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Speaker 1: Newho's when you wanted with Bloomberg News Now I met Kalegy.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has tapped Cash Battel to be Director of

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Speaker 1: the FBI, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief US

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Speaker 1: law enforcement agency, which the President to act has long

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Speaker 1: derided as corrupt. Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over

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Speaker 1: the agency's investigation into whether Trump's campaign conspired with Russia

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Speaker 1: to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election. If confirmed,

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Speaker 1: Patel is likely to rekindle efforts to avenge those probes.

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Speaker 1: He's also a critic of government agencies for actions that

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Speaker 1: he says unfairly targeted Republicans. In his book Government Gangsters,

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Speaker 1: which Trump has called a blueprint to take back the

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Speaker 1: White House, Patel endorsed calls to fire government employees who

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Speaker 1: undermine the president's agenda. President elect Trump says he'll nominate

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Speaker 1: Charles Kushner as US Ambassador to France, offering a prime

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Speaker 1: diplomatic post to his son in law's father and a

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Speaker 1: real estate developer he once pardoned. Kushner is the father

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Speaker 1: of Jerry Kushner, who is married to the President Elect's daughter, Evanka,

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Speaker 1: and who served in Trump's first term as a senior

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Speaker 1: advisor to the president. The elder Kushner founded the real

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Speaker 1: estate firm Kushner Companies. He was sentenced in twenty oh

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Speaker 1: five to two years in prison after pleading guilty to

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Speaker 1: assisting in the filing of false tax returns, retaliating against

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Speaker 1: a witness, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.

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Speaker 1: President elect Trump is threatening the bricks nations with one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent tariffs if they move to create a new

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Speaker 1: currency as an alternative to the US dollar. We get

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Speaker 1: more on that from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 2: Trump saying in a post on his Truth social network.

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Speaker 2: The idea that the bricks countries are trying to move

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Speaker 2: away from the dollar while the US stands by and

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Speaker 2: commitment from these countries that they will neither create a

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Speaker 2: new bricks currency nor back any other currency to replace

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Speaker 2: the mighty US dollar, or they will face one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent tariffs and should expect to say goodbye to selling

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Speaker 2: into the wonderful US economy. The bricks nations, as Brazil, Russia, India, China,

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Speaker 2: and South Africa are collectively known have discussed the issue

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Speaker 2: of dedollarization and the backlash against dollar dominance, among them

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Speaker 2: gained traction in twenty twenty two when the US led

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Speaker 2: efforts to impose economic sanctions on Russia. Denise Pellgrity Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Black Friday sales grew at a faster pace in the

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Speaker 1: US this year, underscoring that shoesy consumers are still opening

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Speaker 1: up their wallets when they find the right products. Retail

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Speaker 1: sales excluding automotive it grew three point four percent of

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Speaker 1: the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the holiday

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Speaker 1: shopping season. This according to Mastercard's Spending Pulse. That figure

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Speaker 1: outpaced growth last year and is not adjusted for inflation.

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Speaker 1: In store sales rows point seven percent lower than last

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Speaker 1: year's pace. E commerce was a bright spot, with online

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Speaker 1: sales growing fourteen point six percent higher than last year's.

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Speaker 1: President Elect Trump's call for energy dominance in the US

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Speaker 1: may run into some real world limitations. Bloomberg's Amy Marris

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Speaker 1: reports from Washington.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is creating a National Energy Council. He says

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Speaker 3: it will establish US energy dominance around the world. The

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Speaker 3: Energy Council will be led by Doug Bergham, Trump's choice

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Speaker 3: to head the Interior Department, and it will be key

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Speaker 3: in Trump's pledge to sell more oil to allies and

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Speaker 3: his intent to move away from President Biden's focus on

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Speaker 3: climate change. But President Elect Trump's energy wishes may run

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Speaker 3: into some real world limitations, in part because US oil

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Speaker 3: production under President Biden is already at record high levels.

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Speaker 3: In Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: There seems to be a new trend emerging in retail

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Speaker 1: this holiday season, tipping the sales staff. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons

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Speaker 4: A trend that started showing up after the pandemic. USA

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Speaker 4: Today is reporting on a survey taken by light Speed

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Speaker 4: Commerce in which sixty nine percent of shoppers said they

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Speaker 4: would be willing to tip their retail workers to get

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Speaker 4: better service during the holidays. That number is closer to

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Speaker 4: eighty nine percent for gen zers And what's the going

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Speaker 4: rate for tips for real detail workers? Most say they

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Speaker 4: expect to receive between five and ten percent. I'm Nancy Lyons,

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