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The Rita Panahi Show | 21 July · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: On scoring Leeds Ostrodia.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Wider Panalty Show.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the reader Panety Show coming.
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  Speaker 4: Up tonight, newspoll is in and the Coalition has nosedive
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  Speaker 4: to its lowest point in forty years.
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  Speaker 3: The panel will be here shortly to unpack all that.
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  Speaker 3: The brilliant Josh Hammer.
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  Speaker 4: Will have the latest from the US, including what is undoubtedly,
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  Speaker 4: in my mind, the biggest story of the yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps decade, and later.
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  Speaker 4: In the hour kins Is Schofield will tell us more
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  Speaker 4: about that infamous Coldplay kiss Camp saga and Left He's losing.
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  Speaker 3: It is a colleidoscope of crazy.
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  Speaker 5: How long do all of the voices against this horrific
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  Speaker 5: administration have in terms of their careers?
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  Speaker 4: But first, the data from the latest News poll is
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  Speaker 4: in and it's devastating for the Liberal Party and new
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  Speaker 4: leader Susan Lee. Where As extended it's two party per
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  Speaker 4: therred lea to fifty seven to forty three percent over
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  Speaker 4: the Coalition. That's even better than the election result, which
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  Speaker 4: was a landslide to Labor. Support for the Coalition has
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  Speaker 4: noseedive to its lowest point in forty years, the party
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  Speaker 4: attracting just twenty nine percent of the primary vote, the
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  Speaker 4: worst recorded primary vote for the Coalition since newspol started
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  Speaker 4: recording the data point back in nineteen eighty five. Joining
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  Speaker 4: me now for more on this is chief economist and Senior.
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  Speaker 3: Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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  Speaker 4: Adam Crichton and News Corps senior writer Patrick Carlyon. Adam
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  Speaker 4: will start with you. Doesn't get much worse than this.
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  Speaker 4: Support for the Coalition has fallen further after they recorded
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  Speaker 4: their worst ever election result as far as a primary
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  Speaker 4: vote goes. I was thirty one point eight percent and
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  Speaker 4: we're now down to twenty nine.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty bad, but I'm not really that surprised. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there was just a huge wipeout, as you said, and
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  Speaker 6: I think most of the electorate's not really paying attention
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  Speaker 6: to politics at the moment. We don't have another election
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  Speaker 6: for a few years. They still don't really know Susan lay.
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  Speaker 6: That's going to take some time, I think so. But
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  Speaker 6: I think the most important thing is that they need
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  Speaker 6: an issue to differentiate themselves from the government, and they
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  Speaker 6: don't really have that yet. In fact, I can't think
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  Speaker 6: off the top of my head of one thing that
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  Speaker 6: they are totally different from the Labor Party on and
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  Speaker 6: I think Barnaby Choice is right this week when he
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  Speaker 6: said that they should the coalition should undertake to dump
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  Speaker 6: net zero. So I think that's one idea that they
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  Speaker 6: might pursue, and I think should pursue.
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  Speaker 4: What they don't seem to have the courage to do
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  Speaker 4: the work Patrick. They really need to decide who they are,
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  Speaker 4: what they stand for, what sets them apart from Labor.
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  Speaker 3: Why are they even there?
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  Speaker 4: And we're not getting that, you know that obsessing about
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  Speaker 4: things like quotas rather than sb significant issues like energy policy,
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  Speaker 4: like immigration policy. I mean that's a huge issue in
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  Speaker 4: this country. And yes they did go to the last
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  Speaker 4: election with a lower migration level than.
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  Speaker 3: Labor, but it wasn't that much lower. It wasn't that different.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: That point of distinction between the parties has got very blurred,
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  Speaker 2: and they bug it up the election totally. One in
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  Speaker 2: two people women didn't want to vote for the Liberal Party.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there were groundbreakingly bad policies that were taken
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  Speaker 2: to that election. And look, I think forming policy that
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  Speaker 2: works is going to take time. To be fair, it's
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  Speaker 2: five minutes since the election. As Adam said, no, I
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  Speaker 2: know Susan Lee. It is going to take time, but
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  Speaker 2: they do need to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: They have to work.
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  Speaker 2: Out how to be appealing to more Australians. It's down
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  Speaker 2: below thirty percent, that's less than one in three.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's not a problem that started since Susan Lee
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  Speaker 4: became leader. This is a problem they had at the election.
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  Speaker 4: That's possibly why they did so badly because who are they?
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  Speaker 4: They seem to be like labor light alternative on Susan Lee.
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  Speaker 4: Her she's been in the job a couple of months
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  Speaker 4: of approval rating is that thirty five percent? That's not
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  Speaker 4: good And when it comes to preferred PM, she's predictably
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  Speaker 4: trailing Anthony ALBERNIZI he is on fifty two percent, thirty
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  Speaker 4: two percent for Susan Lee and sixteen percent undecided. Is
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  Speaker 4: that where we would expect her to be, Adam? Is
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  Speaker 4: that a poor performance or what you'd expect at this point?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I think probably what I would expect.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I did notice that Channel nine read a
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  Speaker 6: very positive for sixty minutes about her on Sunday night,
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  Speaker 6: So she's getting some good press out there.
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  Speaker 3: That could change that helps not really, no one's watching anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But look, look, I just you know, it's hard to
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  Speaker 6: know yet, but she hasn't really put down her colors
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  Speaker 6: yet in terms of what she stands for. It's just
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  Speaker 6: all motherhood statements so far, and until I think she does,
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  Speaker 6: most people are going to withhold their judgment.
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  Speaker 3: Well my problem with her. I've got lots of problems with.
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  Speaker 4: Patrick, but her issues are precisely what the biggest issues
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  Speaker 4: for the Liberal Party aret, which is lack of conviction.
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  Speaker 4: You look at where she has stood on significant issues
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  Speaker 4: and the flip flopping we've seen, whether it's been the
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  Speaker 4: live sheep trade, whether it's been tax carts, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: been the voice. I mean, how can she possibly have
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  Speaker 4: the Liberals come to a position where we know who
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  Speaker 4: they are and what they stand for when she doesn't
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  Speaker 4: know who she is and what she stands for.
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  Speaker 2: Looking back, you look at Peter Darton. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: a long time ago, but he was sort of flying
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  Speaker 2: in the polls because he did appear to be a
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  Speaker 2: conviction politician. This is way before May this year. He
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  Speaker 2: knew what he thought, he knew what to say, and
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  Speaker 2: we really do need that kind of leadership sort of
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  Speaker 2: to set the Liberal Party apart from the Labor Party
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  Speaker 2: and to actually show the world that they've got something
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  Speaker 2: to have reasons to be voted for.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Peter Dutton we saw throughout the Voice campaign
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  Speaker 4: was very different to the Peter Dutton missaw in the
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  Speaker 4: election campaign and the results reflected that. Now let's go
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  Speaker 4: to another horrific arm for robbery in Melbourne, this time
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  Speaker 4: at the Central Square shopping.
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  Speaker 3: Center in Altna Meadows.
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  Speaker 8: The victim is a thirty three year old man who
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  Speaker 8: police say was attacked with an edged weapon after being
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  Speaker 8: approached by a group of men. Police say the offenders
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  Speaker 8: fled with his phone. Ambulance Victoria has confirmed the victim
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  Speaker 8: suffered serious lacerations to his arm, and witnesses at the
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  Speaker 8: shopping center have told me there was blood everywhere and
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  Speaker 8: the man's hand was only partly attached. Tonight seven News
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  Speaker 8: understands he's having the lower part of his arm amputated.
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  Speaker 4: Just absolutely shocking violence, Adam, and all that for a phone.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what has become of Melbourne?
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  Speaker 6: And also too, they were using machepies, which I thought
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  Speaker 6: we banned in this state coming obviously not working.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm sure you know you could cut thems with
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  Speaker 4: other eedged weapons.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure a machete band. It's not to make light.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's absolutely horrific. Obviously, you know we're hearing
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  Speaker 6: more and more of these kind of crimes all the time,
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  Speaker 6: at least that's my sense. And indeed I check the
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  Speaker 6: statistics today, Victorian crime statistics, and sure enough, incidents are
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  Speaker 6: up twenty two percent in twelve months. That's that's an extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: Increase and coming from a high base.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like we've had, you know, this falling crime
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  Speaker 4: level and now suddenly we've had an increase.
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  Speaker 3: Patrick.
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  Speaker 4: This incident comes just a day after a seventeen year
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  Speaker 4: old boy was left with critical injuries after being stabbed
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  Speaker 4: at broad Meadows Central shopping Center. We've seen the violence
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  Speaker 4: in north Land shopping center. You would think shopping centers
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  Speaker 4: would be one of the safer places you'd be feel
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  Speaker 4: comfortable your kids being there, but not these days.
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  Speaker 2: And look, this is not an isolated story or these
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  Speaker 2: two stories. This is happening. We're talking about this every week.
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  Speaker 2: This has been going on for years. As Melbournians, there's
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  Speaker 2: a sense of there's a perception that we're not safe
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  Speaker 2: and we've got kids marauding with machetes, and we've got
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  Speaker 2: the band coming in I think that starts on September one.
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  Speaker 2: That will make absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: No difference to the violence levels.
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  Speaker 2: Screwdrivers, kitchen knives are pretty handy at hurting people, and
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  Speaker 2: this has been festering for years. And the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the bail laws weren't hardened up earlier and you didn't
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  Speaker 2: have crackdowns, we really are suffering for that now. It's
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  Speaker 2: manifestering saw.
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  Speaker 3: It has been.
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  Speaker 4: And the victims here, you really feel for them because
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  Speaker 4: not only have they being victims of this horrific violence,
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  Speaker 4: but often they see the alleged defenders given bail over
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  Speaker 4: and over again. Really, the faith in the justice system
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  Speaker 4: in this state, I think is at historic lows.
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  Speaker 3: That's my feeling.
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  Speaker 6: I would say too that with these crimes, the media
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  Speaker 6: never reports on the background of the perpetrators. But I
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  Speaker 6: think most people out there in kind of normal land
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  Speaker 6: would be watching this and they would probably think these
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  Speaker 6: people are immigrants. Whether they're right or wrong, that's probably
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  Speaker 6: what they got to think. And this crime spy does
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  Speaker 6: correlate with a huge increase in immigration in recent years,
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  Speaker 6: and I think most people would put those things together
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  Speaker 6: and make the link. Whether it's right or wrong, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know in this case, but that's what people would think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would think a lot of the assailants
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  Speaker 4: or alleged assailants may be born and bred here there,
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  Speaker 4: maybe second generation, the third generation, but often that is
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  Speaker 4: the perception that this is something that is not spoken
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  Speaker 4: about because of cultural sensitivities.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's move along to Mornington Council.
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  Speaker 4: It's been revealed that the secret anti Australia flag guidelines
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  Speaker 4: at the Mornington Pninsula Council which resulted in the infamous
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  Speaker 4: Kindergarten pamphlet being published without the Australian flag, all sorts
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  Speaker 4: of other flags there, but not the Australian flag. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it even defied advice from the Rainbow Local Government Group,
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  Speaker 4: which is part of the Victorian Pride lobby. Now, adam
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  Speaker 4: not for one second suggesting the counselor should be listening
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  Speaker 4: to these activists. But even the activists in this space
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  Speaker 4: are less extreme than the council and its bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is.
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  Speaker 4: Astonishing that they are triggered by the Australian flag.
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  Speaker 9: I know it.
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  Speaker 10: Look, I mean it's quite funny.
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  Speaker 6: We've done research on this, We've done surveys and huge majorities.
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  Speaker 1: Of Australians just want the Australian.
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  Speaker 6: Flag flowing most of the time in public buildings. I
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  Speaker 6: think it's more than seventy five percent. So this story
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  Speaker 6: is quite amusing. As you say, there was one sentence
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  Speaker 6: in that in that story that said there are six
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  Speaker 6: flags that fla ot six.
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  Speaker 4: How many flag polls are we erecting these days?
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  Speaker 3: Ridiculous.
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  Speaker 6: Most other countries will never behave like that, and yet
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  Speaker 6: we do, I know Canada does. It's a very strange
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  Speaker 6: thing and I don't think it's good.
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  Speaker 9: For national unity.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it absolutely is not.
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  Speaker 4: Only just had the Prime Minister doing his six day
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  Speaker 4: tour of China and consistently behind him were the three flags.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I hate.
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  Speaker 4: To think what other countries think of this. And as
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  Speaker 4: well as the usual flags we see the Aboriginal flag,
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  Speaker 4: Torres Straight Islander flag, there's also something called the Intersex
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  Speaker 4: Inclusive Progress Pride flag that's flying at council properties or
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  Speaker 4: at childcare centers down on the peninsula. Is this what
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  Speaker 4: the folks, good folks of the Peninsula are voting for.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: As a ratepayer at Mornington, No, I don't want all
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  Speaker 2: those flags. What upset me about this is the idea
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  Speaker 2: that the Australian flag is culturally unsafe. Somehow people are
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  Speaker 2: offended by the unifying As Adam puts it, the.
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  Speaker 1: Flag unites us.
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  Speaker 2: It represents different things for different people, but it unites us.
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  Speaker 2: And the idea that some segments of Australian society are
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  Speaker 2: offended or too hurt to have the flag shown at
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  Speaker 2: all is outrageous. That needs to be put to a
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  Speaker 2: stop straight away.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it absolutely needs to be put to a stop.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is so divisive and it's counterproductive. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what I think the Pride Coalition we're talking about,
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  Speaker 4: that this is actually leading to a backlash against the
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  Speaker 4: LGBTQIA plus community, making it seem like they're the ones
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  Speaker 4: pushing for this when they're quite happy for the Australian
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  Speaker 4: flag to be flying because it represents.
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  Speaker 3: All of us. Now, I want to get your opinions
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  Speaker 3: on this story.
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  Speaker 4: From the UK, they want to lower the voting age
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  Speaker 4: there to sixteen. Labor are trailing reform in the polls
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  Speaker 4: and obviously they're desperate to hold on to power. But
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  Speaker 4: labor ministers don't even know basic laws about what sixteen
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  Speaker 4: year olds can and cannot do. In England, here's UK's
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  Speaker 4: Labor Environment Secretary, Steve Reid.
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  Speaker 3: How old do you have to be to be legally
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  Speaker 3: married in the UK?
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  Speaker 10: Mister Reid, to be legally married? Mary, UK, you have
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  Speaker 10: to Oh you yeah, I don't tell me how old?
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  Speaker 3: Sixteen?
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  Speaker 10: Eighteen?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not sixteen. This is a trap that you're colleagues.
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  Speaker 11: The Deputy Prime Minister Andrela Rayner fell into. She justified
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  Speaker 11: a vote since sixteen by saying that's the age you
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  Speaker 11: can get married. Actually, you can only get married when
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  Speaker 11: you're eighteen in this country. Why doesn't the Deputy Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 11: indeed the Environment Secretary no basic laws of the UK.
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  Speaker 10: Well, having votes at sixteen was something that we put
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  Speaker 10: in our manifesto. We won a majority in the House
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  Speaker 10: of Commons. Now we're getting ahead and we're implementing our manifesto.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, they're all about their manifesto. Patrick, What do
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  Speaker 4: you think about this? Should we be lowering the voting age?
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  Speaker 4: I think we should be increasing it.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I tend to agree.
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  Speaker 2: When I was sixteen, I didn't care about federal politics
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't care about getting married for that matter. Look,
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  Speaker 2: it does skew young people vote left. It would represent
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  Speaker 2: the big advan Why.
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  Speaker 6: In the US though there's actually been a huge, huge
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  Speaker 6: swing amongst young people to Trump.
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  Speaker 1: It's not necessarily the case.
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  Speaker 3: So I agree generally.
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  Speaker 6: You're right, and that's probably the case for certainly here,
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  Speaker 6: probably the UK. But to get the stuff, the government
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  Speaker 6: is someone the knows that. Who knows in three years
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  Speaker 6: what young people are going to think of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be.
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  Speaker 4: They might be very, very regretful of pushing this policy
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  Speaker 4: because in the US, Yeah, those youngsters eighteen plus, eighteen
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  Speaker 4: to twenty five have really swung behind Trump in a
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  Speaker 4: way that no one expected.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Crichton, Patrick Carline, thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight Still to come, Lefty's Losing d plus the latest
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  Speaker 4: from the US, including what is the biggest story of
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  Speaker 4: the year perhaps the decade.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Hammer has the details. Welcome back, It's time for
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  Speaker 3: lefties losing it. Let's start with the WNBA.
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  Speaker 4: They had a humorously named All Star game this weekend
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  Speaker 4: and the players all wore these absurd T shirts saying
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  Speaker 4: pay us what you owe us, be careful, their ladies,
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  Speaker 4: be careful what you wish for, because the WNBA loses
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  Speaker 4: forty million dollars a year. That's how much they lost
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, and that's with the Caitlin Clark
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  Speaker 4: effect that boosted interest and attendance and games. But it
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  Speaker 4: seems the activists who dominate this league, and sadly, the
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  Speaker 4: WNBA is a highly political product. Sadly, some of these
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  Speaker 4: ladies are economically illiterate. Here is Britney Sykes holding up
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  Speaker 4: a sign that says paid the players, they are paid
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  Speaker 4: and their entire league is propped up by the NBA,
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  Speaker 4: by the men's competition, something that is lost on a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the players. Including Nefisa Collier.
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  Speaker 9: Put in the blizzwead tears for the new money that's
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  Speaker 9: coming in, and so we feel like we are on
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  Speaker 9: a lot a piece of that pilate.
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  Speaker 4: We go to create new money coming in, but it's
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  Speaker 4: not enough to cover the costs. If these players understood
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  Speaker 4: basic maths, the T shirts would be saying I owe.
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  Speaker 3: The NBA money.
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  Speaker 4: And the WNBA players are often their own worst enemies.
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  Speaker 4: They are always many of them are always playing the
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  Speaker 4: victim and engaging in political activism that alienates the majority
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  Speaker 4: of sports fans, and they suffer from delusions of grandeur.
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  Speaker 4: The sport is growing, but other than Caitlin Clark, most
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  Speaker 4: sports fans couldn't name a single WNBA player, and the
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  Speaker 4: brilliant Shane Gillis use that to his advantage when he
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  Speaker 4: was hosting ESPN's The Spiz the Excellence in Sports Performance Awards.
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  Speaker 12: Four time WNBA All Star Brittany hecks Is here, give
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  Speaker 12: it up for Brittany. Everybody, I'm jogging around. That's my
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  Speaker 12: friend's wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players.
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  Speaker 12: That's crazy. You clapped for that.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, they did clap for that an audience of sports
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  Speaker 4: stars and fans, and even they didn't know. Now to
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  Speaker 4: some happy news, and the unfunniest flog on television has
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  Speaker 4: just had his show canceled. Yes, Stephen Colbert, the host
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  Speaker 4: of a show that was losing.
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  Speaker 3: Forty to fifty million.
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  Speaker 4: Dollars a year, show that had a massive team of
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  Speaker 4: writers and producers and still managed to be painfully unfunny
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  Speaker 4: and nasty.
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  Speaker 3: Here is a little of Stephen Colbert through the years.
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  Speaker 13: Donald Trump has been sworn in as President of the
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  Speaker 13: United States.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 13: Listen, listen, We're just as confused as you are.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden did it.
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  Speaker 13: I sat down and just started crying with relief, and
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  Speaker 13: every said you never have to talk about him again.
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  Speaker 1: And then I cried with joy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 13: After a bizarre and vicious campaign fueled by a desperate
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: need not to go to jail, Donald Trump has won
• 18:05
  Speaker 13: the twenty twenty four election.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Next year will be our last season. The network will
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: be ending The Late Show in May.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And despite the fact that this catastrophe of a program
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: with a dwindling audience was losing bundles of money, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: left have somehow convinced themselves that Stephen Colbert was sacked
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: because of Trump's dictatorial powers.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: This was some sort of a political hit job.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: How long do all of the voices against this horrific
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: administration have in terms of their careers and ability.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: To make money?
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Because this madman, this mentally incapacitated, physically ill, mentally ill man,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: is spiraling out of control. His dementia is out of control.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: His self regulation, which she has none of to begin with,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: is missing.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, poor Rosie surely is a broken fool.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: It almost feels bad mocking her almost Let's see now
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: from actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who also sees some sort
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: of a conspiracy here. Apparently it's all about shutting down dissent.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It's bad. He's a great, great guy.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: They just cut NPR and you know, public broadcasting.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, they're trying to silence people.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: But that won't work.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: It won't work.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: We will just get louder, Oh, Jamie, silly girl.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: As if the taxpayer, the American taxpayer, is obliged to
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: fund the hard left activism of PBS or NPR.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: But the most.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Moronic rant goes to a duty calls himself Charalamine. He
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: actually calls himself Charala Maine the God. This is his
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: fact free, hysterical and diabolically stupid take.
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: Canceling Colbert is an obvious move to appease Donald Trump.
• 20:14
  Speaker 14: And I need to tell y'all something. If you don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 14: think we are under a regime with an authoritarian strategy,
• 20:19
  Speaker 14: then you are bugging.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: This is textbook authoritarian rule.
• 20:23
  Speaker 14: Target your critic, centralized power in a few hands, intimidate
• 20:26
  Speaker 14: through punishment, are removal, and you know what that usually does,
• 20:29
  Speaker 14: shuts people to f up. Okay, Titans control over public
• 20:32
  Speaker 14: discourse sends a message to all media outlets that criticism
• 20:35
  Speaker 14: of Trump could cost you access, approval, editorial control, all
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: your job.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: This is what the authoritarian regimes do.
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: They weaponize legal systems to punish descent and control messaging.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I've got to say, that's frankly hilarious, unintentionally hilarious and
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: what the kids cool projection because what it described there
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: is in fact precisely what the left does not.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: The phrase speech life.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Right here is a Charlemagne the God being schooled by
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Larry Elder a couple of years ago.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: This is my favorite clip of his.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: This is where he tries to race bite the Republican
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: and it does.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Not go well.
• 21:13
  Speaker 15: For in America, sixty percent of the shootings, robberies, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: the homicide are committed by black people, often against other
• 21:19
  Speaker 15: black people. You can't blame it on poverty, you can't
• 21:21
  Speaker 15: blame it on racism. It is a breakdown as a
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: nuclear intact family, and neither side is talking about it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, because now, what do white people do wrong?
• 21:27
  Speaker 15: What do you mean, what are white people do I'm
• 21:28
  Speaker 15: not worried about white people. I'm worried about what's going
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: on with us.
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: If there's systemic racism in this country, it is no.
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: I don't say there is. You say there is. I
• 21:35
  Speaker 15: don't believe that. Have you ever heard wake up call?
• 21:38
  Speaker 14: No? It is an incident where a person of color
• 21:40
  Speaker 14: forgets that they are of color and are reminded by
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: an unexpected act of racism.
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: I'm acutely aware, Charlemagne, that I'm a black person, just
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: as you are a black person. And when Joe Biden
• 21:50
  Speaker 15: insulted you by saying you ain't really black, we don't
• 21:52
  Speaker 15: know whether or not you want to vote for me
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: or vote for Donald Trump. And Joe Biden has lied
• 21:55
  Speaker 15: for decades about the civil rights record, claiming that he
• 21:57
  Speaker 15: desegregated movie theaters and restaurants in Wilmington, Della, when he
• 22:00
  Speaker 15: didn't do any of that any came in here and
• 22:02
  Speaker 15: told you aren't even black and lets you think a
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: certain kind of way. It seemed to me that should
• 22:05
  Speaker 15: have been nick wake up call for you, but it wasn't.
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: The parent of that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Now the left is losing their at teeny tiny mines
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: over the brilliantly named alligator algatraz in Florida. The Tension
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Center has been called a Nazi concentration camp. These people
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: are sick, but they cannot come up with any concrete
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: reasons why this facility is so heinous.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: The Washington Post try.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: They revealed exclusively the horrors of illegal immigrants waiting to
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: be deported being fed meals of cold ham sandwiches. Someone
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: called the Hague, but it was Democrat Congresswoman Demi Wilsonman
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Schultz who really exposed the true horror of this institution.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: They essentially drink, they get their drinking water, and they
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: brush their teeth where they poop in the same unit.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: They bragged that they went above standards supposedly and gave
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: them a three foot privacy.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: War so they poop in the same space where they
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: brush their teeth.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: You mean, like a bathroom, like every home in America,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: every home in the West has.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Where is Debbie brushing her teeth in the dining room.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Let's bring in Newsweek's senior.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Editor at Large and article three Projects Senior Council Josh Hammer. Josh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the hyperventilating over this alligator Alcatraz has not stopped since
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the name was announced.
• 23:38
  Speaker 16: You know, reader, I hate to disappoint your listeners and
• 23:40
  Speaker 16: your viewers, but that woman Wi Aasman Schultz that not
• 23:43
  Speaker 16: particularly late Bulb tragically is actually my congresswoman.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So war unto me, d that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 16: That is actually our representation in the United States Congress
• 23:52
  Speaker 16: is someone who has not put two and two together
• 23:54
  Speaker 16: to realize that, oh yeah, it's called the bathroom. It's
• 23:57
  Speaker 16: literally called the bathroom. It's where you do a lot
• 23:59
  Speaker 16: of business. Typically have a shower in there too. Maybe
• 24:02
  Speaker 16: maybe w West Minchelz doesn't know what a shower is.
• 24:05
  Speaker 16: Maybe you should go shower outdoors.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 16: Here's what I know. Again, this is my congress, the one. Unfortunately,
• 24:11
  Speaker 16: so we live in Florida, you know, Rita. We have
• 24:14
  Speaker 16: a lot of attractions here here in Florida. We have
• 24:16
  Speaker 16: Disney World, we have Universal Studios, all sorts of fun stuff.
• 24:19
  Speaker 16: When Orlando we have the Keys there. You know, at
• 24:22
  Speaker 16: this point, given how much the left is just bashing
• 24:25
  Speaker 16: Alligator Aquatraze, I'm inclined to kind of take the family there.
• 24:28
  Speaker 16: I'm just kind of do like a mini vacation there.
• 24:29
  Speaker 16: I mean, let's go to the Everglades. I mean, let
• 24:31
  Speaker 16: let's go see it. This is kind of a new
• 24:34
  Speaker 16: you know, visitors landmark here in the center state. But look,
• 24:37
  Speaker 16: I mean, i'd snark aside. This is a foot in
• 24:40
  Speaker 16: the sand moment, not just for the Trump administration, but
• 24:43
  Speaker 16: also for our leadership here in Florida. It is a
• 24:45
  Speaker 16: statement from our Governor Ron DeSantis, from our Attorney General
• 24:49
  Speaker 16: James Uthmeyer, who has been front and center pushing this
• 24:51
  Speaker 16: idea there. It is a statement that Florida is leading
• 24:55
  Speaker 16: the way as far as red states in the United
• 24:57
  Speaker 16: States go to help this administration execute its number one priority,
• 25:01
  Speaker 16: which is to effectively do the largest mass deportation operation
• 25:04
  Speaker 16: in American history. By the way, they've been astonishingly successful.
• 25:07
  Speaker 16: The metrics are in border crossings are essentially down to
• 25:11
  Speaker 16: darn well near zero and alget Alcoatraz has something to
• 25:14
  Speaker 16: do with that there, So reta, it is something to behold.
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: And as a Floridian, I'm quite proud of our latest
• 25:19
  Speaker 16: visitor attraction here, alger Arcuatras.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: The name.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: As soon as I heard the name, I thought, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: want that cap, I want the T shirt. It's brilliant
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: concept and it's also led to a increase in self deportation.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: So a lot of people who are in the country,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I legally know they're doing the wrong thing are choosing
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to go home without having to be forced by Ice
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: agents into a facility like that. Now, let's get to
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the biggest story of the past. Way God argue, it's
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: the biggest story.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Of the year of the decade.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing overwhelming evidence.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Josh demonstrated had BARACKO. Obama together with his national security team,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: the likes of John Brennan and James Klapa, they manufactured
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: intelligence to create the entire twenty sixteen Russian election interference narrative, and.
• 26:17
  Speaker 17: President Obama and his team their goal was to essentially
• 26:21
  Speaker 17: not accept the decision of the American people and to
• 26:25
  Speaker 17: use this manufactured, politicized intelligence as a means to enact
• 26:30
  Speaker 17: what would become essentially a year's long coup against President Trump.
• 26:35
  Speaker 17: The years long Muller investigation that cost tax payers almost
• 26:39
  Speaker 17: forty million dollars, two congressional impeachments, endless smears and attacks
• 26:44
  Speaker 17: against not only President Trump but his family. He had
• 26:48
  Speaker 17: senior members of his team who were investigated, some arrested
• 26:52
  Speaker 17: and jailed. We had heightened and increased tensions between the
• 26:56
  Speaker 17: United States and Russia. The list goes on and on
• 26:59
  Speaker 17: about the concept quances of President Obama and his senior
• 27:03
  Speaker 17: cabinet members politicizing intelligence once again, and I say these
• 27:08
  Speaker 17: words very clearly to enact what was essentially a year's
• 27:12
  Speaker 17: long coup subverting the will of the American people in
• 27:16
  Speaker 17: that election.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: That's not hyperbole, Josh. It was a coup. It was
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: a quiet coup.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And its impact is still being felt today.
• 27:27
  Speaker 16: Well, it was an attempt at a coup. The coup
• 27:29
  Speaker 16: failed because Donald Trump did win the twenty sixteen election.
• 27:32
  Speaker 16: But overall, Rita, the Russia collusion delusion, as I'd like
• 27:34
  Speaker 16: to cause it, as I have to call it, is
• 27:37
  Speaker 16: really one of the two greatest gas lighting operations perpetrate
• 27:41
  Speaker 16: against the American people in myer entire adult lifetime. The other,
• 27:44
  Speaker 16: by the way, is what we just saw last year
• 27:46
  Speaker 16: with the Democrats running a literal mental patient and the
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: lengths of that they went to conceal Joe Biden's health
• 27:51
  Speaker 16: for years and years.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: But the Russia Gate hoax is right up there.
• 27:55
  Speaker 16: I mean, those are the top two hoaxes, the top
• 27:57
  Speaker 16: two gas lighting bamboozling operations in my lifetime. The most
• 28:00
  Speaker 16: astonishing thing about the Russia collusion. Delusion is twofold one
• 28:04
  Speaker 16: is I think we at this point, especially given what
• 28:07
  Speaker 16: D and I Tolsey Garett has said, we can kind
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: of put two and two together and realize that by
• 28:11
  Speaker 16: January twenty seventeen, when then FBI Director Comy formally brought
• 28:15
  Speaker 16: in Robert Mueller to do the whole Russia gay probe,
• 28:17
  Speaker 16: a probe by the way, that took up literally more
• 28:19
  Speaker 16: than half of the Trump presidency. Trump was not exonerated
• 28:23
  Speaker 16: until March twenty nineteen, if memory, sir, so, the entire
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: half of his first term was totally derailed by this.
• 28:28
  Speaker 16: But by the time Comy announced this in January of
• 28:31
  Speaker 16: twenty seventeen, they knew. The FBI at that time knew
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: that this was buck They absolutely, without question, period, full stop,
• 28:38
  Speaker 16: end of story, would have known that this was a
• 28:40
  Speaker 16: Hillary Clinton fusion GPS Perkins Cooley political hit job. Literally
• 28:44
  Speaker 16: in the context of the twenty sixteen political campaigns. All
• 28:47
  Speaker 16: that has to say that they lied. They lied through
• 28:49
  Speaker 16: their teeth, and it is a good thing. It is
• 28:51
  Speaker 16: a good thing that the Pam Bonni DOJ and the
• 28:54
  Speaker 16: cash Betel, FBI and all them now are now looking
• 28:57
  Speaker 16: into James Comy and John Brannan to try to find
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: I only get justice now. I look, I don't want
• 29:02
  Speaker 16: to mislead the viewers. I tend to be quite cynical
• 29:04
  Speaker 16: about these things, and we'ven't burned too many times readers,
• 29:07
  Speaker 16: So I'm not going to confidently predict that we're finally
• 29:10
  Speaker 16: going to get justice there. But the fact that to
• 29:12
  Speaker 16: this day, the only semblance, the only iota of justice
• 29:16
  Speaker 16: that we have is that a somewhat obscure former agent
• 29:19
  Speaker 16: by the name of Kevin Kleinsmith had his law license
• 29:22
  Speaker 16: temporarily temporarily revoked.
• 29:24
  Speaker 18: That's it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: No one has served the day in jail.
• 29:27
  Speaker 16: Throw all the bumps in jail, reader, This is a
• 29:29
  Speaker 16: world historical scandal. I am happy that we're finally seeing
• 29:32
  Speaker 16: the truth come out, but my god, it's a little late,
• 29:34
  Speaker 16: isn't it.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: It's a little late.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: And I think, yes, they didn't succeed, but they did
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: succeed in undermining Trump's first term. They did succeed in
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: undermining the American people's trust in America's democratic systems.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: How many Democrats to this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Day think Russia had a hand in determining the two
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: thousand and six exteen election that it would be a
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: sizable percentage to this day who don't trust the electoral
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: process because of this deceit. And I just think there
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: has to be accountability. Josh, this can't just be we
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: finally have some transparency, we're finally exposing the documents. The
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: documents are being released, We've got evidence that is indisputable
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: that this happened. There now needs to be charges and
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: people going to jail. Otherwise, what's the point of all
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: this basically saying, well, you know you did your best,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: don't do it again.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 16: No, Look, I mean unless you get some sort of
• 30:39
  Speaker 16: accountability for these scandals here, whether it's the Biden cover
• 30:42
  Speaker 16: up operation. By the way, all all of the White
• 30:44
  Speaker 16: House doctors from Biydminstration all of a sudden have now
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: discovered the Fifth Amendment. They're now cleaning the Fifth and
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: saying I will not testify. That's a slightly sketchy there
• 30:53
  Speaker 16: in that respect there when it comes to having how
• 30:55
  Speaker 16: about the fifty one deep state spook letter that the
• 30:58
  Speaker 16: Biden campaign whipped us about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: They had these fifty one deep state engines, including Brand
• 31:04
  Speaker 16: and Clapper, all the usual suspects, signing off within twenty
• 31:07
  Speaker 16: four hours readA they probably hadn't even read the New
• 31:09
  Speaker 16: York Post article and they said, oh, it's just Russian
• 31:11
  Speaker 16: disinformation there COVID nineteen. I mean, there's so many scandals
• 31:14
  Speaker 16: at this point where I think the American people are
• 31:16
  Speaker 16: just dying and dying for some sort of justice, some
• 31:19
  Speaker 16: sort of accountability. And the longer that we go without
• 31:22
  Speaker 16: any kind of accountability, the more people are going to
• 31:24
  Speaker 16: be searching deep in the battles of the Internet. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 16: the Democrats are going to just they're going to shriek
• 31:29
  Speaker 16: and how that. Oh, people are going to bad sources
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: get the information. But you know what, you fools lost
• 31:34
  Speaker 16: your credibility and unless than till we get some justice,
• 31:38
  Speaker 16: this trend is just going to continue.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so much of this happened after Trump one,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: So during that transition period after he won in November
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, before he was inaugurated, is where these documents
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: show that the Obama administration decided, well, yeah, the evidence
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: shows there was no Russian intoence, but we're going to
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: create our own evidence and completely undermine his term in office.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: And I think the media's role in this cannot be
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: underplayed either, Josh. They wouldn't have got away with so
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: much of what happened if the media held the intelligence
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: community held these people accountable, because there just wasn't any
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: evidence of what was being alleged.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: There was no.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Likelihood of what they were saying, and yet the media
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: whip this hysteria up. Now let's move on. We had
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: a little argument last week over the Epstein files. You're
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: not too concerned with the story.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I want to know how this character came to have
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: this enormous wealth and influence and seemingly protection from authorities
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: for so much of his life. But the polls are in,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: and I hate to say it, but you were right.
• 32:56
  Speaker 19: I think that's one surprised me a bit because of
• 32:58
  Speaker 19: all these complaints on going after Trump and the Xtein files.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You might think is approval ratings were going down with Republicans.
• 33:05
  Speaker 19: If anything, they're going up Republicans who approve of Trump.
• 33:08
  Speaker 19: Look at our CNN pull the prior one to eighty
• 33:10
  Speaker 19: six percent, the one out this week eighty.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Eight percent with Republicans.
• 33:13
  Speaker 19: How about Quinnipiac The prior poll eighty seven percent approval
• 33:16
  Speaker 19: of Republicans this week out ninety percent with Republicans. If anything,
• 33:20
  Speaker 19: Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up since this whole
• 33:23
  Speaker 19: Epstein saga started. He is at the apex or close
• 33:27
  Speaker 19: there too in terms of its popularity with Republican voters
• 33:30
  Speaker 19: Epstein Files complaints or not.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Now, to be fair, Josh, I never thought this story
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: was going to fracture Trump's supported basis. Some others were alleging,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: but it's had no impact whatsoever. If anything, his popularity
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: has gone up according to those major polls.
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: So real, let me to clarify that I do not
• 33:50
  Speaker 16: think the administration has handled this well. I'll be the
• 33:53
  Speaker 16: very first to say that Attorney General Bond, in particular,
• 33:55
  Speaker 16: it is literally impossible to reconcile her various statements on this.
• 33:59
  Speaker 16: So I'm definitely not going to offer full scale apology
• 34:02
  Speaker 16: for the administration on this one. Rather, my only point
• 34:04
  Speaker 16: is that and I think that now we see the
• 34:06
  Speaker 16: polling data which corroberates what I was saying, is that
• 34:09
  Speaker 16: I think that the Trump ministration is winning on basically
• 34:12
  Speaker 16: all cylinders right now. I mean, I mean, with this
• 34:14
  Speaker 16: Epstein file saga aside, I mean, look at literally everything else,
• 34:17
  Speaker 16: border crossings down to historic lows. I mean literally approaching
• 34:21
  Speaker 16: zero on a day in, day out. Basis not there yet,
• 34:23
  Speaker 16: but we're getting shockingly close. Massive victories of the US
• 34:26
  Speaker 16: Supreme Court when comes to everything from chemical castration on
• 34:29
  Speaker 16: minors aka so called gender affirming care, to nationwide injunctions,
• 34:33
  Speaker 16: to various other major legal victories there.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Trump minstration is just winning.
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: I mean even on Donald Trump's thus far sendature political
• 34:41
  Speaker 16: economy issue, the issue of tariffs, which which has been
• 34:44
  Speaker 16: one of the most contentious controversial issues here in the
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: United States. There it turns out that the new month,
• 34:49
  Speaker 16: which for which we have data from the federal government there,
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: there's actually been a massive increase in revenue into the US.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Treasury from the tariffs. So the crazy old guys even done.
• 34:58
  Speaker 16: It's on the tariff issue, right, So he's basically winning
• 35:01
  Speaker 16: on all cylinders. And my only point is, look, I mean,
• 35:04
  Speaker 16: the Epstein thing is definitely sketchy. There are a million
• 35:07
  Speaker 16: detailers there that are deeply, deeply sketchy. The suicide, I mean,
• 35:11
  Speaker 16: all of it. I am definitely not saying it's not sketchy.
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: All I'm saying is that I think the median Trump
• 35:15
  Speaker 16: voter voted for Trump on the kind of issues that
• 35:18
  Speaker 16: he is winning on, and less so for this Epstein
• 35:21
  Speaker 16: issue that he is not necessarily winning massively on.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Now, before you go, I'm interested in your take on
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: the meltdown we've seen in the media amongst actors and
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: commentators over Stephen Colbert's terrible, terrible program being axed. He's
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: been on air for thirty three years, had a massive run,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Josh was losing, and this show was losing between forty
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: and fifty million dollars a year.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: The audience had plummeted.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: And yet people are saying this is a political hit chop.
• 35:59
  Speaker 16: You know, I remember with Stephen Colbert was on Comedy
• 36:02
  Speaker 16: Central back in the day. I mean, you know, he
• 36:03
  Speaker 16: actually was kind of sort of funny. He did this
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: whole this back during the Bush administration, back when Colbert
• 36:09
  Speaker 16: kind of first came to power. He would kind he
• 36:10
  Speaker 16: would kind of pretend to be a to be a
• 36:12
  Speaker 16: Bush administration and John McCain Lindsay Graham esque neo conservative.
• 36:16
  Speaker 16: He was kind of making all these funny arguments about
• 36:19
  Speaker 16: going all in on a rack in Afghanistan, and it
• 36:21
  Speaker 16: was obviously satirical, but it was actually kind of funny
• 36:24
  Speaker 16: even as a conservative. I used to enjoy him, But
• 36:25
  Speaker 16: as soon as Colbert got the CBS Late Night gig,
• 36:29
  Speaker 16: I mean, he just stopped being funny essentially overnight. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 16: mean he lost the whole satire thing. He just kind
• 36:34
  Speaker 16: of an angry, snarky guy who's not particularly funny. He
• 36:38
  Speaker 16: brings essentially no entertainment value. So I mean, good riddance,
• 36:41
  Speaker 16: good freaking riddance there. I mean, this is the kind
• 36:44
  Speaker 16: of thing that you, frankly just love to see at
• 36:46
  Speaker 16: this point. Read the scout that I want to see
• 36:48
  Speaker 16: next is Jimmy Kimmel, because Jimmy Kimble has lost his
• 36:51
  Speaker 16: ever you know, he's lost his everlasting mind. Another man,
• 36:55
  Speaker 16: by the way, who once upon a time was kind
• 36:57
  Speaker 16: of sort of funny. You give these guys the big
• 36:59
  Speaker 16: old ab CCBs NBC late night show, the apparently immediately
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: stop being funny. There, so good thing that we got
• 37:05
  Speaker 16: called Bert. I see, let's ge Jimmy Kimmel next up.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: They are They're just miserable moaners masquerading as comedians.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: There's nothing funny about them these days.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: They just lecture incessantly from a far left point of view,
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: and no wonder. Greg Guttfeld is cleaning Up is the
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: highest rating in that late.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Night time slot. Josh Hammer, thank you so much for
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: your time. Thank you. Mind still to come.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: The fallout from that Coldplay kiss cam.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Saga kiss issco Field is up next. Welcome back.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Joining me now is celebrity and royal commentator kN Zisco
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Field Kinsey. Let's start with the kiss cam scandal that
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: saw two cheaters, should I say the cheaters expose at
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: a Coldplay concert. The clip from the concert went viral
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: very quickly. Chris Martin himself called out these cheaters.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Tell us what has happened since?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: The fallout professional and personal has been significant?
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Chris Martin this was unintentional when he
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: revealed this alleged affair between astronomer CEO Andy Byron and
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: his company's head of HR. You know, he said, Oh,
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: they're either cheating or really really shy as they duck down.
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: He's addressed the scandal since in Madison, Wisconsin joking tonight,
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: we want to give a shout out to some of
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: you in the audience and feature a few of you
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: on the big screen, saying like basically warning people, if
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: you don't want to be seen, duck that CEO, though,
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: has since had to resign based on the chaos. It's
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: the most powerful and influential cold Play has been since
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: I was a teenager, basically, and I'm sure they love it.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Well. The fallout has been enormous.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Even the woman who is laughing on the side, people
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: are trying to find out who she is. Is she
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: part of the company. Has she got some culpability because
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: she was obviously aware of something dodgy happening between these two.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I wonder if this has had an impact.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it has on the share price of this company,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: and to have the CEO stepping down as a fairly
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: dramatic development. Now let's check in with actor Alec Baldwin
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: his wife Hilaria. We've seen her humiliate him before, and
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: here is her latest attempt at publicly humiliating her husband.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a active.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Participant in these videos or whether she's pressuring him to
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: take part, but they're pretty stupid to.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Me, Marmon, he seemed to me, Marmon thing.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Tell Kinsey, as I often ask you on this program, why, I.
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: Mean, imagine that the universe, god whoever you believe in,
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: saves you from going to jail for the accidental death
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: of somebody.
• 40:22
  Speaker 18: And this is what you choose to do with your time.
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: This is how you give back to the world.
• 40:28
  Speaker 18: To these hideous TikTok videos.
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, uh, and this, by the way, he's a
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: pretty good actor. What the heck is he doing wasting
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: his time with Ilaria from Boston, Hillary from Boston making
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: these stupid videos. Get back to work, Alec, you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: contribute to the world in a more powerful way. You
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: hit the jackpot. You didn't go to jail.
• 40:55
  Speaker 11: Now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Royal expert Sarah Vine has written in The Daily Map
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: that the reason King Charles is reluctant to bring Harry
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: back into the fold is because, and I quote here,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: the Prince is a selfish brat with a pushy wife
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: and he can't be trusted.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Harsh kinsy, but I would say.
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: Fair, yeah, I mean she goes on to basically call
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: Prince Harry a loser, saying he's lost.
• 41:24
  Speaker 18: You know, what would he do?
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: What would he bring back to the British royal family again,
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: how could he contribute to society if he was brought
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: back into the fold. And that, really, Megan, is so
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: money money motivated that they're more of a liability to
• 41:39
  Speaker 9: the royal family than an asset.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Well it's a good point, but we're hearing a great
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: deal about the senior aids for the Prince and the
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: King meeting, setting down the groundwork for this family reunion,
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: and what's happening.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Is it likely to happen this year?
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: It could happen in September during the well Child Awards,
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: a quick meet and greet with King Charles and Prince Harry,
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: depending on the King's schedule. But I also think that
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: somebody leaked this story and I don't see the value
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: in it, and I talked to Tom Bauer about it too.
• 42:22
  Speaker 18: I don't see the value in.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: The King leaking the story, despite the sussex Is saying
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: they didn't leak the story. I do believe the sussex
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: Is leaked the story, which goes to prove that they
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: can't be trusted. So why would the King risk anything
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: by meeting with Harry and Meghan and have Harry and
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: Meghan or their friends discuss what happened at that meeting?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Always defies belief. Surely Harry and Meghan know by now
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: that the incessant leaking they're twisting of these family dynamics
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: for content for their different outlets, whether it's podcasts or
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: their little documentary series, reality show or their Harry's book.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: Surely they've realized by now that is a major grievance
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: for the royals and that it has to stop if
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: there's to be any reconciliation.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Why would they.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Continue to leak when they know it's the biggest hurdle
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: perhaps to.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Father and so I'm coming together again.
• 43:26
  Speaker 18: I think that they are so shortsighted.
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: And you know, Bethany Frankel once said, Megan Markle plays
• 43:32
  Speaker 9: checkers and not chess. I think they're always in it
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: for the instant gratification, and specifically with the leaking, I
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: wondered over the last few weeks if it was because
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: we saw the Wales family having such incredible coverage, Prince
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: William on a handsome polo horse, raising over one million
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: dollars for charities he believes in the Princess of Wales
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: on the tennis courts, with the crowd screaming we love
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: you Kate, and then the entire family showing up at
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: the at the tennis courts. So I suspected that Meghan
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: was very better over some positive press, and that was
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: why we saw a many Sussex splits.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Now popular cartoon series Family Guy. They've mocked the Ginger
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: in the Winter again.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: It's have a look, Bryant. This is a terrible idea.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: We could change the course of history.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You always say that, but doesn't history pretty much suck?
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: I mean the crusades, Hitler.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Prince Harry marrying Meghan Markel again.
• 44:32
  Speaker 15: Oh, like all of your wives are so much better.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: It's not bad.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: The ratings are in for Meghan's Netflix cooking show that
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: was called With Love Meghan. It was a massive Flopkinsey.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: It came in at three hundred and eighty third in
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Netflix's most views most viewed shows of twenty twenty five.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Has anyone on Netflix or perhaps even Spotify being sacked
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: for the enormous deal this couple got because the amount
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: they're being paid is completely out of proportion with the
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: contribution they're Maggie.
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: At Spotify, yes, a huge group of employees lost their
• 45:18
  Speaker 9: jobs and they were super angry over Harry and Meghan
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: Steel because they felt like it was in part to
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: do to Harry and Meghan Steel. But when it comes
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: to Netflix, you know the theories around holding on to
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: Megan Markel with season two of With Love Megan on
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: the Way are that Netflix wants to be the outlet
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: she takes if and when things fall apart with Prince Harry.
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: They want the exclusive. That's why they continue to, you know,
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: have that relationship with her. But you're right, this is
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: the return on investment is simply not there. These numbers
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: are embarrassing. Prince Harry's fall his Polo show was well
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: to the three thousands, like absolutely no one was watching.
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: Actually half a million people watch, just.
• 46:05
  Speaker 18: As many as watched Left. He's losing it.
• 46:08
  Speaker 9: So more people are watching you religiously than Prince Erry.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we get more than that every night on
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: YouTube Beloon. I mean that is absolutely shocking, but completely
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: predictable because who wants to watch some sort of a
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: series on polo. I mean, it is such a niche
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: market you're appealing to unless the star is so compelling
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: that people are going to watch despite not having any
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: interest in.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: The subject matter.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: Now let's go to revelations that actress Gwyneth Paltrow felt
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: sad when she learned Brad Pitt had married Jennifer Aniston,
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: claiming that his decision to marry her was evidence that
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: he has terrible taste in women. And it's also alleged
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: that she described Brad as dumber than a sack of
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: sh it. Surely not, and I believe this for a second, Kinsey.
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just coming from Amy O'Dell's new book, Gwyneth
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: the Biography. And the reason that we are taking a
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: lot of this seriously is because Gwyneth gave some friends
• 47:17
  Speaker 9: and family permission to talk to Amy Odell. So I'm
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: taking a lot of this pretty seriously based on the
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: fact that Gwyneth is notoriously private and would likely burn
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: bridges with anyone that spoke on her behalf without her permission.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: And before you go, Donald Trump has called on the
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: boss of the NFL's Washington Commanders to bring back the
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Redskins name.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: There used to be the Washington Redskins after.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: They dumped that name in twenty twenty due to well,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: you know, the usual nonsense of typically white people being
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: offended on.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Behalf of Native Americans. Kids.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: See, what are the chances that we're going to see
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: the Redskins back?
• 48:06
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: He also urged the Cleveland Guardians to bring back their
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: previous name the Indians.
• 48:11
  Speaker 18: Trump says that.
• 48:13
  Speaker 9: The public has since moved away from what he described
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: as an excessive political correctness.
• 48:19
  Speaker 18: I don't know. I actually don't think that.
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: I think that the investment's been made, the logos exist.
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: I don't think that these franchises will change back unless
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: we continue to see the MAGA movement live beyond Trump,
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: maybe with advanced presidency or something similar.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: I do recall a poll that was done showing ninety
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: ten Native Americans who were polled did not have a problem.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: With the Redskins name.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: It was essentially white folk who were outraged on their
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: behalf who led to that decision.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: In Washington, d C.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Is what possibly the bluest of blue place blue cities
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: in America. KINSI Schofield, thank you so much for your
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: time tonight, and that's it from me too. I'll see
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: you at eleven tomorrow night. Up next, it's Newsnight.