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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. American scholar and statesman Henry

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Speaker 1: Kissinger has died today at his home in Connecticut. He

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Speaker 1: was one hundred. We get more in the Life of

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Speaker 1: Henry Kissinger from Bloomberg Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 2: Henry Kissinger served as an army private in Germany after

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Speaker 2: escaping the Nazis before World War Two. As Richard Nixon's

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Speaker 2: National security advisor and Secretary of State, he helped restore

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Speaker 2: diplomatic ties with China and achieved a tent with the Soviets.

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Speaker 2: But Kissinger's conduct of the Vietnam War and the secret

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Speaker 2: war he orchestrated in Cambodia would clout his legacy for

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Speaker 2: the rest of his life.

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Speaker 3: Would say a better way.

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Speaker 1: At any one point, we didn't think so, I still

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Speaker 1: don't think so.

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Speaker 2: Kissinger continued to influence foreign policy through his private think

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Speaker 2: tank Kissinger Associates. He wrote the book on China at

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Speaker 2: the age of eighty eight, and continued to meet face

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Speaker 2: to face with world leaders past his one hundredth birthday.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: As lawmakers can consider an aid package to Israel. Senate

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Speaker 1: majority leader Chuck Schumer is issuing a warning. Bloomberg Nancy

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Speaker 1: Lyons reports.

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Speaker 4: Senator Schumer, who is the highest ranking Jewish elected official

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Speaker 4: in the country, spent forty five minutes on the Senate

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Speaker 4: floor to crying the rise in anti Semitism at a

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Speaker 4: level not seen in decades.

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Speaker 1: The normalization and exacerbation of this rise and hate is

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Speaker 1: the danger many Jewish people fear most.

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Speaker 4: The Anti Defamation League says anti Semitic incidents of nearly

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Speaker 4: quadrupled since the onset of the Israel Hamas War. Schumer

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Speaker 4: says it's time for a clear throated denouncement of the

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Speaker 4: hate in Washington. Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: New York Republican George Santos faces the most serious threat

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Speaker 1: yet to a short and tumultuous tenure in Congress. Two

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Speaker 1: competing resolutions to oust him from the House of Representatives

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Speaker 1: got put on a fast track Tuesday today. On Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Sound on New York, Republican Representative Nicole Malatakis was asked

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Speaker 1: if there are enough votes to expel George Santos from Congress.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the majority of Republicans will, and I

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Speaker 5: think it will be a by yperson vote and we

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Speaker 5: need two thirds of the body to vote to expel

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Speaker 5: for it to be successful. I will be voting to

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Speaker 5: expel mister Santos.

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Speaker 1: Representative Nicole Maliatankas speaking with Bloomberg's Joe Matthew. A recent

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Speaker 1: Ethics Committee report found that he had stolen from campaign

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Speaker 1: donors and that he had used the money for botox treatments,

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Speaker 1: luxury goods, and a website commonly associated with pornography. The

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Speaker 1: House could vote to expel George Santos later this week.

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Speaker 1: A Wall Street banking boss has urged Democrats to back

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Speaker 1: a Republican candidate for president. Bloomberg Steve Roppaport explains why.

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Speaker 6: If Democrats want to keep Donald Trump from reclaiming the

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Speaker 6: White House, Jamie Diamond suggests they vote for Nicki Haley.

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Speaker 6: Speaking at the New York Times deal Book Summit, the

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Speaker 6: JP Morgan Chase CEO said even liberals need to be

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Speaker 6: on board with getting a choice on the Republican side

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Speaker 6: that might be better than Trump, Diamond adding he will

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Speaker 6: work with whoever ends up winning. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 6: Hailey won an endorsement Tuesday from a political network tied

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Speaker 6: to billionaire Charles Koch, but the former UN ambassador still

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Speaker 6: trails Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in polls in

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Speaker 6: New York. Steve Rappaport Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: US treasuries rose on bets the Fed will cut interest

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Speaker 1: rates in the first half of next year. Today, two

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Speaker 1: FED officials made the case for continuing to hold interest

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Speaker 1: rates steady. Cleveland FED President Loretta Mester said policy is

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Speaker 1: well positioned here. Atlanta FED president Raphael Bostic said he's

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Speaker 1: growing confident that inflation is firmly on a downward path.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, Richmond FED chief Thomas Barkin told

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Speaker 1: CNBC he's not yet convinced.

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Speaker 3: I think you want to have the option of doing

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Speaker 3: more on rates, and I guess the bigger point is

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Speaker 3: there's no precision that anyone can point to at exactly

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Speaker 3: what is the level of rates that exactly handles inflation

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Speaker 3: in exactly the way you want to handle it, And

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Speaker 3: so you're constantly trying to adjust on the fly as

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Speaker 3: you learn more about the economy, as you learn more

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Speaker 3: about the impact of demand on inflation, and that's what

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Speaker 3: we're learning as we go.

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Speaker 1: Thomas Parkin in Corporate News two health insurance giants in

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Speaker 1: merger talks. The story from and Kate's.

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Speaker 7: Signa and Human are working on a potential cash and

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Speaker 7: stock combination that would create a giant in the health

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Speaker 7: insurance industry that you would become a powerful challenger to

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Speaker 7: United Health and CBS Health. The move would also shrink

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Speaker 7: the number of publicly traded national health insurance from six

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Speaker 7: to five and give the signa Human entity more leverage

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Speaker 7: and negotiating with hospitals or Medicare. The tie up would

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Speaker 7: likely face antitrust hurdles in Washington and Kates Bloomberg Radio

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Speaker 7: and that's.

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