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

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Speaker 2: Good morning, It's finder the ninth of February in London.

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Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg DAYBAQ podcast, available every morning on Apple,

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Speaker 2: Spotify or wherever you listen. I'm Caroline Hepki.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Stephen Carroll. Coming up today. Putin takes a

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Speaker 3: hardline on Ukraine and his interview with the US right

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Speaker 3: wing commentator Tucker Carlson.

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Hunt says that he's very attracted by the idea

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Speaker 2: of a British ISA to boost the UK stock market.

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Speaker 3: And to hail Mary Pass. Why an NFL succession crisis

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Speaker 3: is forcing teams to let private equity in.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with a roundup of our top stories.

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Speaker 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country hasn't yet achieved

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Speaker 3: its objectives in Ukraine. Putin made the comments in an

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Speaker 3: interview with the right wing US commentator and former Fox

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Speaker 3: News presenter Tucker Carlson. It's the first time the Russian

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Speaker 3: leader has given an interview to a Western media figure

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Speaker 3: since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Here's what he said in the interview with the Tucker

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Speaker 3: Carlson Network.

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Speaker 4: If you really want to stop fighting, you need to

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Speaker 4: stop supplying weapons. It will be over within a few weeks.

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Speaker 4: That's it, and then we can agree on some terms.

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Speaker 3: That's Latimir Putin, speaking via a translator. Tucker Carlson, who

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Speaker 3: conducted the interview as a prominent Donald Trump supporter and

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Speaker 3: has used his media platform to question US support for

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Speaker 3: Ukraine and to defend the Kremlin. Meanwhile, Ukraine's ambassadors the

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Speaker 3: United States has warned that her country's facing a critical

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Speaker 3: shortage of military hardware, even as she expressed optimism that

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Speaker 3: American lawmakers will overcome their deadlock and deliver aid to

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Speaker 2: President Joe Biden says that there is nothing wrong with

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Speaker 2: his memory. The president was reacting to a US Special

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Speaker 2: Council report that described him as an elderly man with

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Speaker 2: a poor memory and chronicled repeated occasions where he's struggle

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Speaker 2: to recall basic facts in his life. In an impromptu

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Speaker 2: White House news conference, Biden, who is eighty one, answered

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Speaker 2: defiantly to questions about his capacity to continue serving as president.

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Speaker 5: My memory is My memory is fine.

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Speaker 6: My memory. Take a look at what I've done since

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Speaker 6: the recompression.

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Speaker 4: None of us thought I could pass any of the

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Speaker 1: How'd that happen?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 6: I guess I just forgot what was going on.

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Speaker 2: Piden's comments came after the report by a Justice Department

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Speaker 2: Special Council found that the President knowingly stored and disclosed

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Speaker 2: classified information kept in unsecured locations at his homes. However,

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Speaker 2: investigators concluded the evidence does not establish mister Biden's guilt

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Speaker 2: beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Speaker 3: The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says regulators are monitoring

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Speaker 3: risks stemming from non bank mortgage lenders. Speaking to the

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Speaker 3: Senate Banking Committee, Yellen caution that a failure of one

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Speaker 3: of them is possible in the case of market strains.

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Speaker 6: Non bank mortgage companies lack access to the deposits which

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Speaker 6: banks have. There is concern that in stressful market conditions,

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Speaker 6: we could see the failure of one of these.

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Speaker 3: That's the US Treasury Secretary Channet Yellen. Non banks have

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Speaker 3: become a major presence in the mortgage market, but rely

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Speaker 3: on short term funding instruments to fund their operations and

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Speaker 3: have seen rapid growth in recent years. They also aren't

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Speaker 3: allowed to access the federal reserves emergency lending facility, not

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Speaker 3: as the discount window.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: New rules in the United States will force hedge funds

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Speaker 2: to share more details about their investment strategies. Funds with

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Speaker 2: net assets of at least five hundred million dollars will

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Speaker 2: be subject to changes, including reporting separately on each component

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Speaker 2: of a fund and revealing how they're investing in crypto.

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Speaker 2: It's an expansion of the current quarterly filing system for

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Speaker 2: big managers. Regulator to say it's a better way to

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Speaker 2: keep tabs on risk in the financial system.

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Speaker 3: Here in the UK, the Chancellor is very attracted to

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Speaker 3: the idea of the British iSER, form of tax free

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Speaker 3: Bloombrooks twa Adebayo has the details.

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Speaker 7: Various investors and city grandees have called on Jeremy Hunt

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Speaker 7: to encourage Brits to invest in their own stock market.

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Speaker 7: According to the Chancellor, a British iSER might now be

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Speaker 7: the answer. During a fireside chat with Bloomberg's Francine Laquire

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Speaker 7: at an industry dinner, Hunt said the scheme could prove

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Speaker 7: Just last year, an open letter published in the Timed newspaper,

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Speaker 7: Jeremy Hunt reiterated that the contents of his upcoming March

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Speaker 7: budget haven't been decided in London. Tewa Adebayo Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: Radio Conservative Party donor Nick Candy is backing a change

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Speaker 2: of government to labor. The UK property tycoon told Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: that it's probably time for a change in the country's leadership.

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Speaker 2: He also had praise for the opposition leader Kirs Starmer.

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Speaker 5: Something I'm naturally a Tory. I voted for Tony Blair

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Speaker 5: for a change. I think all this is inviting in

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Speaker 5: the Tories, and even now with the talks of Chemi

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Speaker 5: should know what's going on and based on that, maybe

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Speaker 5: it's time for some change. But we still don't know

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Speaker 5: the labor policies. But do I think Kis Starmer is

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Speaker 5: a decent man with good values and good modes one

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Speaker 2: Candy's comments come four years after he donated one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand pounds to the Conservatives during the Boris Johnson administration.

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Speaker 2: Despite supporting a change in government, the entrepreneur expressed doubts

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Speaker 3: Labor I, meanwhile, as slash to Key pledge to spend

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Speaker 3: Kiir Starmer confirmed a new annual spending target of four

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Speaker 3: point seventy four billion on the party's so called Green

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Speaker 3: Prosperity Plan. The opposition leader blamed government spending mistakes for

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Speaker 8: We won't reach the twenty eight billion pounds in visage

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Speaker 8: that figure is effectively stood down. The reason for that

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Speaker 8: is because since we announced the twenty eight billion, the

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Speaker 8: tours have done terrible damage to our economy, not just

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Speaker 8: the Liz Trust's budget, but also now the government briefing

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Speaker 8: that it's going to max out on the government credit

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Speaker 8: card reckless. But I have to anticipate the circumstances as

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Speaker 8: they are now, not as I'd wish them to be.

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Speaker 3: That's the Labor leader Kiers Starmer and irresponding to the news,

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister Ishisinak said the uncertainty surrounding Labour's plan poses

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Speaker 3: a real risk to the country's future. In a moment,

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Speaker 3: we'll bring you more in Vladimir Putin's interview and why

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Speaker 3: private equity is moving into American football. But first we're

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Speaker 3: discussing recently on the program this phenomenon of doom spending.

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Speaker 3: Younger people in particular are choosing to spend their savings

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Speaker 3: because they feel like big financial milestones like buying home

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Speaker 3: stress but the state of the world's Instead, they're buying

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Speaker 3: themselves nice things. So Sarah Sarah Green Carmak from Bloomberg

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Speaker 3: Opinion has been writing about this with a warning. Don't

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Speaker 3: do it, essentially is her message, and now She particularly

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Speaker 3: points to how more young women are doom spending than

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Speaker 3: more than men, are more likely to say that debt

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Speaker 3: has led them to delay major life milestones like marriage,

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Speaker 3: home ownership, and children. Women are also more likely to

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Speaker 3: say their debts are unmanageable. Her advice is real self

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Speaker 3: care is setting and sticking to a budget, and while

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Speaker 3: you might not be able to achieve the ideal goals

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Speaker 3: in the long term. And whereas you can splurge, we

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Speaker 3: all want to, but perhaps to scale back the scale

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Speaker 3: of your splurging.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, I guess this sounds very sensible. It's far

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Speaker 2: two cents, and I totally agree with Sarah. I had

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Speaker 2: not understood this idea of doom spending, but I would

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Speaker 2: probably compare it to skiing, right, which is spending the

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Speaker 2: kids inheritance. So that's kind of the flip actual skiing. No, no,

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Speaker 2: not actual skiing, but you know the other which that

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Speaker 2: of I don't know, over fifties, over sixties doing that.

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Speaker 2: Now it's younger people. I mean, you get it when

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Speaker 2: to women in the UK, this generation, the changeover in

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Speaker 2: terms of pensions, there's a real worry that there's going

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Speaker 2: you should take the good advice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely worth a read. This morning, let's turn to

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Speaker 3: bring you more on our top story now that now though,

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Speaker 3: and that interview that Vladimir Pudin gave to the former

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Speaker 3: studio RAS. Good morning. This is the first time the

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Speaker 3: Carlson is a Donald Trump supporter. He's questioned American support

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Speaker 3: for Kiev. Why did Vladimir Putin choose to speak to

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Speaker 9: Well, obviously it was interesting to see that it was

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Speaker 9: burnish Vladimir Putin's credentials. He's standing on the international stage

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Speaker 9: to the Russian voter, so that's possibly right now. Also,

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Speaker 9: I mean cast it back to two years ago, in

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Speaker 9: the aftermath of his invasion of Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: It was going terribly.

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Speaker 9: I mean, they failed to take Kiev, they were pushed

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Speaker 9: back very quickly. There were lots of big questions about this,

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Speaker 9: how long his war could sustain. It's coming up to

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Speaker 9: problems within the administration in Ukraine. Telinski, the president essentially

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Speaker 9: the moment. He's also, you know, looking at fishes between

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Speaker 9: Ukraine and Europe and Ukraine in the US over the

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Speaker 9: supply of weapons. So perhaps there's a moment to talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so yeah, but as you say, perhaps pointing

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Speaker 2: to this use as in domestic propaganda. But Putin, when

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Speaker 2: he was questioned what did he actually say about the

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Speaker 2: war in Ukraine and the possibility of it.

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Speaker 9: Ending, well, he repeated what he's says quo from which

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Speaker 9: is that his goals have not been achieved in Ukraine.

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Speaker 9: That's a fairly standard line. But he did seem to

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Speaker 9: try and stick a wedge, a further wedge between the

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Speaker 9: US and Ukraine. Of course, we know that there are

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Speaker 9: big debates in Congress about the supply of further military aid,

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Speaker 9: They need this stuff urgently. He was saying, essentially that

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Speaker 3: And another story ris that we wanted to touch on

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Speaker 9: Well, this could arguably be one of the worst weeks

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Speaker 9: And so that's really just going to be red meat

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what else, Thank thank you, so much for being

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Speaker 2: with us this morning. I AMA News director Roslyn matheson

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Speaker 2: there with well all the details around Vladimir Putin's interview,

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Speaker 3: Turned to talk about something that we don't often feature

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Speaker 3: on this show, American football. Ahead of Sunday Superbil, Bloomberg's

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Speaker 3: been looking at the changing ownership of NFL teams and

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Charlie Wells joins us with more details of today's

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Speaker 3: Big Take report. Charlie, what's causing, first of all, what's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, so I am not necessarily the most natural

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Speaker 1: American football fan, but this is a really, really fascinating,

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Speaker 1: you know, football might not be everyone's game of tea,

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Speaker 1: you know, a single event. And what's really fascinating is

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Speaker 1: both age and appreciation are changing America's National Football League

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Speaker 1: They are worth billions. They have appreciated in value on

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Speaker 1: then when you think about that, you've got the appreciation

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, I mean the merchandise in the tickets,

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Speaker 2: it's it is a big money game. Why do you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really interesting. And so this kind of takes

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Speaker 1: really striking is that this kind of level of family ownership,

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Speaker 1: really hard for a lot of these investors to look

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Speaker 1: So the National Football League was responsible for ninety three

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Speaker 1: in about twenty billion dollars in revenue. So you've got

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