Deadly Super Bowl Parade Shooting; Trump Eyes NATO Makeover

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.800 Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Here 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.440 are these stories we're following today. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.279 We begin with the latest on a celebration that turned 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.360 into chaos in Kansas City. At least one person is 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.239 dead more than twenty others wounded in a mass shooting 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.520 that followed the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.320 Authorities say at least eight of the victims are children. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.080 Three suspects are in custody. Kansas City Mayor Quentin Lucas 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.040 says the city celebration should not have ended this way. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.360 This is a day that a lot of people look 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.919 forward to, something they remember for lifetime, and what they 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.680 shouldn't have to remember is the threat of gun violence. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.159 And Mayor Quentin Lucas says the White House and federal 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.479 agencies have offered assistance. President Biden put out a statement 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.000 reiterating his call for an assault weapons ban. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.560 And turning down to politics here in the US, we're 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.600 learning that former President Donald Trump considering major chain to 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.760 America's commitment to NATO if he returns to office. Details 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.360 from Bloomberg's and Baxter. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.679 Trump says scaled back commitments to NATO nations with a 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.800 two tiered NATO Alliance, where Article five, which requires common 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.160 defense of any member under attack, would apply only to 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:22.039 those that hit defense spending goals others not defended. His 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.480 advisers say no plans have been finalized. Trump also says 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.280 he wants to push Ukraine to settle the war as 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.480 a condition to getting any more aid ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.160 Okay, and thank you. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.679 Russian President Vladimir Putin's weighing in on the US presidential 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.319 race for the first time. In an interview with State television, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.280 the Russian leader was asked who would be the better 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.119 US president for Russia, Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Here's 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.160 Putin's answer through an interpreter. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:53.360 Biden Biden, he is the more experienced person. He's predictable, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.160 he is a politician of the old formation. Or we 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.720 will work with any US leader who the American people 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:00.880 have confidence in me. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.680 Back in twenty sixteen, Vladimir Putin praised the other front runner, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:05.400 Donald Trump. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.960 And now let's turn to the Middle East. Gaza's health 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.680 ministry says Israel has stormed the main hospital in southern 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.799 Gaza as comes a day after Israel's army born the 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.000 thousands who saw on shelter at the NACER hospital in 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.000 Conyunis to evacuate. Israeli Prime Minister at benjaminettya who has 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.720 backed out of ceasefire talks in Cairo. He's calling Kamas's 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.239 demand for a total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza delusional. Allies, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.560 including the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, are calling for restraint. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:40.560 The threats to more action on Rafa has everyone deeply worried. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 We need to see stabilization in the region peace and 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.600 we need to work on the two state solution. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:47.919 That is the only. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.440 Way to ensure durable peace and safety. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.600 Just bite Prime Minister Trudeau's comments, Israel's position suggests that 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.040 even a temporary plause in the fighting remains a distant prospect. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:58.519 John. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.320 Let's turn now to space. A privately owned moonlander is 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.960 on its way to the Lunar Service three two one 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:12.160 ignition and with up Go SpaceX GO I AM one 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.680 and the Odysseus Lunar Lander. The IM one flight is 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.120 carrying six NASA payloads of instruments designed to gather data 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.079 about the lunar environment. The latest in SpaceX's Intuitives machines 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.360 mission is a head of the agency's planned return of 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.760 astronauts to the Moon later this decade. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.600 And turning to the market, stock futures higher half to 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.600 the S and P five hundred closed at five thousand 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.600 yesterday was a big tech once again leading the way. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.040 Now we found out tech was a big theme for 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.080 hedge fund managers in the latest thirteen f filings. Let's 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.840 get more from Bloomberg's Doun Prisner. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.560 Hedge funds seem to be chasing the rally in information technology, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.920 fueled by the growth and artificial intelligence. The latest quartal 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:57.240 IT reports filed with the SEC show institutional buying of Amazon, Intel, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.440 and Nvidia. In Q four, Metaplytforms was an outlier, with 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.120 a net sale from hedge funds worth six point six 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.320 million dollars in stock. It suggests these investors may have 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.360 locked in profits after Meta jumped eighteen percent in the 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.920 final quarter of twenty three. Technology accounted for the biggest 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:18.080 waitings in hedge fund portfolios at twenty five percent. Consumer 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.760 discretionary was next at fifteen percent. In New York, I'm 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.360 Doug Prisner, Bloomberg Radio. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.719 Doug Fanks and Company News, Shares of Cisco are down 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.679 more than five percent. The largest maker of networking equipment 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.320 slashed its full year forecast and also said it would 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.719 cut about five percent of its global workforce. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.479 That's about four thousand jobs. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.719 And we're also getting job cuts in the financial industry, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.800 sources say Morgan Stanley planning to eliminate several hundred jobs. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.359 Those cuts will affect less than one percent of employees 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.360 in the wealth management business, which hands about forty thousand workers. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.440 Turning to the economy and other FED officials urging patients 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.960 when it comes to cutting interest rates, Federal Reserve Vice 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.839 Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says he agrees with Chairman 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.880 j Powell's conscious approach. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.640 Support what he called a careful approach to considering policy 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:10.040 normalization given current conditions. January's report on consumer Product index 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.280 inflation is a reminder that the path back to two 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.960 percent inflation may be a bumpy one. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.720 The Fed's Michael Barr also repeated his long standing view 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.719 that the US banking sector is sound. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.279 In Europe, the UK slipped into a mild recession in 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.320 the second half of twenty twenty three. Gross domestic product 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.520 found three tenths of a percent of the fourth quarter. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.560 That follows an unrevised one tenth of a percent decline 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.440 in the previous three months. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.000 And Japan's economy also unexpectedly slipped into recession after shrinking 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.520 for a second quarter due to anemic domestic demand. GDP 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.120 contracted an an annualized pace of four tenths of one 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.240 percent in the final three months of last year, following 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.880 a revised three point three percent retreat for Japan's economy 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.760 in the previous quarter. Time now to take a look 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.479 at some of the other stories making news around the 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:58.880 world with Bloomberg's Michael Barr. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:05:59.800 Good Morning, Michael. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.000 Arding Nathan, Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.599 Mike Turner is publicly warning of a national security threat 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.720 concerning a destabilizing foreign military capability, so serious that he 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.880 says President Biden should declassify all information about it. It's 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.480 reported the intelligence relates to Russia wanting to put nuclear 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.520 weapons into space to possibly use against satellites. House Speaker 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.200 Mike Johnson says he's aware of the issue and wants 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.280 the public to stay calm. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.839 I saw Chairman Turner's statement on the issue, and I 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.120 want to assure the American people there's no need for 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.080 public alarm. We are going to work together to address 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:37.640 this matter. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.200 Speaker Johnson says he will press the Biden administration to 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.040 take appropriate action. The White House is urging House Republicans 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.160 to agree to a foreign aid package already passed by 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.760 the Senate. The ninety five billion dollar bill would fund Israel, Ukraine, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.599 and Taiwan, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.560 he won't bring the bill to the floor. Johnson wants 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.960 foreign aid be tied to border security, but the Senate 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.159 proposed bipartisan plan earlier this month that Speaker Johnson refused 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.120 to put to a vote. White House Press Secretary Kaarine 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.440 Jean Vierre says that Johnson is stonewalling congressional progress and 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.440 listen to former President Trump, who pressured Republicans to kill 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.440 the bipartisan deal. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.000 What is it he decided instead, he decides to choose 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.840 Donald Trump. And let's not forget there's fentinal traffickers, right, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.840 that's what he sided with over the border patrol, over 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.720 this president and in doing what majority of Americans wants 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.840 us to do, he's the one killing this speaker. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.960 Johnson says he wants to meet with President Biden, but 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.000 the White House says that there's nothing to negotiate because 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.840 the bipartisan Senate deal contained much what Republicans have been 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.760 asking for related to border security. Donald Trump is expected 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.160 to be back in the New York court today for 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.239 a hearing that could decide whether the former president's first 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.240 criminal trial begins in late March. Trump pleaded not guilty 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.560 last April to thirty four counts of falsifying business records. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:10.160 Prosecutors say Trump's company kept fraudulent records as part of 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.520 a scheme to bury stories about extra marital affairs that 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.400 the former president says were false. Trump's lawyers say the 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.680 criminal case is politically motivated. Global News twenty four hours 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.480 a day and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:24.640 Now. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.880 I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Nator. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:34.120 Okay, Michael, thank you time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.280 brought to you by Tri State. Out of here's John 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:36.960 stash Hour. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.160 All right, Nathan, the Knicks right now have more injured 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.880 players than healthy ones. Jalen Brunson did play in Orlando. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.080 But six of the knicks top players did not, and 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.040 sure enough they lost to the Magic one eighteen to 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.800 one hundred runs and scored thirty three in defeat. He's 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.680 now headed Indianapolis to play in Sunday's All Star Game. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.640 It's a good time for the All Star break is 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.360 the Knicks hope to at least get some of these 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.840 injured players healthy. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.200 They've lost four to Row five and six since that 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.280 nine game winning streak. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.120 Then Nets lost in Boston by p fifty one thirty 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.040 six to eighty six. It's the second worst loss in 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.360 Nets history. 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So hopefully that I got to figure something 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.000 out and get myself in there in contention and you know, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.360 maybe get a w at the the end. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:17.600 Of the week. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.000 Talker to yous out Today twelve twenty five Easter John 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.480 Stashiy hour Bloomberg. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:26.600 Sports from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.559 Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias, Exam, the Bloomberg 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.760 Business app, and Bloomberg dot Com. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:38.360 This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. We 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.559 are coming up to two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.600 and as the US gets closer to a presidential election, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.520 America's commitment to its traditional allies is becoming more of 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.880 an issue. Bloomberg News has learned former President Donald Trump 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.240 is considering dramatic changes to the US stance on NATO 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.480 if he were to return to the White House, and 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.960 here with us now to discuss it is Bloomberg News 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.920 Senior editor Bill Ferries. Bill, we know the former president 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.720 has been critical of NATO in the past, to put 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.280 it mildly, but from what we're hearing, the changes he's 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.040 contemplating are pretty dramatic. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.680 That's right, Nathan. Thanks. It sounds like what former President 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.880 Trump has in mind if he's back in the White 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.679 House is some kind of two tiered NATO where the 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.200 Article five commitment, and that's the one that basically says, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.560 if you're attacked, we will all come to defend you. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.319 That would only apply to countries that are meeting the 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:40.760 two percent of GDP two percent of spending of GDP 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.560 on defense threshold. That's kind of long been, kind of 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.880 long been the marker for NATO. It's not a requirement. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.679 It's not put into the NATO chart or anything like that. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.640 But what President Trump, former President Trump, seems to be 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.680 proposing is if you're below that threshold and you get attacked, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.280 then we may not come to your defense. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.720 And we've also seen a lot more attention on tend 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:07.160 rupt bill, but on the commitments that NATO members have 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.120 been making. At this point, at least a majority of 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.960 NATO nations are meeting that two percent threshold, aren't. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.200 They They are. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.600 It's when President Trump took office, NATO members were already 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.720 starting to ramp up spending that started in about twenty 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:27.599 fourteen twenty fifteen after Russia's invasion of Crimea that continued 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.080 through the Trump presidency. It was, as you mentioned, a 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.400 frequent focus of his speeches about NATO were at like 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.680 about two thirds I think eighteen or so of the 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.000 roughly thirty thirty one members are spending at least two 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.200 percent of GDP on defense. Now, it's important to remember 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.360 NATO's not like a bank account that they're all depositing 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.600 money in. This is literally what they are spending. How 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.479 you define defense includes you know, salaries and healthcare benefits 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.560 as well as weaponry. So how that breaks out within 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.679 every country is going to be different. But you're at 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.679 about two thirds of the thirty one members at this point. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.880 What's the reaction among NATO members or among NATO itself 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.720 to this kind of contemplation from the former president? 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.640 How seriously are they taking this? Well? 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.439 It's I think it is drawing a lot of concern 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.360 if he gets in the White House that maybe the 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.520 NATO alliance as we know it will basically start to 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.320 fall apart. I think the Article five commitment is kind 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.920 of seen as the core of NATO. It's only been 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.880 invoked once in the organization's history, that was by the 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:36.120 United States after September eleventh, But it's really seen as 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.720 the reason there is in NATO. It's the alliance that 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:44.960 provides the bulwark against a resurgent Russia. And so I 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.080 think a lot of countries look and start to wonder, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.960 you know, if you're a Baltic state, and you are 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.199 even if you're making your two percent or more of 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.000 spending on defense, would the US be there to defend 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.559 Latvia or Lithuania. That's something that former President Trump has 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.120 mocked in the past, the idea that US troops would 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.800 go to defend those states. So I think across the 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.800 Alliance it's going to generate a lot of alarm. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.559 And as we're reporting these contemplations by the former president, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.920 really interesting to hear Russian President Vladimir Putin being asked 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.840 about the US presidential race and who he would consider 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.520 a better president for Russia, Joe Biden or Donald Trump, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.120 and he's saying Biden. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:27.440 Once you take away from. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.280 That, yeah, it's going to be very hard for me 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.000 to try to get into Vladimir Putin's head. All I 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.640 know is what he did say. He said he views 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.480 Biden as more experienced and predictable, more traditional type politician. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.320 He was very much talking positively about Trump in the 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.960 twenty sixteen campaign. But I don't think the Trump presidency 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.080 necessarily worked out in the way that maybe Vladimir Putin 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:57.239 may have hoped for him. But it's what he said. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.880 I'd hate to speculate as to what his motives are. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:00.760 In the meantime. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.600 Our last thirty seconds here, we also heard former President 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.520 Trump out on the campaign trail saying that he would 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.600 make further Ukraine aid alone if he were to come 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.520 back to the White House as well. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.920 What's some of the reaction to that. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.640 Well, it's you know, this is this is talking about 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.720 that sixty billion dollars in aid that's kind of stalled 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.680 right now in the House. He's saying, basically, you know, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.920 maybe this should be some kind of a loan that 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.080 they don't have to pay back if they lose the war, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.040 and then they can pay back if they win. 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