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

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Speaker 2: News When you want It with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Greece has approved landmark legislation

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Speaker 2: to introduce same sex civil marriage. As part of that,

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Speaker 2: equal parental rights for same sex couples will also be established.

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Speaker 2: Greece's parliament voted one seventy six to seventy six out

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Speaker 2: of the two hundred and fifty four who voted in

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Speaker 2: the three hundred seat chamber. Fulton County District Attorney Fanny

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Speaker 2: Willis has been on the stand in a hearing to

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Speaker 2: determine whether she should be removed from the Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: election interference trial. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has the story.

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Speaker 3: The arguments center around when her personal relationship with Special

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Speaker 3: Prosecutor Nathan Wade began. It got personal and d A.

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Speaker 3: Willis had some fiery exchanges.

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Speaker 2: Highly offensive with someone lives on you, and it's highly

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Speaker 2: offensive on the implicate that you slept with somebody the

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Speaker 2: first day you met with and I take exception.

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Speaker 3: Too, and she says, the roles in this hearing are reversed.

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Speaker 2: You've been intrusive into people's personal lives.

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Speaker 4: You're confused.

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Speaker 1: You think I'm on trial. These people are on trial

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Speaker 1: for trying to steal an election in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: I'm not on trial now.

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Speaker 3: The fate of how the charges against Donald Trump will

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Speaker 3: be prosecuted lie in balance at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: A judge in New York has ruled that Donald Trump's

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Speaker 2: trial over alleged hush money payments will start as planned

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Speaker 2: on March twenty fifth. This relates to alleged payments to

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Speaker 2: a porn star to influence the twenty sixteen election that

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Speaker 2: will make this trial the first of four criminal trials

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Speaker 2: involving the former president. In the Middle East, Israeli forces

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Speaker 2: have stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza. That' says

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Speaker 2: Israel moves closer to an assault on the town of Rafa,

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Speaker 2: near the Egyptian border. Bloomberg's Dana Chriish has more on

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Speaker 2: that from Dubai.

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Speaker 4: Israel intends on going ahead with this operation and we

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Speaker 4: don't see it backing down. And I think it remains

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Speaker 4: to be seen whether the US will be successful in

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Speaker 4: trying to convince Israel to at least come up with

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Speaker 4: a plan to reduce or take into consideration the high

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Speaker 4: casualty told that might come out of this operation in Rapha.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Sandy Christ reporting from Dubai. Israel now says that

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Speaker 2: it forces killed a Hesbelock commander in an air strike

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Speaker 2: in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatia. Lebanon is warning

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Speaker 2: that the cross border fire in Israel's north could spark

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Speaker 2: a wider war. Well, it's no secret that Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: has been critical of NATO, but Bloomberg has learned the

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Speaker 2: former president is contemplating a major change to America's commitment

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Speaker 2: to the alliance if he returns to the White House.

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Speaker 2: We get more from Bloomberg's Bill Ferries.

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Speaker 5: What former President Trump has in mind if he's back

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Speaker 5: in the White House is some kind of two tiered

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Speaker 5: NATO where the Article five commitment, and that's the one

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Speaker 5: that basically says, if you're attacked, we will all come

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Speaker 5: to defend you. That would only apply to countries that

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Speaker 5: are meeting the two percent of GDP two percent of

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Speaker 5: spending of GDP on defense threshold. That's kind of long been,

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Speaker 5: kind of long been the marker for NATO.

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Speaker 2: Eighteen of NATO's thirty one members are expected to hit

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Speaker 2: that Marker. This year, NATO's Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg said

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Speaker 2: that Article five is the core of NATO and any

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Speaker 2: suggestion that it is not would undermine the security for

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Speaker 2: all members. The White House is downplaying the risks from

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Speaker 2: an anti satellite weapon that Russia is said to be developing.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons has the story.

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Speaker 1: National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the weapon has

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Speaker 1: not been deployed and there is no imminent threat, but

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Speaker 1: he does admit there is concern.

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Speaker 2: We plan to engage directly with the Russians about this,

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Speaker 2: and as well as allies and part Bernerson, as I said,

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Speaker 2: will continue to work through what our next steps and

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Speaker 2: our approaches might be.

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Speaker 1: Kirby's revelation comes after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner

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Speaker 1: issued a cryptic statement Wednesday about an unspecified national security

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Speaker 1: threat that he wanted the White House to declassify. In Washington,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Lyons Bloomberg radio.

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Speaker 2: In Sporting News. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said that he

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Speaker 2: will retire when his current term ends in January of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine, and Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA women's

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Speaker 2: career scoring record in basketball. She made a three pointer

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Speaker 2: from about thirty five feet in the first quarter for

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Speaker 2: number four Iowa going up against Michigan on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg