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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here

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Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: Karen, it is risk off across markets, with a third

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Speaker 3: day of attacks underway across the Middle East. Blasts have

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Speaker 3: been heard this morning in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates,

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Speaker 3: and Qatar. As Iran targets US interests in the region.

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Speaker 3: President Trump says the bombing campaign against Iran could last

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Speaker 3: for weeks. He's calling on the Islamic Republic's remaining leaders

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Speaker 4: I once again urged the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military

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Speaker 4: police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity

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Speaker 4: or face certain death.

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Speaker 5: It will be certain death won't be.

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Speaker 3: Pretty, President Trump spoke in a new social media post

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Speaker 3: late yesterday. The President told The New York Times he's

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Speaker 3: willing to drop sanctions on Iran if its new leader

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Speaker 3: is pragmatic, but in an interview with ABC News, he

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Speaker 3: said his favored choices after the death of Iran Supreme

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Speaker 3: leader have all died in the attacks. Iran security chief

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Speaker 3: says Tehran won't negotiate with the US, and this morning

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Speaker 3: Kuwaits Army said a number of US fighter jets had crashed,

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Speaker 3: but all crew members survived. Iran's semi official Fars news

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Speaker 3: agency says five hundred and fifty five people have been

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Speaker 3: killed in US and Israeli attacks.

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Speaker 2: Well Later this morning, Nathan the Pentagon plans to hold

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Speaker 2: a news conference on the operation against Iran, and that

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Speaker 2: said for eight am Wall Street time. The White House

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Speaker 2: Pentagon State Department. In Cia, Republican Congressman Michael McCall says

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Speaker 2: Iran faces an extraordinary opportunity.

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Speaker 6: Since nineteen seventy nine, there's been a dark veil that

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Speaker 6: descended across the Middle East, and that shroud has now

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Speaker 6: been lifted, and the people of Iran now have a

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Speaker 6: chance for freedom and a chance to take back their country.

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Speaker 2: Than read but the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee,

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Speaker 2: Mark Warner, says the White House still has not spelled

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Speaker 2: out its ultimate goals from this conflict.

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Speaker 7: Is the goal Iran's nuclear capability is, it's the ballistic missiles,

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Speaker 7: regime change. And let me acknowledge the fact that the

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Speaker 7: Iranian leadership, the Supreme leader's taken out.

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Speaker 5: I mean that is good news.

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Speaker 7: I mean this regime is awful. But I can tell

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Speaker 7: you from the intelligence standpoint, we don't have great visibility

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Speaker 7: about who or what comes next.

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Speaker 2: Senator Warner and Congress and McCall where guests on our

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Speaker 2: new show Bloomberg This Weekend. Catch the show Saturdays and

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Speaker 2: Sundays from seven to ten am Eastern across Bloomberg platforms.

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Speaker 3: El Er Karen Iran is looking for a successor to

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Speaker 3: Ayatola Ali Hameni, the eighty six year old Supreme Leader

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Speaker 3: of Iran, who was killed in the air strikes. Golnar

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Speaker 3: Motavali leads Bloomberg's coverage in Iran.

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Speaker 8: In Iran, there is always a under the public. There

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Speaker 8: is always a contingency for the appointment and the succession

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Speaker 8: process of the Supreme Leader, almost as as soon as

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Speaker 8: the Supreme Media is appointed in the first place, and

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Speaker 8: that's actually embedded in the constitution.

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Speaker 5: So even if Harmony had died.

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Speaker 8: Of natural causes or of old age, and he was

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Speaker 8: form of preparation for his succession.

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Speaker 5: We've known that for some time.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's goldnarmotiv all these says. Iran's constitution does call for

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Speaker 3: an assembly of experts to choose the next supreme leader,

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Speaker 3: but that may not be possible in war time.

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Speaker 2: Well, Nathan, there are more signs the conflict is spreading

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Speaker 2: across the region. Israel bombay route and told residents in

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Speaker 2: Speaking yesterday through a translator before the latest military action

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Speaker 6: It has truly reached the record of all times an

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Speaker 9: In war, and this war will bring about.

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Speaker 2: True Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Atnyelho's speaking through an interpreter.

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Speaker 2: Elebenese authority say more than thirty people were killed in

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Speaker 3: And there is plenty of reaction from world leaders this

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Speaker 3: morning to the military action in Iran. Karen Japanese Prime

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Speaker 3: Minister sana Etaka Aichi condemned Iran's nuclear program in a

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Speaker 3: with US military support as a quote shameless and illegal

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Speaker 3: active aggression. The UK, France and Germany have issued a

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Speaker 9: mistakes of Iraq and we have learned those lessons. We

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Speaker 9: were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran and

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Speaker 9: we will not join offensive action now. But Iran is

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Speaker 9: pursuing a scorched earth strategy, so we are supporting the

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister Kier Starmer says the UK has since allowed

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Speaker 3: the specific purpose of destroying Iranian missile sites.

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Speaker 2: Well, Nathan, as we mentioned, there's a massive market reaction

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Speaker 2: this morning to the strikes in Iran, and Bloomberg's John

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Speaker 2: Tucker joins us with the very latest.

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Speaker 5: John, good morning, morning Krol.

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Speaker 10: Let's start with the major stin cambridges worldwide, pushing lower

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Speaker 10: US stock futures down one percent. Brent krue this is

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Speaker 10: the international benchmark now up over eight percent, about seventy

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Speaker 10: two dollars a barrel spot gold that has topped fifty

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Speaker 10: more than three percent that we saw last week. The

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Speaker 10: dollar performing like a haven asset right now up six

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Speaker 10: tenths of a percent dollar DXY. John Taylor at Alliance Bernstein'

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Speaker 10: says markets have reached critical levels.

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Speaker 11: Actually think the longer this goes on, and if oil

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Speaker 11: prices stay higher for a longer period, people will start

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Speaker 10: Now, with the rise in oil, the major energy companies

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Speaker 10: seeing strong gains across Asia and Europe. Let's look at

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Speaker 10: Exon Mobile and Occidental Petroleum pre market up around five

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Speaker 10: you have the defense stocks. They are jumping RTX Corporation,

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Speaker 10: Lockheed Martin pre market they are up over six percent,

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Speaker 10: and then of course the airline and travel stocks will

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Speaker 10: closures of the airspace and the rise in oil. The

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Speaker 10: closing of Middle East airspace also threatening the margins of

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Speaker 10: freight carriers like FedEx and United Parcels Service. So the

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Speaker 10: you know, New York. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, John, Thanks, let's get more now on that

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Speaker 3: travel chaos you mentioned in the Middle East and beyond.

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Speaker 3: Airlines across the Persian Gulf have extended suspensions of operations.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Aviation and transport reporter Danny lisays it's not clear

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Speaker 3: when these disruptions might end.

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Speaker 12: We're looking at around thousands of flights today being canceled

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Speaker 12: So with the region's air space also being closed, it

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Speaker 3: That's Bloomberg's Danny Lee reporting, and European airline stocks are plunging.

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Speaker 3: Luft Hansa's down more than six percent. IAG, the owner

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Speaker 2: Nathan, Amazon Web Services as it suffered a disruption to

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Speaker 2: it after our unidentified object struck one of its data

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Speaker 3: In company news, Karen Berkshire Hathaway shares her down almost

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Speaker 3: two percent in early training. In addition to the overall

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Speaker 3: market weekness this morning, the conglomerates operating profits fell nearly

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Speaker 3: thirty percent in Warren Buffett's final quarter, as CEO analyst

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Speaker 2: And we have a programming note here, Nathan, As we

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Speaker 2: just saw this past weekend. Markets may close on Friday,

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Speaker 2: but the world does not. And that's why we're bringing

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Speaker 2: you a new live radio and TV show, Bloomberg this

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Speaker 2: weekend is looking beyond the daily headlines to the bigger

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Speaker 2: themes driving politics, business and culture. Joined David Gura, Christina

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Speaker 2: interviews at he makes sense of the week that's been

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Speaker 2: the Bloomberg Business App. Time now for look at some

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Speaker 2: of the other stories making news in New York and

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Speaker 2: So Michael Barr, Michael, good morning.

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Speaker 13: Good morning, Karen. Authorities say a gunman wearing clothes with

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Speaker 13: Police shot and killed a man who had used both

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Speaker 13: FBI Special Agent in Charge Alex Dorian.

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Speaker 14: There were indicators that on the subject and in his

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Speaker 13: Multiple people briefed on the investigation saying the suspected gunman

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Speaker 13: The Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a major's

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Speaker 13: have laws restricting gun access to drug addicts. The Reverend

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Speaker 13: Jesse Jackson will be in South Carolina for a final

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Speaker 13: Jackson died on February seventeenth, the day e four. A

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Speaker 13: wild scene in eastern Texas over the weekend, a hot

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Speaker 7: The people are actually coming down right now and it's

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Speaker 15: I'm assuming they have harnesses of stuff.

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Speaker 5: I sure hope. So this is one of the craziest things.

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Speaker 13: Fire Fighters performed a complicated rescue that took about four hours.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Michael a time now for our Bloomberg Sports update,

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Speaker 2: and for that we bring in John stash.

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Speaker 5: Hour, Thanks Aaron.

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Speaker 16: Sunday in the NBA began in New York. The knicksbeat

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Speaker 5: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hagrid.

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Speaker 3: Is a third day of military conflict across the Middle

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Speaker 4: These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure

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Speaker 5: Jumana, good morning. What is the latest from where you sait?

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Speaker 15: Well, the latest is that it's very clear that this

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Speaker 15: Yeah, correct that that's correct, And you've got to think

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Speaker 15: The Ayatola was eighty six years old, and yes, it

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Speaker 3: for this debrief. We're going to be checking back with

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Speaker 3: I'm sure, and as we continue our team coverage of

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Speaker 3: chief for Bloomberg News, Ethan bron Or. Ethan, It's great

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Speaker 3: to have you with us this morning. From your perspective,

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Speaker 3: where do things stand now? What Nathan, I think Jaman

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Speaker 5: With a great force. They've already killed thirty plus people.

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Speaker 17: They were bombing his bull of sites in southern Beirut,

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Speaker 17: But I do think that what you guys were talking about,

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Speaker 5: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 3: The headlines, some of which I've seen this morning, say

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Speaker 17: Yes, you're right, I mean, obviously the result of October seventh,

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Speaker 17: twenty twenty three attack by Kamas on Israel. The goal

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a very powerful military force in Israel.

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Speaker 17: And the opposite has happened over the last two and

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Speaker 17: My instinct at the moment is that you're right that

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Speaker 17: Look, I don't know that we can measure the support

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Speaker 17: Decapitating of the Islamic Republic for the killing of Alikhamani

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Speaker 17: an enormously significant achievement for Israel and will guarantee its

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