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Speaker 1: News when you wanted. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Brian

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Speaker 1: Curtis in Hong Kong. Former President Donald Trump has cruised

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Speaker 1: to victory in the Iowa caucus. The contest was called

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Speaker 1: for Trump about thirty minutes after the caucus is opened.

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Speaker 1: The margin of victory is still unclear, but the early

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Speaker 1: call suggests it was wide. Bloomberg's Mike Sheppard has more.

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Speaker 2: In terms of Trump getting that fifty one percent, that

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Speaker 2: absolute majority would give him the leverage in the position

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Speaker 2: where he could actually turn his focus directly to the

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Speaker 2: general election and stop worrying as much about whether Nicky

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Speaker 2: Haley or Ron de Santis rim vivek Ramaswami poses any

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Speaker 2: kind of a credible challenge to him in the next

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Speaker 2: primary contest. We're looking at New Hampshire, but then we're

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Speaker 2: heading to South Carolina at the end of February, and

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Speaker 2: that is Nicky Haley's home turn.

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Speaker 1: Trump defeated his rivals Ron De Santis, who finished second

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Speaker 1: in Iowa and Nicki Haley third, and also vivek Ramaswami

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Speaker 1: is said to be ending his campaign. Bloomberg's Rick Davis

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Speaker 1: has more now on what comes next for Trump.

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Speaker 3: If Trump does run the table and gets both Iowa

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Speaker 3: New Hampshire, a really unusual thing. Then he's got four

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Speaker 3: weeks to consolidate his hold on South Carolina, and we've

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Speaker 3: seen early polling. The campaign hasn't gotten to South Carolina yet,

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Speaker 3: so it's not reflective of a real campaign. But right

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Speaker 3: now he's twenty points ahead of Nikki Haley, who calls

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Speaker 3: it home. And then after that, the really next big

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Speaker 3: thing is Super Tuesday, so he could actually walk in

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Speaker 3: the Super Tuesday basically unchallenged at that point.

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Speaker 1: And that is Bloomberg's Rick Davis. Trump was hoping for

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Speaker 1: a resounding victory to further his pivot to a potential

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Speaker 1: general election rematch with President Biden. The US says huthy

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Speaker 1: militants have hit a US commercial vessel with an anti

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Speaker 1: ship ballistic missile. Has occurred in the Gulf of Aiden

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Speaker 1: on Monday. Nobody was injured. The vessel did avoid significant damage.

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Speaker 1: The US is telling shippers to stay out of the

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Speaker 1: Red Sea. More from Bloomberg Scott.

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Speaker 4: Car signing advice from the US Naval Forces Central Command.

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Speaker 4: The world's International Shipping Association BEMCO posted the warning on

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Speaker 4: LinkedIn this after US and UK forces bomb targets in

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Speaker 4: Yemen over the past several days, and following months of

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Speaker 4: attacks on commercial ships by Huthi militants. The Huthis had

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Speaker 4: been targeting vessels with any kind of connection to Israel.

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Speaker 4: Bimko says the current instability could last for some time.

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Speaker 4: They represent the owners of ships and other shipping firms,

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Speaker 4: counting two thousand members across one hundred and thirty countries.

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Speaker 4: I'm Scott Carr Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, Iran has launched missile strikes against its neighbors. We

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Speaker 1: get details from Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 5: Four people were killed and six others wounded in an

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Speaker 5: Iranian missile attack in the northern Iraqi city of Airbiel.

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Speaker 5: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has taken responsibility for the strike.

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Speaker 5: The state run Islamic Republic News agency says the Revolutionary

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Speaker 5: Guard launched polistic missiles on the espionage basis of anti

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Speaker 5: Iranian terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. In a statement,

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Speaker 5: the IRGC says the strike was in response to recent

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Speaker 5: targeted killings in the country. No American or coalition forces

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Speaker 5: stationed any Iraq and Syria were injured in the missile strikes.

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Speaker 5: The US also shot down three drones near Arabil Airport.

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Speaker 5: Dan Schwartzman Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from hospital.

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Speaker 1: There have been calls for his resignation as he had

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Speaker 1: failed to tell the White House about his condition. He

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Speaker 1: was in hospital for prostate cancer surgery. Biden has said

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Speaker 1: that he still has confidence in Austin and does not

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Speaker 1: want him to resign, and the House Armed Services Committee

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Speaker 1: has announced it will investigate the issue. North Korean leader

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Speaker 1: Kim Jong un wants to remove the concept of peaceful

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Speaker 1: reunification with South Korea that from the state's constitution and

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Speaker 1: it's as he abolished agencies to manage ties, setting the

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Speaker 1: stage for new tensions on the heavily militarized Peninsula. Power

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Speaker 1: grids across the US and Canada have been strained by

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Speaker 1: the bitter cold weather. Texas State Grid operator Urkott said

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Speaker 1: demand top day wintertime record on Monday morning. Urkott said

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Speaker 1: freezing temperatures and precipitation were affecting some Texas power plants

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Speaker 1: early on Monday. Power outage dot US says more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred forty eight thousand homes and businesses were without

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Speaker 1: power in five states, with Oregon and Texas experiencing the most.

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Speaker 1: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg