News when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now I'm Doug Prisner. President Trump said today he would not rule out seeking a third term in the White House. Trump told NBC News there are methods that would allow him to do so, Trump saying he is not joking now. The twenty second Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits US presidents from serving
more than two terms. In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court refused to hear a last minute attempt by the state's Democratic Attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over one million dollar checks to two voters ahead of the state Supreme Court election on Tuesday. The ruling came just minutes before the plan start of a rally led by Musk. Here is Musk.
It's somewhat inevitably when I do these things, you know, the sort of it causes the legacy media to like kind of lose their minds, and then they'll bill run it on every news channel.
Now, the contest in Wisconsin has shattered national spending records for a judicial election, with more than eighty one million dollars in spending. The death toll from a massive earthquake and me and mar rose to about seventeen hundred on Sunday. Another thirty four hundred people have been injured and nearly three hundred are missing. The seven point seven magnitude earthquake, me and Mar's largest in a century, shook the country
on Friday. Now rebel forces have declared a cease fire in quake hit areas to allow for aid to reach victims. The United States Geological Survey said the highest probability is that more than ten thousand people may have died. The USGS is also warning the estimated economic losses may exceed Myan Mar's GDP. Last week, President Trump dismissed the accidental disclosure of who the attack plans in a signal chat.
He called it a glitch with no impact on national security. Now, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz claimed responsibility for the leak, and he said he wasn't sure how the outside number ended up up on his phone. That number, by the way, belonged to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine. On Sunday, Goldberg dismissed the explanation offered by Waltz.
This isn't the matrix phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about there. You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation my phone number was in his phone. Because my phone number is in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true.
That is Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, speaking to NBC's Meet the Press Now. Last week, a federal judge ordered national security officials to preserve all signal app communications from March eleventh through the fifteenth over the weekend. President Trump told NBC that no one will be fired over this leak. This is likely to be a pivotal week for financial markets as they await President Trump's self proclaimed liberation Day. We have a preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee Buckle up.
It's going to be a rather intense eco week. Tuesday, investors will parse the ISM manufacturing report for companies outlooks after reports last week showed consumer confidence dropping. Wednesday sees ISM services, and Friday. The March jobs report, ordinarily the biggest number of the month and the one most likely to affect expectations for FED policy, but This is also
Trump Tariff's week. Details on his plans to raise import taxes will dominate the news and Friday FED chair J Powe speaks, so we'll get the FED view from the inside. Michael McKee Bloomberg Radio.
The President of the United Auto Worker Sean Fain, is expressing his support for those auto tariffs. On Sunday, Faine said that carmakers should be pressured into bringing jobs back into the United States. Here is Fain speaking earlier to CBS Face the Nation.
We've seen over ninety thousand manufacturing facilities leave the United States. We've seen in the Big Three alone in the last twenty plus years, sixty five lands have closed, you know, And so look, tariffs aren't the total solution. Tariffs are a tool in the toolbox to get these companies to do the right thing.
That is UAW President Shawn Fain, speaking earlier to CBS Faced the Nation. Now, beginning this week, new twenty five percent auto tariffs will apply to all imported passenger vehicles and light trucks. They will also apply to key parts like engines, transmissions, and electrical components, on top of any duties already in effect in college basketball, the Elite eight
round of March Madness is just wrapped up. On the men's side, Number one ranked Auburn has stamped its ticket for the Final four, knocking out Michigan State seventy to sixty four, the top seed that Houston men's team beat out Tennessee final there sixty nine to fifty. South Carolina's women took their matchup with Duke by a score of fifty four to fifty, and UCLA's women knocked out LSU by a score of seventy two to sixty five. That
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