September 22, 2025: Trump's Autism Announcement, Jimmy Kimmel's Show Return, More

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm
Doug Prisner. President Trump is urging pregnant women to avoid thailanol.
He cited a reported link between its active ingredient and autism,
despite the lack of widely accepted scientific evidence supporting that risk.
The statement came during remarks on children's health today at
the White House.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's a small number of cases, I think. But if
you can't tough it out, if you can't do it,
that's what you're gonna have to do. You'll take a
tail and all, but it'll be very sparingly.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
President Trump did not cite specific studies. Meantime, health experts
have not issued updated guidance, and medical authorities continue to
recommend consulting a doctor before taking any medication during pregnancy.
Thailand All is made by Kenview, and the company has
not responded to the comment. Shares in Kenview were down
nearly seven and a half percent in the regular session.

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That was after The Washington Post previewed the move by
the Trump administration. After Trump's media briefing, shares and ken
View were up by more than four percent in late
US trading. Disney says ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live will return
to air on Tuesday after a brief suspension. The network
pulled the late night show on December seventeenth over remarks

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Kimmel made about the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Now we are told Kimmel will address the controversy on
his return. Here is Bloomberg's Chris Palmery.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's pretty obvious that the late night comedy format is
challenged of Stephen Colbert is going off the air next year.
You can you decide whether I was based on politics
or financial decisions. CBS had said it was a financial one.
You know, the Kimmel Show is also losing money. These
shows are just not getting the audience that they used
to and they're very expensive to operate, and so you

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can expect probably that this is not, you know, a
lifetime job for Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
That is Bloomberg's Chris Palmery and Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Kimmel's contract runs through twenty twenty six. The Supreme Court
has cleared the way for President Trump to fire the
sole remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. Today, the
justices overturned a lower court injunction it had reinstated Rebecca
Slaughter to her position with the FTC while litigation over
her removal works its way through the courts. Now, Today's

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decision is the latest victory in President Trump's push to
exert greater control over the federal government. In Vidia will
invest as much as one hundred billion dollars into open Ai.
The aim is to support new open AI data centers
with a capacity of at least ten gigawatts of computing power.
They will be equipped with in Nvidia's advanced chips to

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train and deploy AI models. In Vidia CEO Jensen Wong
says this partnership is monumental in its size.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
There's never been an engineering project, a technical project of
this complexity, in this scale ever, and it really just
says that AI was in the early adopter phase in
the labs, and finally it's breaking out into just about
every single industry, every single use case we can imagine.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
In Vidia CEO Jensen Huank speaking earlier to CNBC, and
Vidia shares were up four percent in the regular session.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Poland is prepared to shoot
down foreign aircraft that crossed into its territory without authorization. Now,
Poland and Estonia invoked Article four of NATO's treaty. That
was after Russian aircraft crossed into their airspaces, triggering consultations

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and potential coordinated action among NATO allies. Here is Marcus
tussankna Estonia's foreign minister, speaking to Bloomberg's balance of power.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Article four is an opportunity for the member states to
call all the NATO to political consultations, and we have
called Article four as well. This time tomorrow that will
be the gathering of a NATO Council. And of course
the first thing is to show the unity amongst the
NATO member states, because Putin wants to test, especially the

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unity between Europe and US.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
That is Marcus tussancna Estonia's foreign minister speaking to Bloomberg's
Balance of power. Today, France recognized Palestine as an independent state.
At the meeting of the UN General Assembly, French President
Emmanuel Macron called on Israel to end the war in
Gaza immediately. Here is Macron speaking through a translator.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
True to the historic commitment of my country to the
Middle least to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
This is why I declare that today France recognizes the
state of Palestine.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
French President Emmanuel Macron speaking through a translator. Now, the UK,
Canada and Australia have also formally recognized Palestinian statehood. Meantime,
the US and Israel are opposed to recognizing Palestine as
a state. The White House says the move would amount
to a reward for hamas a president. Trumpey is set
to speak to the UN General Assembly tomorrow, and that

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is news when you want it. With Bloomberg News. Now,
I'm Doug Krisner, and this is Bloomberg