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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. There's no
end in sight to the government's shutdown. White Es course,
but John Dekker says President Trump is content for now
to have a hands off approach.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
He's leaving it up to the leaders of Congress to
find some sort of compromise to fund the government to
reopen the government, and that hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
A shutdown will continue. After the Senate once again denied
a GOP spending measure on Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson
warned this shutdown may become the longest in history. President
Trump is welcoming Ukrainian President Zelenski to the White House
on Friday. It's part of Trump's ongoing efforts to end
the Rushi Ukraine War. On Thursday, Trump said he had
a very productive phone call with Vladimir Putin. He told

(00:48):
reporters the two will be meeting in Hungary soon in
an attempt to end the war in Ukraine. Trump said
he's also going to discuss the call with Selensky. That's
in addition to a likely discussion on the possibility of
Ukraine receiving US Tomahawk missiles, White House borders are. Tom
Homan is denying allegations that he accepted a bribe. Jim
Roup has more.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
During a recent News Nation town hall, Homan denied accepting
a fifty thousand dollars bribe from undercover FBI agents in
exchange for contract promises. He says he's never accepted that
sum of money from anybody. He also says he has
no idea how the allegations began spreading, but notes he's
been the target of dozens of quote unquote hit pieces
in recent months. The borders are also says he's not

(01:31):
angry about the claims, and he says he doesn't care
about what people think about him.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm Jim Roop, and the three major candidates in the
New York City mayors race hit the debate stage Thursday evening.
Democratic nomineez Aora Mandami, the front runner, Independent former Governor
Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa all showed up to
try and win over voters with the election less than
three weeks away. The thirty three year old Momdammy took
shots at Cuomo, saying the definition of experience is not

(01:56):
doing the same thing over and over again. That's actually
the definition of insanity. Cuomo shot back, arguing, what the
assemblyman said is that he has no experience. I'm Mark Neefield.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's clash with a reporter on Capitol Hill
is going viral. Shut up, that's the former Speaker of
the House to a reporter after being asked about allegedly

(02:16):
denying requests to send in National Guard troops during the
twenty twenty one Capitol riots, Pelosi went on to telereporter,
I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn't
send it. The reporter was from Lyndell TV, an outlet
founded by Trump supporter Mike Lindell. Boeing is being accused
of refusing to bargain in good faith. As a strike
in the Saint Louis area continues. The International Association of

(02:39):
Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced on Thursday it found an
unfair labor practice charge with a national Labor Relations board.
The union claims the aerospace giant is stonewalling talks and
refusing to negotiate. Over three thousand Boeing workers have been
on strike since early August. The Orville based JM. Smucker
Company is taking Trader Joe's to fit court. Michael Kashner explains.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
We were torn apart at birth. That's dramatic.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is the story of the best part of the
sandwich and his crust. Smucker is filing suit against the
grocery chain over concerns that Trader Joe's new frozen peanut
butter and Jelly sandwiches are too close in design an
appearance to Smucker's on crustables. Smuckers suggests that even the
box that the Trader joe sandwiches come in is similar
to theirs. Smucker wants restitution and all of the Trader

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Joe's packaging and sandwiches to be destroyed.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
So I said, no, you're the one who's jelly. Yeah, hilarious.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I'm Michael Cassner and Paxos, Prepal's blockchain partner, accidentally minted
three hundred trillion dollars worth of PayPal's stable coin on Wednesday.
Described as a technical error, the coins were burned off
and the problem fixed in about twenty minutes. Stable Coins
are a digital currency tied to a fixed asset, in
this case the US dollar. There aren't enough dollars in

(03:56):
the world to back three hundred trillion of PayPal's stable coin,
which would take about double the world's total GDP A
Mark Mayfield