Israeli Troops Encircle Gaza City; Trump to Testify at Civil Trial | Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition

On today's podcast:

1) The United Nations said no foreigners, dualnationals or injured Palestinians were able to leave the Gaza Strip over the weekend (). Israeli troops encircled Gaza City and effectively cut off the northern part of the Palestinian territory from the south, according to the military.

2) Donald Trump Jr. told a judge he wasn’t involved in preparing financial statements for his father’s real estate company t ()hat are at the center of New York state’s civil fraud trial.

3) Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is feeling the effects of the deals drought (). Its cash pile scaled a fresh record in the latest quarter, hitting more than $157 billion.

4) Plus, Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills lose to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Full Transcript:

Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. We begin with the latest on the war. Israel's military says its ground forces have now encircled Gaza City and taken control of a Hamas base. We get more from Bloomberg's Paul Wallace. They stepped up their assault overnight and they've now encircled Gaza City, which the Israeli military has described as the center of gravity for Hamas's operations. They also say they've effectively cut the Gaza Strip in two now between the north, where they're focusing their military activities, and the south, where they're hoping, since the side of this conflict, for civilians to evacuate too. And Bloomberg's Paul Wallace reports Israel also says a humanitarian corridor for Gaza City area residents to move south remains open well. Nathan Diplomatic efforts to stop the fight and continue. Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is now in Turkey after an unscheduled to stop in Baghdad. B Lincoln says more needs to be done to get aid and to go. We have about one hundred trucks a day going in. That's good, but it's grossly insufficient. So now we're working on raising that significantly so that more aid in a sustained way gets into a Palaestine who needed and Secretary of State Blincoln also met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmuda Bass in the West Bank on Sunday, and Karen is Israeli bombardments continue. Senior US senators are raising growing alarm about civilian casualties. Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says Israel needs to stop the bombing. Now, you had six hundred over six hundred thousand people pushed out of their homes. Where are they going? They're staying in United Nations facilities overcrowded. This sononof water, do zunonof food, the sononof medicine, not enough fuel. You got a humanitarian disaster. Senator Sanders spoke on CNN State of the Union. White House Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer says he shares that concern, but Israel needs to address the threat from Hamas. Not only does that threat continue to exist, but you can see to see Hamas say that if given the opportunity, they would conduct a version of what they did on October seventh, again, so the threat has not been eliminated. Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer was a guest on CBS's Faced the Nation, which you can hear every Sunday right here on Bloomberg Radio. Well, Nathan, we now turned to the civil fraud trial of Donald Trump. The former president is scheduled to take the stand today. On bloom Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has the story, Donald Trump has made a living touting his worth and business acumen, and today prosecutors will directly question him an open court about what the judge has already ruled their inflated values. His son Eric says his dad is very fired up. He's already been fined fifteen thousand dollars and two fines for violating a gag order, and the past is called the judge unhinged Trump hating radical left democratic operative. In deposition, he called it the greatest witch hunt in the history of the country and called Attorney General Letitia James an out of control prosecutor Ed Baxter and Work Radio, all right and thank you. In geopolitics, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart will hold two days of talks in San Francisco this week. It's a step toward more normal ties ahead of a long anticipated meeting between the leaders of the world's two largest economies, Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier Holy Fang, the nation's top economic official, will meet Thursday and Friday. Turning to the markets, now, Nathan A record for Warren A. Buffett is Berkshire Hathaway's cash pile, reaching more than one hundred and fifty seven billion dollars. It was fueled by elevated interest rates and a lack of meaningful deals. Begin more from...