Machado Presents Nobel to Trump, US-Taiwan Trade Deal, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Doug Krisner. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met today with President Trump at the White House, and she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado said Venezuelans are counting on the president for her country's freedom.
What happened during Maria Corina Machado's meeting with President Trump?
Now, this meeting comes as U.S. forces seized a sixth oil tanker near Venezuela earlier today. Shale billionaire Harold Hamm said oil companies need guarantees that their assets will not be seized by Venezuela if they help revive the nation's crude production.
There's a lot of geopolitical risk in Venezuela. Certainly we've seen... Companies, Darren Woods said Exxon had been there twice and been nationalized. You don't want to go there and spend a lot of money and see your assets go away when nationalization occurs. So, you know, there's got to be guarantees against that. We've seen other companies burned real bad there.
Harold Hamm speaking on Bloomberg Surveillance. The U.S. and Taiwan have agreed to a trade deal. It will lower tariffs to 15% from the previous 20%, and U.S. tariffs on goods from Taiwan are now on par with both Japan and South Korea. As a part of this deal, Taiwan semiconductor companies will be making at least $250 billion in direct investments Toward American Energy and Artificial Intelligence Operations. Here is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard.
It's not in the White House memo, but we reported earlier this week that the deal would include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company agreeing to build as many as four additional plants beyond the six factories that it has promised to build here in the US over the next several years, along with two packaging facilities. So we're talking about a lot of investment here.
That is Bloomberg's Michael Shepard. Now, the U.S. trade deal with Taiwan comes as TSMC, the world's top maker of AI chips, earmarked a hefty increase in capital spending for 2026. Here is Bloomberg analyst Matthew Bloxham.
They're talking about $52 to $56 billion of capital spending in this coming year. That's about $6 to $10 billion, or 15 to 20% higher than the market was expecting, and a big step up year on year, over $10 billion up year on year.
That is Matthew Bloxham from Bloomberg Intelligence. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as protests against federal immigration agents grow in Minnesota. Today on social media, Trump threatened to deploy U.S. military forces if Minnesota politicians do not stop protesters from attacking ICE agents. Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt.
The president's Truth Social Post spoke very loud and clear to Democrats across this country, elected officials who are using their platforms to encourage violence against federal law enforcement officers who are encouraging left-wing agitators to unlawfully obstruct legitimate law enforcement operations.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. Now, the tensions in Minnesota continue after another federal officer involved shooting. Last evening, a federal officer shot a man in the leg after he fled a targeted traffic stop. The Department of Homeland Security has said the man is a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. without authorization. We go to Iran next, where the country may have averted U.S. strikes by pledging not to execute protesters after pressure from President Trump. Here is Bloomberg government's Mika Solner.
I think some of the tensions that the president and the threats that he was putting out there saying that the U.S. will take action if they continue to kill and threaten protesters on the ground, peaceful protesters on the ground. So for right now, it seems that that is at a standstill. But we're going to see if Iran holds true to what they're saying.
Bloomberg government's Mika Solner. Now, Iranian authorities are saying they have reasserted control following these protests, accusing both the US and Israel of fueling unrest, while at the same time, rights groups are reporting a mounting death toll and thousands of detentions.
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