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The Rita Panahi Show | 18 February · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scoring leaves Australia. This is the Wider Panalty Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Patney Show coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight. An election date is imminent as the Reserve
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Speaker 2: Bank drops interest rates by twenty five points. The exodus
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Speaker 2: from public schools as parents increasingly opt for private or
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Speaker 2: a Catholic education despite cost of living pressures. A wa
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Speaker 2: man fined and convicted for repairing a breach on his
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Speaker 2: own land after being accused of disturbing an imaginary rainbow serpent.
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Speaker 2: Later in the hour, we'll look at the disturbing crackdown
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Speaker 2: on free expression in Europe with Josh Hammer and Left
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Speaker 2: Is Losing It features Tom Hanks destroying his brand with
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Speaker 2: these cringe antiques on Saturday Night Live.
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Speaker 3: We wouldn't be in this mess wherein now? You know
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Speaker 3: what I agree with?
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Speaker 2: What you doing.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to shake your hand, sir.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. No, no, I did the hitting, but first.
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Speaker 2: The speculation surrounding the federal election date may be coming
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Speaker 2: to an end after the RBA lowered the cash rate
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Speaker 2: from four point three five percent to four point one percent,
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Speaker 2: a move that political strategists believe will help the government
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Speaker 2: call back support it's now increasingly likely that Anthony Albanese
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Speaker 2: will call the federal election off the back of the
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Speaker 2: state election in Wa. Labor MPs have reportedly been told
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Speaker 2: that the election will be called any time between March
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Speaker 2: three and March eleven, with the election date most likely
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Speaker 2: to be April twelve. Joining me now for more on
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Speaker 2: this is News Corps senior writer Patrick Carlin, and Patrick,
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Speaker 2: let's start with the interest rate cut. First rate cut
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Speaker 2: since November twenty twenty. It's good news. I know the
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Speaker 2: labor backbenches were pushing for a fifty point cut, but
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Speaker 2: we'll take what we can get.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 5: Look, absolutely, it's the first one, you know, since twenty twenty.
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Speaker 5: It's such a long time. People have suffered all the
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Speaker 5: way through all the way through COVID and all the rest.
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Speaker 5: So it's very welcome. What struck me about this process, though,
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Speaker 5: and you alluded to it, was the label backbenches in
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Speaker 5: this collective political campaign on the RBA to actually drop
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Speaker 5: the rates. And it was very intense. And if you
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Speaker 5: look at that election timeline that you just spoke of,
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Speaker 5: perhaps April five or April twelve, there's another RBA meeting
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Speaker 5: I think on April one, what's going to happen there?
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Speaker 5: Are they going to be out and out shouting and
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Speaker 5: demanding another rate cut because it helps their electoral chances.
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Speaker 5: It really was very very disappointing to.
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Speaker 2: And it was intense. And then these calls for the
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Speaker 2: RBA board to go out and actually see what's happening
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Speaker 2: and get away from their computer screens and just looking
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Speaker 2: at a single figure the inflation rate. I do understand it,
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Speaker 2: because I think you do have to look beyond that's
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Speaker 2: so much of the inflation we're seeing, Patrick is because
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Speaker 2: of the mad government spending, so they're causing the inflation.
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Speaker 2: And then they're telling the RBA, don't you know, don't
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Speaker 2: let that influence your decision about rates, And.
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Speaker 5: I look, it's an economic decision and it's done by
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Speaker 5: very bright people who yes, And that was That was
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Speaker 5: a terrible sort of put down, wasn't it. You should
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Speaker 5: be out on the streets talking and working class people. Well,
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Speaker 5: they are experts who know what they're doing economically, and
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Speaker 5: to sort of make it a political to try and
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Speaker 5: shape it as a political decision really is no good
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Speaker 5: on so many levels. At a simple democratic level. Why
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Speaker 5: politicians getting involved. It's dreadful.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not convinced that the RBA is all knowing either,
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Speaker 2: but we'll debate that at another time. Let's talk about
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Speaker 2: landowner WA landowner Tony Maddox. We've spoken to him on
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Speaker 2: outside as a couple of times. He's now been found
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Speaker 2: guilty of breaching WA's Aboriginal heritage laws after he built
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Speaker 2: a bridge over an offshoot of the Avon River on
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Speaker 2: his own property. On his own land. We're replacing an
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Speaker 2: old bridge that had fallen apart. Maddox was charged last
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Speaker 2: year because the creek beneath his bridge is associated with
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Speaker 2: the rainbow serpent. That's a part of the dream time.
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Speaker 2: We're not talking about an actual animal here. He has
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Speaker 2: now been fined two thousand dollars, given a conviction, and
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Speaker 2: has to also pay five thousand dollars in cost. Patrick
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Speaker 2: to me, this is you've got to be careful what
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Speaker 2: you say, because you can't even give an honest opinion
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Speaker 2: here without people losing their minds. But it seems astonishing
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Speaker 2: to me people who are happy to mock Christianity, are
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Speaker 2: happy to mock every major religion. They treat this as
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Speaker 2: if it's almost beyond any criticism.
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Speaker 5: Well, It's sacred, isn't it. I mean, no one's ever
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Speaker 5: heard of it before. And this poor bloke, Tony Maddox,
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's doing work on his own property to
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Speaker 5: make it easier for him. You're talking about these imaginary
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Speaker 5: sort of stories that have nothing to do with the
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Speaker 5: ebb and flow of the creek itself. Now that he
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Speaker 5: is out seven grand and the stress.
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Speaker 2: Having this on your over you having these sort of
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Speaker 2: We spoke to him last year and I really do
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Speaker 2: feel for people who get caught up in these sort
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Speaker 2: of cases because having the cost, that the stress of
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Speaker 2: illegal case like this and is now lost. So he's
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Speaker 2: now got to consider do I spend more money, do
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Speaker 2: I appeal it? And what are the risks of that?
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Speaker 5: He said he had never heard of it when he
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Speaker 5: did make the changes, and you believe him. He's working
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Speaker 5: on his own property and you were just assumed, and.
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Speaker 2: He had indigenous people backing him, people from the local community.
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Speaker 2: Let's look at some alarming stats from the Australian Curriculum
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Speaker 2: Assessment and Reporting Authority showing that students knowledge of how
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Speaker 2: Australian democracy works has plummeted to a new lower just
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Speaker 2: twenty eight percent of year ten students met the standard
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Speaker 2: for civics and citizenship. That's disturbed low Patrick. One in
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Speaker 2: four isn't really good enough given the amount of money
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Speaker 2: we're spending in this sector. We seem to increase the
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Speaker 2: spending in education and the standards go the other way.
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Speaker 5: Look, we have one of the best democracies in the world.
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Speaker 5: It's better than America, I would argue, it's better than
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Speaker 5: Europe and certainly better than any country in the Middle
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Speaker 5: East apart from Israel. These kids should learn how it
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Speaker 5: works and why it is so good and why it
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Speaker 5: is so important. And the fact that they're not sort
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Speaker 5: of learning at it, I think actually goes to the
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Speaker 5: loss of the Australian identity that we've seen in so
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Speaker 5: many ways in the last couple of years.
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Speaker 4: Australia.
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Speaker 5: It's not a patriotic thing, but we need to understand
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Speaker 5: why we are lucky and why we do it so
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Speaker 5: well compared to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: I can understand why they're not being taught that because
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Speaker 2: it could actually instill some pride in the country, and God,
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Speaker 2: we can't have that as part of the curriculum.
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Speaker 4: Can we now?
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Speaker 2: Even more alarming than that, News is the latest school
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Speaker 2: attendancey from the Northern Territory. Indigenous children in the NT
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Speaker 2: are attending school so infrequently that nearly seventeen hundred of
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Speaker 2: them aren't even in official attendance figures. Let's hear from
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Speaker 2: Sky News Northern Territory correspondent Matt Cunningham.
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Speaker 6: In twenty twenty four. According to this latest data, it's
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Speaker 6: fifty five point seven percent. Now, if you compare that
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Speaker 6: to non Indigenous students here in the NT, there has
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Speaker 6: been a drop off in that area as well, but
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Speaker 6: it's only dropped from an eighty nine point three percent
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Speaker 6: attendance in twenty sixteen to eighty five percent in twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty four. And as we were talking about last week,
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Speaker 6: the real numbers are actually significantly worse. There are more
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Speaker 6: than seventeen hundred students in the Northern Territory, more than
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Speaker 6: sixteen hundred of those are Indigenous who were taken off
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Speaker 6: the official role because they attend school so infrequently.
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Speaker 2: Patrick, there's so much focus on closing the gap, so
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Speaker 2: much spending on closing the gap, but those figures tell
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Speaker 2: a story, and worrying story. We're not going to be
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Speaker 2: closing the gap if attendance numbers are falling like that.
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Speaker 5: And it's a Northern territory story too. If you have
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Speaker 5: to look at the indigenous attendance rates for every other
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Speaker 5: state and territory, they're thirty percent higher than the Northern territory. Look,
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Speaker 5: these are complicated issues. All the closing the gap issues
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Speaker 5: are very complicated. I've been to these remote communities. I mean,
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Speaker 5: you can pick out one symptom as this is and say,
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Speaker 5: hang on, this is bad. There's a much wider sort
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Speaker 5: of set of problems that go to it. But this
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Speaker 5: is out of kilto with the rest of Australia. It's
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Speaker 5: a Northern territory problem, it is.
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Speaker 2: And they've got a relatively new government. Let's see what
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Speaker 2: they can do there. Meanwhile, in New South Wales, a
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Speaker 2: mass exodus from state schools is underway as more parents
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Speaker 2: opt to send their children to Catholic and private schools. Patrick,
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Speaker 2: We're in a cost of living crisis, so this is
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Speaker 2: significant news. People are going without making huge sacrifices because
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Speaker 2: obviously they see a problem with the state school system.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Look, people are choosing to pay according to these figures,
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Speaker 5: you know, five grand a year that they wouldn't otherwise
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Speaker 5: or or forty grand a year to make sure that
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Speaker 5: kids have a decent education. It shows a lack of
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Speaker 5: faith in the education system, and perhaps it actually shows
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Speaker 5: a pushback against some of the values that we see
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Speaker 5: in public education, some of the wakeness that's sort of
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Speaker 5: crept in and really taken over in so many ways.
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Speaker 5: A lot of people are saying no.
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Speaker 4: That's it.
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Speaker 2: And at state schools, you really don't have the option
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Speaker 2: to say no, at least at a private school even
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Speaker 2: if this wokeness is being shoved down your throat and
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Speaker 2: you can take a stand because you're paying for it now.
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Speaker 2: Tourism and cruise ship bosses have worn the just into
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Speaker 2: Allen government in Victoria that it's fifteen percent increase to
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Speaker 2: poured fees and the lack of upgrades. So the hopelessly
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Speaker 2: old and tied station peer is going to cause a
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Speaker 2: max exodus from Melbourne by cruise ship operators. This is
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Speaker 2: huge money. Herald Sun reports that the state is expected
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Speaker 2: to lose million and revenue as it braces for eight
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Speaker 2: seventy percent plunge in the number of ships that will
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Speaker 2: use the city as a homeport next season. This is
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Speaker 2: just again more Victorian government shortsighted taxes to try to
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Speaker 2: raise some money because the state's in debt. It's broke.
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Speaker 2: But in the long run it's going to cost us
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Speaker 2: money because people come on those cruise ships, they spend
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Speaker 2: a day in the city and they spend up well.
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Speaker 5: Melbourney doesn't have all the natural advantages of some of
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Speaker 5: the other places that cruise ships stop. It has to
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Speaker 5: have great infrastructure and they haven't spent the money on
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Speaker 5: Station Pier. They've jacked up the tax as they've done
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Speaker 5: so many things in so many tricksy sort of ways
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Speaker 5: in the last couple of years. It's just another symbol,
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Speaker 5: and it's an important symbol. As you say, it's a
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Speaker 5: lot of money. The Victorians are missing out on this
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Speaker 5: money because of mismanagement or something that's pretty basic to
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Speaker 5: begin with.
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Speaker 2: We've got port Philip Bay. We do have the natural assets,
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Speaker 2: but we're not utilizing it. Patrick, Carli and thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for your time Evening. Thanks joining me now
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Speaker 2: is pro life activist and professor of law at the
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Speaker 2: University of Adelaide, doctor Joanna Howe. Joanna, you've been advocating
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Speaker 2: for legislation to protect babies born alive. We've talked about
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Speaker 2: that previously on this program. Babies Born Alive. Legislation would
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Speaker 2: essentially protect babies that are still alived after a botched abortion.
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Speaker 2: And you also want to ban late term abortion, and
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Speaker 2: we're here talking about post twenty seven weeks, so well
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Speaker 2: into the third trimester. Now here from pro choice activists,
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Speaker 2: they say these sorts of abortions are exceedingly rare and
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Speaker 2: done to protect the mother's health or when the baby
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Speaker 2: has profound disabilities. Is that accurate? It's not.
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Speaker 8: Reader eighty percent of late term abortions in South Australia
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Speaker 8: kill healthy babies and non life threatening scenarios. So abortion
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Speaker 8: is never medically necessary late in pregnancy to save the
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Speaker 8: mother's life. A mother's life was truly in danger after
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Speaker 8: twenty three weeks and up until birth, the doctors would
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Speaker 8: go in and do an emergency C section. They wouldn't
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Speaker 8: waste time doing a late term abortion, which takes hours
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Speaker 8: instead of minutes. And the fact that pro abortion activists
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Speaker 8: say that late term abortions are excessively rare, well, really
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Speaker 8: that really what that's referring to is the fact that
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Speaker 8: there are eighty eight thousand abortions every year in Australia,
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Speaker 8: it's the leading cause of death. And so when they
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Speaker 8: say it's less than one to two percent, it's still
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Speaker 8: eight hundred and eighty babies every year who are being
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Speaker 8: needlessly killed instead of being delivered alive.
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Speaker 2: Do we have sound data on how many late term
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Speaker 2: abortions so perhaps we're talking here about twenty weeks onwards.
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Speaker 2: Do we have that sort of data that we can
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Speaker 2: rely on.
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Speaker 8: Not every state releases the data, but I'll tell you
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Speaker 8: about the three states that do so. In Victoria and Queensland,
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Speaker 8: between twenty ten and twenty twenty, there were over five
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Speaker 8: thousand babies killed after twenty weeks and up until birth.
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Speaker 8: And this isn't a nice process reader.
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Speaker 4: It's through the.
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Speaker 8: Injection of poison but tassim chloride into the baby's heart
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Speaker 8: while in utero. Then the mother takes labour inducing drugs
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Speaker 8: and is actually forced to give birth to a stillborn baby,
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Speaker 8: to a dead baby. In South Australia, which introduced abortion
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Speaker 8: up to birth eighteen months ago, there's actually been forty
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Speaker 8: five healthy babies, so nothing wrong with them. They weren't
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Speaker 8: killed in emergency situations to save the mother's life. Forty
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Speaker 8: five healthy babies were injected with poison and delivered dead.
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Speaker 8: There were an additional twelve babies that had some form
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Speaker 8: of disability, and there's no criteria that it has to
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Speaker 8: be life threatening or that the baby's going to die.
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Speaker 8: There are cases of babies being aborted late in pregnancy
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Speaker 8: because of down syndrome or because of cleft lip or
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Speaker 8: club hand, so these are not life limiting conditions. And
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Speaker 8: you know the bill that I introduced that I worked
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Speaker 8: with other people to introduce. It simply said that after
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Speaker 8: twenty seven weeks, instead of injecting the baby with poison
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Speaker 8: and delivering them dead, we would allow a mother to
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Speaker 8: terminate her pregnancy up until birth, but that after twenty
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Speaker 8: seven weeks the baby would be delivered alive and could
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Speaker 8: be placed for adoption.
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Speaker 2: Well, that bill was voted down by just one vote
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Speaker 2: last year. Has there been any progress since then? Are
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Speaker 2: there any plans to reintroduce that bill?
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Speaker 8: It was devastating to lose by one vote, but what
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Speaker 8: it showed us was how close we were and what
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Speaker 8: we are now focusing on is activating the South Australian
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Speaker 8: community and raising awareness of the fact that abortion is
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Speaker 8: legal up to birth for any reason. In South Australia
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Speaker 8: and that it kills healthy babies up until birth for
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Speaker 8: any reason. Most ordinary South Australians are shocked when they
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Speaker 8: find this out. And you can see some of this
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Speaker 8: footage on my socials Dr Joanna Howe on Instagram or
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Speaker 8: my Daily Show on YouTube and Spotify, the Doctor Joe Show.
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Speaker 8: I am showing interviews that I'm doing with South Australians
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Speaker 8: as they become aware of this fact. And you know,
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Speaker 8: there were five thousand Australians that turned up to the
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Speaker 8: rally in support of our bill, three hundred masked pro
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Speaker 8: abortion protesters who were opposed to it.
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Speaker 2: Let's just have a look at some of that footage
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Speaker 2: that you uploaded on your social media account on Instagram.
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Speaker 2: You had pro abortion protesters who had turned up to
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Speaker 2: that protest, who cared enough to be there. But when
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Speaker 2: you ask them to articulate their position, well you got this.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 9: I just wanted to ask you why you're here today?
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Speaker 9: Is what it is your protest against? What is it
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Speaker 9: about the livest bill? Pack you as you can lease
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Speaker 9: ask you why you're here against the livest Well, what
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Speaker 9: is it that you're opposed to?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 9: I asked you turned off the phone's I'm lucky.
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Speaker 2: Maybe sadly it wasn't a third time lucky. You didn't
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Speaker 2: manage to get anybody to respond to you in that video.
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Speaker 2: We've run out of time, doctor, how thank you so
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Speaker 2: much for your time. Appreciated. Still to come, Lefties losing
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Speaker 2: it plus US borders are Tom Homan has his sight
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Speaker 2: set on Democrat Alexandria Kazia Cortez. Kosha Gator joins me. Next,
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Speaker 2: you're watching the Reader Panny Show, and it's time for
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Speaker 2: lefties losing it. And I regret to inform you that
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Speaker 2: Hollywood celebrities, even ones who were once widely admired, have
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Speaker 2: decided to trash their own brand in an effort to
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Speaker 2: get Trump. Just watch this pathetic performance from Tom Hanks.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, heck, I'm speaking to church. Can I
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Speaker 2: say something?
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Speaker 10: If more folks weren't to church, we wouldn't be in
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Speaker 10: this mess we're in now.
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Speaker 2: And it didn't end there. Watch what happens when a
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Speaker 2: black man tries to shake the hands of Tom Hank's
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Speaker 2: idea of a Trump supporter. This is what these out
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Speaker 2: of touch dim wits from Hollywood think of the average American.
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Speaker 2: They don't just hate the president, they hate the majority
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Speaker 2: of their countrymen.
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Speaker 3: You know what I agree with?
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Speaker 5: You do.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to shake your hand, sir.
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Speaker 4: Here we go.
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Speaker 3: No, no, oh no, no, just a handshake. You welcome?
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you my mind.
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Speaker 5: But brother, maybe I'll start a show for you to
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Speaker 5: come on and we'll call it what jeopardy?
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Speaker 1: We don't need it, We don't need it.
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Speaker 2: Remember when Saturday Night Live was actually funny? Me? Neither,
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Speaker 2: that's just weapon, a grade cringe, bereft of any wit,
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Speaker 2: insight or anything approaching humor. And Tom Hanks and the
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Speaker 2: SNL writers must think that's the average Trump voter, including
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Speaker 2: the vast coalition of migrants who voted for Trump that
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Speaker 2: considered them more all what dumb and racist? I call
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Speaker 2: that projection. And before we look at more celebrities embarrassing themselves,
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Speaker 2: let's see how average Americans reacted to President Trump this
18:11
Speaker 2: time at Daytona. Listen for the crowd reaction when Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump was on the big screen during the anthem, exactly
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Speaker 2: like what happened at the super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Or the live.
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Speaker 2: Back to the celebrity class, and let's have a look
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Speaker 2: at this brave and stunning bit of activism from singer
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Speaker 2: Sheryl Crowe, who has sold her Tesla as a protest
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Speaker 2: against Donald Trump. At Elon Musk, she posted that herself. Yes,
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Speaker 2: and there's more, she had to virtue signal about donating
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Speaker 2: the proceeds to leftist media outlet NPR. Just so brave
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Speaker 2: and stunning. Now, let's go to Rachel Maddow at the
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Speaker 2: lunatic asylum that identifies as MSNBC. Listen here as she
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Speaker 2: beclowns herself with this bit of fake news.
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Speaker 11: Elon Musk has apparently somehow convinced the United States government,
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Speaker 11: specifically the United States Department of State, that the taxpayers
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Speaker 11: of the United States of America should spend four hundred
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Speaker 11: million dollars buying quote armored Tesla production units. Isn't it great?
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Speaker 11: And definitely not at all illegal or profoundly corrupt. Definitely
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Speaker 11: not ripping us all off to pay themselves.
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Speaker 2: Right to hear that profoundly corrupt, illegal, outrageous, Except there's
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Speaker 2: one little problem, Rachel. Let Fox News's Jesse Waters fill
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Speaker 2: you on a pertinent fact.
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Speaker 6: Donald Trump didn't give that contract to Elon Musk.
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden gave it to him.
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Speaker 2: It was Joe Biden, Rachel, it was Joe Biden. Just
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Speaker 2: more misinformation from the chief Russian collusion hoaxer, Rachel Matter.
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Speaker 2: Now let's check in with a transactivist with this important message.
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Speaker 3: The pronouns aren't preferred, they are mandatory. Do not purpose
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Speaker 3: fullamus gender trans people.
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Speaker 2: You do not get to decide how someone identifies.
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Speaker 12: My pronouns aren't preferred, they are mandatory.
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Speaker 2: No, no, they're not talking about transactivists. Here is one
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Speaker 2: with Michael Knowles, and she first claims that men identifying
20:44
Speaker 2: as women are not stealing women's trophies and medals, and
20:48
Speaker 2: then within seconds there's a flip. Apparently it's a good
20:53
Speaker 2: thing that that's happening.
20:54
Speaker 13: Nine hundred sports trophies from women in recent years, and
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Speaker 13: they they took nine hundred This is report just came out
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Speaker 13: from the United Nations. Actually eight hundred and ninety trophies
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Speaker 13: and medals across six hundred women who were competing competitors
21:08
Speaker 13: across twenty nine different sports and four hundred competitions that
21:11
Speaker 13: came out.
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Speaker 3: Like yesterday, and they deserve them.
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Speaker 13: It didn't happen, and they deserve them. Okay, that is
21:16
Speaker 13: the logic I hear from the pro transcrat think you
21:19
Speaker 13: they do deserve that.
21:20
Speaker 2: It didn't happen, and they deserve them. Michael Knowles as
21:22
Speaker 2: the patients of the Saint joining me now is Sky
21:26
Speaker 2: News contributor Kosher Gaeta Kosher. Let's start with Bordizar Tom Hoeman.
21:31
Speaker 2: He's got his sites set on Democrat Alexandria Akazia Cortes. No,
21:37
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to deport her. She's a US citizen
21:39
Speaker 2: after all, but her attempts to help illegal immigrants evade
21:42
Speaker 2: authorities may see her charged by the Department of Justice.
21:47
Speaker 2: AOC has been pushing a webinar claiming that ice raids
21:51
Speaker 2: are political tactics that are intended to create fear. And
21:55
Speaker 2: this webinar also encourages migrants not to open their door
21:58
Speaker 2: if federal agents and knocking. That seems unwise, Kosher unwise.
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Speaker 4: It does.
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Speaker 7: And Tom Horman does not come across as the kind
22:06
Speaker 7: of guy you want to mess with. And she has
22:08
Speaker 7: barred with him before. And there's this viral congressional hearing
22:11
Speaker 7: from last year or four years ago maybe where she
22:13
Speaker 7: was doing a different version of.
22:15
Speaker 4: The same thing.
22:16
Speaker 7: But whether it's her doing this, we saw Governor Phil
22:18
Speaker 7: Murphy of New Jersey a few weeks ago blatantly saying
22:21
Speaker 7: that he's housing an illegal on top of his garage
22:24
Speaker 7: and I dare the FEDS to come in, and others
22:27
Speaker 7: like that. It's really interesting. It shows that they're so
22:30
Speaker 7: comfortable with flouting immigration law, which has gone on forever
22:33
Speaker 7: in a day in America, and they obviously believe that
22:35
Speaker 7: they're beyond approach. So he is suggesting that the DOJ
22:39
Speaker 7: go after people like this elected representatives that are suggesting
22:42
Speaker 7: the flouting of the law. I don't know if they
22:44
Speaker 7: will do that, but you never know. You make an
22:46
Speaker 7: example of one person in some way and it might
22:48
Speaker 7: deter others from taking a similar tactic.
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Speaker 2: Well, it seems unwise politically as well. We know Ioassay
22:55
Speaker 2: in the squad there to the very far left of
22:58
Speaker 2: the Democrats. But really they've sit their gender, it seems
23:01
Speaker 2: for some time. But the Democrats can read the polls.
23:04
Speaker 2: They know these programs to control illegal immigration, to deportations,
23:09
Speaker 2: controlling the crisis of the border, they're popular. So why
23:14
Speaker 2: would they want to highlight not just their failures in
23:19
Speaker 2: opening the floodgates, but also just signal to the rest
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Speaker 2: of the country that we're okay with this, We're in
23:26
Speaker 2: fact facilitating this.
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Speaker 4: It's a good point.
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Speaker 7: They seem to be behind the curve now, the theyrout
23:30
Speaker 7: in the wilderness, and have been defeated after really holding
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Speaker 7: on to every institution and being on the winning side
23:36
Speaker 7: for so long. It sounds like they don't know how
23:37
Speaker 7: to actually be on the losing side and read the room.
23:41
Speaker 7: And you're right that the public support for this has
23:43
Speaker 7: shifted so dramatically. Just even ten years a would looked
23:46
Speaker 7: nothing like this. Now it's something like fifty nine to
23:49
Speaker 7: sixty percent of people support all illegals, not just the
23:52
Speaker 7: violent criminal offenders, but all illegals being deported. That is
23:55
Speaker 7: new that the American electorate has consolidated around this issue,
23:58
Speaker 7: and they seem to be stuck in a different decade
24:01
Speaker 7: and they haven't caught up to this reality.
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Speaker 2: The Trump administration keeps saying, if you enter the country illegally,
24:07
Speaker 2: by definition, you're a criminal. You've broken our immigration laws,
24:11
Speaker 2: so you have to go. Now, let's talk a little
24:15
Speaker 2: bit about NATO. It's looking like a major political realignment
24:20
Speaker 2: is underway, and it's a win for the Trump administration.
24:22
Speaker 2: European countries in the NATO alliance. I've agreed to step
24:26
Speaker 2: up their defense spending after President Trump's request that they
24:30
Speaker 2: increase the number to five percent of GDP. Here is
24:34
Speaker 2: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter.
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Speaker 1: Really europe is now stepping up. Last week I was
24:42
Speaker 1: a bit disappointed at Europeans for saying, hey, we also
24:44
Speaker 1: have to be at a table, and why are we
24:46
Speaker 1: not there? And they're now really starting to dialogue to
24:49
Speaker 1: strategize how they can support the peace effort, and that
24:52
Speaker 1: is important. By now, we are spending seven hundred billion
24:55
Speaker 1: more on the European side of NATO than before President
24:58
Speaker 1: Trump came into office. Is absolutely still not enough. We
25:02
Speaker 1: have to do much much more.
25:04
Speaker 2: It's not enough. We have to do much more. This
25:06
Speaker 2: is after they've boosted spending significantly, and it's precisely what
25:11
Speaker 2: the US was pushing for. Again, a lot of people
25:14
Speaker 2: seem to deliberately misunderstand Donald Trump's strategy, what his goals
25:19
Speaker 2: are here. He doesn't want to weaken NATO. He wants
25:22
Speaker 2: NATO members to actually spend their money and not have
25:28
Speaker 2: just America carrying the load.
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Speaker 7: It's a continuation of what he campaigned on even the
25:33
Speaker 7: first time, and even before he entered politics, and the
25:35
Speaker 7: secretary over there actually has credited Trump in the past
25:38
Speaker 7: where he said, you know, nobody ever asked us to
25:41
Speaker 7: pay up to our obligations before Trump he did. So
25:43
Speaker 7: we're doing it, and some like eight nations were delinquent
25:46
Speaker 7: and we're not even meeting their obligations, which at the
25:48
Speaker 7: time was two to three percent.
25:49
Speaker 4: Now they're raising the obligation.
25:51
Speaker 7: This is what Trump advanced and Pete hagg Sith have
25:53
Speaker 7: been pushing over that conference and in other venues as well,
25:56
Speaker 7: to five percent. And in the sixties that's where it was.
25:59
Speaker 7: It was round four a little over four percent that
26:02
Speaker 7: you was paying in the wake of the Cold War
26:04
Speaker 7: and that era, and now it's down to one to
26:06
Speaker 7: two percent. So that is kind of the point eighty
26:09
Speaker 7: years post World War two, how long should America be
26:12
Speaker 7: the guaranteur of security subsidizing all sorts of other programs
26:16
Speaker 7: As a result of that, in Europe as well as
26:18
Speaker 7: what are we defending? That was a gedvance speech that
26:20
Speaker 7: went viral when they're not even acting like democracies in
26:24
Speaker 7: some ways with censorship and counseling elections and all of that.
26:27
Speaker 7: So this is a watershed moment and it's a big
26:29
Speaker 7: shift from post World War Two.
26:30
Speaker 2: I'll be talking with Josh Hammer later in the program
26:34
Speaker 2: about that JD Vance speech. I've listened to it a
26:38
Speaker 2: couple of times now. Also listened to his full speech
26:41
Speaker 2: in Paris a day or so earlier. His clarity is astonishing.
26:49
Speaker 2: The way he covered these major points in eighteen nineteen minutes.
26:52
Speaker 2: It didn't seem to be looking at any notes, it
26:54
Speaker 2: didn't seem to be reading from an auto Q, and
26:58
Speaker 2: it was just Chris, it's all clear where the US stands,
27:02
Speaker 2: where its values are, and what it expects from Europe.
27:07
Speaker 2: He wasn't necessarily making demands though kosher. He was just
27:10
Speaker 2: telling them this is happening under your watch, and it's
27:16
Speaker 2: it's disturbing, especially when he was talking about the suppression
27:20
Speaker 2: of free speech and the way the concerns of everyday
27:25
Speaker 2: citizens have been disregarded.
27:27
Speaker 4: And that's the other piece of it.
27:29
Speaker 7: So part of it is the first layer is a
27:30
Speaker 7: spending and having some sort of level playing field in
27:34
Speaker 7: terms of spending obligations.
27:36
Speaker 4: As we discussed.
27:36
Speaker 7: But the second thing is much deeper, which is that
27:38
Speaker 7: that the shared alliance between European societies and American societies
27:42
Speaker 7: post World War two, was that some of these tenets
27:44
Speaker 7: of free societies, freedom of speech and other issues that
27:47
Speaker 7: he raised, and if they're no longer abiding by that,
27:50
Speaker 7: then his point is that's almost like a double whammy,
27:52
Speaker 7: that we're overpaying for your security and we're paying to
27:55
Speaker 7: defend a society that's kind of lost its way in
27:57
Speaker 7: terms of censoring its own citizens.
27:58
Speaker 4: And you're right, he did not mince words.
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Speaker 2: He was about a blunt He was blunt, but it
28:03
Speaker 2: was a message that they need to hear. And it's
28:06
Speaker 2: a message that we've spoken about on this program. I
28:09
Speaker 2: have Douglas Murray on every week. He wrote it not
28:12
Speaker 2: about a decade ago, about the strange death of Europe.
28:15
Speaker 2: This is a phenomenon that has been commented on by
28:20
Speaker 2: intellectuals brave enough to state the obvious, and yet the
28:24
Speaker 2: Europeans were just appalled or shocked that anybody would dare
28:30
Speaker 2: speak these home truths to them.
28:32
Speaker 7: It's a new d And that's also the difference between
28:34
Speaker 7: Trump forty seven versus forty five. Everybody around him really
28:38
Speaker 7: is singing from the same song sheet, and they genuinely
28:41
Speaker 7: believe in that vision. The populist America first worldview and
28:45
Speaker 7: that's why they can speak with such clarity, whereas last
28:48
Speaker 7: time he was sort of battling people internally and then
28:51
Speaker 7: the message that would be communicated externally wasn't always ALIGNE.
28:53
Speaker 4: The weird is.
28:54
Speaker 2: Now and he's getting his people thus far through so
28:58
Speaker 2: he's had Toulsi now RFK Junior Cash Patel is one
29:02
Speaker 2: of the big ones that were waiting for a vote there.
29:05
Speaker 2: But how do you see that administration coming together? Because
29:10
Speaker 2: it is very different from that first Trump term where
29:14
Speaker 2: he almost was prioritizing DC experience over loyalty over competence.
29:20
Speaker 2: They weren't necessarily his people and it showed because there
29:25
Speaker 2: was a lot of hunity and disloyalty there. How do
29:28
Speaker 2: you see this going? I know it's only been four weeks,
29:31
Speaker 2: but it seems to be a very systematic methodonical approach.
29:37
Speaker 2: He's had to getting his people into key positions one.
29:40
Speaker 7: Hundred percent like Trump two point zero seems like night
29:43
Speaker 7: and day compared to one DOTO where there you know he.
29:45
Speaker 4: Was experienced in other realms. What's so new to DC?
29:48
Speaker 7: And that was so evident where he was relying on
29:50
Speaker 7: recommendations for other people and didn't really know what he
29:52
Speaker 7: was doing in terms of personnel. He's mentioned that himself
29:55
Speaker 7: versus now, I feel like that whole four year term
29:58
Speaker 7: and the amount of heat he took officially and unofficially,
30:01
Speaker 7: and then what happened in twenty twenty and the intervening
30:04
Speaker 7: four years has been a huge litmus test for who
30:07
Speaker 7: is truly MAGA populist, pro Trump, pro that America First agenda,
30:11
Speaker 7: and who isn't. And it's been very clarifying eight years,
30:15
Speaker 7: which has allowed him to really identify the right people
30:18
Speaker 7: this time, and he just didn't have that benefit last time.
30:20
Speaker 4: And we're seeing that with the pigs.
30:22
Speaker 2: And House almost got rid of the rhinos, if you
30:27
Speaker 2: want to call them Republican name only. The GOP is
30:31
Speaker 2: now Trump's party. There's a few still hanging on you,
30:34
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell's and a few others. Moving along, let's look
30:37
Speaker 2: at how a CNN host not only refuses to fact
30:40
Speaker 2: check obvious, verifiable lies from Democrat Amy KLOVICHA, but she
30:46
Speaker 2: reinforces those lies.
30:48
Speaker 14: Two trillion dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest and
30:52
Speaker 14: paying for it by cuts to cancer research at NIH,
30:56
Speaker 14: something that has bipartisan support for years and years, or
31:00
Speaker 14: stopping headstart.
31:01
Speaker 4: But people they our protect our nuclear stockpile.
31:07
Speaker 14: I know they are, But what I'm saying is, at
31:09
Speaker 14: some point the pressure is on them.
31:11
Speaker 2: That type of hyperbole and scare mongering is just not working.
31:16
Speaker 2: And the Poles are telling us that.
31:18
Speaker 7: Indeed, it's kind of like ac and immigration, like we
31:20
Speaker 7: talked about that, the public sentiment has shifted all the
31:23
Speaker 7: way over and these folks don't seem to have caught
31:25
Speaker 7: up where these tactics used to work. Where you anytime
31:28
Speaker 7: anybody wants to talk about cutting spending thirty two plus
31:31
Speaker 7: trillion dollars in debt, we have to do it. You
31:34
Speaker 7: leap immediately to receiving children from malaria in Africa. We're
31:37
Speaker 7: doing cancer research, We're helping underprivileged kids get a head
31:41
Speaker 7: start in education. Like it's easy to point to those
31:43
Speaker 7: things and make the other side like the big bad
31:45
Speaker 7: bogeyman that's taking money away.
31:47
Speaker 4: It doesn't work anymore. And the way they're doing.
31:49
Speaker 7: It with doge and just putting out the receipts as
31:51
Speaker 7: they say, of how much waste, fraud and abuse is happening.
31:54
Speaker 7: Everybody's seeing it. It's disseminated all over social media. And
31:57
Speaker 7: then these tactics I think are going to fall flat.
31:59
Speaker 7: But that's the only playbook they know, so they're going
32:01
Speaker 7: to keep doing it.
32:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the worthwhile programs, the ones that do enjoy
32:05
Speaker 2: public support, while they're going to be absorbed into other parts,
32:08
Speaker 2: you don't need to have us AID in existence to
32:12
Speaker 2: devote funds to those worthy projects. Kosha Kata, thank you
32:16
Speaker 2: so much for your time. Tonight, still to come, we'll
32:19
Speaker 2: look at the disturbing crackdown on free expression in Europe
32:23
Speaker 2: and the latest from the US, including Jerry Seinfeld's message
32:26
Speaker 2: to pro Palestinian supporters. Josh Hammer is up next. Welcome back. Now,
32:41
Speaker 2: let's have a little trip down memory lane to Donald
32:45
Speaker 2: Trump's first term when he warned the Germans about becoming
32:49
Speaker 2: too reliant on Russian energy.
32:51
Speaker 10: Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it
32:57
Speaker 10: does not immediately change course. Here in the Western hemisphere.
33:04
Speaker 10: We are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment
33:11
Speaker 10: of expandist foreign powers.
33:14
Speaker 2: The German contingent thought that was hilarious. And the man
33:18
Speaker 2: you can see sitting at the front there laughing his
33:22
Speaker 2: silly little head off, is Christophe Husen laughing and thinking
33:27
Speaker 2: it was all one big, fat joke. Now remember him,
33:29
Speaker 2: because I'm going to come back to him. And as
33:32
Speaker 2: you know, Trump was right. Germany's dependence on Russian energy
33:37
Speaker 2: has been disastrous for the nation in recent years. But
33:40
Speaker 2: do you think that Germans have learned to listen to
33:43
Speaker 2: good advice? No. When jd Vance gave a groundbreaking speech
33:48
Speaker 2: in Munich last week about the biggest threats to Europe
33:51
Speaker 2: coming from within. When he warned them about the sinister
33:54
Speaker 2: suppression of free speech in European countries, the growing anti
33:59
Speaker 2: democracies sent among the elite, and the manner in which
34:02
Speaker 2: they have allowed millions of unvetted migrants to flooding, well,
34:07
Speaker 2: the Germans were again aghast. You can almost hear the
34:11
Speaker 2: gasps as Jedi Van speaks.
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Speaker 15: No voter on this continent went to the ballot box
34:16
Speaker 15: to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
34:21
Speaker 3: But you know what they did vote for. In England they.
34:24
Speaker 15: Voted for Brexit, and agree or disagree, they voted for it,
34:28
Speaker 15: and more and more all over Europe they're voting for
34:31
Speaker 15: political leaders who promised to put an end to out
34:34
Speaker 15: of control migration.
34:35
Speaker 2: And you guess that among the most appalled by jdie
34:38
Speaker 2: Vanson's speech was this guy who had a little cry
34:42
Speaker 2: about it.
34:42
Speaker 11: So let us stick to these values, let us not
34:45
Speaker 11: reinvent them, but focus on strengthening their consistent application.
34:53
Speaker 4: Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's Christophe Hugeson again. And I think think those
35:07
Speaker 2: tiers are for his nation or for Europe, which he
35:11
Speaker 2: helped damage alongside miss mercle Well, you'd be wrong. The
35:14
Speaker 2: tears were for himself because the German diplomat is stepping
35:18
Speaker 2: down from his illustrious position as chairman of the Munich
35:22
Speaker 2: Security Conference. Joining me now is Newsweek's senior editor at
35:26
Speaker 2: large and article three projects in your council, Josh Hammad, Josh,
35:30
Speaker 2: the Germans just refused to listen to good advice.
35:36
Speaker 3: Read.
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Speaker 12: It would not be the first and it's not gonna
35:38
Speaker 12: be the last time that the Germans had failed to
35:40
Speaker 12: listen to some advice of varying degrees of strength from
35:44
Speaker 12: the Americans. I suppose three cheers for JD. Evans, My goodness,
35:49
Speaker 12: I mean, that was a barn burner of a speech that,
35:51
Speaker 12: frankly is why we wanted Jdvans to be the vice
35:54
Speaker 12: President United States, or at least why I wanted him.
35:56
Speaker 3: I mean read.
35:56
Speaker 12: I wrote an obed column last March titled Vice President JD.
35:59
Speaker 12: Van making the case for Jdvans to be Donald Trump's
36:02
Speaker 12: running mate. And this is exactly what I thought we
36:04
Speaker 12: were going to get. And I am just grinning ear
36:06
Speaker 12: to ear, delighted that this is indeed what we are getting.
36:09
Speaker 12: Germany is the heart of the European liberal imperium. Brussels,
36:13
Speaker 12: Belgium is literally where the European Union is based. I
36:16
Speaker 12: know because I've been there, to the building. But Germany
36:18
Speaker 12: is the most economically powerful country in the world. So
36:19
Speaker 12: to go into the lions, to the most economic powerful
36:22
Speaker 12: country in Europe, So to go into the lions down there,
36:24
Speaker 12: and to say what he said about free speech, about
36:27
Speaker 12: energy independence, about migration from third world Islam as hellholes there.
36:32
Speaker 3: Man, that guy has a spine.
36:33
Speaker 12: And I just cannot wait to see what Jadavans does
36:35
Speaker 12: for the rest of his vice president of tenure, because
36:37
Speaker 12: if that is any indication of what is to come,
36:39
Speaker 12: we are in for a historic vice presidency.
36:44
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think after that vice presidency he has
36:48
Speaker 2: to be hot favorite to be the forty eighth president
36:51
Speaker 2: of the United States, and it would be quite Can
36:56
Speaker 2: you just imagine him continuing that Trump agenda got No,
37:01
Speaker 2: I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm thinking about two
37:03
Speaker 2: terms for JD Vance and what could be achieved if
37:07
Speaker 2: you've got those solid twelve years of meaningful change in America.
37:12
Speaker 2: It's it's exciting to think about. But let's stay in
37:16
Speaker 2: a Germany for a minute. Let's look at the manner
37:18
Speaker 2: in which they are cracking down on free expression, or
37:22
Speaker 2: what they call online hate speech.
37:24
Speaker 16: Inside six armed officers searched to suspects home, then seized
37:29
Speaker 16: his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may
37:34
Speaker 16: have been used to commit a crime, the crime posting
37:38
Speaker 16: a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time. Across Germany,
37:44
Speaker 16: it's all your mind of a bard. More than fifty
37:48
Speaker 16: similar raids played out part of what prosecutors say is
37:52
Speaker 16: a coordinated effort to curb online hate speech in Germany.
37:56
Speaker 2: Josh, I'd be willing to bet money that many of
37:59
Speaker 2: these online posts aren't even races. Given stating facts about
38:05
Speaker 2: crime rates and immigration levels is considered hate speech in
38:10
Speaker 2: some quarters. But when you watch that, that's precisely what
38:14
Speaker 2: jd Vance was talking about, this cracked out on free speech,
38:19
Speaker 2: this suppression of citizens. So are concerned about what's happening
38:24
Speaker 2: to their country?
38:27
Speaker 12: Yeah, I read the country of Germany suppressing free speech.
38:30
Speaker 12: What could possibly go wrong? Oh wait, yes, tragically we
38:33
Speaker 12: have been down before. But by the way, Margaret Brennan,
38:39
Speaker 12: the anchor on CBS is Faced the Nation earlier in
38:42
Speaker 12: the same day yesterday while she was talking about how
38:45
Speaker 12: there was apparently too much free speech and that caused
38:48
Speaker 12: the Holocaust there. So, whether it's Face the Nation or
38:50
Speaker 12: whether it's sixty minutes, CBS apparently is all in on
38:53
Speaker 12: an anti free speech, censorious agenda. Makes you wonder why
38:57
Speaker 12: CBS is actually a distant third in the meanstream media ratings,
39:00
Speaker 12: behind NBC and ABC. Frankly, all of their ratings are falling,
39:03
Speaker 12: but CBS is dwindling more than more than the others there.
39:06
Speaker 12: But the state of free speech all across Europe and
39:08
Speaker 12: both the continent and the UK is genuinely appalling right now.
39:12
Speaker 12: And you know, the UK in particular really makes me
39:15
Speaker 12: want to cry because I'm something of an Anglophile. Actually,
39:17
Speaker 12: I love the Anglo American inheritance. I mean Frankly, Britain
39:21
Speaker 12: gave the world free speech in many ways there but readog.
39:23
Speaker 12: I'll share with you this brief anecdote. So Kiers Starmer
39:26
Speaker 12: is the very left wing prime minister right now in
39:27
Speaker 12: Westminster in London. It has become pretty common to refer
39:31
Speaker 12: to him as two tier here because of his two
39:33
Speaker 12: tier system of justice. I actually put that on my
39:36
Speaker 12: show and on social media. I had a friend who's
39:38
Speaker 12: a lawyer in London read to get a load of this.
39:40
Speaker 12: He messaged me and said, Josh, you should take that down.
39:43
Speaker 12: I said, what are you talking about? He said, you
39:45
Speaker 12: won't believe it. But because of the long arm jurisdiction
39:47
Speaker 12: statue that Britain has these days, you could be prosecuted
39:50
Speaker 12: for that. For me tweeting here from the United States
39:53
Speaker 12: that here Starmer is two tier cure. That's the state
39:55
Speaker 12: of so called free speech in the UK. Tragically, in Germany,
39:58
Speaker 12: based on what we just saw, I think it's actually
39:59
Speaker 12: even worse.
40:02
Speaker 2: Now let's go to the US, where the Department of
40:05
Speaker 2: Government Efficiency has had a big win in the courts
40:09
Speaker 2: against the law fare that the Democrats are launching. I
40:13
Speaker 2: know you wrote about this in Newsweek. You wrote about
40:17
Speaker 2: this so called judicial resistance movement that are sprung up,
40:22
Speaker 2: and you say that these people involved in this may
40:27
Speaker 2: think they're acting nobly, but they're in fact acting on unconstitutionally,
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Speaker 2: and in the end they're going to be humiliated.
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Speaker 12: They're going to be humiliated because they are way out
40:39
Speaker 12: of wine and they're way out of line. Because the
40:42
Speaker 12: federal government cannot be shut down by the ruling of
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Speaker 12: a lone lower court federal judge deep in the battels
40:48
Speaker 12: of his chambers in Hawaii or Alaska, or Florida or
40:51
Speaker 12: main That is simply not the system of governance that
40:54
Speaker 12: our founding fathers here in America set up for us.
40:57
Speaker 12: In fact, in an eighteen or four letter that are
40:59
Speaker 12: third President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams, the wife
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Speaker 12: of John Adams. He famously said in this letter that
41:05
Speaker 12: at the time that the judiciary here in America starts
41:07
Speaker 12: to decide cases not merely for the litigants before it,
41:11
Speaker 12: but purporting to buying the entirety the federal government, that
41:14
Speaker 12: would be a despotic branch. Abraham Lincoln took the exact
41:17
Speaker 12: same approach. It's simply not the system we have here
41:19
Speaker 12: so these so called nation one injunctions have to end.
41:22
Speaker 12: That is not part of the judicial power of which
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Speaker 12: our Constitution speaks. The United Supreme Court is going to
41:27
Speaker 12: have to weigh in here sooner rather than later, thankfully read.
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Speaker 12: I actually a pretty optimistic that they will do so.
41:32
Speaker 12: Visit a Supreme Court that is well constituted to rule
41:34
Speaker 12: correctly when it comes to bread and butter structural separation
41:37
Speaker 12: of powers issues. But it's incumbent upon the Trump Department
41:41
Speaker 12: of Justice to directly tee up that appeal. Once they
41:44
Speaker 12: do so, I think that the Supreme Court will grant it,
41:46
Speaker 12: and I think that they will rule correctly.
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Speaker 2: Now I covered Tom Hanks's pathetic antiques on Saturday Night Live.
41:55
Speaker 2: I don't know how else to describe them. It was
41:58
Speaker 2: exceptionally on funny, lacking in any sort of wheat or
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Speaker 2: intelligence or humor. And I've got to ask you, Josh,
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Speaker 2: why would such a mainstream actor trash his own brand
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Speaker 2: in this way. If you're going to tresh your own
42:15
Speaker 2: brand and infuriate the majority of the country, then at least,
42:20
Speaker 2: I don't know, be interesting, be funny, be clever. In
42:22
Speaker 2: some way, this was just lame.
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Speaker 12: It really does seem beneath the dignity of Tom Hanks, doesn't.
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Speaker 12: I mean, Tom Hanks, once upon a time was a
42:32
Speaker 12: brilliant actor.
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Speaker 3: I mean you had.
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Speaker 12: Maybe not at this point later in his career, but
42:37
Speaker 12: you know, look earlier, early in his career. I mean
42:39
Speaker 12: Forrest Gum, Philadelphia. I mean, catch me if you can,
42:42
Speaker 12: even the Steven Spielberg movie from.
42:44
Speaker 3: The early arts.
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Speaker 12: I mean, Tom Hanks has been in a lot of
42:46
Speaker 12: classics going back twenty five thirty years. You know, once
42:48
Speaker 12: upon a time, it's probably hard for this audience to leave.
42:51
Speaker 12: Once upon a time, Saturday night life here in America
42:53
Speaker 12: was actually pretty funny. I mean, once upon a time
42:55
Speaker 12: we had people like Chris Farley, we had actually genuinely
42:58
Speaker 12: talented comedians. I mean, to this day, a lot of
43:00
Speaker 12: the great stand up comments here in America really kind
43:02
Speaker 12: of came up through the ranks of Saturday Night Live.
43:04
Speaker 12: But it has been a very, very long time since
43:07
Speaker 12: they have attracted anything remotely resembling high caliber comic talents.
43:10
Speaker 12: I couldn't even tell you the last time that I
43:12
Speaker 12: tuned in frankly on a Saturday evening, and I'm particularly
43:15
Speaker 12: very pleased that I happened to miss this dreadful Tom
43:17
Speaker 12: Hanks's performance.
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Speaker 2: I was just embarrassing. I was embarrassed for him watching it.
43:25
Speaker 2: That's how bad it was. Now, I love you your
43:29
Speaker 2: take on Jerry Seinfeld not giving us stuff about offending
43:33
Speaker 2: the pro Palestinian anti Israeli movement. I have a look
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Speaker 2: at this, Jerry, Can I get a selfie?
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Speaker 7: Sure?
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Speaker 4: Three Palestine?
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Speaker 7: I don't care about.
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Speaker 2: That's right now. That's how you do it, Tom Hanks.
43:49
Speaker 2: If you're going to be controversial, at least, I don't know,
43:52
Speaker 2: be interesting and a little bit funny. I'd imagine Josh
43:55
Speaker 2: is copying all sorts of flak for that. But Daddy cares.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't care.
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Speaker 12: And kudos to Jerry Seinfeld for taking a righteous and
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Speaker 12: correct stand on this particular issue. I mean, you know,
44:07
Speaker 12: he was trending this direction for years. Jerry Seinfeld, many
44:09
Speaker 12: years ago. I first remember him speaking out against wol
44:12
Speaker 12: can't cancel culture on American college campuses. This is clearly
44:15
Speaker 12: an issue that he cares about. He visited Israel after
44:17
Speaker 12: October seventh. There was actually he's a diehard New York
44:20
Speaker 12: Mets baseball fan. There was actually a clip of Jerry
44:22
Speaker 12: Seinfeld that a Mets game back and during baseball season
44:24
Speaker 12: a few months ago here in the US, and they
44:26
Speaker 12: kind of zoomed in on him and he was wearing
44:28
Speaker 12: his Mets uniform and he said, let's go Mets, and
44:30
Speaker 12: let's go IDF. So he's been very public about this
44:32
Speaker 12: for a while now, but you know, this son of
44:35
Speaker 12: a you know what here on camera. That guy had
44:37
Speaker 12: that coming, frankly, and good for Jerry Seinfeld for not
44:39
Speaker 12: backing away in the heat of the moment there.
44:41
Speaker 3: I hope that he only doubles down from here. I
44:43
Speaker 3: think he will.
44:43
Speaker 2: Actually, I don't know if you're away, but he did
44:47
Speaker 2: a tour of Australia last year and there were these
44:50
Speaker 2: hecklers in the crowd, always these pro Palestinian plants who
44:55
Speaker 2: halfway through the show would start shouting Free Palestine and
44:59
Speaker 2: river to this or whatever else they were shouting. And
45:02
Speaker 2: he handled it again beautifully. He just mocked them. He
45:06
Speaker 2: went at them. He did not back away, didn't try
45:09
Speaker 2: to appease, he didn't try to ignore them. He made
45:13
Speaker 2: them part of the show. And I thought it was
45:15
Speaker 2: really quite effective. He did that in our multiple cities
45:18
Speaker 2: in Australia. Before you go, we've seen polling showing how
45:22
Speaker 2: popular Donald Trump's key policies are. We've been discussing that
45:25
Speaker 2: earlier this week, but it's not just the policies that
45:30
Speaker 2: are popular. Despite the overwhelming negative publicity the president receives,
45:35
Speaker 2: his own popularity is on the rise. This latest poll
45:40
Speaker 2: shows fifty five percent approve of him. Now that's a
45:44
Speaker 2: decent approval rating. Forty three percent disapprove. Josh, that's a
45:48
Speaker 2: net gain of twelve percent for the president.
45:53
Speaker 3: It's actually even more than that. You go back to
45:54
Speaker 3: his first term.
45:55
Speaker 12: Donald Trump spent the majority of his first term with
45:57
Speaker 12: an underwater approval reading by the way, so Debraco. So
46:00
Speaker 12: it's not like Donald Trump had anything unique. Joe Biden
46:02
Speaker 12: definitely had an underwater approval right in there. So, I mean, frankly,
46:05
Speaker 12: you know, Americans have been so fed up with the
46:06
Speaker 12: government for so long that to have any president, frankly
46:09
Speaker 12: with an above water approval right in there, you probably
46:11
Speaker 12: have to go back to the very early days of
46:13
Speaker 12: the Barack Obama administration before he went totally off the
46:15
Speaker 12: rails if I had a guess, but it's been it's
46:17
Speaker 12: been a hot minute, so to speak, there and the
46:19
Speaker 12: reason for that is because Donald Trump leads what I
46:22
Speaker 12: like to refer to as a Coalition of the common sense.
46:24
Speaker 12: It is really not a particularly partisan movement here. You
46:27
Speaker 12: you have ex Democrats like RFK Junior, like Tulci gabber.
46:31
Speaker 3: It frankly is a coalition of people who are just
46:34
Speaker 3: sick of stupid crap.
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Speaker 12: I'm sorry to not phrase it more artfully, but that
46:38
Speaker 12: really basically is what it is. It is a coalition
46:40
Speaker 12: of people that are sick of gender ideology. They are
46:42
Speaker 12: sick of this idea of universal values and mass migration
46:45
Speaker 12: policy there. They just want normalcy, They want basic common
46:49
Speaker 12: sense stuff. Thankfully, Donald Trump came in with a mighty
46:52
Speaker 12: vengeance in this magna two point zero second term, and
46:54
Speaker 12: he's delivering oodles and oodles of good old fashioned common sense.
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Speaker 2: Josh, thank you so much for your time tonight. And
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Speaker 2: that's it for me. I'll see you tomorrow night at eleven.
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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. Newsnight is up next.