What happens when a major corporation botches its succession plan? Inside the brutal — and surprising — cage match to run Disney: Iger vs. Chapek. With my excellent guest:
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You have to enjoy that the Times doesn't refer to Maria Bartiromo in its story by name -- or even call her a reporter (which, of course, she isn't). She's identified as a "Fox Business personality."
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"Mr. Durham’s deputy, Ms. Dannehy, a longtime close colleague, increasingly argued with him in front of other prosecutors and F.B.I. agents about legal ethics."
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"The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret."
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And when Italian officials told Barr and Durham about Trump's possible financial misdealings what did they do? Barr gave Durham the authority to investigate it, they kept the probe a secret -- and then they apparently buried whatever they found.
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And yes: Bill Barr was just as unethical, partisan and thuggish throughout all of this as you might have suspected him to be.
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Durham's probe had "some of the very same flaws — including a strained justification for opening it and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court — that Trump allies claim characterized the Russia investigation"
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Scientists say the vast rainforest critical to Earth’s biosphere is eroding so quickly that it risks an “irreversible catastrophe.”
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BREAKING: Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with murder and other offenses in the beating death of Tyre Nichols. bit.ly/3WFCdWu
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Donald Trump has been indicted for no crimes.
Donald Trump has been reinstated to Twitter and Facebook.
Donald Trump is running for president again.
It's almost as if a violent, Trump-incited insurrection never happened.
Or happened, and was then forgotten.
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Dozens of members of the RNC are expressing doubts about Trump’s “ability to win back the White House and are calling for a competitive primary to produce a stronger nominee in 2024.”
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This may embolden Fed hawks on rate hikes. Which also runs the risk of causing a recession to land anyway.
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BOOM: The US economy's growth beats expectations. GDP expanded at a faster-than-expected pace of 2.9% in the fourth quarter of 2022 -- tempering recession fears. Jobless claims undershot expectations. There are underlying weaknesses to be found, but still.....
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“I felt like we were in ‘Goodfellas’”: How George Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme wapo.st/3j4FHUI
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Thank you for another powerful decision to provide Abrams to 🇺🇦. Grateful to 🇺🇸 people for leadership support! It's an important step on the path to victory. Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal – liberation of 🇺🇦. We're moving forward
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2/2: And here’s the rub: Trump was already posting what Facebook would presumably define as unacceptable content shortly before he was reinstated. So how long do they expect this arrangement to last? And how rigorously are they going to monitor it?
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1/2 : So here’s Clegg on Trump and Facebook: “In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation.”
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The real issue here is that our criminal justice system, more than 2 years out, has failed to hold Trump accountable. It does takes time to build a successful prosecution, but we are running out of it. As Meta's decision shows, the clock is ticking.
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Scammers are ripping off food stamp recipients via EBT cards. Nasty stuff expertly told by
in the latest version of the Cyber Bulletin. Subscribe here if you haven't already: bloomberg.com/account/newsle
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Hmm. Rand Paul — and apparently his GOP colleagues — believe Social Security is “welfare.” Look at your paycheck — pay deductions are listed there for Social Security. You fund it now so you can get retirement benefits later. It’s *not* welfare. But it has funding problems.
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My first weekly column in ! Please join me in this new adventure and let me know your thoughts
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Trump, who spent decades avoiding leaving a paper trail with notes emails or texts, recently started texting people and me
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Asia's richest man Gautam Adani is back in the news after Hindenburg Research said it was shorting the conglomerate’s stocks, accusing Adani-owned firms of “brazen” market manipulation and accounting fraud. For some insight read
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My lukewarm take: the U.S. just made a serious long-term investment in Ukraine just to get Germany (and other European nations) to prepare for the immediate future. In a sense, this is the best outcome Kyiv can have hoped for. All my Ukrainian sources are ecstatic this evening.
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TED CRUZ: The FBI needs to search the University of Delaware and Hunter Biden's home and business addresses
LARRY KUDLOW: What about Pence, a friend of both of ours, who found classified documents in his home?
CRUZ: Oh look, Mike Pence has explained where these came from
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"If you believe in the Milton Friedman adage that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, then you should also believe that the Federal Reserve can stop increasing interest rates. Now." -
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Disney is a ✨ magical ✨ place. But behind the scenes is a different story.
🎙️ and took a deep dive into Disney’s botched succession plan on #BloombergCrashCourse.
Here's a thread on how corporate America failed Mickey Mouse 🧵👇
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"A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI."
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A five-hour police delay in alerting the public that the Monterey Park, California, dance hall killer was on the run is throwing a spotlight on the nation's flawed, patchwork system for warnings of mass shooters at large. bit.ly/3JdXEuQ
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Tucker Carlson, & the MAGA perversion of history. In my #OurLand newsletter: How they're distorting Watergate & the JFK assassination to bolster the Trump right's bogus Deep State narrative.
Please read/RT: link.motherjones.com/public/30336159
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After Khashoggi's murder, 'Trump sent Pompeo to reassure the crown prince of America’s support — and to give “the middle finger to the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other bed-wetters who didn’t have a grip on reality.”'
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Iconic CEOs are hard to find. So are successors to iconic CEOs.
Hence, lots of mud wrestling. #BloombergCrashCourse
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Trump on Truth Social on his call asking the Georgia AG to find enough votes for him to beat Biden: “I won Georgia by a lot, but only needed a small number of votes from that total number.” 🤔
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"First Monterey Park and now Half Moon Bay," Canepa said in statement, referring to an earlier mass shooting that happened on Saturday in the San Gabriel Valley area. "Enough is enough. How many more must die?"
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"Following their negotiations with an agent of Deripaska, MCGONIGAL and SHESTAKOV agreed to and did investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from Deripaska."
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"While working at the FBI, MCGONIGAL supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. SERGEY SHESTAKOV is a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for courts and government offices."
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