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Speaker 1: Monica Ricks. A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the US
Speaker 1: for more peace talks to end its war with Russia,
Speaker 1: even as the Kremlin steps up attacks targeting Ukraine's power grid.
Speaker 1: Keep says Russia's weaponizing winter, leaving people in more than
Speaker 1: twenty settlements without power. The delegations working to finalize documents
Speaker 1: now that include recovery and security guarantees from the US
Speaker 1: Rallies are underway in Denmark and Greenland now to protest
Speaker 1: President Trump's threats to take over the territory, as a
Speaker 1: bipartisan congressional delegation continues talks today in Copenhagen in hopes
Speaker 1: of de escalating tensions. Republican Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 2: Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as
Speaker 2: an asset.
Speaker 1: Denmark is part of NATO, and these talks come as
Speaker 1: other countries within the Alliance, including France and Germany, send
Speaker 1: military support to help secure the territory. Delaware Senator Chris Coons.
Speaker 3: I think I speak for every Senator and House member
Speaker 3: here and that we deeply value NATO and that this
Speaker 3: eighty year old alliance. This partnership has been absolutely critical
Speaker 3: to the United States security and prosperity and success.
Speaker 1: President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs against countries that
Speaker 1: don't support a US takeover. The Justice Department has launched
Speaker 1: a criminal investigation into whether Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas and
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye obstructed federal Immigration Enforcement. Attorney General
Speaker 1: Pam Bondi issued a brief statement on social media last night,
Speaker 1: saying no one is above the law, but both Walls
Speaker 1: and fry are pushing back, calling it a bullying tactic.
Speaker 1: Minnesota's Attorney General, Keith Ellison, agrees and says the Trump
Speaker 1: administration is weaponizing the DOJ.
Speaker 3: When powerful leaders use it against people who are just
Speaker 3: doing their jobs as their voters elected them to do,
Speaker 3: that's a very sad day in America.
Speaker 1: Who meantime, a win for protesters in Minneapolis, federal judge
Speaker 1: has ordered immigration officers not to arrest, detain, pepper spray,
Speaker 1: or otherwise retaliate against peaceful protesters in the city following
Speaker 1: weeks of violent clashes. The Justice Department will likely appeal
Speaker 1: that ruling. It was a quiet end to a volatile
Speaker 1: week for investors with the new earning season kicking off.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett has details stocks moves.
Speaker 4: Lawa on concern that President Trump is cooling on his
Speaker 4: dubbish front runner Kevin Hassett to head the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 4: The sm P five hundred struggle to gain traction and
Speaker 4: finish law for the week down point four percent, while
Speaker 4: the Russell two thousand index of small cap shares kept
Speaker 4: rising and beat the SMP five hundred four and eleventh
Speaker 4: straight session for the week down. Industrials down point three percent.
Speaker 4: NESDAK on the week down point seven percent. Charlie Pellett
Speaker 4: Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: The White House is considering executive action to en act
Speaker 1: President Trump's call for a cap on credit card interest rates.
Speaker 1: Administration officials say they're still discussing terms with industrially and Congress,
Speaker 1: but say it's designed to reduce costs for Americans and
Speaker 1: aid in affordability challenges. White House Economic advisor Kevin Hassett
Speaker 1: says he's headed to Davos, Switzerland, with President Trump next week,
Speaker 1: where the President's set to unveil a plan to ban
Speaker 1: institutional investors from buying single family homes.
Speaker 4: When that comes out, there'll be a clear guidance to
Speaker 4: people about when they can feel free that they're playing
Speaker 4: on a level playing fields when they're competing for a.
Speaker 1: Home that's hasst on Fox Business. Trump also wants to
Speaker 1: allow Americans to use some of their four oh one
Speaker 1: case savings towards a down payment on new home purchases.
Speaker 1: Bayer is getting a High Court hearing hoping to get
Speaker 1: more lawsuits against its round Up weed killer tossed. Here's
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's ed Kleggi.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Bayer's appeal, taking
Speaker 2: aim at thousands of lawsuits targeting its top selling round
Speaker 2: Up weed killer for causing cancer. The High Court agreed
Speaker 2: Friday to hear Bear's challenge to a one point twenty
Speaker 2: five million dollar Missouri jury verdict against the company's Monsanto
Speaker 2: unit over round Up, on the ground some of the
Speaker 2: claims were preempted by federal law. The company already has
Speaker 2: paid more than ten billion in verdicts and settlements, and
Speaker 2: has set aside another six billion to deal with a litigation.
Speaker 2: Ed Kaleggy Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay him damages
Speaker 1: up to one hundred and thirty four billion dollars overclaims
Speaker 1: that OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning its non profit roots
Speaker 1: and partnering with the software giant. Open Ai calls the
Speaker 1: lawsuit baseless and the demand for damages unseirious. The CDC
Speaker 1: says cases of flu keep surging in the US, with
Speaker 1: those dying from it up twenty five percent from last week.
Speaker 1: Experts estimate at least eighteen million people have now caught
Speaker 1: the flu this season, with at least fourteen states seeing
Speaker 1: very high levels of infection. Doctors are still urging Americans
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. Measles also keeps spreading in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Health officials there have reported hundreds more cases over the
Speaker 1: last ten days. They're also pushing vaccines. Measles is one
Speaker 1: of the most contagious and preventable diseases in the world,
Speaker 1: and disagreements over pesticide policy are now threatening to slow
Speaker 1: down and already delayed farm bill in Congress this year.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports from Washington.
Speaker 5: House Agriculture Chair G. T. Thompson still plans to include
Speaker 5: language in a farm policy package that would limit state
Speaker 5: and local regulation of pesticides. Despite renewed opposition to the
Speaker 5: proposal from Democrats, some Republicans, and health activists. Now Thompson's
Speaker 5: reasoning is that it'll drive up the cost of food
Speaker 5: to have fifty different states using different pesticide regulations. Thompson
Speaker 5: brushed aside opposition, pointing out that House Agriculture Committee members,
Speaker 5: including four Democrats, already voted to advance the proposal, but
Speaker 5: that package never came up for a floor vote in Washington.
Speaker 5: Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio, and that's.
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