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President Trump said tonight he is ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and leaving Venezuela.

Now, this will apply more pressure on the regime of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.

Trump also said he was designating the Maduro regime as a foreign terrorist organization.

Warner Brothers Discovery is planning to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skuidance.

We are told there are concerns about financing and other terms as well.

Now, the board at Warner Brothers is still viewing the existing agreement with Netflix as offering greater value, certainty and terms than those proposed by Paramount.

Here is Bloomberg's Michelle Davis.

It already agreed to a deal with Netflix.

So at the end of the day, it's still going to come down to whether Paramount comes back with a higher offer, you know, whether it is able to propose something that does meet Warner Brothers' concerns.

But until then, they have this deal with Netflix and they'll be shepherding that through the regulatory process.

That is Bloomberg's Michelle Davis.

Now, at the same time, we are told that Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is leaving this takeover battle.

Affinity was helping to finance the offer from Paramount.

Affinity now says the dynamics of an investment have changed since it became involved in the process.

Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest ten billion dollars or more in open Ai.

The Information reports this investment would give open ai evaluation greater than five hundred billion dollars.

The investment would also help open ai pay to rent services from cloud providers, and that would include Amazon Web services.

This deal could also lead to open ai using Amazon's Trainium ai server chips.

We go next to the latest on the shooting at Brown University.

Authorities are still searching for the gunmen who killed two students.

Investigators have released enhanced videos of the man who they think opened fire.

However, the man's face was still not visible in any image.

Here is Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez, and we.

Asked you to go back to least a week to do that, and the reason for that because on Saturday night, the day off, we actually learned that the individuals in that neighborhood around the dirty in the morning.

We also know when this profession of the many criminals will pease on an area weeks in days brier.

That is Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez.

Now a fifty thousand dollars reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed those two students at the university.

On Saturday, we go to Los Angeles, next to where authorities have charged Nick Reiner with first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.

Here is Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald.

This case is heartbreaking and deeply personal, not only for the Reiner family and their loved ones, but for our entire city.

We extend our deepest condolences to all of those who are affected by this tragedy.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonald.

Now, these charges carry a sentence of life in prison without the possibility for parole.

Prosecutors, though, are still evaluating whether to seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner.

Moderate House lawmakers will not get a vote on extending subsidies under the Affordable Care Act before they expire at the end of the year.

More from Bloomberg Sammy Morris.

In Washington, House Speaker Mike Johnson is blocking a Republican push for a vote on renewing expiring Obamacare subsidies.

There are three discharge petitions aimed at forcing the vote.

Republican Representative Mike Lawler of New York says there should be a vote, and he sounded off on the House floor.

Eleven Republicans have signed on to those discharge petitions.

Now, why is that necessary?

Because House Republican leadership will.

Not allow a vote.

It is idiotic and shameful, and yet my Democratic colleges will not join us.

Now, the House is set to vote on a consensus GOP healthcare package, but an ACA fix is not likely to be among what passes.

In Washington.

Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

Tomorrow, President Trump will reportedly interview FED Governor Chris Swaller as a potential candidate to become FED chairman.

The Wall Street Journal reports Waller has become a leading internal advocate for rate cuts.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson told Fox Business that the President is likely to announce his decision in early January.

It's at the president's pace that he has been very, very deliberate.

We had an an interview last week.

We may have one or two more interviews this week and next week, and then the President has been very direct with the candidates.

That is Treasury Secretary Scott Besson speaking earlier to Fox Business.

Also tomorrow, the President will deliver a prime time address and we got a preview from White House how Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.

It's going to be a really good speech.

I was just in the Oval Office with the President discussing it.

He's going to talk a lot about the accomplishments over the past eleven months, all that he's done to bring our country back to greatness, and all he continues to plan to do to continue delivering for the American people over the next three years.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking to reporters.

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