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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news news when you want

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Speaker 1: it with the Bloomberg News Now. I Met Kalagi, Ukraine's

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Speaker 1: military chief, said early Saturday that he's withdrawing troops from

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Speaker 1: the city of Avdifka in eastern Ukraine, where outnumbered defenders

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Speaker 1: battled a Russian assault for four months. The timing is

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Speaker 1: critical as Russia is looking for a morale boost ahead

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Speaker 1: of the second anniversary on February twenty fourth of Moscow's

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Speaker 1: full scale invasion of Ukraine and the March presidential election

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Speaker 1: in Russia. In a short statement posted on Facebook early Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian commander Colonel General Alexander Sarskiwy said it made the

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Speaker 1: decision to avoid encirclement and preserve the lives and health

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Speaker 1: of servicemen. The commander in chief added that troops are

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Speaker 1: moving to more favorable lines. Donald Trump at Israel estate

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Speaker 1: company suffered a major defeat in New York civil fraud

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Speaker 1: suit over his inflated asset valuations. Judge barred the former

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Speaker 1: president from running any business in the state for three

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Speaker 1: years and ordered the return of three hundred sixty four

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Speaker 1: million dollars in illegal profits. Bloomberg's Greg Farrell discusses how

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Speaker 1: Trump's children played a role in the business.

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Speaker 2: Unlike Evanka, who has severed from it and is not

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Speaker 2: part of it in any way. The two sons were

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Speaker 2: helping to run the business for many years until Trump

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Speaker 2: became president, and then in fact we're running the business

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Speaker 2: on his behalf when he was president. And that's in

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Speaker 2: particular where a couple of the charges involving insurance fraud

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Speaker 2: came up that they signed off on and were actively

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Speaker 2: involved in presenting numbers to the insurance companies that were

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Speaker 2: not accurate, they were overstated.

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Speaker 1: The ninety two page verdict Frauday by Justice Arthur and

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Speaker 1: Geran in Manhattan is a threat to Trump's real estate

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Speaker 1: empire and the latest legal setback as he campaigns to

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Speaker 1: return to the White House. Trump attorney Alina Haba said

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Speaker 1: in a statement quote, this verdict does a manifest injustice,

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Speaker 1: plain and simple. It is the culmination of a multi year,

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Speaker 1: politically fueled witch hunt that was designed to take down

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Before Letitia James ever stepped foot into the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General's office. Alexing Navali, the Russian lawyer and anti

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Speaker 1: corruption activists who became the most potent voice in opposition

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Speaker 1: to President Vladimir Putin, has died. According to the Prison Service,

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Speaker 1: he was forty seven. During remarks Friday at the White House,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg reporter josh Winngrove asked President Joe Biden if he's

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Speaker 1: considering increasing sanctions on Russia right now.

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Speaker 3: We're looking at a whole number of options, That's all

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Speaker 3: I'll say.

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Speaker 2: Right now, There anything you can do to get at

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Speaker 2: the ammunition to the ukrainions without the SUPPLEMENTO from Congress.

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Speaker 3: No, it's about time they step up, don't you think

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Speaker 3: Instead of going on to a two week vacation two

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Speaker 3: weeks and walking away, what are they thinking?

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Speaker 1: A bill filed by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers

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Speaker 1: would spend sixty six point three billion dollars in foreign

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Speaker 1: aid and would codify a remain in Mexico policy for

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Speaker 1: asylum seekers aimed at breaking an impass border measures and

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Speaker 1: Ukraine funds. The House is due bach February twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: The father of Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis testified

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Speaker 1: Friday that she did not date prosecutor Nathan Wade before

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Speaker 1: hiring him in twenty twenty one to lead the Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump election fraud case. John Floyd, an attorney and civil

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Speaker 1: rights activists, said he lived with his daughter in twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty twenty. When her boyfriend was a disc

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Speaker 1: jockey named Deuce. He would visit the house they shared

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Speaker 1: and stored his equipment there. Willison Wader fighting efforts to

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Speaker 1: remove them from the racketeering case against Trump and others

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Speaker 1: overclaims they had a secret romance before she hired him,

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Speaker 1: and they improperly benefited from him, making six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in taxpayer money, or more than anyone

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Speaker 1: else in the office. Both testified Thursday that their affair

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Speaker 1: lasted from early twenty two to mid twenty three, and

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Speaker 1: that she reimbursed him with cash for several vacations they

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Speaker 1: took together. Satellite photos show Egypt building a walled off

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Speaker 1: buffer zone to contain a potential exodus of refugees from

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Speaker 1: Gaza as Israel steps up its offensive. Bloomberg's EARV. Chapman

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Speaker 1: reports from Washington.

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Speaker 3: Egypt's motive, who was suggested by Norman Rule, a former

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Speaker 3: senior US intelligence official, in a Bloomberg interview.

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Speaker 4: Egypt has been adamant that it does not want to

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Speaker 4: see an inflow of Palestinian refugees. They would be very

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Speaker 4: expensive to maintain. The international community may turn away from

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Speaker 4: and many An egypt believe this is what Israeli hardliners see.

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Speaker 3: A mus breached the Gaza into border barrier a few

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Speaker 3: years ago, rule set and the Egyptians are weary of

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Speaker 3: a repeat. In Washington, IRV Chatman, Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, and Tiger Wood's return to the PGA tour lasted

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Speaker 1: only twenty four holes. He withdrew Friday at the Genesis

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Speaker 1: Invitational after hitting his t shot on the seventh hole.

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Speaker 1: The PGA says it was an illness not related to

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Speaker 1: his ankle or his back. That's news when you wanted

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