1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: met Kleggy. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has resumed his duties 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: after undergoing a non surgical medical procedure earlier Friday evening 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: to address an issue with his bladder. Pentagon Press Secretary 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 1: Major General Pat Ryan said in a statement that the 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: procedure was successful and that Austin has resumed his authority 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: after transferring it for about two and a half hours 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 1: to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. Families of the Uvalde, 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: Texas elementary school shooting victims filed lawsuits Friday against the 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: manufacturer of the AR fifteen rifle used in the attack, 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: the publisher of the Call of Duty video game, and 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: Instagram parent company met A Platforms. The two complaints, one 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: filed in California, the other in Texas, alleged the companies 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: provided the rob elementary shooter Salvador Ramos, with the information, encouragement, 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: and weapon that he used to kill twenty one people 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: on May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two. The complaint filed 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles County Superior Court target's Call of Duty publisher, Activision, Blizzard, 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: and Meta, saying the companies encourage vulnerable young men like 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: Ramos to become violent. Blackstone chief executive officer Steve Schwartzman 20 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: says he will raise money for Donald Trump's campaign, handing 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: the presumptive Republican nominee a major win as he built 22 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: his donor base. The billionaire private equity chief and heavyweight 23 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: political donor has long been a major source of funding 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: for Republicans, but he has kept mum for months over 25 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: whether he will back Trump. Friday's announcement is a reversal 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: for Schwartzman, who said in twenty twenty two that he 27 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: would not back Trump again, calling for a new generation 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: of Republican leaders. During the primaries, he gave two million 29 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: dollars to the Super Political Action Committee allied to former 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: New Jersey Governor Chris Christi, the most vehement critic of 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: Trump among his challengers for the nomination. Boeing and NASA 32 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: say they are are prepared to move forward with the 33 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: inaugural mad launch of the company's space taxi on June 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: first without fixing a small helium leak. We get the 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: That leak was discovered during an earlier launch attempt, Representatives 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 2: from NASA and Boeing told reporters that after conducting enough analysis, 38 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: they are comfortable flying the spacecraft, the CST one hundred 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: star Liner, with the helium leak and simply monitoring it 40 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: throughout the mission to the International Space Station. They say 41 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: if the leak were to get worse during the trip, 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: they could still manage to complete the mission safely. In 43 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 2: New York, Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio. 44 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: City Group, HSBC Holdings, and Barclays are ordering more staffers 45 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: to report to company offices five days a week as 46 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: regulatory changes make it trickier for Wall Street to allow 47 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: working from home. We get more from Bloomberg's Michael Moore. 48 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 3: What's driving some of this is there were some there 49 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 3: was of a pause on some US regulations around monitoring employees, 50 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 3: mostly in the investment banking and trading world, and those 51 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: you know COVID pauses are sunsetting now and the regulators 52 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: have put in some practices that would allow people to 53 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: work from home. But a lot of banks we're seeing 54 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 3: are deciding that that compliance headache is just not worth it, 55 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 3: so they're instead calling employees back. 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Michael Moore, with some bosses blaming FINRA's rules for 57 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: a new slew of five day office mandates. Regulators have 58 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: shot back, saying that, if anything, they're trying to allow 59 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: greater flexibility, not less. And that's news when you wanted 60 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: with Bloomberg News. Now I'm in Kleggi and this is 61 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: Bloomberg