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Speaker 1: News when he wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Dan

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Speaker 1: Schwartzman Ain't. An exclusive interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopolis,

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Speaker 1: President Biden sidestep whether he would commit to taking a

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Speaker 1: cognitive test.

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Speaker 2: I have a cognitive test every single day. Every day,

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Speaker 2: I have that test everything I do. You know, not

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Speaker 2: only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world. And

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Speaker 2: it sounds like hyperbly, but we are the central nation

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Speaker 2: in the world. I don't know that was right. And

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Speaker 2: every single day, for example, today, before I come out here,

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Speaker 2: I'm on the phone with a Prime Minister of nie.

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't get into detail, but with Yao, I'm on

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Speaker 2: the phone with a new Prime Minister of England. I'm

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Speaker 2: working on what we're doing with regard to in Europe,

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Speaker 2: with regard to expansion of NATO and whether it's going

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Speaker 2: to stick. I'm taking on Putin. I mean every day,

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Speaker 2: there's no day I go through. They're not those decisions

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Speaker 2: I have to make every single day.

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Speaker 1: That's President Biden speaking in an exclusive interview with ABC

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Speaker 1: News anchor George Stephanopolis. Meanwhile, Bloomberg political contributor Rick Davis

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Speaker 1: says Biden's answer to whether he would take a test

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Speaker 1: really stood out to him.

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Speaker 3: He must have asked him three or four times in

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Speaker 3: a row, have you taken a cognitive test? Have you

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Speaker 3: been examined? And Joe Biden's response to that was, simply,

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Speaker 3: every day's a test for me. Every day I'm proving

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Speaker 3: to people that I have this cognitive ability. The problem

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Speaker 3: is that has not been the case for Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: even since the debate. He's had issues with responses to

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Speaker 3: questions and speeches that he kind of bungled in certain places,

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Speaker 3: and it's kind of added to the impression that he

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Speaker 3: has cognitive issues. They weren't on display in this interview,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not sure he quelled any concerns about them

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Speaker 3: in the future.

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Speaker 1: That's Bloomberg political contributor Rick Davis. Earlier in the day, Biden,

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Speaker 1: while speaking at a rally in the middle school Jim

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, gave nosked weather He'll stay in the race.

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Speaker 4: Despite that some folks don't seem to care who we

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Speaker 4: do voted for. Well, guess what they're trying to push

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Speaker 4: me out on the race. Well, let me say this as

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Speaker 4: clearly as I can. I'm staying in a race I'll

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Speaker 4: bet Donald Trump I will beat him again in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty Well, by the way, we're gonna do it again

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: While President Biden sounded a defiant tone, House Minority Leader

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Speaker 1: Hakim Jeffries abruptly scheduled a meeting for this weekend with

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Speaker 1: other top Democrats as a party continues to deal with

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Speaker 1: the fallout of Biden's debate performance. Jeffries, who has publicly

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Speaker 1: backed Biden, has yet to say what the specific topic

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Speaker 1: is for the virtual session that's scheduled for Sunday. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: another Democratic lawmaker has now called for Biden to not

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Speaker 1: running the election. Illinois Representative Mike Quickly says while Biden

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Speaker 1: is owed the quote greatest debt of gratitude, what he

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Speaker 1: needs to do is to step down and let someone

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Speaker 1: else run so that the country avoids a quote utter catastrophe. Elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post reporting that Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner

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Speaker 1: is trying to assemble a group of Democratic senators to

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Speaker 1: ask President Biden to leave the presidential race. Sources say

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Speaker 1: Warner feels that Biden cannot run a campaign that can

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Speaker 1: beat Donald Trump after the disastrous debate performance. Reports say

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Speaker 1: that Hamas has dropped its objections to a US back

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Speaker 1: seasfire proposal with Israel. The terror group is said to

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Speaker 1: have agreed to move past a few major sticking points,

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Speaker 1: such as Israel agreeing to a permanent ceasefire to start

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Speaker 1: the deal, as well as not insisting on a full

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Speaker 1: withdrawal of IDF troops in the initial stage. Sources say

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Speaker 1: Israel has asked for fresh changes in the latest round

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Speaker 1: of talks, but progress could be near as a delegation

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Speaker 1: led by Massag's chief was in Cutter earlier Friday for

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Speaker 1: talks of the country's prime minister. US officials are hoping

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire deal could lead to a permanent end to

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Speaker 1: hostilities and a return of all living and debt hostages

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Speaker 1: back to Israel. A major health issue may be brewing,

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Speaker 1: as tampons may pose a risk to those who use them.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons reports.

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Speaker 5: Researchers have found more than a dozen medals, including arsenic

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Speaker 5: and lead in all thirty tampons they test it from

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Speaker 5: fourteen different brands. Lead exposure can cause neurological damage. The

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Speaker 5: journal Environmental International published the findings. Researchers say though more

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Speaker 5: study is needed to see if the metals leach out

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Speaker 5: of the tampons. The skin inside a woman's vagina is

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Speaker 5: more permeable than other areas of the body, and anything

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Speaker 5: absorbed there does not get filtered by the digestive tract

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Speaker 5: or the liver. I'm Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Nancy. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman, and this is Bloomberg