Trump to process. That's another argument that

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Speaker 3: Trump is making. He's also arguing Detection three of the

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Speaker 3: Fourteenth amend that which you borrow's insurrectionist from holding office

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Speaker 3: federal office, doesn't apply to the office of the presidency,

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Speaker 3: and the Supreme Court could overturn that Colorado decision based

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Speaker 3: only on those findings that they wished, without weighing in

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Speaker 3: on whether Trump was an insurrection.

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Speaker 1: In Bloomberg's Eric Larson says the former president faces many

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Speaker 1: ongoing legal cases, but he is still the front runner

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Speaker 1: for the Republican presidential nomination.

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Speaker 2: Now Nathan to an issue that's expected to weigh heavily

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Speaker 2: on voters' minds in the twenty twenty four presidential election.

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Speaker 2: Immigration at the southern border. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson

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Speaker 2: is pushing for a GOP only border bill, Democrats argue

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Speaker 2: goes too far in securing the US border with Mexico.

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Speaker 2: Johnson led a GOP delegation into the border yesterday as

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Speaker 2: Republicans look to pressure Democrats on border policy changes. The

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Speaker 2: impassover immigration has complicated congressional talks to avert a partial

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Speaker 2: government shut down later this month, and puts more than

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Speaker 1: As for rising tensions in the Middle East, care and

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Speaker 1: authorities in Iran say two deadly explosions in a central

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Speaker 1: province our retaliation for its stance against Israel. The US

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Speaker 1: says it has nothing to do with the attacks. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Ed Baxter has the details, and.

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Speaker 5: It says neither did Israel. Iran is characterizing them as

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Speaker 5: terror attacks. More than one hundred people killed. The blastnare

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Speaker 5: the grave of Iranian commander Solomane. US State Department quick

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Speaker 5: to respond, spokesman Matthew Miller, I do.

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Speaker 4: Want to address some of the irresponsible claims that I

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Speaker 4: have seen circulate and say that number one, the United

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Speaker 4: States was not involved in any way, and any suggestion

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Speaker 5: Miller says it's in no one's interest to see the

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Speaker 5: leader Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, ed, thank you well. Separately, more than a

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Speaker 2: dozen countries we're in the around backed Houthi group in

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Speaker 2: The attacks have disrupted global commerce and triggered a build

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Speaker 2: up of Western naval power in the area. Sources say

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Speaker 2: the Houthis. I'm a concern that the maritime task force

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Speaker 1: Let's turn out to the economy, Karen and the release

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Speaker 1: of the December FED minutes. Officials expect rates to remain

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Speaker 1: rates have probably peaked, and Richmond FED President Thomas Barkin

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Speaker 1: says a soft landing is not inevitable.

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Speaker 6: I'd caution you to focus less on the rate path

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Speaker 6: and more on the flight path. Is inflation continuing its

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Speaker 6: descent and is the broader economy continuing to fly smoothly?

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Speaker 6: Conviction on both questions will determine the pace and timing

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Speaker 1: Richmond Fed president Thomas bark And also did not rule

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Speaker 2: And in corporate news, Nathan's social media giant TikTok's looking

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Speaker 2: to grow the size of its US e commerce business

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Speaker 2: tenfold to as much as seventeen point five billion dollars

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Speaker 2: this year. Bloombergy tech reporter Alex Spirinka says TikTok's ambitious

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Speaker 2: target may pose a bigger spread to Amazon.

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Speaker 7: Where TikTok is winning is on the fees they're imposing

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Speaker 7: on verchips.

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Speaker 2: They will be raising those fees.

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Speaker 7: To six percent in April eight percent in July, but

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Speaker 7: those fees are still lower than Amazon seller fees. On TikTok,

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Speaker 7: They're hoping that you're so engaged in trance and have

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Speaker 7: an emotional connection to the people who are posting these

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Speaker 7: videos that you trust them when they say they like

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Speaker 7: a product, and that makes you want.

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Speaker 8: To buy it.

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Speaker 2: And that's Bloomberg's Alex Spirenka. Now for a look at

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Speaker 2: some of the other stories making news around the world,

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Speaker 2: and for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris. Samy.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good.

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Speaker 1: Morning, Karen.

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Speaker 8: We're watching a winter storm that's expected to bring snow, rain,

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Speaker 8: and wind to the East this weekend. Bloomberg meteorologist Rob

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Speaker 8: Carolyn has details.

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Speaker 9: First significant storm of the season looks like it's headed

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Speaker 9: towards the Northeast and mid Atlantic this weekend. Now, the

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Speaker 9: major cities are probably going to be spared heavy snowfall

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Speaker 9: and that's going to result in probably a three to

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 8: If this does materialize, it would be the first measurable

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Speaker 8: snow in two years for DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

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Speaker 8: A bomb thread email to officials several states yesterday briefly

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Speaker 8: the FBI quickly dismissed the threats as a hoax. Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,

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Speaker 5: I'm not even sure what would motivate somebody to do

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Speaker 3: In loss of life.

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Speaker 8: The FBI says it takes hoax threats very seriously and

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Speaker 8: that investigation is ongoing. We told you how Donald Trump's

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Speaker 8: secretary of State that he is ineligible to appear on

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Speaker 8: the state's GOP primary ballot. Will Fellow GOP presidential candidates

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Speaker 8: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who says taking Trump off

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Speaker 8: Haley says she's not surprised to see Trump in a

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Speaker 11: John Canon, the Lakers have hoisted a Championship enner this season.

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Speaker 11: They won that NBA in season tournament, but overall they're

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Speaker 11: beaten by Seaton Hall, sixteenths Bank Clemson lost at Miami.

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Speaker 11: It's week eighteen. A lot of the teams, already knowing

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Speaker 11: the seedings, so not surprisingly will not play their starting

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Speaker 11: quarterback this weekend. No Lamar Jackson for the Ravens will

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Speaker 11: be replaced by Tyler Hunley. Joe Flacco will sit out

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Speaker 11: for the Browns. It will be Jeff Driscoll no Patrick

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Speaker 11: Mahomes with a Chiefs Blaine Gabbertt replaces him. Carson Wentz

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Speaker 11: out Rock part Perty who's going to the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 11: Bowl players, seven from the Cowboys and Ravens, six from

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Speaker 11: the Dolphins and the Eagles. Trevor Lawrence will play for Jacksonville.

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Speaker 11: The Jaguars, with a win will win the AFC South.

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Speaker 11: He missed last week's game and Josh Allen's got the stinger,

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Speaker 11: but he will play for the Bills in a big

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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager on a morning of busy

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Speaker 1: news flow. Jeffrey Epstein's ties to politics and Wall Street

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Speaker 1: are back in the spotlight with the release of dozens

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Speaker 1: of formerly sealed documents. Donald Trump is taking his fight

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Let's start off with the revelations,

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Speaker 1: year's long effort to get them out. Did they shed

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Speaker 1: any new light on Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

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Speaker 10: Well, so far there aren't too many surprises. So these

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Speaker 10: of documents identifying more than one hundred and fifty people.

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Speaker 10: These are documents that had been filed and redacted as

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Speaker 10: part of a twenty fifteen lawsuit against just Laying Ma Well. She,

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Speaker 10: of course, was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. She was

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Speaker 10: He himself died in prison before he ever went to trial.

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Speaker 10: So some of the names that were in the unsealed

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Speaker 10: documents included former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew Written. These

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Speaker 10: are names that had already been out there. Former President

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Speaker 10: Epstein's plane. So there's maybe more news, more revelations as

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Speaker 10: more of the documents are unsealed, but for now, no

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people have been following this case.

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Speaker 1: Bruce had been expecting or speculating at least that there

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Speaker 1: might be some kind of client list that's been under

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Speaker 1: seal in New York Federal Court. Do we have any

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Speaker 1: indication at this point that such a list exists and

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Speaker 10: It's possible. At the moment, we don't know about a

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Speaker 1: No, Okay, let's turn to what might have been the

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Speaker 1: other major story otherwise, former President Trump taking his fight

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Speaker 10: Yes, and the arguments that former President Trump makes are interesting.

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Speaker 10: He has a couple of different arguments that he makes

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Speaker 10: he said that one that it would move would unconstitutionally

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Speaker 10: President Trump s luers, it meant taking up arms and

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Speaker 10: that the fourteenth Amendment should be read now, and therefore

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Speaker 10: also argued that the fourteenth Amendment, which says very specifically

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