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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, September 29th, and I'm your host, Kim Con. Our top story so far.

In a case of Border Wall at the box office, President Donald Trump says he is imposing 100% tariffs on all movies

made outside of the United States. He posted, our movie-making business has been stolen by other

countries, just like stealing candy from a baby. California, with its weak and incompetent governor,

has been particularly hard hit. Therefore, in order to solve this long-time, never-ending problem,

I will be imposing a 100%

tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States. Trump made a similar

threat in May, though that initiative drew questions over Trump's authority to set such tariffs,

and, more importantly, how they can be implemented. Modern motion pictures are often co-financed

with money from different countries, and it's not simple to control distribution of a product that mostly travels by internet now rather than container ship.

And while production is shifted in many cases to places like Canada and New Zealand for tax reasons,

some films also need to be shot on location, Chris Nolan's Odyssey in Athens, Georgia, anyone.

From films to video games, electronic arts confirmed it is officially going private for $55 billion,

the largest leveraged buyout ever.

The deal from Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, and affinity partners

will see the trio pay $210 per share in cash for the maker of Madden Football and the Sims.

That's a 25% premium to the

unaffected share price prior to last week's report from the Wall Street Journal. The Saudi

public investment fund will roll over its existing 9.9% stake. The transaction will be funded

with cash from Silver Lake, PIF, and Affinity Partners, which is led by CEO Jared Kushner,

the son-in-law of the president,

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