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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Here

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

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Speaker 3: We begin with the latest on a celebration that turned

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Speaker 3: into chaos in Kansas City. At least one person is

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Speaker 3: dead more than twenty others wounded in a mass shooting

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Speaker 3: that followed the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade.

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Speaker 3: Authorities say at least eight of the victims are children.

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Speaker 3: Three suspects are in custody. Kansas City Mayor Quentin Lucas

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Speaker 3: says the city celebration should not have ended this way.

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Speaker 4: This is a day that a lot of people look

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have to remember is the threat of gun violence.

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Speaker 3: And Mayor Quentin Lucas says the White House and federal

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Speaker 3: agencies have offered assistance. President Biden put out a statement

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Speaker 3: reiterating his call for an assault weapons ban.

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Speaker 2: And turning down to politics here in the US, we're

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Speaker 2: learning that former President Donald Trump considering major chain to

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Speaker 2: America's commitment to NATO if he returns to office. Details

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Speaker 2: from Bloomberg's and Baxter.

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Speaker 5: Trump says scaled back commitments to NATO nations with a

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Speaker 5: two tiered NATO Alliance, where Article five, which requires common

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Speaker 5: defense of any member under attack, would apply only to

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Speaker 5: those that hit defense spending goals others not defended. His

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Speaker 5: advisers say no plans have been finalized. Trump also says

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Speaker 5: he wants to push Ukraine to settle the war as

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Speaker 5: a condition to getting any more aid ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 6: Okay, and thank you.

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Speaker 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin's weighing in on the US presidential

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Speaker 3: race for the first time. In an interview with State television,

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Speaker 3: the Russian leader was asked who would be the better

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Speaker 3: US president for Russia, Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's

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Speaker 3: Putin's answer through an interpreter.

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Speaker 4: Biden Biden, he is the more experienced person. He's predictable,

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Speaker 4: he is a politician of the old formation. Or we

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Speaker 4: will work with any US leader who the American people

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Speaker 4: have confidence in me.

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Speaker 3: Back in twenty sixteen, Vladimir Putin praised the other front runner,

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: And now let's turn to the Middle East. Gaza's health

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Speaker 2: ministry says Israel has stormed the main hospital in southern

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Speaker 2: Gaza as comes a day after Israel's army born the

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Speaker 2: thousands who saw on shelter at the NACER hospital in

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Speaker 2: Conyunis to evacuate. Israeli Prime Minister at benjaminettya who has

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Speaker 2: backed out of ceasefire talks in Cairo. He's calling Kamas's

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Speaker 2: demand for a total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza delusional. Allies,

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Speaker 2: including the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, are calling for restraint.

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Speaker 7: The threats to more action on Rafa has everyone deeply worried.

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Speaker 7: We need to see stabilization in the region peace and

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Speaker 7: we need to work on the two state solution.

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Speaker 1: That is the only.

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Speaker 7: Way to ensure durable peace and safety.

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Speaker 2: Just bite Prime Minister Trudeau's comments, Israel's position suggests that

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Speaker 2: even a temporary plause in the fighting remains a distant prospect.

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Speaker 3: Let's turn now to space. A privately owned moonlander is

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Speaker 3: on its way to the Lunar Service three two one

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Speaker 3: and the Odysseus Lunar Lander. The IM one flight is

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Speaker 3: carrying six NASA payloads of instruments designed to gather data

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Speaker 3: about the lunar environment. The latest in SpaceX's Intuitives machines

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Speaker 3: mission is a head of the agency's planned return of

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Speaker 3: astronauts to the Moon later this decade.

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Speaker 2: And turning to the market, stock futures higher half to

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Speaker 2: the S and P five hundred closed at five thousand

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Speaker 2: yesterday was a big tech once again leading the way.

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Speaker 2: Now we found out tech was a big theme for

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Speaker 2: hedge fund managers in the latest thirteen f filings. Let's

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Speaker 2: get more from Bloomberg's Doun Prisner.

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Speaker 9: Hedge funds seem to be chasing the rally in information technology,

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Speaker 9: fueled by the growth and artificial intelligence. The latest quartal

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Speaker 9: IT reports filed with the SEC show institutional buying of Amazon, Intel,

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Speaker 9: and Nvidia. In Q four, Metaplytforms was an outlier, with

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Speaker 9: a net sale from hedge funds worth six point six

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Speaker 9: final quarter of twenty three. Technology accounted for the biggest

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Speaker 9: waitings in hedge fund portfolios at twenty five percent. Consumer

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Speaker 9: Doug Prisner, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 3: Doug Fanks and Company News, Shares of Cisco are down

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Speaker 3: more than five percent. The largest maker of networking equipment

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Speaker 3: slashed its full year forecast and also said it would

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Speaker 3: cut about five percent of its global workforce.

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Speaker 6: That's about four thousand jobs.

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Speaker 2: And we're also getting job cuts in the financial industry,

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Speaker 2: sources say Morgan Stanley planning to eliminate several hundred jobs.

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Speaker 2: Those cuts will affect less than one percent of employees

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Speaker 2: in the wealth management business, which hands about forty thousand workers.

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Speaker 3: Turning to the economy and other FED officials urging patients

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Speaker 3: when it comes to cutting interest rates, Federal Reserve Vice

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Speaker 3: Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says he agrees with Chairman

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Speaker 3: j Powell's conscious approach.

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Speaker 10: Support what he called a careful approach to considering policy

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Speaker 10: normalization given current conditions. January's report on consumer Product index

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Speaker 3: The Fed's Michael Barr also repeated his long standing view

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Speaker 2: In Europe, the UK slipped into a mild recession in

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Speaker 2: the second half of twenty twenty three. Gross domestic product

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Speaker 2: found three tenths of a percent of the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: That follows an unrevised one tenth of a percent decline

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Speaker 3: And Japan's economy also unexpectedly slipped into recession after shrinking

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Speaker 3: a revised three point three percent retreat for Japan's economy

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Speaker 3: in the previous quarter. Time now to take a look

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Speaker 3: at some of the other stories making news around the

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Speaker 3: world with Bloomberg's Michael Barr.

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Speaker 6: Good Morning, Michael.

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Speaker 8: Arding Nathan, Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman

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Speaker 8: Mike Turner is publicly warning of a national security threat

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Speaker 8: concerning a destabilizing foreign military capability, so serious that he

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Speaker 8: says President Biden should declassify all information about it. It's

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Speaker 8: reported the intelligence relates to Russia wanting to put nuclear

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Speaker 8: Mike Johnson says he's aware of the issue and wants

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Speaker 8: the public to stay calm.

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Speaker 2: I saw Chairman Turner's statement on the issue, and I

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Speaker 2: want to assure the American people there's no need for

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Speaker 2: public alarm. We are going to work together to address

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Speaker 8: Speaker Johnson says he will press the Biden administration to

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Speaker 8: take appropriate action. The White House is urging House Republicans

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Speaker 8: to agree to a foreign aid package already passed by

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Speaker 8: the Senate. The ninety five billion dollar bill would fund Israel, Ukraine,

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Speaker 8: he won't bring the bill to the floor. Johnson wants

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Speaker 8: foreign aid be tied to border security, but the Senate

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Speaker 8: proposed bipartisan plan earlier this month that Speaker Johnson refused

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Speaker 8: Jean Vierre says that Johnson is stonewalling congressional progress and

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Speaker 8: listen to former President Trump, who pressured Republicans to kill

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Speaker 8: the bipartisan deal.

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Speaker 1: What is it he decided instead, he decides to choose

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And let's not forget there's fentinal traffickers, right,

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Speaker 1: that's what he sided with over the border patrol, over

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Speaker 1: this president and in doing what majority of Americans wants

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Speaker 1: us to do, he's the one killing this speaker.

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Speaker 8: Johnson says he wants to meet with President Biden, but

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Speaker 8: the White House says that there's nothing to negotiate because

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Speaker 8: the bipartisan Senate deal contained much what Republicans have been

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Speaker 8: asking for related to border security. Donald Trump is expected

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Speaker 8: to be back in the New York court today for

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Speaker 8: a hearing that could decide whether the former president's first

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Speaker 8: criminal trial begins in late March. Trump pleaded not guilty

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Speaker 8: last April to thirty four counts of falsifying business records.

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Speaker 8: Prosecutors say Trump's company kept fraudulent records as part of

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Speaker 8: a scheme to bury stories about extra marital affairs that

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Speaker 8: the former president says were false. Trump's lawyers say the

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Speaker 8: criminal case is politically motivated. Global News twenty four hours

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Speaker 8: I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Nator.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Michael, thank you time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update,

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Speaker 11: All right, Nathan, the Knicks right now have more injured

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Speaker 11: players than healthy ones. Jalen Brunson did play in Orlando.

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Speaker 11: But six of the knicks top players did not, and

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Speaker 11: sure enough they lost to the Magic one eighteen to

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Speaker 11: one hundred runs and scored thirty three in defeat. He's

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Speaker 11: now headed Indianapolis to play in Sunday's All Star Game.

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Speaker 11: It's a good time for the All Star break is

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Speaker 11: the Knicks hope to at least get some of these

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Speaker 11: Then Nets lost in Boston by p fifty one thirty

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Speaker 11: six to eighty six. It's the second worst loss in

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Speaker 11: fifty or more and only two other teams have ever.

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Speaker 11: Before the game between Detroit and Phoenix, a fight in

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Speaker 3: This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. We

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Speaker 3: are coming up to two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

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Speaker 3: and as the US gets closer to a presidential election,

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Speaker 3: America's commitment to its traditional allies is becoming more of

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Speaker 3: an issue. Bloomberg News has learned former President Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: is considering dramatic changes to the US stance on NATO

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Speaker 3: if he were to return to the White House, and

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Speaker 3: Senior editor Bill Ferries. Bill, we know the former president

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Speaker 3: has been critical of NATO in the past, to put

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Speaker 14: That's right, Nathan. Thanks. It sounds like what former President

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Speaker 14: That would only apply to countries that are meeting the

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Speaker 14: It's not put into the NATO chart or anything like that.

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Speaker 14: But what President Trump, former President Trump, seems to be

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Speaker 3: And we've also seen a lot more attention on tend

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Speaker 2: They They are.

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Speaker 14: It's when President Trump took office, NATO members were already

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Speaker 14: starting to ramp up spending that started in about twenty

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Speaker 14: through the Trump presidency. It was, as you mentioned, a

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Speaker 14: frequent focus of his speeches about NATO were at like

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Speaker 14: money in. This is literally what they are spending. How

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Speaker 14: you define defense includes you know, salaries and healthcare benefits

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Speaker 3: What's the reaction among NATO members or among NATO itself

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Speaker 6: How seriously are they taking this? Well?

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Speaker 14: It's I think it is drawing a lot of concern

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Speaker 14: fall apart. I think the Article five commitment is kind

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Speaker 14: Latvia or Lithuania. That's something that former President Trump has

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Speaker 3: And as we're reporting these contemplations by the former president,

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Speaker 3: really interesting to hear Russian President Vladimir Putin being asked

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Speaker 6: Once you take away from.

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Speaker 14: That, yeah, it's going to be very hard for me

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Speaker 14: to try to get into Vladimir Putin's head. All I

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Speaker 14: He was very much talking positively about Trump in the

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Speaker 14: I'd hate to speculate as to what his motives are.

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Speaker 6: In the meantime.

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Speaker 3: Our last thirty seconds here, we also heard former President

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Speaker 3: make further Ukraine aid alone if he were to come

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Speaker 6: What's some of the reaction to that.

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Speaker 14: Well, it's you know, this is this is talking about

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Speaker 14: that sixty billion dollars in aid that's kind of stalled

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Speaker 14: and then they can pay back if they win. I

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Speaker 14: don't think that's going to help move move the debate

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