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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Good morning, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 1: Hager 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: We begin in Washington, d C. President Biden held the

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Speaker 2: last minute news conference last night after special counsel Robert

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Speaker 2: Hurr decided not to bring charges against the President over

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Speaker 2: his handling of classified documents. Her says Biden would have

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Speaker 2: come across to a jury as a quote sympathetic, well meaning,

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Speaker 2: elderly man with a poor memory. President Biden had some

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Speaker 2: words about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm well mean, I'm an elderly man, and I know

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Speaker 3: what the hell I'm doing.

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Speaker 4: I'm in President.

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Speaker 5: I put this country back on his feet.

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Speaker 2: Then the President had this to say about efforts to

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Speaker 2: deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Speaker 5: Initially, the President of Mexico CC.

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Speaker 3: Did not want to open up the gate to allow

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Speaker 2: The President of that news conference mistakenly referred to the

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Speaker 2: president of Egypt as the leader of Mexico. Bloomberg's Akaela

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Speaker 2: Gardner reports this could add to one of Biden's biggest

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Speaker 6: Interestingly enough, Donald Trump has made similar Gas. He also

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Speaker 6: referred to the Prime Minister of Hungary as the leader

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Speaker 6: of Turkey. But Poles continue to show that voters are

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Speaker 6: just more concerned about Biden, in particular with his age

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Speaker 2: And Bloomberg's A Kaela Gardner notes former President Trump is

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Speaker 2: still facing charges in four criminal cases, including over his

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Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, the former president could have better news coming

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Speaker 1: from the Supreme Court. The justices appear likely to keep

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Speaker 1: Trump on the Colorado ballot after historic arguments over whether

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Speaker 1: he should be disqualified over his role in the January

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Speaker 1: sixth Capitol riot, and the former president dominated the Nevada

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Speaker 1: CAUCUSUS last night, putting him one step closer to clinching

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Speaker 1: the Republican nomination. Bloomberg Amy Morris has Moore from Washington.

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump won Nevada in a landslide, claiming all twenty

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Speaker 7: six of Nevada's GOP delegates. Just after securing a victory

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Speaker 7: in the US Virgin Island caucuses in Las Vegas, Trump

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Speaker 7: referenced yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on whether he can remain

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Speaker 4: This was a great day. This was a great night

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Speaker 4: our Supreme Court. Hopefully we'll be doing something in terms

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Speaker 8: We have to preserve our democracy.

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Speaker 7: The next major Republican contest is February twenty fourth in

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Speaker 7: South Carolina, Nikki Haley's home state, where she trails Donald

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Speaker 7: even though she says she'll stay in the race through

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Speaker 7: Super Tuesday. On March fifth, Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 9: All right, Amy, thank you.

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Speaker 2: We now turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his

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Speaker 2: of Ukraine two years ago. Putin says Russia has not

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Speaker 4: Putin says the goals have to be met, but then

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Speaker 4: In this interview with Tucker Carlson, the message through translation

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Speaker 3: If you really want to stop fighting, you need to

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Speaker 3: That's it, and then we can agree on some terms.

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Speaker 4: The US has rejected the same in the past. The

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Speaker 4: showing any sign of capitulation. At Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, ed, thanks, So we turned to the markets

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Speaker 1: now in a stock cit in record territory, one Wall

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Speaker 1: Street firm is issuing caution. Bank of America says the

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Speaker 1: stock market is triggering several cell signals. Strategist Michael Hartnett

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Speaker 1: six point eight. Our reading above eight would suggest the

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Speaker 1: bullish trend is run too far, flashing a contrarian signal

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Speaker 1: to sell. Harnett was Brownley Barrish on stocks last year,

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Speaker 2: And Karen investors today are awaiting annual revisions to monthly

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Speaker 2: inflation data. More on that from Bloomberg's John Tucker, John

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Speaker 10: After last year's adjustments cast doubt on the Fed's progress

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Speaker 10: policymakers have in a sustainable return to two percent inflation. Consequently,

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Speaker 10: Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin speaking to Bloomberg yesterday about

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Speaker 10: inflation reliability. It says, you do have to acknowledge how

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Speaker 10: good the inflation data has been the last seven months, I.

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Speaker 11: Mean last seven months core inflation one point nine percent.

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Speaker 11: That's right on target. That's terrific. All right, And I'm

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Speaker 11: not rooting against inflation, but I'm always you know, trust

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Speaker 10: The revisions are out at eight thirty Wall Street time. Well,

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Speaker 10: the next key data point will be the regular inflation print.

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Speaker 10: We get that on Tuesday. John Tuncker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, John, thanks. You want to take a look

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Speaker 1: at some stocks that are on the move this morning,

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Speaker 1: including Expeedia. Those shares are down fourteen percent in early trading.

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Speaker 1: named Arian Goren as chief executive, succeeding Peter Kern, who's

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Speaker 2: We're also watching shares of Pinterest, Karen. They're down more

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Speaker 2: than eleven percent. Fourth quarter revenue missed analyst estimates at

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Speaker 2: the pinboard style search company. The results show a disappointing

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Speaker 2: or follow I should say a disappointing report from Snap.

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Speaker 2: That company suffered a stock plunge this week after holiday

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Speaker 2: season sales miss projections.

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Speaker 1: In Europe, Nathan shares Aliel down seven percent sales at

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Speaker 1: the French cosmetics group, disappointing investors. The owner of Landcombe

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Speaker 1: suffered from a decline in shopping by Chinese travelers.

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Speaker 2: And back here in the US, Karen, new rules will

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Speaker 2: force hedge funds to share more details about their investment strategies.

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Speaker 2: Funds with net assets of at least a half billion

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Speaker 2: dollars will be subject to changes, including reporting separately on

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Speaker 2: each component of a fund and revealing how they're investing

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Speaker 2: in crypto. This is an expansion of the current quarterly

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Speaker 2: filing system for big managers. Regulators say it's a better

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Speaker 1: of the other stories making news around the world. For that,

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Speaker 1: we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris. Amy, Good morning, Good morning, Karen.

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Speaker 7: A bill that would provide aid for Israel, Ukraine, and

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Speaker 7: Taiwan is moving forward in the Senate. Lawmakers voted in

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Speaker 7: that same chamber rejected a broader bill including those border

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Speaker 7: of the ninety five billion dollar package. Former President Donald

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Speaker 7: Trump is all but locked up the GLP nomination for

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Speaker 7: president after dominating in Nevada. The next major Republican contest

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Speaker 7: is February twenty fourth in South Carolina, the home state

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Speaker 7: of Nikki Hayley. That's where she served two terms as governor,

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Speaker 7: but polls show her trailing Trump by more than thirty points.

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Speaker 7: the next two weeks, while Trump has a get out

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Speaker 7: the vote rally planned near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Later

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Speaker 7: this weekend, drug company CEOs faced a grilling on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 7: Senators accused them of ripping off off the American people

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Speaker 7: Senator Bernie Sanders is chair of the Health, Education, Labor,

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Speaker 5: According to a recent poll, eighty two percent of Americans

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Speaker 5: seventy three percent say that the government is not doing

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Speaker 7: MERK CEO Robert Davis says the industry's charging practices come from,

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Speaker 7: in part, the need to fund the research for new treatments.

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Speaker 7: Big pharmacyeos say systems outside the US might have lower prices,

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Speaker 7: David Schwartz, UNLV professor and gambling historian says it is

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Speaker 7: The number of Americans placing bets on the Kansas City

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Speaker 8: A lot of trade activity in the NBA before yesterday's deadline.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. President Biden tried to push

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Speaker 2: back hard at the latest questions about his age and

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Speaker 2: But at a hastily arranged news conference last night, the

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Speaker 2: President may have raised those questions himself with a new

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Speaker 2: Of course, the slip up that is getting all the

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Speaker 2: the world is the President mixing up Egypt and Mexico

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Speaker 13: Well? Sure, good good morning. Well, sure it is in

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Speaker 13: some ways. I mean, people will always make whatever political

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Speaker 13: you know, my view of this is it's a real issue.

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Speaker 13: You know, it's the Justice Department Special Council comes out

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Speaker 13: Biden's got cognitive issues and that's one reason why they're

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Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty strong statement, a geopolitical risk

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Speaker 13: That very Simply that one of the things that other

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Speaker 13: I mean, it's one thing to to see Biden's performance

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Speaker 13: I think that makes the world a slightly more dangerous place,

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Speaker 2: And that's the problem that has to be said though, Terry,

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Speaker 13: Oh? You know, absolutely, I don't mean to I do

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Speaker 13: that aside. Yeah, they're both candidates to have these issues.

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