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Speaker 1: News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Chrisner. The White House is defending the Pentagon's handling

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Speaker 1: of a September attack on an alleged drug running boat.

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Speaker 1: The administration is also denying that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 1: had given the order to kill everyone on board, and

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Speaker 1: at the same time, Congressional lawmakers from both parties have

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Speaker 1: launched reviews of these strikes. Here is Tim Burchett, Republican

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Speaker 1: Congressman from Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll have multiple hearings on this, but his

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Speaker 2: usual Congress center either party doesn't do a whole heck

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Speaker 2: of a lot. We'll probably write somebody a strong letter

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Speaker 2: and we'll bring some people in on both sides. I'll

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Speaker 2: pair up against each other. But the reality is Congress

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Speaker 2: isn't going to do anything.

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Speaker 1: That is Tim Burchett, Republican Congressman from Tennessee. In Hong Kong,

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Speaker 1: authorities say they found the deadly fire at an apartment

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Speaker 1: complex was accelerated by cheaper, substandard netting used by workers

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Speaker 1: to evade government testing. Police and the Independent Commission against

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Speaker 1: Corruption have so far arrested thirteen people in connection with

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Speaker 1: the fire, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee says, an

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Speaker 1: independent committee will be established to investigate the cause of

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Speaker 1: the fire.

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Speaker 3: We will make sure that that those who are responsible

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Speaker 3: will have to bear the legal responsibility. I ask for

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Speaker 3: a sorrow investigation, and we should turn our anger and

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Speaker 3: sorrow into power of reform. We have to hold those

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Speaker 3: responsible accountable. We have to expose the truth. We have

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Speaker 3: to do everyone justice. We have to make sure that

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Speaker 3: the disease can rest in peace and that we can

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Speaker 3: give a peace of mind to those who survive.

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Speaker 1: That was John Lee, Hong Kong's chief executive. The death

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Speaker 1: toll from this fire has risen to one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty one. Netflix has made a mostly cash offer for

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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery in a second round of bidding. We're

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Speaker 1: told Netflix is working on a bridge loan that totals

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Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars. Here is Bloomberg's Chris pal Mary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely are hearing that they're edging a little

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Speaker 4: bit closer to that thirty dollars number, depending on how

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Speaker 4: you value things. Big surprise here that we reported was

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Speaker 4: that the Netflix offers mostly cash because Netflix's stock has

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Speaker 4: been doing terrific in recent years, A lot of people

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Speaker 4: expected to use that as a currency, and apparently they

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Speaker 4: feel more confident paying cash.

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Speaker 1: That was Bloomberg's Chris Paul Mary. Now Paramount, sky Dance

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Speaker 1: and Comcast are also making bids, and we are told

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Speaker 1: their bankers worked on improved offers over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now,

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Speaker 1: Netflix and Comcast are only interested in the Warner Brothers

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Speaker 1: studio and the HBO Max streaming service. By the way,

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Speaker 1: these offers are binding, and that means the board of

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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers is in a position to sign off on

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Speaker 1: a deal quickly if its goals are met. The head

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Speaker 1: of Apple's artificial intelligence unit is stepping down. The company

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Speaker 1: says Gandrea is exiting his job as Senior VP of

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Speaker 1: Machine Learning and AI Strategy. He will leave the company

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Speaker 1: entirely in the spring after a period of transition. In

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Speaker 1: Vidia is investing two billion dollars in the chip design

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Speaker 1: software maker Synopsis. This is part of a broader engineering

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Speaker 1: and design tie up aimed at infusing in Vidia's AI

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Speaker 1: computing technology into more industries. Now, these companies will deploy

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Speaker 1: AI agents and work on joint marketing. Here as Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: ed Ludlow.

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Speaker 5: Synopsis makes the software by which chips are designed, but

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Speaker 5: also validated, So before you send a chip through the

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Speaker 5: fab to be manufactured, you want to know that that

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Speaker 5: design works. And that's a big part of what Synopsis

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Speaker 5: does with all kinds of tech companies, and so part

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Speaker 5: of the interpretation of why is in Vidia doing this

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Speaker 5: is it's a sales channel, because Synopsis is basically saying,

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Speaker 5: imagine how good our software would be if it was

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Speaker 5: underpinned by Videa's GPUs and in Vidia's catalog ofat.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg sed Ludlow. Their shares in Nvidia were up today

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Speaker 1: by one point six percent. US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff,

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Speaker 1: together with President Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner, are

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Speaker 1: set to be in Moscow this week to iron out

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Speaker 1: a peace deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine now. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: American and Ukrainian officials met in Florida. US Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State Marco Rubio said talks were productive, but he said

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Speaker 1: more work needs to be done. We got some perspective

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Speaker 1: from retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vidman.

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Speaker 6: I've never seen anything quite so chaotic as this iterative

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Speaker 6: process to attempt a peace negotiation. Sometimes it looks reminiscent

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Speaker 6: of Shuttle diplomacy. You got some statesmen going between Moscow

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Speaker 6: and Kiev or other capitals. But what you don't have,

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Speaker 6: and what's Evan and president in this one, is you

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Speaker 6: don't have for folks that have no competence negotiating, folks

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Speaker 6: that don't actually I have a formal role in government,

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Speaker 6: like Jared Kushner.

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Speaker 1: That was retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vidman. Also today, Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: President Volodomir Zelensky rallied European support in Paris as he

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Speaker 1: met with French President Emmanuel Macron. Zelensky said there are

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Speaker 1: improvements in the proposal, although there are still tough issues

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Speaker 1: that have to be worked out with Washington. The Trump

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Speaker 1: administration reportedly fired eight immigration judges in New York City

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Speaker 1: on Monday. These firings followed an earlier round of job

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Speaker 1: cuts in New York immigration courts. The New York Times

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Speaker 1: reports the firings are part of a broader disruption across

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Speaker 1: the country as the president seeks to accelerate deportations. Now.

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Speaker 1: Before Monday, about ninety immigration judges had been fired this year.

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Speaker 1: Across the US, including six in New York City, and

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Speaker 1: according to the Times, the judges who were fired earlier

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Speaker 1: this year suggested the administration was targeting judges who were

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Speaker 1: considered too lenient, and they also suggested the administration was

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Speaker 1: trying to create a feeling of fear. And that is

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Speaker 1: news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug prisoner, and this is Bloomberg