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Vincent McAviney: European Correspondent on Tate brothers arriving in America · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Vincent Mecavinni joins us from the UK. Vincent, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, so secure Stammager sours away from meeting with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. He is the second European leader to
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  Speaker 2: visit the White House this week. He was pipped by
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  Speaker 2: President Macron on Monday. He had been hoping for this
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  Speaker 2: invite a little earlier because he has built quite a
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  Speaker 2: good relationship with Donald Trump, meeting him last year several
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  Speaker 2: times ahead of the election in anticipation of his victory.
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  Speaker 2: Now he is going, or we understand, to tell the
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  Speaker 2: United States that they must put security guarantees in place
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  Speaker 2: in whatever deal they are going to strike with Russia.
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  Speaker 2: They need that backstop. And he's going to say, if
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  Speaker 2: you are going to put all this resource and money
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  Speaker 2: into rare earth mineral extraction, you need to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that your investment is safe and protected. And that's ahead
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  Speaker 2: of course of President Zelenski of Ukraine visiting the White
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  Speaker 2: House tomorrow, so we think sign this deal on these
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  Speaker 2: rare earth minerals, and the UK also hoping to avoid
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  Speaker 2: any kind of tariffs that we've seen on allies like Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: Canada and the EU because he wants to play Sakirstama
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  Speaker 2: on that special love that Trump has for the UK
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  Speaker 2: given his mother was Scottish.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Now, meanwhile, we're following the progress of Andrew Tait
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  Speaker 1: and his brother Tristram, who had finally been extra diided
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  Speaker 1: from Romania. It only took three years. Where's that story ed?
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  Speaker 2: Well? They have now landed in Florida in the past
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  Speaker 2: half hour. They have arrived via private jet at Fort
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  Speaker 2: Lauderdale International Airport. Now there is still a lot of
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  Speaker 2: confusion about this. The pair have been detained for the
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  Speaker 2: last three years in Romania, where they had moved to,
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  Speaker 2: and they were accused of human trafficking and rape in
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  Speaker 2: the country, charges they deny. They were also facing a
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  Speaker 2: separate case in the UK of rape and human trafficking
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  Speaker 2: as well. But what appears to have happened is that
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  Speaker 2: Rick Grennell, who is a sort of representative for Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump at the UNIX Security Conference, held a meeting with
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  Speaker 2: the Romanian foreign minister where it's thought that perhaps he
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  Speaker 2: had requested that the two be allowed to leave the country,
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  Speaker 2: and that is what prosecutors have done. They haven't dropped
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  Speaker 2: the cases, but they have returned their passports to them
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  Speaker 2: and let them return to the US. Now, once they're
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  Speaker 2: in the US, it's highly unlikely they could ever be
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  Speaker 2: extradited to face both the Romanian and the British case,
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  Speaker 2: so some confusion exactly what this intervention has been into
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  Speaker 2: the Romanian justice system to get these two highly controversial,
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  Speaker 2: problematic individuals released and back to the US.
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  Speaker 1: Vince mcavinian, I thank you for more from early edition
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  Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge.
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