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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Donald Trump's return to the White House impacting Davos discussions · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: In the Brady joins us from Davos, the home of
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  Speaker 2: the World Economic Forum, the herme of the Great Reset,
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  Speaker 2: the hem of the Great Nick Craig, the great takeover
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  Speaker 2: of the guible economy by private industry and business interests
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  Speaker 2: in hell Inda.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Andrew. I have to say it's my first time here.
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  Speaker 3: It's something to behold. A tiny, tiny town five thousand
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  Speaker 3: feet up the mountain in the Swiss Alps. It's not
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  Speaker 3: built for this, and yet they come in on the helicopters.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen so many show for driven Mercedes Benz
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  Speaker 3: blackout vehicles in my life. You would think it was
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  Speaker 3: some sort of Oscars or Hollywood, and all these random
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  Speaker 3: people get out and they're basically the CEOs who move
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  Speaker 3: the money around and allegedly make the world go round.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, right now, the vibe I
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  Speaker 3: got yesterday, a lot of them are running scared because
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  Speaker 3: of one man's return.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, of course, because he's not a globalist, and
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  Speaker 2: that is for sure. And he said a lot of trade,
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  Speaker 2: So how has Donald Trump, who had a glorious inauguration today.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a great party and he's still
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  Speaker 2: going and Starlight Ball are still on as we speak.
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  Speaker 2: How has he? How has he ruined Klass's party?
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  Speaker 3: So we were told on arrival here that there were
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  Speaker 3: three key topics for discussion this week wars, climate change,
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  Speaker 3: and misinformation. And very very quickly from talking to the
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  Speaker 3: delegates and the people who are arriving and these billionaires
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  Speaker 3: and squillionaires and soon to be trillionaires, the vibe I
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  Speaker 3: got was there was three topics. They were interested in Trump,
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  Speaker 3: trade and tariffs. So there's been very little discussion of
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  Speaker 3: the others so far. And I guess, look, they're all
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  Speaker 3: watching and waiting to see what will he do, Will
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  Speaker 3: the rhetoric stack up, will he actually deliver what he's
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  Speaker 3: been saying, will he really put America first? And how
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  Speaker 3: will it impact them? So there's sixty heads of state
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  Speaker 3: here this week, and I mean this town is tiny,
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  Speaker 3: absolutely tiny. There's no accommodation that's affordable. The locals were
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  Speaker 3: telling me that some people basically go on holidays for
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  Speaker 3: a week and let out their apartment for ten thousand
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  Speaker 3: euros for five days and that's you know, a hell
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  Speaker 3: of an income. And everyone seems to be running scared,
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  Speaker 3: wondering what is Trump going to do?
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  Speaker 2: And where are you staying? Well? Are you in a you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a major in a van?
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  Speaker 3: I actually am. I'm staying one hour away over the mountain.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a tiny, tiny village. Everyone speaks Swiss German,
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  Speaker 3: and as Laura, our producer, will testify, my German is
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  Speaker 3: I was the premar schoolhouse when I was about a
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  Speaker 3: ten or eleven. I think I learned German in Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: So we've been yeah, yeah, it's easy for you to say.
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  Speaker 3: So we're having wonderful conversations here in the evening. I'm
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  Speaker 3: staying in a B and B in a tiny I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't even call it a village. It's a hamlet. It's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely stunning. But the people extremely friendly. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you just to just to tell you how to how
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  Speaker 3: January makes me struggle dry January and arrived back here
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  Speaker 3: the other night and the family were having beers in
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  Speaker 3: the kitchen and they invited me in and I thought
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  Speaker 3: and they thought it was odd, and I just I'd
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  Speaker 3: come back from a run and I always do dry
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  Speaker 3: January and I respect it and it's just a little
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  Speaker 3: body reset before I start running again. And I sat
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  Speaker 3: and I had a wonderful conversation, really nice people.
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  Speaker 2: This is not about you in that, but that's very fun.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: They said they wanted to talk about war, and they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to talk about war because Zelensky is arriving.
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  Speaker 3: Yes so he's the keynote speaker today. They have a
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  Speaker 3: big auditorium and basically the A listers and the very
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  Speaker 3: very serious people who come with their message, and everyone
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  Speaker 3: will know Zelenski's message in advance. He wants help, he
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  Speaker 3: wants money, he wants assistant and he wants weapons. And
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  Speaker 3: regardless of whether Trump turns off the taps from the
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  Speaker 3: American Aid in the next twenty four hours, Zelensky will
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  Speaker 3: be appealing to the world to not forget Ukraine. And
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  Speaker 3: it's really interesting. In all of the discussions yesterday, Ukraine
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  Speaker 3: was not mentioned. So he's the star turn turn Today.
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  Speaker 3: Security is extremely tight, so they have a police cordon
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  Speaker 3: about nine kilometers outside of Davos. The traffic slows thro
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  Speaker 3: a standstill, and you can imagine how tight security will
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  Speaker 3: be today with Zelenski being in a very small town.
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  Speaker 2: Will you get in.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get into the auditorium, but there'll be no prospect
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  Speaker 3: of interviewing him. I mean, as much as I dearly
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  Speaker 3: love to sit down or even grab a word. I
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  Speaker 3: met Al Gore yesterday in the street and he wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: speak to me. So you know he's he's not a
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  Speaker 3: world leader. He never was. He was a vice president,
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  Speaker 3: but he could. He basically hailed a golf buggy to
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  Speaker 3: get away from me yesterday. That was quite funny. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, you know, just just one question about Trump
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  Speaker 3: and he wouldn't speak to the men.
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  Speaker 2: Nana and he had call home to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: everybody had turned off the lights. Now, just finally, UK
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  Speaker 2: was are planning some US trips tomorrow next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, so this is all about wooing Trump and
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  Speaker 3: getting him back interested in the UK. They're not stupid.
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  Speaker 3: They know that he was a huge fan of the
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  Speaker 3: late queen and the plan is a who pronged assault
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  Speaker 3: next year. William was president of the Football Association in London.
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  Speaker 3: So the Soccer World Cup will be in American next
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  Speaker 3: year and Mexico and Canada. William would be absolutely you know,
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  Speaker 3: it will be a no brainer to send him to that.
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  Speaker 3: So William will head off to the United States for
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  Speaker 3: the World Cup, and the feeling is Charles may go
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  Speaker 3: and mark two hundred and fifty years of American independence.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently Charles's mother went fifty years ago when it was
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  Speaker 3: two hundred years and Trump is a fan. Trump gets
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  Speaker 3: on well with Charles, we're told. So a big year
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  Speaker 3: ahead for the royal family, wooing Trump and hopefully getting
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  Speaker 3: some investment in the UK because it absolutely needs it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Of course, everybody's going to woo when you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about Bezos and Zuckerberg and American businesses, the Pools and
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan and now even Prince Ave and King Charles
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  Speaker 2: himself got to woo Donald Trump. What an amazing turn
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  Speaker 2: of events.
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  Speaker 3: When you read the list of things that he's dodged,
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  Speaker 3: from bully to jail, its got to be the most
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary politically comeback ever. I just I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: spent one hour yesterday waiting on a TV line to
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  Speaker 3: go live listening to him talk, and I've never heard
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  Speaker 3: a more rambling speech in my life. It was and
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  Speaker 3: it was minus three celsius Upper Mountain in Switzerland, so
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  Speaker 3: it it's an hour in my life. I won't get
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  Speaker 3: back Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's all right, and thank you very much. Stay warm,
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  Speaker 2: learn German and we'll talk again later.
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