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Paid-in-Kind Interest Rate Increase Over Cash Dividend

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Payments Of Dividends, Temporary Equity

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Temporary Equity, Redemption Price, Percentage

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Redemption value, as if currently redeemable, of redeemable noncontrolling interest for other shares, units or ownership interests classified as temporary equity and the election has been made to accrete changes in redemption value to the earliest redemption date.

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Number of stock bought back by the entity at the exercise price or redemption price.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended
	Jan. 21, 2020	Mar. 31, 2020	Aug. 23, 2019
Temporary Equity [Line Items]
Aggregate redemption price	$ 200
Redemption price, percent	100.00%
Redeemable subsidiary preferred equity		$ 522
Dividends accrued during the period		$ 13
30-Day Period Following January 2, 2020
Temporary Equity [Line Items]
Non-controlling equity holder right to sell, fair market sale value			$ 376
Redeemable Preferred Stock
Temporary Equity [Line Items]
Redeemed units (in shares)	200,000
Floor
Temporary Equity [Line Items]
Paid in kind interest rate		0.75%
LIBOR
Temporary Equity [Line Items]
Paid in kind interest rate		8.00%
Percent higher than the rate payable if dividends were paid in cash		0.50%