Hamas Leader Killed; Meta Rallies on Earnings

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:10.520 Good morning. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.360 I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:14.840 stories we're following today. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:16.920 Karen, we'll get back to the markets in a moment, 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.200 but we begin with breaking news in the Middle East. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.240 Israel says it has eliminated the head of Hamas's military wing. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.279 In a post on x, the Israeli military says it 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.880 has confirmed Hamas's second in command, Mohammed daff was killed 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.640 in a strike in Gaza on July thirteenth. Bloomberg Middle 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.360 East anchored Jumana Bursecci has the latest from Dubai. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.920 From Israel's perspective, it is a major diplomatic coup for 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.920 the Israeli Prime Minister Natanie who because they have said 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.520 from the very beginning that they wanted to exact revenge 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.279 on the perpetrators of October seven and on Hamas, and 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.720 so from their perspective, this actually works towards the goal 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.520 of eliminating and neutralizing Hamas's military capabilities. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.960 Bloomberg Middle East ankardjuam Mona Bersaci says this latest killing 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.319 leave ceasefire talks with Hamas even more uncertain. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.120 Nathan, this latest development out of Israel follows the two 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.600 air strikes this week that killed Hamas's political leader Ishmael 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.880 Hania and Tehran and senior Hezbola commander Fuad Shuker in Beirut. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.440 Israel is not confirmed it was behind Honia's death, but 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.520 The New York Times reports around Supreme Leader has ordered 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.679 a direct attack on Israel. In response, Secretary of State 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.720 Anthony Blenkin is urging all sides to de escalate. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.800 It all starts with the ceasefire and to get there, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.280 it also first requires all parties to talk to stop 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.000 taking any escalatory actions. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.360 Despite that determination from Secretary of State Blank and sources, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.919 Tol Bloomberg Knews that the Biden administration and knows getting 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.000 to a ceasefire is harder than ever. After Ishmael Hania's death. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.240 Trained to politics back home, Karen. Former President Donald Trump 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.680 was in Chicago for the National Association of Black Journalists 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.600 conference and he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris's racial identity. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.040 We get more from Bloomberg Zamy Morris. In Washington, the. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.480 Former president got booed and some laughs when he said 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.160 during a roundtable discussion that he questions Vice President Kamala 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:15.600 Harris's racial identity. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.840 She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.440 promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.040 a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.000 and now she wants to be. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:27.640 Known as black. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.760 Trump also defended old comments from his running mate, Senator 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.800 jd Vance that disparaged women without children as quote childless 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.239 cat ladies, saying it was meant in a friendly manner. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.560 The National Association of Black Journalists says they're also in 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.800 talks to have Vice President Harris virtually address their convention. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.000 Amy Morris Bloomberg Radio, all. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.880 Right by me, thank you. As Vice President Kamala Harris 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.520 gets closer to picking a running maid, her team has 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.399 met with Pennsylvania Governor John Shapiro. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:56.079 that story. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.080 They have said all along he's on the shortlist, which 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:03.000 now includes Shapiro, Senator Mark Kelly, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.440 and say that it was just part of the selection 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.480 process and not to read anything into it. Sources as 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.480 well say several unions have made their concerns known about Kelly. One, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.080 the Transport Workers Union, said he is not pro trade 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.560 union enough. In fairness, other unions have supported him. Harris 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.399 did pick up the endorsement of the United Auto Workers, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.360 influential in Michigan. She plans to campaign with her pick 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.160 next week. Ad Baxter Bloomberg Radio. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.840 Okay and thanks. Let's turn back to markets now, the 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.520 barrage of earnings around the world. We'll start with Meta Platforms. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.720 Those shares are up six and a half percent in 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.320 early trading. The Facebook owner reported better than expected sales 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.880 in the second quarter. Investments in artificial intelligence are helping 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:52.240 meticell more targeted and personalized advertisements. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.200 talked about AI on the conference call. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.520 They're all the jokes about how all the tech CEOs 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.400 get on these earnings calls and just talk about AI 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.000 the whole time, because it's actually super exciting and it's 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.720 going to change all these different things over multiple time. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.120 Horizon, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms reported sales of thirty nine 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.080 point one billion dollars that topped estimates by eight hundred million. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.400 Well, Nathan. While Zuckerberg's personal wealth will rise if those 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.880 gains and Meta shares hold, it may pale to the 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.600 day in Vidia CEO Jensen Wong had shares of Nvidia 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.120 search thirteen percent yesterday. I may get more from Bloomberg's 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:26.800 Doug Prisner. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.960 The rally was linked to an upbeat forecast from competitor 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.320 Advanced micro Devices. AMD's outlook pointed to improved demand for 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.880 its AI accelerator, a market dominated by Nvidia. On Wednesday, 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.640 Nvidia added a record three hundred and twenty nine billion 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.600 dollars in value, and Wong's net worth was boosted by 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.640 nearly twelve billion. He is now the world's fourteenth richest person, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.920 with a net worth of nearly one hundred and three 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.360 billion dollars. He has been steadily capitalizing on Invidia's outperformance 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.120 this year. He sold shares worth nearly one hundred and 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.360 sixty nine million dollars in June, the most he's netted 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.080 in a single month in New York. I'm Doug Prisner, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:04.840 Bloomberg Radio. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.680 All right, Doug, thanks and high tech will remain and 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.640 focus this afternoon when Apple and Amazon report earnings. But 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.039 let's check some key results overseas. This morning, shares of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.359 Shell are up one point two percent. The oil giant 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.039 posted second quarter earnings above analyst estimates and confirmed another 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.920 three and a half billion dollars share buy back shares 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:24.680 of Barclays. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.680 We're higher earlier, now they're lower. In London, the British 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.440 lender reported better than expected income in the second quarter, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.480 aided by a surge and revenue from some of its 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.800 Wall Street operations. Barclays will also repurchase as much as 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.920 nine hundred and sixty three million dollars in shares now. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.599 We turned to the US Economy Karen in more hints 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.479 from the FED that it could pull off a rate 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.560 cut at its next meeting. J Powell kept rates unchanged yesterday, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.279 but the FED share signaled officials are on course to 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.520 cut in September unless inflation progress stalls. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.800 The question will be whether the totality of the data 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 the evolving outlook in the balance of risks, or consider 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.600 with rising confidence on inflation and maintaining a solid labor market. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.120 If that test is met, a reduction in our policy 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.359 rate could be on the table as soon as the 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:09.680 next meeting in September. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.600 Following FED shared Jpal's comments, interest rate swaps showed traders 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.120 fully pricing in a quarter point cut in September and 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.839 a total of almost seventy basis points in reductions for 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:19.400 the year. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.360 On Nathan rates. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.839 Also in focus overseas, the Bank of England makes a 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.920 policy decision later this morning, and economists say there could 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.440 be the first rate cut since the start of the pandemic. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.840 Investors are placing a sixty four percent chance on a 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.840 quarter point cut, taking a key lending rate from a 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.279 five and a quarter percent to five percent. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.640 And back on Wall Street caring it as a blow 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.240 for Bill Ackman. In just a matter of weeks, the 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.920 Pershing Square founders planned to steer a new investment fund 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.599 onto the New York Stock Exchange has collapsed. Acman bet 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.400 his wide following on X could raise twenty five million 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.960 dollars for Pershing in an initial public offering. That would 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.479 have been an unprecedented feat for a closed end fund 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.360 in the US. Acman later cut that target to four 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.800 billion dollars than two billion. By yesterday, Pershing Square withdrew 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.080 the IPO completely. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.000 It's time now for a look at some of the 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.560 other stories making news in New York and around the world. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.760 For that, we're joined by A Bloomberg's John Tucker. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.280 John, Good Morning, Good morning, Karen. The man accused of 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.000 being the main plotter in al Qaeda's nine to eleven attacks, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.560 has agreed to plead guilty. That's according to the Defense Department. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.520 Kaleide Shaik Mohammad and two accomplices in the attack are 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.280 expected to enter the police at the Military Commission at 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.680 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to avoid the death penalty. The US 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.240 agreement with him and comes more than twenty years after 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.520 militants flew commandeered commercial airliners into buildings, killing nearly three 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.680 thousand people. Some family members of nine to eleven victims 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.440 say that's not justice. Andrew Ensborough, as president of the 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.160 Uniform Firefighters Association. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.680 They're allowing these three terrorists and mass murderers to continue 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.040 to live well. On average, three New York City firefighters 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.480 a time every month. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.400 More than three hundred and forty members the EMPTNY died 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.400 in the attack on the World Trade Center. The US 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.200 says the world should acknowledge that Venezuela is opposition one 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.840 last weekend's election against President Nicholas Maduro. Brian Nichols, the 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.080 top US diplomat for Western Hemisphere affairs, spoke at a 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.440 meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington with. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.239 The irrefutable evidence based on the act. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.480 As everyone can see, it is clear that in Mundel 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.360 Gonzalez Orutia defeated Nicholas Maduro by millions of votes. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.040 Meanwhile, Maduro doubled down on his claims of victory, saying 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.079 his opponent should be jailed for decades. American Cancer Society 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.440 says cancer rates are opt for Gen ax and millennials. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.559 According to the research published in the journal Lancet. They 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.080 have a two to four times higher rate of specific 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.840 cancers like pancreatic or kidney. The good news is the 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.080 number of lung cancer and cervical cancer deaths are on 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.360 the decline. Forty five percent of American adults say they've 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.160 been billed in the past year for medical care they 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.360 thought was covered by insurance. According to a report from 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.640 the Commonwealth, thought at least many footing the bill for 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.160 insurance company errors. Sarah Collins, one of the authors of 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.040 the report from the Independent Health Research Foundation. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.160 When we asked him why they hadn't challenged, more than 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.920 half sin it was because they weren't aware that they 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.079 had the right to do so. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.000 Collins says more than a third of those who challenged 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.000 their medical bills got their balances reduced or eliminated. Global 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.199 news twenty four hours a day, whenever you want to 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.200 it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm John Tucker and this 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.200 is Bloomberg Nathan and Karen. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:38.560 Sorry, John, thank you. Time now for the Bloombergy Sports 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.040 Update with John Stashauer. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.560 John, good morning, Good morning, karens for the rough season 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.120 for dj Lemayeu, the Yankees veteran infielder has struggled with 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.079 the plate. They've seen his playing time strength. But the 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.120 latest Yankee wins six ' five in Philadelphia all about 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.560 le mayew a grand slam in the second, in the 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.120 two run double in the sixth, the career eye six 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.120 RBIs the Meyu drove in all six Here's Aaron Boone. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:05.800 Really excited for him. You know, obviously, guys respect No, No, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.240 he's grind and no, he's going through it. And you know, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.679 obviously hasn't got a lot of opportunities lately, and it 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:15.840 was clearly the difference. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.960 Today Yanks five straight wins start a nine game homestand 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.360 tomorrow is the Mets began a ten game road trip. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.480 They lost in City Field to the Twins eight to three. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.280 Red Sox pulled out a three to two ten in 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.400 in win over Seattle. Nationals lost five four got swept 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.880 at Arizona. Red Hot Padres made it nine of the 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.280 last ten. They were roughed up Clayton Kershawby to Dodgers 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.160 eight to one. Kansas City sent the White Sox to 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.320 a seventeenth loss in a row. At the Olympics. Today, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.800 sim Owned Biles, we'll seek individual gold. 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John Stashedwer Bloomberg Sports Kenna. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:19.520 Nathan Coast to Coast on Bloomberg Radio nationwide on Syrias 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.840 XM and around the world on Bloomberg dot Com and 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.880 the Bloomberg Business app. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:28.760 I'm Nathan Hager. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.280 We are watching for the prospect of further tensions in 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.800 the Middle East, with Israel now saying it has confirmed 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.720 the death of Hamas's military chief Mohammed daf in a 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.840 strike in Gaza that follows the strike this week that 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.560 killed Hamas's political leader Ismail Hania in Tehran. Joining us 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.160 from Tel Aviv once again this morning is Bloomberg News 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.120 Israel Bureau chief Ethan Bronner. Ethan, good morning. What is 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.640 the Israeli military saying specifically about the military commander's death? 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.120 Hi, Nathan, So this is a hit that occurred actually 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.480 more than two weeks ago, and at that time Israeli 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.320 said they were pretty sure they got him. Hamas denied it. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.960 They said, he's fine. He's laughing as he listens to 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.640 Prime Minister Nutaya, who claims to have killed him. Today 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.120 simply based on their ability to do some kind of 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.320 intelligence assessment to the Israeli military, As officially announced that 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.200 diff was eliminated on the thirteenth. I think it was 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.920 in July, so it's sort of coming on top of 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.400 this other news, but it's not actually new. It's from 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.040 two weeks ago. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.120 But still for two Israel to make that confirmation, I 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.520 would think is a pretty significant development when you think 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.880 about where the leadership structure stands with Hamas now the 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:50.200 military chief, the second in command eliminated, the political chief, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:55.160 the top leader of Humas eliminated. Does this bring Israel 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.880 closer to its goal of eliminating Hamas as an organization. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.520 I think it does, But I mean, I think this 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:07.880 is the eternal question about these guerrilla organizations and about 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.920 the policy of targeted assassinations and so on this. You know, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.920 there's a kind of eternal battle of theories that you 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.960 just create more terrorists when you go after them in 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.720 this way, or no, yes we can kill them, we 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.080 can eliminate it. And it's very difficult for me to 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.400 know where we're headed. There's no question that progress has 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.040 been made and a lot of progress in dissembling the 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.160 military structure of Hamas. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.560 You know, another. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.760 Argument that is being booted here is that this all 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.439 of this action is a prelude to there being a 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.920 ceasefire deal and Ntania who needs all of this kind 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.280 of a chest beating in order to persuade the nation 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.320 that it's okay to go ahead with the deal, to 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.280 get some hostages out and to create a ceasefire. I 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.679 notice if that's true. What I do know is that 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.320 in the coming days we're going to get hit in 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.400 this country from some combination of his belah Iran and 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.280 the Hutis. It's almost inevitable. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.599 And with all that in the background, Ethan, we're continuing 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.360 to hear this determination from the US side. A Secretary 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:23.760 of State Blincoln on ceasefire talks progressing, tensions de escalating. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.320 I mean, what is the prospect for ceasefire talks when 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.120 we have this disarray in Hamas leadership? I mean, who's 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.080 going to be in the talks at this point? 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.800 Well, to be fair, it has always been only one 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.280 negotiator who mattered and me's Uas and war who's the 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.800 overall leader of Hamas, who's in a tunnel somewhere under Gaza. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.160 It's a complicated process to negotiate because the messages and 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.520 the communication have to go back and forth by hand. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.360 They don't do it electronically. There so I mean, to 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.960 be honest, Honey played a role the man who was 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.320 killed in Tehran yesterday, but he was essentrally doing the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.080 bidding of Sinoar. So someone else will do the bidding 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.600 of Sinoar. That doesn't strike me as the problem. The 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.280 problem is that I think that they're going to pull 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.360 back from these talks, at least for a little while, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.560 in anger and humiliation for what has just happened, the 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.720 killing of any in Tehran with a precision guided missile 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.680 of some kind. So that's likely. But you know, what 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.920 the US is doing is going around talking to everyone 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.920 and saying, let's keep the waters calm, let's not let 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:39.040 this devolve into a major regional war. And possibly what 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.560 will happen is what happened in mid April after Israel 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:48.400 killed Iranian generals in Damascus, and there was a specific 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:54.760 attack by Iran on the Israeli territory. But it looked, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.720 and I don't want to go too far in this direction, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.400 that it had been kind of signaled all around that 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.080 the it was relatively clear what was coming when, so 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.600 that it could be it could make a symbolic gesture, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.280 but not great a war, and maybe that's what we'll 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:10.360 see again. 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