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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Prisner.

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Speaker 1: We begin in Venezuela, where gunshots and blast were heard

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Speaker 1: near the presidential Palace in downtown Caracas Monday evening. Residents

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Speaker 1: were rattled just days after US air strikes preceded the

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Speaker 1: capture of President Nicholas Maduro. Now. A government official told

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Speaker 1: reporters the barrage involved security forces firing warning shots at

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Speaker 1: drones flying over the area without permission. Earlier this evening

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Speaker 1: in the US, senior members of President Trump's national security

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Speaker 1: team briefed select members of Congress on Venezuela. Here is

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson after a closed door session.

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Speaker 2: Despite the claims by some of my colleagues, under the

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Speaker 2: War Powers Act, there is no requirement for prior congressional

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Speaker 2: approval or prior notification, and in fact, in this case,

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Speaker 2: the intelligence was so sensitive the conditions had to be perfect.

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Speaker 2: There was no predetermination of when exactly it would occur.

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Speaker 1: That is how Speaker Mike Johnson Monday evening, President Trump

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Speaker 1: suggested the US may subsidize efforts by US energy companies

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Speaker 1: to rebuild Venezuela's oil industry. Trump told NBC News the

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Speaker 1: project could be up and running in less than eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: Trump also said a tremendous amount of money will have

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Speaker 1: to be spent, with oil companies being reimbursed by the

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Speaker 1: US or through revenue.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: All of this comes as former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro

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Speaker 1: appeared in court in New York City earlier where he

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Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty to charges in a narco terrorism case

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Speaker 1: against him. Bloomberg's Miles Miller was outside the courthouse.

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Speaker 4: Nicholas Maduro won't be back in court until Saint Patrick's day,

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Speaker 4: and it'll be no laughing matter when he returns back

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Speaker 4: to court because he likely will spend the rest of

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Speaker 4: his time while he awaits this trial at the Metropolitan

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Speaker 4: Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He entered a plea

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Speaker 4: of not guilty during his arraignment here at Federal Court

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Speaker 4: in Lower Manhattan to those narco terrorism charges through an interpreter,

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Speaker 4: telling Judge Alvin Hellerstein that he is not guilty, he

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Speaker 4: is innocent and is a decent man, and most importantly,

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Speaker 4: that he's the president of his country.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Miles Miller. At the same time today

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Speaker 1: the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, said

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Speaker 1: the US is not occupying Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: Nicholas Maduro is responsible for attacks on the people of

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Speaker 3: the United States, for destabilizing the Western Hemisphere and illegitimately

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Speaker 3: repressing the people of Venezuela. As Secretary Rubio has said,

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Speaker 3: there is no war against Venezuela or its people. We

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Speaker 3: are not occupying a country.

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Speaker 1: This was a law enforcement operation, that is Mike Walt's

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Speaker 1: the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Now, the US

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Speaker 1: raid has been condemned by not only Venezuela, but Russia

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Speaker 1: and China as well, while US allies at the UN

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Speaker 1: were mostly cautious in their remarks. Even so, Maduro's houster

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Speaker 1: may point to a signal change in President Trump's geopolitical

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Speaker 1: strategy for the Western Hemisphere. As we hear from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: David Gura.

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Speaker 5: We see a further evolution of this new kind of

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Speaker 5: foreign policy tag from President of Trump. Of course, when

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Speaker 5: he ran for reelection, so much of his focus was

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Speaker 5: on removing the United States from foreign wars and entanglements,

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Speaker 5: and really he's begun to kind of rethink the way

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Speaker 5: that the US plays a role in the Western hemisphere.

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Speaker 5: He's talked a lot about the Monroe doctrine, so as

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Speaker 5: Secretary of State, National Security Advisor Marco Rubio as well,

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Speaker 5: jokingly call it the Donro doctrine here, but really focusing

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Speaker 5: on the US's role and trying to establish a safer

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Speaker 5: hemisphere for the US going forward.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's David Gura. The US Department of Health

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Speaker 1: and Human Services is changing its recommendations for the childhood

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Speaker 1: vaccine schedule. The Department is no longer broadly endorsing influenza

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Speaker 1: as well as COVID nineteen and other once routine Immunizationsloomberg

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Speaker 1: Sammy Morris.

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Speaker 6: The CDC will continue to recommend shots for whooping cough, diphtheria,

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Speaker 6: new macaucle, polio, measles, and HPV, and all vaccines recommended

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Speaker 6: by the CDC through December thirty first will continue to

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Speaker 6: be covered by the Affordable Care Act and other federal

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Speaker 6: insurance programs. Medical experts are slamming the move. They say

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Speaker 6: this could lead to a reduced uptake of important vaccinations

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Speaker 6: and increased disease in Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio Minnesota Governor Tim Walls says he will not seek

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Speaker 1: reelection for a third term. Wolls had announced a reelection

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Speaker 1: bid back in September, but today he said he cannot

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Speaker 1: continue a campaign while also investigating reports of fraud within

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Speaker 1: the state's childcare programs. Here is wolves every.

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Speaker 7: Minute that I spend defending my own political interest would

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Speaker 7: be a minute I can't spend defending the people of

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Speaker 7: Minnesota against the criminals who pray on our generosity and

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Speaker 7: the cynics who want to prey on our differences.

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Speaker 1: Walls said that President Trump and his allies are using

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Speaker 1: the fraud out allegations to target the state Somali community.

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Speaker 1: A Walls met on Sunday with Democratic US Senator Amy Klobuchar,

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Speaker 1: who is considering a run for governor, although she has

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Speaker 1: not yet made a decision, according to people familiar with

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Speaker 1: those discussions, The nonprofit that funded NPR and PBS will

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Speaker 1: now dissolve. The Wall Street Journal reports the Corporation for

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Speaker 1: Public Broadcasting is shutting down. The fifty eight year old

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Speaker 1: nonprofit Umbrella organization had overseen government funding for public broadcasters now.

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Speaker 1: This decision was expected after federal funding for public media

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Speaker 1: was eliminated last year and that is news when you

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Speaker 1: want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Prisner, and

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