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Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on JD Vance's efforts to bolster support for Donald Trump's cabinet picks · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Mitch McCann is stateside. Mitch, a very tricky task on
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  Speaker 1: Capital Hell. Jd Vance is there. They're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: Sir Trump's cabinet confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. It's no secret Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump has chosen some controversial choices. I think is fair
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  Speaker 2: to say for his cabinet, people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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  Speaker 2: He's accused of being an anti vaxer, Pete Higseth, he's
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  Speaker 2: a TV host on Fox News. He's been accused in
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  Speaker 2: the past of sexual assault. But perhaps the most controversial
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  Speaker 2: here is the now former Florida Congressman Matt Gates, who
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has lined up to be his attorney general now.
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  Speaker 2: He was investigated by the FBI over six trafficking allegations,
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  Speaker 2: including that he had six with a seventeen year old girl.
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  Speaker 2: He denies this and wasn't charged, but a new report
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  Speaker 2: from lawmakers investigator conduct is being kept under wraps for now.
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  Speaker 2: Gates is on Capitol Hill today with JD Vance as
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  Speaker 2: they try and convince lawmakers or senators that are going
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  Speaker 2: to have to confirm his appointment that he is good
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  Speaker 2: enough or he's credible enough for that job. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a tall order because people have already spoken
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  Speaker 2: out against him, but it would be quite the defeat
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  Speaker 2: for Donald Trump if he does get rejected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how's the cyclone? The bomb cyclone that's cutting power
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  Speaker 1: to thousands going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so woman is did Hundreds of thousands of people
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  Speaker 2: are without power this morning in the northwest of the
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  Speaker 2: US because of this bomb cyclone. This morning, more than
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  Speaker 2: six hundred thousand homes in Washington we're without power and
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  Speaker 2: around fifteen thousand customers were experiencing outages in California. Most
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  Speaker 2: of the storm is going to pass later today, but
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  Speaker 2: there is going to be extreme rainfall four parts of California.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see many gang patches where you are in
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  Speaker 1: New York?
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  Speaker 2: No? Actually, And I was explaining to an American friend
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  Speaker 2: the other day or a British friend that I work with,
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  Speaker 2: about gang patches and they didn't even know what they were.
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  Speaker 2: And when I Google game patches, New Zealand was the
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  Speaker 2: first thing that came up. So I'm not sure it's
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  Speaker 2: something we want to be known for overseas.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not, but it is something that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: quite It is quite uniquely US and the Aussies as well,
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  Speaker 1: have a big problem with it. Mitch. Thank you way
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  Speaker 1: out of your per now, aren't we. I'm Mitch McCann,
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  Speaker 1: who's our US correspondent with US from New York City.
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