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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. Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into

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Speaker 1: FED share J. Powell. This is over the fed's renovation

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Speaker 1: of its Washington, d C. Headquarters. Earlier tonight, The New

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Speaker 1: York Times reported a key issue is whether Powell lied

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Speaker 1: to Congress about the scope of the project. Well the

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Speaker 1: report prompted Powell to issue a video statement, in it

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Speaker 1: he said the FED had been served grand jury subpoenas

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Speaker 1: from the DOJ threatening a criminal indictment related to his

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Speaker 1: June congressional testimony. So Powell confirmed the subpoenas and called

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Speaker 1: them a pretext.

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Speaker 2: The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the

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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment

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Speaker 2: of what will serve the public, rather than following the

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Speaker 2: preferences of the President.

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Speaker 1: So far, there is no indictment, and Powell pushed back

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Speaker 1: against the administration's threats and ongoing pressure.

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Speaker 2: Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats.

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Speaker 2: I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed

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Speaker 2: me to do with integrity and a commitment to serving

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Speaker 2: the American people.

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Speaker 1: That was Fedshair J. Powell. Now, A number of Senators

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Speaker 1: have responded to this probe, among them Republican Tom Tillis.

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Speaker 1: He came to the Fed's defense in a statement. Tilla

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Speaker 1: said he would oppose the confirmation of any nominee for

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Speaker 1: the FED, including the upcoming fedshare vacancy, until this legal

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Speaker 1: matter is fully resolved. At the same time, Massachusetts Democratic

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Speaker 1: Senator Elizabeth Warren said the Senate should not move forward

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Speaker 1: with any Trump nominee for the FED, including FED chair.

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Speaker 1: We go to Iran next, where nationwide anti government protests

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Speaker 1: have intensified, and President Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike

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Speaker 1: at Iran, suggesting America is back in the regime change business. Today,

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Speaker 1: Tehran warned both the US and Israel against any intervention.

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Speaker 1: Speaking to reporters today, Trump said the US is closely

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Speaker 1: monitoring protests in Iran.

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Speaker 3: We're looking at it very seriously.

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Speaker 4: The military is looking at it, and we're looking at

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Speaker 4: some very strong options.

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Speaker 1: That is President Trump. There were nationwide protests today against

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Speaker 1: ICE across the US after an agent shot and killed

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Speaker 1: Rene Nicole Good last week in Minneapolis. Also today, Homeland

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Speaker 1: Security Secretary Christi Nomes said hundreds more federal agents are

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Speaker 1: being deployed to Minneapolis. Here is Nomes speaking to Fox News.

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Speaker 5: So we're sending more officers today and tomorrow they'll arrive.

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Speaker 5: There'll be hundreds more in order to allow our ice

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Speaker 5: and our Border patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis

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Speaker 5: to do so safely. We're going to continue to if

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Speaker 5: they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede

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Speaker 5: our operations, that's a crime, and we will hold them

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Speaker 5: accountable to those consequences.

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nomes speaking there to Fox News.

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Speaker 1: Late last week, the Trump administration met with oil executives

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Speaker 1: to discuss reabs building Venezuela's oil industry, and today US

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Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Chris Right told CBS Face the Nation there's

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Speaker 1: a real possibility American businesses will take a financial stake

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Speaker 1: in Venezuela's oil industry.

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Speaker 4: Today, we are running the sale of their cruds. You know,

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Speaker 4: we have a quarantine around their ability to ship oil

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Speaker 4: outside of Venezuela. All of that goes through American crued marketers,

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Speaker 4: and then that crud goes out of the market. We

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Speaker 4: collect those funds and bring them back to Venezuela to

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Speaker 4: better the lives of Americans and Venezuelans. But in the

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Speaker 4: long run, what will happen with Venezuelan oil resources. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: of course, quite likely. You'll see American companies expanded presence there.

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Speaker 4: You'll see growing production.

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Speaker 1: US Energy Secretary Chris Right speaking on CBS Face the

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Speaker 1: Nation at the same time today, in a post on

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Speaker 1: truth Social President Trump said Cuba will no longer get

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Speaker 1: oil or money from Venezuela. Trump also said he is

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Speaker 1: planning to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Chatto

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Speaker 1: later in the week. We go to Mississippi next, where

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Speaker 1: officials have arrested a suspect on suspicion of setting fire

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Speaker 1: to the state's largest synagogue. Authority say the suspect has

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Speaker 1: been charged with arson. Here is Jackson Police Chief Tyree Jones.

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Speaker 4: Once they got inside and the fire was extinguished, at

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Speaker 4: that time, they could not determine the origin and the

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Speaker 4: calls of the fire, so they requested a fire investigator

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Speaker 1: Jackson Police Chief Tyree Jones now the fire did damage

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Speaker 1: an administrative office and a synagogue library, destroying or damaging

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Speaker 1: several torahs, but no congregants were injured. Officials have not

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Speaker 1: identified the suspect or disclosed a motive. In New York City,

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Speaker 1: more than sixteen thousand nurses at city hospitals are set

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Speaker 1: to strike on Monday. If their union does not reach

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Speaker 1: an agreement with private hospitals by midnight tonight, this would

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Speaker 1: be the largest nurses strike in the city's history. The

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Speaker 1: New York State Nurses Association is still in talks. Demands

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Speaker 1: include higher pace and safer working conditions. Here is union

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Speaker 1: president Nancy Hagens.

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Speaker 3: Nurses have been ready to bargain, but Mount Sinai, New

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Speaker 3: York Presbyterian, and Monty Fury I've chosen to to await

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Speaker 3: hundreds of million of Dallas fighting against the on frontline nurses.

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Speaker 1: Nancy hagen She is the president of the New York

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Speaker 1: State Nurses Association. In sports, the NFL playoffs are underway.

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Speaker 1: In the AFC Wild Card Games, the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: defeated the LA Chargers sixteen to three. Earlier in the day,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty seven to

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Speaker 1: twenty four. On the NFC side, the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers defeated the Philadelphia Eagles twenty three to nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and coming up Monday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers will host

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans to wrap up the wild card weekend.

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