August 16, 2025: West Virginia Sending Guard to DC, Trump-Zelenskiy on Monday, More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm
mad Kalgi. West Virginia is sending several hundred National Guard
troops to Washington to bolster the federal deployment that President
Trump has ordered in his effort to reduce crime in
the nation's capital. Governor Patrick Morrissey was responding to a
request from the Trump administration in sending three hundred to

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four hundred of the state's Guard troops, as well as
equipment and other resources to Washington Now. His office said
this in a statement on Saturday, which made no reference
to any communications with city officials. On Saturday, The Wall
Street Journal reported that the DC Guard forces are preparing
to carry weapons starting next week. The US Army had
earlier said those troops would not be armed. President Trump

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will host President Vladimir Zelenski in Washington on Monday. After
the US president abandoned his push for an immediate ceasefire
in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin again insisted that Kief give
up land in peace talks, Trump told the Ukrainian president
and European leaders in a call that Putin wants to
see control of the entire Dunbass region in Ukraine's East,
renewing his long standing demand. This according to people familiar

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with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. Melinda Herring,
Atlantic Council Eurasia Center senior fellow talk to Bloomberg about
the relationship between Trump and Zelenski.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's hard to forget that image that we talked a
lot about back in February, that hostile meeting in the
White House. But over the past couple of months, we've
seen Zalinski and Trump really repair their relationship, and in fact,
they seem to be getting along quite well, and Trump
seems to understand the nightly bombings and the impact that

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they're having on the Ukrainian people and on the economy there.
So I think the relationship has fundamentally changed in the
past i'd say six to eight weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Melinda Herring speaking with Bloomberg's Joe Matthew. Hurricane Aaron Saturday
strengthened into a catastrophic Category five hurricane north of the
Caribbean Islands. Here's meteorologist Craig Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Hurricane has undergone extreme intensification, rapid intensification and is now
a Category five hurricane, sitting about one hundred miles to
the north of the Leewood Islands about two hundred and
thirty five miles away from San Juan, Puerto Rico, but
the core of the system fortunately will remain north of

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all these islands. But the maximum winds have now just
achieved one hundred and sixty miles per hour with even
stronger wind gusts.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Israel announced Saturday that it's preparing to move Palestinians from
combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for
a military offensive and some of the territory's most populated areas.
The Israeli military body in charge of humanitarian age to Gaza, CogAT,
said the supply of tents to the territory would resume Sunday.
The military said it had no comment on when the

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mass movement of Palestinians would begin, but Defense Minister Israel
cat said on social media that we are now in
the stage of discussions to finalize the plan to defeat
Hamas and Gaza. Meanwhile, anxious families of Israeli hostages called
for a nationwide day of stoppage in Israel on Sunday
to express growing frustration over twenty two months of War,

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Canada's government asked an independent labor board to order more
than ten thousand Air Canada flight attendants back to work
less than twelve hours into a strike that cost hundreds
of flight cancelations jobs. Minister Patty hayesdu directed the Canada
Industrial Relations Board to order the company and the striking
employees to resume operations. She asked the board to impose

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binding arbitration and to extend the terms of the party's
existing contract until a new one can be determined. It
was not immediately clear when flights would resume. In recent
disputes with Canadian railroad and postal workers, the CIRB followed
similar government directions in a matter of days. A White
House official says President Trump's aides have created a scorecard

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ranking hundreds of companies based on their efforts to support
his signature tax cut law. We got this story from
Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
The lists five hundred and fifty three different businesses is
either strong, moderate, or low partners on the megabill, which
extended and expanded tax cuts from the president's first term
and provided billions of dollars in additional funding for immigration enforcement.
It's not clear how the scores will affect the way

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the federal government deals with affirms, but the official, speaking
on the condition of anonymity, suggested that companies rankings could
change based on present and future support for presidential initiatives.
In New York, Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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