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Speaker 1: hormones Tom Styre has also been on the debate stage.

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Speaker 1: in terms of defending that audio from two thousand and

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Speaker 1: political rivals will raise those scrutiny. And and just as

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Speaker 1: a disclaimer, bloom Michael Bloomberg, who is seeking the Democratic

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Speaker 1: the parent company of Bloomberg Radio, to bring it back

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Speaker 1: to Nevada. However, Bloomberg's not competing aggressively. Don't even know

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Speaker 1: if he wants to be on those debate stages. Frankly right,

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Speaker 1: but again, he's not competing in South Carolina. But let

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Speaker 1: me let me not to. I mean, go ahead and

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Speaker 1: say your point. I'm not trying to cut you off.

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Speaker 1: So go ahead. No, it's fine. I just want to

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Speaker 1: say it. But again, talking about debate stages is a

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Speaker 1: traditional model, and Michael Bloomberg is doing the non traditional

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Speaker 1: thing that Donald Trump did. Yeah, but but again he did.

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Speaker 1: I disagree with you, I think, Bloomberg, I'm not Trump

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Speaker 1: showed up to all the debates, and I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, as people want to know who their candidate

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Speaker 1: is more than they want to. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: we'll find out, but I think it'll be interesting, especially

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Speaker 1: as questions about his records are raised. You know, talking

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Speaker 1: to voters on a debate stage is a way to

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Speaker 1: do that. But for Nevada, again, this is why I

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Speaker 1: pushed back against the notion that the early caucus in

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Speaker 1: primary states don't matter, because if they didn't matter, Biden

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Speaker 1: would still be a front runner, and he's not seen

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Speaker 1: as one. And so sixty thousand members are in a

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Speaker 1: Nevada culinary union, sixty members and Las Vegas and Reno

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Speaker 1: Okay half of them, okay, more than half, So more

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Speaker 1: than thirty of those members, and those unions are Latino. Okay.

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Speaker 1: How many people voted in the Nevada caucus eighty four

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Speaker 1: thousand people? That right, there shows you the power if

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Speaker 1: to do it. So I'm baffled that they wouldn't endorse. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm very surprised by that, but you know, go ahead. Sorry, Well,

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, this is where Senator Sanders

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Speaker 1: needs to really corral what he wants to do in

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Speaker 1: this election, because that association came out and said that

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Speaker 1: because his online supporters attacked them so much, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: actually do anything to support him or else there people

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Speaker 1: wouldn't pay duetrolls. Maybe it's because I grew up I've

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Speaker 1: never known journalism without social media. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot people need manners with social media. I get it,

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, like get off of social media.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like the trolls, don't don't pay attention

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Speaker 1: to the trolls. Coming up? Much more from the panel,

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Speaker 1: what's their quick take? What's on the radar? We find out?

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cirelli, Chief Washington corresponded for Bloomberg Television of Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Download the Bloomberg Sound On podcast on Apple iTunes and

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, or by downloading the Bloomberg Business app.

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Speaker 1: You can also find us on Radio dot Com, I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio, and Spotify. You're listening to Bloomberg one. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to Bloomberg Sound On with Kevin Surley on Bloomberge

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Speaker 1: and one oh five point seven FM h D two.

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Speaker 1: There's so much news that happened today, so much news.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Judy Shelton was on Capitol Hill and that

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Speaker 1: was President Trump's pick to lead the FED and uh

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Speaker 1: for the Federal Reserve Board, not to lead, to lead

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Speaker 1: for the Federal Reserve Board, Judy Shelton, and she got

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Speaker 1: questioned by Republican members of the Republican controlled Senate Banking Committee,

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Speaker 1: Senator Richard Shelby, avelup, Amma Patrick to me from Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: John Kennedy from Louisiana, all said that they had not

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Speaker 1: decided that they are going to vote for confirm her.

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Speaker 1: That's really remarkable, folks. And the President's picked for the

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Board now under fire. So there's that, Blincoln,

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Speaker 1: you'll miss it. And then we talked about the feud

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Speaker 1: brewing between Attorney General William Barr, who's talking to ABC

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Speaker 1: News about President Trump and saying that the tweets about

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Speaker 1: Roger Stone are making his job quote unquote impossible. Well,

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Speaker 1: John Kelly, the President's former chief of staff, is now

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Speaker 1: why he's attacking Trump on the whole issue with the impeachment.

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Speaker 1: And then President Trump's tweeting at that he couldn't have

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Speaker 1: fired Kelly fast enough and that the retired Marine Corps

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Speaker 1: general was in way over his head quote unquote way

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Speaker 1: over his head as the top White House chief of staff.

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Speaker 1: That's according to President Trump's tweets. And I'm told we

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Speaker 1: have a son, Christine Barratt in the control room, our

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Speaker 1: executive producer. Let's let's play it from John Kelly what

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Speaker 1: he had to say last night when he was at

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Speaker 1: Drew University in New Jersey, and what he said about

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Vinman in the whole Ukraine phone call. Here

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Speaker 1: is he thought war and don't follow and if you,

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Speaker 1: if you ever there, he's talking about Lieutenant Colonel Vinman,

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Speaker 1: whom the President has gotten rid of, and the whole

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Speaker 1: situation with the Ukraine PVOE call. So there's that that's brewing.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, it's just another day in Washington.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Sirelli, chief Washington correspondent for Limberg television and

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Roger Trump gets his hands on whoever hired

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Speaker 1: Kelly to begin with Democratic strategist for the hour, and

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Speaker 1: Sarah Kim is here our Republican strategists. I had to

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Speaker 1: mention the Judy Shelton and the John Kelly story because

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Speaker 1: that neither of those things or what's on my radar,

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Speaker 1: and they're not my quick take, but I I would

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Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't spend time on them, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to fly through them, but if you

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Speaker 1: guys want to weigh in on either of them before

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Speaker 1: we move on, I mean, there's just a fuselage of data,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard to consume everything that happens.

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Speaker 1: The new cycle is like Anthony, we would like to ours,

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Speaker 1: But I would actually say the most the most interesting

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Speaker 1: name that you just mentioned is Senator Pat to me,

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Speaker 1: because that's my week take for the day. I've read

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Speaker 1: multiple articles today about how much money um former mayor

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg has been spending in this race, and interestingly, he

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Speaker 1: gave a leven point three million dollars to Pat to me,

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Speaker 1: I would like somebody to give me that money. But

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Speaker 1: the most important statistic out of all of that is

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Speaker 1: that since Bloomberg is paying so much money for staffers,

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Speaker 1: the down ticket candidates can't hire. Because if you're going

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Speaker 1: to be a field campaign manager for a state assemblymen

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Speaker 1: and Michael Bloomberg will pay you triple that to go

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Speaker 1: knocking on doors for him California, what are you going

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Speaker 1: to do? So if he does win the Democratic nomination

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Speaker 1: and does become president the United States, but in state

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Speaker 1: houses and in Congress, you can't have members that are

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Speaker 1: Democratic too. That does no good. Wow. So you're saying

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Speaker 1: that there's other repercussions to this, correct the people. Well,

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Speaker 1: and I would, I mean, I would also raise the issue. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But if you're if you're looking to break into you

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Speaker 1: said Pennsylvania for example, if you're looking to break into

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania politics, there you know there, it's not. There is

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Speaker 1: something to be said for working for a downballot race

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Speaker 1: if that's your on either party, if that's if that's

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Speaker 1: your chosen career path. But if you're twenty two years

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Speaker 1: old and I used to be back back yesterday, I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding. I can't. I can't be serious When Rogers says,

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Speaker 1: neither can I, And it makes me nervous because I

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Speaker 1: forget that I'm on radio. But there's something to be said.

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Speaker 1: Like Joe Lockhart, who was President Brighton's White House press secretary.

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Speaker 1: He said that he made fift hundred dollars a month

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Speaker 1: when he was outfield organizing, and that experience and knowledge

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Speaker 1: are easy for you and you made six thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: a month as a twenty two year old doing politics,

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Speaker 1: that's going to have ramifications ten years down the line.

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Speaker 1: These people are going to expect to make money that

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't and they should have to suffer a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I knocked on so many doors. Okay, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to turn this into the like when I was a kid.

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Speaker 1: I will say when I was a kid working on Politico,

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Speaker 1: I had a weekend job at the Java Shack in Arlington,

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Speaker 1: which they just shut down last week or last month,

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Speaker 1: and I was devastated. The best coffee in Arlington, across

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Speaker 1: the river. They shut it down. They said, what's going

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Speaker 1: on with that? But I love that place anyway. Just

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Speaker 1: as a disclaimer, Michael Bloomberg, who is seeking the Democratic

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Speaker 1: presidential nomination, is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP,

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Speaker 1: the parent company of Bloomberg Radio. So here's a fast

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Speaker 1: fact for you. I can make a mean a mean

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Speaker 1: me not to do that because I used to work

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Speaker 1: at Colstone Creamery, but a latte fun fact for or

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Speaker 1: machiata anyway, anyway, what's your quick take on your radar?

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Speaker 1: I like that one, Saria a lot that that gives

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Speaker 1: you a lot to think about. It gives you the

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Speaker 1: business of politics for career staffers, and Amos Sneed actually

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Speaker 1: wrote a whole book on that, so it's interesting. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: First off, shout out to my neighbors, Maria and Sylvia

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Speaker 1: and Sylvia small little infant listeners, how old are two

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Speaker 1: and a half and five and a half? Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: first of all on their way home from school? Shout

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Speaker 1: out to your wife, Happy Valentine's Day, throwing the Sylvia

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Speaker 1: and Maria and Maria. Hopefully this is more entertaining than cartoons.

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Speaker 1: And to switch gears to what's on my radar. Lately

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Speaker 1: stumbled on a very interesting fact. And I mean there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of twos involved, So let me see if

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Speaker 1: I can get this out smoothly. A for profit venture

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Speaker 1: is two times more likely to succeed if it has

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Speaker 1: one founder rather than two. Wow. And corollary to that

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Speaker 1: not all the way to two times. It's likely, but

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Speaker 1: one the exact inverse. How does how is that applicable

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Speaker 1: to uh? This town? Seriously? Well, I mean the DC

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Speaker 1: more startups as the kind of app world builds itself

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Speaker 1: I just thought that was really interesting that you would

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Speaker 1: think a combination of talents would you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: statistically enhance the chance for success. But there's something about

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Speaker 1: you know, become operationalized. Um that isn't that interesting? It's

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Speaker 1: a time where everything is so fragmented. So to hear that, really,

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Speaker 1: I think one could argue puts it in perspective great one.

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Speaker 1: So here's what's my quick think on my radar as

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Speaker 1: I as I set out tomorrow to return to Delco

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Speaker 1: to have chicken wings with my father and go to

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Speaker 1: Uncle Mikey's pokey shop. Coronavirus. I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: my mom and my best friend from growing up, Jeffrey.

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Speaker 1: Uh No, I'm so excited for President's Day weekend and

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Speaker 1: I'll be back next week. But if we're all here

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Speaker 1: after this virus spreads, no, But I mean it is

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus. And how we talked about yesterday about how

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Speaker 1: world from the United States to go into China's a help.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a global thing. It's impacting everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's impacting airlines. It's air Bus has steak in the

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Speaker 1: in in a joint venture. As it relates to the coronavirus.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything is just it's so interconnected and the

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Speaker 1: fact that they're not allowing for support is just anti American,

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Speaker 1: and I guess I don't understand it because I'm American.

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Speaker 1: But everyone is ramping down their activity, Like I go

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Speaker 1: punting until Q three because they're like, no one's gonna

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Speaker 1: come here in Q one, no one. And just if

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Speaker 1: that wasn't enough, Huawei has been hit with a racketeering

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Speaker 1: charge in the expanding US case. So Huawei, the world's

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Speaker 1: largest maker of telecommunications equipment, uh, they are now using

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Speaker 1: the US IS is raising the stakes in this battle

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Speaker 1: with Jawi, using a law historically associated with what you

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Speaker 1: guessed it, the mafia, throwing them with the book. I'm

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cilli, chief Washington correspondent from Martini and Radio. See

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Speaker 1: you next week, folks, Thanks for listening to Bloomberg One.