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Speaker 2: John Tucker sitting in for Alex Steele. I'm Paul Sweeney.

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Speaker 2: and that's where you'll find if we get some economic

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Speaker 2: data today on the inflation front PCE. The smart folks

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Speaker 2: look at that core PCE index month to month up

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Speaker 2: zero point three percent, right in line with expectations on

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Speaker 2: again right in line with expectations in a little bit

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Speaker 2: lower than last period. That's the number, you know. It's

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Speaker 2: one of those numbers that the Fed would like to

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Speaker 2: see closer to two percent, So maybe a little bit

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Speaker 2: more work to do. They're pre Misery Joints, Fixed and Come.

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Speaker 2: Portfolio Manager, JP Morgan Asset Management. What did you make

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Speaker 2: of the inflation data. More importantly, how do you think

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Speaker 3: So I think the Fed realizes that inflation is above target.

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Speaker 3: They like it to be closer to two percent. It's

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Speaker 3: I think it's good news came and kind of as expected.

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Speaker 3: We're actually I think the market's focus is moving away

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Speaker 3: Your take on that, you know, I think today's trade

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Speaker 3: there are growth fears. I would put aside some of

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you bring that up. I think the expectations

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 2: Prea, thank you so much for joining US Pria Israel.

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Speaker 2: She's fixed in come portfolio manager over there at JP

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Speaker 2: Morgan Asset Management, joining us from a New York City.

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Speaker 4: She'd just say, I'm not getting a salt text deduction, Raist.

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Speaker 2: I think that's still on the table, but I don't know.

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Speaker 5: John.

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Speaker 2: As you know, the White House, as for every president,

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Speaker 5: And I would do the exact same thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's cold, go down to Florida, man, why not?

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Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you.

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Speaker 4: Well Truman called it the Winter White House down at Florida.

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Speaker 2: mister Zelenski is scheduled to be at the White House

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Speaker 2: this morning, right now as we speak, speaking with President Trump.

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Speaker 2: the Atlantic Council. A. Realistically, if you're mister Zelenski, what

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Speaker 5: I try to get as much or as many.

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Speaker 6: Security guarantees from the United States and also put on

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Speaker 7: Peace three, they will need about ten brigades of peacekeepers

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Speaker 6: This is a conversation that needs to happen in the

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Speaker 6: Trump something which is very vague about critical minerals rare earth.

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Speaker 5: We don't know where they are.

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Speaker 6: Some of these rare earth are under Russian occupation in

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Speaker 6: I got this wonderful agreement. Now we need to back Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: Is there a historical precedent for getting something like a

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Speaker 4: for yeah, we'll protect you now sounds a little like extortion.

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Speaker 6: I did not hear the language of exchange for protection.

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Speaker 5: What Trump is saying, it's kind of implicit.

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Speaker 6: No, No, the United States, Trump says, gave Ukraine assistance.

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Speaker 5: And the Europeans are saying they gave us much.

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Speaker 6: But Trump is trying to recoup that assistance with his

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Speaker 6: deal in a thousand years that that particular deal is

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Speaker 6: The president I'm thinking about is Franklin Delan Ruslot, by

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Speaker 6: all accounts, one of the greatest propagists, maybe the greatest

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Speaker 5: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In nineteen forty.

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Speaker 6: When Britain needed these naval destroyers, gave them fifty naval

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Speaker 5: So it was basis for destroyers deal. The destroyers were

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Speaker 5: sort of too pleasley.

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Speaker 4: Isolationists in Congress, wasn't it. It wasn't.

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Speaker 5: Well, we have isolationists in Congress right now.

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Speaker 2: Like most investors, I think we're all just trying to,

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Speaker 8: You know, I think we're one trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: So, Peter, we've had a little bit of a pullback

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Speaker 2: Interesting, all right, given that backdrop of Peter fixed income?

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