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

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Speaker 1: Doug Prisner. The Trump administration will eliminate two thousand jobs

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Speaker 1: at the US Agency for International Development at midnight. In

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Speaker 1: a notice earlier, the administration announced the firings at USAID

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Speaker 1: and indicated all but a small number of other employees

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Speaker 1: will be placed on leave. Separately, several key US agencies

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Speaker 1: have instructed their employees not to comply with a demand

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Speaker 1: to explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing

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Speaker 1: their jobs. It was on Saturday the Doge team sent

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Speaker 1: emails to over two million federal employees, giving them roughly

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours to complete the assignment. However, the FBI,

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Speaker 1: the State Department, the NSSA, and the Pentagon have all

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Speaker 1: instructed their employees not to do so. We go to

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Speaker 1: Germany next, where Conservative opposition leader Frederick murrz one Sunday's

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Speaker 1: federal election. He has now favored to be Germany's next chancellor.

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Speaker 1: His Christian Democratic Union and alliance partner Christian Social Union

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Speaker 1: finished first. Here's Murr speaking through an interpreter.

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Speaker 2: VIATD the CDU and the CSU, the Union. We have

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Speaker 2: won the twenty twenty five federal election. The world out

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Speaker 2: there will not wait for us, and it will not

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Speaker 2: wait for lengthy coalition talks and negotiations either.

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Speaker 1: Merz's cdu CSU bloc won nearly twenty nine percent of

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Speaker 1: the votes. Now. The far right Alternative for Germany party

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Speaker 1: was second with just over twenty percent, and according to

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Speaker 1: estimates from the public broadcaster ARD, the Social Democrats finished

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Speaker 1: third with slightly more than sixteen percent. That was the

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Speaker 1: party's worst result since World War II. The Vatican says

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Speaker 1: Pope Francis remained in critical condition for a second day

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, even though he didn't experience further respiratory crises.

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Speaker 1: The eighty eight year old pontiff is still receiving high

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Speaker 1: flow oxygen to help with his breathe, and some blood

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Speaker 1: tests show an initial mild renal failure, which is currently

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Speaker 1: under control. Ukraine's President Voladimir Zelenski says an important meeting

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Speaker 1: of European leaders will take place tomorrow and he hopes

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Speaker 1: it will mark a turning point for Ukraine's war against Russia.

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Speaker 1: He went on to say he would be ready to

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Speaker 1: step down if it meant that there would be a

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Speaker 1: peace guarantee for his country now. These comments come after

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Speaker 1: President Trump described Zelensky as a dictator. It was on

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Speaker 1: Saturday that President Trump reiterated his desire to bring an

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Speaker 1: end to war in Ukraine while issuing a scathing assessment

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Speaker 1: of former President Biden's approach. Here is Trump speaking to

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Speaker 1: the Conservative Political Action Committee.

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Speaker 3: I'm dealing with President Zolensky. I'm dealing with President Putin.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to get the money back that or secured,

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Speaker 3: because you know, Europe is given one hundred billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: The United States has given three hundred and fifty billion

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Speaker 3: dollars because we had a stupid, incompetent president and administration.

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Speaker 3: Three hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 1: That is President Trump speaking there. Meantime, the US will

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Speaker 1: propose a United Nations resolution on Monday that it says

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Speaker 1: will chart the path to peace. New York Governor Kathy

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Speaker 1: Hokel had harsh words for President Trump after his Department

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Speaker 1: of Transportation moved to roll back congestion pricing last week.

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Speaker 1: Here is Hokeel speaking to CBS face the nation.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to sit highly by and let our

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Speaker 4: rights be attacked. We'll work with you when there's common ground.

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Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Let's build great projects and infrastructure.

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Speaker 4: There's areas where we're going to work with you on

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Speaker 4: immigration and getting the violent criminals off our streets. We

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Speaker 4: do not dispute that, but don't think that you can

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Speaker 4: just come in and bully us around and not expect

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Speaker 4: a reaction from governors.

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Speaker 1: That is New York Governor Kathy Hokeel speaking to CBS

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Speaker 1: Face the Nation. It was on Friday that Hokel met

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Speaker 1: with President Trump to defend the congestion pricing policy. The

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Speaker 1: program charges most drivers nine dollars to enter Manhattan's Central

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Speaker 1: Business District during peak hours. Now, New York's Metropolitan Transportation

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Speaker 1: Authority says the charge will remain in effect until there

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Speaker 1: is a court decision. The most closely watched earnings report

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Speaker 1: in the week ahead will come from in Vidia. We

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Speaker 1: have a preview from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett in.

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Speaker 5: Video reports Wednesday after the close of trading, and analysts

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Speaker 5: at Bloomberg Intelligence say it appears likely to meet fiscal

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Speaker 5: fourth quarter revenue guidance and raise the first quarter outlook

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Speaker 5: amid a significant ramp up in its Blackwell GPUs. According

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Speaker 5: to Bloomberg Data sixty nine analysts say in Vidia is

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Speaker 5: a buy, seven say it's a hold. One says it's

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Speaker 5: a cell. In New York, Charlie Pellett's Bloomberg Radio, and that.

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Speaker 1: Is news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Krisner, and this is Bloomberg